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by kongin 5y ago
In Victoria it's been 220 days so far and will hit 300 before the the goals set by the state government for ending the current lockdown are reached.
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by kongin 5y ago
>Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria Victoria has had 6 or 7 waves of Covid (depends how you count it) and failed only at
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by kongin 5y ago
A one ton roadster will burn up before it does anything, a large factory will not: >About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. &
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by kongin 5y ago
>- Globalisation and the rule of law. Mostly that's a good thing. But SciHub would unlikely survive if Russia was unable to give US courts the middle finger regularly over the last decade. I am not convinced that the benefits of tot
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by kongin 5y ago
We have a new Jim Crow, and it's called protected groups. >But everyone has a gender! Everyone's gender is protected! Yes, Jim Crow was separate but equal. No one believed it then, no one believes it today. Universalism is seen
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by kongin 5y ago
>By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well. That's ok, by then they will be white. Just like how the grand children of the victims of the holoca
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by kongin 5y ago
>I've been to endless elementary school plays; I've seen that kids really don't have the refined performance skill to pull this off. One might but not scores. In middle school I used to look at what drugs were prescribed f
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by kongin 5y ago
The Texas lines can be made so much more efficiently Republican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44
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by kongin 5y ago
>Centralised forges mean we can't really “just fork”. How hard is it to make a public git repo? Packaging your software falls into the 'being competent' pile that's too hard.
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by kongin 5y ago
Because people have forgotten that forking is the response to not liking something in open source, not trying a hostile takeover of the original project. You have to be competent though, which is too high a bar for the majority of people wh
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by kongin 5y ago
I have a theory of signalling for mental health. There are very few conditions that are real and they have easily detectable and unambiguous physical signs, e.g. epilepsy. The rest of them are ways for people to show distress, either positi
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by kongin 5y ago
Everyone who can't reply to you because they are offline.
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It already happened with rape. We need a separate word for leering, groping, fondling, sex with dubious consent, and violently beating someone during penetration without consent. Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as
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by kongin 5y ago
>The distribution of body types in film (in the 1980s and otherwise) represents the fashions of the motion picture industry, not (except coincidentally) broader society. The relation of that fashion to broader society is very much not co
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by kongin 5y ago
>Also, I'm hearing more and more what It would be conservative opinions from the gay people I have more trust with. Which is quite unexpected for me. You can only say you have a real gay friend when they show you their Nazi Furry du
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by kongin 5y ago
Yes. If you've never been fit enough to do something like a muscle up then you have no idea what having testosterone feels like. I'm saying this as a former blob who got fit during covid by accident. You are your body and your bod
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by kongin 5y ago
>Just watch one of those old “Berlin in the 1920s” or “NYC in the 1970s” videos. You’ll quickly notice the almost complete lack of overweight people. Being fat in the 80s is being skinny today. It's uncanny rewatching movies where t
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by kongin 5y ago
>Rust has a huge exposure in the programming community. And it's used exactly nowhere. Can you name one project that is rust based and isn't part of the rust toolchain?
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by kongin 5y ago
I'll make you a keyboard with 80g zero travel keys for $1,500 if you think they are so great.
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by kongin 5y ago
>Come on people, get vaccinated and wear a damn mask! If we could do it, so can you! I'm not sure if the sarcasm is just flying over my head, but the reason why the rest of the world is in lockdown is because we are discovering that
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by kongin 5y ago
I bought a door gym and accidentally got fitter than I ever had been, including when I played university basketball 15 years ago. Every time I got annoyed with what I was coding I'd go over and do one pull up. Typing that made me reali
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by kongin 5y ago
>if it was paired with a nice, timely audio queue and haptics. So now you have extra latency between key activation, audio activation and haptic activation. You know what gives you all of those for free and ensures they are always timed
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by kongin 5y ago
>I'm not seeing how its "gaming the metric" to include travel time of the key on a keyboard. Because if we remove travel time by using a capacitive keyboard you end up with something that is objectively a worse keyboard. R
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by kongin 5y ago
Not sure what you're explaining? I'm just pointing out that their metric is extremely flawed and can be easily gamed by an inferior solution. Like the Apple Magic.
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> I'm surprised by the section on including key travel time in the latency measures. Wasn't the Apple 2 keyboard about comparable in travel distance and resistance to today's typical mechanical keyboard switches? >>A
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by kongin 5y ago
Genocidal to the English language might have been a step too far. And even then I'm not really sure if it would be. But unconscionable is a perfectly valid description of the title.
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> This has nothing to do with what you asked in your last post.
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> The vast majority of users never access the computers they use. Every open source license, apart from the AGPL, is for personal computing first and mainframe never. Which is why you don't have the source code for google even thoug
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This has nothing to do with what you asked in your last post.
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by kongin 5y ago
> This would depends on the false positive / false negative rate. I'm not a doctor, but I am a physicist and former pro-photographer, what is noise and what is signal in an experiment whose output is an 'image' has no

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