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It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright death
It depends. `QueryInfo` is a struct of `std::time::Instant` and `usize`, which makes it 24 bytes on x86_64 Linux for example. So the `Store` type that contains it will become 64 Ki * 24B = 1.5 MiB larger, which will break if the `Store` is held on the stack in systems with small-enough thread stacks. In particular, the default stack size on Windows for the main thread is 1 MiB.
You educate people on the risks of covid, tell them how it spreads and let the individuals and families decide what level of precautions they feel are appropriate.

Grandma only has a few years left… they wanna see their grandkids. My daughters grandparents would rather die of covid than not be able to hug and interact with their grandchildren. Who the hell is the state or some blowhard health “expert” to deny them that?
Safe programming languages solve the easy problems: memory leaks, use-after-free errors, array overruns, etc.

At least with visual studio I agree these are trivial to check for and solve.
Casting those who have a higher risk threshold than you as "only considering individual risk", while the other, better people also consider others ... yeah, that's helpful.
A lot of these price differentials seem to be marketing ploys more than marginal costs realities (and/or bad amortization of [misspent hydrogen esp.] R&D funds or catch-up factory retooling costs). Chevy's Bolt for whatever reason is still marketed as "more luxury" than Chevy's Spark and comparing the base model Bolt to the base model Spark missing some configuration you'd need to get it closer to a similar base package. Chevy/GM here is teasing a mixup of things in the 2023 model year so I definitely agree that late 2022 is probably going to be really interesting for a lot of reasons when it comes to EVs (as Chevy is the big US manufacturer next most likely to feel like they've finished amortizing R&D costs across EV lines).

Meanwhile Ford is definitely playing catch up and the Electric F-150 seems like it's charging for all of the above ("luxury base package", R&D costs from too many years in the hydrogen wilderness, "new and innovative" model retooling costs, etc). (Ford's an interesting dark horse in the 2022/2023 statements crowd. I think they are hedging too many bets right now, and playing way to conservatively. Current estimates are that if they got their head in the game and cut the Electric F-150 base price in half they'd dominate the US market very quickly, and there's some sentiment that if they weren't playing dumb amortization games with themselves and very easily created a less luxury package base model they are possibly in a position to do exactly that. Based on current estimates of true marginal costs.)

The part that I find most interesting is that Chinese manufacturers with no ICE legacy are building cheaper cars than everyone else right now and it is amazing to watch. There are sub-$1000 cars on Alibaba today! Those sub-$1000 cars might not be strongly interesting to US market preferences right now (where "big" and "truck-like" dominate perhaps way too much), but if it is an early warning sign that the margin wars in EVs are about to get started then it is a really exciting and encouraging one.
This is the frontier of knowledge. By definition, things that theoretical physicists themselves barely understand.

For instance, this physicist reportedly "Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox". If true (I presume it is), this implies that other physicists before her didn't understand the black hole paradox all that well!

It also implies that you'll never get a crystal clear understanding of it from reading popular science.
I understand where this is coming from. But this kind of early decision making can hurt the growth and adoption of projects.

Think of it as Apple making a bunch of decisions for themselves and their users and it keeping problematic for future adoption.

The spirit of open source is voluntary participation and openness to all platforms and ideas. Though I cannot understand the distinction behind TLS and STARTTLS , I don’t think locking in one option will make it all that better.
Jabber has almost completely solved this. TFA mentions how and notes the two places that have in-progress XEPs for improving (there's a race with MAC/Carbons where you have to either risk duplicate messages or dropping; current recommendation is to do the former and check for dupe).

On top of this, by far the best client I've used for XMPP is Android-only (Conversations.im). I have no problem using Gajim on my desktop and Conversations on my phone, and I have an SMS/MMS bridge (jmp.chat) that lets me send even to people without jabber from it. Multi-device and mobile is the one place where XMPP is ahead of 99% of the other messages, and it works similarly well to Matrix in my limited experience with Matrix.
Medicare pays $40 per dose, no matter the vaccine[0].

[0]https://www.cms.gov/medicare/covid-19/medicare-covid-19-vacc...
I'm in a phase 3 study in Canada for a not-yet-approved vaccine called Medicago. It was a crossover study where you would either get the vaccine now or later, but there were some administrative issues with the second half of it. Between the delays associated with that and the sooner-than-expected availability of the mRNA vaccines in Canada, they ended up agreeing to unblind everyone with the thought that anyone who was in the placebo-first group would drop out and get an approved vaccine.

