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> does being vaccinated stop you from spreading it to your co-workers?

It significantly reduces the likelihood that you spread it to your coworkers (and, perhaps more importantly, to the old and sick people that healthcare workers tend to serve). https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...

> what about all the WFH people mandated into vaccines? how does it impact that employer?

Obviously vaccine requirements for remote workers don't make a ton of sense in principle, but in practice I worry that an exemption for remote employees would result in a lot of people getting mis-coded (intentionally or otherwise) as remote and ultimately showing up at work unvaccinated and putting vulnerable people at risk.
Well they obviously mean that those 'stakeholders' are their shareholders.
Uh, one of the major selling points of a database like SQLite is that it writes out its contents as they get updated, and it seems like this is bulk overwriting the file (which could be dangerous if there's a power loss during writing)
Excuse me, what? You don't need to know CRT or indeed anything about the number theory except that you can divide numbers, the solution is simply:

for each ID in list:
next_departure = round_up_to_next_integer(earliest_time / ID) * ID
delay[ID] = next_departure - earliest_time
nearest_bus = ID with lowest delay
return nearest_bus * delay[nearest_bus]

That's it. I can think of only two other algorithms: the one that replaces division on the second line by repeated subtraction, and the one that uses repeated increments and checking whether the result is divided by the ID without a remainder.

How do you even use CRT to solve this?
For what it's worth, I'm not a (professionnal) programmer, and I can usually solve 80% of the AoC problems intuitively. That's OK for me.

For the other 20% where I don't even know where to start, I look up a solution on reddit, try to understand it and re-implement it myself, and learn something new. The 2020 day 13 problem mentioned by GP was indeed one of those for me last year.
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I personally find it really douchey. BTRFS definitely had this first and using such a name in full knowledge of BTRFS is just in poor taste.
Showing the dates of the last edit and the latest source at the top of the article solves this problem. No need to delete articles because they might be outdated.
> Congress has delegated the authority to make these decisions to regulatory agencies

Yes, but at some point there must be a limit to how much power they can delegate. If Congress created a new Super-Congress that it granted all the powers of Congress, I would contend that would be unconstitutional. It clearly goes against the founding principles of having three branches of government. That would be akin to the government creating a fourth branch without amending the constitution.

Amending the constitution is a process that is clearly defined by the constitution. If that process isn't needed to create a fourth branch of government, a change that changes the core of the constitution, what would it ever be needed for and why would they have included it?
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TCP will only slow down the writer if the network or the Kafka broker can't keep up. It the Kafka consumer can't keep up, their backlog will grow unhindered until Kafka runs out of disk space.

I wish there was an easier built in way to do it, but a producer could read the backlog length of it's consumers and try to throttle itself.
Beware when retread football coaches think they are "exercise scientists".

For a good example of how inbred the exercise field is, consider what happened when a serious researcher actually read the "references" in exercise textbooks and found they had nothing to do with the received dogma on the strength-endurance curve.[0] So what happened? The major journals refused to publish the article! This podcast episode has its Kafkaesque moments.[1]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339270774_The_stren...

[1] https://highintensitybusiness.com/271-dr-james-fisher-do-dif...
Ah, ok, those aren't freedoms, those are right. You started talking about rights and then started saying freedom, so I was confused. Especially when you talked about having fewer laws because of it.

And I don't believe if the precedent is set regarding freedom from vaccinations being a fundamental right. Won't that have to be decided by the higher level courts? I don't think we're at that stage of treason yet, are we? After all, there will be appeals, and I don't know if a district judge should have the power to charge and punish POTUS.
Exactly. I use it for email
> Given how badly companies treat engineers as soon as they have signed on the dotted line

Complete anecdata, but engineers have been some of the best treated employees at the companies I've worked at.
Well, pipes are very nice and useful for small processing tasks. "I want to know how often the word 'Parameter' occurs in the source files inside this repository." That is great! pipes are your friend. They are the fastest way known to mankind to solve this problem. But they are also fragile. You may not have thought about the fact that the word NoParameter also occurs in the code base and you did not want to count that. Now, when writing something big and complicated pipes simply cannot keep up. Nobody wants a browser that is actually 100 small executables that communicate over pipes. It will be horrible. The IPC mechanism that you are looking for and that can actually handle what is needed for a browser is called 'function call' and it was already quite popular when C was introduced....

