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> (out of a sample of 100 people) For every one person who dies: * 19 more require hospitalization. * 18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.

> One study published in March found that out of 416 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 19% showed signs of heart damage.

Assuming 19 in 100 require hospitalization, according to the study: 19% of 19 will have heart damage or 3.61. Similar breakdown for other points.

Disclaimer: shutdown was the right call and the point is still valid with smaller numbers (they’re still huge). Just pointing it out.

I just spent 5 minutes typing this up only to see your post.. thank you for also noticing. The other point made from this source (about permanent lung damage) is also wrong. I don’t see sources for the other numbers.

I agree never closing the economy would’ve been a total disaster. But the math here is bad.

Yeah, overloading to build a little dsl over some objects sort of is something I’ve seen a lot. See airflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52389105/how-operator-de...

When it’s used that way, you’ve lost that the operation is semantically analogous to __le__. I think the assumption it has no side effects goes, too.

Edit: not saying I like it, though.

Re:COBOL programmers answer call on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:58PM (#22838609)
My first gig was a HLASM/COBOL internship at an insurance company.. so true, 10k line programs with all globals was the entire codebase. Navigating it with only a 3270 emulator gave me headaches but in a way it was fun. Coding it felt like doing a sudoku.
Re:GitHub for mobile is now available on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:53PM (#22608705)
Trying to follow a link on a readme or something to another file within the github repo always results in “something went wrong” (iOS).
Re:How some good corporate engineering blogs are written on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:16AM (#22545540)
I think part of the issue is some places (where I am too) use medium for their blog and medium requires an image. Not sure if other blogging platforms do the same though.
Re:The 80/24 Rule on Sunday November 17, 2019 @07:11AM (#21557596)
I think it was the italics that did it.
Re:The 80/24 Rule on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:42PM (#21550856)
I feel the first is better, mainly because if the functions are named appropriately, from a glance you can glean the general idea of what the function does. And with modern ide’s, I think navigating that structure is easier than scrolling through the latter.

Of course I just got stuck writing jupyter notebooks for a month so I’m against all the scrolling crud.

Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:55AM (#21080065)
5 definitely isn’t, it’s not a gender specific comment and backed up by the post lol.
You don’t have to be a power user to want to read reviews chronologically; your mother isn’t the average user either.

This is something I noticed as a first time user.

Re:Semantic Drift on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:21PM (#20487739)
Lay/laid as their ‘descent to barbarism’ makes me scared what they’d say about me..
Pretty sure that’s done automatically like go-fmt or other similar tools. It’s zero effort and makes it easily to read. Also lots of languages have that import syntax (python import pandas as pd).
Re:Junior Developer Koans on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:08PM (#19484332)
Every koan post I’ve seen has had these in the comments.
Re:My Salary Progression in Tech on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:35AM (#19399533)
Right there with you. I’m doing pretty decent, making 85k but straight out of college. At a nice start up in a big city. But 800k at Netflix? Good god.. I should mention I’m ‘straight out of college’ at 27, so that’s contributing, too.