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After much debate my company recently switched back to a monolithic architecture and it may be the greatest decision we've ever made.

It dramatically simplifies so many aspects of development, which means you can have developers working on more impactful features and you don't have to worry about create a meta structure for keeping things consistent across all your micro services which is one of the biggest benefits I didn't see mentioned in this article.

And in many systems with interdependent logic (which ours is), not duplicating data and not having micro services calling other micro services in loops become incredibly difficult things to avoid.

I highly recommend the monolith for anyone who is not trying to cope with epic scaling issues.

All hail the monolith!
At 81 pages, one did find oneself chuckling at the titled words “Simply Explained”.
Well, adding at least the "game" word would improve it.
I assumed it was going to be about systems programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_programming
> can't think of a nice way to visually distinguish it from the browser's chrome

i don't think it's about visual design. Having a signalling mechanism that lives outside of the dom is confusing to users, and alert is a rare exception from wayyyy back when. It looks like google is doing this for user security, and I support it.

I don't support the way they're going about it. If Mozilla and Microsoft and W3C are willing to get on board, I would greatly support it. But this is more throwing their weight around, and it sucks!

>existing web

i'm gonna be honest, i havent seen a meaningful alert be used in recent memory, and i work with a lot of web apps. All alert()s could be easily replaced with something inline. I'm not a huge fan of breaking changes, but this is one (with a multi year rollout) that I would support.
There are paid-for studies but the studies that aren't paid for don't seem to have a lot of predictive power either.
Did you print out the invoice to show for dramatic effect?
Having "undesirable" CTAs below viewport is definitely a tried and true dark pattern.
What about the expiry dates on all of the medication/food. You cannot just buy stuff in bulk and let it sit for 20 years waiting for the right time to use it.

I guess for food you can just use it as you go and just refill what you used occasionally and keeping high levels of supply. But for medication I don't see other option than throwing it away when it expires?
Everyone has to be vaccinated and we must all prove it to exist in society ( even people who had covid )? So, it isn't about herd immunity anymore? It isn't about stopping covid, but getting everyone the vaccine and forcing them to carry identification everywhere?

"It’s time for people to see vaccination as necessary to living a good and full and healthy life,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing."

That's what people were saying was going to happen more than a year ago and they were attacked for being conspiracy theorists...

Whatever happened to needing 60 or 70% of the people vaccinated to gain herd immunity and stop this pandemic?

So 100% vaccination, even for those who had covid and you must carry documentation/id at all times? Why now? Why for this disease? Especially considering the mortality rate is far lower than what was originally projected.

When the projections were 5%+, I can understand erring on the side of caution, but the mortality rate is lower than 1% last I checked. So odd.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more about vim mode in Xcode 13. Hoping it’ll massively improve over time!
I do not find it unreasonable that people who partake in high-risk activities or have high-risk lifestyles also contribute different amounts.

I am very much in favor of taxing cigarretes and unhealthy foods so that consumers pay for the externalities of their actions.
Considering that vaccinated people can still carry the virus, and very few of those services are mandatory to survive, the minority can still stay safe at home, and the others can decide by themselves if they're willing to risk it.
I just recall that Stronghold (2001) was being quite honest with that all you economic settling exploits are just there to bet taxed into oblivion to fuel your local feudal war machine.
Maybe try Algolia

https://hn.algolia.com/api
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His page on the Cambridge website, as well as his Twitter account, also use "Aleksandr". So far, there are multiple examples shared on this thread of him being referred to as Aleksandr and none of "Alex". Do you have _any_ source indicating that he prefers to go by the latter, let alone enough to conclude that there's a racist conspiracy afoot?

> It’s the same reason Fox News says “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” instead of the more common “AOC.”

Wouldn't you expect a news organization to use the full name for a politician instead of a colloquial term, regardless of how they feel about them? They don't say RBG either for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, despite the fact that Internet conversations use it heavily.

I know this is a radical viewpoint these days, but it turns out that not literally everything is about race.
Wegmans reusable bags are $1 a pop, so no one's eating the cost. Seems to be quite a decent reuse rate; I've got some several years old at this point.
Brewing coffee at home or in the office rather than driving to Starbucks is perhaps a better way. (Disregard for those who walk to Starbucks, but I suspect a lot more environmental impact happens driving to and idling in line at the drive-to Starbucks than from the cups.)
Most of these are intentional planned exploits carried out by outsourced creators that insert bugs. It’s a good point, but probably more preventable than observed.
> > we'd have to ring the "office manager" (ex-SAS)

