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by snapetom 6y ago
For me, the lens speed issue is the real killer that phones have never, and may never, come close to real cameras. Yeah, the bokeh can be simulated through software. However, for things like low light, anything far away, anything fast, (b
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by snapetom 6y ago
Yep. Got woken up early today for this. We renewed our cert about a month and two days ago. Namecheap, the vendor, sent us the bad AddTrust cert in the bundle. They weren't updating the bundles until two days after we renewed the c
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by snapetom 6y ago
I'd like to know what happens to can_buy_stuff and the rest of the code when user is Not None and balance_credit is -1.
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by snapetom 6y ago
> This is a pretty weak article with a smarmy attitude and mostly just a hit piece on Buckley (who I certainly have no love for) and a lionization of Baldwin. Additionally, it does a poor job of actually connecting Buckley and Baldwin.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I love how people discover old, hidden gems like this. Despite what we know about how people learn and modern tools like video resources, every once in a while, someone unearths some decades-old resource that explains things far better th
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by snapetom 6y ago
I've used both. I was introduced to Rabbit at one job and at another, was "fed" Kafka during a selection process. At that time, I was definitely not opposed to Kafka because, hey new resume item. I ended up yearning for Ra
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by snapetom 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0j93sOCcg
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by snapetom 6y ago
It's still up after two hours: https://imgur.com/a/9x0Yvyc I just tested it via two methods: 1) VPN'ed into work with Firefox in Private Mode (I posted from Brave) 2) Had a friend test it. He's on Chro
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by snapetom 6y ago
Just tried it on a video about WHO and Bruce Alyward. It's still up after 6 minutes. Either we're inundating their censor bot, it's been shadowbanned, or Google has stopped under the flak. I'll keep checking later.
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by snapetom 6y ago
According to wikipedia, BCG was never required in Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine#Europe
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by snapetom 6y ago
> Or are you trying to claim that the virus is a hoax or something? HN isn’t the place to push hyperbole and straw man. Go back to Reddit for that.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Because people have been scared into thinking that hospitals are overrun and if they step outside, they're going to get the coronavirus and die.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Unless the PDF is generated as one big image, making it a tad bit harder for google to scan, yes, PDFs are easily parsable. There's a ton of open source libraries out there for it.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I used https://github.com/deoxxa/hl7 at my last job to grab HL7 messages out of central processing system. Regardless of the parser, I agree. Writing your own is dangerous. HL7 is deceptively complex. It leaves a l
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by snapetom 6y ago
Why is it always a question of lockdown versus no lockdown? There are shades of lockdowns. The most realistic way to fight this is to regulate the number of people who get it without triaging care. Full lockdown is not going to fulfil
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by snapetom 6y ago
Unfortunate you’re getting downvoted. Flattening the curve was about limiting cases so hospitals don’t get overrun. Now they’re trying to eradicate the virus which isn’t going to happen unless you lock everyone down for over a a year.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Boston College received triple their number of average applications the year after Doug Flutie threw his Hail Mary.
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by snapetom 7y ago
There used to be magazines that would print, line by line, entire programs in BASIC for pages and pages. I did those as a kid on a C64. That definitely wasn't programming because I was basically just reading a recipe. I officially to
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by snapetom 7y ago
> but the general public's understanding of "fatality rate" is obviously that of IFR Looking at my nextdoor group. I'm going to disagree with you on this. There's a lot of people screaming, "4.7% of people
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by snapetom 7y ago
Hah. I worked at a major hospital that was a complete mess. That was basically the conversation I had with the CDO at my last job when I quit. "I've been a data engineer for x years prior to this. I want to go back into data e
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by snapetom 7y ago
I think NYC skews it. NYC, which has a loose definition of COVID-19 deaths, is responsible for half of the US deaths. There's also really no other metro area in the US which rivals NYC in population density. After all of this, I th
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by snapetom 7y ago
I believe the originally, WHO, albeit based on incomplete and confusing data out of China, said it was 3.something percent. It got cleared up pretty quickly as the situation cleared up. However, the press keeps reporting the CFR as "d
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by snapetom 7y ago
As flawed as this is, it's in line with other studies around the world. You can nitpick and critique each one for something, but we now have a whole body of evidence using different techniques and different methods that are all stating
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by snapetom 7y ago
I couldn't remember the name, but I looked it up and remembered the browser. I did try it out! It was nice, but wasn't enough to peel me away from Camino.
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by snapetom 7y ago
Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS
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by snapetom 7y ago
They've reported this two times in Seattle briefings. I believe the first number reported was 75% die. I can't remember the lastest number. It was lower, but still very high. So, IMO, Seattle's number is within the ballpar
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by snapetom 7y ago
I can't imagine Scenario #1 being the issue. It should have been the first thing they looked at when designing it. If it is, it's a new level of terrible QA that Apple has been plagued with in recent years. My lack of faith in h
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by snapetom 7y ago
Possible. A pre-print paper from 3 weeks ago describes how the researchers already found a large deletion in populations in Singapore. The authors theorize that the virus is sacrificing strength in order to keep up the infection rate. The
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by snapetom 7y ago
Basic math, knowing population density, and then that paper was my "oh shit" moment. Got some half respirators and 300 rolls of toilet paper over the next week. The toilet paper wasn't to prepare for a post-apocalyptic world
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by snapetom 7y ago
In pre-print on Feb 7, this paper initially estimated R0 to be somewhere between 4.7 and 6.6. People dismissed it as being not possible. It was never picked up by the MSM. Now we're seeing from the both the real world and other studi

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