maemilius

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by maemilius 6y ago
That raises the question of how to identify the sick. SARS-CoV-2 infections can be transmissible before the infected shows any symptoms, if they present at all. Personally, I don't feel that there are many population centers in the US
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by maemilius 6y ago
My understanding of the extant research is that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to pangolins to humans in wet markets in China that sold "farmed" wildlife. In short, yes. Wet, wildlife markets in China were the source of this outbrea
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by maemilius 6y ago
A StarLink style satellite array actually has good latency even when compared to traditional fiber networks[1]. I recall some calculations that showed a decrease in latency over long distances because light travels slightly faster in a vacu
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by maemilius 6y ago
I've had a similar experience at my job and I think it's actually both things. On one side you have people that managed to claw their way through the boot camp but didn't actually pick up any of the skills; they memorized eno
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by maemilius 6y ago
If only I could be so grossly incandescent.
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by maemilius 6y ago
My mom has a similar saying: "People enter your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime." The idea is the same: you should cherish the relationships you have - while you have them - and let them go when they're over.
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by maemilius 6y ago
NGL, I'm not really sure why this is such a big deal. i understand it being done without the owners' express consent - that would piss me off too - but Yelp is just trying to help. I'd totally understand a "well, thank
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by maemilius 7y ago
WRT 2FA, my problem is more in using it than managing the available options. As I mentioned, mine is constantly misbehaving and, without any action on my part, hasn't requested any of my configured 2FA options in, now, multiple days.
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by maemilius 7y ago
You're still centralizing a power. It would probably be better to have some rule that's based on quorum and consensus than specifically elected people. E.g. at least some percentage (say 60%) of active contributors must weigh in
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by maemilius 7y ago
I use Keeper at my current job and find it to be a horrendously bad UX. Off the top of my head: 1) The browser plugin is horribly written and has cause me numerous problems (Linux latop, YMMV), mostly related to performance and memory usage
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by maemilius 7y ago
That may have actually been (slightly?) intentional. When talking about our Sun in the greater context of stars, I've often seen it referred to as "Sol". The best immediate example I have are games like Stellaris or Elite:
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by maemilius 7y ago
View numbers were the revenue model. Eyeballs make money for advertisers. The more eyeballs, the more money.
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by maemilius 7y ago
You know, the back button works in Google Maps and does exactly what you might think it does: take you back to the state you were just in . After you accidentally lost your route, you could have just used a built in feature of your browse
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by maemilius 7y ago
In all 25 years I've used computers, I can't recall having a PC that took more than a minute to POST. Ever. My current PC's fast boot is fast enough that it looks like the computer turns on and goes straight to Windows. May
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by maemilius 7y ago
Personally, I think the idea of completely cutting off from social media isn't something that most people can (or even should) do. Rather, it's important to moderate your interaction with it. For example, while I've excised
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by maemilius 7y ago
This. 100% this. Any product of real complexity _must_ have a single person or very small group of people overseeing it. This is doubly true if you're product is using micro-services. The product my current employer is working on su
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by maemilius 7y ago
I use the terminal version of Emacs. I've used a number of terminals and currently use Kitty[1]. It had some keybindings that conflicted with Emacs, but the config file has a really handy "unset everything" command. So, I
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by maemilius 7y ago
The ability to be friendly in adverse situations is absolutely a social skill. I have a couple of coworkers that have the ability to remain friendly even in intense situations. I find it really helps deescalate situations (or keep them fr
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by maemilius 7y ago
If a word accurately conveys meaning to another person, does it matter that it's made up? If you hadn't mentioned it (and I hadn't looked it up as a result), I would have had no idea it wasn't a "real" word.
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by maemilius 7y ago
Interesting that the + operator doesn't work but the - operator still works just fine. I don't know how many times I've had to add -nodejs to things I'm trying to search to eliminate irrelevant garbage from some of my se
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by maemilius 7y ago
GP is referring to US policies on jury selection which, as far as I'm aware, _do_ include the stated provisions.
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by maemilius 7y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "browser-friendly"? I would assume you actually meant "accessible and mobile-friendly", in which case the answer to that is generally "nothing does that". You need frame
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by maemilius 7y ago
Why? Webpack has gotten significantly easier to get up and running with since Webpack 4 (iirc). Sure, it starts getting complicated if you want to add language features that haven't made it into browsers yet (i.e. Babel) or use someth
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by maemilius 7y ago
The internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).
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by maemilius 7y ago
People have to charge their phones eventually. The easy way to do this is to store the recordings locally and only transmit when the phone is already charging. If we're already considering government intervention, why wouldn't th
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by maemilius 7y ago
The rules surrounding financial institutions (in the US, at least) are weird and some of their information "security" rules are laughably out of date/ineffectual. I'm not particularly familiar with those security rules (
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by maemilius 7y ago
Same! Until I found the "Unselect All" box and was happy again.
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by maemilius 7y ago
The copyright symbol at the bottom left is followed by "lose". Very insidious.
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by maemilius 7y ago
I only got through on the "bow" one, since it was very obvious that everything there was a "bow" of some kind.
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by maemilius 7y ago
You and I must have very different ideas about what "privacy theater" means. To me, privacy theater is the _illusion_ of privacy not real privacy. So, removing "privacy theater" does nothing to your actual privacy and o

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