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UAV's aren't cheap. If you want a cheap air based solution then get an Apache Helicopter and a rocket pod filled with APKWS Hydra rockets and some Hellfire missiles just in case something actually dangerous pops up.

Do you know what's even cheaper than that? Good old fashioned bullets. Artillery and armored fighting vehicles will never die out because they don't cost ten thousands of dollars to operate per hour.

When you are holding onto ground for 24/7 you can't afford such an expense.
Phone verification services are like 10 cents on average. Aged gmail accounts available from 30 cents or less
From what I have seen the data says immunity is at least six months, and potentially years as with the original SARS.
For me it is easier, I had it only a month ago, so I am good at least till the summer.
AoC is great.

But I also think that it's a missed opportunity to measure productivity and runtime performance of programming languages.

In "Benchmarks Game" you get extremely optimized programs which is not usually achievable by an average developer. On AoC you would get a wide distribution of submissions and you could get the right estimate of how performant are the programs submitted by PHP, Python, or Rust developers.

I guess we wouldn't get to see people abusing mpz_add on Python or PHP that often.
It was talked about all over the place. E.g. see https://youtu.be/EczW2IWdnOM from June around the one hour mark. As I said, I'm very far from an insider.
Really without question the best food writer in English, and if any better food writers in other languages exist, then the speakers of those languages are very lucky people.

I discovered MFK Fisher when I was 19 and immediately bought and read every one of her books that I could find.
1-2w battery life is par of the course for smartwatches that don’t try to be smartphones.

If anything, it’s not that good because my Forerunner 735XT does more stuff and achieves that while doing GPS tracking on workouts.
Excellent article. Haven't read something so opinionated but clear and well argued about programming in a while. His summary rules at the bottom are great:

To sum up:

If a function is only called from a single place, consider inlining it.

If a function is called from multiple places, see if it is possible to arrange for the work to be done in a single place, perhaps with flags, and inline that.

If there are multiple versions of a function, consider making a single function with more, possibly defaulted, parameters.

If the work is close to purely functional, with few references to global state, try to make it completely functional.

Try to use const on both parameters and functions when the function really must be used in multiple places.

Minimize control flow complexity and "area under ifs", favoring consistent execution paths and times over "optimally" avoiding unnecessary work.
Having had Covid-19 should confer at least as much immunity as a vaccine does. It's possible that a vaccine could act as a "booster" to extend immunity, but I don't think there's any data on that.

Your fears about "cytokine storm possibility as a reaction to vaccine" are unfounded. These vaccines have been tested on tens of thousands of trial participants.
Thank you for sharing your hate-filled story.
Alternatively, the problem with property rights is that some humans don't have property, not that some humans do have property.
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I can't imagine working in a company without any chat tool at all. For me it doesn't matter if it's Slack, Teams, IRC or even Skype but we need something.
So basically Intel shouldn't have abandoned Itanium.
If you "don't have humans doing anything", then Ethereum is just a very slow and inefficient API and protocol layer.

However, if you want to use services or exchange goods, then people are involved.

A simple example: person A requests goods or services from person B. According to Ethereum website, "Customers have a secure, built-in guarantee that funds will only change hands if you provide what was agreed." Person B provides goods/services. Person A says no goods or services were provided. The assumed guarantees turn out to be fiction.

Here's a real world example. A typical contract between a supplier and a chain store common in many parts of the world goes something like this:

- supplier provides goods on a continuous basis

- the chain store pays for goods once every three months

In the real world this contract is enforceable by, well, centralised laws of the respective countries. If the chain store reneges on payment, it can be taken to court and forced to pay.

In case of "smart" contracts, well, keep sending goods for three months in the hope that you get paid.
Yes we basically need everyone to get it who is willing to get it because we want to eradicate as much of the virus in the population as possible.

Also as a society we need to encourage everyone to get the vaccine and do whatever possible to suppress anti-vaccine hysteria, you know the conspiracy theories are already going to go crazy over this I'm sure.
Guessing something like NextCloud/Gitea.
> It is a new type called an mRNA vaccine...An mRNA vaccine has never been approved for use in humans before, although people have received them in clinical trials.

Wait... This doesn't scare anybody?

Why has this not been approved before?

Would an mRNA vaccine be approved under less pressing circumstances...?
I had a bank not being able to send me emails, a semi big russian provider and maybe some more.