Those of us who got that vaccine first were encouraged to remain in, though, which I did. Though that may change depending on mandate/passport stuff, since for official purposes, I'm still considered unvaccinated. There have been a number of other issues like this that have come up, for example:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/08/13/vaccine-passp...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/covid-1...
This idea in physics that information is conserved, neither created nor destroyed, just transformed seems awfully similar to a computer to me. A classical computer is not the right metaphor really when you think of the universe as a possible computational process, but the parallels are striking to me.
This has nothing to do with the GP's comment, which was about local scripting (replacing "shell scripts and Java")
This is sadly somewhat correct. The power is have in the real world is about the same but the illusion of power in the real world is higher.
Author here. Yes, Movim is a great project! The Movim author has indeed contributed to the Modern XMPP documentation.

As one of the other commenters pointed out, most of the current docs here are aimed at a particular use-case of XMPP, which I tend to call "personal messaging".

I think the Modern XMPP project is just about growing to the point where it will make sense to potentially split some of the recommendations into different "profiles", so you would have a "social" profile of XMPP which Movim sits squarely in.

I'm excited that the XMPP-ActivityPub gateway will enable Movim joining the Fediverse ecosystem (Mastodon, etc.).: https://www.goffi.org/b/activitypub-gateway-and-pubsub-e2ee-...

Finally, regarding server support, Movim has always been pushing at the edge of XMPP, which is great. It certainly led to improvements in Prosody (the server implementation I work on) since you tried it in 2015, so it may well be worth another try. I don't personally use it myself (yet?), but probably someone from the Movim community could give advice.
Less than a year after this was published, Tencent released the Magellan series of sqlite RCEs.

I think this is a fine page and it is eminently reasonable that sqlite remains a C codebase. In particular, I think he's right that rewriting sqlite in a memory-safe language would introduce a bunch of bugs and likely result in a couple of years of instability.

But the "security" paragraphs in this page do the rest of the argument a disservice. The fact is, C is a demonstrable security liability for sqlite. The real position of the project is that memory safety security vulnerabilities are an acceptable tradeoff for an otherwise reliable database engine; in practice, people will deal with the exposure either by treating it as an externality (ie: baking sqlite into products where it is directly exposed as part of attack surface, and then throwing up their hands and issuing patches when RCEs are discovered) or by carefully positioning sqlite so it isn't a meaningful part of the attack surface.

Both of these approaches are suboptimal --- that's why we call them "tradeoffs" --- and it is the case that if you held everything else equal (and you can't, but bear with me), sqlite would be a better piece of software written in, I guess, Rust; memory corruption wouldn't be one of the problems you need to consider (or blow off uncomfortably).

Again: the argument as a whole, and this page --- fine! I use and like sqlite.
That's always a concern, though. Node has breaking changes, too.
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Its totally healthy to both believe that the vaccine makes sense for you, and still respect, love, include, and accomodate people who decide it isn't right for them. We're all different, and the world is very complicated; that's what makes life so awesome.
Maybe the author was intending it as a PSA. I certainly learned how to brake better by reading what he linked to.
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That is, to me, the crux of this issue.

In a lot of ways I don't care whether somebody accepts evolution or not. People get away with disbelieving because it largely doesn't matter. It would make you a crummy biologist, and not a great doctor, but most people don't actually need to accept evolution in their daily lives. It gets aggravating when such people try to mis-educate people in schools, but that's the worst of it.

Except that creationism seems to have been a kind of test-bed for anti-intellectualism. They learned tactics for getting people to place their ill-informed opinions over expertise any time it suited them. Failing to understand evolution doesn't kill people, but failing to understand epidemiology and virology does.

They don't need to understand it, but they do need to believe medical experts who say things like "get vaccinated" and "wear masks". Instead, people are handed a litany of tools telling them that the experts are wrong and they're right, and it's literally killing people.

The same toolkit is being used on climate change, and lots of other issues. This is far past serious differences of opinion or values. It's cases where they're Just Plain Wrong, and not just a fringe but a large majority supported by the leadership.

I'd really like to get back to arguing about legitimate differences of opinion, but it feels like that hasn't been an option for decades. Instead we're fighting about basic facts, no matter how obvious or overwhelming the evidence.
Triangles are used by game engines for good reason. Hexagonal cannot be mapped without discontinuities. Equilateral triangles are not necessary.

I've done finite element models, but they were pretty unsophisticated.
> The fact that so many people are getting CS degrees and yet can't even FizzBuzz is alarming.

CS contains more disciplines than just software engineering. Some people get into CS but have no interest/knack for coding: it just doesn't "click" for them the way it does for others, and they will fallback to rote memorization/copy-pasting from StackOverflow to scrape over the line.

