mcbits

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by mcbits 6y ago
If a site is granted access to the camera, and the OS lets other camera apps continue while locked, it makes sense for the browser to at least provide the option of keeping the camera on while locked. Otherwise it just hinders sites from pr
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by mcbits 6y ago
This could be desirable behavior in some circumstances, e.g. recording video where someone might seize the device and try to stop the recording, or snoop through the device while it's unlocked.
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by mcbits 6y ago
Unless they're the type of janitor who "really cleans up" when called in to "do a job" at the office overnight.
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by mcbits 6y ago
> why do you feel the need to point them out? The web page points them out as "RELATED" (emphasis in original) at the end of the press release. It's not clear if that was done manually or algorithmically. If algorithmicall
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by mcbits 6y ago
It works intermittently. I think it's just being hugged to death atm.
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by mcbits 6y ago
> Importantly the peak doesn't last long - epidemics don't spend 6 months with a stable number of people getting sick at the peak. Look at graphs of COVID deaths and cases and you'll see the standard pattern. What's i
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by mcbits 6y ago
What PayPal does or did (according to stories I read a while back) was freeze the funds and then simultaneously advertise a loan to the customer. So I guess we could subtract the interest rate charged by other lenders for that kind of loan
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by mcbits 6y ago
Hunker down and hide from the invading army until enough of them go home that it's possible to capture and isolate the remainder?
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by mcbits 6y ago
I think the question was whether the virus causes permanent damage in patients without pneumonia. Edit: From the translated article, apparently yes: > All of them were not severe cases, their illnesses were five to six weeks ago and they
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by mcbits 6y ago
I don't assume that paper is correct. It's the first example I found of people estimating 0.5% since you apparently hadn't noticed that number being bandied around for the last month. It's a number I've been seeing
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by mcbits 6y ago
e.g. > Comparing deaths onboard with expected deaths based on naive CFR estimates using China data, we estimate IFR and CFR in China to be 0.5% (95% CI: 0.2-1.2%) and 1.1% (95% CI: 0.3-2.4%) respectively. https://www.medrxiv.o
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by mcbits 6y ago
Nobody is estimating that 100% of New York has already been (or even will be) infected, so something is off by much more than 20%. With an optimistic, but at least plausible, estimate that 40% of NYC have been infected, then the IFR is arou
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by mcbits 6y ago
I don't think this particular problem is related to the language model. "[item] without [attribute]" is trivial to understand even without a sophisticated language model. The bad results are because they're not positivel
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by mcbits 6y ago
Bing results, "person" shows stick figure drawings, Pearson Education logos, Person of the Year, people named Person, etc. "Person without stripes" shows several zebras, tigers, a horse painted like a zebra, and a bunch
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by mcbits 7y ago
Do these faster and faster tests all use the same reagent that has been in short supply? And has there been any progress on producing it faster, or using less of it for an accurate test?
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by mcbits 7y ago
Reminder: The world has a bad case of pandemic. The reason for layoffs is the extreme measures society has been taking to avoid unnecessary face-to-face interactions. One thing that would piss me off more than being fired is catching a dise
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by mcbits 7y ago
Covid kills people who would survive the flu, so if someone catches both, they would have a higher chance of dying than from the flu alone, which would affect the flu's stats because these would be recorded as flu deaths.
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by mcbits 7y ago
I think the signal to look for is an increase in flu mortality rate in February-May compared to October-January if that kind of data exists. Confirmed flu cases are almost never also tested for COVID-19 due to the sheer number of flu cases,
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by mcbits 7y ago
I see, you're right. What I wrongly assumed was that they were receiving spotty data about overall cases but more thorough data about cases leading to hospitalization. I also just noticed the age brackets for the 508 known hospitalizat
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by mcbits 7y ago
It says "Among 508 (12%) patients". 508 is 12% of the whole 4226, not just the 2449 with known ages. 20% (102) of those 508 were aged 20-44. It's not known how many of the 4226 were aged 22-44, but if it's roughly the sa
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by mcbits 7y ago
I think you're reading it right, assuming they do know the ages of all people hospitalized, and the total cases with known+unknown age have close to the same distribution as the cases with known age. 102 hospitalizations / 1226 to
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by mcbits 7y ago
Logistic, not logarithmic. Exponential and logarithmic are the same thing seen from different angles.
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by mcbits 7y ago
The CDC effectively dictated who could be tested and what test would be used. But those tests were faulty and now there are supply chain issues with the new tests. That was the point when they gave up and admitted failure. "Mitigation&
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by mcbits 7y ago
No matter how mild, the majority of cases need to be locked in a room for 2-4 weeks (because they're too flippant to be trusted to do it themselves) to prevent spreading to the other 20%+ who face permanent organ damage or worse. This
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by mcbits 7y ago
Maybe domain names are treated differently from book titles, but I don't see why they should be. There certainly is fair use of trademarks in book titles if the use is descriptive, not likely to lead to confusion about who produced the
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by mcbits 7y ago
That appears to be specific to their advertising API, not the affiliate program. The affiliate program policies[0] say: > if you choose to display prices for any Product on your Site in any “comparison” format (including through the use
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by mcbits 7y ago
I don't think it's against the rules, but the rules are complex and spread all over multiple places, and they're like Google in that you have no due process if someone there decides they don't like what you're doing
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by mcbits 7y ago
Note that the paper is concerned with run-time type checking and glosses over the fact that most/all of those code samples in the survey would be rejected at compile time by a static type checker (or at least by TypeScript). Their conc
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by mcbits 7y ago
> THEN you and your family should start Gettysburg ng ready to leave Not sure if this is a pun I didn't understand or the most ridiculous autocorrection I've seen in a while.
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by mcbits 7y ago
In these discussions, "subjective" and "objective" are jargon. "Subjective" basically means existing only from the point of view of an observer. "Objective" means existing independently of any observa

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