Sucks but well, if they dont want my business, others do.
These prototypes aren't scaled down versions of ITER, the field strength of ARC is of the same magnitude of ITER, it's capable of the same pressures and confinement, only in a much smaller volume.

It's like saying a 5nm CPU design is somehow the same as a 32nm CPU, even if they both had the same die size, even those the 32nm versions had far less transistors.
Well for starters, it would be stupid to pipeline the process so that nobody could start reviewing the code until after it was done. Secondly, I don't believe it's a valid analogy because the process of reviewing clinical trial evidence is not similar to the process of reviewing executable code. Thirdly, there is no amount of review that guarantees a lack of mistakes, so it's simply a question of risk tolerance which you have to balance against the harm of delay.
Sounds like they were super lucky rather than prescient. I think the market view about malls could have stayed irrational well past 2022 if CV didn't happen.
That's assuming that property rights are absolute. Maybe that is the case in your country, but that's definitely not true everywhere.

And it's not just countries that might have a hint of socialist nuance: even the USA wouldn't accept if you buy a ranch and then declare that on this property only the laws of the PRC apply (or that you declare it part of the UK). There are limits to what ownership allows you to do and those limits are very much subject to legislation.
The regulators have had the data for a while now

They've had some of the data for a while. Pfizer didn't finish their analysis of the Phase 3 data until close to their EUA submission on Nov 20th.
if that isn't a metaphor for the modern US, I don't know what is
Oh, how often I wish that someone would have followed this advice.

Working mostly on Java these days, Carmack's focus on efficiently doing the right thing sounds like fairy-tales of the promised land ;)

Just yesterday, I spent much longer than I believe is reasonable to fix a bug in a Java class whose sole purpose is to do an HTTP(S) call and determine if the URL is online (200 code) or declared offline (40x code).

The first thing that really slowed me down was that instead of having a clear location for the crash, a Java .war inside tomcat tends to vomit 40-50 lines of stack trace onto the console. The reported Exception was "java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: ..." in HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(). But debugging the issue, I noticed that getResponseCode exits just fine without any exception.

A bit of Googling around revealed that the root cause was this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54837353/525608 Inside getResponseCode(), an exception is thrown, caught, and suppressed. And then later, it is retrieved out of HttpURLConnection.rememberedException and thrown around by a different HttpURLConnection function. But of course the Exception still had the old = wrong stack trace in it. So those 40+ lines of stack trace that Java garbled up? Completely useless.

I kid you not, Java source code with Exceptions is like your own private hell, especially because the control flow tends to be somewhere between "nested inside 30 functions" and "completely random". The latter usually happens when libraries do bytecode patching so that what is actually executed doesn't even match the source code anymore, and that's also the point where stack traces become almost completely useless.

I'd take a 2000+ lines monolithic function every day over this unholy mess that ["Enterprise Java" == stacking random libraries on top of each other] has become.
How could it possibly empower anti vaxxers to say to trust healthcare professionals, doctors and the worlds leading security and safety experts?
Taxation is a interesting thing. In some countries those utilities like roads and their upkeep is paid from income taxes. And Airbnb renters don't pay income tax. Maybe it would be reasonable to move that burden to be a tax on such renting. With long term rentals the income tax isn't a problem.
It is of vital importance that the majority of people feel safe taking the vaccine, because you need herd immunity. If people have doubts that it has been correctly vetted they will be reluctant to get vaccinated which makes the whole investment in the vaccines pointless.
That's a question for someone who's heavily schooled on mRNA vaccines and/or a practitioner involved in the trials for this particular vaccine.

Not that I have a problem with your asking the question, I just don't think an opinion poll on a tech board is going to yield an accurate prediction of what to expect.
ImprovMX is one way
Owning real estate on this finite planet is a privilege granted by the community, not an inaliaenable human right.
I suspect the bulk of the population will receive the 'Oxford' vaccine. It's still going through the approval process but the UK has ordered more of it. I believe the Pfizer vaccine is targeted to front line workers and the clinical vulnerable.
My reading of that article was that tax liability hasn’t changed at all. The Airbnb hosts were always liable for paying all of their taxes, including whatever sales taxes they were liable for. This change means that Airbnb are now responsible for collecting that sales tax and paying it to the government on behalf of their hosts.

