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Firstly, if you are gonna poke holes in other people's arguments, don't get defensive when someone corrects you, especially when you make such precise and well qualified claims as "Shitton of air". Neither were also not spesific about Turbofan vs Turbojet.

Regardles of which one it is, the point of the previous poster stull stands. His point of comparison is how reaction mass compares to the weight of the vehicles.

All jets move less air, by mass, than helicopters do, when measured as a fraction of the vehicle's mass.
I am reading this right now. A lot of awesome insight in the book. I just can't help but get the feeling that 90% of it is going over my head without having read Kuhn, Popper, etc.
That's nice. Thanks for sharing it.

Expect loads of cynicism. I've found that talking about having Principles and Integrity in business and professional endeavors, usually results in being accused of "virtue signaling," which is ridiculous, as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code.

That said, it is extremely easy to let a focus on "culture" turn into a toxic monoculture. It's always easier to exclude those that deviate from the norm, than it is to adapt to them.
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The title is a lie.

The original article makes no such claim nor does it even hint towards it.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188/text#r11

>In summary, the study indicates that HBOT can induce significant senolytic effects, including significant increased telomere length and clearance of senescent cells in aging populations.

It can help slow down some aspects of aging. Increasing telomere length does not reverse aging. In some animals telomere length increases with age.

Decrasing senolytic effect as a biomarker is double edged sword. In general, cell destruction selectively induces death of senescent cells and improves health in humans. Slowing down the effect might increase cancer rate and even shorten expected lifespan. There is no way to know until someone does long term study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

It was fine... until it wasn't (four months later). Anyway, this analogy is silly. Neither software nor bridges is exactly like the human body and the myriad of complex interactions that happen within.

At the end of the day, all I'm saying is that A. under normal circumstances, it takes a lot of time to get a vaccine tested and approved - for good reason. And B. these are not ordinary circumstances, there may be reason to think the process was rushed, and it may be prudent to not rush to be among the first to take the vaccine.

And just in case anybody misunderstands what I'm saying, let me reiterate as clearly as I can:

This is NOT an anti-vax screed, or an appeal to any conspiracy theories, or anything of that nature. And I am NOT suggesting anyone refuse to get vaccinated in the long-term. I am only suggesting a certain measure of patience, which is probably going to be part of the process anyway due to the logistics of distributing the vaccine.
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You have to convince them that the pros of getting it outweigh the cons, like convincing anyone of anything.
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Is this a surprising statistic? Even with milder illnesses such as the flu, it's common to experience cough, fatigue, or shortness of breath for weeks.
I’ll let you know the long term effects of the vaccine, and you can let me know the long term effects of Covid-19.
Spotify doesn't currently support HomePod, which is really annoying since the HomePod Mini looks awesome.

You can vote for HomePod support on Spotify's community site:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Na...
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I know you’re skeptical and I would be too if I hadn’t heard of this before but it’s actually true. Planet money has two really good podcasts about exactly this topic. Here’s a link:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641140144/unraveling-the-myst...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
It's much more difficult to chat with other players on Xbox.
Model Theory formalizes the notion of "truth" in foundational

mathematics of computer science. The axioms of powerful

foundational theories of computer science have just one model

up to a unique isomorphism. See

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003 and https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3457802

The [Gödel 1930] "completeness theorem" is *false* for the
foundational theories of Computer Science because these
theories are inferentially incomplete, that is, not every
proposition can be proved or disproved.
There were plenty of indictments and convictions: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-...
I miss FlashDevelop !!! One of the best IDE I have ever used!
Judging from their website, they view you as the product, and are serving up all your info to Google.

Lots of talk, but just that. Talk.
I certainly don't mind LGBT characters, but the itemized tokenism present in such franchises as Star Trek: Discovery is so blatant it's ridiculous. One bi-racial homosexual couple, check. One overweight female scientist, check. One non-binary, check. One African American lead, check. One Asian captain, check. Ok I think we're good for now, we'll revisit the list when they add more letters to LGBTQIA.
There's literally an entire book on how this is all bullshit
But did you try "harmonizing work and life" like the deck says?
>If you're writing good unit tests already, why are you running into so many type issues?

>If you already have to spend time writing tests, why spend more writing types?