That's when you ask "What colour is the boat house at Hereford?"
How could that possibly be better environmentally? You're introducing a great deal more commuting (remember, most of the US is not walkable, people aren't walking to coffee shops and their places of work) and idle time for vehicles. And if the shops are consuming a great deal of single-use resources it will produce more waste than making coffee at home, where most people have mugs.
I want a bra for my ket.
I don't know, but JS and PHP implicit conversions are widely acknowledged to cause plenty of issues, which Python and Ruby do not have since you have much fewer cases of implicit conversion.
People are still free to make their own choices. The government isn’t holding you down and jabbing your in the arm. What’s happening here is that you are not being allowed to engage in particular aspects of society based on your choices, the same way you are prohibited from smoking in certain areas, from entering a bar if you are under 18, or driving your car on the wrong side of the road. Human societies are a trade off in which you forfeit certain individual rights in exchange for collectivist benefits you wouldn’t have otherwise. You aren’t “opposing tyranny”, you are simply angry you aren’t being allowed to leech off of society.
Well, they could get one if they wanted but it takes a few extra steps. Namely, becoming a legal citizen.
Does anyone believe this will be expanded to grocery stores, pharmacies and other basic services come fall? My job is already close to pushing mandatory vaccination and I'm trying to decide whether I should pack up my things and leave?

30 year resident and heartbroken.
Good catch. I didn't fully reread it before posting. I was also unsure if the individual needles were still around, but the article says they'd have decayed after ~3 years, so it's just those few clumps that are relevant.
...and this is why the US does not and will not have universal health care.
Got a better source? This website contains misinformation.

https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/

> E) The facemask aerosol issue

> In the following video, Dr. Theodore Noel explains the facemask aerosol issue.

https://factcheck.afp.com/doctor-expired-license-falsely-cla...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/08/facebook-p...

the fact that we have accounts on here with large amounts of reputation reposting facebook-based misinformation does not give me faith that leaving these choices up to allegedly informed individuals is a good idea. as others have pointed out, 99.99% of people are in no way qualified to make such determinations.
> There is a lot of unemployment. This is also true for the paid and unpaid leaves btw, should we illegalise these?

If you are consistently taking leave because you puke your guts out every week from eating spoiled food, that wouldn't be much of an excuse for paid leave.

I find the same is true for those who choose not to vaccinate. I do not find that to be a reasonable risk profile to accommodate in a consequence-free manner.
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Considering a lot of vaccinated people can spread the virus, the immunocomprimised are already fscked, and should stay at home.

For everyone else, there are vaccines, or if they want, they can risk it without. Give priority to vaccinated patients, and you're done.
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It's the Huffington Post, so I can't believe what the reporter is saying.

To be fair, it's an opinion piece. But, with intentionally misleading statements like "I am angry that the tragic scenes of prior surges are being played out yet again, but now with ICUs primarily filled with patients who have chosen not to be vaccinated.", it's hard to keep the eyes from rolling out of their sockets.

I haven't heard of any ICU's being "filled", or hospital capacity being threatened like it was before a vaccine was made available. This doctor/writer is acting as though the threats to society/humanity are equal to a year ago, pre-vaccine. It may be true that most cases are with un-vaccinated people, but that's different than "the hospitals are filled".
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It's the local demographics that matter. I live in Brooklyn. I don't care what the vaccination rate is in the entire US, or NY state, and I'm hardly ever in Manhattan. I don't dine indoors because the vaccination rate in my neighborhood is 39%. And, while I'm probably not going to the hospital knowing that I might put one of my unvaccinated neighbors in there matters to me.
This is about a restriction NY is imposing on New Yorkers. The city and state I'm sure would welcome cooperation with other nearby states in developing a tri state area valid digital vaccine card.

But this isn't about other cities and states so this isn't relevant. States, just like countries, are allowed to impose their own laws so long as they don't encroach on rights and laws from the federal government.

Comity is a legal standard that neighboring states can choose to embrace.
Why people are so quick to blame to blame anti-vaxxers? The United States has millions of immigrants and visitors from other countries. Some go through official channels which require vaccinations, many do not.

According to the CDC, Measles is brought into the US by international travel:

Measles cases in the U.S. originate from international travel. Make sure you and your loved ones are protected against measles before international travel. [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/plan-for-travel.html
I'll tell my doctor friends who caught long covid trying to save peoples' lives you think this sort of thing is a crock of shit and they shouldn't feel frustrated and angry. They'll really appreciate that.
I can't get antidepressants partly because of these people. And partly because doctors think they know better than everyone else.

And also because they simply outright refuse to see me or they got too many patients.

