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What kind of perspective does one have to take whereupon they blame 'institutions' for 'reality'?

Have a look at the Quebec graph: [1]

In just 7 days, Quebec has gone from 'mid-low' levels and hopeful for a normal Xmas with Delta 'mostly going away' ...

... to a massive spike, the most daily cases ever seen during this pandemic, absolutely no definitive evidence that Omicron is somehow less lethal, and of course knowing that thousands have died from this already, and aware of the likely consequences?

Imagine having just a meagre bit of insight, knowing how those numbers relate to Hospital beds (they track that very closely), and that within just 1 more week, you're going to be totally overwhelmed?

Imagine being person with actual responsibility like a Politician, Health Advisor, or even Dean, major CEO, Provincial/City Official knowing that your failure to act will probably cause death?

It is what it is, we have to deal with it.

Closing gyms and cinemas for a few weeks while Omicron crashes through (and FYI Xmas season where people tend to gather) is a relatively small price to pay.

[1] https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/coronavirustracker/
Namecheap. Easy to use and never had a problem with them over the years.

You can use Cloudflare now too as a registrar but I decided to keep my registrar and DNS separate
It wouldn't be better necessarily. Generally you want to get the opinions of multiple doctors and do your own research and use your own judgement in evaluating the advice you're getting. The point is that in the face of such enormous complexity the difference between a layperson with a rudimentary understanding of biology and your average doctor is not much. The difference is more pronounced when you're talking about people who are in the very top of their field but those people tend to be quite open minded and curious in my experience. They have such depth of knowledge that they are aware of how little they know.

It's also important to distinguish between technique and knowledge. The difference between a layperson and their surgeon is enormous, a layperson and their doctor, not so much in the grand scheme of things.
I've long since come the the conclusion that most 800-page texts are terrible.

Nearly all very-large-texts I've read on technical subjects are poorly written. The early and later sections seem to have little relation to each other; Some parts will be too general and other parts too vague. It's like the author totally loses perspective.

There's a sweet spot of around 250 A5 pages where a subject can maintain consistent scope and have meaningful relationships between chapters.

There are exceptions, but they are few.
For a variant that represented 0.0% percent of cases a few weeks ago, that CI is pretty astounding.
> I've been on reddit for 14 years, trust me when I say they aren't the most dedicated liar in history.

> Don't believe everything you read.

You're not setting yourself up to be the most credible source here...
Modern CPUs will throttle or halt long before they fry themselves.
In fact the presence of life is negatively correlated with the survival of structures. One more thing to mess them up.
Unless your employer mandates it …
Yes, 80% vaccinated three months ago: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036136246/covid-denmark-eu-r...
> IMO this core apps should have had the UI fixed years ago and not have stuff still changed at each updated.

I don't think elementaryOS's visuals have changed all that much? Certainly nothing like macOS, which has gone from Mavericks → Yosemite/Catalina → Big Sur in the same time frame.
At least for some things, which I'd call more emotional health rather than mental health, I think it's possible. When I was developing an app for this about 10 years ago, my goal was precisely that: use the phone to check in more with myself and less with other people. I even hacked together a solution on Android where when I would receive a notification from Facebook or Whatsapp or whatever, I would also trigger a notification from the app to checkin with myself. Basically hijacking the attention seeker from the social media network and trying to redirect it towards myself.

While that little notification hijacking didn't seem to help much, the app I built for journaling really helped me get more in touch with how I was feeling and feel more confident in my ability to express it.
It's standard when using reflectic/catadioptic objectives to peek back at where the satellites are: https://www.astroshop.eu/filter-wheels-filter-sliders/starli...
This one has USB, the same style with manual operation via a teethed wheel is like 169 EUR at that shop.
Or consider rigging a burnt-out DLP projector's filter wheel up, which comes with a motor and encoder that you could use to capture imagery with the filters they provide at much higher frame rates (a few hundred fps in the monochrome domain seem usual these days, AFAIK, for good consumer DLP projectors).
"Stringly typed" programming gave us SQL injections, shellshock, and the log4j debacle. Not to mention probably 99% of processor cycles being wasted on parsing and re-encoding again and again from/to text-based formats that are in no way actually human-readable without the use of specialized tools.

When have you last browsed the web using telnet? It's all plain text, so you should be able to, right? Press Ctrl-U right now and get a taste of how readable it is, and even that is with the benefit of syntax highlighting.

On the machine level, processing binary data is effortless. At most, you have to swap the bytes around to conform to wrong-endian network byte order. Check that the length of the data fits into your buffer. Not a problem with Zig, or any language that doesn't silently ignore integer overflow as C does!

