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0.5% mortality vs 2-3.5% mortality, look the number of recovered cases is still small, so we can't actually count the in progress numbers just yet

Agree very much. I do attend a few non tech meetups, like movie meetups & hikes for eg. 2€ fee over the movie ticket rarely makes any sense. While proper tech style meetups may act…

Also ceph (& swift) are known to scale well in prod. clusters with over 30+ PB of data (at least looking at CERN's cluster) and the latest version of RGW does support geographic re…

Github link https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker

Yep, eliza is still useful, especially if your day job involves a lot of C++ code :)

There was a poll yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728866 , this reflects that.

I'm happy with using elpy for python development in Emacs. The defaults are nice. Also backends like jedi/rope are supported. https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy

Agree; customization and extenisibility of emacs is something unmatched (not a vim user, can't comment on that), I have been using emacs for just an year now; and still I feel I am…

Certainly a very interesting analysis, whenever an author uses a deus ex machina, people are bound to come up with explanations, criticisms and the like. Here though it seems like …

Same here, Pelican + GH pages, simple to set up and hack upon if you're from the python world

Strangely enough, I find that retention is always better (for me atleast) in casual reading of novels etc; I'm ok there with ~400-500 wpm. I do skim through reports actually, well …

Yes, when you read novels/fiction book etc. Skimming texts seems to make no sense, you read novels to get entertained. Most speed reading books etc. recommend skimming or a quick g…

Generally won't sms kind of services are limited to 160 chars. by operators? How are large articles etc. going to be handled

Very much so! normally no one would have stumbled across many of those links, now all news articles publish all the urls at one place, and of course everyone is curious what they s…

I made an arch-usb image I carry-around after customising the full thing in qemu and converting qemu-img to usb, still use it in emergency places

Fun game, loved it, though G, lowercase edges can solve most cases. It comes down to kerning in the more difficult ones, Helvetica is a perfect Geometric Sans, and that should help…