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>The attitude exhibited by GTK and GNOME developers on their issue trackers and the unstable nature of KDE apps on Wayland has made me cynical about GUI on Linux.

I think you're misinterpreting the attitude, or rather that attitude is the same anywhere. GTK and GNOME developers might just be more honest about it, they're fairly limited in what they can do so they can't really fix every single issue on the tracker in a timely manner. That attitude is the same thing with KDE, they have limited time and so can't stabilize things as fast as they'd like. I'd say use Windows or MacOS if you want an OS that is stable and don't want to deal with the limitations of Linux, it's quite far behind on the desktop, and using things like i3wm or swaywm is putting it even further behind because those don't comprise a complete desktop.

>And yeah, I would use KDE apps but they're almost unusable on swaywm on Wayland so I've stopped using them as well.

The problem there is the same, nothing is really native to swaywm or i3wm so you'll probably find that most apps suffer usability issues on them. That's been my experience with third party window managers. If you like KDE apps you probably should use KDE for the most reliable experience.

>I'll focus on creating and using only command line tools and TUIs. Unlike the GUI mess that we have, they are mostly platform independent and can be used almost anywhere.

TUIs have a number of other issues so I can't really suggest those either, you're forgoing a lot by making them. There are no perfect options for platform independent GUIs, everything is a trade off. I would personally suggest making web apps or Electron apps before I would suggest TUIs.
> and I honestly think the title itself is kind of cringey.

..Thank you!!
You omitted the parts that are actually problematic.

I don’t give my mortgage company a copy of the keys to my house.
The other related factor is omicron is more likely (than other variants) to infect someone who has been vaccinated or previously exposed to covid. So the number of infected low risk individuals is higher, than with previous strains.

The denominator is higher than if, let’s say, delta was let loose in the same population at the same time.
Which countries don’t do this? What China is doing is bad, but is this some sort of new development? Russia, Germany, France to name a few have been caught doing the same thing. Not to mention the USA.

Facebook and Twitter need to handle this issue. This type of stuff is going on meanwhile they’re banning people for the stupidest most innocuous actions.
There are a lot of classical examples of the incoherence of biological systems -- a very common one is some nerves on the neck of giraffes[0]. On this analogy, the most important part is that you're never, ever, in the millions of generations of DNA, allowed to do a rewrite. Only small, incremental changes, each one of them giving the organism more fitness than before. No abstraction can survive this constraint -- a legacy codebase several decades old that's never seen a rewrite is already an unintelligible mess. I think the code analogy holds here.

[0] https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/vo...
Let's look at years of life lost, then, shall we?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3

> YLL in heavily affected countries are 2–9 times the average seasonal influenza

And that is after all the societal changes to deal with the disease.

I personally think that YLL of 2-9x the flu after mitigations clearly justified the mitigations.
It's in the article in the form of a chart. But if you can't see because of the paywall, you can look up the same data on this page: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mapping-s...
UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track quantum position
What happened to their hydro after 2002?
They already pay north of 30 eurocent per kWh, among the highest in Europe, for electricity generation that's like 40-50% coal and gas.
Neat. I want to play Galaga online with someone else using this!
Some reflexes do happen before the signals hit the brain, they go through the spinal cord and back to your limbs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544292/
Is this Tailscale’s library imported into Go’s stdlib?
The Dreamcast is still special. It never made big waves in Australia, so I bought one secondhand in 2016. My childhood was spent playing the PS2. The Dreamcast library and the whole ‘attitude’ of the system is quirky and refreshing. Playing titles like Shenmue and Jet Set Radio is still so enjoyable. If they had a 3D GTA on the system I think it could have helped.
It works! But... hella slow with games like Gran Turismo 3. Vaguely on par with PCSX2 in Windows in VMWare Fusion, if not slower. (Fusion can run DX10 stuff on Mac, while Wine and VirtualBox can't.)

Previously I assumed that PCSX2 development for Mac stopped around 2012 with 0.9.7. Can't remember what was my result with it, but possibly the same.

I guess the problem might be with the embedded GPU of the Macbook. Which is still telling, if a weak modern GPU can't handle a system from 2000 while being able to run games from mid-to-late 2010s.
Oh, come one! I spent most of my childhood in Minsk, 380km north-west to Chernobyl. Now in Europe my only worry is the blackout plan in case of power shortages, not the nuclear plant 60km on the east.

I am always amazed how Germans are irrational about nuclear while nearby countries have a mostly pragmatic attitude. Even in Belgium the nuclear phase out is fake and every politician knows it can not be enforced until Netherlands build two new nuclear powerplants 20 years from now.
From the quote: "we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work."

