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> What does say about your WW2 mortality claim then?

That statement doesn't even make sense. I'm refuting you statement that folks are not dying of COVID, their dying with COVID. It's just not true, if that were the case, we would see a corresponding drop in other causes of death. We didn't they actually went up, pretty close to how much they go up every year. But COVID deaths on top have gotten us to the point of WWII death rates in 1943. So in short, it completely proves my point.

> Look at those mortality rates closely, the Fully Vaccinated group is actually higher.

I think failure to interpret the study correctly does not actually make it incorrect. Try reading the whole thing instead of cherry picking numbers to try to prove your point.

> Mind you, this is if you believe the CDC and their data in the first place, which I don't.

What's there to "believe"? Deny what doesn't fit your world view is not a good playbook. Did you "believe" the CDC when Trump was in charge? Was it different then? Sometimes things we don't like still happen, even though we really don't want them to. Denying reality doesn't make it true.
Sorry, Android was well underway before this agreement was in force. And I can tell you key members of the original Safari team are still at Apple 20 years
on.
It's not even a mistake. They tried to recruit a presumably well qualified person, that they had every legal right to recruit. Fired for literally trying to do their job.
I would never badmouth a manager on my way out the door. There's no point to it and anyone I am talking to may or may not be a sympathetic ear; in any case, if they're still there, they still need to work with that individual and it's really no longer my business.

"Dream Opportunity" or "Better Pay" are easy explanations that nobody will question. Best just to leave it at that.
That's so great to hear. Please keep us honest as we continue to grow!

Ask for money for your product, even if it's incomplete. We didn't start asking for money until a year in because our egos felt we needed to have a fully functional product before charging customers. You'll get a lot of no's initially which is great because it allows you to focus on the very few yes'. If you're an engineer, make sure you're spending 50% of your time talking to customers because you'll always lean towards building product.
Treatment options are always welcome. The vaccines are not that effective in the people who need it the most.
I agree that adding human reviewers could help; but it will not resolve the root cause of YT being designed to boost disinformation in the name of engagement.

It’s encoded in their business model: the paying customer and the source of revenue is the advertiser. Thus, their interests are radically different from those of the users.

I believe there is something fundamentally wrong about such models, especially applied at scale, that I would not even oppose some light, focused regulation that brings it in check.

Otherwise, adding human moderation could maybe help in short term but the business model with find its way to ruin things again.
> I wish I could say the same from the 'any measure that may have some conceivable effect of reducing R0 must be mandated yesterday, or else you are personally responsible for the death of 4M people worldwide, and counting' crowd.

>> This is a particularly salient question as the biggest selling point of vaccines is that they reduce symptom severity.

You mean the 'any measure that may have some conceivable effect of reducing symptom severity must be mandated yesterday, or else you are personally responsible for the death of 4M people worldwide, and counting' crowd.
1) It's impractical to test everyone for antibodies. There's enough empirical data to suggest that immunity wanes over time for most people that it makes sense to just give everyone a 3rd, booster shot.
2) It was always expected that vaccine immunity would wane over time. Nobody (of any relevant repute) ever suggested otherwise.
3) I don't doubt that you had side effects from the vaccine. But there's a strong probability that the side effects of an actual infection would have been much, much worse for you. You may potentially have an undiagnosed health issue that could have potentially been a comorbodity in an actual infection.
Thanks for sharing that term.

A score is so much more complex. I need to dive into the approach Playform took. I notice that team is comprised of experts in a variety of fields, who make a lot of editorial decisions on the output of the AI and then decided the style of the output (scherzo, etc.) and where that particular element might be placed in the score. I wonder what would have happened if they just ignored the AI and completed it using their own compositional knowledge?
That's great advice, but it's untrue that nobody reads changelogs.

I read them religiously for software I'm passionate about as a user, and when I solo'd a product for a decade I was regularly surprised how familiar some of my customers were with mine (most often when they had dedicated IT resources or were similarly small boutique outfits themselves). I've also managed large, custom enterprise projects where subject matter experts on the other end relied on them (in addition to other channels of communication).