Because unit tests and types solve different problems and if you use one as a substitute for the other, you're doing it wrong.
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Pretty sure OP is in agreement with you on the big picture, he/she was just using the article’s narrower definition of “economic sense”.
I buy used 4TB HGST drives on eBay. They’ve all been solid and inexpensive, some with more wear and tear than the others.
I think "we" -- as a society -- should balance those two sides. Vaccinations do not always make sense at an individual level, but make a lot of sense at a societal level. If everyone was making a personal trade-off we would not reach the global maxima.
Still, parents analogy seemed flawed so I tried to extend it.

All analogies are flawed. That's why they are merely suggestive and not meant to be interpreted overly literally.
I was pretty frustrated with Aeon until I realized I was trying to read it like a peer-reviewed journal instead of what it is. It's a forum for scientists and philosophers to speculate freely without any rigor whatsoever. They are developing ideas and theories in a more free-form way than would be accepted in a more rigorous journal. That kind of thing has tremendous value - but only if you don't get it confused for "real science".
>You can read the list of recalled vaccines and why they were recalled straight from the FDA (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....).

To be fair, it's really hard to compare this to anything that has existed before. mRNA vaccines are a whole new class of drugs that have never been approved for human use. This will be a world first when Pfizer gets the EUA next month.
Rockwool is excellent. It's not an air or moisture barrier on its own, but combined with spray foam, it's best of both worlds. They call it "flash and batt" and it's an approach that's more and more widely adopted.
I wrote something dumb that downloads large files. The idea was to check the index file into a git repository.

https://gist.github.com/HalCanary/9abb045bf047da118c2467266b...
This was a super cool talk, thanks for sharing.
> That's the easy thing with ZFS, just add the disks as new VDEVs

What are the drawbacks of this approach and why can't I just add additional drives to an existing VDEV?
Love the product, but this deck... jeez. It's like all this companies that claim that you're in the family and then this family ask you to leave. I've seen too much places with "culture" when in reality it's a toxic as hell.
Ultimately it would depend on quality of the software. The community behind it appear to be very engaged so if an organization were deploy it at scale (national level or large org) and offer them amiable incentives to support the application, it might become the standard.
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Even though I think the market for programming languages is saturated and it will be for the next decade or more, I think it's always nice when someone tinkers and creates something new, so, my congrats to the authors!
Check out the third image. Clearly calls them Airpod Pro.
Things won't be equal though. Evil corps' pay and benefits are usually way better, simply because that's how they attract otherwise hesitant people in the first place.
1) Some US insurers consider acne and pregnancy pre-existing conditions and have denied claims.

2) Most people don't know their genetic pre-dispositions.

Oh, and stop being a dick.
Fair warning, I’ve been in situations with Pulumi where destroying and recreating a “stack” is the only way to solve little intermittent bugs. Not sure what level of stability you’d want from a tool like this but it made me raise an eyebrow.
how can the long term consequences of the vaccine be better understood than the virus? The vaccine is younger than the virus, and orders of magnitude of more people have had the virus.
I especially love typescript when it comes to refactors or API changes...on my team we strictly type as much as possible and it has made refactors and API changes so much easier and fail-proof.

For example if an API change occurs on backend, the first step is to make the change to the request/response typings in the frontend...from there the source code will light up with all the errors you have to fix. I can just click through each one in VS Code and fix them, then re-run tests to validate...love it.
Intentionally or by accident?
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I got the full version, but the nature of my job means I can claim a significant part of the cost against my PD funds (It's mostly for books, but I already own more unread technical books than I can complete within my expected lifespan. Thankfully they opened it up to allow software.) I think just the essential would be plenty for the majority of users.
Me too. I signed up for a trial but wasn't accepted. Vaccines are amazing.
According to the GP's site:

> They are licensed under the same open source license as the rest of the Go project's software

Which I assume is this one: https://golang.org/LICENSE
It's "the companies that we like". Simple. /s
Indeed. Last time this result was published I asked if the consequence would be just to shift cause of death towards cancer, since telomeres are a TTL to prevent transcription errors.
I think you should read the study yourself instead of taking some journalist conclusions who really loves flashy titles

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

From the study:
Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.
Author here. I was mostly thinking of National Instruments' LabVIEW and disassembly programs like IDA and Ghidra. Those in particular have actual callgraphs, although LabVIEW is a graphical language anyways so of course it would. You might also see dependency graphs in OOP IDEs, for seeing what inherits what.

I didn't bother to put this detail in the article because this little tangent distracts from the point a bit.
> Electron and Qt are not in the same league.

