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   by papaf 7y ago

   I like how you are using simple guesstimates to show how viable herd immunity is. Following on from this: 600,000 people in Stockholm to be infected in, say, 120 days = 5000 new infections per day with, say, 1% hospitalisation
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   by papaf 7y ago

   I couldn’t get tested so not 100% In Bavaria they are only testing people with symptoms and the positive rate is around 10% [1]. Everybody thinks they have it but the symptoms could also be down to a cold. I am not pointing this statistic
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   by papaf 7y ago

   Even some sort of tried-and-true algorithm to direct me would be nice. I actually heard about this recently -- you throw out everything you haven't used in the last year.
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   by papaf 7y ago

   which is a parser combinator library, and it was way easier I like parser combinators but a word of warning. A lot of parser combinators (not all) have problems with recursive grammar such as Json and SQL [1]. For instance, a JSON map can
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   by papaf 7y ago

   As someone who has been failing on side projects for over 20 years, I feel qualified to answer this question. - Have one private repository for random projects - Work in private repositories for random projects that progress. -
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   by papaf 7y ago

   I did not try that -- its a cool technique. Thanks for taking the time to share it.
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   by papaf 7y ago

   I think this would depend on the application. Its possibly a problem in a parser of large data, but in a network protocol or business rule its not going make any difference at all.
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   by papaf 7y ago

   I am not a fan of the hoverbear state machine pattern. I find that it makes simple things complicated and hard things impossible. I used it and I had problems with: - Reusing code between states. - Making callbacks to other APIs durin
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   by papaf 7y ago

   The UK government announced the policy in a press conference with the Prime Minister and the chief scientific advisor. Here is an interesting follow up interview with the chief scientific advisor: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Are there any anecdotal stories about how Rust programs have fewer errors? My hobby projects are in Rust and Go. Its personal taste, but I prefer programming in Go. I actively dislike programming in Rust. In Go, I usually I start a debugg
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Also cheaper by plane. Being a student with a limited budget, this very much affects my decision. My tips would be: * Book at least a week in advance. * Buy a Bahn Card 25. * Get up early. If you do this Berlin -> Munich is €44.90 next
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I don't agree with your definition of simplicity. I like Go and I consider it a simple language because: 1. I can keep most of the language in my head and I don't hit productivity pauses where I have to look something up. 2. There
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I like the "tiny" version that has a minimal lisp written in C and then builds upon that with this bit of magic: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp/blob/master/tiny/s...
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I think that the default Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu themes look good but I can also recommend Numix [1]. I use Numix themes and Icons with Arch Linux at work and it looks professional. [1] https://numixproject.github.io/product
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    by papaf 7y ago

    At first, I was sceptical of DNS over HTTPS and thought that it gave Cloudflare, who already control too much access over the internet, even more control. However, other DNS providers are available. For instance Google[1] and Quad 9 [2] bot
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I only delete all cookies in Firefox about once a month - probably not nearly often enough, even using containers. I recommend Cookie auto delete if you haven't considered it before: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US&#
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Attributes are XML’s foot-gun. I disagree. Back in the day we used attributes for everything that was key value and inner tags for anything with structure. We also formatted for clarity: <lunch env="outside"
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I committed the grave mistake of purchasing a laptop with only 8GB ram and I constantly run out of memory as a result. I recommend that you try ZRAM. It has made a difference in a 8GB laptop that I use: https://www.cnx-software
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    by papaf 7y ago

    It's one of most poorly documented VM APIs I've ever seen. I have never had problems with the API. Is this documentation missing something? https://developers.scaleway.com/en/products/instance/api&
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    by papaf 7y ago

    That's not true although it is easy to misunderstand AGPL in this way. You only have to provide the source of derivative work, and only to users of your service. So only the micro service using AGPL code. If you use an AGPL database fo
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    by papaf 7y ago

    This is a British source that describes why the Chagos islands are so contentious: https://politicsfirst.co.uk/editorials/britains-shame-the-et...
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Its great to see two interesting languages used together. I wonder if an out of process solution was considered. For instance, Redis supports sorted sets: https://redis.io/commands#sorted_set Using something like Redis save
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Just to add to this point, I wanted to implement JMAP after only half completing an IMAP server implementation. Unfortunately, its just as bad only "this time with HTTP and Json". The batching advantages of JMAP could be generical
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    by papaf 7y ago

    Currently: - The licence changes causing a premature move to Java 11 or OpenJDK out of fear of an audit. Today a colleague was investigating a Segmentation fault in the JVM because we moved to the OpenJDK. This is not productive work. - The
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    by papaf 7y ago

    The funny thing is that from a purely technological point of view, Java (even the 5-year-old Java 8 and certainly recent versions) is far ahead of most other stuff hyped on HN (as well as less hyped stuff). The technology is certainly im
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I switched to Brave today and I must say that I am impressed: - Adblocker and Tracker protection without installing extensions. - Nice background pictures. - Caching Cdnjs requests -- for some reason Firefox was always hitting the CDN. To b
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I converted a program today from Gorilla websocket to this library. The code is much simpler although I still have to clean up my error messages after the websocket shuts down and the context is Done.
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    by papaf 7y ago

    I get the same. I was also shocked to see that a 404 from Medium is a 21.99kB download. You could fit a whole Onboarding article into that much data.
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    by papaf 8y ago

    Its a shame that you stopped reading -- it is an excellent article.
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    by papaf 8y ago

    Robust engineering, longevity, support, and resale markets do more for the environment than making components user-replaceable. But if the parts were also user replaceable it would be better for the environment.