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Science does not say kids are barely affected by Covid... that would be the right wing media and politicians.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

Closely related: Floria wants to stop Covid testing so that their reported infection rates will drop.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-surgeon-general-signals...

What you are describing is anecdotal and the same problem we have with Facebook - social group isolation. You have a large number of Catholic schools in your area because you have a large number of Catholics in your area. They are operating under different principles, and so attract people who want those rules. If I went to a Sushi restaurant and proclaimed that nobody wanted Pizza anymore, or to live under the tyranny of tomato sauce and cheese, because nobody in the Sushi restaurant wanted pizza it wouldn't make sense to anyone else.

I know teachers who are very supportive of mask mandates and that the schools and teachers are generally doing ok, and people who I work with who send their kids to schools with masks are very happy for the kids to have socializing opportunities.

Your friends and community are free to find a solution that works for them. But it is not the only way, and it does not make sense to condemn a system that works for the vast majority of people.

So… you’re saying it’s a sensationalized headline because 95% could cover it “somehow”? I think the missed point here is that while 65% have savings, there are 35% on the brink of financial disaster. I guess having to ask your family to help cover a $1000 bill does mean it got paid, but living under such conditions is exhausting.

I don’t understand any of these comments. Discover has two meanings. Unexpected or within the course of a search. We discover oil and mineral deposits all the time. We don’t usually say “You discovered more lithium? Big deal. Been done before”

While it may not be mind blowing, each source of water discovered makes some kind of Martian base more feasible so it is of interest to some

If new sources of water don’t interest you, that’s fine. But it is still within the definition of discovery

Look at it. Bits and pieces of it strewn all over the ground. What a mess

Cars and houses don’t sound like landscape. Maybe they should put some filters for non landscape input

Well, yes. I didn’t cite the specific silly things from the movie I was referring to. But the one from the trailers that always made me groan was the synchronized sitting down in and buckling themselves in for the car chase. Just tins of cringy stuff in the movie. The book was a quick read with silly things but spoke to my childhood so I enjoyed it

Ready Player One movie was terrible. The book was fun. Felt more genuine and didn’t have silly stuff like the movie

AR/VR does run the high risk of creating a super dystopian and fragmented real world. It’s definitely something to watch out for

Your comment made me read the article and I find the article’s language sufficiently abstract by say things like “many NoSQL databases”, etc

Perhaps your comment was meant to say that in general talking about tradeoffs can fall into that trap, but the article here looks like a good discussion

“the issue is that they eventually die and rot, and then that carbon gets released right back into the atmosphere”

You make it sound like a rapid process. Univ of Arizona did a study that showed CO2 emissions of dead trees was lower than living ones due to the rotting process being very slow compared to a living trees normal respiration cycle

“In fact, go back 15 years and no one had any tests whatsoever. The world didn't end.”

That’s just silly. Of course there were tests 15 years ago. Unit testing has been around since the 1950s

Very little would cause the world to end. But lives have been lost and billions of dollars along the way wasted due to improper testing

Can’t tell if that’s sarcasm

There’s no way to make sure everyone believes anything. So. No.

Your question made me read the article. And it does seem to be lacking enough sample data. At one point she had 550 samples and that was called “substantial” in the article. Towards the end it had grown to 1000 samples.

To your point the study is so small it does not attempt to answer the question in whether veins are static.

There appears to be active research in this area in general. It does look like many companies and researchers are looking at ways to use vein patterns for bioinformatics

https://biosmart-tech.com/tpost/megjc72d91-palm-vein-scanner...

https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/applsci/applsci-10-03192/a...

Are you trolling? I’ve used Vue in a couple of projects and honestly have no idea what you are talking about. Feel free to expand on your statements. Otherwise this message doesn’t fit in hn

You are selectively picking one example from the parent post and making a rather personal attack. There’s no need for that. Stick to your argument and don’t make it personal.

I completely agree. I recently decided to try learning Vulkan. I built an sdl window framework and got an OpenGL triangle in maybe 6 lines of OpenGL code. For vulkan you literally cannot draw anything until your reimplement an entire rendering engine from probing hardware, to figuring out queuing strategies, and resource management, etc. you are forced to focus your on HOW rather than WHAT to draw. I think they set the barrier of entry way too high. From a newbie perspective I’d rather have the library make smart decisions by default so I can just init and draw. But if I wanted to do more I could.

