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1. ~30 million confirmed (worldometer) recovered from covid. Some official estimates put that number closer to 100 million. Those individuals already have covid immunity and do not need to take a vaccine. All vaccines carry some risk, even if low. There is no reason for someone who already has covid immunity to take on the risk of a vaccine.

2. Guillain-Barre syndrome
> The kids weren't in danger, that appears to be changing very quickly with the new variant

Death rate for kids with new variant please?
You should stop buying non-standard compilant hardware then.
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Hey everyone.

Lot of talk about how the market is super hot right now for programmers with experience, was hoping we could share numbers and experiences with each other to get an accurate view of things, whether it's worth putting in the effort to find another job (for me, relearning algorithms).

So I make 145k a year, no equity, I'm the only developer in a small company that has has a software product. Live in a tax-free state in the US, not micromanaged, can take off for a couple hours in the day if I want to. Probably do 30 hours of dedicated work a week. Have ~7 years of experience, manage everything, backend, frontend, servers, etc.
Why is this unpopular.
I mean... great?

If the determining factor for whether my product was useful to you is what rendering engine it uses, you were not and will not ever be the target user anyways.

I don't make "social" apps, I'm not in the business of collecting users for the hell of it. Either I provide business value or I don't, and Electron has very little to do with the business value my customers get (although it certainly does accelerate new feature releases, and most of my customers like that).
I don't think it improves the co2 cost per watt versus nuclear.
I don't think that's unpopular. More precisely, once the vaccine is available to all age groups, the only people that need to be scared of it are the unvaccinated.

And they will have had every opportunity to get vaccinated, so we shouldn't optimize for them.
> I assume you don't drink and drive yourself. So what is the issue?

See how silly that sounds?
Writing foundational algorithms/data-structures libraries (e.g. language-runtime stdlibs like libc) is usually treated as a sort of sacred ritual in programming—something where it’s “obvious” that it should be done slowly, carefully, and without distraction, with each change audited carefully by many peers before accepting a merge.

It’s not often that you’re writing such code “in anger”, under time-pressure to ship to fix downtime, with no time to get peer review.

This is in large part because the downstream client of an algorithms/data structures library, would almost-always prefer a robust but less-efficient option, over an alpha-quality implementation of a more-efficient option. Dataset-size scaling challenges that recommend algorithmic efficiency increases can, almost always, be temporarily put off by “throwing machines at the problem” until the more-efficient library becomes high-quality enough to be fully relied upon. Until then, the business logic will make do with the simpler/more naive algorithm.

And in most language runtimes, there’s a simpler/more naive algorithm or data structure to solve every problem already laying around in the core stdlib; so it’s not like you, as the library writer, have to implement that code “in anger” either. Your internal customers can upgrade from depending on stdlib types, to depending on your lib’s types, when using your lib becomes an unalloyed win for them; and until then, do nothing.
> You can be hesitant of these new mRNA vaccines but for classic vaccines that use dead / weakened viruses, that doesn't make you an "anti-vaxxer".

Exactly. I've had more vaccines than most people ever will because of my time in the military. I'm good with it, I think it was smart given the circumstances. The question isn't "are traditional vaccines OK?" (yes) but "do I trust other people's ability to modify my DNA without error?" Of that I'm far less certain.
Nobody should be forced to get the vaccine. But nobody has a right to every private space, nor to spread a disease without liability or repercussion. I’m increasingly of the mind that if you choose to not vaccinate, fine, whatever. We have a right to be stupid because it isn’t always clear ex ante what is stupid and what is brilliant. If you’re voluntarily unvaccinated and you get sick, you’re on the hook for the cost. Of your own treatment as well as anyone it can be proved you infected.

Also, all these mandates have medical exemptions. They should also permit equal access with a mask and recent negative COVID test. (I do not think we should subsidise those tests out of the insurance pool or public purse.)
>You seem to be saying that the only issue is a question of time. Be specific: how much time?

Until it makes it into Debian stable repositories.
> Electron comes with a lot of security exceptions

I promise you that the reason Razer is asking for network access isn't because they forgot to turn it off.

They could be writing this driver in Rust and they would still be asking for these exceptions. Nobody accidentally builds a driver whose sole purpose is to download and install another driver from a remote source.
No vaccine has ever had a long term effect that isn't visible soon after it is administered. Vaccines are one and done and eliminate quickly from the body, unlike other medications, which can be administered daily or weekly for years and can accumulate in organs.

https://www.uab.edu/reporter/resources/be-healthy/item/9544-...

