You don't spend time with friends?
Not during office hours, no. Do you?
Readit Newsnchie commented on The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results larskarlsson.com/?p=12026... · Posted by u/ptr
Looking only at excess mortality is pretty shallow. Being European and knowing the differences in health care systems across countries, the excess mortality chart also reflects the quality of healthcare systems in these countries. It isn’t much surprise to see nordic countries being the best here.
The interesting part is mostly comparing the nordic countries against each other. Sweden seemed to be doing much much worse early on due to the chosen strategy, but that no longer seems to be the case.
I cancelled by Kagi subscription because of this.
I don't want to have to pause before I search and think "do I need to search for this? should I look through my bookmarks, notes, etc? is this worth one of the 7 searches my $5 plan will cover for the day?".
I've been a frequent user of Kagi for the past ~9 months. Last month I made 1600 searches.
I've even 'tipped the difference' (~$70) in the past to support Kagi. It feels gross that they're now upcharging me despite the goodwill I showed them. I know they're a business, but if you're a business, and you're not willing to respect your users, then don't ask for donations.
I hope that something better than Google comes along. It was Kagi, but now it's back to the drawing board for me.
My advice to Kagi: make searches cheaper. This product has no future otherwise.
I won't be cancelling now as I seem to be averaging a bit more than 1000, meaning pricing will stay about the same since I should get the early adopter subscription.
However, the "average amount of searches" they're stating really can't be accurate for any tech savvy user who is using it professionally and privately. It really has to become cheaper, if it doesn't I sadly don't see myself using it long-term.
Very american reaction: reading too much into text messages and expecting superficial over friendliness.
That's not a gen z thing. That's an entitle US social media projection.
This is as accurate in Europe, and much of it has been for the last 15 years at the very least.
I spend too much time on the internet. I would strongly argue that using the same style/level of English (punctuation, capitalization, grammar) that a seven year old knows is far more communicative and understandable than using incorrect punctuation and worrying if a full stop means someone is angry.
Perhaps people should just read the content of the message and stop worrying about the set-dressing. "They capitalized, they must be a nerd", "she ended that will a full stop, she must be mad!".
So, people should stop being humans? Are you also offended when you hear that the clothes you wear give off an impression?
That's needlessly aggressive. :-/
I'm really surprised at how defensive some people in this thread are getting regarding this.
I used IRC. I always capitalized.
Not everyone follows the "netiquette" though. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Most of these rules rang very true to me at least. For example, capitalizing letters in _informal_ chats does give off a formal tone. This doesn't mean no one does it, but it's definitely a thing.
nchie commented on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling chess.com/blog/CHESScom/c... · Posted by u/dsr12
You can find whatever semantic qualifier makes it impressive enough for you, but a 2400 FIDE rating is extremely impressive and difficult to achieve.
So I posted this without finishing (probably managed to fat finger it somehow). I meant to say that I thought 2400 meant quite a bit more than 99.9%.
nchie commented on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling chess.com/blog/CHESScom/c... · Posted by u/dsr12
>run by people who aren't good at chess
To be fair, Danny Rensch is a 2402 FIDE rated player. That's better than 99.9% of people on the planet.
"People" on the planet? If that's accurate it's not super impressive, considering that probably 95-99% (or more) of people don't take chess very seriously. I used to be the top 99-99.5% of Counter-Strike players (_very_ roughly obviously), and that wasn't very impressive at all even though it's way past top 99.9% of "people on the planet".
(that being said,
Edit-latest i9s seem to get around 90GB/s to ram while they promise the M2 ultra 800GB/s. So quarter second to access all of the ram?
Edit2-the ssd is higher end nvme speeds.
For example with paging, I don't think those bandwidths make much difference and it's instead the latency which matters. Or am I wrong?