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by tazjin 5y ago
The average user has no idea how to use most UIs these days. I have to explain basics of her phone to my mum every time I try to video call her. The difference between tech people and people like her is that it's easier for us to notic
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by tazjin 5y ago
I can't speak for the US, but in Europe (experiences from Sweden, Norway, Russia) rural areas usually have a handful of taxi drivers and you "use their services" by calling their numbers which you can get from locals.
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by tazjin 5y ago
All the pro-mask studies are like this: Some simulated situation that doesn't take into account whether spread actually happens like that in real life. They can simulate blowing stuff through various types of filter material all they w
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by tazjin 5y ago
As long as the sides are the employee's choice (i.e. the threat actor needs to not be able to know which eye is the duress one).
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by tazjin 5y ago
It's exactly what it is, look: "Lockdowns work!" "Lockdowns didn't work in the West." "Those were no true lockdowns !" This is essentially the summary of the parent comment.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Ah, the no true scotsman fallacy. If only we had destroyed our health and economy harder , it would have worked!
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by tazjin 5y ago
Travel bans are one of the most visible actions politicians can take and this is all about politicians doing visible things for populist reasons.
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by tazjin 5y ago
> Is New Zealand not even allowing their own citizens to return to their home country? Only the rich ones, same for Australia. At least NZ is still letting people leave the country. The behaviour of both countries during this has put the
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by tazjin 5y ago
This confusion is common amongst people who haven't lived in abroad. Visa status, work permits, future intentions, work contracts and citizenships are all separate things and most countries weigh more than one factor to determine tax-r
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by tazjin 5y ago
> Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else I believe Eritrea does this, too. They don't have as much political power as the US though, so they resort to torturing your rem
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by tazjin 5y ago
> If you know how the algorithm works (and this one must be open source)If you know how the algorithm works (and this one must be open source) Hah, no chance any of the sources to these things will ever be public.
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by tazjin 5y ago
You can use the open-source code, and we also have a Colab notebook for that: https://bit.ly/alphafoldcolab More info: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/putting-the-power-of-alpha...
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by tazjin 5y ago
Depends a lot on where you are. There are vaccine commercials in many places in Moscow, for example.
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by tazjin 5y ago
> Have been thinking about polishing and releasing the service, but I'm not sure it is a convenience people would actually pay for? You'd get shut down by Twitter as soon as it gains any traction, probably not a good idea.
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by tazjin 5y ago
Twitter's current "chronological" feed is only chronological in that the posts that appear in it are ordered by creation date, but it doesn't include all posts from the people you follow. This was one of the reasons wh
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by tazjin 5y ago
It can not - josh can do many arbitrary kinds of (reversible) transformations on the repo, which allows you to have different external "projections" of your monorepo. Imagine a company that develops strongly interdependent softwar
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by tazjin 5y ago
> that you have permission to put the code on GH This is the complicated bit: All open-source licenses grant you permission to redistribute the code (usually with stipulations like having to include the license), so you are almost always
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by tazjin 5y ago
> Second best case scenario Not really, consider for example repositories mirrored to Github. It seems unclear who has the rights to grant this permission anyways (with free software licenses). Probably the copyright holder? Who that is
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Coop is the chain the article we're commenting on is about.
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This article shows the biases of the author. The actual report makes no judgment that amounts to "shrugging", it concludes that the vast majority of observed phenomena have no explanation and asks for more funding for figuring the
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by tazjin 5y ago
I'm at a FAANG and for any of these categorisations that I think about I can immediately come up with enough counterexamples (across age, marital status, role, ...) that I don't believe there's any easily pinpointed uniform g
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by tazjin 5y ago
> 10 years ago would probably long enough ago to not care for me. Hm, especially for the case of blaming (mostly to figure out why something was done a certain way) I frequently happen upon 10+ year old commits. This happens both in open
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by tazjin 5y ago
old. now has a new EU cookie banner which, to accept or configure cookies, takes you to the new version. I blocked the banner in my adblocker. If they're turning off the old reddit anytime soon I'll probably just leave.
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by tazjin 5y ago
> I contrast it with excellent experiences at Sun, Motorola, Apple and others over the past 20+ years, where in some cases I had very high engineering ranks with fabulous results, in very well run and just healthy orgs. I can understand
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by tazjin 5y ago
Vimium is great, the problem is complex web apps that don't use standard HTML elements (so they become invisible to Vimium).
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by tazjin 5y ago
I use Kinesis Advantage keyboards where one of the keys in each thumb cluster is control, and my capslock is Super. The latter is because Emacs is my window manager and Super is the modifier key for WM commands.
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I have used mostly default keybindings in Emacs for over a decade and what hurts my wrists the most is web applications that force me to use the mouse.
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by tazjin 5y ago
> why do so many humans get painful RSI trauma when they try to use it? Maybe they should use a different way of mapping keys if the default causes them trouble? Plenty of people do. Emacs has a very popular implementation of vi for exam
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by tazjin 5y ago
It's part of a larger post by Steve Yegge[0], of which you can find a copy here: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel Look for the heading labeled "Lisp" or just search for "
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> as a preserved island of fun and "hacking for the sake of it" Somehow this sentiment is anything but fun to me. Emacs is the last bastion of a different path down the tree of personal computing than the one our species took,

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