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The best solution for my own self and family is to be part of a system where we all agree to take basic precautions to safeguard the more vulnerable who cannot.

If everyone who can get vaccinated does, then it fundamentally changes how dangerous the world is for those who are immunocompromised, or are too young to receive the vaccine.

I wish that the number of people too selfish or foolish to receive the vaccine was small enough that we could protect them with herd immunity as well, but given the area around me seems to be stalling out at about 70% vaccinated, it is clear that we cannot.

Being anti-vaccination or anti-medicine seems particularly foolish to me. Has anything else we've ever done in all of history come close to the positive humanitarian impact that the development of vaccines has? Aside, perhaps, from the development of antibiotics or sanitation or irrigation?

Being able to vaccinate ourselves has to be one of the major legs up we've developed as a species in general. And people are choosing to discard it. I find it deeply frustrating.
This is huge news. Sure, it's not the end goal of cheap/affordable insulin for all diabetics, but it is a great step in that direction. Walmart should be applauded for taking this step (and I'm usually first in line to hate on Walmart); kudos to them.
I think my use of the word "class" was problematic. The word doesn't really capture what I mean, and I struggled to find the right description. Those people who always seem to end up SVPs and CEOs and Founders all seem to be cut from a certain cloth. Not a "class" in the literal sense of English aristocracy, but it's always the same "Ivy Leaguer" type of person. Smooth talker, big smile, outgoing, and credentialed up the wazoo. Like a game show host but with a business degree. Look at all the CxO folks at your company and tell me they are not all basically cut from this same fabric.

It's almost never the smart, hard working kid whose parents were factory workers in Pittsburgh, who hard-worked their way up from the mail room.

EDIT: Maybe not a perfect comparison, but how many current active duty 4 star military officers started out their careers as enlisted grunts rather than as officers?
It has been shown that people who previously had Covid are more likely to have a worse reaction to the vaccine than those who hadn't. So when you combine that with the evidence that the vaccine actually confers no additional benefits to those people, it's exactly like you said: why make them suffer?
I like their summary videos as well. Unfortunately I'm less of a fan of the website. The design is messy; they're trying to do the "website as magazine" style, but they're dependent on Google Ads so the experience feels disjointed.
Importing an external, tested, reliable dependency is completely different from anonymous non-checked untested code in your repository committed by someone who did not even read it.

Check out the memoize example. That fails as soon as you pass anything non-primitive but there’s no one documenting that.
Interesting about the beta blockers - docs mostly seem pretty clueless about this kind of thing and often suggest benzodiazepines (lorazepam, alprazolam, etc.) or SSRIs - neither of which I really want to take given their negative effects.
> which is what they recommend now if you want to preserve where you were

And which becomes more difficult when sites break middle-clicking and other shortcuts to open links in new tabs, or when the "links" ain't actually links but just something on which they tack on an onClick() and run a bunch of JS to reinvent the concept of a link.
No, it's just that bugs of the type you describe are the minority of those that people want to report.
What doesn't seem to be addressed is why COVID-19 germinal centre response might produce lasting immunity while, say, flu vaccination (which also produces germinal centre responses) doesn't
It's funny, I guess I'm just the opposite.

If I'm reading code, I can give 100% of my attention to the logic and details and edge cases, so I'm more likely to pick them up.

While as I'm writing, I'm busy doing all of the stuff that writing code involves, so I'm more distracted and more likely to make mistakes.

This gets proved to me time and time again when I run something for the first time and have to debug it. I look at the offending line, and think -- how could I have made a mistake so obvious that it's immediately apparent? Well, because I was busy/distracted thinking of 20 different things while writing it. But it's immediately obvious when reading it, because it has my full attention now.
The architecture is significantly different from what you would find in typical GPU. But the programming model can be considered similar to early days of GPGPU programming on hardware that was not designed for that usage (ie. no control flow instructions, just giant SIMD number crunching thing running somewhat decoupled from host computer).
Improve Relative Bodyweight Strength
Perspective employees usually have no idea what the fire-rate is at a company they are interviewing at.
LTSE uses something called the Very Simple Market, which has some benefits over the legacy platforms. A brief summary is here:

https://ltse.com/blog/introducing-the-long-term-stock-exchan...
3-4 hours is a long time. That sounds like a leisurely dinner set on "Italian Mode" [no offence] with a reservation, not a work lunch on Tuesday in the US.

This ritual or ceremony of waiter, menu, waiting, ordering, signalling for the cheque that you apparently find vile... I enjoy it. Any inefficiency you have declared is part of the experience of going out to eat.

You want fast food? Go get fast food.

You want a butler and cook? Hire them.

You want to go out to dinner? Here's a waitress, menu, and some time for walking back and forth between their station and your table and their other tables in their zone.

