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Yes, but, there are close to 200 vaccines. It isn't as if all vaccinations have stopped, there are other options, and panic and fear on the side of omg must vaccinate now, now,now!?

Any hint, even the slightest, that complications may be ignored, could result in untold masses refusing vaccination out of fear. So let's pause one vaccine for a few days, and see if moving ahead, or more research is required.
I'd be pretty perky if someone poked a bellows in me bum.
Pretty clear indication you're on a sinking ship with a blind captain.
Your options are not just A) take the AZ vaccine right now, and B) never take any vaccine.

You can also wait until more data becomes available, or until another vaccine becomes available. Doing so does carry some incremental risk, but this risk is smaller than the risk of not getting vaccinated ever.
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It is really hard but the relative hardness of it may be very different 100, 10000, 100K years from now.

As for the reasons: _if nothing else_ the expanding Sun outta do it.
My recollection is that she beat Jeremy in a van and that is how I will remember it. Sorry Jeremy.
What about the costs of military and lives and environment of the efforts spent in maintaining the USD hegemony?
Actually its not that easy, depending which parts of framework you used.

It's certainly reasonable, but will take re-work for many applications beyond the project structure migration. I think in .NET 6/7/8 the .NET framework migration situation will improve to be mostly pure migration.

For example I migrated about 75% of a moderately large winforms system directly, but 25% needed rewrites due to missing core implementations for framework libraries. e.g. MS chart component not implemented in core yet, soap services changing to grpc, and various others. And this system was originally built to minimise third party dependencies and use the core framework or microsoft provided libraries wherever possible.
I personally gave up on understanding and forming an opinion on modern art because I don't get it. That being said a lot of things from the article (written by an actual critic) seem mostly to be complaining about political things or saying that some of the drawing are low quality.

I don't see it. This is 11 years of evolution and development of someone's art, it is cringe because when you don't cherrypick your best work you always end up bad or even cringy but that's also part of the story that this piece tells.
Just make a NFT with pen and paper
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There is the PinePhone, and a keyboard attachment is actively being worked on.

https://www.pine64.org/2021/03/15/march-update/

> PinePhone: the keyboard is progressing well – but we’re still waiting for the keycaps; they should be delivered later this month

There are pictures as well.
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Is it? Every study on arranged marriages I've seen points to lower divorce rates and higher general happiness. Assuming your parents aren't assholes they'll try and do right by their kids. And the nice thing about an arranged marriage is that it's two people not following some illusions of effortless love and happiness, but two people coming together to collaboratively build that love and happiness.
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But... then... there would be less news.
Isn't that basically what Wikipedia is? The format isn't question-answer, but a search engine will probably hook you up with the correct Wikipedia link if you type in your question.
Wikipedia; Folklore.org
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They've kind of stayed the same price for a long time, but capacities have evolved somewhat. SSDs have steadily decreased in price in the meantime.
The rate of blood clots as a side effect for the AZ covid jab is less than that of the combined contraceptive pill - does that mean that both need to be discontinued?
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> and they prevent other beings like themselves from emerging within their volume

What so they go to war with other species who are unlike them? Doesn't sound very clever, and it's a losing strategy. 'War is a losing strategy' [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-win_situation
This is going to sound sketchy because any software project involving cryptography is automatically sketchy unless it has hit some nebulous and ill-defined 'accepted' status, but I've been working on a CLI tool to manage my passwords for a while that I'm honestly not ready to share, but the architecture so far is very simple:

Each 'service block' is an encrypted file consisting of service name, service password (autogenerated), kv-store, some metadata for regenerating new passwords.
The key to each service block is the hash of a primary password.
The name of the 'service block' file is the hash of the service name.
All of the service blocks are stored together in a folder that can be rsynced wherever.

My worry is obviously in the crypto. While I'm not doing anything too fancy I worry about timing attacks because an attacker will have the full encrypted block so the system is vulnerable to that sort of thing.
The vast distances between solar systems means that in order for life to expand beyond our system, it must either be put dormant for decades of interstellar travel, or it must travel in a craft so fast that modern physics thinks it unlikely. Since there's little reason to suspect that c speed of light is not the speed limit, that leaves us with some sort of biological suspension of life forms until they reach their destination. This tech is still extremely nascent, but to me there is possibility in at least sending seeds, microbes, probes, and very small crafts to nearby stars.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that we will expand heavily within our own solar system before we ever reach another star. Proxima centauri is light years away, but mars, venus, the asteroids, and various rocky moons are within our grabby reach.
The bicycle itself is highly resistant to change as well. The overall concept basically hasn't changed for over a hundred years. Just small tweaks here and there.
I know the N8 was at some point earmarked for Meego. But internal politics happened.