What drives me nuts is how some companies decided to water them down. e.g. Windows Update's long list of "security related update" where you have to google KB's to find out what they are, and another company that just always puts in "various fixes and improvements".
Congrats! It was a fun many years competing & excited to see the space validated in the public markets.
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The language isn't the hard part. One of the more programming-oriented data scientists was actually happy to write Scala to start with, but honestly getting from a prototype to a production-quality implementation is pretty much a rewrite anyway (e.g. you have to consider all the error cases).
Agree! This is great and exciting. When people learn to play music composed by someone else, they are experiencing/living to some degree the mind of the composer. And music can fairly be described as sets of repeatable patterns. So if AI can take the entirety of a composer's life's work and discern key patterns, replicate them even, then some aspect of the mind of the composer is reborn. This is immortality. A dedicated grad student could probably do it for one composer; AI can do it for ALL composers. And humanity is all the better for it :)
Are phone networks better where you're from? The audio compression on the phone network renders the sound quality/clarity inferior to a built in laptop mic in my experience.
How would you attempt objectively measure something like this? The experiences we, as individuals have, is such a small slice of reality. In order to make broad statements, it's crucial to have a lot of perspective - do you feel your experience is sufficiently representative to make such statements?
In the case I was thinking of, mainly Scala (we were a very JVM-oriented place and used Spark clusters for our big data stuff).
This is not the case of long COVID, though, as

1) the symptoms seem definitely bad, but IMHO not as a life not worth living

2) they usually don't remove the physical ability to commit suicide, so one can "fall back" to the "you are going to die" option (which I would of course, as per point 1, not recommend)
If you want an actual explanation you can google "do vaccines alter your dna" and find plenty of results that explain it in simple detail for non scientists.

Others simply say "No it does not alter your dna" because that concept is irrelevant and made up. There's no basis for it.

You don't get to say you're unable to get an explanation if you're not getting it because you either refuse to do the most basic search, or do the search and refuse to acknowledge it.
I don't think the founders would have conceptualized governmental liability the way that we do in the modern era. Even hallmark legislation like 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a product of 20th century jurisprudence.

Very early supreme court opinions took a nearly absolutist position on private right of action against the government being barred under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The court has slowly backed away from that position over time.
Hilarious. Why didn't you refactor the customizations into a config file, and just deploy a single jar though? If you went through the effort of rewriting the entire thing!
Yep, it turns out the go1.x runtime is no longer the preferred way to using Lambda functions written in Go.
One automated thing I've been really wanting to add to our code review process is copied code detection, where a piece of code is very similar to code somewhere else in the product (though likely not part of the current review).

Obviously there's cases where this is code smell, but plenty of times it isn't. It's not something that you would want to block shipping. But if you do want to ship code like this, you should do so with the reviewer(s) fully seeing where it came from, to make sure everyone agrees that's the best way.

No one has implemented a bot for us that would add such comment for use but I do think it would be a huge win.
If you are going to disable so many features you may as well just rip the video
Quest 2? Thats good to know, I'll see if I can find the method you're talking about then.
I wrote a lambda that encoded a timeline comprised of audio, video and GLSL shaders using SwiftShader and ffmpeg. Time to give it try again!
Perhaps if one truly transforms into a Rustacean.. ;-)
Perhaps someone here that's familiar with MQTT (and variants) can shed light on how to handle this case: an IoT device that periodically comes to life, queries the broker for the last known state of topic 'xyz', then sends a message regarding another topic 'abc' and goes back to sleep. i.e. it's not awake to receive updates to the 'xyz' topic, but needs to know the last update when it awakes.
That's the funny thing about statistics. Once you are the unlucky 0.001%, you won't be thinking about it.
In India I found RazorPay to be really good.
Computation, bandwidth and (open source) software is so cheap these days that it approaches free for many people (but not all). It's just a matter of coming up with a functioning model.

Ad supported is just one such model and it's not a very new one at that. Remember, you made this comment on server that was provided to you for free without the need of ad support.
In this very narrow sense that you are defining, no brain can move a muscle either. All it can do is send signals. A computer can do the same.

If you are making a broader claim about the limits of hardware vs. wetware the you will need to clarify things a bit further.
Why on earth is it their job to explain the reason behind a large file in a completely different piece of software?
I think part of the benefit of everyone wearing masks is that there is more value in limiting the distribution of virus laden particulates from the source, ie the infected persons mouth or nose, at least to an extent. That is best done when an infected individual has a mask on. Additionally, if we assume that wearing a mask limits spread, then unmasked individuals overall are a higher risk for receiving infection. Therefore community risk is higher.

That's how we end up with a calculus that determines that impinging individual liberty (requiring masks) has a net benefit (limiting overall community spread).

