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by yomly 6y ago
I never questioned germ theory nor the science of vaccines. I do raise an eyebrow however when there's so much rigmarole around "evidence" and mask wearing. Just like there was rigmarole around hand washing when Semmelweis pr
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by yomly 6y ago
The parent never suggested anything anti-lockdown. At face value it is merely questioning the existence of a possible trade off of lockdown. As you've not provided evidence or anecdotal stories to refute the question I'm still in
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by yomly 6y ago
Don't know why you were down voted - I take your position to mean "has lockdown led to a loss of general immunity due to lack of exposure to general pathogens" which I think is a valid question to ask. Seems some people are t
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by yomly 6y ago
Depends on your relationship with cloud storage: 10-20 years ago it was pretty normal to keep and show off nude photos of your kids. I've seen plenty of nude photos of my friends from "a heatwave in the garden + paddling pool&quot
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by yomly 6y ago
I wonder whether the even the synthetic pianos model the second order resonant effects of key presses. Managing "colour" as my teacher would call it is an important part of performance
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by yomly 6y ago
>Can't help but wonder if modern composers use 'chaos and irresolution' as a way to rationalize their terrible compositions. I can somewhat sympathise with artists feeling everything is done. I'm not convinced you cou
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by yomly 6y ago
Cambridge University fully committed to a full-remote year of teaching back in May. At the time this seemed slightly radical, but really they just gave everyone (students, teachers and administrators) a full 5 months to PLAN around a DECISI
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by yomly 6y ago
Sorry to delve off topic but I have recently found myself in a similar point in music but have very little background knowledge of the area as I have basically just relied on following the rabbit hole of hip hop samples. Can you recommend s
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by yomly 6y ago
Sorry to clarify - the act of studying knowledge from a book, carries limited risk. What you do with that knowledge or practical learnings are out of scope here. :)
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by yomly 6y ago
The thing that I always find interesting is a bunch of fearless 18 year olds just throw themselves at SICP. Feel the pain and some survive. Then some Ruby/PHP/JS developers who have 5-10 years of coding experience tip their head a
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by yomly 6y ago
There is an exercise - 2.29 where you implement a tree-like structure of objects. Part d of the question is: " d. Suppose we change the representation of mobiles so that the constructors are (define (make-mobile left right) (cons le
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by yomly 6y ago
Agree. I have passed up opportunities to take LSD on several occasions as I knew my emotional state baseline positive enough. The time I did do it was at one of the happiest times of my life and it was a fun experience. The time element of
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by yomly 6y ago
I understand this inertia, but I have also worked in remote teams where you can just jump on a call instantly without any friction and equally end that conversation in under 30 seconds. Zoom is a little clunky for that - if you have somethi
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by yomly 6y ago
Excel function pipelines which take inputs to outputs. People build wonderfully useful things in Excel using its standard library of spreadsheet functions. They are all referentially transparent. In imperative steps of code, time flows down
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by yomly 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion but Haskell would not be Haskell without its ML-yness. As confusing as operator precedence can get, I do see the beauty in "programmable whitespace" but to get anywhere close in other language syntaxes yo
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by yomly 6y ago
As a recent Haskell learner, I found the indentation part of Haskell hard to learn and a little undiscoverable/hard to google. The number of times I've used curly braces, single lines or expression substitution to bail me out is m
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by yomly 6y ago
We often forget how much assumed knowledge (and accepted knowledge) went into learning OOP. Turing Machine and Lambda Calculus are two entry points into computational thinking, is it really so alarming that if you've only learned one t
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by yomly 6y ago
If you say so - BuzzFeed have done some really great pieces like the Tennis match rigging scandal. Having these kinds of prejudices are your own loss.
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by yomly 6y ago
Also Kim JongUn and Lee Hsien Long + Lee Kwan Yew
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by yomly 6y ago
I'm biased, but I clicked through to Kotlin and it didn't have any mobile friendly media queries - whereas I like the look and feel of the racket page on my tiny android screen.
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by yomly 6y ago
Discord I think raises privacy concerns and in the past, I have had team members complain that it wasn't user friendly BUT I love their tech. They achieve some really impressive stuff
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by yomly 6y ago
Well the other day I literally saw a Zoom + Slack anti MS billboard
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by yomly 6y ago
Who are their largest competitor? Is it Meet or Msft or...?
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by yomly 6y ago
Nintendo's track record with online is truly bizarre. They clearly have some phenomenal tech chops in the company. Iwata hand rolled a compression algorithm and Nintendo were in the internet game waaaaay early and had aspirations of be
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by yomly 6y ago
Fair enough you say maybe but I love Clash Royale (by Supercell) and have definitely played my share of video games over the years.
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by yomly 6y ago
A cursory google about honey's antimicrobial properties suggest it's really not as trivial as the hygroscopic properties of sugar although I am comfortable agreeing that will be a contributing factor. So unless you're an expe
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by yomly 6y ago
What bit about it surprises you? Honey is a natural antibacterial (it never goes off - archaeologists have been known to get kicks out of tasting ancient roman honey) it also is also nice and sticky which helps coat the treatment area, prot
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by yomly 6y ago
I am giving this a try - it has been great so far! I like to think of myself as an adult with agency and yet I log into HN on reflex probably over 100 times a day...
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by yomly 6y ago
Maybe I need that on HN :p
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by yomly 6y ago
Fair enough but Apple and Google have essentially built out the entire mobile digital ecosystem. While I can empathise with the mindset that they should reap the benefits of investing and nurturing the platforms, they are also for all inten

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