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by spion 5y ago
Or, this might actually be another important problem that humanity should find worthy of recognizing and finally solving.
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by spion 5y ago
Some the problems are old... and some are new. The old press was broadcast-only and had to catter to the lowest common denominator. As a result, at least some people were immune. The new "press" is crowdsourced and tailored just f
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by spion 5y ago
The thing is, the "natural selection" of this network is decided by people on average spending 5 seconds of thought before getting outraged/scared/intrigued etc (also, whatever is that emotion that says "look world,
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by spion 5y ago
Twitter and other social media are probably the biggest problem of our time. By providing simple rules of information flow: small amount of content, retweet, followers) and rewards (likes), they've created the most efficient engines fo
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by spion 5y ago
> Learn to stand your ground without being confrontational and cleverly diffusing conflict using poise and language. What do you think is the most effective ways of doing this?
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by spion 5y ago
Which, to be perfectly honest is pretty hard these days. Used to be easier - you could pick some hobby or two you're somewhat interested in (could be anything, yoga, board games, hacklabs...) and go socialize with others
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by spion 5y ago
Finding lower stakes situations in which you can practice is key.
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by spion 5y ago
> loss of smell is rare Not sure if 20% (at least for the original strain) qualifies as rare. And, it doesn't matter if it goes away after months, the question is - is there long term neurological damage from that process. > redu
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by spion 5y ago
Polio is one of those diseases that remind me we're not really taking SARS-2 seriously enough. From Wikipedia's article on Polio: > Up to 70 percent of those infected have no symptoms. Another 25 percent of people have minor sy
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by spion 5y ago
Because react no longer renders child components in the same stack as the parent after concurrent mode, I think?
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by spion 5y ago
Or maybe browser vendors can invest in high quality, easy to style, feature rich built in components, so we don't have to reimplement the wheel. Its 2022 almost, and we still can't get a html select that has 20% of the features th
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by spion 5y ago
So if Linus works on Linux for his own selfish reasons, howcome Linux isn't a one-person effort that nobody else is using? And why did they pick the GPL? It sounds to me like you're describing bad social behavior but generally alt
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by spion 5y ago
> they’ve formed opinions about the way things should be I feel the opposite. I'd rather have no opinions rather than have strong opinions that prevent me form seeing new possibilities. Infact, I work hard on keeping my opinions und
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by spion 5y ago
The ecocystem did start moving forward, but it will take a long time for the older pre async-await libraries to fade away and there will always be some strangeness resulting from the fact a lot of the libraries you find use a totally differ
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by spion 5y ago
The libraries are better because they're designed with generics in mind. Most C# libraries in use today were built after generics were added, and there never was a large ecosystem already developed at the time Java has had lots of libr
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by spion 5y ago
The file format restricts the possibilties. You know what to expect when you see a PDF - static, JS-less content. With HTML on the other hand, it depends on what the author decided.
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by spion 5y ago
We contributed some type definitions a couple years back to node-sql, which is a very lightweight query builder: https://github.com/brianc/node-sql
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by spion 5y ago
I don't think EntityFramework Core (on NET Core) costs all that much?
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by spion 5y ago
(This should be with a reason e.g. if you're working on a part that you don't know too well, trying to learn how it works)
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by spion 5y ago
Thanks for this! Yes there is no doubt that there is an effect, of course, but it doesn't rule out the booster shot being possibly very helpful in strenghtening immunity
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by spion 5y ago
Pick their brain. Interview them on parts of the system they know well. Capture what they're saying in a document. Draw diagrams together. Write the doc together, show them how you go through the process. It will show you value their k
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by spion 5y ago
I know that seems like a large number but in the vaccine arm there were 20x more subjects and only 15 cases. So with the 1359 previously infected subjects, assuming identical behavior to vaccinated subjects, we would expect around 0.9 cases
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by spion 5y ago
The problem isn't the software but the discussion around it. With discussions, issues, feature requests etc you can be a contributor or you can be a user (beneficiary). There should be a possibility to distinguish between both and requ
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by spion 5y ago
By that logic, should Apple charge something like $1/user/month to allow companies to publish apps and run software on iPhones?
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by spion 5y ago
There is also swc which is fast because... its written in Rust https://swc.rs/ But there is also sucrase which is fast because.. its written in TypeScript? https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase
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Absolute risk reduction and Covid vaccines(blog.spion.dev)
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by spion 5y ago
Human language is a social construct, and words carry whatever information users have decided to assign to it. Looks like quite a few language users disagree with you
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by spion 5y ago
How is "to our surprise" trading your time compared to "Surprisingly"? Is it because it contains more words? The modesty here is about saying "We're not sure if this is generally surprising for everyone, but we
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by spion 5y ago
It paints an additional layer of scientific precision / courtesy / modesty, IMO. Not the style of all scientists, but its very common.
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by spion 5y ago
What might be surprising for the authors might not be surprising to others.

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