Mystery and intrigue can be a good way to build hype. On this occasion I felt less intrigued, and more bewildered.

To play the intrigue angle, you should be very concise with the text. Three or four bullet points, a relase date, and a mailing list form. Nothing more.

Your site has quite a lot of text, but all of it dances around the core point without directly addressing it. If anything it made me slightly angry. I invested time reading all of your site, and really I had nothing to show at the end of it.

The truth is that I don't "play" anything on purpose.

I haven't yet reached the technical level to be able to offer something concrete and complete.

Today, the idea was more to do a test post on HN (which is good since I learned that the pages to collect emails are forbidden) and to receive feedback on the technical part.

I'm sorry for wasting your time and I thank you for wasting more time to tell me that you waste time in an "inception" comment spiral of time wasted.

I take all your advices if one day I want to build hype and mystery around something, thank you a lot !

They're picking the side of those who are no-platformed. That's the point.

Yes, and they are utterly disingenuous in doing so. "Free speech" has nothing whatsoever to do with the examples they've picked for their front page. "Free speech" is protection from persecution by the state. What they're arguing for is freedom from social consequences. Not only that, but the specific example they've picked could almost be designed to highlight a specific culture-war position; given that their front-man is Toby Young, it's hardly surprising that they're difficult to interpret as anything close to politically neutral.

Saying that they're arguing for freedom from social consequences is a very black and white way of looking at things. They're not arguing for that at all. But they are pushing back, necessarily I would say, against those who seek to shut down and marginalize people who hold opinions they deem to be unworthy.

Without any resistance whatsoever from groups like the FSU, the social consequences you mention will tend to spiral into something quite ugly.

See also: competing consumers pattern https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messa...

I think panic, chaos and social disruption are a more imminent threat than the virus itself at this point. As such I've stocked up on basic household food and supplies so that I don't have to go out into that chaos if it hits. The last thing I want is to be stuck in a huge queue at a petrol (gas) station, or getting punched out over the last turnip at the supermarket. Being prepared means I am one less person contributing to that chaos, one less person driving like a maniac on the roads desperately looking for toilet paper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion Psychosis. Anyone believes what they want in the end. This was just my opinion.

On the other hand, if you delay contracting the virus for as long as possible, you leave more time for more effective treatments to be made available.

You need to delay the infection beyond the peak.

C# can only go so far down the road towards F# without introducing currying and partial application. I can't see those ever being introduced into C#.

You can sorta get partial application using lambdas, or whatever they called in C#

Like a poor mans hacky partial application, one argument at a time.

     namespace Bored
     {
        using System;
        using System.Collections.Generic;
        using System.Linq;
        using static System.Console;
        internal static class Program
        {
           private static void Main()
           {
              var addFive = Add.Partial(5);
              addFive(6).Print(); // Prints 11
              Enumerable.Range(0, 5).Select(addFive).ForEach(WriteLine); // Prints 5 to 9
           }
           private static Func<int, int, int> Add = (int x, int y) => x + y;
        }

        internal static class Extensions
        {
             public static Func<T2, TR> Partial<T1, T2, TR>(this Func<T1, T2, TR> func, T1 t1) => t2 => func(t1, t2);
             public static void Print<T>(this T t) => WriteLine(t);
             public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> xs, Action<T> f) => xs.ToList().ForEach(f);
         }
     }

Define your partial extension method for each arrity to Func. I think it maxes at 16?

I think the section on mics could be enhanced by explaining a little about the different pickup patterns available. A cardioid pickup is a lot more appropriate for these uses than an omni pickup would be. The author mentions the Yeti mic picking up a lot of background noise - I'd bet that that mic has an omni pick up pattern. Some mics even have a small switch which allows you to cycle between different pickup patterns.

EDIT: While I've always known them as pickup patterns, I've just noticed that Wikipedia refers to them as polar patterns. I assume this is a more universal term.

There is a switch on the Yet that gives you 4 different pickup patterns. https://www.bluedesigns.com/products/yeti/

  - cardioid
  - stereo
  - omni
  - bi

I use my Blue Yeti on cardioid mode without headphones and the noise picked up is relatively minimal. My apartment is pretty quiet to begin with, but cardioid limits some of the noise and also seems to prevent feedback. (which is taken care of to some degree by the software, but I never have issues when cardioid is on)

Do you remember what the factory default was? I expect most people who aren't au fait with pickup patterns will either leave it on the factory default or put it in stereo (which looks very similar to omni).

Unfortunately, I don't.

Most inexpensive mics ($100-$400) are cardioid only, but I’d say the most important information is how to do placement. Beginners think in terms of pointing the microphone at a sound source you want to pick up, but you should also think about what directions the microphone rejects and point the mic away from noise sources you don’t want to hear.

That, and stop putting the mic so damn close to your mouth.

This is why I have a cold shower every morning.