Viewing profile — maemilius

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…

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…

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 lo…

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 …

If only I could be so grossly incandescent.

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 th…

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.…

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…

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 percentag…

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 …

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…

View numbers were the revenue model. Eyeballs make money for advertisers. The more eyeballs, the more money.

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, …

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…

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 interacti…

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-servic…

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 reall…

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 f…

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 id…

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 elimina…

GP is referring to US policies on jury selection which, as far as I'm aware, _do_ include the stated provisions.

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 "nothi…

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'…

The internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).

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 con…