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ICUs being near capacity is actually very normal, especially during flu season.
Have you looked at any Laravel code? As someone who has worked from small startups to FAANG and inbetween, Javascript to PHP to Python to Go, I haven't found anything more elegant.
I thought Ctrl+R was cool but in fish you are always in search mode! Start typing any part of your previous command and hit up arrow!
South Africa's big problem with vaccination right now seems to be that they're running out of willing people to vaccinate - they just postponed a bunch of vaccine deliveries because their current stockpile is big enough already, and apparently a lot of people there are reluctant to get the vaccine.
Elegant PHP is an API with each endpoint ending in .php and query Params that look like ?hello=world.

I don't know why pretty urls or magical regex routing matter so much to people but to me it's a huge waste of time when PHP and your webserver already do all that you need.

The result is an API with extremely obvious and easy to work with code, every change to endpoint code is unable to blow up the whole site, library code is still a risk but things are far more isolated.
Biometric mass surveillance is a problem because bad actors in government and corporations have and will use it to the individual’s detriment. People are prevented or made to endure hardship at acquiring food, water, shelter and clothing, imprisoned and punished, for nothing more than not being part of the party holding power.
Doesn't seem a wrong stake, the population was naive to this virus, but except that what is special with covid?
I thought at first this was about hedge in the linguistic sense (which is closest in meaning to "humble" of all the senses of that word)
To be honest, in programming, the speed of writing on keyboard itself isn't the most limiting factor during development. I've forced myself to learn to touch type (not fully, I don't press spacebar with a thumb of opposing hand as last letter written, I also almost exclusively use left shift), but that doesn't make me a fastest programmer around. Development looks more like "I type two words, I look at the screen for 10 seconds, I type one symbol, I look at the screens for 5 seconds, I type one word". Touch typing helps with that, but IMHO isn't really that important.
To give some sense of how useless the German military is, a few years ago they didn't even have guns so they had to carry broomsticks and about shout "bang!".

https://www.newsweek.com/germany-cant-explain-use-broomstick...

At another point literally all of their submarines were broken. They couldn't send even a single one into combat.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2017/10/20/all-of-germanys...
Normandy is English! Or vice versa.
Being grateful is good! But being jealous, angry, bitter etc. are also valid emotions, not sins. (I don’t believe in Dante’s Inferno etc.). Those emotions are signal that something needs fixing. Sometimes it can be fixed in a second if it’s a silly thing. Sometime it can take a lifetime, if it’s grieving for example.
We could have a new mRNA vax against this (and delta) in days. Why are we still using an old vax that targets a strain that barely exists anymore?
Fuck off fascists!

You want to stick a needle in my arm and I'll shoot you in your fucking face.

If you all want a hot war so be it.
Yeah Nvidia is so far ahead at this point I wouldn't really risk it on anything else. The problem is that all that troubleshooting adds up fast and the whole DL golden years were built on CUDA. TensorFlow and PyTorch both "support" ROCm and HIP but you run into weird issues very often. A lot of public repository for recent architectures also come with their own CUDA kernels that you need to compile to the vendor lock-in is very strong in my opinion.

And even if AMD's offering was not an absolute dumpster fire, Google, Microsoft and Amazon all have their own accelerator that are maturing and will be more cost effective on the long run.
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Does the flu virus mutate every year?
I'd love a browser extension that automatically redirects all twitter URLs to the nitter equivalent.
I said it spread faster at one point in time, what is different than what you said?

Imagine delta and alpha are both introduced in a naive population at the exact same time. Which one will spread faster? No one has a clue
> more deadly

than what? If age < 60, e.g. car accidents are orders of magnitude more deadly in my county here. There are just no (= 0) fatalities < 40 years here. So even swallowing hammers is equally or more deadly in that group.
Branch covidian propaganda.

You people are on the very very wrong side of history and will pay dearly for your war crimes.
Are you also asking for Anthony Fauci, CNN, etc, to "sit this one out"? Because that was the overwhelming consensus in February 2020 in the United States.
Depends on what you mean by "touch-type". I can type without looking in three keyboard layouts, but that comes through a lot of keyboard time (and a lot of Police Quest I), so that I'm unable to use split keyboards because my right hand is overreaching to the left half of the keyboard. I also ignore home-row dancing, specific finger positions etc. I can type fast and blind, but I don't think I would qualify as a classical touch-typist.
> But Vince from YouTube was of course completely wrong there.

