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by mantap 7y ago
One of the possible symptoms of coronaviruses (this one, also SARS and MERS) is a decreased white cell count.
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by mantap 7y ago
No surprises that shortsightedness pervades the traditional banking sector. These services appeal to people who like to travel, i.e. people who are relatively more well off. Then they hope to upsell other financial products to them.
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by mantap 7y ago
There are strong links between sub-saharan Africa and China as China has been heavily investing there and there are many Chinese people there. So we would definitely expect to see some cases there by now.
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by mantap 7y ago
It's not the number of cases confirmed in Singapore that people are concerned about. It's the number of cases confirmed in other countries, from people who have recent travel history to Singapore.
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by mantap 7y ago
Probably not, you'd still run a small risk of death, even if you are young and healthy and getting excellent treatment in a first world hospital -- not to mention exposing your loved ones (particularly elders) to infection. The best ap
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by mantap 7y ago
The mortality rate is unknown. The best estimate is on the order of 1%, but it could be a factor of 10 either way. The mortality rate will be different depending on the health system, since a significant number of people with this virus r
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by mantap 7y ago
The corollary of this is that you don't even have to be infected with the coronavirus to die because of it. This coronavirus acts as figurative denial of service attack against hospitals. Anybody with a medical emergency is going to ha
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by mantap 7y ago
It's been like that ever they set up the mailing list, what happened is that people with an abundance of time on their hands started drowning the swift team with shitty ideas. The swift team tried to resist but eventually the lunatics
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by mantap 7y ago
There is a danger of overengineering. This is a feature that will only be used in rare situations. So it doesn't really matter that it's just a magic identifier. As long as you aren't likely to use it by accident... I'm
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by mantap 7y ago
I had something more like a swap than a cache in mind. Expose it as additional physical address space and let the OS decide which pages live there vs main memory.
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by mantap 7y ago
That's a bit like saying that Britain wasn't sovereign during the time of the British empire. Britain, France and Germany ruled the EU, the UK designed many aspects of it.
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by mantap 7y ago
Is there a reason why they don't package a couple GB of DRAM in there?
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by mantap 7y ago
It's a red flag if the basic operations (like string and array functions) are so inconsistent and weird so as to require use of an IDE or constant use of the docs.
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by mantap 7y ago
Function names and parameter order matter. That is the difference between having to look something up in the documentation and not. Back in those days most text editors didn't have fancy autocompletion with parameter documentation, if
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by mantap 7y ago
We have gone from the first confirmed human-to-human transmission to tens of thousands of cases in something like two weeks. No amount of preparation will prevent chaos and shortages in a situation like this. I watched the CDC press confere
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by mantap 7y ago
Isn't taking the population of Wuhan as 11 million cherry picking? You could choose the population of central Wuhan and get a higher estimate or the population of Hubei province and get a lower estimate. Presumably the distribution of
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by mantap 7y ago
It pains me to read these comments even on HN. Telegram is strictly less secure than Whatsapp. Telegram is not designed with security in mind and if I was a TLA I'd be pretty happy about people using it.
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by mantap 7y ago
China is an autocratic dictatorship so the rules can and do change at any time, retroactively and arbitrarily. That said you aren't going to be blacklisted for a single comment on HN. That sounds like the kind of thing the US would do.
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by mantap 7y ago
The way the central government is handling this is impressive, quarantining a city of that size is unprecedented and has bought the world extra time to prepare. Yes the WHO are playing politics when they focus on the good things China is
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by mantap 7y ago
I don't agree. I grew up (partially) before DSL, as did everybody before Gen Z, and I'm very thankful for it. I don't think always on internet is necessary for a fulfilling childhood. There's so much more to the world th
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by mantap 7y ago
In the context of C++ it means that you don't have to make changes to your code when a new language version comes out. Because old broken features are preserved for eternity even if severely dysfunctional. Most of the hard work of lear
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by mantap 7y ago
The iPad by virtue of its form factor, sucks for typing anything longer than a short message. You can't hold it comfortably like a smartphone, or place it on an unsturdy surface like a laptop. Everything about the typing experience on
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by mantap 7y ago
Probably not since each star review is a separate "work" by a separate author. Mechanically combining multiple non-copyrightable things into one doesn't make it copyrightable. If Amazon arranged their users' star reviews
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by mantap 7y ago
I wasn't giving C++ as an example of a language that maintains backwards compatibility through breaking changes using source upgrades, I was actually thinking of Go when I said that. Obviously C++ does have a preprocessor, which means
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by mantap 7y ago
It is much easier to do breaking changes in a compiled and statically typed language, as long as it doesn't use a preprocessor. Because you can do automatic upgrades. Some Python 3 changes were not fixable by 2to3 which meant all sou
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by mantap 7y ago
C++ is 35 years old. The problem is that it has 35 years of backwards compatibility. Go will not avoid this problem by taking time to make changes, it can only be resolved by being prepared to break backwards compatibility.
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by mantap 7y ago
K8s is kubernetes, Linux containers. If you want to run it on macOS or Windows it runs inside a Linux VM. You might as well buy a Linux computer and SSH into it from your Mac, is the point.
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by mantap 7y ago
I think this is backwards. Who is buying underpowered $6000 computers? An iMac in tower form factor would be popular because it's something people actually want. The only people excited about the new Mac Pro are people already locked
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by mantap 7y ago
If you're running Linux anyway, you might as well buy a 3990X, get 64 cores instead of 28, and use the money you saved to go on vacation.
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by mantap 7y ago
It's not just the enthusiast segment. It's the pro segment. Apple can't conceive of a professional who does anything other than edit videos or audio.

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