Just let me sign a waiver so I can get my medication freely, I don't need any other healthcare (no point in fixing a broken leg when you're dead, right?)
It’s not that it’s “fine” for children to not be vaccinated, it’s that it is literally not possible to vaccinate anyone under 12 in the US right now legally.
There are HTML5 VNC clients. Although I'm not sure if they work on Ipads
A small cut on the skin is systemic?

What definition of the word systemic are we using?
Not the one person, the whole trend in the way we consume information and communicate with people. Obviously.
> You can't compare injecting a pathogen in someone's body to wearing clothes.

A vaccine is not a pathogen, a pathogen is a disease-causing agent, vaccines are not causing disease, they cause an immune response to prevent future disease.
On a similar note: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/04/fit-and-health...
This should be turned into a linerider map!
Yeah. Hardly any testing as in even with every single covid symptom you could not get a test depending on your age and prior conditions. Now, you can walk in to clinics with no wait and get a rapid test ASAP. It's very different.
Delta variant necessitates a higher level of herd immunity because it's so much more transmissible.

> Everyone has to be vaccinated and we must all prove it to exist in society ( even people who had covid )? So, it isn't about herd immunity anymore? It isn't about stopping covid, but getting everyone the vaccine and forcing them to carry identification everywhere?

No, it's very obviously about stopping covid. Don't be obtuse.
Don't you get the fact that there _is_ a trial is actually a key part of the problem?
Isn't that literally impossible, because there are so many different things that a subset of people need to avoid eating? e.g., if you have a nut allergy, your healthy diet can't include nuts; if you're lactose-intolerant your healthy diet shouldn't include lactose; if you have coeliac disease, your healthy diet can't include gluten; if you have IBS your healthy diet shouldn't include anything that triggers it (which is different per person); if you have diabetes (type 1 or 2) your healthy diet can't include sugar; etc., etc. And god forbid you have 2 or more dietary issues...

Plus different activity levels make different diets healthy - if you're a professional athlete needing 6,000+ calories per day, "healthy" for you is very different to healthy for me, who sits at their desk all day.

This isn't even accounting for personal preferences like being vegan, or religious restrictions.
That's a particularly fearful take on this article, which did not show that vaccines "led to the breeding of hotter and hotter strains":

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

What it showed is that when you take a group of chickens, infect them with multiple strains of different virulence at the same time, and partially protect all of them with a vaccine, the ones with the most severe infection live longer, which allows them to spread more of the most severe virus than they would otherwise.

Said differently: if you don't let the "bad" virus kill the hosts, it can spread more.

Well, sure.
Way back in 2006 I wrote a very detailed story about the battles that were raging around RSS. It's only history now, but I think it is both entertaining and educational. For anyone who might be interested:

RSS has been damaged by in-fighting among those who advocate for it

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-...
It's ~50 minutes away from central London by train from Euston station. It's a fantastic way to spend half a day away from London.
May I introduce you to the US Federal Government?
Yes, it is probably higher. The 980k figure also counts over 200k probable cases and probable deaths, so some of the untested are baked into the total figure.
> legally and ethically

The ethical complaint is that they accessed data without consent:

> "Facebook defended the action Wednesday, saying: "We repeatedly explained our privacy concerns to NYU, but their researchers ultimately chose not to address them and instead resumed scraping people's data and ads from our platform," a spokesman said."
See Florida for filled ICUs.
But if you're immunocompromised, you're fscked anyways, and should stay at home, because a lot of vaccinated people (~30+% with astrazeneca) can still get it, and even stay asymptomatic (so they spread it, but don't even know it, and noone tests them, because they're vaccinated).
to go a step further, anyone using time variables based on calendar periods should know better than to think the relative time of +1 month would be simple. I'm not sure it's the fault of using a simple name in this case.

I'm sure there could have been a lot better options to drive that point home, but the author picked one that I'm sure everyone has an opinion about. That seems like an effective way to get people talking about it, but it could be divisive in bad ways.

I'm a little put off by the other saying "a clean name shuts down our thinking", so maybe I'm just responding in disgust.
>Why would I pay ~$10k over 5 years for something that's similar to the laptop I'm typing on which costed me $700 used?

My guess is that this kind of financial inanity is being driven by accounting rules: CapX vs OpX, revenue recognition rules, etc...
I'm too junior to make decisions, but a lot of it basically came down to the organizations I have worked with all either being government or running things on quarters.

In the former case there was high turnover (replace the team in 1.5 years) and in the latter cases there was high turnover coupled with a problem more than a month away not being considered a problem. So in the former knowledge poured out the door and in the latter knowledge poured out the door and nobody had an interest in anything beyond the quarter, so you do what gets you to the next review cycle.