Claiming Vince was wrong in the video also means the researchers that discovered the variant were wrong. After all he was just parroting their findings in the video.
Just another seasonal idiot
A mandate in this case is different because

a) this vaccine is not highly effective at preventing the disease (especially after 6 months+)

b) long term effects have not yet been studied

c) fatality is still much lower than for diseases where vaccines are mandatory

I'm vaccinated myself twice by I feel extremely uncomfortable to force other people to vaccinate. I don't think liberal democracies should go this path.
Code that passes type checks can also fail to solve the user's problem, make 10,000 database calls, or render a page that is completely unreadable.

The human in the loop is a good thing. All things being equal, the type system is also a good thing, but what usually happens is that you end up checking your page once a minute or once every 10 minutes, not 50 times in a minute. That difference can make or break a project.
If they post here I'll zing them too
Discussed at the time in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29242509
Nothing, we didn’t have the whole world locked down for 1 year for the first time in a pandemic…
I'm not sure if you are trolling, or sincere, but yes:

https://www.uabmedicine.org/-/flu-strains-explained-and-how-...

This is why Flu shots are seasonal
You did not. Common core teaches some very weird methods of addition and multiplication, and has a "process over product" mentality - getting the wrong answer is fine with the right method, and getting the right answer with the "wrong" method is bad.
Yeah, that’s why people take a shot every year.
Weren't "experts" calling for events to continue and that border closures would be racist and that people should not wear masks around that time?

Maybe he was just listening to the experts.
It is truly bizarre when people trick themselves into the paradox of "I don't trust Government 1 but I trust everything they or their crony media says about Government 2"
Touch typing isn't about writing without looking at the keys, that's something that pretty much every dev I know does. It's about writing in an efficient way that minimizes finger travel, and zeroes palm and writ movement.

There's a reason F and J have bumps on them, or why we have two shifts, etc.

For anyone interested into relearning how to type efficiently I want to recommend this free website full of tutorials and exercises:
https://www.typingclub.com/
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I'm not sure how the Indian part is relevant, but I do think the Barbie girl song is a little different. I was very young when this song came out and so it was popular when I was a kid. Barbie girl is just an innocent innuendo in a way, because any one young just interprets it completely differently to an adult.
Delta since it outcompeted Alpha everywhere in the world.
Black Friday is only associated with Thanksgiving in the US because it marks just about 1 month before Christmas, but otherwise it’s not part of Thanksgiving. It’s also to start selling products for Christmas gifts — not related to getting rid of unsold inventory.

Most companies have a fiscal year ending in December, so it’s mostly just about getting that last boost of sales before the end of the year.
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I don't know why any of us are judging all of this from nothing. The only pieces of information we have are that the moderation team left because of issues with the core team and that they think no one should trust the Rust core team. But I don't know why I should trust either side. I need a lot more info before concluding anything.
> The best reason to choose fish over zsh is that everything works so well out of the box that you stop messing with it.

This is such an incredibly odd perspective to me. I use zsh and have not touched my shell config in years. Messing with configurations to get things working to your liking is a one time thing. I don't even use plugins.

On the other hand, if fish doesn't work to your liking out of the box, and for many people it does not, there's no "messing with it" that's possible. You are forced to give up and use something else. Your reason to choose fish is only a good reason if you already agree with every minute choice the developers made and refuse to let you adjust.
Or find some ultra lighter offloading all their stuff because a 2gr lighter model came out.
On your last point, in terms of absolute speed, pointing your mouse to the paragraph and dragging to highlight is usually faster than the fussiness of multiple key presses and/or chord combos needed from a full keyboard setup. That is, unless you've macro'd a custom single key shortcut for just that particular action
do you really think that game publishers would simply obey orders from a console manufacturer who told them to "only make good games"? game publishers take every shortcut possible when publishing games, including (but not limited to) strongarming the developers, lying via box art and/or wording on packaging, and so on. game publishers optimize for profit, not game quality.

even with the NES CIC chip keeping most unauthorized games from working, Atari successfully duplicated the functionality of the chip and published their own games under the "Tengen" brand. Nintendo was very unhappy about this, and while Nintendo won in court, they learned their lesson and doubled-down on console protections from then on.

Nintendo are unlikely to ever forget the lesson that this court case taught them.

So, with that, even with the presence of technological measures to keep non-nintendo-made carts out of the NES, there were still non-nintendo games running inside NES consoles.

things like this are why Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are so dedicated to locking the consoles down and doing everything they can to prevent unauthorized access. Nintendo has been shown multiple times that companies will just do whatever they want unless there are strong lockdown features to the hardware.

others have learned from Nintendo's experience, as well, and that's why we are where we are today. we will not be returning to the early days of video game consoles, where hardware was unprotected.
Yes that's why the effectiveness of the flu-shot differs between years
On what basis? Have you offered evidence of your thoughts during that time? Does that even matter?

