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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Very cool. Game developers get all the fun problems :) If anyone gets interested in the SVG format, I've also found this to be a very useful resource: https://svgpocketguide.com/book/
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
When I saw this, I thought Google was making a vendor-independent HAL and I got excited. But it looks like it's just a set of small plug-ins like statically-allocated strings and easy tests. I guess that's cool too, but...eh. I ag
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
You don't buy all at once, though - you can "dollar cost average" into the market by buying index funds in small chunks when there are big dips, and stop buying when it stops falling. You won't predict the bottom, and yo
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I believe that at this point, any quarantine or 'shelter in place' order must be voluntary. We stand to lose too much by giving up fundamental rights, and it is questionable what we would gain from...what, arresting the vanishingl
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yeah, I've been burned by Apple's poor software many times, but I would come back for an 11-12" laptop with more than one USB port. They were so close... Is that too much to ask? From any OEM?
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
That's funny, because I stopped using a Mac a few years ago out of frustration that its OS updates consistently broke things. Now I use Linux (on a Chromebook no less - GalliumOS), and I'm thrilled with how well-supported everythi
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I'm slowly buying into stocks as the market plummets due to people's irrational panic, which is a vote of confidence in the mid-term future. What are you talking about, "profiting off misery"? I'm profiting off of p
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Thanks, but the point is that there is a horizontal asymptote and people are acting like there isn't. Two weeks ago I was constantly being told to just wait a couple of weeks, and I would see overflowing ICUs in the United States. But
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
So people say, but China's infection numbers have not grown over the past 3 weeks. Nature doesn't do exponential curves; they're inherently unsustainable. It does logarithmic ones, which look exponential when you extrapolate
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I understand that people are making extreme estimates, and I'm making good money off of their panic, but it's about time for a sober and level-headed look at how the past couple of weeks have stood up to what those people were pre
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
But not even China has 100,000 people infected, and their rate of new infections is slowing down. Italy still has <30,000 cases. And in both cases, the number of people requiring ventilators is obviously much lower. Where are you getting
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Actually, I think that things which get thrown into bags on a regular basis face more stresses than a phone in your pocket. It could be jostling around with corners of large books, laptops, cables, random containers, etc. It can also have m
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yes, that is what I mean. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but 20 years is a very short amount of time if you look back on the history of the advancement of engineering and our understanding of the world. It's v
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Right, sorry...I sort of think of PCR as 'grep for genomes', even though it doesn't really 'read' the DNA.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Neat, thanks - it's amazing how quickly sequencing technologies have evolved.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yeah, it's a fair point, but this seems reasonable to me if you accept that they are already looking at peoples' login locations and trying to keep their platform civilian. If a nominally-Turkish user started regularly logging in
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
So, how does the PCR-based testing work? Is it just the usual gene amplification steps? * Get DNA out of cells and unwrapped from their histones. * Cleave the DNA sample with restriction enzymes at boundary sites which should mark the start
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Sure, but my rear view is usually blocked by a dirt bike when I'm driving long distances, so I have fisheye extensions on my side mirrors to see behind me.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Crimea was unilaterally annexed after a military invasion; the sanctions are intended to maintain the idea that it belongs to Ukraine, not Russia. I actually don't object to sanctioning the area - it is less aggressive than sanctioning
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yeah, having sat on the other side of this, it seems like most "policy" teams believe that publishing hard guidelines will encourage people to maliciously toe the lines, like children playing the "I'm not touching you&qu
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yeah, income inequality is not a uniquely American problem. But it's still worth pointing out that even though $1k probably seems like a piddling amount to most readers of this site, it could still help a lot of people who are signific
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
A stiff breeze can bring down a rotted tree just as well as a hurricane can. Time will tell what really happened.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Still a useful data point. It would be nice to add this sort of action to the same toolbox which already contains quantitative easing.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Hahahaha, that sounds great. I wish they did that in the US. I once got a car checked out, and the mechanics noticed that one of the brake cylinders couldn't be bled when they replaced the fluids. When I got it back, there was almost n
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Oh, that's a good idea. I actually have a friend who tilts their mirrors really far out so they can barely see their own car, and they did say that it helps them see more once they got used to it. Thanks for the reminder.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's downright dangerous. Sometimes I have to hold my hand up to block my side view mirrors at night just to avoid being blinded. I keep thinking that people have their brights on. And at the same time, other drivers forget to turn the
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Well, policymakers could re-asses at that point in time if they decided to take an action like this. If you really believe that things will remain disrupted for a long time, it seems like you could see this as a great opportunity for a basi
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
You can't live off of $1000/mo in most cities without making some real sacrifices, but a $1000 supplement would still be a huge help to people who live paycheck-to-paycheck and may not get paid for a few weeks. It'll buffer o
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing your experience! That doesn't sound too much worse than working with modern CMake build systems, but it also doesn't sound mucn better. >People put meaningless, nonsensical junk in th
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Hands-on, practical examples. If a class only includes video explanations and some quizzes on what was said in the lectures, I usually forget the subject matter quickly. The best MOOCs that I've taken are the ones that have periodic &q

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