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by perardi 5y ago
NYTimes has a pretty good source on this. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-... I'll tell you that here in Chicago, based off data, and anecdotes: really depends on the neighbor
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Or…grandpa can get vaccinated. I'd be more than happy to test and vaccinate in schools. In particular vaccinate. But having kids wear masks…which they don't do well, because they're kids…not like adults do it well either…is a
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Yes, and? The hospital case load is overwhelmingly, screamingly, massively dominated by the elderly unvaccinated. https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/... Given the extremely
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by perardi 5y ago
I’m a UI designer/graphic designer/photographer who has had a Mac since 1994. (And I’m not even 40 yet.) ColorSync just popped out at me as one of those “I am not shocked something from the Classic days is causing issues.”
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Well, web apps. But that’s me being argumentative. 100% agree for “system software” like this.
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It’s a horse worth beating, or at least kicking, because it’s a tough set of incentives. Even if you have functionally unlimited money like Apple, it’s tough to prioritize rewriting a somewhat obscure piece of the OS solely to prevent sec
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by perardi 5y ago
Some sympathy for the devil: operating systems are just so…big. Like, there’s an arbitrary code execution issue fixed here in ColorSync. ColorSync! Who thinks to attack the color management system, and then how do you set up your org struct
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by perardi 5y ago
A few points…as this is not exactly an amazing article. “Also dubbed "stealth omicron," the World Health Organization is reporting cases of BA.2 in more than 40 countries including the U.S., India, Germany and Australia.” It’s b
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As noted elsewhere: um, yeah, all the data is available, for free. But in regards to the James Webb: I don’t think you’re going to find the raw images to be particularly compelling. It is imaging in the infrared spectrum. So it’s going to r
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Yeah, Europe is way, way more dense. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+USA... United States | 36 people/km^2 Europe | 104 people/km^2
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So the bulk of this post is… …anecdotes. Testimonies have an obvious selection bias. …conjecture about myocarditis. Which is discussed in multiple sources, but we’ll go with the Science Based Medicine blog. ( https://sciencebasedm
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Ha, in a way. Because they were indicative of Ferro’s “leadership”: flashy branding gimmicks, with nothing to back them up. Like when he bought an orange Tesla roadster to bring to trade shows. He’d just pop an orange car in the middle of t
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I worked for one of the companies that IBM acquired to make this non-product. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-merge-healthcare-m-a-ibm/... I have no idea what they got for the money they spent. Merge Healthcare
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by perardi 5y ago
I’ll grant you that 7 years of working remotely have slightly warped my idea of what people do at office parties.
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Oh-ho, no, not in my experience. I used to be devastatingly introverted. Alcohol helped, but it’s nothing compared to GHB or MDMA. Ecstasy will give you the gift of gab like you can’t believe. minor edit: I should say I am ignoring the co
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This probably doesn’t classify as a “digicam”—too much film camera styling, expensive, and has interchangeable lenses. But since I’m apparently old enough to have digital camera nostalgia, I always did want an Epson R-D1. https:/&#x2F
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Not quite my hometown, but in the same Central Illinois area. (Farmington. Go Farmers.) And yeah, I had to do a heck of a double-take when I saw “Galesburg” on the page here. At least some of the towns/cities in Central Illinois ha
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It's not clear how much longer that'll be a thing. Olympus divested its camera operations to some third-party holding company. I am skeptical they'll have the capital and expertise to really be competitive. ( https:/&#x2
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I'm going to dispute, a little, that mirrors are inherently inferior. 1. It's only recently that the very best mirrorless cameras (Sony A1, Nikon Z9) have really reached the autofocus capabilities of the best SLRs…and arguably, th
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1. They credit/blame “The Matrix”, but let’s also note David Fincher’s work, especially “Fight Club”. ( https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/movie-color-palette-david-... ) 2. We still aren’t there yet on CGI. CGI huma
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> If being a doctor had the same work:pay ratio as being a SW dev I think you'd have more smart people choosing that career. Health regulations and extra procedures certainly helped to discourage employment as well, but I think pay
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This is absolutely me. 1. My personal risk, as someone who is vaccinated, 38, and in decent shape ( https://imgur.com/a/gdbBKGK ), is quite low. (OK, I could lose some holiday weight, fine.) 2. My immediate friend circ
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I have an extreme nostalgic attachment to Sneakers. I went to a summer camp for kids interested in computers (was it called Cybercamp? who knows, this was in like 1999, Google was barely even a thing yet) at Illinois State University for
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by perardi 5y ago
I had to check that, as these big chunky camera batteries “feel” like they should have a lot of mAH compared to a phone. And I am wrong. Depending on the phone. A Nikon battery: 2280 mAh. An iPhone 13: anywhere from 2406–4352 mAH. Yeah, tha
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by perardi 5y ago
Making Sense of Nikon Lens Abbreviations https://www.dslrbodies.com/lenses/lens-articles/general-niko... There are a wild set of possible Nikkor/Nikon lens/camera interactions, and on some level Nikon mu
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Robust printer support and color management. Which at the time would have been super super duper important for the just-hanging-in-there Mac user base. (I was one of them. It was just hanging in there.) The Mac’s professional niche was
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Oh I so remember that, and can even find mainstream media articles to back that up. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/26/technology/playstation-2-... Same thing with the PS3—it was a lot of bang-for-the-bu
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1. Cite exactly what they said in the presentation, and in particular did they compare actual games, or synthetic benchmarks? 2. It is insanely competitive, especially given power consumption, with the NVidia card in both synthetic benchmar
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I was under the impression that, at SpaceX, Musk is the “vision guy”, and Gwynne Shotwell is doing the nitty-gritty day-to-day operations. https://www.wired.com/story/how-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-jo... As for Neuralin
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I know the tech nerd meme is “I just want a phone that does the basics”, but even if you can agree on what “basic” means, actual consumers don’t want that. This is their computer, and YouTube terminal, and video game console, and camera, an

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