Emphasis on "when they weren’t doing school work"
If Putin was shutting off gas to flex it would been great, but he isn't, what is happening is Russia is not having enough gas even for themselves, if this was just diplomatic strategy, diplomacy would convince him to supply more gas, the real fact is, there is not enough gas in first place, you can do whatever you want, there won't be more gas.
Yeah deaths have been creeping up for the last week, hospitalizations for the last two and a half weeks. Hospitalizations are actually now at about 1/3 of the Delta peak. This is all roughly consistent with the timeline for previous strains (hospitalizations lag cases by about 10 days, deaths lag hospitalizations by about 2 weeks). The specific growth rates are a bit lower than what would be expected based on how quickly cases went up, though.

I think we'll see total hospitalization and death rates peak at anywhere from 50-100% of the Delta wave, but over a much shorter time period, commensurate with higher infectiousness but lower severity. The severity may be simply because it's no longer an immunologically naive population.
And that theory about viruses becoming less deadly isn't an universal rule in the first place. For example, smallpox and measles never got less deadly. In many cases, the virus becoming less deadly is because the population acquired immunity from vaccinations or previous infection, not because the virus evolved that way.

In the case of covid, one important thing to consider is that people are the most infectious before they develop severe symptoms. Therefore, there is less selective pressure towards making it less severe.
Questioning things isn't a bad thing. I consider a conspiracy theorist to be someone who believes theories are fact. I'm just saying I don't know. I don't think the pandemic was planned but it's good to keep an open mind. I'm more skeptical about the response to the pandemic than the origins.

I know "misinformation" was being thrown around for years. The Mueller report and 2016 election are great example of the media spreading misinformation. Most of the Russia-gate stuff has been debunked by now including the Steele dossier recently. I actually believed a lot of that stuff at first because I hated Trump so much.

In case you missed this: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/analyst-...
Don’t worry about it; he saw them.
This is very bad news for pharma profits!

There are at least some people who have figured out the right covid policies, because some of them are running NFL. NFL has ruled that asymptomatic players who received the initial round of vaccinations don't need to be regularly tested. With the rise of omicron, populations of healthy young people whose families have access to health care don't need to fear infection and don't need "boosters". Of course, many families in USA lack access to health care because capitalism. NFL can't directly be held responsible for that, although many NFL owners are billionaires so they can. [0]

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
When shaping public policy, narratives are more important than data.[1]
From my observation, it seems that the procedure is to set the narrative up, make it simple, broadcast it from as many channels as possible and censor, threaten and insult people who present data that contradicts the narrative. Works really well.

"A good narrative soundly beats even the best data."

[1]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/01/how-narratives-influe...
Thank you. It is mind boggling to me how politicians and scientists (well, mostly MDs) keep talking about exponential growth and make horrible predictions, without realizing that exponential growth is never sustainable - a logistic growth is what often happens in reality if resources are limited.
This varies a lot by region. Where I live, everyone wears masks in Costco - I'd attribute this to the government mandate, but people did not stop wearing them even when the mandate was lifted. They have also closed the schools again.
Dude. This is not Vietnam.

Let us compare the NYT manufacturing track record considering ... Iraq.

This will not stand.
Pretty good one here:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-updat...
No, that's conspiracy theorists stuff. Of course, they can maybe get access with a court order.
So it's fair to say that Germany's reliance on lignite could be nonexistent by now if they didn't keep decommissioning their reactors?
100% agree, however that didn't stop me from wondering if the creator of this site was smart enough to create this same website but find/replace "olivegarden" with "<insertfranchisehere>" x100
> Eventually there was no way of keeping up with the queue

A chess congestion pile up... sounds like an event stream rook-ie mistake. :-)

Seriously congrats to Lichess for growing. It's an amazing site. Donate if you can.
Years ago, when I ran PUA site, I set up a fake female profile on Match to see what the female experience was like. It was truly horrifying. In three days I got ~1000 messages from men, 99% of which were barely intelligible and usually one line, like "dam gurl u nicce" etc.
On the subject of oversimplified exponential models, we don't even need covid data to know this to be true. The fact that there is a duration of an individual case being contagious is enough to make that obviously incorrect.
Germany's wind and solar is only possible because neighbouring countries compensate for when there's no wind and sun; which happen a lot of the time. On top of that wind and solar production must be bought first on the EU market, effectively ruining CO2-free capital that was there beforehand (read: nuclear).