The interaction mechanisms between services, e.g. REST calls, is somewhere in between pipes and function calls. They are a bit more reliable than pipes and less reliable than function calls. They can be used for more complicated task than what pipes are used for but should not be used for task that are so complicated that they need function calls.
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One note on this: the primary way that the U.S. system differs from the rest of the world is in the average length of sentence. At any given moment we have more people in prison because the people we put in prison stay there longer, not simply because we put more people in prison.

A startling fact: if you released every person in prison on a drug charge the U.S. it would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world. This is both because the reality is that the U.S. has a lot of violence and because we tend to issue very long sentences for violent criminals. This is a good thread that covers some of this: https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1376971131039666177

The article I pulled that link from is also very good, but it might be only for subscribers (I'm not sure). This is that article: https://www.slowboring.com/p/mass-incarceration

It covers a whole bunch of stuff that's relevant to this thread -- what kind of people are in prison, what kinds of crimes did they commit, what works to deter crime, why do we have such a high incarceration rate, what effect does policing have on crime, are longer sentences a deterrent, and so on -- and I'm tempted to quote it at length, but I think the best thing I can do is just link it and leave it at that.
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It is the 'Canadian experience' part that is a con. If he has experience what does it matter where the experience was?
I was an employee, past tense. I was referencing my own salary. I know nothing about the endowment so I can't speak to it.
Yes which's aggravated by many times the client having unrealistic expectations. It's a race to the bottom.
Progressive doesn't mean compassion. It did once for a period but society has progressed into something else. Progressive now means welding power over those views you wish to change for the greater good. Progressive became regressive.
Desktop web search is probably less the core business these days than making search work well on phones/mobile devices with specific applications, such as Maps, etc.
I don't "celebrate" their deaths, but when someone uses a position of authority to endanger others by discouraging basic measures like getting vaccines and staying 6+ feet apart, or by claiming the disease is a librul plot, and then dies of the disease, I can't help but feel some schadenfreude.

I still feel bad for their families. Not only did they lose a loved one, they learned the relative value their loved one placed on their lives. That is tragic.
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Please fix the headline to match the one on the article. The Hacker News headline is deeply misleading, because vaccine mandates imposed by US states and cities are not affected by this court action.
> This does not justify a title such as "Stripe applicants say ...".

So what is the number that would justify that title? I'd wager you would disagree with 3 as well.

So how many does it take according to you?
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It's ghoulish, but it's also just a very political version of the Darwin Awards and Florida Man, which the internet has collectively decided is acceptable.
>> we're going to see more companies do things like rescind offers for shifting business priorities

No. If "business priorities" are shifting that much between a candidates offer and start date, that company has serious problems. Also, most people in tech can be repurposed to some extent so a change in priorities doesn't mean changing staff or canceling a new hire.
Maybe someone figured out The Google Algorithm (TM/all hail the algorithm...) is allowing source code on dodgy sites, so they've created and marketed to spammers a script/bot to create these kinds of sites (or all the sites just belong to them) to farm that ad money.

A bit like how when "hoverboards" got popular, Chinese factories started churning them. And then when fidget spinners happened, same thing: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/how-to-...
I probably wouldn't boast about the number of cuddle parties one had attended.
What is scary is that Ethos Capital is made up entirely of ICANN affiliates. In other words, these are the same people that govern our domain names.

Pretty fucked up if you ask me. They are also going around buying up basically every major TLD.

Lease with ICANN and be subject to their price gouging forever or own with Handshake, the only thing ICANN is afraid of [1], and never pay again.

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/buyer-beware-not-all-...
I misread 19th century as 1900s. I wouldn’t call it Christian adoption, but there was much Christian suppression when many people were converting others, why would they need to be suppressed if it wasn’t widespread? It didn’t need to be commoners, it could be an elite ruling class that was Christian for it to influence society.

Japan had embraced western ideas and they certainly loved the Portuguese guns and were influenced by the west way before WWII in significant ways.
I’m very interested in Japanese Christianity, the story sounds fascinating.
I mean it does care about your age and your weight because it in 80% of the hospitalizations and deaths this is the reason of complications.
> Forcing care workers to take a medicine against their will is constitutional you say?