That would have been a true flagship phone around 2011 with a 12 megapixel camera, aluminium body and nice touch screen. I had it in Symbian form and it was alright but ultimately meh in terms of software. Essentially all Android phones at that point were a combination of slow, not very premium, and riddled with bugs. This was way before Google figured out how to do software updates properly.

A slick UI, linux, touchscreen, etc. exactly what Nokia needed at that point. But they convinced themselves Symbian was good enough and were corrected by the market that made it very clear that it wasn't even close. Of course crippling the device with not enough memory did not help. Nokia saved pennies and sacrificed market share with that.
> Don't end your sentences with a preposition!"

That's based on a misunderstanding of syntax, not an excessive attention to it.
>Asians countries are booming since their economy wasn't affected because the stringent lock downs controlled the virus.

The biggest "Asian" countries excluding China, Japan and Korea, didn't have hard lockdowns like in New York or California (Japan's constitution didn't even allow it), just voluntary social distancing and early closure recommendations, and effective contact tracing. China had lockdowns but it's economic numbers are extremely unreliable.
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Is your hosted version multi tenant? Or are you running an individual tenant for every customer?
> It's really an American thing, because many European nations went through similar experiences multiple times.

It’s not even legal to talk about Nazis in Germany. Imagine the uproar if a sports team was named after a caricature of Jewish people?

People just want some basic dignity. The only people “obsessed” are those refusing to give it to them.
Simple evolution. The fraction of the species that decides "yeah, this is enough" stays behind. The fraction that does not keeps developing and exploring and eventually just straight-up outpopulates the fraction that didn't even if they never actively have a conflict with the "satisfied" group... which is a pretty big "if".
But that's what I come to HN for.
What other options would there even be for updates? That bug report describes every updater I've ever seen.
It was unclear to me what you meant. It no longer is. Thanks for the clarification.
This kind of happened to me. Dwelling mostly inside during the pandemic, I did a vitamin D blood test out of curiosity.
Had critically low levels according to my doctor (something around 6, normal is between 30 - 80 AFAIK). Started taking vitamin D supplements a few months ago, and I'm subjectively feeling A LOT more motivated since.

But other than that, don't beat yourself up OP. Don't let your hobbies become chores. It's OK to just take the path of least resistance during your free time.
Ok, but I still want to know how much of a performance tax I am paying to know whether it’s the right tool for the job. If it’s a thousand times slower, maybe that overwhelms the benefits of extra features.
I meant to write “confirmed deaths”, sorry. Updated my comment.

“confirmed” might seem like nitpicking but it’s widely speculated that the actual death count for COVID is much higher than the confirmed number too.
The big bang only produced light elements and heavier elements were produced by nuclear fusion in stars. In particular, carbon and oxygen[1] would not have been abundant until the first generation of very hot, very large stars went supernova. Our own star is a third-generation star[2]; it is only 4-5 billion years old, forming ~10 billion years after the big bang, so our own solar system is fairly rich. Earlier solar systems would have been less rich, and this means life would have been far less likely to arise.

Also, 25% of lightspeed is fairly aggressive. Even 1% would require engineering and energy reserves way beyond anything we can realistically hope for, largely due to the tyranny of the relativistic rocket equation[1]. Note that if you want to stop, you have to carry your own fuel, which makes the problem quadratically worse. Proposals like Breakthrough Starshot[3] can hope for 10% largely because they will just do a flyby and don't have to carry fuel for braking at the destination. Similar projects[4] have used much more realistic velocities and discovered in doesn't really matter - it still takes less than 100 million years to completely colonize every star in the galaxy.

But this model doesn't solve or address the Fermi Paradox - where is everybody? It actually makes it worse. We might overlook or not be able to see a single populated solar system halfway across the galaxy, but a civilization that has expanded to fill every nook and cranny of the galaxy should be fairly easy to spot, no? Obvious, even. Yet there is no sign - not in our solar system, not in radio signals, not in Dyson spheres, nothing. On the other hand, every time we still down and make reasonable assumptions about how long it would take a species to colonize the galaxy, we usually find that it should have happened hundreds of times over, billions of years ago. So where is everybody?

[1]: https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_life.html

[2]: https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae465.cfm

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

[4]: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/294051-scientists-simula...
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And today I shot myself in the foot: I had forgotten to mount the remote folder so rsync synced an empty folder to my work copy.

