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Just to clarify, I brought up the gaming industry to highlight the nuance of the discussion and am in no way advocating for bashing it.

As you have articulated, innovation tends to manifest when humans spend their attention on things that also further drive the demand for their attention.

The point being that the context here is significantly more gray than black / white.
That preprint is not an RCT. The study I cited is an RCT. And the RCT shows no effect on deaths.

And yes, it does show a dramatic effect on infections and serious illness. This is great, and we should shout it from the rooftops! But a journalist writing that vaccines are the reason Covid mortality will drop 90% is projecting, not reporting facts.
> I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs.

I'm guessing that's because you didn't watch the show while it was airing. The music in Daria originally came from what was new and popular at the time episodes aired. The show's soundtrack was essentially the same as the viewer's day to day soundtrack. You could hear a new song on MTV, maybe spending hours watching MTV just waiting for the song to come back on, and then suddenly the song you've been listening to and listening for all week would turn up in an episode. It wasn't that the songs they used were directly relevant to the story in the episode, rather that the songs were directly relevant to the lives of the viewers. It was something that didn't (and really couldn't) happen anywhere else but because MTV had the access to the music they could pull it off.

Also, if you've mostly only seen the DVDs with generic music you might not realize how good the original soundtrack was. Many many songs used in the show are simply amazing. If you were an avid MTV watcher at the time, watching the show years later with the original soundtrack would bring back many old favorites. You can still find playlists of the original soundtrack at least so if you haven't had the pleasure I'd recommend checking them out.
> Liquids like mineral oil, etc to be the cooling agent yet it never gains measured adoption.

I've never seen a serious attempt to do mineral oil cooling outside of funny gag setups. It was never really pitched as a future of cooling. There's other attempts at other liquids for submersion cooling, but that always seems like a bit of a stretch.

Beyond that, liquid cooling has taken over. That Hitachi post, for example, seems to be about AIOs which are now very common on desktops with the AIO market exploding over the last ~5 years. Nearly every laptop also employs a form of "liquid cooling" these days with either heatpipes or vapor chambers.

As for "what makes this time different" for the datacenter, well heat density continues to rise. >100 CPU cores per 2U rack are trivial to achieve now, and more are readily plausible. GPU accelerators are also more common than ever, and are pushing staggering power draws (like the 8x 400W NVIDIA A100 in a single 4U chasis the article talks about). You can keep spending more power on fans, but there's diminishing returns there not to mention the power consumption of the fans themselves becomes non-trivial.
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> This claim does not appear to be grounded in any factual basis

No factual basis in that paper but you seem to be saying "no factual basis at all" which is flat-out wrong, indeed basing such a claim on one paper is disingenuous: Absence of evidence in 1 chosen paper is not evidence of absence in general.

You only have to compare the linkage between cases and deaths in UK waves 1 and 2, with the much lower level of deaths for comparable numbers of cases in wave 3, to see the "much, much smaller death toll" staring you in the face.

Your chosen paper is also largely irrelevant before we even get there; it's about mRNA vaccines, whereas the UK's program has leaned heavily on AZ, which is not.
Data toolmakers and the larger data community have long been reclaiming water terms to refer to products, services, actions, and concepts.

I wrote a post, gathering a list of fifty-three terms shared between the two domains. Please take a look and let me know if there is anything missing.
What the actual...?

One would hope the cops at least apologized for nearly destroying your front door all because you didn't answer the door. It's not like they had a warrant for your arrest or something!
Some fellows named Berlin and Kay put forward a colour term development hypothesis/theory:

> Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969; ISBN 1-57586-162-3) is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berlin and Kay's work proposed that the basic color terms in a culture, such as black, brown, or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has. All cultures have terms for black/dark and white/bright. If a culture has three color terms, the third is red. If a culture has four, it has either yellow or green.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...
> the directions said to code as you would professionally, and that means I should comment my work.

Were this a "professional" component/service, in perhaps the majority of situations today, he'd probably separate his docs into two kinds of documentation: the committed interface/API what, and the internal maintenance how.

The docstring for `print-translations`, for example, conflate these two kinds.

Incidentally, by 2000, Java had emphasized reuse API documentation for a few years, with how it presented Javadoc for both the core Java API and layered development, from the start.