"This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn't expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine."
I disagree. I want the tools to be installed. Maybe you could have it behave it differently for non admin.
Your example is incorrect, actually.

This scenario [1] is a specific instance of using chlorinated lime to clean your hands after dealing with cadavers, which is a totally different scenario. In fact, he apparently references this as an alternative to "normal hand washing". The mid-19th century is not the middle ages, we knew about washing hands.

> Semmelweis's key claim was that physicians contaminated their hands with "cadaveric particles" in the morgue while conducting autopsies. He pointed out that ordinary washings with soap did not remove these particles, because the hands could retain a stench for several days in spite of such washings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_reaction_to_Ignaz...
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There's literally a market in Brian Head Utah where a bull moose hangs out on the front porch most of the day. I'm sure there are plenty of "wild" animals with petting-zoo-like relationships with random people. This can't be the only one.
Vaccines have been shown to be more effective than actually getting COVID. Possibly due to the inaccuracies inherent in COVID testing.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

Thus 100% vaccine mandates may be excessive but their not useless and would actually save lives.
not really. A lot has changed, but not in media. To media all lives are cheap
> That sounds really low to me.

Low compared to what? Do you know the vaccinations rates for all other diseases for which we have vaccines for?
What natural immunity?

There's no scientific evidence anyone has a "natural immunity" to SARS-CoV-2, and even the immunity granted to those who are vaccinated is largely contested by the mutations known as the delta and lambda variants.
Do you believe that expensive cures are preferable to cheap preventions?
And then you need to call an admin to plug in a mouse. That's not really practical for a lot of organizations.
They could have used some notation to separate the arguments from the function body. The arrow => would be a good candidate.
Birth defects would have been observed already if they were a side effect of the vaccine.
Browsers generally are running code that came from a package manager these days. But devs expect to run a file server for their browser code. Do Deno devs need to expect to run a separate file server for their Deno code?
Speak for yourself, I have been parasitizing the young ever since before I was born.
Your first link reports that out of the thousands of total cases, only 20 are in the hospital, 9 of which are in the ICU. This does not support the claim that young people are "widely" ending up in the hospital from COVID.

A COVID case != serious illness, especially in vaccinated individuals. We need to stop pretending that they are equivalent.
> do I trust other people's ability to modify my DNA without error?

There is no vaccine that's based on people's ability to modify your DNA, so no need to worry about that. (I wonder how the idea that they do still keeps floating around...)
Excess mortality rates aren’t relevant at all to the lethality of the delta variant in children relative to prior strains. Overall mortality isn’t even asking the right question, and it’s a very poor proxy even for the lethality rate of SARS-COV-2 (contingent on pervasive testing). And that we’ve eliminated influenza deaths is no argument that influenza is no longer lethal.
The CDC director admitted that vaccines no longer stop transmission of COVID [1]. Are you anti-science now too?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/health/us-coronavirus-thursda...
Yeah, well, on the other side of the coin, people are being forced back in the office, some have never even been able to work from home and many actually like the work/home separation.

Not to mention the millions of jobs that can't be done remotely no matter how hard you try, but that's on a whole 'nother planet.
That's all pretty irrelevant because most of that ends up going to various sorts of highway maintenance or general operating budgets for states, not making cares safer.

Regardless, let's see how that plays out in actual taxes: Where I'm at the difference between registering an F150 and a Honda Accord is about $20. (personal, non commercial) Looking at California it's not much different. In Texas they're the same cost, but let's say the average is $20 and do some back-of-the-envelope math:

Registration Fees:

--About 11M vehicles sold each year classified as a light truck (pickup/SUV) = $220M in reg. fees.

--About 40M used cars sold each year. About 50% of Carvana use cars are pickups or SUVs, so that's another $400M.

--Total: $640M

Fuel taxes:

--Average tax of $0.35/gallon

--average of 13,500 mile/year driven

--MPG for Honda Accord = 38, 26 for an F150 for a difference of about 164 gallons/year.

--About 230M eligible drivers in the US. About 88% own a car. About 30% of all vehicles on the road are SUVs/light truck = 61M on the road.

--61M * 164 gallons * $0.35/gallon = $3.5B

Total taxes: $4.15B in taxes extra collected on larger vehicles across the entire country, but none of it goes towards making large vehicles safer.

Even if that was doubled, what would the government spend it on to make cars safer? I can't think of much.

Meanwhile it's becoming harder & harder to find cars that don't have various automatic sensors & safety features, and all manufacturers have agreed to add AEB by 2022. Browsing manufacturer site & dealer inventory, a very large # also have rear-park-assist (which detects pedestrian) either by default, or as an upgrade that is already included on most vehicles in dealer inventory.