To-do: add a confirmation of a dry run to my rsync one-liner.
I feel similarly about wrestling. The culture can be extremely macho (often to its detriment) - but the physical contact and trust involved similarly builds bonds.
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Maybe I've missed it, but I didn't find anything in the article about whether the vaccine does need to be discontinued or not. In any case, being clear about what side effects are possible and researching them to get a better understanding is a requirement in my opinion.
7 cases in Germany, with 3 deaths. Patients were aged 20 to 50 years.

https://www.pei.de/EN/newsroom/hp-news/2021/210315-pei-infor...

https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...
I don't think this author really understands conspiracy theorists.

The gist of what he's saying is that they just have preconceived notions, and tend to reject arguments that challenge those notions. But this is a universal human problem, and is not limited to people who think the earth is flat or people who think the US presidential election was stolen. Most mainstream journalists and politicians are equally guilty of this behavior, and we don't notice because we're all susceptible to it too.

>> One must recognize that this is a person who already mistrusts what most authoritative sources say. One should ask calm questions, inviting the conspiracy theorist to explain and reflect on his beliefs, rather than advance evidence or quote the experts

He's close to the truth here. He's right that we should take someone's existing mistrust into account. But he doesn't say the most important thing we should do when talking to people like this: we should stop saying things that aren't true! Put another way, we should know what we're talking about.

Anyone who wants to really have their views on conspiracy theories challenged should read Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson (and/or watch the accompanying documentary series, The Secret Rulers of the World).

Ronson showed that in fact most of the details of the most outrageous conspiracy theories are objectively true. For instance, if I had told you I believe that many of the most important and influential people (politicians, industrialists etc.) get together in the forest every year and engage in a bizzare pagan ritual that involves burning a human effigy in sacrifice to a giant stone owl, and they enjoy a total media blackout, and therefore the world is obviously being run by a secret satanic cult, how would you react? Before Ronson's book, most people would have reacted by saying I'm nuts, because if such a thing happened, we'd know about it right? The media would have a field day with something like this and there's no way they could be persuaded to stay silent about it right?

Even now most people would probably react that way. But actually all the factual details of this statement are basically true. The only part that's not is the last part i.e. that this behavior proves that the's a secret evil cabal running all the worlds affairs. The rest is all true and now well documented. So it's a question of interpretation. It's probably more appropriate to see it as an expensive, elaborate frat party for high powered people.

But imagine how it feels to be told that things you know for a fact are not true! It's incredibly frustrating, and tends to drive conspiracy theorists deeper into skepticism. When you refuse to accept or even entertain beliefs that someone has proof of, you are the one being irrational, and that's why you can't "get through" to conspiracy theorists.
Also asp.net webforms is not supported, webservice/soap are 'supported' but the tooling is broken and i don't think you could extend a system with it in modern VS. The winforms editor works but is buggier with each new version, and asp.net mvc projects are similar but changed, and I'm sure the list of issues continues.

Also from my experience coaching and consulting there's a significant learning curve for .NET framework developers to work in the new core/.NET 5 systems.
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I spent years and years in the "I just need a good idea" rut. In reality they are everywhere. Every spreadsheet sitting on a company computer, doing some work no other system will do, is a potential SaaS niche.

It does help to elevate your exposure to industries and companies. Go to trade shows for your hobbies, learn their pain points. Consider switching jobs more frequently, or find some work at a consulting firm which can get you on a different contract every few months. Seeing the inside of more companies will give you more exposure and will help you see where they struggle.

Working on an idea (even a bad one!), doing the deep dive, will result in logical branches out to other ideas. You need to work on your execution anyway, because the best idea in the world won't take you far if you fail to deliver.

Since I started trying to build my ideas, I find that I have far more than I could possibly build myself.
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Indeed, and this far, "only" 8 women below 60 years have died from COVID-19 (in total)

Source: https://www.fhi.no/sv/smittsomme-sykdommer/corona/dags--og-u...
It's impressive someone was able to do this... I also do not see the advantage.
There are two semi-independent clotting systems.

Broadly, aspirin works on the one associated with heart attacks. Most strokes are caused by the other. So taking aspirin for strokes doesn't usually help. (Source: had a mild stroke, was told this by multiple neurologists.)

Covid seems related to both.

You need non-trivial blood thinners - Warfarin, rivaroxaban, apixaban - to affect DVT etc, and those are high-maintenance meds with side effects of their own.

But there is some evidence that aspirin does help with Covid clotting, and low doses for short periods seem pretty safe.