By contrast, Lisp environments that exposed docstrings in IDE hypertext, like Emacs did, did some doc things better than Java for decades before, and are still really well-suited to army-of-one genetically-enhanced supersoldier Lisp hackers.

Enterprise development, SaaSes, microservices, large systems with multiple teams, etc., were arguably better off heading in the more software engineering direction that Java was going.

(Which is not to say that Lisps can't do the what&how docs separation. I've done a few embedded API docs things for Scheme and Racket that initially were inspired by Javadoc, Perl, and some of the less-commonly-used embedded docs setups for other languages. And have worked on a couple large Lisp systems that arguably wouldn't have been possible in a language without some of the Lisp family's other still-unusual strengths, nor without the highly-skilled developers that Lisps seem to attract disproportionately.)
> Since when is Texas a pejorative?

Alberta is Canada's biggest oil producing region similar to Texas. I do not think it was meant as a pejorative.
> Nice post, thanks. I am always astonished by the amount of detail that a backyard photographer can achieve.

Not only that, but you can achieve some pretty nice results with just a DSLR or mirrorless camera, a remote trigger, and a tripod. Literally just aiming the camera at something and opening the shutter for a few minutes can get you results that, while they aren't going to be on par with some of the images linked here, are definitely going to be pretty cool looking. A lot of the tricks of the trade are really post-production techniques, rather than shooting techniques.

Sky & Telescope says it better than I do, but, the TL;DR of this comment is "you don't need a lot of equipment, and it's not hard to get started."

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/deep-sky-wit...
Which privacy implications?
The wikipedia article for it is actually quite informative and not hard to read for the layperson. https://lmwtfy.joe.gl/?q=wireguard

Also Ars had a great article on it as well if you want a readable but more in depth version https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review...
The title isn't quite correct, their last death was July 24 according to the stats at worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden
https://archive.is/zgrGB
Not sure that gonna work.

Operating systems abstract away hardware differences, and providing portable APIs to userspace processes. Internally, OS kernels are spending non-trivial complexity dealing with random hardware shenanigans. Can't unit test them.
Dollar General is not a dollar store any more than Target is a target store.
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> I'm pretty sure that this was a criticism of NPM rather than of any language.

> You’re expected to know how to program if you use lisp.

Why would they say this if they weren’t implying that NPM users can’t program?

> I could understand logs and secrets management (if it's what I think you mean by that), but how do the other things relate to the language?

They don’t, not directly. But it’s the community for that language that makes and supports these things, and comparisons between these communities (and the libraries they share) is a fair area of analysis.

> Except for retries which I would have thought were much better integrated into CL then they could be in Java, given resumable conditions.

They could, but they have not to my knowledge. In my opinion the language’s capability is far less important than a community that values creating and maintaining these libraries.

(I also think functional programming aficionados drastically underrate how much Java has changed. There are still issues I personally whine about, but they’ve fixed a lot of warts since the 1.6 days)

Retries in particular are one of those things that seem obviously standalone, but are not. Having my retries automatically expose micrometer counters has been a godsend for monitoring. I’d like to see them automatically expose opentracing information too, which is an obvious area of opportunity for r4j.

> Is this a thing that something like asdf-system-connections would solve in Lisp?

The technical ability to make libraries auto-configure together is meaningless if the community doesn’t have the will to take regular advantage of it.

Frankly, Java the language is incredibly weak for this kind of stuff, yet the Java community is busy doing it anyways. I’ll remain unimpressed by interoperability improvements to CL so long as the culture of “roll your own libraries!” remains in place.
This would most likely be due to the vaccines, no?
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As far as I know, long covid is directly related to how sick you get. you hear all these stories of people being bed bound for a week or more, high fever, struggling to breathe, etc etc.

I'd think it sounds quite a lot like those people were really rather ill. I don't think people should expect to go back to running marathons or whatever a week after fighting to survive

It's the same for flu and other major viral infections. It can take a while to get back to full health - I don't think covid is anything new here? Just the usual "you almost died"?
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I have a rule when in pubs - no Googling answers to the inane argument. Inane arguments in pubs aren’t about getting the right answer, they’re about the tangents you end up going down from them, something that’s lost if you can just immediately get the answer.
I like to run, but take the phone with me because it's my tracking device and music while running. I've been trying "do not disturb" mode, and it seems to be a positive. I don't get intermittent notifications that someone is trying to reach me - I don't want to be reached right now. The DND mode has probably been around for a while, I've just recently (last few months) gotten used to actually enabling it. What will be nicer is (eventually) have the device learn the times you don't want to be disturbed (beyond 'sleeping'). Or perhaps I'll just leave it on all the time....?
> This is not a common experience. Brand new hardware is especially problematic, but at least much of it tends to get supported eventually.

