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How I will die
Covid has risk profiles similar to malaria & malaria has been ruining GDP growth for countries in Africa for decades. Every time a person dies, we lose human capital. https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1256025105341263878
http://time.gov used to not load without a java applet. https://x.com/Gunntwitt/status/1255655984875397125
A pattern forming in my twitter feed, 1KG sweet potatoes, now these. The Coronavirus has spread to the vegetables. https://x.com/zeigenvector/status/1255986554314555392
No way this was generated by an AI?
https://imgflip.com/i/3zfcxa
The convolutional network thinks there is some relationship back story going on.
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Plural variable names for lists, sets, tables and other identifiers that represent a collection
(Imagine another language requiring a gender for all variables, like fr, en, etc)
This (plural variable names) mostly only bothers me for codebases where you don't expect everyone that uses it to be native English speakers. For my own code, I rigorously make collections plural.
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In our apocalypse, this is how we eat now. https://x.com/khaleesi_101/status/1255817022551863296
(Ok, only 10% of you are going to click thru & watch the video-- he made a rube goldburg machine, but has to manually activate every single step) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1255908246822453250
When they say, "what's a deployment script?" It means this is their deployment script. https://x.com/Colinoscopy/status/1255890780641689601
You see, the empty grocery shelves are because everyone shifted their eating away from candy & salty snacks from Blockbuster. https://x.com/loneblockbuster/status/1255633667285757959
Amazon Pantry's recommender code is so unused to seeing stock-out that 80% of the recommendations are out of stock.
IDEA: assisted chatbot. A bot takes your text as you type it into your IM client, and rewrites it so you sound more like a human.
today's vocab
--
happy hypoxics-people with low CO2, low O2 and feel okay, but actually are ready to drop dead
attack rate-as in what % of your household is the infected one going to infect
venous is pronounced Venus, as in blood clots throughout the venous system esp the lungs
both instacart & whole foods have slots--I've never seen that before (I didn't try either pre-pandemic)...so I search and it appears that there is a strike on Friday. So maybe not a slot?
Restaurant food wholesaler delivered! I now get the "cut-out-the-middleman" badge for pandemic shopping. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1254202988954030080
S&P 500 & Election Bettings Odds still report that there will be no economic or political consequences (S&P 500 says nothing changed since about October, Election Betting Odds says nothing has changed since July)
IDEA: "National" health insurance, but implemented by Pacts of adjacent states.
Just imagine a 50 state Pact, how powerful & transformational that would be.
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Idaho was drowning in shame. Idaho was always the last kid to be chosen for a team. Even Alabama was picked for a team before Idaho. https://x.com/alfred_twu/status/1254848008547524608
2 ways to find UFOs:
1) See aliens
2) Become stupider about what you are seeing & those flying things are now unknown
tired: it is like a bad flu
wired: it is like a less fatal airborne ebola
Wife went to drop off car at the body shop & walked home
-no one at body shop wore masks
-construction smoker on narrow sidewalk blew smoke in front of her face
-condo's vacuuming & re-aerosolizing everything in the halls
Not breathing other people's mouth exhaust is hard
Who is planning to go to amusement parks (anywhere)? Leader types in Florida told NPR y'all'd travel today if you could, so when you going?
Will the free COBOL training come with a class on how to deal with an org that can't transition to new tech, that blames failing java websites on COBOL servers that the website doesn't even call, doesn't promote techies, doesn't listen to techies, etc, etc. https://twitter.com/szul/status/1254757213987581952
The cost of all diseases in Africa is ~$2T or roughly equal to the African GDP. Covid's stats are comparable to malaria- 1% chance of death a year for wage earners..., unless exposure confers immunity or we get a vaccine.
ref :https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Disease-Costs-Africa-US2.4-Trillion-Every-Year-WHO-20190328-0027.html
ref: https://www.google.com/search?q=africa+gdp&oq=africa+gdp&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.3196j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Got basic food. Still hard to get delivered (at reasonable prices)
- 2Kg corn tortilla (Guerrerro & the like)
- Korean scallion pancake mix ($15 for 2lb?!)
What is satire called when it is just how things really are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpf0LNYsYA
What I want to know is why my cells are willing to run foreign code without so much a pgp signature. Our bodies are as secure as ActiveX in autoexecute mode. https://x.com/blowdart/status/1254043863175491584
Put in a $100 order to a wholesaler that looks like they normally sell to restaurants. Very peculiar inventory but we'll make it work. Free delivery to homes-- I wonder if they'll keep that up after restaurants re-open. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1254092661205630976
META: Content here has gone from
- python syntax jokes to
- covid to
- shut-in lifestyle microblogging to
- the technical details of food distribution
Buying calories, 5 levels
noob: physically at grocery
amateur: regular amazon
intermediate: boxed/jet/amazon pantry/costco-2-day
advanced: peapod/instacart
expert mode: direct from the wholesaler (e.g. Silver Spring area https://delta-produce.com/ )
Product endorsement: Kellogs Special K. After the next nuclear war, the only thing in the stores will be MREs and Kellogs Special K. They are in stock everywhere. That is some impressive distribution chain management.
Web designers never imagined so many products would be out of stock. Some online grocers have so many products out of stock that the UI is essentially broken & no filter for "show only in stock"
1/2 of stores I buy from kick out up to 1/2 of the items I'm trying to buy at check out.
For Peapod, they let you put in cart based on what is in stock today, but they ship in 2 weeks! Noway that they know what will be in stock in 2 weeks.♡ 0 ↻ 0Amazons Prime Now never imagined slots would be taken for 2 days in a row, all other services never imagined that all slots would be instantly taken 2 weeks in a row. AFAIK, only instacart offers a "we'll get to you when we get to you"-slot.
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This is how rich people get their mail-order groceries now: Biscotti in a jar. The jar is worth $230, comes with $10 of cookies in it.
https://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/p/dicamillo-baking-co-il-barattolo-margent-biscotti-jar-13-oz-prod151250092
🎵Anarchy in .gitlab-ci.yml
Don't know what I want, but I know how get it
I want to `terraform destroy`, possibly? 🎵
ref: https://genius.com/Megadeth-anarchy-in-the-uk-lyrics
Status - practicing wearing a mask all-day
- Can't sip tea & coffee all the time
- Gotta take these things off to eat
- I unconsciously breath slower & more shallow to avoid fogging the glasses
Explicitly inexact measures in theory vs in practice. https://x.com/krisajenkins/status/1253294613663711235
Really? We should have been rolling in bat poop and bat pee years ago if it would have led to the end of open office plans earlier. I know I would have. https://twitter.com/acdha/status/1253508749588922368
I'm not sure I want to know why we need to know this now. https://x.com/darakass/status/1253447819823910913