riverdweller

6 ms·

31.
by riverdweller 6y ago
Customers surely relish the irony of the misspelled sign on the large box of religious books.
32.
by riverdweller 6y ago
Given the way you were able to logically group data so that producers and their consumers are in the same zone, would it not have been simpler to just create three completely independent 3-node clusters, rather than worry about all this at
33.
by riverdweller 6y ago
This is an interesting resource. Though the amount of data being displayed is somewhat overwhelming (nature of the game, I suppose!). I've instead tried to build something that a non-technical user might find very easy to use/unde
34.
Show HN: SMA and Per100k-normalized graphs of Covid-19 cases/deaths by country(covid-19-charts.net)
4 points by riverdweller 6y ago|3 comments
35.
by riverdweller 6y ago
Since daily COVID-19 figures in seem to vary wildly (owing to fewer cases counted at weekends, excessive cases counted after weekends, and ongoing corrections/adjustments), I built a tool to graph simple moving averages (e.g. 7-day-SMA
36.
by riverdweller 6y ago
Well, yes, some parents would. Some simply care about people more than others do. It's a continuum. I know individuals who would gladly take the opportunity of an employer paying them their normal professional salary while volunteering
37.
by riverdweller 6y ago
Just give the childless employees the same amount of time off on condition that they use that time to go and help out in daycare centers, old people's homes, or institutions for the disabled. They'll be racing to sign up, I'm
38.
by riverdweller 6y ago
That's a good point. I made the mistake of treating the sun as a point light source, which of course it is not! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/shadows.html explains the difference clearly.
39.
by riverdweller 6y ago
This is plainly untrue. Hold a finger up in front of a torch, and look at the size of the shadow cast. Move the finger closer to the torch, and watch the shadow area increase. A shadow is always larger than the light-facing area of the obje
40.
by riverdweller 7y ago
It was clear from Imperial's models published in mid-March that the lockdowns would need to last for months, not just a few weeks. That governments failed to clearly explain this to their citizens was an explicit political choice. The