wycy

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by wycy 5y ago
FYI, you're already supposed to pay all your taxes, and not doing so is already a crime.
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by wycy 5y ago
Usually, but not always. I've been to rooms that don't have this and there's just a pile of phones sitting outside.
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by wycy 5y ago
In almost all cases you can ask for a paper menu if the QR code isn't working for you. I once went to a place where the QR menu worked for everyone but me. They gave me a paper menu and it was no big deal.
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by wycy 5y ago
How could an oven or washing machine possibly be useful remotely?! I'm a fan of connectivity, but that just seems absurd for those appliances.
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by wycy 5y ago
What’s the alternative? Trust crackpot amateurs?
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by wycy 5y ago
I'm normally one to be quick to criticize the media for its many faults, but in this case I blame the scientists--namely those at the Lancet--more than the media. Journalists aren't virologists or biologists, and I have a hard tim
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by wycy 5y ago
There might not be one. Cicadas seem to have almost no predator avoidance instincts whatsoever. Wikipedia describes their survival method as "predator satiation"--that is, emerge in such tremendous numbers that it doesn't eve
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by wycy 5y ago
It's not just your time in the bed/room, there's often a line item on your bill for skin-time. On top of that, you pay for your time in the room.
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by wycy 5y ago
> the more it'll have to make those costly evolutionary choices and become less virulent Why would evolution select for less virulence in a virus like this? Given covid doesn't rely on symptoms to spread like the common cold se
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by wycy 5y ago
As someone who's not particularly great at bash, I don't know enough to know if a guide I'm looking at is teaching old/bad methods. Are there any notably good references for modern bash?
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by wycy 5y ago
Does it only come in a 24" configuration? It'd be nice to upgrade from my 9 year old 27" iMac but I'd hate to have a smaller screen.
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by wycy 5y ago
> The more you make it look like (Kernel) C, the easier it is for us C people to actually read. My eyes have been reading C for almost 30 years by now, they have a lexer built in the optical nerve; reading something that looks vaguely li
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by wycy 6y ago
This appears to be a very new finding. I seem to remember earlier studies suggesting single doses of Moderna/Pfizer were between ~53-70% effective. The number 53 sticks out in my memory for some reason. Could be misremembering though.
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by wycy 6y ago
Moderna and Pfizer seem to be nearly bit-for-bit identical at the mRNA level, though Moderna seems to have stabilized the mRNA better to be viable at higher temperatures. J&J appears to be slightly less effective with its one dose, but
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by wycy 6y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but in my case it must be self-hosted and be able to function while completely offline (and therefore no phoning home).
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by wycy 6y ago
Just chiming in with a "me too". For my organization it's self-hosted or bust. We're looking to replace JIRA with something else right now.
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by wycy 6y ago
What was the consequence of this? Would the card not work anywhere, or would it only not work online?
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by wycy 6y ago
I once read that there's something somewhat unique about the immune system of bats (very permissive?) that allows viruses to live in bats relatively undisturbed, allowing them a lot of time to mutate and thrive without affecting the ba
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by wycy 6y ago
We have something similar in my my organization's Fortran code. We have constants KI1, KI2, KI3, ... etc corresponding to (k)onstant integers 1, 2, 3, ... etc. Someone got the idea that hard-coded numbers were bad. All it does is make
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by wycy 6y ago
It further notes: > Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.
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by wycy 6y ago
They do note the random chance bit, and they also note that it's better than humans could judge on their own and even, surprisingly, better than judged by a personality questionnaire. > Political orientation was correctly classified
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by wycy 6y ago
A month for review is an achievable-but-best-case scenario for projects that need to get out the door ASAP, but its not unusual for these reports to be in review for many months. I know of one project report that's been "in review
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by wycy 6y ago
I would've thought your first 2 items there would help increase the use of engineering judgement by reducing pitfalls previous generations encountered. Your third item is definitely a significant factor. It's not so much that I ye
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by wycy 6y ago
> - risk tolerance shrank. There's a lot of truth here and it plays out in even more ways than that. I look back through documentation of legacy systems and see so many things designed based on "engineering judgement". Siz
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by wycy 6y ago
Wow, very interesting. I had a pre-conceived notion that Martian atmospheric pressure was something like 20% of ours, but you're right, it's quite a bit lower than even that.
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by wycy 6y ago
Pretty cool, although it's so hard to really get a sense of sound of wind with a microphone. I guess the takeaway is that Mars is super quiet.
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by wycy 6y ago
Your argument essentially boils down to "he only called it a hoax once--and c'mon doesn't he really deserve a huge benefit of the doubt as to which part he was calling a hoax?--and all the other times he downplayed it or call
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by wycy 6y ago
The Snopes article was published 2 weeks before the impacts of coronavirus even started to be felt in this country, back when he was privately telling the truth about it to Woodward. Trump's base overwhelmingly believes it's a hoa
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by wycy 6y ago
I've seen, with my own eyes, plenty of his tweets and videos of him saying it was a hoax, so debunk it for me.
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by wycy 6y ago
> I was astonished by how much NYT was blaming Trump for everything The guy was calling the whole thing a hoax, I don't know what credit he should get for anything.

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