Scripting languages make handling strings seem easy, because that's what they were built for. And of course in most languages there are "mature" libraries for parsing JSON or XML. But all the fundamental complexity is still there. Each layer of abstraction may introduce some bug that can be exploited. Compared to classical buffer overflows, it may take several more steps to gain arbitrary code execution, but every bit of extra code you depend on still increases the attack surface.

Ideally, only user interface code should be dealing with strings at all, but legacy protocols may unfortunately require it too. This should be isolated as much as possible from the rest of any application, and not dictate what features are "first class" in a programming language.
Don't misrepresent them. It's a limitation. Not a feature.
Oh ok I didn't realize there was another cancelled project there.

Thanks I'll read up on it.
> Lottie has already displaced SVG for animation/motion graphics ...

Looking at the website, it seems like the file format is OSS but the creation side of things is proprietary?
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> Why not just do those things and prove to the people it doesn't work? None of those things are of any significant risk compared to already having COVID, and let the person have some medical autonomy... if they're going to die anyway, let the family know they tried what they wanted to try.

The problem with this is that in these people's minds, if <insert whatever magical cure to covid they know works> doesn't work, it's always some other factor than the cure itself that is causing it to not work. It doesn't prove to these people that those things don't actually work.

If the hospital administers the 10,000mg of Vitamin C, which won't work (according to what we know from medical experts), when the patient dies his family would just claim that the hospital didn't give him the right dosage, or they should've administered the vitamin C earlier, or the hospital claims that they administered the vitamin C but really didn't administer anythiung, or what they administered was not the right vitamin C / was not vitamin C at all. It doesn't cross these people's minds that maybe vitamin C doesn't work. Swap vitamin C with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or whatever other covid cure flavour of the month it currently is.
In the Pfizer trial for children 5-11 there were zero severe cases of covid among the vaccinated group or the placebo.

> not to mention helping prevent them from being an unwitting vector to sicken others around them

The covid vaccines don’t stop you from getting sick or spreading covid.

Combine these two facts and we have a vaccine that doesn’t appear to do anything at all for children.

And before anyone says the vaccine prevents severe covid, Pfizer must prove that. Their own clinical trial provided no such evidence.
> At a vanishingly small rate.

And, critically, at a smaller rate than get seriously ill from the vaccine itself.

As my college roommate used to say, nothing scares me more than an irrational person.
The plan is to prevent the hospitals from bursting way over capacity, and letting it do what it wants otherwise, basically.
> and a more infectious but equally lethal virus is going to kill a ton more people owing to the higher infection rate

Not necessarily, if the less infectious one was already infectious enough that nearly everyone was going to get it eventually.
> Looking at that, I'm wondering who is stupid enough to buy a new device from them like this

It seems this is more common than it should be. Apple users who complain of new products lacking features older products had, but who continue to buy those products come to mind.
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It does have comptime, which covers a lot of the same ground as templates (and generics, in other languages).
Some industries are so backwards and difficult to disrupt that many companies can just continue operating this way for many generations of staff turnover.
A lot of what you wrote here resonates with me. But all of it takes a lot of time to pull off. With COVID, we don’t have that much time.
https://archive.md/2O4Xw
Long Covid is hard to accurately track. Most of the studies rely on self-reported symptoms, very hard to apply scientific rigor.
I really like cloudflare registrar. It’s a simple, cheap, no frills service from a trustworthy company.
You know, I saw that about Cloudflare and made an account just now, but couldn't figure out how to use it as just a registrar without also signing up for their main DDOS-protection service (even if there is the $0 tier). I'm not really worried about DDOS attacks for my site and the idea of being forced to set it up rubs me the wrong way.

Am I missing something, or are these products really entangled like they seem to be?
> it’s watered back industrial ethanol

usually that is what you hope for. Sometimes the seller would claim that it is off-book ethanol supply from the liquor or medical industry - no way to verify of course. On the very bottom of the range is pretty "dirty" ethanol and even occasionally methanol (couple months ago there were 2 clusters of 80+ such poisonings in the regional cities in Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methanol_poisoning_inc...), though you usually don't venture that low. In a smaller cities and of course villages you'll also meet moonshine. Once back then we bought in a normal store in a small town several 1L jars of what happened to be moonshine which had their wide mouths capped with single use cap - i.e. you open the jar and consume it :) Which is what we (me and 2 crewmates) did with the head of local police and the driver of our loaded (~10 tons of construction supplies) truck while waiting for the ferry to take the truck and us across the river - to say honestly, as the jar at the ferry crossing wasn't the only one, we lost the truck that day and found it couple days later missing about 10% of the cargo :)
Not anywhere I routinely travel in Manhattan. Sidewalk booths have been there since June or July.
It’s a problem when I have to report all my hours and “twiddling my thumbs due to corporate incompetence” is not a valid time code. But yes, it should be if that’s how they choose to go about it.
I don't see anyone seriously using it in production, outside of the Zig ecosystem itself, so long as this remains true (from the posted link):

> The Zig standard library is still unstable and mainly serves as a testbed for the language. After the Self-Hosted Compiler is completed, the language stabilized, and Package Manager completed, then it will be time to start working on stabilizing the standard library. Until then, experimentation and breakage without warning is allowed.
>Do you remember when Java was the hot new thing? No, probably not. You’re probably too young.

