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Think about why you succeeded in the first place.
Sure, you got lucky, and I believe there's such a thing, but you probably also worked hard on something you believed in and developed the skills you needed to succeed.

Think about why you did that, was it ONLY to become wealthy, or was there something else? Didn't you also do it because you HAD to, because it was THERE and you wanted to see it become real?

Drift about a bit, enjoy life and don't worry about stuff.. Follow what seems interesting, if that's nothing, then don't follow anything for a while and wait until something comes around that needs doing.

I've often been asked why I didn't patent FinalKey or made it into a company.. If I don't regret that because maybe I could have become wealthy. My answer is always the same: I was done with it and I had no interest in continuing it, something more interesting had come along.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Clinical_tria...) there are 8 COVID-19 vaccines in phase 3 trials. A week or so ago I read about an experiment in Brazil that compared 5 of them. So this Pfizer press release doesn't seem terribly exciting to me. I already knew it was very likely that at least one vaccine will be available to some people in a month or so.

I know a couple of people who are experimental subjects in COVID-19 vaccine trials (meaning that they may or may not have received a COVID-19 vaccine: it's double-blind, of course). It's an interesting question what happens to those people if they become elligible for real vaccination before the trial they are participating in has come to an end.
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I have no idea, that's why I am asking. I'm hoping someone could clarify with decent knowledge on the matter.

I vaguely remember this story (from years ago) about a drug or vaccine during the 70s, where apparently everything was fine but then kids (or kids of kids, can't remember) ended up with birth defects.
Yes, but if you read the source [0], they will wait until after the US election, but not for reasons related to the US election. Just because they expect their results to arrive after the US elections.

It's like saying that I will wait to have a baby until after the holiday period. Factually correct, but that baby will arrive in January irregardless of the holiday period. The holiday period is for sure not the reason for the baby to arrive in January.

[0] https://www.pfizer.com/news/hot-topics/an_open_letter_from_p...
This vaccine targets the entire spike protein. It is very difficult, from an evolutionary point of view (very high affinity for the ACE2 receptor), that the spike protein would change so much that the vaccine would be completely ineffective.
Problem is it is all from a press release. They can mangle words to be correct but very misleading. We will have to wait for the scientific paper which will take some time.
This is terrible news! Just this morning I came up with more chores for Marak to do.
I've worked at the DOH and involved in the regional splits carried out in the late 90's that saw area's split into Trusts. The level of control Trusts and other departments have is not zero and the divergence in systems and data is huge. Many legacy systems, old systems that just work and yet to tie that all together is such a massive undertaking. You could anneal all the data, but the process and systems that get that data has so much divergence that any standard is at the mercy of work-arounds and there are many.

Then the whole aspect that IT support/system design was all TUPEd (employee's handed over to private companies on the grounds their pension's etc stayed the same) and you have a core system that is so outsourced that to manage that in a way that looked past the 4-5 years contract window and you can see why things just limp along.

To document and look at what the systems should be and how they are is going to be a struggle with all those different hands and time factor as you get with any system. Also many systems connect to bespoke hardware that will be a limiting factor and how many lovely working fine as tools used that are connected to stand alone windows 3.11 systems and data exported via floppy in 90's excels flavours again is not zero.

To control the NHS data you need firm in-house IT staff at at the DOH and due to the splitting off and outsourcing in the 90's, the problems that was before are now far larger.

This is not only a problem with the NHS but so many government bodies that saw IT development/support outsourced and is a product of that as if your paid for a 4-5 year contract, your not going to plan 20 years ahead, indeed planning for 4-5 years and locking yourself in so you get another 4-5 years is what they will want to be doing, and they do as that is what they are contracted and paid for.

No one person can fix this, as the level of change and work involved as greater than doing a whole setup greenfield style and this is not that, legacy costs and support are huge.

How would I tackle it - for a start, in housing and restructuring the whole IT support/development. Then the data flows and identifying the most addressable/impacting area's and working slowly from there.

But a project upon this scale is not your 5 year plan affair, it would be close to a lifetimes work, and to resolve it all would be a huge chunk out of 10-20 years effort. I'd expect documenting and rationalising the existing systems fully to take best part of 5 years, just to see the path forward. Sure there will be some stand out area's that could be paralleled, but the crux is that the data and systems used by the DOH/NHS are more diverse than anything I've ever experienced, or will and having worked on many migration projects of various scale and fields of work both in and out of government. This is if Sir Time took it on, a lifetime job and one in which most people would not want to commit that long too.