So these charts that you show only demonstrate that Germany was first to jump on wind and solar production. Great for them, but now wind and solar in neighbouring countries are much less profitable when they'd be less correlated to Germany's huge wind and solar capacity.

Perfect play in a game-theoretic setting, but damaging to the neighbours and the actual goal of CO2 reduction.

Now, let's review some live data: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
What is the point of going into Go generics posts on HN and making a point to mention that core Go developers were against the feature, which is incorrect, but also shows there's some axe to grind against that team. Is that to show they're less smart then they think they are?

I swear there's at least one top-level comment such as yours in every thread, for no reason other than just to discredit people's work. I find it disgraceful.
Most people that died were 60+ years old
I've basically given up on trying to figure out what the right response is to Omicron. I've seen moved on to trying to figure out the hidden incentives of the hysterics and the covid deniers. I've since regretted moving on from the first intractable problem.
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One report [1] (of many now) about Omicron being less severe than Delta:

"Overall, we find evidence of a reduction in the risk of hospitalisation for Omicron relative to Delta
infections, averaging over all casesin the study period. The extent of reduction is sensitive to the inclusion
criteria used for cases and hospitalisation, being in the range 20-25% when using any attendance at
hospital as the endpoint, and 40-45% when using hospitalisation lasting 1 day or longer or hospitalisations
with the ECDS discharge field recorded as “admitted” as the endpoint (Table 1)"

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...
Monoclonal antibodies have to be administered in a clinical setting because they're administered by IV, but they also work best when administered early (diminishing returns after five days[0]), whereas most hospitalizations don't occur until the inflammatory phase of disease, in the second week. Remdesivir is/was the only antiviral being regularly given to patients with severe disease, probably out of a desire to ration it and only use it for people with the worst cases, but that's probably why it didn't really work very well, and is now mostly being abandoned[1].

The drugs that are most effective for hospitalized patients aren't antivirals, they're immune modulators: steroids like dexamethasone, and IL6 inhibitors like tocilizumab (which technically is a humanized monoclonal antibody, but not against COVID, and doesn't have any sort of antiviral mechanism of action).

[0] https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/home/meetings/id-we...
[1] https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20201120/who-...
so people doing more creative writing will not really be able be able to rely on it for collaborative editing etc. as those are the users more likely to write something that will look like a violation.

What would be a good collaborative platform for creative writing?
A great example of why you as a techie should be using your own recursive resolver.
Is this true? The mRNA vaccines started phase 1 trials in March of 2020 and we had them being used by January of 2021. What would slow down this vaccine’s timeline compared to the mRNA?
That graph is also incapable of clearly showing that deaths didn’t budge even if that actually is the case. The stroke on the deaths line is like half the total height indicated when the cases started to surge. Based on that terrible graph deaths could have tripled since cases started to surge.
Likely the UPS can't run HVAC, and you are in an overheat condition in about two minutes with a fully loaded data center without cooling. Proportionately longer as load is reduced.
> I’ll move back to one of them just to vote the governor and health director out.

Am I correctly understanding that you intend to move to a different region for the sole purpose of voting against restrictions that otherwise would not apply to you? You’re literally trying to be a problematic immigrant.

I remember when I was in college a bunch of people did exactly this. They registered for residency in the state solely so they could vote a single issue in a state election. Specifically they registered so they could vote for Mississippi to keep the confederate flag as part of the state flag. So you’re in great company.

Honestly, isn’t the whole “state’s rights” thing about telling other people to fuck off and let them manage themselves? And here you are thinking you should meddle in someone else’s self-governance.
Why do people still care about covid ? Vax your old people, stop getting tested and live like before.

The faster we get everyone infected the faster old people who didn't get vaxxed will either recover or die and after that the ones who die we can't do anything for them.

Trump was right (by chance) all along, that's just some kind of flu, the only difference is that it's the first time our body sees it.
Yes, who were not vaccinated as it didn’t exist for much of the pandemic.
Thanks, builtwith.com is a pretty useful tool too.
Merkel wanted a pipeline that just happened to terminate in her district you forget to mention.
She may have a physics degree but she is a politician and I have a feeling she used her political education more than her physics on this one.
Ah, it was a while ago. Government civilians also had "GS<some number>" pay grades, but it was less easy to find out what <some number> they were, since no uniforms.
People got these requests to their personal blogs. The complaints aren't that someone at Apple had to reply to a fake request, but that people who are literally just hosting tiny websites for the fun of it are getting these letters.

