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by braindongle 6y ago
Yes, if they have a known vulnerability in the wild in a currently-supported product, the rest is just details. Tangentially, I wonder: has anyone built a friendly browse/search interface for all-time CVE data [0]? This makes me curiou
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by braindongle 6y ago
Agreed, "global warming" is poor marketing. It's also a common colloquialism among climate change deniers, no? So, if you need to explain to someone how cold weather doesn't mean "global warming is fake", maybe
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by braindongle 6y ago
Is it one or the other? I don't know anything about dark rooms where captains of industry who profit from fossil fuels orchestrate climate denialism. Sounds plausible. But in any event, such efforts are surely more difficult, if possib
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by braindongle 6y ago
This is great. People who don't trust experts and cynically think that everything is political can readily say "It's really cold! See, global warming and climate change are fake!" Here we see that the polar vortex isn&
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by braindongle 6y ago
For some reason, I have a PhD in Health Policy and clinical practice, so, I'm inclined to look at the healthcare system when thinking about this question. IMO it's simple (and this is of course a common view): healthcare in the Un
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by braindongle 6y ago
Aviation accounts for 1.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions [0]. If we're going to take a sober look at where to focus our efforts, this: "Global aviation’s contribution to the climate crisis was growing fast before the Covid-1
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by braindongle 6y ago
Yes, or (in this case?) interpreting it. I think of spreadsheets as visual functional programming environments. The humble spreadsheet has an interesting kinship with the most trendy, and, for some (me!), difficult-to-grok programming parad
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by braindongle 6y ago
Really, a ding here? I thought HN was where you go to discuss what's actually going on under the hood, not so much "now you need a Google account", which will surface itself in your general tech news feed. Hmm. I hope we don&
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by braindongle 6y ago
TLS not E2E. When Zoom got called out for lying about having E2E [0], I looked into the landscape around this a bit. Facetime and Signal are E2E, but don't support recording, which would of course need to be on-device if implemented. D
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by braindongle 6y ago
Yes, cleaner, and no switch in Python.
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by braindongle 6y ago
If I'm teaching young'ns per se using a toy language, I'd reach for Scratch. It's history and Google's embrace of it seem like strong endorsements. Are there other good candidates in that space? If I'm teaching
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by braindongle 6y ago
Who cares about the philosophical implications of the theorems? Philosophers! The linked article is about how the theorems destroyed Whitehead et al's aspirations to find One Algebra To Rule Them All. The literature on Gödel and philos
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by braindongle 6y ago
If you're uninitiated and simply want to grok where true-but-unprovable comes from, I recommend: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompleteness-the... Wolchover is masterful here. The layers of abstraction ke
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by braindongle 6y ago
Hear here! I'm reminded of Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents", wherein he expands his ideas about psychopathology to civilization as a whole. Tellingly, psychologists call what what you describe "splitting&q
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by braindongle 6y ago
Maybe someone here can explain: I've come across more than a few philosophers, of the PhD/academic flavor, who are dismissive of Wittgenstein's work. I have a gist-level understanding of his work, and a hobbyist's knowle
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by braindongle 6y ago
A reasonable perspective for sure. But I don't see it. Asked a question about the nature of magnetic force by a lay person, he saw fit to launch into a lecture about causation. He was a lecturer by trade. Socrates, as we receive him, o
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by braindongle 6y ago
As a liberal/progressive/democrat in today's society, you're pro-labor, therefore pro-union, right? When do you make an exception? I see a parallel with our healthcare system. Undoubtedly, though things are bad and getti
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by braindongle 6y ago
Yes, this article should parade the p-value to make its point and for some reason it doesn't. On p-values and linear regression in general, though: when you're new to inferential statistics applied to really complex data, such as
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by braindongle 6y ago
Cloud portability? Containerization if your app isn't built with serverless in mind, serverless if it is. Is there anything snowflake-y about the Big Three's offerings for container orchestration and true serverless? And for not-i
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by braindongle 6y ago
One other other thing. Functional thinking has greatly changed the landscape of client-server applications that are hosted in the cloud as well. If your aim is apps, maybe don't bother to master the skills needed to set up and maintain
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by braindongle 6y ago
One other thing. You will be thinking functions first if you get into data science, say with Python/Pandas. In general, Pandas functions are vectorized, meaning that they operate on members of a collection in parallel. You really don
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by braindongle 6y ago
I can't speak authoritatively about Java, but it looks like map-reduce is available in Java 8 by casting a collection to a stream [0]. Considering the definitions of map and reduce can help one see how they can replace loops/count
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by braindongle 6y ago
An excellent list. Regarding functional programming, I recommend starting with a gentle approach that doesn't require picking up a new language: 1. Stop creating counters/loops and become facile with map, reduce, and the like. Thi
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by braindongle 6y ago
An interesting idea. What would the consequences be? No one knows. IMO the US is sitting on a powder keg when it comes to power-sharing between the government and Big Tech. What if Google's board took their ball and went home, shutting
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by braindongle 6y ago
This question arises regularly in everyday conversation about the future. I was asked this by a friend within the last week. Here is the correct answer: "Well, I don't know what consciousness is. As for [specific behavior X], my g
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A multi-purpose toolkit for the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data(github.com)
1 points by braindongle 6y ago|0 comments
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A Pandas/Python analytic framework for the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data(github.com)
3 points by braindongle 7y ago|0 comments
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by braindongle 7y ago
Blaming? This is a rallying cry. The problems you list are important. Nonetheless , social distancing is perhaps the strongest weapon against this pandemic. Point fingers if you like, but also take responsibility.
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Pandas pipeline for the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data(github.com)
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by braindongle 7y ago
It's unclear. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music...

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