mikekchar

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by mikekchar 6y ago
Alright. If you are unable to look at any other data than the one page you have. 7,961 deaths to influenza in 2015-16. Is that the number you think will show that COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu? Because, I've got to say that
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by mikekchar 6y ago
That data does not actually agree with any other data I can get from the CDC web pages. Where did you get the link from? Even the total death rate is nearly half of the actual total death rate reported for those years. Here's the data
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by mikekchar 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, influenza causes an estimated 41,400 deaths per year. 2017-2018 was the worst in 40 years and totaled about 61,000 (though the tally has not been finalised and some people have reported it as being as high as 80,000
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I'd love to actually read the paper to see if it is reasonable. Anybody have a link? Having said that (and keep in mind that I'm in favour of wearing masks and wear one myself when I go out in public), I think it's pretty c
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by mikekchar 6y ago
TODO lists for which I use org mode, but you could use practically anything. I like a text editor for this rather than an app, per se, just because it keeps me in the flow. All you need is a place to jot down what you are planning to do n
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by mikekchar 6y ago
It is incredibly difficult to remember something that you don't understand. In fact, your memory often elides things that you don't understand to the point where you will swear that something never happened when, in fact, it did.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
On the other hand, true criticisms of Javascript, the language, are boring. Yeah, there are problems. You learn to deal with those problems. They aren't really that horrible. I worked with a lot of less convenient languages than
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I also have a small caveat. If you have a docker setup or a similar style of setup, if it is not obvious how to do this by hand, then you should write documentation on how to do it. Honestly, my standard is that you should have the same l
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Quite a lot of Japanese people seem to recognise characters less by their shape and more by the stroke connections, in my experience. No matter what the tool used to write it, legibility really requires writing the characters in the correc
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Actually, Chinese characters did originally have a defined linear order (or, rather several schools existed IIRC). It's been a while since I looked at this, but essentially they were ordered by radical and then pronunciation, with som
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Not the OP, and it's definitely not my style, but some people really like taking classes. They love the environment and energy that a university life gives them. I've known one or two people who have spent decades just takin
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by mikekchar 6y ago
To be fair, it is very common for Forth programmers to redefine the interpreter as they go. You literally change the language in your program. That's a very different expectation for other kinds of languages.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
You are my hero!!!!
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I had to read up on the "means of production" because I had no idea previously that it often refers to the capital (both social and financial) used to produce goods. It's interesting to me that Engels says (in essence) that
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Evil mode in Emacs is almost perfect. My biggest complaint is that undo works differently than vim (if anyone knows how to fix that, I would be forever grateful!) I originally used Emacs for about 20 years and then switched to Vim for a v
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Surely the Trump campaign's response should be to claim that they are not infringing. This should put the video back up, according to DMCA rules. I'm not really familiar with Twitter's DMCA work flow. Do they not allow the
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by mikekchar 6y ago
At the risk of being cynical, I don't think it was common to toss around incompatible definitions of open source until very recently. There seems to have been a considerable push by a number of people to dilute the meaning of open sou
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by mikekchar 6y ago
There are definitely small and medium sized companies that follow the principles you describe. However, there are lots that do not. Trying to transition a company from "do not" to "do" is quite difficult. Whenever I he
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by mikekchar 6y ago
It's never been useful in my experience, but I'm certainly interested to hear your experience.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Not OP, but I agree completely (even though I find it hard)! Really. Never. It will never, ever give you any benefit at all to speak ill of your spouse. It will give you nothing to act unkindly. It will only cause your spouse to feel j
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by mikekchar 6y ago
From this page: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpre... they explain that the NonCommercial part is triggered on use. I believe that the intent is that you can not use the work for commercial a
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by mikekchar 6y ago
There is an issue on Github that is collating the problems they are working through. I've lost track of it, though, unfortunately. I've been pretty cynical about it in the past, but the last time I looked at the issue, it does lo
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by mikekchar 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the original author does not consider COVID-19 a black swan event, so I think you must be right. However, while we know a pandemic will occur, we don't know when . Neither do we necessarily know ahead of ti
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by mikekchar 6y ago
My job is programming, so it's hard to divorce yourself too much. However, I went something like 4 years without a cellphone plan (I had a phone, but used it as a mobile computing device). I've never really done social media (a
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Interestingly (to me anyway ;-) ) I recall when I heard about the Japanese government's plans (where I live). They had a whole special about what the plan was, what the rationale was, how they thought it would go, etc, etc. I thought
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I agree with you. I didn't mean to imply that the binary must be served over the network -- merely that the server is used over the network. The point I was trying to convey is that you only have to provide the source code to the use
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I agree that the comment is disingenuous, however, I believe the problem for Dyson was that the car he wanted to make was just too expensive. It's not necessarily the case that all electric vehicles are too expensive (and clearly wh
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by mikekchar 6y ago
20 kW in what period of time? 20 kW in a year is nothing. 20 kW in a second is quite a lot. Edit: Facepalm!
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by mikekchar 6y ago
When I was doing some budgeting in London, England several years ago, I found that the monthly rent for a small apartment was similar to the the cost of a desk in the office, so 17k per head sounds about right to me in large urban areas.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
That's a good point and I'm glad you mentioned it. However, one set of circumstances is enough :-) If you do not wish to distribute the source code to other third parties, you do not need to, as long as you distribute it to your

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