nevinera

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by nevinera 5y ago
28-34 minutes. Massive highly-tested rails application, running on circleci. Only about 12 minutes of that is actually running tests, we parallelize them across roughly 60 containers, worked on by a team of ~100 engineers. The truth is that
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by nevinera 6y ago
Pretty much, yeah. If those kids that aren't going to kindergarten have exchanged that time for neglect - sitting in front of a television for an eight hour stretch, for example - then they will certainly be worse off for it. But the
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by nevinera 6y ago
In the absence of basic parenting, yes - that's an important function the setting serves. But it's not 'preparation for 1st grade', it's minimal damage-mitigation.
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by nevinera 6y ago
I'm familiar with the difficulty of 'teaching' kindergarten - giving dozens of children an engaging environment at the same time is extremely difficult, and I have a great deal of respect for kindergarten 'teachers'
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by nevinera 6y ago
You won't get any, instead you'll get a stream of anecdotes. Children's development schedule varies wildly, not on a fixed and consistent timetable that lines up with public school curricula.
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by nevinera 6y ago
> has experts worried about who will be ready for first grade in fall 2021 I.. I just don't understand. Kindergarten is babysitting , you don't need be prepared for 1st grade.
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by nevinera 6y ago
By steeling myself not to pull out any money when it happens. Don't time the market.
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by nevinera 6y ago
Ergonomically speaking, it can be, but that requires some tooling and experimentation. I have put together a setup that works pretty well, but I rarely use it because extricating myself from it takes too much work. The pictures in the art
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by nevinera 6y ago
One of the things that has made this particular virus so successful is that it does the larger part of its spreading before there are any major symptoms. In this case, the only thing about lethality that will reduce infection rate is the
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by nevinera 6y ago
I picked uranium because it's sufficiently scary to most people, not because it's special - you can say the same thing about any (stable) artificial particle too. My point was that without talking numerically about real-world impa
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by nevinera 6y ago
You should be outraged, not scared. But what he's saying isn't that there's nothing to be scared of , just that this particular type of BS is just as often written about things that actually aren't real problems. This i
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by nevinera 6y ago
I mean.. so is uranium . When you don't specify amounts, you can say this about nearly anything that can be found outside a lab setting at all. I'm not saying there's no threat here, just that this headline is worthless.
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by nevinera 6y ago
Yeah, but will that kind of nuanced phrasing get you to the top of a news aggregation site? ;-)
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by nevinera 6y ago
Oh I agree, I've just found it counterproductive to hold others to my personal standards for precision in communication :-)
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by nevinera 6y ago
English is rife with metaphorical or imprecise uses of words with precise meanings, so the rigorous definition of 'axiom' doesn't become relevant in a (non-math-focused) essay very often. But I agree that this list of opini
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by nevinera 6y ago
This strategy appears to require wearing pants.
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by nevinera 6y ago
It's fast enough to portably write a better language in!
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by nevinera 6y ago
Not exactly, but yes my math is wrong - it should be 22% that some member of the cohort dies. (`1.0 - (1.0 - X)^N`). I'll update the post.
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by nevinera 6y ago
Humans are excellent at recognizing patterns, and as a result, we have strong heuristics for determining which things are worth worrying about, based on our own experiences. This particular virus has landed in a weak spot in our collective
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by nevinera 6y ago
I personally am absolutely confident that every email I sent during college and my adolescence would merely shine brighter light on the perfection of my soul. It sounds like the rest of you should probably have behaved better.
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by nevinera 6y ago
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear! Privacy schmivacy.
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by nevinera 6y ago
The reason he's confused is that he's thinking of isolation in terms of its impact on community transmission rate. That should definitely be part of your personal calculations (evaluating your personal risk without concern for any
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by nevinera 9y ago
Frequently, the right answer is actually "I won't know until I spike on it - that will take a couple of days".
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by nevinera 9y ago
Tell them that it'll take an hour or so of effort, but they'll have their estimate by tomorrow morning. Then spend some real time documenting the more and less certain areas of change, the likely risks, and the unlikely-but-very-c
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by nevinera 11y ago
Generally speaking, they will definitely read them (and occasionally take action), but only respond if they have some legal obligation to do so. Any reply they make to an inquiry or accusation of this type can be used against them, but a
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by nevinera 11y ago
I was nodding along until that last part, where it indicated that our best answer was to have the federal government extort states into behaving as they ought.
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by nevinera 11y ago
I suspect you aren't all that familiar with quantum mechanics - you seem to think that an object as complex as a brain could have a single quantum state (true) that cannot be decomposed into many orthogonal localized systems (extremely
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by nevinera 11y ago
"Global coalition tells Exxon to Reduce Gas Prices, and suggests that Raisin Bran and Snickers are also Too Expensive"
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by nevinera 11y ago
> expect we will eventually find that human intelligence and consciousness depends heavily on quantum effects. Thus it will always be impossible to scan and upload a human brain in a way that captures the essence of a person's mind
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by nevinera 11y ago
I believe our divergence is somewhere under the definition of 'intelligence'. The word is very ill-defined, to the point that we are reduced to describing it functionally in many cases, as with the Turing test. >Human intelli

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