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by tazjin 6y ago
Just a minor comment (I currently live in Egypt): > Control centres will monitor infrastructure and security electronically, roofs will be covered in solar panels, payments will be cashless Good luck with that - a huge number of places d
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by tazjin 6y ago
It won't be mandatory, you'll simply lose a bunch of - entirely optional - rights, such as the right to travel abroad :)
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by tazjin 6y ago
That describes most "journalism" in the last year ...
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by tazjin 6y ago
That's not what your link says, not specifically: > Moreover, the database is not a representative sample of the sars-cov-2-positive population. Because it only contains records from people who have interacted with a medical service
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by tazjin 6y ago
COVID isn't the only health threat around, and the response is absolutely not proportional anymore. FWIW, the LCD of most relevant studies show that maybe banning large gatherings is useful, whereas all other measures we've inve
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by tazjin 6y ago
I use telega on Linux, I guess this is the Qt-based desktop client?
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by tazjin 6y ago
Susceptible to infection, absolutely, but are they suffering severe symptoms or dying in large numbers? No. A single metric (e.g. positive tests) is not enough to assess any severity here, and even those metrics come with caveats because al
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by tazjin 6y ago
I haven't seen anything that indicates that the risk of long-term consequences is significantly elevated above other viral diseases. There is a condition (which we know too little about, and which - as one of the few good outcomes of t
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by tazjin 6y ago
Which ones don't? I used the Android client and telega, both of those do. I believe the iOS one does, too.
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by tazjin 6y ago
> the risk is minuscule compared to COVID-19 itself You don't know this at all - we don't know what age groups are affected here, and COVID is pretty much negligible in many younger age groups. It's best to wait for more d
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by tazjin 6y ago
Yeah, I've been on occasionally shitty mobile networks in Africa for the last months and Telegram almost always works when other things don't. Experiencing this kind of connectivity for a while really is perspective-altering.
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by tazjin 6y ago
Telegram's clients are amazing (including the ones developed by the community, such as telega.el for Emacs). It is miles ahead of any other messenger in the UX department. Friends of mine who have (reluctantly, in some cases) tried it
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by tazjin 6y ago
I flagged it, too, because them calling this a "conservative estimate" makes it very likely that this is on the standard level of the COVID-related junk science. Edit: I was trying to dive deeper to call this out more specifically
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by tazjin 6y ago
In my opinion, the level of detail in this article is much more useful than small benchmarks of code that doesn't resemble real applications anyways.
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by tazjin 6y ago
+1 - I learned a lot from those giant manuals. I also remembered calling their (free at the time, I believe?) customer support hotline about issues with some printer and the guy dictating a bunch of kernel parameters to me over the phone (w
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by tazjin 6y ago
I remember something after their acquisition about new offers being lower than what certain people had previously, leading to important staff members leaving. This and some other issue I can't quite remember ... it was probably posted
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Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work(theta.eu.org)
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by tazjin 6y ago
There was an actual picture of one on /r/eink and the screen surface was glossy. That's certainly curbed my enthusiasm.
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It's not so much about reducing the amount of characters typed, and instead moving the way you think about code from the character level to a more structural level. Calling it a "reflex" is an interesting phrase! Tools like m
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Check out this video for a quick demo: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html If you know a Lisp I recommend just giving paredit a spin for a few minutes, it's an interesting experience.
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by tazjin 6y ago
A friend of mine started working on an experimental Emacs mode to provide structural navigation of code based on tree-sitter: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/users/Profpatsch/emacs-tree-... The pote
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by tazjin 6y ago
They probably mean Dasung ( http://www.dasungtech.com/ ) and Onyx ( https://www.boox.com/ ). The former actually build eInk computer monitors with HDMI inputs, but they're very expensive and somewhat diffi
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by tazjin 6y ago
I suspect that the primary difference is that "being fired" has a more literal meaning in the Mafia.
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On the other hand, I've worked with Erlang systems where almost all issues we saw in production would have been prevented by a type-checker. There are, however, very few ergonomic type systems. At the moment I think Rust is, sadly, the
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by tazjin 6y ago
This is made by a project in Google's internal incubator: https://avera.area120.com/ (I work for Alphabet but have nothing to do with this)
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No, quite the contrary - "popular" and "news" often implies "shady".
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by tazjin 6y ago
I agree that people should stop reading popular "news" websites, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
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by tazjin 6y ago
The "Spotify situation" is an ongoing argument between Spotify & Apple. Spotify's side: https://www.timetoplayfair.com/facts/ (this page is theirs) Apple's side: https://www.apple.com
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Wow. I had to use a Salesforce tool once, and I can confidently say that the only worse things out there are various online tax return forms and Workday.
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by tazjin 6y ago
> Is anyone prevented from debating that question? Maybe they're not prevented from debating it, but the sides will not take each other seriously. For example, ponder your phrasing here: > Do masks harm? Lol, no. You say "Lo

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