I do. But no one hyped Java as the Silver Bullet or the Holy Grail. There were many known trade offs. ( Performance, GC, Memory usage etc ) And we were allowed to discuss those trade offs.

I never read anyone actually disapprove Rust for its absolute ability to provide memory safety. Nor any inherent distaste for Rust. It may be a difficult language to grasp, but that is about it in terms of negativity.

But when Rust Evangelism StrikeForce demands every single piece of new software to be written in Rust otherwise they are deemed unsafe. One have to question whether any additional Rust hype ( at the time when RESF were still active ) is simply adding fuel to fire, without also adding some balanced view on draw backs.

Technology evangelist, despite my hatred against the term as it should simply be "marketing", is somewhat a necessary evil in order to gain traction and critical mass. But the key word here is critical mass, not world domination, unless you are a marketing and PR genius like Steve Jobs.
I often say "I don't understand..." because I'm willing to concede that sometimes my viewpoint is incorrect and I'm interested in correcting my views. Also because sometimes saying "I don't understand" is enough to get someone who holds an invalid/incorrect/unhelpful belief to restate their viewpoint clearly enough that they can see the problem with it (but of course that requires the other party to actually engage in a constructive way). And sometimes I say "I don't understand" because it's just more polite than insulting the the misinformed person.

For example, when I said "I don't understand" to your "Still just a cringey excuse..." comment, what I was really saying was "this sentence is poorly written and hard to understand, and you also clearly don't understand the context of where the term actually came from".

When I said "I don't understand" about assuming people are bad actors, I was really saying "you seem to be using the assumption of bad intent to mask your ignorance about the things you're talking about".

So now, I'll say I don't understand why you're nitpicking my use of the phrase "I don't understand" instead of responding to anything of substance I said.

By this of course I mean that it's clearly easier for you to attack my intellect than for you to self-reflect.
Fun fact: this is called a Harris Shutter effect when it's done for art purposes.
I had a similar issue like 5 years ago.

I just called up ASUS and shipped the board to them, I paid the shipping cost and they reprogrammed the BIOS for free, besides shipping.
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Because if you shoot your gun out a window, and hit someone who has flung themselves off the roof, you’re still guilty of murder.

If a doctor prescribes something without a reasonable (proven would be nice) expectation of a positive effect on the patient, and the patient dies, the doctor is at a minimum a target for a malpractice lawsuit, and at most liable for murder charges.
i think it’s just bad UX. my understanding is that Citadel acts as the market maker for Robinhood. if it ever can’t provide liquidity for a trade, you need to handle that case explicitly. make it clear to the user where liquidity comes from and how much of it there is, otherwise they can’t reach for any cause besides “Robinhood (Citadel) decided to pull a switch”. order books used to serve that role: i’m not sure what the solution is in this era of HFT.
A sad story for sure, and I don't doubt that it is real. But I can't help but wonder, considering how many people have actually been infected with the virus and miraculously survived, are these stories the rule, or the exception?
> Run as fast as you can away from doctors and other healthcare providers who think like this

For every 1 person who actually has discovered something useful or accurately self-diagnosed with some very well-done research, there are surely 10,000 complete idiots who have swallowed hook, line and sinker the first nutball result they read, which they now believe 100% and if you don't agree you're an ignorant, indeed murderous enemy.

It's completely understandable to me why doctors take this stance.
People trust banks.

People trust by default, when there's no big flashing red warning sign.

People trust when there seems to be no alternative since no bank is competing on the finer points of security.

People trust when it looks like others trust, because there's safety in numbers.

People trust something more the longer they use it without it biting them.

All these heuristics can be wrong, but they're more practical than a theoretical analysis. Trying to reason about things going wrong is too much effort and can easily leave out a crucial factor.
The public health agencies put out a lot of information, if you want a good example of one go look at Bonnie Henry (British Coloumbia) weekly addresses, she goes into great detail about measures taken etc.. They'll tell you exactly the genetic breakdown of the variants, which groups are getting what and why, whether it's schools, travellers, unvaccinated, homes, they'll tell you how many beds, how many 'overfill beds' how many surgeries postponed, how many staff, how many left due to no vaxx etc..

Just because you don't know what the plan is, doesn't mean there isn't one.

Provincial and Federal entities are in constant contact with their peers in Europe, the US the WHO etc. there's a lot of information going around.

