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The ring/silent switch on an iPhone. It just works.


I miss rotation switch on iPad. It's the best way to change orientation on tablet. Enabling/disabling auto rotation in control center is horrible UI. What I should do is open, enable, close, rotate, open, disable, close. Android's rotation icon when rotated is acceptable.


Not for me: I always forget to enable it again.

I would love a "on silence for next 1/2/3 hours" button which then automatically reenables ring again.


Since the early days of lockdown, my apartment complex in Bangalore has been strict about masks among the elderly but not among children. I would see children playing without masks and probably this could be a reason why children end up spreading the virus easily.


What were your symptoms like? I’ve read only that mild is not exactly mild by flu standards yet I know another friend who had it but was having a bad throat ache for 3 days and fever. Took her 10 days to recover.


Have/had a mild Bronchitis-like feeling in my lungs. But have/had no difficulty breathing despite that. No shortness of breath. The feeling sometimes goes away, but them later resurfaces.

To the best of my knowledge I have not lost lung capacity. I can mow the lawn (.3 acre) with a push mower in 1 go without stopping in hot weather.

Had a mild headache and mild sore throat at the height of it. Body was mildly achy in the evening near/at bed time. Occasional cough near the tail end of the recovery. For me this was not a cough heavy sickness.

No medication used. Lifted weights throughout the entire process. Symptoms were very mild but lasted forever.

Overall my personal symptoms were mild enough that I was not suffering. This is not to downplay. Other people have strange effects, such as "covid toes" where the flesh in their toes die. Or their immune system reacts causing inflammation in the lungs with serious damage to tissue. One bad thing about new viruses is a strong immune system can sometimes bite you. It was a big issue in the 1918 flu that was most deadly to people in their 20's. Elderly were relatively untouched by the 1918. Luckily Covid-19 has not proven to be particularly dangerous to young people so far. But it is causing bad immune responses in some young people, even if not at a large scale like the 1918 virus.


Curious what are the logic gates made of? What kind of engineering does it take to build the gates?


So all of the training was done without a GPU?


Elaborating on my question.

In your read me it says - "In the computer that you will perform the training -- protip: don't train the model in the Raspberry Pi! -- install all the requirements by runnig:"

Could you give some specs on the computer? I currently don't own a GPU based PC so was wondering if I need to get one or use cloud based GPU instance.


No, you don't need a GPU at all. It helps, of course, but it not necessary. I don't remember the specs of the computer we used, but to give you an idea we give all the training data to undergrad students in the machine learning class (https://www.kaggle.com/c/mac0460-self-driving) they achieved good results with their personal laptop.


Thanks a lot :-)


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Yes. And I miss asking people their ASL!


Down here / Bangalore, India


Never thought I'd need a tweezer until I met jumpers.


Well said.

Often people forget the mental stress modern work places on us. I remember my Dad working hours but he was tired from physical exhaustion and not mental. He didn't have email or messaging that would distract him from a weekend of relaxation.

I was addicted to checking my email every once in a while and found my mind switching to thinking about work instead of enjoying the moment. Thankfully I broke that habit.

Today, I try and impress this upon other people who do this.


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