I wish him luck but no one person could ever fix this, it would take many years just to define the problems and until that is done, you can not fix poorly defined problems and that may well become the problem itself.
The funny thing about names is whatever they are, you end up getting used to them. I remember when the iPad first came out the whole internet was going on about what a terrible name it was. Now it seems completely natural. Pijul is similar: perhaps odd at first, but I think it'll do fine in the long run.

I do think they might want to go with something shorter (pi?) for the command-line.
Yes, I don't want to say I disagree with their work, not at all!

And while I thought this is classic corporate-centric coding, some people [1] seem to have a strong relationship with this:

> Faker is love. Faker is life. I applaud this move. Someone sponsor this man!

I can't edit the GP anymore, but it really seems to be a beloved tool. I guess we love the tools we use, even if they ultimately benefit someone else. :)

[1]: https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1046#issuecomment-7...
I don't think anybody disputes this.

But each new person who gets it is a potential spreader, which increases the likelihood of an at-risk person getting it. Someone who may be elderly or immunocompromised, who can be seriously hurt or killed by it.
I am as happy about the progress as you are, don't let these people bother you. I would also not endanger anyone else by giving in to my impulses for the instant gratification of having a beer with some buddies. This is going to be over one day and all we need to do is not make things worse in the meantime.

(Behaviour in these times seems to be a good indicator who has got some self-control and who has not, I think)
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I wonder how this will impact the performance of libs like http/af[0] (which is event-based, so it should not make much/any difference, right?).

Also: should we expect OCaml entries to show up higher in TechEmpower style benchmarks in the near future?

[0]: https://github.com/inhabitedtype/httpaf
Maybe you've answered this point already somewhere but how exactly are you planning to make censorship (for lack of a better word) stand out?
It’s not about tinkering. It’s more about control and having options for working the way you like instead of Apple’s way. I can’t imagine accepting such a limited environment. Unfortunately, thanks to iOS, I still have to build and test things in the Apple prison complex regularly - so I know exactly how limited things are by comparison (I prefer a Linux desktop.)

Programming is about controlling things and Apple hates giving users and developers control. It’s about getting your job done by being able to install and configure things the way you need them without a lot of hassle. If you’re willing to put up with that hassle and live within the confines that Apple has laid out for you than that’s good for you. But there’s a reason that the vast, vast majority of programmers are not using a Mac outside the SV bubble. Even Windows gives you more control! (and hardware freedom of choice.)

I’ve been programming since the early 90s and Apple has always been anti-developer and anti-power user.
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> that's why Brazil and India are nearing herd immunity with basically no serious medical infrastructure saturation.

[citation needed]
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Ah yes, the eternal challenge of "Naming things".

I just hope the command line tool gets a good 3-letter binary, "pijul record" is a bit awkward, maybe "pjl"?

And distribute that by default as well, otherwise everyone defines their own mutually incompatible aliases.

Oh and provide an official way to pronounce it!
Intercepting mail in ballots would be quite difficult and obvious. A far simpler solution would be to simply fill out the request forms that were conveniently mailed out to every voter on the rolls in my state. This led to thousands of households receiving applications for residents that no longer lived at that address
Agreed, people who aren't in to firearms or firearms-related sports will basically never see an ad for a gun in the U.S. I do think the penis-extension bit gets the gist of much of the marketing that does exist right, though.
The world didn't mobilized for ww2. One country mobilized and started to threaten the existence of all.its neighboring states, and those who managed to leverage geographical and climate barriers managed to prepare themselves to intervene.

This is by far not the challenge covid19 poses to the world. It wasn't when it was China's local and regional problem, and it is not after it spread out of China and became a pandemic.

Objectively, at most Covid19 causes a slight increase in the global death rate, and this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in. Ww2 killed about 90 million people in 6 years, while covid is bound to have killed about 1.3 million in one year.
If you rely on other people telling you what to do; don't.
Sharp lib is veeeerrryyy close to AVIF support: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/2289 (you can compile a version to use for yourself, it's just not production stable yet).
It's worth pointing out that fabless design companies build upon reference designs (whether ARM or RISC V) created by other companies (eg, ARM Holdings or SiFive), and both these kinds of businesses and are distinct from semiconductor fabrication companies like Taiwan's TSMC.