So the worst you'll do is improve your odds of avoiding problems from something that's already not much of an issue.
> there are other options

Not with sufficient supply there isn’t. That’s the issue almost every country is facing, and AZ production plants can’t just flip a switch and start making Moderna vaccines instead.

No matter what if you stop using the AZ you’re going to have a sharp drop in the number of vaccinations you’re able to do. That would almost certainly result in more deaths than the side effect of the vaccine.

> Any hint, even the slightest, that complications may be ignored, could result in untold masses refusing vaccination out of fear.

Only if people (and the media especially) hype up a very small danger to be more than it is. The larger danger is and always was COVID itself, especially with the new strains spreading.
I think you're underestimating the orders of magnitude in development that is possible. Even if an "enlightened" species was light-speed expanding at us right now, and they decided to leave us our entire solar system out of the goodness of their hearts, that would still prevent us from ever matching their expansion, because once we grew to the point that we'd like to light-speed expand into our neighborhood, there'd be no neighborhood to expand into.
> Have we averaged greater than 3.5 to 4.0 percent inflation recently?

Lately almost certainly yes. The tax benefits might still make it worthwhile but inflation is most definitely higher than than 4% at the moment
It is multi-tenant, just like other SaaS providers. We can provide managed-services based on request.
but norway has to consider whether they just got _really_ unlucky, and saw these numbers, when some countries like the UK hasn't.

Or the UK has, but they are either unreported, or the different demographic group is not showing up with the same numbers so uncomparable.

It's a hard thing to tease out.
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> Some people think it's a good idea to have a distributed, immutable ledger for stuff like this

Ok, still - what's the benefit of that in the discussed context (donations to an organisation preserving wildlife) which they can't easily provide with existing programs?

(Accepting the payment is slightly unrelated - if they want donations via cryptocoins, there's a bunch of payment gateways they can enable today)
This needs to be signal boosted. The fact that we were able to apprehend a a guy raping 7 year-olds in his basement because he accidentally photo bombed a bodybuilding convention once is great. It's a very good thing that committing crime in the dark and staying hidden forever is the hardest it has ever been.

The entire problem here is that we can't trust law enforcement to only use technology like this for good because we can't trust law enforcement. We can't put this genie back in the bottle. There is no way to conceivably stop the police from scraping completely public sources of information to find you. This service is just scaling and automating the anonymous tip. They're not even grabbing anything private. Facebook and Google sent them cease and desist letters when they found out what they were doing but those couldn't be enforced because you can't keep people from scraping publicly viewable photos.

The only solution to this is trustworthy law enforcement. Which is unfortunately maybe not even a solvable problem, but I don't know what else we could even try to do.
The books are meant to make you question your own assumptions of what is good or right. I think what many people like about Banks is that he did not write simple morality plays. Iain Banks also wrote mainstream novels so you could say that he wasn't coming from the normal genre writer's perspective.
Most Americans would say it isn't evil and are willing to accept the civilian casualties of doing so.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/05/28/public-conti...
Even if the takeaway from that conversation was that sha256 is good enough, it concerns me how the Bitwarden team handled that issue.
Thanks for the great work, Audacity is my to-go audio maker for multiple years. It's like gimp for graphics, vlc for video playing, what a god send.
> dotnet rely a lot on the JIT to optimize code

.NET has had AoT compilation since v1. What, exactly, are you talking about?

Sure, rely on JIT for stuff like webapps and the like, but a CLI tool that is designed to run once would be a good candidate for AoT compilation, which, as I stated before, .NET supports.
An excerpt from my ~/.gitconfig, showing a related approach (piggy-backing on git-revise):

[alias]
# Revise into the commit that last changed File
rf = "!f() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then REV=\"$(git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no | sed '/^ /d;s/^.. //' | xargs -n1 git rev-list -1 HEAD --)\"; NUM_REVS=\"$(echo \"$REV\" | wc -l)\"; if [ $NUM_REVS -ne 1 ]; then >&2 echo Files in the index were not all last modified in the same commit; exit 1; fi; else REV=\"$(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- \"$1\")\"; shift; fi; git revise \"$REV\" \"$@\"; }; f"

(This alias is three times as long as my next longest aliases, which are ports of Mercurial’s id, tip, incoming and outgoing commands.)

This is more coarse-grained than the technique in this article, as it only goes down to the file level—because that was sufficient for me when I wrote the alias, and probably easier to implement. I’ve been vaguely contemplating trying git-autofixup and git-absorb for a while too, which include what are essentially more polished and powerful versions of my alias.