Hindsight is 20/20. I hope that most of HN will forgive me for questioning the notion that u/idlewords is somehow entitled to disqualify others from this discussion about variants.
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For a historical take - UNIX to Plan 9:

> Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.[1]

Linux might be "better"; unfortunately Windows is just "good enough" for most people to not care.

[1] http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html
Based on your post, I went digging and found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballer...

Year 2021 does look like it could stand out more than other years, but I would like to see the deaths normalized by the number of matches that year. Presumably, there have been fewer football matches during the pandemic, which would make 2021 stand out even more if it is true.
Going from PHP to jinja templates in python is also pretty terrible. But I guess that's more of a hobbyist problem, than large commercial web-app problem.
Not at a meaningful speed for safety.
External spinning disk storage prices and outliers: https://shucks.top/
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Are we talking about the same smart investors at Softbank that invested heavily in WeWork?
I remember when Black Friday meant tremendous free-after-rebate deals… Among other things, I recall ‘purchasing’ a free inkjet color printer, a free PDA (personal digital assistant), and a free spool of 50 blank cds! Those were the days.
Which developed countries have courses in school to learn touch typing?

I have never, ever heard about it.

Edit: by touch typing I mean having your index fingers on fj and from there using ALL keys without ever leaving the starting position, and yes that includes shift, alt and control and special characters.

I know very few people who are really touch typists (I am a proficient one), and I don't believe for a second people are taught touch typings, it's a skill that requires consistent training.
There's already kinds of classes that can't be instantiated, why would this specifically be a breaking change?
Should CC processors be allowed to hard data about people's purchase and spending? What about merchants?

If yes, why them, and not tech firms?
You've seemingly reduced 'Delta is more transmissible' to its most meaningless interpretation.

A large (mostly) unvaccinated and uninfected population has been exposed to both variants and the delta variant won out, what more proof do you want?
You're right. I'm trying to distinguish VoLTE as opposed to voice calls on 3G. That's the piece that's missing in the old phone. How would you get at that distinction? Any alternative way to explain that would be useful.
> You're not qualified to make statements like this.

Maybe, maybe not. Who the f*ck are you? (See how that works?)
I just did - and then I opened the article and kept reading...

> I’ve been lurking the fish smell for a couple of years now (and the nushell but it is another story for another time). Not so long ago, I decided to try it, and it’s simply… amazing.

..., had a "wtf"-moment (I thought that "nushell" was some kind of clam - my mothertongue is italian), then I read what followed so I started over paying more attention to what was written. I had to laugh :))
+ and basically I would generalize this across to all the common actions people typically use that are often easier with a mouse. And can even be faster, even with the extra hand travel to the mouse.
Well, we certainly developed an effective preventative against malaria... And that's before we get to the ballmer peak [0], which I think many of us experienced at one point ;)

0: https://xkcd.com/323/
Zero availability in half the state?
As someone who has worked in a lot of languages and now works in PHP, I think that while PHP still has some of the same warts it did in the old days, I am also understanding that given PHP is, for better or worse, a fundamental piece of web infrastructure, and that providing an upgrade path while also ensuring that they don't just break a large chunk of the web is less a matter of "software conservatism" and more a responsibility of the dev team.

And, if we're being honest, the reality is that for that chunk that would break, most of them would either not have a developer on hand to fix it, or would be what I call a "Wordpress cowboy" who has a WP site they set up five years ago that they never update, and the sum total of their development experience is installing various WP plugins until the site vaguely does what they want it to do.

It's hard, because on one hand, if we didn't have things like Wordpress, then PHP would be in a position to undertake more breaking changes that would overall give the language and its libraries the much needed quality improvements. On the other hand, without things like Wordpress, it does become somewhat questionable as to whether PHP would have survived the dark days of PHP4 and the early versions of PHP5.

In saying all that, the work that the dev team have done to add great features and solid performance, alongside the community which has done a lot of good things like PSR's and the PHP League libraries to me, is one of the key things that makes PHP still an attractive environment to work in.
Why does it matter? Researchers are wrong all the time, improving upon that is kind of the point of science.

It's a bit unfair that the GP calls him Vince from Youtube. He's a professor of virology so not just some nobody giving his opinion on Youtube. This doesn't mean he can't be wrong of course.
> then punch in a bunch of commands into the terminal.

Microsoft are learning - try uninstalling the "Your Phone" application in Windows.

(Google it, paste the command into an Admin Powershell ...)
While I prefer Ubuntu myself, we use Amazon Linux because:

* It has support for all new instances/hardware/services on day 1

* It's optimised for AWS, sometimes a bit faster than Ubuntu

* It has a good balance of freshness, stability and long term support

* It comes with integrations to all of AWS services and ecosystem

* It's the default choice, and often the least hassle

* It's fully supported by AWS

* It's the only realistic choice for some services (e.g. Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk)
This again reminds that having all your own population gotten 3rd jab (or n-th jab) won't make the pandemic disappear.