Although fabless design companies like Allwinner and fabrication companies like SMIC both exist in China, there is accessible pathways to China-free chips, especially if you're willing to pay the premium for TSMC's high end manufacturing.
Some form of High intensity training is needed to trigger body response that is associated with health, like hormone release/sensitivity and muscle growth.
Deadlifts is an excellent exercise if done correctly. But there is of course a plethora of exercies you can do, you have to find what works best for you. A 15 minute walk is not enough, humans are very good at walking, you will burn more energy doing 1 deadlift then walking for 15 minutes.
Personally I find 8-12 dexamphetamine tablets a day usually does the trick for me.

They're definitely not a magic pill, but I'm not constantly battling with my brain just to stay focussed on the task at hand.
I do. I use it for thinking, but also use pen & paper for that. For math, I almost solely use pen & paper. I used to use erasable ballpens, but they have a nasty habit of failing if you leave them in the sun, which happens a lot for me. So now I'm using pencils again.
I am absolutely understanding why Zoom would drop on good vaccine news. It’s not a complicated connection!

My point is that the market overreacts to every piece of good or bad news, then settles down as the full implications become clear. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the vaccine, how we handle rollout, etc etc etc. That’s not really considered in immediate reactions like this, it’s all gut feeling.
> because that's the amount of people who don't show symptoms anyway.

I don't think this is accurate. A large majority of people show no or relatively mild symptoms comparable to a seasonal flu or cold, yes, but that's not the same thing as no symptoms at all for a large majority.
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Here in Southern Africa using generic airtime that can be transferred around as a currency is quite big. I expect something like this would be a hit here.
"I thought you were saying that the use of microcode would complicate verification of the hardware."

I do think that microcode opens up the possibility of subtle injections to follow code/hardware paths you might not easily predict.

A really good talk on reverse engineering an ISA implementation: https://youtu.be/KrksBdWcZgQ
Which is completely sufficient to vaccinate the elderly, teachers, immunocompromised, and healthcare workers in the Western world, and probably anyone else who really wants it.

There's no need to completely eliminate COVID - we don't aim for the same for regular influenza. We should aim to reopen economies as soon as possible instead.
Sounds like you have a chiban address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
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I think it is naive this is any kind of proof of anything.

The fraud can happen in many ways. It might be a person leaning one way or another thinking they are working for a good cause. Actually, I think making it difficult for people from opposing party to vote is a kind of fraud, made in broad daylight.

Proving absence of fraud is much more difficult than showing there aren't obvious signs of it.

BUT, and here is important thing, this is really a question of burden of proof, and in this case it is on the accuser. In absence of proof it is assumed voting was legitimate. Also, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.
From the README:

> The first open-source macOS solution for allowing/denying processes was Google Santa.

[...]

> Thus, we set out to develop Sinter, short for "Sinter Klausen," another name for Santa Claus.
This was developed by a German company and will be widely distributed in the EU if approved, so will have to be approved by both the FDA and EMA. Now, if the FDA passes it and the EMA says 'no', that would be reason for concern, potentially, but assuming both bodies pass it that should be good enough for most people.
But the Johnny Cash thing is spot on.
This is my thinking too. I could add the option if there's enough interest, but aren't there already dedicated tools to do this?

As an example: I sometimes run 'curl ifconfig.me' to get my public IP from the command-line, but I wouldn't expect curl to add an '--ip' option to make this specific query easier to run. curl is a general tool, and the fact that you can use HTTP to get your public IP doesn't mean it needs a top-level option in an HTTP client. (I get that reverse lookup is an internet standard, and ifconfig.me is a third-party service, but still.)
>projects only move one step at a time.

That's not a good vision for the future ;)

BTW, my Day has max 18-20 hours.

But don't be angry, i just wanted to play a little bit quality assurance...and read the documentation.
There are still other vaccines in testing that will be more suitable for those parts of the world.
The problem is even these have narrowed as votes have counted. PA might be ~1 point victory. Many of these have shrunk. We can't really say what the 'actual' is until all the votes are counted.
First, creating value on top of the platform is not the same of extracting value from it.

Second, the examples you give are not part of the core value of the companies. They are commoditizing their complements. [0]

When Google releases a self-hosted version of their search and adwords programs, when Amazon makes AWS products compatible with OpenStack or when people can run iOS on any hardware and have access to the source, then I will start believing they are willing to give back proportionally to the amount of value they extract.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
As I mentioned elsewhere, I think those urban-legend statistics are probably wrong in aggregate. That said, people do have knowledge about their specific situation that they bring to bear in a valid way. Crazy, violent ex? Yeah, your ratio of chances of using a gun in a way that makes sense to chances of accidentally hurting someone is way better than average.
Fha user environments are great. I just wish they would support supplementary groups. Running programs that want device access is a no-go currently
I'm curious how you would feel about a scrappy bootstrapped startup building their business around your FOSS and then, sometime much later, becoming a large company whose founders become billionaires. (I have a couple of examples in mind where this has happened.)