Whatever opinion you have about that, it doesn’t seem to be addressing any sort of loophole. It’s not a new tax, it’s just a new regulation for collecting it.
I was making fun of how difficult they make it to legally get a decent version of Windows.
So in the UK we have a really good set of expert bodies that put forward reccomendations on these things, the JCVI being the vaccines body. They are every bit as good as the current government are terrible.

Priority ranking is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-f...

Though this is generic and should change depending on the results on vaccine trials (should there be evidence of differential effectiveness).
Tax law is a bit more complicated.

Tax law is what's written in statutes, but it's also how the courts interpret the law. This means there's stuff that's clearly lawful, stuff that's clearly unlawful, and then a grey area where reasonable people can interpret the law in different ways and we need the courts to rule.

This works well when you have cases that go to court. But some tax authorities prefer a light-touch or right-touch regulatory approach, and so they prefer to persuade people to pay tax that's owed and they leave court cases for the blatant offenders. That means we don't get the case law.
They started rolling review back in October:

https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/industrynews/2020/uk-reg...
Is there any evidence that the vaccine reduces your risk of getting and spreading the disease? I’ve only heard that it decreases the severity.
We all are still waiting peer-reviewd scientific papers instead of press releases....
A program composed of one thousand functions with average length of 1K LOC is jarring and hard to understand. The same program refactored into a quarter of a million functions of 5-8 LOC each is jarring in a very different way. At the end of day we are talking of a million LOC, and no level of granularity is going to protect your brain against that amount of information.

What you need at those levels is modules. Dozens of short functions (though 5 LOC is overkill IMHO) that work together to solve a single, well constrained problem. Whatever its other shortcomings, Object Oriented Programming gives you that out of the box, though you have to design your classes instead of just banging out code as you go.

And then you can create packages, - modules that use number of tightly coupled classes to solve a single, well constrained problem.
One of the oddest comments I've yet seen on HN. Was this part of a mission or just for grins?
UK Gov originally published this as the priority interim list [1] -

* older adults’ resident in a care home and care home workers

* all those 80 years of age and over and health and social care workers

* all those 75 years of age and over

* all those 70 years of age and over

* all those 65 years of age and over

* high-risk adults under 65 years of age

* moderate-risk adults under 65 years of age

* all those 60 years of age and over

* all those 55 years of age and over

* all those 50 years of age and over

* rest of the population (priority to be determined)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-f...
Disclaimer: Not a doctor.

I find it hard to believe they haven't covered this with their phrase 3 trials, where the intent is to ensure that there is no risk at broad scale (in addition to effectiveness), and they pause the trial if anyone dies for unknown reason (etc) -- I definitely remember the trials pausing briefly while they investigated[1], and then continuing once resolved.

I also saw a study a few weeks ago where they found people with antibodies 6-8 months later[2][3]. Suggesting longer term immunity.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/health/covid-clinical-tri...
[2}: https://www.sciencealert.com/evidence-grows-favouring-corona...
[3]: https://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-coronavirus-immuni...
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You sound like me.

Have you found any note taking mobile apps that can also sync with Dropbox to be edited as plain text files? I do most of my note taking in vim on my laptop, but when I only have my phone I'm reduced to use simplenote and Google Keep and can't easily access my normal notes.

After 15 years of searching I haven't found that seemingly simple combination of features.
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Eww, Power Automate or Flow to me is the worst of office modern software. I don't want to click together workflows on a slow website. I don't think any problem will ever be solved by this.

Is there a secret to this? Does an app exist, are there logs in cases of errors? What am I missing about this?

Creating sensible workflows is actually work and there is no import/export to other tenants as far as I know. I recommend it to people that want to have a negative experience with "the cloud".

Didn't take a look, but what theoretically could be nice is somehow lacking. Maybe it got better, wasn't interested for some time now.

It can be nice for very simple things and I would love to have a good workflow engine.

> That way all conversation about the task is consolidated into Teams

You can get any ticket system from around 2005 and it will be much, much better. At least you can actually access the data. Haven't looked into the Teams API, but I somehow don't want to honestly.

It reminds me of Frontpage...
Given they run the show it seems fitting that they are first up on this.
This quote from him is very telling how good engineer he is:

> That was a cold-sweat moment for me . after all of my harping about latency and responsiveness, I almost shipped a title with a completely unnecessary frame of latency.
That's good (though it should have been earlier) but makes the approval delay even less acceptable.

