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Hopefully the risk for long term side-effects will be lower than last time with the 2009 swine flue pandemic when my government used pandemrix. Hopefully any similar signs of long term side-effects will be discovered before low-risk groups start to receive the vaccine.

Personally since I belong to a low-risk group, there will be quite some time before the line reaches me where I need to make a decision, in which more data will be available from high-risk groups. It will also take time for my country currently pressured health care system to allocate resources for vaccinations without causing even more problems. My current estimate is many months from now.

Outside of long term side-effects I am concerned about how long the protection last. It is difficult to calculate risk without knowing that data point.
Google translate is perfectly adequate for this.
not saying you are wrong, but the vast majority of covid infections are either mild or completely asymptomatic
Ooh that’s wild, like a slippery elastic coating to guide interactions. If you’ve ever touched ferromagnetic fluid under the influence of a magnetic field, that’s how I’m imagining it.
Good to hear you’re fine with 100000 people dying because we need to adhere to procedure.

There is absolutely 0% chance at the end the vaccine will not be approved. But 100% chance 20 days will have been wasted.
until you have an established player base and are using 95% or your time for balancing and the economy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE)
Yes and no. When you describe '...split it into a list of elements by commas...' style problems you are describing un-normalised data. SQL is explicitly designed to deal with normalised data, so it isn't a fault if it struggles.

NULL is unpleasant to deal with, but it is unavoidable - sometimes the value of data isn't known and the database has to represent that somehow.

But I'm with you on getting out of SQL quickly as the code gets longer. It is a bad language and it is better to be working in something else.
It represents an opportunity to MacStadium as well, since they too would be able to sell the hardware by the hour. Currently, the only reason they can't is due to the EULA. There is no other reason why a mac hardware hosting company couldn't sell hourly access to a Mac machine.
Hence why I said it was a sign of the future rather than a prediction. It's not going to get any better for software freedom, especially as we move into the cloud.

We live in a post-FSF world, I think people are taking for granted the bean counters playing nice with open source software.
I love how Carmack worried about a single frame of input lag, while most modern games have easily >7 frames lag.

I expected time would have solved the issue, but it's 2020 and it's worse every year. Same with GUIs.
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Maybe I'm oversimplifying here, but game engines are like marble statues. You start with the block of marble, you sculpt it and at some point it is finished.

Ongoing maintenance issues are not really top priority, the game is not going to be a living software project for that long.
Fully expect the same. Basically, if you are less than 65 years old and not working in one of the early access professions, forget all concerns about vaccine safety. Buckle up to face the virus natively in that third wave that will sweep through unmitigated once the high mortality groups are vaccinated.
Dan Bell would love this.
Seems to have missed the extreme risk group ie those on imuno suppressants transplant patients etc.
"There are only two types of people who write the code for parsers from scratch: absolutely beginners and absolute experts."
They bought Zarafa instead. 10 Years ago. Which is now Workmail.
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I'm sure logistics will be sold to a friend of the tories whose company assets consist of a single computer
Seems pretty clear it's an NSA/DoD project.

Possibly some kind of anti-weapon system to interfere with Russian rocket launches, communications, etc.
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LLVM is much much much more than just the IR, e.g. LLVM's scheduling code is sufficiently abstract and compartmentalised that it can be used to (optimistically, last time I checked) predict performance of machine code not generated by LLVM (llvm-mca)
I discovered Herb Alpert through YouTube recommendation this year when I was curating my Easy Listening Mix playlist [0], and damn it, Herb Alpert has all these slick songs! I used to listen to vaporwave in the past, I wonder why Herb Alpert isn't vaporwave material already.

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Of course.

There are loads of young people with the weirdest post covid complications.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/covid-long-haulers-60-minutes-...
This is one of those pieces of writing which I always tend to re-read every time it pops up on one of my feeds.

What I like about learning from Carmak's approach to programming is that he's always seemed to work in domains where he had to squeeze every ounce of performance out of what he's doing. I think that kind of programming forces you to focus on what's actually true about computers, and about programming concepts. As programmers, when we talk about design patterns and best practices, a lot of what we talk about actually comes down to opinion, philosophy and aesthetics.