> What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down?

For folks who do not work 100% in OSS, there can be many points:

- The whole Github-as-resume thing makes it important to have public contributions (most people's day job lives in private repos). To some extent, much of the industry needs OSS in lieu of effective employee screening processes.

- It's a convenient way for big companies to exchange IP without formal bilateral agreements. Everyone else just benefits for free.

- Your line of work is X, but you built a crude project for Y. You open source it because you don't actually care about area Y at all but hope your work could be useful for someone else.

- You write something for yourself and publish in the hopes that someone else will help you improve it for free. You're looking for free work and/or critique of your work. You don't actually care if someone else makes a billion dollars on it because you weren't interested in starting a business around it. Plus, you gain reputational points from having built it (consider Linus Torvalds's ability to get work as a programmer as a result of having started Linux, for example).
There have been a few cases. However we think we understand why they happened and so it won't. Anything is possible.

If you are a doctor/nurse working in a covid ward we know for sure that the risk whatever happens long term is a lot less than the risk of getting covid. For someone like me who has no reason to go anywhere (I'm not even allowed in the office until this pandemic passes) I can afford to wait until there is more data - and I also have to because I'm low on the list of those who will be vaccinated because I'm relatively low risk of getting it.
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It's not. They didn't artificially delay the result because of the election. They just said that the data would come in after the election.
I completely agree with this.

We've had deadlift scaremongering for decades with yet any solid proof to be produced against its use in general, non-PED using populations, as part of a general strength training and conditioning program.

I don't care what Hall or Oberall say - most of us are lightyears away from their numbers or from those kinds of environments. (I'm also asking for proof on Hall's negative stance on deadlifts, since I can't find anything about it)

To add, the best strength training programs I've tried use submaximal loading most if not all of the time, adding a further layer of safety: not only are you not pushing yourself past your limits with PEDs or insane training tonnage, you're purposefully staying below your natural limits.

Keep deadlifting with exquisite form and reap the benefits!
A vaccine is most effective if it manages to break chains of transmissions. That means you'd want to optimize for likely chains of transmissions, and not only for giving it to those vulnerably to the virus.

So grandma might need to wait, and the grandkids going to school might get it first, then healthy 20/30-somethings working in public facing jobs etc.
I'd definitely say they are "tech-illiterate". The mere suggestion that we should seek to limit terrorist access to encryption is evident of a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology.

Encryption is not a product. It is not an application made by Apple, Microsoft, Google, or whoever which you use to secure data. Encryption is an idea. Humans have been encrypting information since long before computers. We cannot stop it.

It's like arguing that we should limit terrorist access to algebra. I'd say anyone arguing for that is illiterate when it comes to algebra. Likewise, I'd say anyone arguing for limitations on encryption is illiterate when it comes to encryption.
Ah! My bad, I've simply forgotten to update the README. I'll do it later once I'm done with work.
You might be thinking of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

The name of the drug was "Contergan" in german which german-speaking readers might recognize more easily.
Support and documentation was non-existing last time I looked.

Still better than Broadcom... at least you can find the (very long) datasheets for a lot of their SoCs.
> This would contradict the one-fits-all immunity argument.

I don't think that argument is being made at all.

In fact, you only need to consider that the max efficiency that's advertised is 90% to acknowledge that this vaccine is not a silver bullet.
I agree. I think you can also decrease attack surface by disabling all those features, which is tedious because must be done one by one, but possible.

For my part, I attempt to support every browser in existence, and laegely succeed.

Bonus: Was responsible for IE3 tag being added to StackOverflow.
My point is that all of this is gut reaction to a headline, not a nuanced analysis of vaccine efficiency, roll out plans etc etc. Things could turn right around again once those details are resolved.
I find the language in this article conflicting. People have a tendency to relay advice on what has worked best for them; with little regard for whether or not it will work best for others.

On one hand the auther uses a lot of "my" language to convey what works best for him. That's great and I am happy to read what works best for others, but what makes it a bit short-sighted is the shift in language from:

>The more attention I can devote, the more cycles I can complete, and the more productive I am.

to:

>Make your place of work boring and tidy.

>Make your smart phone dumb.

>Be an OS minimalist.

etc.

This shift from "here's what works best for me" to "here's what will work best for you" is quite imposing and presumptuous.