They are not forced to take the medicine. They are given an choice to take the vaccine or find another job. If they refused to take the vaccine, that is their choice, period. They cannot claimed they are being forced because they are given an choice in the first place. They are given a free will with their decision. Thousands of Thousands people screeching for being forced when they are given a choice. Society don’t have to conform to those people who want to endanger their people and their livelihood.
Could as well be insiders though and operations that were planned for years.
Any idea why they rolled it back?
I think they mean 1 second of program execution time :)
Even after acceptance, I continue taking interviews. Too much in between acceptance and start can happen, like being converted to intern from full time.

Companies value their employees in two week periods. Why do you value on a longer cycle, yet alone a potential employer?

There’s no reason for me to commit to anything beyond the paper when companies won’t.
Not a lawyer, but promissory estoppel may apply
Having a separate GUI Domain is going to be a big win for Qubes IMO. When testing out on my own devices, it was practically impossible to make UI changes (e.g. installing a menu-bar, switching to a different WM) without significant risks to dom0.

I'm hoping this will make it much more approachable for less "hardcore" users since it can be made to look good, without having to worry about the risks that come from complex UIs.
And what do you propose happens to vaccinated people who occupy ICU beds?

Or, for that matter, to other groups of people with an "illness that could have been prevented by a widely and freely available measure"?

A few spring to mind immediately – obesity first and foremost.

In broad terms, I agree with your approach: incentives at the personal level. Bottom-up. But in many countries (mine included, in EU), "health insurance" is really just a tax. There's no connection between your health & behaviour, and the "insurance" cost or fulfillment. So what you propose would essentially amount to privatizing health care, or at least turning it from an income tax into real insurance.
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One thing I've always found interesting is the small awkward moment that happens whenever an American and a Mexican meet after some time and proceed to "hug": The American will most likely go for the "shoulder bump greeting" [1] while most Mexicans would go for the standard "criss cross" hug [2]. The result is a couple of seconds of awkward close "dancing".

[1] https://shabait.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sept-21-artic...

[2] https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/16/14/50559763-0-image-...
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Just looked through the source, that is not a client! There is only a constructor to create a "Page" but the page has no methods, and there is nothing else exported.
> Fundamentally, I don't really see much difference between monoliths and microservices. In a monolith, you just call another function/class, but in microservices that function is a http call.

In J2EE that difference is a configurable technical detail. You have 1 service that calls another, and the protocol they use can be a normal function call, RMI, SOAP (or I think REST nowadays) depending on dynamic configuration.
I don't think I'd ever give this to a kid but it looks like a great gag gift for adults.
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Okay, here's a mercenary approach for you.

First, you and I sign a binding contract, notarized if need be, that if you make me an offer, and I accept it, and then you rescind it, you immediately pay me an amount equivalent to a year's worth of working for you. Better yet, you put the money in escrow and only get it back when either the job interview goes south, or I refuse your offer, or you make an offer and I do in fact get the job contract.
> In the real world, poorly designed microservices make the ball of mud problem much, much worse

I can see that. I am trying to reflect on why I have such negative experience with a monolith and positive with microservices. It's possible that in the monolith setups I had, poor design was easy by default. No linting, no cross-module ownership interlocks, very slow and costly production deploys. Likewise the microservice setups tended to make poor design harder since code is isolated by default both at compile and runtime.

Can you make a monolith with all the good benefits of modularity but without the complications of network RPC etc.? Maybe, but I haven't seen it yet. (Excluding trivial single-team apps; talking about at least 3 teams and 50+ headcount orgs).

> Asynchronous? Doesn't save you, when an upstream service changes event definitions and emits events with unexpected structure, and a downstream service starts failing

Sure, shit happens. Again my experience may be colored, but when costly mistakes happen in monoliths, it tended to take longer to roll back because of how deploys are structured both technically and on an organizational level. I think I would still prefer smaller units in this case.
I understand some of the frustration though. I was trying to do some audio processing work once. Found the paper(s), which promised code available from websites that are no longer available. Dug through the internet archive to find the zip files with the matlab code; managed to tweak it to run with the matlab version I have; found it works as described with the sample inputs, but crashes horribly on my inputs.
If virologists weren't talking about it, how did you learn about it? Do you know enough about virology (or immunology as this would be) that I should listen to you over them?

