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by jyounker 5y ago
To acquire immunity naturally you have to get sick. In oder to acquire that immunity you have a 1% chance of dying, 2% chance of ending up in the hospital on a ventilator for a month, and a 20% chance of long haul covid. To acquire immunity
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by jyounker 5y ago
> Anyone with more experience in immunology care to weigh in on why the second paragraph there follows from the first? Naively, one might expect targeting a wider variety of places on on the COVID spike protein to result in better immuni
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You're absolutely right. I was going for a different concept. See explanation above. I should stop writing after 02:00.
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You're absolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this last night. I meant to say that formal treatments are based around being able to find arbitrarily small neighborhoods around a point, and that this only w
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by jyounker 5y ago
> While with infinite sets, the point is that they aren't (to the best of my knowledge) either 1) directly useful or 2) particularly interrelated with anything else. Formal treatments of calculus are based around infinitesimals. Inf
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> The work of Cantor and beyond regarding infinite sets is generally taught as mathematical "fact", as fundamental as 2+2=4, but unlike 2+2=4 is there any practical constraints or applications around it? It seems more like an a
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by jyounker 5y ago
Infinitesimals are just a different aspect of mathematical infinity. This is the magic that makes calculus work (from a formal standpoint).
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Thanks for posting this. This is the last thing I need so that I can have one set of dot files for both personal and work machines without any horrible hacks.
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Two devices. One set of dot files.
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"Port", "starboard" are unambiguously defined relative to the vessel. "Left" and "right" require specifying or guessing a point of reference. For instance if you're facing port and I ask you to
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by jyounker 5y ago
Lies to beginners are necessary thing, but things concepts like "strings" "bytes" "conditionals" "lists" "dictionaries" "functions", are not to be assumed. Each one is more than a
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by jyounker 5y ago
Our fruit is tested for many things other than simply, "can we get you to eat more of this." One of the most common being, "does is stay shiny while we ship it," as opposed to, "does this taste good?"
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The core of their argument for the first is in the following section, and it rings pretty true for the mixed label: However, prosecutors dropped those charges in 1990 as part of a plea deal involving other suspects in the bombings. As a res
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by jyounker 5y ago
Google keeps shutting down projects because of internal politics and reward structures.
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Monorepo tooling (as opposed to a big repo with a bunch of stuff tossed into it) generally provide access controls. Also remember that non DVCS repos generally have find-grained access controls.
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by jyounker 5y ago
You're using one specific definition of an API. Another definition of an API is the contract between a library and the calling code. The latter sort of API changes happen frequently (at least in places with monorepos), and they don&#x2
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by jyounker 5y ago
What evidence do we have that it was anything other than normal flu?
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> a hand me down from my parents with 512MB of ram and a single core 1.6GHz cpu Wow. I'm feeling old. My first computer ran at 1MHz with 16K of memory. :)
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We know that cotton top tamarins have at least 38 calls, the calls have a grammatical structure, the calls are learned, and comprehension comes before usage mastery. That pretty much qualifies as a language. https://en.wikipedia
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by jyounker 5y ago
To extend to your comment, lightly examining a number of shells could also serve a few additional pedagogical functions: * Showing students that there are many shells that they could encounter. * Highlighting the differences. * Showing that
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by jyounker 5y ago
^^^ This. So much this. My boss isn't entitle to know the details of my life, nor is the company, nor are my co-workers. You earn the details of my life by being my friend, not through a contractual relationship.
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by jyounker 5y ago
Sounds to me like he founded the company of the same name.
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by jyounker 6y ago
The communist party was pretty successful in helping to overthrow the Portugese dicatorship in the early '70s, but they were also democrats. They're still one of the major political parties in Portugal, and you see ads for the com
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by jyounker 6y ago
> Meanwhile, JetBrains seems to be staying afloat mostly thanks to hard work and sheer luck. I don't think they keep ahead simply by hard work and sheer luck. Once you look under the hood at Intellij it's clear that they have
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by jyounker 6y ago
One good reason is that existing species are in some danger of collapsing from the extinction of keystone species. A good example are joshua trees. As I understand it, giant sloths distributed joshua tree seeds. (i.e. they ate the huge see
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Preventing the loss of manufacturing capability is one of the reasons for offering military aid to friendly countries. We give them money to buy weapons, but they are obligated to buy certain weapons systems with that money. For example, th
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Although almost nobody who reveres him seems to notice that his policies assume a basic level of universal healthcare and significant government assistance during economic downturns, since he writes about these almost as a side-note.
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This. Developers aren't getting credited or promoted for writing documentation, or assisting in the process.
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Don't do two minutes of pushups, do 2 pushups. The effect is the same. It gets you to start.
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by jyounker 6y ago
Don't do two minutes of pushups, do 2 pushups.

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