All of this is, or at least should be, factored in to the restaurant's business. It's been 100 years, at least in the US. If they don't get it by now, at least you should.
Holy hell, how did I not realize that re: app folder. I think maybe the qualm I had was that the placement is centered to the right, and I can't replace Finder app's position with it? I know I tried alias folders and hated it for some reason. Thank you for that, it's an improvement :). And yea launchpad is just my nightmare, I actually don't mind blowing things up with some padding, I use the scaled 1280X800 on my MacBook at the moment - and even then launchpad just disturbs me because of the effort required to navigate, and lack of real customization.

On the other hand, MS consistently seems to develop the most attractive (at least, in principle with the bordering and sidebar menu for navigation with highlighted selection - all very cognitively "native" if you will) ways of striking a balance between aesthetics and function. Frankly I think it looks better than MacOS due to the contrast, but the typography feels off IMO.

See here:

https://46c4ts1tskv22sdav81j9c69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Now in fairness re consistently: I do think the old settings app of W10 was bad, I often forget how horrible navigation is - one feels much more "trapped" if you will than in their W11 version. W11 version should scale well, too.

I am still curious how their ARM64 efforts will shake out. What're your thoughts there? MS have to hedge between architectures so the chicken and egg issue is certainly salient unlike with Apple for whom the success was all but guaranteed.
Earth sized planets is very interesting. I don't get excited about it, though. Not until we can detect oxygen in extrasolar planets. Now that will be exciting.
That's awesome to hear and I appreciate the answer!
I'm pretty sure I have around 0% concrete in my body.
Yeah, seriously. A friend and I in college were talking about how we handle our pre-presentation nerves, and I was suggesting she should try deep breaths, counting to ten, etc.; meanwhile, she would routinely go into full-body fight-or-flight mode, panic attacks, barely able to speak.

Yeah... "count to ten" is probably insufficient for that! Her body needed more help managing her chemical response to stress. Same thing for her -- beta blockers (propranolol too, actually) were a complete life change.

Just to hit it on the head for anyone reading: everyone has anxiety, it's a normal part of life. If you find yourself physically incapacitated by anxiety on a regular basis, that's not something everyone deals with, and you can absolutely seek the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist!
Had the exact same experience. Was planning to use Ansible until it became obvious that Kubernetes was a perfect match, and it was fairly easy to learn the basics. Getting it to run correctly within our VPC was a pain for the developer doing that part though.
That's basically what I do in my lectures at uni. The notes are totally worthless after the lecture, but it does keep me engaged and off hackernews during class.
I'd like to see some methods and numbers to back up those claims.

How do you measure religions? Scientology is pretty new and has grown pretty significantly since its inception.
Wait, you're saying I have to install your app on my phone if I want to view the menu? I find the QR menus annoying, but not a huge deal. But requesting I install an app would get me to ask my group if we could dine somewhere else.
Hacker News once again proving to be the king of social networks.
> Ever drive to vacation by car?

Go look up people who road trip with EV, the experience is rather good. Your blanket assertion that this is simply impossible is just not the case in many regions.

Certainty in most people where people actually want to go.

Sure if you drive into bumbfuck nowhere in West Texas you might have an issue, but that is the waste minority of people.

Europe is better then the US. In the US if you are doing serious trips Tesla is clearly the best but others are growing fast as well.

> Or visit relatives a few hours away?

Tons of people do that with EV. A modern EV has multiple 100 miles of range. And stopping once at fast charger is really not that big of a deal. How often do you seriously do 300+ mile trips in a day?

Maybe you have a steel bladder and never pie or stop to stretch your legs or eat something. Stopping for 10min is really a deal breaker.

If you ask me I much rather be in a car that is much more quite for hours that drives with much more pop.

> Doesn't help with them being way more expensive in acquisition.

Most people use a loan anyway

> There is also no used car market for them AFAIK. This will all change in the future but currently they are no option for many people just because of the price.

Depending on your use-case there are some absurdly cheap EV. Bolt for example Those don't have some of the fast charge features and range mentioned above, but for people that don't need that it absolutely make sense to get a EV.

> Nice claim but I doubt that. It's always hard to do these comparisons fairly but battery manufacturing and disposal is very dirty business.

No it isn't a dirty business. This is just flat out false.

Battery manufacturing is really not that dirty. Telsa is building batteries in the middle of a city in California. You have some waste water that needs to be treated (and newer process manage to cut that out already). Currently to much intermediate products are transported but this is true for oil as well.

Can you explain what you specifically are referring to that is so horrible?

Li-Ion batteries get used and re-used and even after 10 plus years they still fetch a good price as people use them for custom builds and other hobby projects. Even if they totally break people will rip them open and reuse some of the cells.

Even after that pretty much every economic forecast shows that recycling for batteries will make a huge amount sense as it basically represents really high quality ore. So if you buy a car now, when in 15-20 years your battery is totally broken it will absolutely be recycled.