If the vaccines don't work, why do people in the real world die much, much less often from covid once they are vaccinated?

If you are so sure an immune-evading variant will emerge, why hasn’t one? (There is no evidence at all that omicron evades the vaccines).
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I went ahead and made a donation. I had been using the Internet Archive a few weeks ago to update metadata on my MP3 library. It's such a deep and rich source of information.
> Anyone who took a biology class and paid attention could have told you that an efficacy-killing variant was an inevitability

On what basis? It's proved impossible so far to make a strongly efficacious flu vaccine because of constantly shifting variants. But on the other hand, there are many examples of successful vaccines that have never had an efficacy-killing variant emerge (polio, smallpox, chicken pox). How would anyone who has taken a biology class know a priori whether COVID-19 would be a flu or a polio?
reddit /r/bodyweightfitness has a recommended routine in the sidebar. They say it is for beginners but their progressions go to some very advanced moves. The sub is one of the ones that is sort of eternal noobish but there are some pretty knowledgeable people there if you are looking for more progressions than they have on the wiki.
> Congress delegates the execution of its powers to the Executive branch

That's the Constitution, not Congress. Regulation, as well, is not execution. Thomas's concurrence on Whitman v. American Trucking Ass’ns signals where things might go.
"My salary is only $140,000 instead of $160,000? No catered lunch?? No on site haircuts??! And only 20 days of PTO?? Look how horribly we engineers are treated."
I was the same as you for a few minutes - I was demotivated and when I found out what was behind it I thought "huh I never learned this and I'm not sure how I would have ever learned this" and felt a little bit defeated. But then I read a little bit on the subreddit, read the wiki on CRT, put together a solution and moved on. It's meant to be a bit of fun, if you have to skip one challenge (or cut a couple corners) it's no big deal - you can always come back to it later :)

It can be demotivating if you check the number of people who solved it quicker you, but just pretend they all cheated off one really really smart person and you'll feel much better :D
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Why are you mentioning the CDC?

Do you know that the two federal mandates were issued by CMS and by OSHA, two completely different organizations from the CDC?

BTW, the law as written gives very broad powers to OSHA and other agencies. This is controversial mainly because one political side in the country is anti vaccine right now.
I dare say that even two are two too many.
I see “good certs” done by a truthful person shows me that a person can complete something, and they have the shared vocabulary to start understanding how that cert knowledge fits into their actual job.

Im always surprised at the lack of follow through I see at so many levels.
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In an altruistic and idealistic world, sure. But that's not the world I live in.

Personally, I find the ads histrionic and would like them to change. However, an article like this that insinuates something akin to malice or subterfuge instead of recognizing the reality of non-profit fundraising isn't helpful. That was my point.
I wish there was a file system that, when the CPU is unused, trawled the disk for unused files and transparently compressed them.
That would be one big RED ALERT halo, if they were watched by someone in realtime. Or some system. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Potential Perp entered perimeter!

Beep! Beep! Beep!
The South Korean smart home hack is the stuff of nightmares
Society is a cultural framework and does not in any way supercede individual rights. There is no greater good. The SCOTUS has ruled that states have the authority to mandate vaccination not the federal government. The federal government is extremely limitited in its authority by the Constitution.
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Why would they do that though? Why would they show you a low quality result if there was a better one available? I have pondered some of these sites as well. I think the answer is that they are actually helpful to some people.
Nobody is asking you to deploy this in your production system. This is about an experimental filesystem which supports exactly one version of the Linux kernel. It's neat to see progress in this field -- maybe try and learn something new?

And, the way to get production-ready code is to write a kernel module, with hopes that others in the kernel community will pick it up. Linux certainly didn't start out mature, but you're probably using it now.
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Not really my field, so wasn't aware of this. What certs are they typically looking for partners to have?

And I do see it from their point of view: certs are a low-effort (on their part) way to weed out obvious frauds and scam businesses. They're borderline useless, but are at least indicative of effort.