Readit Newskylnew commented on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection bbc.co.uk/news/health-548... · Posted by u/isp
kylnew commented on GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring benfrederickson.com/githu... · Posted by u/user5994461
> The vast majority of software being produced is closed source software
I found this claim surprising. I would have guessed that the narrow majority of software produced these days is open source, but I don't have a citation for that. Do others agree with the article's "vast majority" claim?
I’ve never had a job that open sources more than 1% of all the code I’ve written. For most it was 0.
kylnew commented on Visual Studio Code repository is open again github.com/microsoft/vsco... · Posted by u/taspeotis
He probably could have been equally as effective by saying "hey, let's make this icon more generic so it's more inclusive" and ended it at that.
I don't think he is wrong in his request, but the necessity people feel to say "This offends me" over just using other more concrete rationale is what causes these kinds of incidents.
We need to learn to use less divisive and accusatory language when making requests like this.
kylnew commented on The Ontario government lost $42M selling cannabis in the last year cbc.ca/1.5282994... · Posted by u/elmar
This data is based on less than 6 months of distribution in Ontario and doesn’t give us an idea of what it’s been like since last March.
I’ll be more curious to hear about a full fiscal year before saying much else.
kylnew commented on Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference foxnews.com/opinion/rep-w... · Posted by u/avinium
The amount of downvoting on opinions you disagree with in this thread is disappointing.
It’s funny that the discussion is about listening to others we disagree with, but simultaneously valid ideas/comments are being grayed out and pushed down into obscurity
kylnew commented on Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit chagency.co.uk/blog/incre... · Posted by u/chdaniel
If nothing else, please ask your customers why they are leaving/cancelling. It makes me feel like a company doesn’t care and won’t get better if they don’t ask leaving customers why.
kylnew commented on Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
You should give the Impossible Burger a try as well, it's even more meat-like and has a great taste. Both burgers recently announced 2.0 versions of their products so there's a lot of excitement in the field of plant-based meat.
Yes, I've tried Impossible too at a couple of places and am a fan. My favorite was Umami Burger's Korean-style toppings.
kylnew commented on Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Semi-related, but the Beyond Meat burger at Canadian fast-food chain A&W has been a big hit too, it seems. I got one at a mall recently and was amazed that everyone in line at the time was there to try the beyond meat burger. There’s a serious appetite for this stuff so I’m glad to see a big meat company paying attention.
kylnew commented on A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHF... · Posted by u/espeed
I understand maybe 30% of 3blue1brown’s videos, mostly due to his excellent visualizations, but he really gets me excited for math in a way I’ve not experienced before.
How does he make such awesome visualizations? Does anyone know what tools are being used?
This is a legitimate question, not a dismissive hand-wave. So what? What does this mean? Is this bad? Why?
Surely all that plastic doesn’t stick around forever—I’m fairly certain I don’t have any PVC pipes in my gut, though it’s been a while since I’ve checked. What are the consequences of eating this much plastic? They certainly aren’t obvious.
I don’t want an article that just throws a bunch of analogies in my face with pictures of various comparably-sized plastic objects. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the artistic touch, but I’m much more interested in understanding what this means. Where’s the research to go along with this? I expect journalists to dig deeper. Interview some experts; summarize studies of the consequences. Don’t just tell me I eat a lot of plastic—on its own, that’s useless information.