When you are really forced to get the right bits to the right place as quickly as possible, it focuses the problem of software design in a very specific way. It's interesting to observe that for Carmak, that appears to be in the direction of removing as much abstraction as possible.
First of all, there is nowhere the concept of free speech, there are ALWAYS limits. Europe has more limits than America but both have limits.

Second, as any right free speech comes with certain responsibilities. My point is education people in using their right appropriately.

Lets get all Spiderman, great power comes great responsability. The right to free speech comes with the responsability to know when to shut up. Letting professionals speak and have the floor during events that concern their domain knowledge is a basic pre-requisite for the good ideas to flourish.
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Government is a continuum, and I don’t remember a time that it wasn’t riven with cronyism. A book came out in 2005 called The Essential Guide to Quangos and I’m willing to bet it wasn’t Blair’s government that invented them (and it certainly didn’t put a stop to them).
Did I? The only other interaction I had with you recently that I can find is a discussion about Apple's security policies, which seemed fairly reasonable to me.
> A fairly trivial buffer overflow programming error in C++ code in the kernel parsing untrusted data, exposed to remote attackers.

Apparently Apple failed in their hiring process to get those mythical developers that never write such kind of errors in production C or C++ code. /s
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But they could organise awarding the funds to one of their friends who pinky promises they know how to organise a piss up
Isn’t it just plural possessive?
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Like others in this thread, I tried using this some years ago. But unfortunately the friction of yet another specialized tool kept me from actively maintaining it, which of course makes it entirely worthless.

I've started just using Google Contacts for this. It syncs and integrates with all my devices, supports birthday reminders, relations and custom fields, and has a general purpose note taking area for gifts and other details.

I only wish the custom fields were more powerful/versatile and that the relations could be hyperlinked with other contacts instead of being just text fields.
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Actually, no :)
The team works on a number of (something)craft products. I suggested we call the team *craft (as a wildcard) but when you say it out loud it's "Star Craft", which kinda stuck :)
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On Observable, you have the option to keep notebooks and the data inside private.
I don't agree. Influencing and social skills cannot be dissociated. Making friends is the process of making a person like you, which seems to fall under the definition of influence.

As many things, influencing people isn't inherently bad, but depends on how and why.
To me it’s always felt more natural to invert since I tilt my head forward if I want to look down. Do people who prefer not to invert imagine they are controlling the viewport instead of the character or what is going on here?
Uber didn't only become big because of the success in the US. When they scaled their operations, they had enough capital to disregard local laws (Berlin comes to mind), where they simply paid the fines with the capital it had raised, allowing to create a brand and household name. Thats what allowed them to become common everywhere; now that they are regulated, they have quasi no advantage over any ride sharing (even taxi) companies.
On the bright side, these users can likely move to another platform if the big fish fudges up.

And now the big fish has spent a massive amount on a worthless product.

Kinda like MySpace.
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It does say:

"We are currently working to restore these features and will continue to update this document and the changelog section with the details as they are available."

Doesn't this suggest that they aren't being shut-down?
There are the viruses which can exploit the DNA involved mechanisms, but a mRNA vaccine is not using these, it uses the processes "downstream."
Call me paranoid, but this type of criticism about face recognition favors broad surveillance and tries to normalize it by reducing objections to edge cases like bias.

If I had a face rec security company I would pay these writers because it really helps to push application forward.

You should really ask yourself if you want to put pupils under constant surveillance and if that is a necessity. Because it evidently is not but it is now part of their curriculum. Of course they will learn by how they are treated, as someone under suspicion. If we talk about bias, we would need to talk about these consequences as well, but it is a more complex topic.

Lesson 1: Basic rights aren't that important - Really a good lesson to teach.