I guess a similar analogy might be: driving half the speed limit might in a weird sense feel like you're protecting yourself from harm in an accidental if else someone drives too fast, but the better policy would be that both directions of traffic maintain speed at or under the limits. Again, this is an instance where we limit individual freedoms when there is a perceived net benefit to community safety.
If you read down the thread a bit (I’m the author) you’ll see that it’s (probably) implemented by caching cryptographic beacons on the UWB chipset. It’s not documented by Apple, however, which is the reason my thread is a little critical. I think it should be.
> School buses being built the way they are keeps kids from getting killed in crashes.

And yet the US somehow ends up with many more road deaths of children than countries with more sane bus designs. Bigger buses means bigger roads, more spread out development, more road dependence...
I know where to get all of the research!
They had to refuse. They needed to grow their talent pool. The others were focused on defending against msft.
I'm surprised that a 20% increase in the price of coffee is even noticeable in the price of a cup at a cafe, given that most of the cost is labour and overheads.
We're more about execution than vision at Amplitude because that is my personal bias. The vision part has gotten clearer as we've grown.

Even before you have any customers or a product, my #1 recommendation is to get engineers regularly talking to people who could be your customers. They will get so motivated to build something that will solve their problems (at least if you have the right engineers). Potential customers love talking to engineers as well as they're the ones who can actually solve their problem. Once you get a win with an engineer solving a potential customer problem, that starts a virtuous cycle where the team wants to get even more wins. I always tell people our best salesperson at Amplitude is actually our best engineer- my cofounder Jeffrey.
There is a typo on the reference part:

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Martin Fawler, 2005 <https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html>
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Fawler -> Fowler
Yes but who are the cult followers and bad faith arguers?

In this case you may think you know. Maybe you are even correct. But maybe you won't be next time.
No. That's lying. Moving the goal posts does not require lying, in fact in rarely includes it. It only requires that you change your argument when you're disproved.
> If you don't care about purity don't use FP.

This is unhelpful. I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered this attitude before, I’m enthusiastic about FP and I frequently direct people toward FP principles wherever I possibly can. Dissuading application of those principles in part because they’re not applied in (your view of) full is sending people in the wrong direction.

And you might not care, but I do: it’s also gatekeeping. Making people feel like what they’ve learned to make their code more functional, less side-effecting, and generally easier to reason about… making them feel like that’s not important progress they can value unless they share your knowledge and understanding of Category Theory or whatever is going to drive people away from what you want. And it’s going to drive marginalized people away most, probably from programming in general. That stinks.

The level of purity you’re demanding isn’t even claimed by most functional languages. And the ones which do use Monads as a sleight of hand to make the claim, but that’s plainly a useful fiction.
Haha exactly. Of course the leaver is getting more pay, you'd have had to seriously mess up for them to leave for less pay.

They're not likely to burn bridges on the way out though so that's all you hear. No point complaining when you're done
> Edit: One thing that would be nice in PHP is decorators.

15 years I used to say "I wish PHP had feature X just like in language Y". But there's a moment where it's better not to wait and just to use language Y.
With mqtt you may do that with retained messages.
The emitter of a message mark the message as to be retained.
The server will retain it.
Now when your mqtt client will subscribe tout the topic, the server will send the last retained message for this topic.
Did you want to buy the creative boat anchor?
I don't know I feel Apple really got worse than the competition.
It started with "You are holding it wrong.", horrible keyboards, "you need to use USB-C for everything, except our iphones come with lighting + old USB cables", to charge your mouse you need to plugin the cable on the bottom etc.
That's kind of standard.

Yet, the recent moves: Snitch Software that works against the user with a worldwide localization network + no care about security at all.

I mean after Pegasus hit the news, Apple announced their picture scanning initiative. They didn't acknowledge or try to fix their horrible bounty program (compared to Microsoft and Google) and waited for a non-profit (awesome Citizen Lab) to find and fix their bug ... (a 0 click in iMessage)

That's not industry standard for me.
Beautiful! I have a soft spot for meta stuff like this, a vine climbing up a tree. I'm not a fan of browser extensions though, shit gets clogged up.
First of all, your assrtion about case numbers being half is not correct. The third wave peaked at 25k active cases. The current peak is at 21k active cases.

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

Second, despite the case number not being higher than the third wave, hospitalizations and ICU admissions are higher for the current wave compared to any before. This is despite the higher vaccination rate and due to the higher dangers of the delta variant. The third wave peaked at 555 non-ICU and 183 ICU; the current wave is at 860 non-ICU and 268 ICU. ICU cases are predominantly (~90%) unvaccinated individuals.