No, they're certainly not. Qt takes a lot of effort to produce apps that look like garbage on every OS while Electron takes no effort to produce apps that look great everywhere. VLC Media Player - arguably the most popular Qt app - looks like dog shit.

Qt will have you coding in an old shitty programming language or using duct-tape and glue to bind it to a more popular language while Electron will have you coding in the most popular programming language and getting things done in a fraction of the time.

Qt is register-ware that is moving closer to being closed-source while Electron is 100% open source.
It’s natural for people to want perfect certainty before making health care decisions. That’s why public health policy exists: because there is never perfect certainty in vaccination, and yet we’ll be required to all the same.
I guess every mask has 'limited protection'. N95 is 95%. The limit being 95%.

The masks most people are wearing are 'surgical masks' but those still tend to be in the 75% range. Which if both sides are wearing 75% masks, then the effectiveness is still relatively high. An effectiveness above 90%.

The article says:

“The results could indicate a more moderate degree of protection of 15-20%, however, the study could not rule out that face masks do not provide any protection.”

That's just not in line with what we do know. Mask technology isn't new. This seems overly broad as well, how did they account for say hand washing? Everyone had the same hand washing regime? I doubt they controlled for that.

Here's the thing, if you don't trust in the level of masks. You are completely free to do better. This isn't an argument to go backwards in protection.
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I have found it safe for the kids on all platforms. There seemed to be a fair amount of censorship in the chat to protect kids from most of THOSE awkward conversations.

That being said, some of the popular games are shooters, murder mysteries, that, while not gory, do have you shooting (lego-minifig-like) people.

I would say watch some gameplay videos and see what you think.
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I don't think mainstream media is anywhere near extinct, but instead it's evolving and growing. I would argue that all the people who jumped on the HCQ bandwagon without sufficient evidence were also victims of mainstream media!

The real epidemic is the deficit of critical thinking among those who primarily look for media content to fit what they want to hear, and then close themselves off to any other input, evidence, or scrutiny.
They have non-ligature versions as well which is nice of them to do. It's a good looking font.
Could have? They actually did - they were abandoned for various technical and marketing reasons. The only legal issue I could foresee is the questions of law raised in Oracle v. Google, which won't be decided until February... and even then, I wouldn't be surprised if SCOTUS rules narrowly on that case.

Google had Swiffy, an online service that took your SWF and repackaged it in a non-Flash form. It was primarily intended for advertisers but it eventually had AVM1 and 2 support. It's discontinued because advertisers moved away from Flash faster than expected (and Adobe Animate got some amount of HTML5 export capability). I'm also not sure how well it handled some of Flash's trickier to emulate behaviors.

Mozilla had Shumway, a browser extension that runs SWF files in JavaScript. According to another comment in this particular thread, Shumway was discontinued when Mozilla started bumping up against large compatibility problems. I can hazard a guess as to why: AVM1 in particular is a garbage fire of poorly-specified behaviors and execution order. Macromedia provided no runtime error behavior and had extreme deference to backwards compatibility. Movies are versioned and things like whether or not variables are case-sensitive change based on what SWF version it was compiled for. Furthermore, this VM was originally not intended to run an ECMAScript-like language, you originally put together AVM1 opcodes by hand, so a lot of opcodes are far more tolerant of programmer error than they have any right to be.

As an example of this, ActionGetVariable and ActionSetVariable (the thing that handles statements like "child_clip.var") aren't just limited to taking an object and a property name string, because that's not how they were originally intended to be used. Originally, those actions would take a whole path to the variable, and it was in slash-path syntax, e.g. "\child_clip:var". You could also chain paths in one op, and the implementation would dutifully parse the path out and traverse it to get the variable. This means that there are movies that will issue opcodes like "ActionGetVariable this '\level.Alien\bullet:speed'" and we have to support any combination of slashes, colons, and dots or SWFs will break.

AVM1 is a bottomless pit of those kinds of odd exceptions, and you have to support them all in order to get good compatibility with games. This is the sort of thing that only makes sense for an entity like Ruffle funded entirely by people who want to make old games work. It does not make financial or any other kind of sense to sink many hours of development time into an old-and-busted proprietary animation platform other than on the basis of preservation.
>Indeed! And I'll be going with the adenoviral route which has been used for more than fifty years, rather than the brand new, first time ever mRNA product.

Interesting, I feel the exact opposite. I can't wait to take a mRNA vaccine, but the adenovirus ones seem sketchy given that Sinovac, J&J, and AstraZeneca have all seen serious adverse events in their trials, while Pfizer and Moderna have seen none, along with much higher efficacy.