Data actually shows that very, very few Li-Ion batteries are getting disposed at all.
In most countries in Europe everyone gets 5-6 weeks a year plus public holidays and often flexible days off. You don’t have to “work hard“, just work. I spent my twenties learning skills and working well but not too much. Could have gone a bit further in my career by working harder but not that much further. Looking back I think that was the right compromise. As developers we are fortunate to have a lot of choice for interesting and well paid jobs, so there should be space for an interesting life besides that.
> If the output doesn't resemble any of the inputs, or contains significant continous portions of them, then it's not a derivative.

In this particular case, the output resembles the inputs, or there is no reason to use Github Copilot.
I'm unsure why their last Twitter thread seems to be unlinked everywhere, but here it is for anyone who wants to read their own words:

https://twitter.com/near_koukai/status/1408940057235312640
I've got a past positive Covid test. If that's not good enough, then why shouldn't every vaccinated person also have to go through the blood draw for an accurate antibody test to confirm their immunity? The vaccines are imperfect, just like all vaccines that have ever been created.
I loved those as a tourist that doesn't speak any Japanese. The touch screens would always have an English option.
Can someone tell me why we (US) don't have a vaccine passport yet?
I have a basic Ruby on Rails app up on Kube but with no authentication and no SSL certificate. What should I learn next to add these things? How did you learn these things?
It's quite irresponsible to try and coerce people who don't need treatment to accept it as well
"In what’s being called the “Great Resignation,” 95% of workers are considering changing jobs, according to a report by Monster.com."

I can't be the only one that needs my paycheck. 95%... where will they all go?
I want to make it very clear that I do not expect everyone to want kids, and I'm never ever one to say "oh you'll love kids once you have your own!" to anyone, but...

I cannot understate for me personally how much having my own kids over the past few years has shifted my priorities. The best parts of my weeks are when I'm with my family all doing something fun together. Work is now only a means to provide and is not a source of personal fulfillment anymore (again, YMMV!!!!)

It's hard to stay "extra motivated" at work now, though. I went from being willing to put in the long hours and weekends to barely being able to get 30-40 hours a week.

But you know what? There are plenty of perfectly great jobs that allow for that. The place I'm currently working told me in the interview loop they can't compete with FAANG salary ranges, but they promised me total autonomy on when/where I work as well as great work-life balance, which has proven to be true.
Yeah, definitely. The three body problem gripped me as well, can't really be topped but I also liked:

Stories of your life by Ted Chiang

Fragnemt by the lovely twitter.com/ctrlcreep

Borges

qntm.org/fiction

Haruki Murakami

Accerelando by Charles Stross
>Especially when America and France have the same percentage of diabetic people

Your link doesn't show that comparability.

France is the highest rate in EU at 10% for ages 15+, EU average is 6.9.

US average for ages 18+ is 13% [1] West Virginia has the highest adult rate of US states with 15.7% [2]

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/diagnose...

https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measur...
Has there been any work done on the severity of the COVID 19 variants? My understanding is variants of highly dangerous viruses rarely keep the high level of risk as the progenitors.

Does the delta variant and others pose the same risks? Are we over responding to a virus family group?
Is there a good benchmark showing the number of dom nodes vs ui latency? React works well for few dom elements but suffers in messaging apps where dom count and dependency graph are large and complex
RIP sublime text, I guess it's back to VS
I think as our field evolves, more work will be dealing with high level abstractions. There is a massive need for distributed systems design. Companies have big ambitions, but not enough labor to accomplish them.

There will still be plenty of low level systems programming work. The field is growing, not shrinking.

One impact this may have is that it may make tasks easier and more accessible, which could bring lots of new talent and could also apply downward force on wages. But the counter to that is that there is so much more work to be done.

I'm all for new tools.
Hundreds of millions (or billions) of people getting annumal booster shots seems like a pretty good source of recurring revenue.
Very true, being the boss is no panacea in terms of having to do work, it’s usually more work. But the intrinsic motivations really are very different when you are the one on the hook, when you decide which clients to take on, when you are building the company or deciding the dev or research directions, when you decide what happens with the revenue. I mean, for me anyway, but I know it’s true for at least some others too since many books have been written about this. It’s one of the reasons that a mentality of ownership is advocated even when you’re not the boss.
If you question the veracity of the code that is produced, you have to question the usefulness of the unit test that is produced.
The way I see it, the tool is only as good as the programmer using it. This tool will generate the individual code blocks for you, but you still have to understand how to put it all together to deliver a working app.

Sure there will be some codebases out there that are plastered together using this tool, but when it comes to delivering software that is well written, performant and maintainable over the course of several years, you're still going to need a lot of skilled engineers to pull that off.
CDC said it was "ok" to do so back in January. In Europe they studied mixing mRNA with non-mRNA doses (astra zeneca and pfizer) and that also appeared to work very well: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/a-mix-and-match-approach...
I was referring to the relationship between the incidence of Type 2 diabetes and consumption of excess sugars.

