Blinkist and skimming a book have their place for getting some of the key points, it's hard to find the time to read all useful books.
But I agree that to really get the most out of a book, reading cover to cover is likely most immersive, impactful, maybe followed by listening to the auduibook from start to finish.
I think this is another wrong idea. You can never read all useful books. The whole idea of "all" useful books is faulty. You should read a book you really like and immerse yourself in it. The only time I think it's close to what you are suggesting is if you're prepping for a test.
Hypothesis is one that has been interesting to use for web article annotation. It lets you save quotes and comments on articles https://web.hypothes.is/
A great product, it has support for practically any browser thanks to the bookmarklet and chrom(ium) extension [0]. I mostly use it on PDFs (e.g. papers). I definitely recommend it.
It's interesting to learn about. Other molecules are also found to inhibit replication of 3CL protease in SARS cov-2 [1].
The UK scientific advisory group SAGE published a few months ago that combination therapy might be useful to avoid 'antiviral resistant' strains of SARS cov-2 evolving. Perhaps these 3cl protease inhibitors may be used in combination.
ANC headphones are great for low-frequency (bass) sounds. But with cheap headphones I find I can still hear speech. I think new housing uses mass loaded vinyl to prevent high frequency sounds from passing through walls - perhaps heavy, 1lb or 1kg headphones with ANC are the solution for experiencing real silence in e.g. a busy workspace? Does anyone have an idea if material weight or density is a big factor in sound insulation? Along with air-tight sealing.
Yeah I totally agree. I get that people find them uncomfortable, but passive IEM's to me are way more comfortable than a heavy over-ear set which puts pressure against the sides of my skull. The noise canceling is also amazing without any electronics. Only trick is getting really good drivers in such a small space but IEM manufactures have been doing this for decades with great results.
A great talk on Flatpak sandboxing was released in March. [1]. The original post is from 2018 (Flatpak 1.0). Not sure if these issues are completely fixed yet, there are a lot of release notes up to version 1.63 (stable). [2] It seems that the maintainers and community are working on improving security continuously. My main hope is that they optimize for privacy, security and user control of the packages. Overall I'm impressed by flatpak with it's cross-distribution packaging.
I found it through search on Youtube, had been looking for which way to package applications on Linux. Packaging really takes a bit of time, reading documentation and figuring out how to do it. After packaging a flatpak you need to add it to a local repository on your device before you can test install it, which isn't as intuitive as clicking on a .appimage file, but brings some benefits. The documentation is quite readable: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html.
Agreed for audio quality. It's hard to listen to with only the left channel working. It might be worth reuploading it with balanced stereo.
Just following the surveillance model pioneered by Google, Facebook etc. I'm glad tech surveillance is being covered and some awareness and opposition is visible here. Xiaomi aren't the only ones taking a mile of advantage from the inch of 'good telemetry' promoted by some companies.
Russian roulette might be an unfair comparison, but it may only be one order of magnitude different to this virus IFR.
With probability a number between 0 and 1, percentage is between 0 and 100.
From the study in your source [1] the P(death|infected) = 0.005
And Russian roulette P(death | play) = 0.16
In percentages:
Covid19 - IFR = 0.5%,
Russian roulette = 16%
From this calculation based on the recent New York antibody study [2] the average IFR across all age groups is 1.31%.
(0 + 0.017 + 0.067 + 0.13 + 0.45 + 1.26 + 3.16 + 5.4)/8 = 1.31%
This is a much higher IFR than flu or H1N1 (IFR was 0.02% in 2009, 65 times less).
We need to give the scientists and medical professionals and industry more time to figure out how best to prevent this. There are many reports of 40-50 day illnesses in young people due to not clearing the virus.
And the poorly named 'mild' case can be rough. It's (badly imo) defined as when a patient doesn't require hospital. It should be called moderate I think. [1]
Really promising and excellent video. I hope chloroquine (or hydroxychloroquine) proves to be effective in emergency clinical trials. And that it can be readily sourced for upcoming patients if so.
All researchers, doctors should see this video & cited papers to evaluate potential.
But I agree that to really get the most out of a book, reading cover to cover is likely most immersive, impactful, maybe followed by listening to the auduibook from start to finish.