Viewing profile — pwaivers

I am hesitant to install the plugin because Chrome warns that it can "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit." Is this a normal authorization to give to Chrome ext…

This is a really cool website!

Not all of them. For example, the two masks pictures here do not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N95_mask .

Here's a pretty good explanation of how the figures are reported (and why it can be misleading): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/business/economy/us-gdp-r... .

It's difficult to have both, no?

Please read the rest of the article. It discusses how China could force TSMC to stop producing chips. It even covers the US foundry, and why it won't make a difference.

Thanks for this article, dolftax! I followed all the examples on my machine with no problem, and I learned some new stuff. I have a question: how difficult is it to implement the a…

What source do you have that Canada has disproportionate contributions, compared to the US? The Wikipedia page doesn't say that.

Do you have a link for this? I see free meal for 18 and under in SF, but not for adults also.

Thanks. I did see that, but it should more than a (literal) asterisk at the bottom of the page.

Herd Immunity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity ) means that everyone doesn't need to get it. The threshold for COVID-19 is estimated to be between 29-75%.

https://covidactnow.org/state/CA This is missing a HUGE point. At the very end of the California "shelter-in-place" plan, the numbers will go up. What it doesn't show is that this …

I don't think 12 months without revenue is "living on knifes edge"

I've never had latency issues while talking on the phone using my AirPods.

> "After pulling a few strings to get into the Takaoka plant, you will see the Gordian knot become untied." Um... the Gordian knot was not untied, but rather cut by a sword. It's s…

To be more elegant, you can remove the "dp" array. If you want to keep track of the full list, then you only need to keep track of "dpl". Here is code that I wrote and it works: n …

> "We found Spotify’s claims about Apple Watch especially surprising. When Spotify submitted their Apple Watch app in September 2018, we reviewed and approved it with the same proc…

It's really a matter of productivity. Creating training sets of data is a labor intensive process. It may not be worth the cost to do so, if they can outsource that work instead.

This is great. Thank you for posting. What humans do you have tagging the images, after the AI portion? Are they the 13 employees you have now? Do you think that you will need to f…

> ...and they are clearly profitable enough if they can buy Super Bowl airtime. This is not a good reason to limit how much money an app developer makes. You want to make the play …

The matupás mentioned in the article are also really interesting: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-science-and-legend...

I don't think the IM era is over. Now, there is Slack, Facebook Messenger, and Google Hangouts. These have some very cool features and you can easily set up a chat with all your fr…

> Better yet, design your interview question to be missing important details. This will give candidates the opportunity to discover the need for these details when they get to them…

> What are some traits shared by the best programmers you know? I'd wager things like introversion, thoughtfulness and detail orientation show up on your list. I would not put intr…