Can we actually make that assertion? For the most part, we hear of problems because people are trying to deal with those problems. Only a handful of people will pipe up to say everything worked for them, and it will usually appear in conversations like this one rather than being self-initiated.

I am in the everything-works-for-me camp. In the past, I could have attributed that to avoiding iffy types of hardware and sticking to vendors that usually have well supported hardware (either by the vendor or by the community). That being said, I've had to go out on a limb a few times due to the events of the past year. Each of those hardware purchases could have resulted in switching to Windows. None of them did.

It all leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth about these anti-Linux rants. Are these people who have had a bit of bad luck, and think it's representative? Or are these people who are actively looking for problems to gripe about? I mean, it is possible that I have been lucky. I just find it difficult to believe that I have been lucky for a quarter century. I also suppose that it is possible that I have some sort of gut instinct about what hardware will be supported, but it would be just that. I rarely put much thought into my purchases beyond whether I need it.
I'm going to push back on that a little bit.

I think that climate change denial is one of many ways the GOP has sold its soul in the past 20 years, but the Democratic party takes it as axiomatic that certain climate change interventions are less harmful than climate change itself.

We can reasonably quantify flooding of coastal real-estate, but that is likely to be only a small fraction of the effects. So the overall picture of climate change looks like a giant pile of risk, rather than a clear outcome. The Democratic party has come to a consensus that the best way to treat the giant pile of risk is to treat the cost of allowing it to continue as approximately infinity.

50 years ago it was widely agreed upon that the US (and possibly humanity) faced an existential threat from thermonuclear war. Some people argued that unilateral disarmament was the best solution, but there were other points of view as well.

I would love a world in which the GOP were arguing about which climate-change interventions are not worth it rather than one in which the GOP just pretends that it's not happening (or not related to CO2 emissions).

FWIW The Democratic Party has its own blind spots on policy outcomes with regards to scientific consensus e.g. when it comes to affordable housing. Perhaps the stakes are higher when it comes to climate change, but the number of times I have heard a Democratic politician say "Supply and demand does not apply to X" without any evidence of that is rather mind-boggling.
2c: in most cases, a Postgres index is (performance wise) identical to a "real column" just without the name, and indeed you have more control over the data structure for an index, and indexes can include lossy compression (e.g. partial indexes) unlike a real column...

(obviously, the challenge is getting pg to use your index for a given query... for that, I like to use VIEWs to help query authors write queries that use the indexes)
I don’t follow the logical leap. It’s clear the paper doesn’t demonstrate a difference, you’re right.

I do think it’s disingenuous to say that the vaccine categorically doesn’t prevent deaths, if it can prevent infections that would lead to deaths, that’s a good outcome. Additionally, the real world performance in the general population is showing a massive divergence in deaths and cases in elderly populations after the coverage of vaccines. That may be from some other variable and not vaccines, but I’m not sure that I would be able to suggest an alternative cause.
Take YouTube. There is one of it. PeerTube, however, could potentially encompass all video-hosting sites.
Apple has a vastly bigger market cap than $1t.
Because if I don't control the population things will get ugly... overpopulation will bring disease and conflict and much greater suffering than killing. I try to control the population first by taking eggs, but the hens get very unhappy if I take all eggs, so we always leave 3 or 4. That's enough for the population to climb pretty quickly.

Also I don't know that your "killing only when necessary for survival" is really a tenable argument. When exactly is it necessary for my survival? When there's a deadly pit-viper in the house, should I kill it for my survival? For our dogs survival (they are at greater risk because they think its their job to attack the snake)? I generally don't kill it, I capture the snake alive and take it away, at not inconsiderable risk to my life. I think that killing to maintain a well-functioning ecosystem is more ethical than a somewhat vague "killing to survive".
Without time for a study, wouldn’t it make sense to assume the most common thing, that a natural infection provides more immunity than the vaccine? Taking the line of reasoning where we assume the worst case scenario until proven otherwise, would it be reasonable to assume long term medical issues from the vaccinations?
If I had to guess (and maybe I shouldnt be speaking as I didnt downvote), its a combination of "It's time to stop with fear, uncertainty and doubt, and deal with facts" followed by unsubstantiated "compelling evidence that children are at greater risk from the vaccines than the virus."