I wasn't aware there were any adenoviral vaccinations approved for human use? What are you referring to?
Ignoring the people who are obviously just complaining about masks for ideological/"Karen" reasons, I have to say I've been totally caught off guard during this pandemic by the existence of people like you (not in a critical way). I can relate to it feeling a little awkward at first wearing a mask in public in a culture that doesn't usually do that, but, despite being a social person and sympathizing with the social isolation pain of staying at home, the idea that "all of the joy has been taken out of routine daily activities" due to the masks for psycho-social reasons was outside my realm of imagination. I genuinely feel bad for people with that piece of personality.
He/She was talking about developer ergonomics. And in that particular sense, while i have programmed in Swift and Rust, i completely agree with him/her.

In your disagreement you are pointing out how you think Rust is more _advanced_ than Swift. But this goes into a tangential topic, that was not what the parent was pointing out.

In developer productivity and ergonomics Rust is not far away from C++, and Swift is more akin to Kotlin, C# and Java, but it feels a little better like Typescript or Dart.

I wonder, why, so many times, Rust folks (Why to get tied to a tech, i also don't get it) gets so hostile and arrogant about the language, and to be fair this is some of the reasons i keep a certain distance from it, and i can imagine that im not the only one.
The only one there that is a usability or ergonomics feature I can see is possibly pattern matching. I'm not familiar with it in Rust, what does Rust offer in pattern matching that Swift doesn't?
I like explicit types on functions too.

However, it might be what I’m used to.

Do you think this would be less of a problem with editor/IDE support? Using colors, or other visuals, to infer and show the types while editing might overcome this desire.
I'm so tempted to jump into the Apple ecosystem, but things like this make it really, really hard. If I buy a $300 speaker I shouldn't need a second, shittier speaker.
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As a member of "the TS community", I hereby authorize you to go back to JS. My ego remains un-damaged.
I primarily covered that topic in a previous article of mine: https://invisibleup.com/articles/31/
I’ve noticed that while these changes are really nice as a consumer, there are some trivial non-tracking scenarios that Apple eliminates through collateral damage and they’re not always transparent about that.

For instance, on the web earlier this year(?) Safari blocking all third-party cookies meant a lot of embeddable iframe tech broke and some design patterns are no longer feasible.

Instead, they could have just created an isolate context that gives the child iframe no information about the parent. But they just blocked all cookies instead.
> The advice about masks was on their website on March 2020 largely because they were worried about mass public buying of masks,

That did not change the fact that they lied and misled the public and killed people.
HN readers don't seem to be very good at detecting hypotheticals used as narrative devices.

I think the "no jokes or fun" rule hurts comprehension.
I think the phenomenon of unconscious bias is one of the most important concepts to understand because it is so pervasive in our thinking. It's basically part of our think fast / think slow system. It's right up there with circumstantial evidence.
There's also CMU Typewriter text if you want another serif monospaced font. Looks wonderful in high dpi I believe. I've hacked mine to put slashed zero.
> adapting new machines to behave like old ones

There is a great DailyWTF somewhere about a company that was using an early IBM mainframe, which when it died, instead of porting their code to the newer mainframe, the wrote an emulator. And when AIX came around they wrote a mainframe emulator to run their old emulator...

This maybe the story I was misremembering the details of?:
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No_Need_to_Change_It!_
I would start by convincing them to get off of Facebook... the massive improvements to mental health one would see from that step alone would be amazing. In a way, I kinda hope the Section 230 debate does cause FB and Twitter to go dark for a few weeks... we could actually start talking to real humans without a computer in the middle!
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This is great! It's been well over a decade but I used to reverse-engineer flash games so that I could run my own high score servers.

It was a fun and challenging way to expand my programming knowledge as a teenager. Will definitely look into setting up some classic games again using this.
Oh, agreed. I'm just saying what the social environment is. The environment boys grow up in is just as toxic, if not more so, for entirely different reasons.
It's not a family, it's a workplace.

If the company pretends otherwise it's better not to work there.
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Buying stuff is not a hobby.
> If masks are very scarce, and we need to ration, then we want to prioritize certain groups.

Then why didn't they say so instead of lying to the public? "masks work, but we need to allocate them to health workers because we don't have enough of them". Anyone can understand that.
I've previously critiqued the mighty mug example. It has the exact issue I pointed to above - comparing the US retail rate to an international sorted rate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073682