We can spend billions on security that would be better served to spend on the education itself.
I left social media about 6 months ago. I don't regret it at all but I do find that keeping up to date with people outside my inner circle is harder. Previously I could send someone a message based on something I'd seen in their Instagram story but now I have to consciously remind myself to message people. Making and maintaining adult relationships is hard.
Sorry but epd (ePrivacy Directive)[0] is from 2002 with last amendments in 2009 and has nothing to do with this.

There's a draft for "ePrivacy Regulation"[1][2] introduced in 2017 that looks to replace ePrivacy Directive, but it's still in a draft and discussions stage. There's no guarantee it'll become a law.

[0] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32...

[1] - https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk/our-insight...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation
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Well there's a lot of pressure on the government Boris Johnson is facing a lot of pressure from his MP's in particular the red wall (former labour held constituencies in then north)
Wrong - the wife-beating thing is often used as an example of a loaded question, which was not contained in the parents post.
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>There is absolutely 0% chance at the end the vaccine will not be approved.

That's not true, I think it's foolish to 100% trust a company to not make any rushed mistakes, lie, or hide some facts, when there are massive amounts of money involved.
libFIRM is another one for the the list

https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm

edit: libFIRM vs LLVM https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/LLVM.html
Well, fwiw, the inventor of the mRNA vaccine idea, Ingmar Hoerr, thinks side effects are very unlikely, since the mRNA molecules dissolve after a few days. He has been working on this for 20 years, with no serious side effects ever observed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Hoerr
> The same data will also tell you that the market always recovers and eventually reaches new all time highs.

Japanese market is still down 28% from an all-time high in 1989... (and of course it's worse if you account for inflation). If this could happen in Japan, this can happen in US or anywhere else...
For what it's worth, I completely agree. Still, I don't think those things are mutually exclusive though.
It cannot save many lives because pupils don't kill each other in large numbers.
I think there are traditionally a few more zeros there.
> set the original exception as the cause of any new exception thrown

100%, not only did this person make a pretty strange design, he has completely misunderstood how exceptions are to be used. even when he remembers exceptions, he fails to make them the root cause of the new exceptions he throws. truly a remarkable design, in all the wrong ways.
Plenty of mainstream media has reported about the Vitamin D findings.
Haha, I think the worst part of that unintended joke is that the class description starts with Convenient. I wonder if the author of that text noticed how weird the whole thing is?

"Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons."
Yes, if you don't the virus you can't infect someone else. Vaccines are the quickest way to herd immunity, which is the safest layer of protection against the virus.
> and this is why property rights should not be fundamental.

No thank you, sir. I was born in a country, where that was the case.

This system has failed in my country and in many others like mine. Let us hope we never try this again.
> Why is Apple so private about the internals of their products?

Because they don't care. The extent they care is directly linked to the amount of money they will make from caring. They won't sell more macs if macs can run Linux better; but they will sell more Apple Music subscriptions if macs keep running macOS.

> They know Linux is important

No, they know Linux is a pain in the ass. The bootloader option assuages the executives' conscience enough to be able to talk to a journalist and keep a straight face when asked about "openness" or being "hacker-friendly", stuff those 1980s-style Linux hobbyists keep talking about and nobody else gives a shit about.

Apple makes money by selling iDevices to consumers and selling Macs to enough developers to build apps for iDevices. Everything else is a bonus, and not worth spending much time on. They do the minimum and leave it as that. There is no inconsistency or secret motive. They just don't care. When they cared, in the early '00s, they did a bit more; now they do less. The attitude is the same.
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Would the vaccine work on those groups? My understanding is that you need baseline immuno-response to develop the resistance with help of vaccine.
Isn't one point of vaccination of population to protect exactly that population who can't receive the vaccination?
I'm quite impressed with Windows 10's userland heap randomization. I never do any work on Linux, and especially not in the kernel. But maybe the authors can take some inspiration from the work there?

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Yason-Wi...

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Yason-Wi...