The "time to stop with fear" and to stop catering to "anxious adults" can equally apply to this persons crusade to not vaccinate children. A mild mannered moderate can both not be scared of their children having a severe covid reaction AND get their child a jab when its available, if risk assessment reveals there to be benefit.
Yes, I am gonna reinstall wireguard on my raspberry pi again. This is amazing news.
And I will try and getting my windows server ryzen pc to be a router so I can benchmark all four configs.
> Proof of work failing does not equal Bitcoin failing.

Ok, so what would equal bitcoin failing? Or is bitcoin just defined to be a success a priori?

> There are many methods of reaching consensus available in the toolbox

Are you saying that someone will come out with some new code that reuses the bitcoin blockchain, but has different characteristics?

If so then I would say there are already plenty of examples: bitcoin cash, zcash, etc. etc.

Are these altcoins really substitutes for bitcoin? Why should we expect your new altcoin that's banged out under duress to perform better than bitcoin cash has in terms of maintaining value? And even if it does, nothing prevents me from 51% attacking that one, too.

> There are many variations...

Sure, and there are already tons of altcoins putting those variations to the test. So far none of them are in the same universe as bitcoin. Also, every one of them that I have seen relies on economic incentives for security. Economic incentives are not a restraint for an entity that prints the world reserve currency.

> Good luck attacking a proof of stake hybrid that requires owning 50% of the supply, when the majority of the supply is already issued and is not available for sale.

If it's really true that there is no market for the majority of coins in a POS network then I would say that this is not a decentralized network anymore, and you are making a very strong claim when you assert that this coin will be able to serve the same purpose as bitcoin currently does. This coin is basically launched with a built-in 51% attack by design, locked in by the majority owners. It's really not so different from a CBDC.

On the other hand, if there is a market for coins in your POS world, the Fed will just buy them all. They can offer 10x, 100x, 1000x what anyone else will pay, it costs them nothing.

Finally, this is all kind of irrelevant to the article. The article merely lays out how the Fed could destroy bitcoin, not some imaginary future thing we might or might not be able to invent after the Fed 51%s actual bitcoin to oblivion.

I would give you 1,000,000 to 1 odds that 24 hours of no transactions on the bitcoin blockchain, nobody able to buy or sell bitcoin, would crash the price of bitcoin forever. What kind of person would pay $40k for such a thing. Anyone who did spend $40k of fiat to buy their bitcoin would then be out of luck, busted. That stings, and people remember the pain.

> After a few trillion dollar expended on failed attacks, the currency being issued will be debased enough to be noticeable by consumers, this "infinite money printed" argument is not thought through.

How long have the sound money people been making this tired argument? At least 50 years since Nixon put the final nail in the gold standard's coffin, but really even before that. Thought through or not, if you have been betting on the demise of fiat you've been on the losing side. After a long track record of being wrong, eventually you need to bring forth some compelling evidence that this time really is different, and I just don't see any.

As an aside, I like how weird the recursive quoting is between our two comments here, LOL.
This is one of the I like about Linux, as well. One of the pain points in the past, however, was printing, but since 2010 every printer I've owned supported IPP Everywhere[1] driverless printing that works flawlessly on Linux. Even the Brother and HP printers that had their own Linux drivers did, too. AirPrint also works on Linux.

[1] https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html
> There's a lot of evidence about what worked what didn't work

If that was true why can I take the population adjusted graphs for any interesting statistic, overlay several countries or states, and see the shape of them all is basically the same?

I would assert that for any of these non-pharmaceutical interventions to have been worthwhile the effect on such charts should be absolutely noticeable to any layman on the street. If you need PhD level math to tell a country who "did it right" apart from a country who "did it wrong"... it probably means that it wasn't worth "doing right".
That works fine if you’re only building for Linux. If, however, you want to run on BSD, you need something like autotools.