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Add to this Portrait in Jazz and Explorations. I’ve been listening to those four albums very regularly for 6-7 years now. For a while I listened to at least one of the four each ni…

I haven’t read White Fragility and couldn’t read the entirety of the article linked here due to the paywall, so I cannot comment on those. I have been trying to educate myself abou…

Yes that’s one thing this bird would do. The whole cycle of two or three repetitive sounds from an alarm before moving to another song.

Yes you’re right. Judging by Wikipedia it seems likely it was a northern mockingbird.

I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale. Every night around midnight it would start singing. It would loop th…

Not a lot of good fried food here. I have only found one reasonably good fried fish place and most of the french fries in the area aren’t great.

This is something I’ve seen called “butts-in-seats management”, and yes, I’ve seen it in practice. Many years ago I had a new skip-level manager who emailed me one day saying that …

Also happening in one small section of the Mission in SF: https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Why-everyone-in-B...

The SF Bay Area has a population that is 75% of Sweden’s entire population. SF itself is more densely populated than Sweden’s most densely populated city which appears to be Stockh…

Sweden has 1/4th the population of California. It looks like the total deaths is around 50% higher than California although of course California might have deaths that should have …

This was updated April 4: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi... “The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 8.2% which is above the…

Okay I’ll complain. I work in industry in a position where having access to papers is very helpful, some would say essential. I have access to IEEE and ACM DLs. I don’t, however, h…

Assuming you’re referring to my comment: > wait another day or so for the exterior surface to become safe. Unless you think that for some reason the exterior of the box is going to…

> Order a bunch of water and TP The TP makes sense. I don't understand why you're suggesting to order water, though. Can you elaborate? I haven't seen any recommendations that tap …

> If you receive packages let them sit somewhere for 2 days before opening I am curious if you have a source for the two day number. I have seen various reports ranging from 12-24 …

There have been several reports going back at least a few months of a coyote wandering around Noe Valley at dusk, I think around 25th & Sanchez or that general area. So this isn’t …

WHO: https://news.yahoo.com/avoid-taking-ibuprofen-covid-19-sympt... > Asked about the study, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva the UN health agency's expe…

Not if it’s a library that you’re not compiling, like language runtimes or system libraries. LTO requires that you’re compiling all the code to get the benefits. I’m also not sure …

Because if you statically link libraries like the language runtime it allows you to reorder the blocks in those as well to improve locality and instruction cache utilization. For e…

Is it lack of testing or something else? Most days the number of confirmed cases goes up by single or low double-digit numbers. One day it spiked by 38%, but that’s an outlier (so …

> What are you guys up to these days? Practicing the piano. I’ve been playing for around three months. Sometimes it’s nice to step away from the computer keyboard.

H1N1 had an R0 between 1.4 and 1.6 [1]. Let's assume it was 1.6. Let's assume that the current coronavirus has an R0 of just 2 (estimates vary, most higher than this). Perhaps it i…

To be clear, this is the worst-case estimate for the current coronavirus outbreak in the US, not the worst-case estimate for the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak.

I’m reminded of this: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mexican-museums-artifacts-... > The report found that only 83 of 2,000—or just over four percent—of the museum's pre-Columbi…