I did Calculus 1 & 2 as part of my CS; but today, I don't think I'd be able to solve the FizzBuzz of Calculus, Linear Algebra, (or even the finer points of OS process schedulers if I'm being completely honest). I'd be alarmed if Software Engineering graduates weren't able to solve FizzBuzz
I think:

You’re not catching covid in situations where you’d typically wear a mask (regardless of masking), rather where you typical don’t wear a mask, like from family member.

I’m not really saying I agree, but I think that is the context.
> I also remember when developers that only knew and used Bootstrap started appearing.

They're called "new" developers. They don't have the same skillset of "experienced" developers. Luckily, "new" developers become "experienced" over time.
This is really cool and this is the kind of startup I'd be applying to in a heartbeat! Very excited to see this happening, great work! I feel like there is vastly more potential for LTA flight that isn't being re-explored with autonomous drones and solar being viable now.

What altitudes do you intend on operating in the "v1"?
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Critically, this is all pre-Delta. It seems common sense to me that kids should wear masks at school, and I don't think we have science that can dispute that common sense at this point.

Of course, the problem is, and always has been with COVID, that my common sense is different from yours and vice versa...
That's an interesting point of view. If we know the rate of an event's outcome, in aggregate, is X, why is it important to know if A * B * C = X, or to know A/B/C at all? Totally sincere - I don't know if I'm missing something.

Imagine we're bottling soda in plastic bottles. There's an X% chance that a bottle explodes during the process. We also know if we over-fill a plastic bottle with CO2 the start it makes it slightly more elastic, and empirically it reduces that rate by Y%. We're not really sure why they were exploding, but we know that stretching them works.

Do you care about the other parts of the bottling process?
How hard would it be to do it in associates degree time?
So how do you feel about the large number of unvaccinated African-Americans in the US?
> Or just reverse their stupid ass USB protocol

My point is that gets a bit tedious for sufficiently large number of stupid ass USB devices. You might want a simpler to automate approach, and possibly something where you don't have to deal with binary driver signing yourself, which is rather expensive if you are doing this for a hobby.

> No legal threats with that, because RE for interoperability is legal.

The local copyright law where I live agrees with that assessment. I take it you did the necessary research for wherever you live?

But what if your reverse engineered driver infringes one of their stupid ass patents? What about trademarks (e.g. if you try to advertise it as a replacement for the official device driver)?

You do know that even if you are totally in the right, that does not necessarily stop them from suing you anyway? Regardless of who is actually right, this will end up costing you a lot of time, money and nerves.

I'd be very careful making legal assessments like that as an engineer. Responding to a legal threat totally unprepared and with a response like that will make the "sue you anyway" scenario very likely.
Plenty of people said on day 1 that this was very similar to the 1918 pandemic, which resulted in the "seasonal flu". It wouldn't be crazy for the same thing to happen here.
Is this just for clients, or for servers as well? If it's for servers also, I guess that's a question of what you want this to be then. Is it a descriptive document that says "this is what Modern XMPP looks like as we see it in the wold" or a prescriptive document that says "This is what you need to do to be a modern XMPP deployment so we can fix some problems of the past".

Maybe one way that might look is user clients that probe, but when defining how servers should act, there's a "one true way" unless they aren't adhering to Modern XMPP spec or best practices. Changes like this need a push from outside or they never happen, and someone just being able to point at a spec and say "look, you aren't compliant with Modern XMPP, the world has moved on from what you're doing" is incredibly useful in spurring change.

I agree it doesn't necessarily make sense for a client options perspective, but it might be a good principle to adopt or consider for other aspects of the document. If you want to actually push things forward, I think it's very useful way to do so.
My favorites are the articles about a new math discovery...no clue...but I like cheering for them!
Also see TextEncoder or WebAssembly which shows the version support of Node.js and others

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoder...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly#browser...
The "ICU beds full" keeps getting parroted everywhere but is patently false. The rest of your post is the same alarmist nonsense that has kept everyone in an unnecessary state of anxiety for the last 16 months.
How is "the science here is still uncertain" an argument against masks in schools?

If it turns out they are useful, wearing them will have been a good idea.

If it turns out that they weren't useful, what harm has been caused?