If we combined these trends with requirements for greater visibility as well, the combination would do a lot more than an increased tax .
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> hippocratic oath be damned

Triage doesn’t violate the Hippocratic oath. Allocating limited medical resources is sometimes a necessity.

That said, yes, they shouldn’t be refused. We don’t refuse the mentally ill or others who self harm. But unless it can be shown to be a product of mental illness, the voluntarily unvaccinated should be on the hook for the cost of their treatment.
War is bad. We should try to limit it. War can easily kill us all. Sounds simple, but very few people believe that. They either see weakness and advance their own criminal leadership. Or they reject it outright, turn from human to animal, and settle contention through territory expansion, something the USA stopped doing a century ago.

Fight enough, you find out wins mean nothing, and what matters are arthritic knuckles which cripple and kill you. I think the next step in this is leaders will not care if millions of their own followers are horribly murdered. They didn't care about the riots or the doubling murder rate. Why should they care about the terror, as long as they are in power? That is much more frightening than mindless loyalties or cold ambition. Along with curing disease and not giving people the cure, and geoengineering a planet just for your own needs. Now that will solve this problem quick.
we don't require anyone to take the vaccine, and we will never require anyone to take the vaccine. What we should and will do is restrict what someone who is not vaccinated can do to limit the harm they will cause to others. No one is going to bang down your door and force a vaccine into your arm, but if you do not want to get vaccinated you will need to change your life because you will be restricted from participating in many things where you are a danger to others.
Sure, but it's not like those things "elsewhere" are completely unrelated. It's implied that building great teams "military style" are a great solution to many problems, and are applicable to the corporate world.

I would like to point out that having a great military force is not enough for what's important -- many times, it's not even needed!
Wow, those mice look truly horrible to use, and cost $200 to boot.
Out of curiosty, which CAD software do you use on Linux? While I don't use CAD very often, all the software my engineer friends swear by only runs on Windows so any Linux recommendations would be appreciated.
I often wonder if the coronavirus were not a respiratory disease and had more visible effects like polio, would we still see such a significant antivaxx movement.
That's what contracts are for. Lockheed would be screwed if the government just decided to up and cancel every program that purchases Lockheed products, but they can't. They placed an order, agreed in writing, and can't just change their mind and not pay.
Sonic Pi is very accessible and a great front end for SuperCollider and livecoding music in general.

Some others worth trying depending on your personal choice and bias for a particular PL:

Euterpea - Haskell library for music creation [0].

Extempore - Scheme-based livecoding environment with a low-level language too - xtlang [1].

Grace (Common Music) - Scheme-based livecoding with crossplatform IDE [2].

Sporth (used by AudioKit) - Forth-based, low-level livecoding of music.

I think Grace is probably the most self-contained. The single executable for Linux, Mac, and Windows comes with samples and a choice of a scheme-based language, or a more simplified, more Algol-like one called SAL.

I like extempore because of its CAAS (compiler as a service) model, scheme language, and the ability to create from the note up, or to create sounds from scratch (sine waves and such).

I splurged for the Haskell School of Music book based on the Euterpea library that was originally written by Paul Hudak, but finished by one of his students, Donya Quick. This is how I originally learned Haskell, and it was a lot of fun and educational to boot.

[0] https://www.euterpea.com/

[1] https://extemporelang.github.io/

[2] http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://pbat.ch/proj/sporth.html
I sort of think that the right solution of like this is to force platforms to make a choice. Platforms like youtube or facebook should be allowed to choose to be common carriers - carrying all (or perhaps all legal) content without being responsible for that content.

Or they should be publishers, and treated like publishers - which means taking responsibility for what they publish.

I don't think the current regime, where the platforms act as publishers but don't take responsibility for what they publish is all that tenable.
Spread of sars-cov-2 in human populations can be stopped. It first requires intramuscular vaccination to provide IgG antibodies in the body proper to prevent serious disease and then just as importantly, an intranasal vaccination to provide resident B and T cells in the surface mucosa tissues of the upper respiratory tract where the B cells will make local IgA antibodies and provide sterilizing immunity and prevent spread from person to person.

Intranasal boosters are the one obvious thing we could do top-down to end the pandemic and only have to deal with epidemics.

ref: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397

ref: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti... page 5, #8. "Whilst we feel that current vaccines are excellent for reducing the risk of hospital admission and disease, we propose that research be focused on vaccines that also induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity in order to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated individuals. This could also reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."

ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00550-x
Has the UK peaked?
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if so then same is true for say, TCP/IP, HTTP and HTML
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Ah—yeah that makes sense. I would like to foray into better hardware territory at some point. There certainly could be a lot of value for all applications with quick mouse-triggered macros and whatnot.

I typically swap my mouse hand to prevent repeating stress injuries so there’d have to be better ambidextrous support!
I think the people who don't like that opinion, although very, very loud online, are not actually in the majority. But, it sure sounds like it online though.
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> the assumption that the probability of a covid transmission ending in harm crosses the same probability threshold if, say, drunk driving ending in harm.

You do realize that drunk driving is illegal, right? Do you think drunk driving should be legal because it's "unlikely" to cause harm to others?

> I say it doesn't.

628k confirmed deaths in the US from COVID. 37.8M confirmed infections. That's a death rate of 1.66%.

In 2016, 10,497 people died from drunk driving. 1 million people were arrested in 2016 for drunk driving. That's a rate of 1.0497%. So COVID is literally more dangerous than drunk driving.

Drunk driving stats: https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...
Firstly, to answer your question: No.

There are other ecosystems that are going "fine" that have centralised, official documentation and don't require a third party to intervene and collate documentation and recommendations in an attempt to make it easier for developers. The fact this is necessary, or people feel is necessary, makes me want to avoid XMPP at all costs. That's just my very shallow surface level opinion.

With all that said, i have to say; what you're doing here is commendable. I don't mean to (pardon my language) shit on something you seem to have worked very hard on. Doing something like this isn't an easy task I'm sure.
It's not really about you. It's about preventing other, more vulnerable people from getting sick. Living in a society means giving up some of your freedoms in exchange for security, and getting vaccinated as a way to help other people should be part of that exchange.
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I'd be going back to asking why you want to split it off though. If there's legitimate reasons for that then my other concern would be what about areas of the existing codebase that are intertwined with those messages' modelling. Let's say you use the messages as objects throughout the system and those objects have their own methods that give you some nice way to intepret / action those messages. Now what? Do you need to re-write all that, create a shared library of models etc? It does add complexity and I'd always be last-resorting it.
Not opposed to it, as long as the premiums are actually reflect the probabilities and cost of the harm. You words like "precious bodily autonomy" make me think you are looking at this from a pov of malice though, as in, let's try to financially ruin people.
Not the immunocompromised or those who are legitimately unable to get vaccinated? Not a very nuanced take.
well, it's kinda funny that taking leetcode as an example of competitive programming, my man...
Question is what sort of ideas deserve patent? Does one-click checkout deserve one? Or system to sell modifications of look of user interface delivered over radio?

I think there should be some line, probably non-obvious implementation.
I use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RabbitMQ

to run the IoT stuff in my house. Mostly I access it through AQMP but it supports MQTT also. An asyncio-driven python script takes events from the outside world and systems that have an cloud component like SmartThings and posts them to RabbitMQ. Other scripts listen for events, make things happen, log data to arangodb, etc.

On paper XMPP supports M2M applications but it's not a great fit compared to other protocols.
What other vaccines does the military currently require?
There is a difference between being anti-vaccine, meaning that you are against all vaccines, and being hesitant to receive a specific vaccine. Most people I know who are still waiting to receive the covid vaccine are all caught up on the typical vaccines and may even get the flu shot every year.
Maybe they benefit from a reduced rodent population in some way? Less disease or maybe even competition for food since this particular type of monkey grazes?
If the vaccine is safe, then its manufacturer and providers should not need protection from suits. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/16/cov...

The manufacturers are telling the FDA that their vaccines are safe enough to mandate while at the same time they tell Congress that their vaccines are too dangerous to make unless they get legal immunity. Safe enough to make billions in profits; too dangerous to have to defend themselves in court against people they injure.
If you have natural immunity, getting a vaccine seems rather pointless.
Our grid demand has been fairly steady (obviously it varies by season) since 2008 or so (probably due in part to some economic slowdown back then, but also energy efficiency improvements e.g. LED lighting, as well as behind the meter solar etc.) so all renewables added is displacing gas and coal in our electricity market.

Looking at OpenNEM, coal peaked in 2007 at 84.9% of all power generated (averaged per month), and in July was 63.4% (record low was October 2020 with 62.5%). Gas looks to have peaked in Jan 2014 with 13%. Recent peak was June with 10.4% and record low was February with 4.6%. Renewables are now 29% over the last month, up from around 6% in 2008. Still a long way to go!