Co-lead (Near-Term Detection) at the Nucleic Acid Observatory in Boston. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise.
jefftk
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I’m only looking at reusable respirators, with the idea that in an extended pandemic you’d need ones that continued to give a good seal across many uses.
I wouldn’t compare to a KN95, but other disposable N95 respirators (which should all seal well, though not each mask model to each face shape).
What browser?
Scroll Snapping
Presumably they wanted to be able to include both “Google” the the Google logo on the same pages, and a font that can do both is a reasonable way to do that.
Creating the font was reasonable, it was the choice to use it outside of their own web pages, and especially to apply it to user controlled text, that was a bag call.
Google Logo Ligature Bug
That’s right! The suppressing accurate information about someone’s training is negative, but when considering the rest of the student loan situation I think this is a context where it could be worth it on balance.
Management is the Near Future
Currently you can’t discharge student loans in bankruptcy. I think it would be good if you could. But then people might declare bankruptcy immediately after graduating, to the point that people wouldn’t be able to get student loans. Allowing lenders to repossess degrees in bankruptcy would be one way to mostly resolve this.
I wonder how call booths manage this? I essentially just want a call booth on its side.
Staying in a Capsule Hotel
Very exciting; thanks for writing!
I know this is minor, but the image on the bottom of the website looks distractingly wrong to me—the lighting doesn’t match where real population centers are. It would be a lot better with something either clearly adapted from the real world or something clearly created, but this is pretty uncanny valley
Elastomeric Fitting Session
Problems I’d expect:
The filter moves a lot of air, so you need quite long pipes.
You need pipes on both the input and output
Some of the noise will be vibration of the purifier body, so you might need to enclose that too
Pictures on lesswrong do work, including in comments. Here’s one I inserted by using the WYSIWYG editor (“LessWrong Docs”) and pasting an image:
I wouldn’t expect that to work well for an air purifier?
That is a quick test, but a better one is checking how well it removes particles from the air.
I built and tested a prototype and it works well: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ceiling-air-purifier
Introducing deterministic non-captures (where there are a a class of particles not captured), can be a problem, as those will not be affected by the purifier.
With something like a MERV 14 HVAC filter there aren’t any particle sizes that it deterministically doesn’t capture, though it does have lower efficiency at some sizes (75% at worst performing size).
Thanks! I played around with this and was able to get the same behavior, though it doesn’t happen with how I normally use the touchpad.
I think what I would want here is something where scroll-snap never undoes scrolling, and is generally lighter touch? Like, snapping to the target if you’ve made an ambiguous flick, but not fighting you.