It's still not perfect, given the predictable nature of block coalescence. But it's quite a departure from the old manager.
This doesn't explain why it will benefit someone. The text is alarmingly vague.
I never said they were versions of ITER, my point was that the new prototypes themselves need to do most of the upscaling work that's gone into tokamaks. As for Arc, that's simply a tokamak that can't be built yet because the tech isn't ready, not sure what that is supposed to contribute, did you read the rest of this thread?

To summarize:

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Nowadays it's more like:

If you own the bank $10,000, you have a problem.
If you own the bank $10,000,000, the bank has a problem.
If you own the bank $10,000,000,000, the government has a problem.
Do drug approvals even have much history? My impression was that the concept of drugs needing to be approved has been around for less than 100 years, but I guess it will vary from country to country.
I'd argue that Exceptions are good, because they attempt to illustrate all the ways code can go wrong and because you typically need to be at least aware that you're ignoring them.

However, i'd argue for allowing no unchecked exceptions at all that can be thrown at runtime and instead forcing developers to handle every fail state, that can be encountered in the code that they call.

If a method that you call can fail in 60 different ways, you should at least handle the 20 of them that you understand in their own ways and the rest in a blanket statement. All of that should be checked at compile-time, of course.

Java, .NET and most other ecosystems (both languages and frameworks) don't really seem to want to bother with that, though.
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There is an architectural error in Java frameworks that I've noticed. (Other languages have it too, just nowhere near as common.)

Basically, the error is that when some system uses virtual function calls via an interface, what that's really saying is that: "This can be changed at runtime."

So if there's some function "void foo( IBar bar )", then what that's really saying is that "bar" can change at runtime. Literally a different implementation from call-to-call.

Is that actually required?

In 99.9% of such function calls, no: the implementation of IBar will always be the same concrete class.

To see a language that has gone to the opposite end of the spectrum, take a look at Rust. It use a lot of parametric typing, which is very flexible, but by default tends to use compile-time static types instead of run-time dynamic types.

Java never went down this path because it added parametric types very late in its design.

C# had parametric types in v2.0, which is when it started getting popular.

Rust had it from the beginning.
Luckily for me the anxiety is only high just before the high pressure meeting, and I don't have a lot of those (I'm not a founder, just a mere corporate cog), so there's no risk of becoming dependent. A psychiatrist I saw recommended xanax + beta-blocker as a transition tool which will help me gain confidence in these high-stress situations, which should eventually lead to decreased anxiety.
Yes. But sadly, that (in retrospect bad) decision has been part of the Java standard library for 20 years now.

Here's a bug report from 2001 where the rememberedException had accidentally changed its behaviour:
https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4523989
We don't yet know whether the vaccines prevent infection and transmission AFAIK.
Online environment that allows arbitrary code execution allows arbitrary code execution.
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Yes, but that's more akin to stock picking. Individual stocks also don't always recover. In fact a large part of market growth is historically driven by relatively few stocks. Make your life simple and choose something like MSCI World if you're not confident in your stock/country/sector picking skills
> Like human genome sequencing

Human genome sequencing was not a one time effort. The Human Genome Project was a one time push to establish the capabilities of human genome sequencing, but the field has seen a lot of refinement since then, to apply it both to individuals and to construct a better human reference genome.

> New protein sequences don't continually get created?

As others have said, there are new proteins being engineered by humans. Apart from that there are a lot of organisms that haven't been sequenced yet (not even counting niche organisms that haven't been discovered yet). Especially in the plant world, sequencing advancements with nanopore sequencing only recently made it economical (and possible) to sequence a lot of the plant genomes that are many times larger than the human one.

So Alphafold might be comparable to the Human Genome Project in specific ways.
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Is there a language that has optional checked exceptions?

Basically if I define a checked exception function then I am expected to check all exceptions that will be thrown?
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It doesn't create demand, it just makes it liquid which would otherwise be a tremendous hurdle.

Liquid markets enable demand though.
I'm concerned about that, but I'm far more concerned about covid-19, so I would be pretty happy to take a vaccine. Covid is known to have risk of death, side-effects, and unknown future medical conditions, so it seems unlikely that a vaccine would be much worse than that.