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by wegs 6y ago
Okay, if they're known, describe them to me. * What portion of the population will have reduced lung capacity post-COVID? How long will it last? * What about other long-term effects, such as chronic fatigue? What puts me at risk? What
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by wegs 6y ago
I wouldn't. I would offer it to selectively to narrow segments of the population who have extremely high exposure to other people (for example, a huge number of NYC mass transit drivers came down with COVID19). That's where the ri
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, it's being done for all the wrong reasons, but I'd gladly take a relaxing of safety measures to be done with COVID, depending on the vaccine and the risks. The relatively known risks of some types of a vaccine seem a lot bet
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by wegs 6y ago
Running wires would be profoundly impractical. The home has stairs, and the whole layout is profoundly non-conducive to running wires. It'd be a massively long wire, running along floors, walls, and ceilings. Even if I decided to do th
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by wegs 6y ago
> For at least the WiFi issues, the answer is: don't use WiFi. Use Ethernet cables and you will have reliable, robust connections. Which means (exclusive of a comcast outage) "reliable ssh connections which stay up and have low
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Ask HN: How to set up home wireless for reliable WFH
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by wegs 6y ago
As far as I know, that's how the communities describe themselves. I don't think it's imposed from the outside. That's not to say that it hasn't been used as an insult -- it has -- but as far as I know, it's the
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that, if a software engineer, you were to pick up and conform to executive social and cultural norms, and did the work required to be able to manage people, raise money, and so on, your salary COULD go up 3-4x. Clothing
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by wegs 6y ago
Once you rewrite history, you've basically broken the git concept. It's an emergency feature if you've accidentally committed a security token or similar, or before you've pushed upstream, but if you're rewriting hi
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by wegs 6y ago
Can I pay anyone for a hosted Calibre server?
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by wegs 6y ago
What's the best eBook reader? I'm getting fed up with Amazon, and I'd like to have some kind of clone of the Kindle. Key thing is SaaS -- I'd like my reading positions, notes, etc. to sync between machines and available
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by wegs 6y ago
This is true lots of places, including Boston/Cambridge. It also varies by department.
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by wegs 6y ago
> And now imagine someone saying whose really good at it (and anyone who truly understands basis for the 2nd law of thermodynamics is such an outlier) oh, anybody can be as good as me - your just not trying hard enough. I'd agree wi
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by wegs 6y ago
I wasn't referring to mental disability, but aside from that, yes, a typical random person plucked off the street could generally learn quantum field theory, given about a decade of appropriate focused effort. Mathematical maturity tak
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by wegs 6y ago
Everyone can learn! The problem is many people don't know how to learn, or haven't developed good habits-of-mind. That goes under the terms executive function and metacognitive skills. They are force multipliers throughout your ed
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by wegs 6y ago
These are awesome! I was blown away. Would you consider an AGPL dual-license for the (non-free) illustrations? Right now, the license prohibits redistribution of any sort, which makes these unusable in free software. An AGPL dual-license wo
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by wegs 6y ago
Something is stopping me. If your analysis is correct, I'd lose money. Given you reading comprehension skills, though, I'm beginning to question your analysis. If you can't understand a 6-paragraph post, I can't imagine
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by wegs 6y ago
Racism has nothing and everything to do with it. The word 'racism' has several very different meanings, depending on which dialect of English you speak. * In my hometown, racism would have nothing to do with it. The math doesn&#x2
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by wegs 6y ago
The search results are qualitatively different from Google or DDG. The first one I tried, for a very specific term was a lot better. The second one, for a generic question, was a bit worse. That's helpful! Minor UX quirk: I need to hit
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by wegs 6y ago
Search can get eaten almost overnight. No stickiness. I switched to DDG when Google annoyed me. With Android, we're already seeing forks in China. A bit more stickiness, but not great stickiness. Ads is still a big two-sided market.
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm not sure one can generalize from a pandemic economy. Macroeconomics beats microeconomics. I'd /never/ use GCP in any sort of business setting. Too high odds an automated Google algorithm would take out my business. G
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by wegs 6y ago
It's not doing so hot: 1) Hiring standards have drifted downwards over the past 15 years. Google used to be super-elite, compact, do-no-evil, massive-profit-per-employee. It's now a 140,000 person organization, and at that scale,
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by wegs 6y ago
People make different decisions there too. Some drive recklessly, and some are super-conservative, exactly because of values. But rationally, you wouldn't make determinations like the ones you're making. False->True isn't
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by wegs 6y ago
I don't see it that way. I think my language was neutral. Your statement: "I wouldn't frame it as pro reopening school people prioritize schooling over life though. That sounds pretty bad and doesn't seem fair" take
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That's not research. That's opinion pieces from research organizations. There's a question of values, which is a personal question. I don't want the moral weight of risking that my child catch COVID19 and cause someone e
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by wegs 6y ago
It's less directed self-study as tutoring and mentorship. My experience is a bit different; the trick is to: 1) first expose kids to the general concepts 2) build them out in as broad a range of contexts as possible, slowly and gradual
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by wegs 6y ago
I think this would be a good book in a year or two. For now, if I can introduce basic concepts like slopes, derivatives, limits, and similar, simply and intuitively, that would be ideal. Thus far, my favorite is Cartoon Guide to Calculus.
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by wegs 6y ago
Thank you!
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I've been looking for a good calculus book. I was curious if this worked well, and I found: 1) It costs $300 for a paper copy 2) There are no previous. I have no idea if it's actually illustrated I'm looking for something whi
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by wegs 6y ago
No. This is not what engineering is about. Engineering is about making reasonable design trade-offs. Simply throwing dollars at a wall without doing an ROI estimate is called overengineering, and overengineering is bad engineering. For reli

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