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by mrec 7y ago
For using it on Win/Mac/Linux you don't even need the Rust standard toolchain; just download the standalone executable. No runtime, no npm, sheer bliss.
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by mrec 7y ago
> historical US inflation prior to the ridiculous post-2009 financial situation had long periods of being well above 3% and the sky didn't fall True, but misleading; again, it's real rather than nominal rates that matter to m
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by mrec 7y ago
I think it undermines the semanticity of the markup though. A hyperlink isn't supposed to render as a button, or vice versa . If this was just a bolded word in normal inline link text, the button presentation would be very unwelcome.
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by mrec 7y ago
Apparently that's the official British Army term. The unofficial term is FISH, which stands for Fighting In Someone's House.
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by mrec 7y ago
Aside from that, it's very important to remember that this dashboard shows confirmed cases , not infections. Trends and patterns are as much about testing/reporting as about the virus itself.
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by mrec 7y ago
Yup. And the worst-case scenario is infections peaking next winter to coincide with regular 'flu season. An Imperial College paper [1] out today predicts this under its most stringent suppression scenario; see the chart on page 10. [1]
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by mrec 7y ago
AFAIK the UK line has consistently been "we'll do it, but not yet, because we can only do it for a limited time and so far the numbers don't warrant it". That's not a U-turn, that's doing pretty much what you s
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by mrec 7y ago
Appealing, but a coin the weight of a UK penny made of 18-carat gold would be worth a bit over 130 USD. Not sure how practical that would be for buying a hot dog.
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by mrec 7y ago
No it isn't. If the whole "page" is Flash or Java - and this absolutely used to be a thing - then if that's blocked you've got nothing. With Javascript the page author has at least the option of doing it properly i.
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by mrec 7y ago
I really wish everyone was doing the random-sampling-of-general-population thing. Even if they could only do it on a fairly small scale, I suspect it'd give a much better picture of where we're really at than the "confirmed c
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by mrec 7y ago
> One thing I wish I knew way earlier is that COVID-19 victims rarely suffer from a runny nose Definitely worth knowing, especially with hay fever season just about to kick off.
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by mrec 7y ago
No word on similar relief for renters though, which makes me a bit suspicious about their motivation.
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by mrec 7y ago
Windows might, but I doubt the majority of Windows software does.
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by mrec 7y ago
Independence Day ?
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by mrec 7y ago
I'm all for privacy-respecting payment methods, and I'm familiar with the paradox of thrift, but I'm not at all convinced that negative interest rates are a net social benefit. The experience of the past 10+ years has been th
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by mrec 7y ago
I remember a lovely example from when I was living in Germany years ago. I got a letter about some upcoming local election, and was very impressed that it was in English for my convenience, but it opened with the marvellous greeting "D
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by mrec 7y ago
> Reality tends to make sense, so if it's most likely impossible to make sense of consciousness by studying the brain, there's probably some other way to look at it. Reality tends to make sense on scales and in environments w
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by mrec 7y ago
> Shakespeare mentioned it time and time again in his plays I'm pretty sure what Shakespeare was referencing is a much more general idea prevalent in his day - that smells (not necessarily unpleasant ones) could be poisonous, and co
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by mrec 7y ago
"SES" in this context is socio-economic status? I hadn't seen it used to classify hospitals before. I worked at an emergency homeless shelter for a while, long ago, and saw the same kind of thing you talk about. I'm not
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by mrec 7y ago
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection is exactly about artificially recreating the relevant aspects of this natural phenomenon. It's not a fix, but might be an effective mitigation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra
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by mrec 7y ago
Oh, I'm not necessarily talking about going back to old server-side stacks, more that the heavy client-side stacks seem to get used all the time even if the problem didn't need them. If you're writing something really horre
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by mrec 7y ago
Thanks, I'll be in the market soon and this is exactly the sort of info I was looking for. Since you mention "the few times we need to print", is it safe to assume that their kit is fine with very very infrequent use? Inkje
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by mrec 7y ago
Eye-witnesses can at least be prosecuted for perjury if they're found to be deliberately lying. It's hard to apply the same threat to a CCTV camera. Honest mistakes are obviously a separate issue, but the parallel there would be b
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by mrec 7y ago
Doesn't that just shift the game to joe jobs against the competition? There's no reason the offerers need to be closely/obviously tied to the seller. If I'm flogging Foo brand widgets and you're flogging Bar brand w
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by mrec 7y ago
I'm not at all convinced that the heavyweight toolchains have led to any improvement in webapp quality. Maybe there are rockstar apps out there I just haven't seen, but for the most part the web these days is vastly more bloated a
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by mrec 7y ago
> With the web almost everyone has a machine that has a programmable environment by default again. I feel this is a very important and powerful advantage that’s often overlooked. As someone else who cut their teeth on an 8-bit micro ba
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by mrec 7y ago
Agreed. I was noodling about with a basic boardgame project a few years back, on an ancient laptop with crappy Intel IGP, and was a bit startled to see an unoptimized full-board canvas render taking microseconds rather than milliseconds.
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by mrec 7y ago
Basically agree but would quibble with your 1. If I've pinned an application (as I do for anything I use regularly) surely it's because I want to launch it quickly via the taskbar rather than having to go via search. If I'm i
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by mrec 7y ago
Oh sure, my doubletake was at them going this route rather than the "obvious" one of having the Rust implementation expose a Rust API and then having a separate C-API wrapper around that.
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by mrec 7y ago
Minor nitpick - wgpu is the implementation ( written in Rust but exposing a C API), wgpu-rs is an idiomatic-Rust wrapper around that implementation. I did a bit of a doubletake the first time I read that, but ultimately I think not giving

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