Big box stores push refined and processed foods that contain excessive amounts of sugar these days. They have sugary snacks and drinks in the checkout lines. They carry very few products without added sugars; try to find a bread, pasta sauce, or soup without crazy amounts of sugar.

It's not entirely their fault, but Walmart has demonstrated in the last 40 years that they can compel manufacturers to just about whatever they want. If they wanted, they could push for the reduction or elimination of excess sugars in processed foods.

But then again, there wouldn't be as large a market for Walmart brand insulin if they did that.
I don't know why the original comment is being downvoted. It is not a conspiracy theory to assume that we need booster shots. Is it not like our situation with the flu?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/covid-booster-shots-coronavi...

The news of this new study just came out today. Give the guy a break.
> Transferring USD is cheap and easy, but transferring BTC isn't expensive either.

I disagree, the sticker price at the moment looks cheap but only because the majority of a transaction cost is socialized in block reward. To look at the actual cost of a transaction you need to sum the direct fees and the socialized fees. After all, the socialized fees are going away over time, so either users will have to pay directly or be subject to a less secure network.

An average block of 2000 transactions costs 6.25 BTC ($225,000) in indirect subsidies plus about $16,000 in direct costs. This means an average transaction costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $120.

At $120, you could probably just overnight a gold bar via FedEx.

This is dramatically higher than competitive solutions.

> Losing your wallet is another concept not related to storability: you can also lose a gold coin or a $100 bill

Yes, but losing a few billion dollars worth is exponentially harder. I would argue that over time your risk of losing all your coins in a step function approaches 100%. Even though it's step, on average it represents a negative storability/durability.

As the total quantity in circulation drops the entire supply could be seen as "rotting."
Under GPLv2 I could make a device with GPLv2 software and maintain root of trust control of that device if I wanted (ie, do an anti-theft activation lock process, do a lease ownership option of $200/month vs $10K to buy etc).

Think what you will, but your lies about the GPLv3 can easily be tested. Can you point me to some GPLv3 software in the Apple tech stack?

We actually already know the answer.

Apple had to drop Samba (they were a MAJOR end user use of Samba) because of GPLv3

I think they also moved away from GCC for LLVM.

In fact - they've probably purged at least 15 packages I'm aware of and I'm aware of NO GPLv3 packages being included.

Not sure what their App Store story is - but I wouldn't be surprised if they were careful there too.

Oh - this is all lies and apple's lawyers are wrong? Come one - I'm aware of many other companies that absolutely will not ship GPLv3 software for this reason.

In fact, by 2011 even it was clear that GPLv3 is not really workable in a lot of contexts and alternatives like MIT became more popular.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Apple geared up to fight DOJ over maintaining root control of devices (San Bernadino case).

Even Ubuntu has had to deal with this - SFLC made it clear that if some distributor messed things up ubuntu would have to release their keys, which is why they ended up with a MICROSOFT (!) solution.

"Ubuntu wishes to ensure that users can boot any operating system they like and run any software they want. Their concern is that the GPLv3 makes provisions by which the FSF could, in this case as the owner of GRUB2, deem that a machine that won't let them replace GRUB2 with something else is in violation of the GPLv3. At that point, they can demand that Ubuntu surrender its encryption keys used to provide secure bootloader verification--which then allows anyone to sign any bootloader they want, thus negating any security features you could leverage out of the bootloader (for example, intentionally instructing it to boot only signed code--keeping the chain trusted, rather than booting a foreign OS as is the option)." - commentator on this topic.

It's just interesting to me that rather than any substance the folks arguing for GPLv3 reach for name calling type responses.
> you cannot selectively use mtu's depending on routes

You absolutely can. Assume a single network port on the server.

On BSD, it looks something like this:

ifconfig foo 10.x.y.z/24 mtu 9000

route add default 10.x.y.1 -mtu 1500

route add 10.0.0.0/8 10.x.y.1

Linux has a mss attribute on routes which should work similarly.

Roll your own IPV6 version, but radvd can sort of maybe offer network routes I think, so it might be slightly easier to config it that way.
Do you or 'natfriedman have authored any works in a public repository, so that we can judge the validity of the pragmatic view?
Yep, absolutely agreed. Fire hosing out infrastructure that you didn't take the time to learn and understand properly is a recipe for a disaster. I think humility is crucial, you need to understand what you know and what you don't know and be open to the unknown unknowns as well. Being a part of great complimentary teams will also help a ton. If you're junior, you probably shouldn't be designing massively complex infrastructure or dev projects. But if you work with a more senior person that lays out the plan for the infrastructure or project, then you do the work for that project while being shepherded by that senior engineer, it is an incredible learning experience.