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by pintxo 7y ago
Can we discuss the impact of visualization parameters on perception? On first look it seems Europe is way worse than China regarding case numbers. But actually checking the scale for the bubbles shows that they are categorical and the large
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WHO: Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Situation Dashboard(experience.arcgis.com)
30 points by pintxo 7y ago|35 comments
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by pintxo 7y ago
As almost all business, it is.
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by pintxo 7y ago
They did not mention volume, only weight. Or did I miss it? So they have a good energy/weight ratio? But bad energy/volume?
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by pintxo 7y ago
You may want to play around with this calculator (German only, sorry, google translate likely to the rescue): https://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/
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by pintxo 7y ago
What’s the purpose to compare a waterway hundreds of km long and comprised of 5 rivers and various channels to the Panama and Suez channel? This is so misleading.
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by pintxo 7y ago
It's meant as a how-to for journalists on how to ask better questions: - How many samples are you running per patient? - How many samples is your lab testing per day right now? How about at maximum capacity? How many hours does it take
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These Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Coronavirus(propublica.org)
3 points by pintxo 7y ago|1 comments
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by pintxo 7y ago
Looks like one of those in-house localizer patterns you put on your walls when creating a digital model of your place.
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by pintxo 7y ago
TLDR: > Low prices make us feel like we're tightwad bastards (Scrooge McDuck style). But bargains make us feel special and smart. And they allow our brains to change the narrative, "I didn't spend $60, I saved $45".
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by pintxo 7y ago
They do to some degree. But it could be a lot better.
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by pintxo 7y ago
How often I wanted to apply the same to contracts and would wish to see it in legal texts as well. Parenthesis (and lists) would make legalese so much more readable and remove ambiguities. Still wondering why they do not use these tools.
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by pintxo 7y ago
iPad OS should also be able to do this. Especially if you have the pen.
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LackRack(wiki.eth-0.nl)
1 points by pintxo 7y ago|0 comments
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by pintxo 7y ago
The NYT has a really good chart [1], comparing R0 and CFR of the current virus to various historical epidemics. I use it to explain friends and family the potential significance. [1] https://nyti.ms/38Xc1ho
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by pintxo 7y ago
JavaScript has some FP parts, and is kind of the goto language for websites. But is not strictly functional.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Would be a nice comeback: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_(rail)
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Preparing for Coronavirus: Dos and Don’ts(webmd.com)
2 points by pintxo 7y ago|0 comments
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by pintxo 7y ago
Considering it being prominently featured in the US Declaration of Independence, it seems not to be too new.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Wasn't the reason for the 0-indexed month that this would make picking the name of the month from the 0-indexed array of month names easier?
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by pintxo 7y ago
It has been considered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
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by pintxo 7y ago
Extremely limited evidence? How about water or electricity grids? Railroads? (City) Streets?
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by pintxo 7y ago
Cannot help myself, but am reminded of the famous electric to water adapter: https://etel-tuning.eu/werkzeug-zubehor/183-adapter-drehstro...
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by pintxo 7y ago
In all honesty, just because it's common or routine, it can still be torture.
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by pintxo 7y ago
We had them, then stopped maintaining them when the development speed was to high. Now (years later) we have a subset of the original tests to ensure the most crucial processes are regression tested. My experience is that it's a lot ha
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by pintxo 7y ago
Same here. As a lot of the Selenium API is quite low-level (speaking about the Java variety). Would be wonderful if this and similar efforts would end up in the core Selenium project, keeping the low-level options, but providing an easier t
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by pintxo 7y ago
One important thing all drivers should be repeatedly told (trained) is that the breaks (in a technically sound car) will always overpower the engine. In a runaway scenario, hit the break with full force and stay on it till engine cutoff.
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by pintxo 7y ago
And you last sentence is exactly describing the issue I have. This merging of exception handling and rejection handling into one function call feels like a bad idea. As initially I thought catch() is only handling promise rejections. Then s
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by pintxo 7y ago
Wow, top right of the picture, they have actually parked some planes in the parking lot (for cars).
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by pintxo 7y ago
Not a tutorial or authoritative resource of any kind, but remember you can always open your browser of choice (on the desktop), open the developer tools and start fiddling with the browser APIs interactively, on any page you like.

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