I’ve looked up a lot of tech on Google trends. Something strange happened late 2020 across many tech topics. Searches are down across the board.

I can only speculate that people working from home just stopped working as much and therefore searched for work topics as much. Or maybe all the universities going virtual meant less students working as hard and searching for help less. It would need someone to give it some real research to uncover what caused the trend. But it’s super pronounced if you run some searches on google trends

Yes. But. For an iDE you write your own code. For a visual tool like this, I wonder if the “code” is already written and it just spits out code snippets it contains. So the code would all be GPL?

Shoot. I feel like when I’m trying to sauté my onions I will turn my back for a second and suddenly have shriveled little caramelized onions in the blink of an eye

Not bragging here. I suck at cooking. Cooking onions terrifies me

There are conflicts over water. But I think we will see more development of desalination tech as water becomes scarce and people will pay more for water

I’m not advocating for Roblox because it’s quite terrible. But. They did make it stupidly simple to make stupid 3D games. If you like getting eaten and slowly have poop stuck to you while falling through the digestive system until you are pooped out…

I have not tried godot yet but it’s something I’m going to get to soon

https://godotengine.org/

I find conversations like this difficult. I don’t think anyone here will change your mind. If your position is that intelligence must rival a humans to be worthy of “being intelligent”, you are free to do so.

I think the bar is much lower, and intelligence is simply a measure of ability to learn. And from that perspective, a simple automaton does not learn. But insects DO learn.

http://www.womanaroundtown.com/contributed/the-worlds-smarte...

I don’t see the problem. North Face doesn’t want their logo and name smack dab next to oil and gas logos and names. I don’t think anyone is foolish enough to think their plastic and rubber clothing is made of something else. Nor do I think North Face is running some kind shady marketing pretending to be a green company. If the oil and gas companies are so upset they could start investing in making their own clothing line with some of their massive fortunes.

You mean the ring that was held in the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement? I’m not sure what your point is here. Obviously there are pedophile rings in the world. But why are people making up weird lies? Not saying you made up the lie. But now you are repeating it. It really undermines serious conversation about the problem and, seemingly to me, only helps pedophiles because now we can’t have a serious conversation without bringing up pizzagate to shut it down

Fun fact. This is not a new concept. Doom used overrides with their WAD file format. Mod authors could release their mod files replacing or adding content without stealing the game level files.

There may be prior art to that, but as a young coder that was the first time I’d seen it

I use vscode to open and run notebooks using the jupyter plugin. Works great. Don’t need to fire up the browser

Sweet. I made an engine to learn OpenGL 2.0 and vertex shaders way back when, but moved on to other things in life. A couple of weeks ago I was curious what’s changed with the latest pipeline techniques. This feels like it will be a great way for me to catch up. Thanks for writing this!

I see. So you are expanding the scope from Epic complaining about fees to _everything_.

You make good arguments. Just to play devils advocate, PlayStation and XBox are also closed platforms and I think they take a cut. Amazon Fire devices take a cut by making you buy their virtual currency. I don’t know if Apple is doing anything different.

And the real issue in my mind is Microsoft had a real monopoly. Epic is free to put their games on millions and millions of other devices. They aren’t locked out of “the market” as a whole

Yes. But California isn’t Europe. There’s a million factors that led to California, or America as a whole, sprawl. Probably, primarily, land is plentiful and cheap. When it is no longer possible to get cheap land then density will naturally follow.

Take New York as an example. Limited land area. Lots of money. Drove up density and has a low reliance on cars and has an ok public transportation system.

Everywhere else it’s just cheap as hell to buy land and build. California is getting to the point now that some areas are expensive and density is increasing. But its also easy for people to just move somewhere else still

I disagree. And I’m thinking of California in particular here. There is FAR too much reliance on personal transportation. It has little capacity to support “just increasing density”. There’s nothing natural about it. It will take a very serious planning effort to transform the state.