Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Open the developer tools and check the network tab. Are you seeing a lot of JSON responses that say "rate limit exceeded"? I think their client software may be accidentally DoSing the servers.
@freemo From *Letters on Infidelity*, 1786:
> Pertness and ignorance may ask a question in three lines, which it will cost learning and ingenuity thirty pages to answer. When this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written upon the subject. And as people in general, for one reason or another, like short objections better than long answers, in this mode of disputation (if it can be styled such) the odds must ever be against us; and we must be content with those for our friends who have honesty and erudition, candor and patience, to study both sides of the question.
@realcaseyrollins I'm glad it interests you!
Here's a simple demonstration. Grab something like a DVD case and toss it in the air three times, spinning it a different way each time:
- First, toss it with a flat spin around the shortest axis
- Second, toss it with an end-over-end spin around the median axis
- Third, toss it with a lengthwise spin around the longest axis.
What you'll likely notice is that the first and third spins maintain their direction a lot better, while the second one starts tumbling and twisting in midair, no matter how careful you are to spin it evenly. This is because a rotating object's response to a perturbation depends on its axis of rotation, and random currents and eddies in the air start affecting the DVD case as soon as it leaves your hand.
- If it spins around the axis with the greatest moment of inertia, the perturbations diminish, leading to stable frisbee-like throws.
- If it spins around the axis with the least moment of inertia, the perturbations diminish, leading to stable football-like throws.
- But if it spins around its intermediate axis, the perturbations tend to grow, so even small imbalances end up having large effects, and the motion is wild and chaotic.
The [Wikipedia article on the subject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem) has videos and shows the mathematical analysis.
@realcaseyrollins It's actually a really important subject in my field. "Perturbation analysis" is a method of calculating how something reacts to being disturbed from the condition it's supposed to be in. For example, let's say you have an aircraft that's supposed to be flying level, and a gust of wind or something causes it to dip just slightly below level (it's been "perturbed" from level flight). It's important to know whether the aircraft will tend to return to level flight (the perturbation tends to diminish, so it's stable) or tend to dip further away from level flight into a steep dive (the perturbation tends to grow, so it's unstable).
Samurai movies are their own genre. Most of the elements that tie them to the others are due to Hollywood just ripping them off. Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo became A Fistful of Dollars, and The Hidden Fortress became A New Hope. It's surprising how rigid the formula can be, which makes it all the more obvious when things like The Last Samurai diverge from it and don't fit into the genre anymore.
In the US, the Indian editions are often sold cheaply on the used market, especially online. As I understand it, the rearrangement of chapters and problems is to allow the publisher to charge higher rates in one jurisdiction than in the other by reducing this arbitrage. A student who buys the Indian edition still needs access to the American edition in order to figure out which chapter or problem corresponds to the one assigned by the professor.
@Shamar Interesting question. Amateur guess on my part:
Regexes are used for matching strings of characters, which are themselves pretty compact. So the more verbose your pattern-matching language is, the less it looks like the string you're trying to match.
For example, matching commonwealth and American spellings of a word:
Regex: "[Ff]avou?rite"
Verbose description:
[character('f', ignore-case),\
substring("avo"),\
character('u', optional),\
substring("rite")]
If you don't know regex syntax, the second one probably seems less cryptic, but once you get the hang of it, it's easier to quickly recognise what the first one's doing.
The story's been in a lot of outlets, but here's one. The hospital's wording isn't quoted verbatim, and it's a statement made directly to the newspaper so I don't think it's likely available elsewhere online.
> To deal with the influx in patients, the hospital is considering opening a fourth COVID unit and altering some ICU rooms so they can house two patients
I wouldn't know if they're doing that here - but in any case if their response is to add beds, it implies that it's beds rather than staff that is currently the limiting factor in treating everybody.
The hospital in question is considering opening an additional COVID unit to deal with the influx, so that suggests to me:
- they have staff, or think they can find staff, to operate another such unit, and
- they think increasing capacity to treat COVID is going to free up enough ICU beds to make it worthwhile.
Empirically, it doesn't seem to be - just yesterday the news reported another major regional hospital reached capacity in its ICU and has to use alternative means to care for new critical patients. I guess it might've been enough before the delta variant, or if vaccination rates were uniform across a wider area, because there wouldn't be low-adoption areas acting as reservoirs, which would make it harder for the virus to keep circulating.
The actual [CNN quote](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html) reads (emphasis mine):
> More than 80% of Americans 16 and older have *some level of immunity* against the coronavirus, *mostly through vaccination*, a survey of blood donations indicates.
Two things are important here:
- the poster conveniently edited out the "some level" qualifier, implying a higher degree of immunity than the study claims
- that isn't the prevalence of immunity among the unvaccinated, but among the whole population
From the same article:
> By May, 83.3% of samples had antibodies to the virus, most of them from vaccination.
> Roughly 62% of the total US population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, according to CDC data, and about 52.7% is fully vaccinated.
> More than 39 million Americans have been diagnosed with coronavirus infection since the pandemic started in 2020.
If the US population is 328 million, that 39 million diagnosed represents about 12%. So we could estimate the population breakdown with a couple simplifying assumptions.
- 62% have some immunity from at least one dose of vaccine
- 12% have some immunity from a diagnosed infection
- 17% have no immunity
- 9% have some immunity from some other cause
What might that "other cause" be? Well...
> The survey, led by the CDC, also indicates that about twice as many people have been infected with the virus as have been officially counted.
Far from "no point in the vaccines", they account for about three quarters of partially- or fully-immune Americans, with diagnosed and undiagnosed infections making up the remainder in about equal proportions.
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@valleyforge He might, but from what I understand this support is too concentrated to translate into seats efficiently. They win by huge margins in the west and lose by small ones in the east.
Here's a bit of electoral math I did immediately following the 2019 election which you might find interesting: https://qoto.org/@khird/103007706897700431
@freemo I don't know how they got the numbers they did. I see some things that suggest they underestimated the foreign support the Taliban had been receiving, and so the strength of the advance was significantly higher that the assessments would have suggested.
> In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in over a week, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, *an American military assessment estimated it would be a month* before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.
> we knew very early on that wasnt happening
I don't think we did though. Even up until the fall of Kabul, the projections were for a months-long holdout with the Ghani regime controlling the airspace, which would've given ample time to evacuate or organise a counteroffensive. A week prior to that, they were expected to control most of the major cities indefinitely.
Should he have had the military try and retake the country for a month to give everyone time to get out? I don't know what his other options would have been.
In fairness to Biden, the plan was never for civilians and equipment to go first, last, or in between. They'd simply stay and carry on under the Ghani regime, so the military was the *only* group supposed to exit.
So much for the plan.
@valleyforge s/The US/Canada/
Since NHL players have been allowed at the Olympics, the Americans have never won gold in men's hockey.
@realcaseyrollins Doesn't it require a database engine that runs server-side? My understanding is that GitHub Pages is for serving static content.
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