I'm quite comfortable saying that master/slave is an unsavory metaphor to use in your distributed architecture.
Readit Newsidm commented on GitHub, fuck your name change mooseyanon.medium.com/git... · Posted by u/leontrolski
Software engineering was life changing for me. I studied cognitive and computer sciences (CMU '03) - and when I graduated I realized I didn't know much about writing software.
Luckily, I found a software engineering course (Berkeley, 2005) after graduating and they let me attend without being enrolled. That professor (Kurt Keutzer) had wisdom! Literally life changing.
These engineering skills are totally different from what you learn in a computer science curriculum. I highly recommend a course like the one OP links.
idm commented on Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard connections show how money can distort research scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Bender
It's a fact that wealthy donors support specific research that interests them.
On the one hand, hasn't research always been funded like this? Wealthy patrons have always supported work that somehow gratified them. And history is replete with despicable personalities who have nevertheless financed good science.
On the other hand, when the patron's interests turn out to be questionable, the research supported by those interests can be examined. It's okay to give it a second thought in light of new information about the patron.
I happen to think this article raises valid questions. For example, I have questions about the idea of buying a visiting fellowship. I have questions about the mechanisms by which faculty become oddly encumbered by donations.
I used to be obsessed with trying new note taking apps, but I've been the happiest and most productive using Vim and Markdown on my laptop synced via Syncthing to my phone and editing with Markor. I've used Vim for as long as I could program, so I am embarrassed that it took me so long to set this up (a few months ago) but I finally don't care about note taking apps.
Edit: sometimes I print my notes and for that I use the Vim plugin MarkdownPreview to render to the browser, then print there
This is basically what I do.
I then use Gthnk (http://gthnk.com) to navigate all my markdown files. I sync with dropbox or seafile, but it's the same basic idea.
Gthnk renders to PDF for printing. In fact, a medium-term goal is full import/export via hardcopy, which requires paper-oriented output.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Gthnk.
It would appear the rat poison they are referring to is strychnine.
Gthnk is journaling software. I use it as my technical "work journal" and I find the practice to be valuable.
I've been working on this software for years by this point and I occasionally post updates about it to HN.
The current update is a pretty big one and, with all the discussion about personal knowledge bases and whatnot, I've decided to share the progress.
idm commented on Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.ht... · Posted by u/karlicoss
You've convinced me to try it out.
My personal knowledge management project, Gthnk (gthnk.com), would appear to plug in easily as a Source - without any special plugin necessary. I really like what you've made!
idm commented on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs blog.google/products/chro... · Posted by u/bkudria
I like this because it organizes my tabs in the same way I do mentally... however it doesn't actually reorder my tabs. What I mean is, Ctrl+Tab surfing through my tabs doesn't iterate the list as it is displayed sequentially.
I recommend the Multi-Account Containers extension by Mozilla, which has a "sort tabs" button that accomplishes what you want.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I am not sure why this functionality is a separate extension - this is a bit confusing - but it's working for me.
idm commented on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/tmlee
AFAIK, it's not the virus that kills most (liver infections - TBD), it's the pneumonia that follows and there are lots of treatments for that.
I've heard the typical ICU/hospitalization course involves bilateral pneumonia, apparently requiring intubation and ventilation.
It appears to be survivable as long as equipment and personnel are available. And that's the problem: availability.
When health systems are overwhelmed, even people who could survive pneumonia with mechanical ventilation will die - because the equipment supply is exceeded and there are no ventilators left.
So yes, there are treatments for pneumonia, but they are limited in availability.