(I'm aware that there are people out there who think wearing masks for a year or two will scar children for life, but for the most part I don't think those people are arguing in good faith. The biggest harm I see is to children with hearing problems who are prevented from lip reading.)
It's an impossible question for me to answer b/c I don't have any knowledge whatsoever of what was going on at the time. But I think the question is worth pondering for people because it may help people realize if they have politics clouding their thinking here. Not saying everyone with your opinion has their thinking clouded because of politics, but I think many do.
I'd suggest using the original article title. [Edit, it's been updated]

Still have to read the article. It's great to see people exploring this. From the first "language models are unsupervised multitask learners" type papers, i wish there had been more emphasis that the various behaviors these models have are essentially a side effect of learning some kind of self supervision task. A model has been trained to e.g. predict the next word given previous words, and we're happy to discover that it can be repurposed as a chatbot. And then people find the chatbot has some undesirable behaviors, and talk about fairness and governance and all that. When the basic point is the model was never really trained to do any of that, its just a word predictor. Why did you ever think it would be OK to just let it run wild on some other task?

All that to say, a big problem in AI/ML is models getting used for things they have no business being used for, and them people being at best underwhelmed, or harmed or offended by the results. The first step should be asking why is this model suitable for making the prediction I'm asking it to, and I think closer scrutiny on what these "foundation models" actually do is a good direction.
Really loved Bootstrap when it came out, but nowadays the style and its way of doing things feel a bit dated. That said with the current (good) state of CSS in browsers you can build your own responsive designs without relying on a framework.

A negative effect of all these frameworks is that I work with more and more frontend devs that just don't know their way around (S)CSS, so if you throw them into a project that uses a framework they don't know or (gasp) hand-crafted CSS they are completely lost. Same thing with Javascript tooling btw, in a recent project a frontend dev wanted to rewrite the whole codebase because he was not familiar with Webpack and only knew vite (which is the new cool thing it seems), so he wasn't able to work with the existing code.
If you justify imposing authoritarian measures because of an emergency, what you get is the authoritarians creating a perpetual emergency.
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My understanding is that Delta is being spread more easily by children of school age
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How does/did a citizen make the decision of which police force to call?
No? If you check your own sources, you will find that this is precisely the type of case where a developer is using an O(n^2) algorithm out of ignorance when they should have been using a faster algorithm, and that the high load time was caused by this mistake. The time complexity for bubble sort is also O(n^2), compared to O(nlogn) for reasonable sort algorithms. I don't really understand how you take all this information and then conclude "no".
Interesting to think about, but I still don't see it making business sense for Tesla, even if they follow some crazy optimistic curve and take half the car market.

There are already multiple competing companies whose sole job is to make the best fabs at high production rates.

Tesla doesn't even make most of their batteries in-house, which is way more core to their business of EV manufacturing. They partner with Panasonic, LG, CATL, etc. because they are in the business of building out manufacturing capacity for battery cells.
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For official functions yes. As for trust, i trust my gov more than google
Data for hospitals that are over capacity in the US please. Should be easy to find since I'm apparently living in alternate reality.

https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

Additionally you need to provide a strategy that would stop this. Since apparently mass vaccination and locking down for nearly 2 years didn't help. Or you can keep supporting the same thing and hoping for different results.
Pretty much the same. Arch support in particular would be a clear dealbreaker, I think.
unfortunately, it looks like for online degrees there's only masters (though they have other non-degree course)
Here he means universal healthcare. In Canada, private healthcare is de facto banned (details are complex but it's the effective outcome). The current CPC policy goal is to introduce private health care in addition to the public system, so that those with money can receive better care, but to maintain at least the bottom standard for everyone through the public system.

At least that's the idea... it is controversial as the original tweet indicates and many believe it'd be a slippery slope or that it will drain talent + resources from the (already overstretched) public health system.
Not at all; rather they were only in a position to intelligently stockpile due to the deep research into safely reducing inventory elsewhere.
Its a well know cliche at this point for pretty much every program to be rewritten in the "safe" language of Rust. But it makes sense for C++ be in there too, before it was the Rust people wanting to rewrite everything, it was the C++ people wanting to rewrite everything.
Trump was still president then, but the question was hypothetical. Would your answer change if he was re-elected?
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I might be wrong, but to me it was obvious they were making a tongue in cheek joke. It obviously wouldn’t end it faster.
Majority of murders are among people of same race and demographic. People kill those that are nearby and those they know.

So you have white on white killings too, despite that term being literally never used. Majority of murders are male on male killing, males both being same race. Then you have domestic murders and those are also people living close to each other.

Black on black murders don't get little attention. They are the kind of murder mentioned fairly often, most often when someone argue that cop violence is not issue.
> - Single executable: Write programs that run the same on Linux/Windows without forcing the user to download the entire universe like other runtime environments.

So how is this statement wrong for shell scripts? You can't write a shell script that "runs the same on Linux/Windows without forcing the user to download a runtime" because you can't write a shell script that runs on Linux/Windows.