If a random teenager sets up a Wordpress site because it looks fun, I contend that they shouldn't have to wonder whether it's legal. Down that path lies insanity.
No, we always ran on TLS. There were a few classes of these:

* Filtering MITM application firewall solutions which installed a new trusted root CA on employee machines and looked at the raw traffic. These would usually be configured to wholesale kill the connection when they saw an UPGRADE because the filtering solutions couldn't understand the traffic format and they were considered a security risk.

* Oldschool HTTP proxy based systems which would blow up when CONNECT was kept alive for very long.

* Firewalls which killed long-lived TCP connections just at the TCP level. The worst here were where there was a mismatch somewhere and we never got a FIN. But again, because we had a rapid expectation for an acknowledgement, we could detect and reap these pretty quickly.

We also tried running WebSockets on a different port for awhile, which was not a good idea as many organizations only allowed 443.
> The monopoly on dating is definitely not tinder… it is: real life.

For how much longer?
It’s gone from 20 to 40. With some rounding and cherry picking of dates.

This time last year it was over 400.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-afri...

3 day average is only 48 deaths per day in all of South Africa. We are at the 3 week mark. If Omicron was half as deadly as Delta we'd be seeing a corresponding spike as we saw the initial burst of cases weeks ago. We're not, it's a slight uptick. Another week and we can be quite confident.
Oh good point. I know that is the case for the US South and I find it somewhat silly that media in the US always blames southern surges on anti-mask and anti-lockdown sentiments but the winter surge in the North is new variants etc. without all the victim blaming.
First of all, the new German government adjusted the phase-out of coal power to be as close as possible to 2030. 2038 was more a bad compromise by the previous government.

And yes, nuclear power can be dangerous as Chernobyl and Fukushima have shown. Those dangers could probably be addressed by new reactors, but those are very expensive. The big problem are the existing old reactors. They are not as safe and require a lot of maintenance. A few years ago, Germany only had 4 nuclear power plants running through the whole winter as 4 others were down for longer maintenance. Then there is the problem where to plut all the nuclear waste, Germany doesn't have a long-term storage facility (though search started in the 80ies).
I keep hearing statements that seem to boil down to "any assertion of some objective fact or standard is racist", which is utterly nonsense. Statements like that make it sound like someone's afraid everyone will discover that some race is worse or better than some other race, so "let's just de-legitimize objective reality" to cover for it. It's about the worst thing you could do if you're worried about racial/racist problems.

The problem isn't objective reality, test scores, etc. The problem is that racism (and many other evils) persist in people's hearts. Only love and truth can overcome that problem.

I for one hold to the objective truth that "all men (and women) are created equal". Go put that in your pipe and smoke it.
They disclose a bias: "Those dying from COVID-19 may be an at-risk population whose remaining life expectancy is shorter than the average person’s remaining life expectancy"
> You can store your data encrypted.

You can, I can (actually, I run my own file servers, even better).

Average person can't (won't even be aware they should). We could say let's educate people (yes, let's). But really, infrastructure should be neutrally available to everyone like roads or the old POTS network.

It can only be achieved through regulation, since these companies will always be self-serving at every step otherwise.
And most people who were infected were not vaccinated
Any and all of these possibilities (vulnerability, illegal, or both) must be legalized or otherwise reframed as a cost of doing business. Every human deserves to be informed, whoever they are, regardless of status, wherever they are in the world. That we've allowed blackbox proceedings to take over these small quadrants of human society is a societal failure. The burden to secure such systems shall always fall upon the makers of those systems.

Let me be very clear that any excuse made under the veil of security including the enshrining of such in our books of law is incompatible with a society that respects the dignity to live free. It is a vicious abuse of power by those with knowledge over those robbed of it.
Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it. It would be hellish, you couldn’t even talk about it without a police visit or your boss passing trouble along to you. A giant human spirit grinder
How is web3 going to avoid the spam problem that prompted rel=nofollow in the first place?
It's more akin to a CNN guest not disclosing the fact that they're on the CCP payroll and will have their opinion influenced as a result.
So I actually paid for subscriptions to a couple of these news sites and they keep forgetting my session and lack a deeplinking feature to their app which doesnt forget my session

I would rather they starve due to lack of revenue at this point so they actually do something competitive
That's a great list!

WHen I search on a different web search engine for "c" with my default web search engine that says it respects privacy, I start getting results for the C language about 5 items down from the top -- Pretty Good. When I search on said search engine, the C language Wikipedia article comes up first -- Excellent. Said engine also auto-fills programming language when I start to type that after io. My "respectful" web search engine doesn't auto-fill quite as quickly. If my new and extremely poorly named programming language is popular enough, the web search engines are able to figure it out.

io is the 5th result even on https://search.marginalia.nu/