Edit: Actually FDA Fast Track was approved in July. There should be no surprises for the FDA in this submission. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
I have a good friend who is a Law Professor and we had a pub conversation about the concept of "property ownership" a few years ago.

It was really mind blowing- I had never really thought about how abstract the notion of property ownership actually is, especially when you factor in inheritance. We should definitely be more critical of political systems that seek to justify concentrating property in the hands of the few.
That's misleading. If you factor in mining rewards, Bitcoin has much higher fees per transaction. A total of $18,000,000 more per day spent on validating Bitcoin transactions than what that website claims.
To your point 3, Belgium may well have great logistics but the UK government has knowingly undermined and compromised UK logistics (the whole industry is crying out) as part of their Brexit process.

Maybe there are extraordinary arrangements being made for the vaccine, but it won't be because of a good prevailing open-market logistics situation.

Edit: here's the Road Haulage Association warning of severe supply chain disruption
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54021421

Edit 2, since responses are unexpected:

> HMRC's assumption is that there'll be 11 million new customs declarations a year on goods going from GB to NI as of January 1

https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/1334073058815074304
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> every one of your developers

You don't need "every one of your developers" to write C neither.
The hadoop companies spent quite some bucks on developing S3Guard, and selling it.

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.0.3/hadoop-aws/tools/hadoo...
It is not a trivial process, and these are ferrociously complex. Safety, Quality and Efficacy - each are hard to check. From how people are categorised in trials, how missing data rules are implemented, to how it is manufactured and the stability data. It doesn't take a year for no good reason. Yes this has been sped up massively, but steps have been abbreviated - let's not kid ourselves.

If interested, the FDA release all documentation - search for Drugs@FDA and find a recent medicine, and see just how much review it gets. You'll be surprised!
Trump is pro working class? That's a new one.
If you think of it as a You vs Landlord negotiation, indeed, the landlord is permitted to do whatever he wants such as not renting to you because he has a better offer elsewhere.

If you think of it as Society vs Landlord, there are many reasons that Society can give to justify preventing the Landlord from Airbnbing. Such as, society has a duty to provide housing to locals, airbnb guests make residential areas more dangerous, dirtier and noisier, other standard reasons why businesses are not permitted in residential areas.

If these reasons trump the positive impact on the region from encouraging tourism, then, regulating airbnb makes sense.
That's how Clojure implements vectors except its a tree of 8-element arrays. This has nice functional programming properties because it makes it easy to make immutable copies of large vectors with good performance and memory characteristics.
The resolute defenders of property rights would argue that this infringes on the rights of those who already own the things including virtually all land.

But there are other issues with this like the massive, inescapable trend towards centralization of ownership under capitalism.
Ex post facto.
Primarily one should have sufficient levels of vitamin D for a host of other reasons anyway.. If it helps protect against COVID that is a bonus.
> The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about

> the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".

Sure, but I bet a mobile sales machine could be a killer target audience for it.

I remember being in quite a few scenarios where we were writing out receipts by hand, and the customer saying "hmm, I'm not sure my work will accept this". Being able to print off something more legitimate looking (even with serial numbers, etc) could be really quite good.

I think it should also have:

* Some method to process card payments (if possible)

* A version that comes loaded with store-software ready to rock and role (even possibly connected to some cloud service they run)
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sorry, but anti-vaxxers are empowered by doubtful and propagandistic press releases...when you have solid, scientific and independently peer-reviewed data the only thing that anti-vaxxers can do is be silent and accept them.
Sorry to ask, will this help with the H1B 20K cap?

I already have a Cs master but I would like to work in the US for a couple of years instead of Europe.

Also, I would like to be challenged again as web dev isn’t challenging, not where I work that is.
> Since they are richer or something, denying them side income or filling an empty room that would otherwise go unused is supposed to be a loss they should stomach

Quite simply, yes. If this were all it was, nobody would have a problem. The issue is short-term rentals taking over reliable lease stock. Landlords can make more money with less downside renting out one weekend a month than an entire month, so why wouldn't they? So rental properties simply vanish from the market at key price points.

If everyone had a home that they owned, I would not have a problem with airbnb. But this is not the case, and we have no intention of making this the case, so as long as we have obligatory renters, we can't have this incentive.
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