Basically in both cases the bomb does not matter as you either probably won't be there when it goes off or it doesn't matter as you miss your quarterly goal instead.
You shouldn't read editorials then, they're usually editorialized.

> Supposedly being a doctor gives you more credibility but only on vaccinations

We can drop the "supposedly" and vaccinations are what's being discussed.

The point is that an expert has watched people die because of irrational behavior on the part of anti-vaxxers. Not "to make you mad." You should try reading the article!
Pretty much anything, starting from IRC - it offered more functionality, from logging to scripting, but the general idea is the same.
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Bottom component looks like a patch panel.

Plenty of 10” kit about e.g. https://datacabinetsdirect.co.uk/soho-10-inch-data-network-r...

10” soho rack appears to be magic search phrase

I've see a rack similar to the in the article before and can't find it now, but one way to recreate would be to buy soemthing like this a use a 10” blanking plate instead of the 19” one https://www.amazon.com/Procraft-Desktop-System-Washers-DTR-1...

Lots of music gear shops sell desktop racks BTW
A relative of mine is buying into the vaccine conspiracies along with shitting on depression and other mental problems, and honestly, I wish they'd get a serious case of Covid or something.

These people don't learn until someone they know actually fucking dies.
I think a lot of people here are getting hung up on the associativity, or that the name is not fully descriptive.

But remember that this functionality exist ms is a library for operating on dates. It is clear to the user that values like "2 days" or "1 month" are intermediate values that cannot or should not be used as output. They need to be applied to an absolute date to become resolved and be useful.

The context, and real world experience with dates, makes this distinction obvious.

Side note: I created a similar library in the past. I struggled more with deciding if the clipping behaviour was even desirable than worrying about the naming, but that was merely due to the API I used. My function signature was `addMonths(v, 2)`, which eliminated ambiguity.
Thanks very much! Yes, agreed, the number of authenticator apps is becoming annoying at best and arguably daunting - not to mention the prevalence of "sign in with ___" which has left consumers confused about whether they've leveraged Google, Facebook, Apple, Xero, Github, Discord, etc for each service.
Several well researched articles on covid-19 can be found at https://swprs.org/contact/

It's not youtube/facebook/twitter "aproved material" but that's what Science is about, right? The marketplace of ideas? ;-)
I don't normally comment on sites' styling, but this one really needs some horizontal padding or margin
Los Angeles county, where the doctor who wrote the piece is based, currently is at 70% capacity for ICU. Which is not as bad as the last peak, when it was 93%, but is not great, and it's trending upward.

https://covidactnow.org/us/california-ca/county/los_angeles_...
I really don't understand the anti-vaxxers. I mean, OK, when the vaccine first came out, I could understand a small measure of hesitancy. Hell, I even said something to the effect of "I don't necessarily want to be first in line."

But at this point, the vaccines have been given to, what, billions of people? And the number of people who have suffered severe ramifications that can be attributed to a vaccine rounds to zero. And as far as "Well, we don't know the long-term effects" arguments go... OK, superficially that sounds reasonable. But there isn't, to the best of my knowledge, even a good theoretical explanation of how/why to expect any long-term effects. The vaccine itself is eliminated from your system in a few days if I understand correctly, leaving behind only anti-bodies manufactured by your body.

So yeah, I guess it's possible, in principle, that 3 years from now, or 10 years from now, or whatever, people that took the vaccine could start keeling over spontaneously, or growing third eyeballs in the center of their foreheads or something. But the odds of that happening seem way, way, way beyond even "ludicrously low". To my way of thinking, it "rounds to impossible". So I'd like to know why these folks think differently and apparently expect something bad to happen if they take the vaccine.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article253203288...
Not quite what you want but try this anyway. "You suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Like this example, where a frontline worker explains the dangers of going unvaccinated? How is that more dangerous than the pandemic that killed 600k and counting?
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> Any Rust code that goes low level liberally uses unsafe{} blocks

This isn't an accurate statement. Liberal use of unsafe is not common or best practice in Rust. My favorite educational series that shows how little unsafe is required to work in low-level spaces is Phil Opperman's, "Writing an OS in Rust": https://os.phil-opp.com/

That being said, I don't think most people use "Rust is safe" in an particular way that's different from saying Java is safe. Rust in many ways offers similar (and stronger) safety guarantees than Java (one of the safest langauges to date). Is Java safe? We all know that bugs can be created in every language, it's really the different classes of bugs that each language offers some defense against that sets them apart from each other.