Meanwhile rest of the world hasn't got their first dose of a reliable vaccine.
Delta will spread faster. We know this from seeing it spread in countries that have low vaccination rates and easily outcompete other variants. This can also be seen in laboratory experiments.
PHP is elegant and useful.
The spread operator is ...$array is elegant. $var ? "not found"; is really elegant.
> The point of fish is that there is no configuration required.

I think it would be more accurate to say that the point of fish is that there is no configuration allowed. If you don't like the out of the box configuration, I would say configuration is still required, but it's unfortunately not available. If you happen to like every single decision the developers made, then I admit having no configuration does mean you end up with a simpler, faster, more maintainable shell.
I've always found the story of the webcam indicator shining through metal to be fascinating.

On MacBook laptops from ~2011, a green light would indicate when the webcam was in use. But the magical part of this was that when it was off, you couldn't see the LED at all, so it looked like this light was shining through the metal bezel at the top. This was achieved by drilling extremely small holes in the frame above the LED, small enough that they're barely visible without magnification but having enough of them that light can easily pass through. It's a striking effect, if you notice it.

To do this, they apparently bought so many high-precision lasers just for this feature that it created a shortage for other companies that needed them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-03/apples-su...
Minecraft Bedrock, which is written in C++, runs dramatically faster than Minecraft Java. (That's the impression I get from the comparisons I watched on YouTube at least.)

It's a shame for Java since the increase in render distance makes the game much more immersive.
I'd like to see someone try to make a kind of two part electric storage fluid that when combined create electric current. The spent part can be separated again at the fuel station. So you fuel your car with a three pronged spout, 2 spouts for the intake, and one spout to collect the affluent. The affluent is separated and charged electrically at the station. Hopefully we can make the cell out of base metals. We really cannot afford fuel cells with platinum being the main ingredient.
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I second this, I started with spacemacs, and then reinstalled clean emacs to get a good grasp of it.
You can pay a float/bush plane pilot to drop you off in the middle of nowhere in Alaska or BC for less than $1000 (depending on where) and have a great trip.
This is relevant: https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundati...

Automattic is now more involved in PHP so hopefully that'll enable some collaboration
Everyone commenting on Covid got something wrong at one point.
This article was on the same day as your YouTube video and paints a very different picture. So what's your source that the YouTuber has accurately parroted scientific findings?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/21/calls-for-n...
In our non-web app we do this. We have "special" grids for this which wraps our query as a subquery, does a count() so it can accurately draw the scrollbar, then uses limits to pull only the visible rows from the database.

When the user add filters on columns or sets sort order it's added in the where or order by clause respectively of the outer query.

This way we can easily show 100k+ rows (like, all their invoices or orders), the user can scroll and filter to their delight etc, all super-responsive.

Surely it shouldn't be much harder to support on the web if one wanted?
I'm curious why I've been down voted here -- I'm an EU resident, legally, and I am also Scottish -- so my EU citizenship that I was born with, was taken from me by the members of a country I consider rather different to myown, but who unfortunately rule over us due to pure numbers..

But I don't think I said anything offensive or false..

Fuck brexit, but also fuck fingerprinting foreigners (of whom I am now one apparently)...
Expanding on the local file competition: this is even context aware in some cases!

If you have four files starting with "A", one of which ends in .gz, typing "gunzip A" will suggest the .gz file.

Likewise for things like "git add" - as soon as you type an identifiable prefix to a changed file it will be suggested (eg if you only have one changed file in src/ it will suggest that when you type git add src)
Umm all the deaths?
What this is a response to: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671.

Even having read both, as an outsider, I wouldn’t know what’s going on.
Viruses sure fail fast, truly fascinating. Tirelessly mutating to spread and (I assume) survive. Do they serve as purely a "cleaning" function of nature, restoring balance... or do they seek global domination... even if it means destroying the host organisms they depend upon? Are they simply mindless, unintelligent organic micro programs or do they have some kind of plan?
Extremely dangerous view. It happened twice until now that humanity thought like this and we paif a heavy price. Time for "better panic than sorry" approach.
> Posix shell is clunky has its limitations but there's nothing really flawed about it.

I think shellcheck is the best argument against this. POSIX shell is just stuffed to the brim with weird gotchas, places where the obvious way to write something causes subtle bugs down the line.

It's the only programming language I use that feels adversarial, where you have to be paranoid to properly solve simple tasks. (Admittedly some of that is because of the reliance on system programs rather than the shell language itself.)