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

So the system is falling apart because the hospitals are being overwhelmed, because the delta variant is more dangerous that the previous dominant variants for unvaccinated people and there are more people in hospitals and in ICUs than ever before because of this.

And this is hurting everyone, not just anti-vaxxers or those who get COVID. They even had to close 75% of operating rooms in children's hospital, because they needed to divert the resources to adults in ICUs with COVID.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-childrens-...
Nah. I was raised in a religiously conservative environment and was taught all sorts of weird beliefs that was also married to right wing politics, and the demonization of the left you could hear everyday on AM radio and Fox News. They aren't disenfranchised. They have a faulty worldview that isn't based on critical thinking or scientific evidence, and has been fueled by propaganda for decades.

I used to be a big proponent of US-style free speech. Now I'm skeptical that it's such a good thing. It appears to me that some uses of certain forms of media are dangerous to a democratic society. Not just on the right, but in general.
To clarify, was he not aware that the new feature had already been released? Or did he think the "old way" was the new feature (and that he'd simply been blocked before), thus suggesting that the urgency of his ticket was unnecessary?
And does this include things like positioning? I remember some buzz around indoor positioning in 5G, but I'm hazy on whether it was built in, or just general speculation.
If it was called the Trump Vaccine and he was mandating it, this whole thing would be flipped. It's that simple.

It has been tribal from the start and still is. We all know this is how things work at this point. It's not as based in science or rational arguments as it is based on motivated reasoning and confirmation bias.
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people who set policy need to think of all consumers, not just the rich ones such as yourself. More working class people could buy iPhones if they were not artificially high priced.

You too would benefit from a competitive iPhone market, there would have been an earlier introduction of large screens, cheaper memory options, perhaps getting choices that included repairability, replaceable batteries, microSD cards, etc.

Think of it this way: if Apple was broken into three Apples that compete with each other, the shareholders would not have lost anything that they are entitled to: they'd each still own what they owned before a share of each of the new companies instead of a share in the old. But previously monopoly prices would drop.
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
From the referenced tweet thread about someone finding this out for the first time:

In other news I updated my phone to iOS 15 and put it down to charge last night. When I woke up it was hot, and my battery has gone from 100% to 15% since 7:30am. I gotta get off this ecosystem.

"My phone's battery life has suddenly become much worse" sure sounds like a major impact to me.
Is America Prepared for the Pandemic After Covid-19?
Impressive work! A number of WireGuard solutions have popped up lately and I'm elated that the capability is becoming more widespread.
What do you do at this point? People complain about meetings saying that "this could have been an email" (including me). But I believe some people just don't read email/chat/jira comments. Maybe they're busy or just don't care at all, who knows. How else would you get your point across?
In the US, their actual job is filing the report. Anything that goes beyond that is PR.
It's almost like you're saying that an NFT doesn't actually capture the thing it's correlated with. But if that was true it would completely undermine the concept of an NFT of an art work. The NFT wouldn't have any more unique value than an item # in a catalog.
If you need a highly available broker you can consider https://github.com/streamnative/mop which adds a MQTT protocol handler to Apache Pulsar.

I recently contributed auth support and TLS support also just landed.
There is perhaps a few non-standards compliant things that need to be worked out but it's in fairly good shape.
What is the efficiency against transmission of the latest mutations? AFAIK there is a great efficiency against bad symptoms, but much lower efficiency against transmitting the disease to others, but I don't know the latest numbers.
YouTube recommendations has helped me find a ton of good music over the years. No better platform for music imo and that includes dedicated services such as spotify
I believe that the "tabs" permission does allow you to read the current URL without granting the ability to modify the page. It's also possible that some of the functionality could be built with the chrome.declarativeContent API or other alternatives. I'm sure there are features that would be impacted, and I doubt that most users would understand or care about the reduced permissions. But I would.
Living a more sustainable life is the key to human survival. If you can grown your own food and produce local cleaner energy, humanity MAY survive. The existing American-model life guarantees human civilisation will not live past 2040.
Except the intervention in study Rushworth cites wasn't a mask mandate. It was "Encouragement to follow social distancing measures for coronavirus disease 2019, plus either no mask recommendation or a recommendation to wear a mask when outside the home among other persons together with a supply of 50 surgical masks and instructions for proper use."

According to https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817, the website for said study: "A systematic review of observational studies reported that mask use reduced risk for SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and COVID-19 by 66% overall, 70% in health care workers, and 44% in the community"

So masks themselves are effective, but only when people actually use them correctly.