Anyone who has been in such dynamic operational circumstances (i.e. the Army / Armed Forces) knows what facing chaos is, and generally speaking, as the saying goes 'No Plan Survives Contact' - it's more about managing information, preparedness/training than any kind of specific tactic.

And FYI, the #1 tactic by far, thus far, has been vaccines. The data from all the provinces fairly clearly shows that the pandemic exists mostly among the unvaxxed, to the point that if we had near 100% vaxx, I'm not sure if R0 would be anywhere near 1, i.e. it could not spread. That said, Omicron is a game-changer in that regard.
Speaking of backing things up, research has not shown that “it spreads a lot less in the lungs than in the nose”. The single study you’re referring to was measuring growth in tissue cultures, so we don’t know how transferable those numbers will be in vivo.

I’m hoping for the best, too, but let’s not continue the tradition we’ve had during the pandemic of saying “you’re worrying too much” and being wrong.

Today’s Science on this: https://www.science.org/content/article/early-lab-studies-hi...
let's check out https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i..., which has probably been used to enable "crimes against humanity". integer overflow results in undersized allocation which is indexed out of bounds. if c++ had either overflow checks or bounds checking as the default, how likely is this bug to happen?
Are you suggesting that losing weight wouldn't help this woman's nasal condition? What basis do you have for that?
https://covariants.org/per-country ("The raw data behind these charts comes from GISAID")
We know that natural immunity (don’t forget it’s not forever - it doesn’t protect against sufficient mutations) is going to happen so the idea that it isn’t recognize or wasn’t recognized is incorrect. What we are concerned about is how many people have to die from a preventable disease while this herd immunity naturally comes to bear.
4-5 (ish?) Years ago there was a lot of media coverage about how kodi was a "piracy app" because some cheap set tops were shipping it with bundled torrent (etc) plugins. There were various legal threats against the project itself. Worth searching for in hn archives, lots of good discussion about it and how much of a coordinated smear campaign it was/n't.
From what I understand, ivermectin has a fantastic safety profile if taken at the correct doses. For the 5% of the population that wants to take it, I truly don't understand what harm would come from letting it be prescribed and just giving them the pills with proper instructions and dosages, so people don't die from trying to self-dose with preparations meant for animals or obtaining it from sources that lack quality control.

I would really appreciate it if someone would explain to me what the reasoning is for this not happening. Like most people here, I'm an educated professional, and I've watched hundreds of hours of video from actual doctors about the pandemic, and I still do not understand the reason.
Mozilla didn't rewrite all of Firefox in Rust--they didn't even rewrite most of it. The decline in Firefox share came well before anyone seriously contemplated moving pieces of Firefox into Rust, and all you can say is that what was rewritten didn't do much to arrest that decline.
Ditto. Has ALL the codecs. Listening to music on it right now (Stars of the Lid).
They have throttling, and the newer ones are definitely "thermally governed", but without a heatsink to provide thermal mass, I'm not sure if they can react quickly enough to stop going over the limits. That said, a CPU with a heatspreader will have more mass than a bare die.
Piracy is a moral obligation.
And that's why reading a book or an article is 10x better than listening or watching a lecture.

There's another perk of reading: one may easily jump back couple of words or even sentences in case they need some clarity. You can't do that with A/V-recording.
"I cannot because of the law" is a very different answer than "I will not, because I expect it not to work".

Also, there have been court cases recently where courts have ordered doctors to give alternative treatments, so it seems that the legal liability problem does not cover all cases.
It would be nice if Zig had statement- and expression-level comments, similar to how most Lisps let you comment out whole S-exprs (which still have to be valid). Then it could allow variables that are referenced only from such comments.
> The IDE takes longer than the terminal and is much less consistent

I don't think that's true given tsc in the terminal needs to cold-start.

Do you only do back-end? Let me paint the picture of a front-end workflow for you:

- You are using VSCode or InteliJ, there is no way to opt-out of typescript, so even if you prefer the terminal, the IDE already runs tsc

- You update the code, IDE tells you error. If you are running TSC in the terminal, it tells you error too, but why would you switch to the terminal to see what you already know?

- You've just change the string in your tsx, why isn't the browser updated now 2 seconds after the change, don't you do this like a hundred times everyday, why put up with this for some terminal message you never read?

- You run tsc in git hook/CI too, so for any version of the code, tsc runs 3 or 4 times: once in the IDE, once in the terminal and once or twice for CI & githook. Doesn't it sound dumb?
I can take a shot at a tip on weeding at pretenders as a marketer: Ask them to describe, in technical detail, what the software does. Ask them about challenges the end user may have going through the process of using it. A bad marketer is all about creating a scummy sales pitch to get a quick buck. A great marketer is there on the frontlines understanding exactly the functions of the software and how they solve the customer's problems in implicit or explicit ways.