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See sentence 2. > The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days pri…

> e360: Are there people who are knowledgeable about this topic who could do the job of pointing out what you see as the flaws? > Dyson: I am sure there are. But I don’t know who t…

> it's not lost on me that I admitted to previously consuming 3/4 of a gallon of Monster a day two comments ago and now I'm posting about shitting blood May be pure coincidence, bu…

Unintuitive features that "could be useful" sounds like the antithesis of good design.

Exactly. Someone mining Facebook could build a directory of doppelgängers near each person. A little social engineering could get a bystander to unlock the target's phone without t…

They say that Face ID falsely recognizes 1 in 1,000,000 people (1 in 50,000 for Touch ID), but it's a lot easier to find the people who look like a given target to unlock their pho…

Well he only follows 45 people on Twitter. Roughly a third are Trump entities, another third work in the white house, and the rest work at Fox News. https://twitter.com/realDonaldT…

Great clip of Sen. Franken explaining to Rick Perry how science works: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4674659/franken-vs-perry-clim...

I view that more as a risk of using mutable state, not OOP. Regardless, I'd rather have the mutable state contained in as limited a scope as possible.

Also referred to in this context as encapsulation. OOP provides a method of information hiding that allows implementation details to be changed later without changing the public AP…

Yep, it's a really cool library. I'm pretty new to it myself, but I made a little gist of how one might approach this problem: https://gist.github.com/kevinavery/941e7d67c4f8b104f6…

The first iteration of a good AR system could simply sidestep the latency issue by embracing layers. Magic Leap should skip the fancy stuff (mixing virtual scenes with real), at le…

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Better to break everyone's TLS connections than leave them vulnerable. wat