daveFNbuck

I agree that computer science isn't a social science, but I think the social aspects of computer science have a lot more to do with what computer science grads do than upper bounds on algorithms. Most of what we're doing is about making products more attractive to customers.

From reading the comments here, the margin isn't that much, and from their perspective we're the faster ones. Relativity is weird.

Is 8% of the speed of light not a very high relative speed?

This says that people work 48 more minutes per day on average. I looked up the mean commute time in the US, and it's 26.6 minutes each way. So this would still be a small net win for people who are working from home. The win is bigger if you factor in being home for lunch and other breaks.

Have you tried contacting Twitter about this? They've given free access to researchers in the past. They'll likely ignore you or say no, and if they say yes it may be more restrictive than you like, but it's worth a shot.

The adult isn't always the one making the decision. When I was a kid, I'd often be set free in the toy store and given some limit on how much I was allowed to spend. It was usually a low limit, but there was a good variety of toys under it.

The adult set the budget, but as the kid I had control over how that budget was spent, unless it was a toy my parents found objectionable.

A commit message can give you a better understanding of why a line of code is the way it is. It's like a mini README for your commit.

Suppose you're making a change that has a few paragraphs of commit message explaining what you're doing and why. As well as a large well-commented change in a primary file, you've made some small incidental changes to other files. You're not going to include comments with all the context and explanation on each of these small changes.

If I'm looking at one of the files you incidentally touched later and don't understand why your change is there, I can check the git blame and have a good understanding of why the code looks like that now.

I use a free dropbox for things I think are worth keeping too, but that doesn't include random code and explorations. Those usually go into a local folder and get upgraded to a git repo if appropriate.

Most of the stuff I produce is random garbage that isn't worth keeping. There's a good chance that this guy didn't think he had anything particularly interesting or worth keeping. Once you feel you understand how the app works, you don't really need the work you put into figuring it out anymore.

I don't think this applies to consoles like the Switch. I don't think the average user ever feels the need to revert to an earlier firmware version, and games don't target particular firmware versions. They tend to just work.

I think the idea here is that she could use her own voice instead of a generic voice with text to speech devices. I doubt he intends to taunt her with it.

Coronavirus may only double overall mortality, but having no hospital capacity would cause a further increase in deaths. We'd probably just end up in a real lockdown (shelter in place orders are not a lockdown) and have a bunch of extra dead people.

There are also mental health consequences to large-scale death and hospitals being over capacity. Would you choose a year of watching your friends and family randomly die over a year of staying home most of the time?

The article is about severe social isolation, meaning you don't interact with another person in any way.

> the researchers had 40 socially-connected healthy human adults spend 10 hours (9am to 7pm) alone, with no social interaction and no other social stimulation (e.g., twitter, email, reading fiction).

I'm not even sure what I could do during the day to avoid social interactions to this extent.

"A series of tubes" was meant to be a contrast to the truck analogy.

"the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

The tube vs truck analogy doesn't really make much sense here. Tubes aren't exactly famous for having discrete items queue up within them.

It's not hard to make an analogy work if you want to simplify the subject. Is a series of tubes a better analogy than trucks on a road network?

> As an aside, I've never understood that joke about Clinton. Was it a reference to something in particular?

It's a reference to his defense of saying he wasn't lying with the phrase "there's nothing going on between us" when questioned about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

He explained that this was true because they were no longer seeing each other at the time of questioning, but the way he said it was striking. "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"

I think it's easy to see why people would latch on to that and make jokes about it.

The drivers aren't necessarily more dangerous. They might just be driving more dangerously with less traffic. It's easier to die going 80 on the freeway than if you're stuck in gridlock.

I think we can at least agree that the statement "the roads are safer" is false.

My point is that none of the data we have support the conclusion that the roads are safer.

Even if you have a high order volume, a delivery service should still have more deliveries near a given destination and be able to improve margins by grouping those together for delivery.

I may be the only person in my apartment complex ordering Chipotle for dinner tonight, but there are going to be several others ordering something.

"The roads are safer" is not true. It's more dangerous to drive right now. There is no sense in either of these stories which it's safer to be on the roads.

Something like "the roads are killing fewer drivers" would be true.

I'm definitely making some cantonik for my next tamboury.

> cantonik

> a dish of sliced bread filled with cheese, eggs, and bacon, wrapped in a thin layer and fried

> tamboury

> a brief affair of food or entertainment

It's different because you have representation.

Landlords are subject to the laws of the land, so you actually have your government representative making laws about what your landlord has to do and how much they can charge you for it.

You're also your own representative with your landlord. If you have a problem with your situation, you can talk to your landlord and try to work it out. That's the thing that representatives are supposed to do with the government. It doesn't guarantee results, but you have representation.

It's also different from taxation without representation because it's much easier to opt out of a bad landlord than it is to opt out of a bad government.

This roundabout, hand-wavy, vague way to deal with things is how mathematicians solve problems. You have to have an intuitive understanding of what's going on before you can formalize the solution into a proof.

I majored in math in undergrad, and one of the required courses was about communicating mathematical ideas. One of my bigger projects in that course was to explain the Monty Hall problem so it could be understood by the general public, and I got a good grade by putting together a lesson plan that included this type of simulation.

People aren't generally very good at probability. Plenty of people get it wrong despite understanding the puzzle correctly.

9/11 changed the risk of dying in a terrorist attack when flying, and no one knew what the change was at the time.

RC cars and video games are much more forgiving of mistakes than driving a real car through a populated area.

Also, the kids who are good at driving RC cars have probably practiced it a lot. I played a lot of Gran Turismo growing up, but it required a lot of practice to get comfortable driving a real car. Video games don't teach you how hard to push the gas pedal.

He's said a lot of bullshit in a lot of different venues. I did a quick search and found a long, rambling article [1] on his website about how coronavirus and 5G are linked. He sums his position up at the end with

> The evidence that COVID-19 is a bioweapon is overwhelming – and so is the evidence that 5G is involved to either cause the flu-like symptoms/pneumonia people have been experiencing, and/or to exacerbate the virulity of the virus by weakening people’s immune systems and subjecting them to pulsed waves of EMF to open up their skin to foreign DNA fragments (including viruses).

So he's been saying both that 5G causes an illness that is mistaken for COVID-19 and that 5G spreads coronavirus.

[1] https://www.davidicke.com/article/564306/coronavirus-5g-conn...

iTerm2 also has tmux integration, which gives you all of these nice features when using tmux on a remote machine.

You don't have to completely isolate the country from the world. You just have to do testing and quarantining to ensure that infectious people and things aren't entering the country.

It seems all you miss by getting the previous version is the --no-color flag.