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I still play this game virtually every other day in it’s unbeatable SEGA Saturn port. Killer 2 player action.

I’m lucky enough to have an actual cabinet at a local arcade here in Toronto - given it survives Ontario’s ludicrous treatment of small businesses during COVID - and I’m consistently amazed at how well the game holds up after 30(?) years.
I heard this conversation at the beginning too. We all expected this fizzle out before now.
>presuming differences between races were due to genetics

Its not a farfetched presumption that natural selection continued after the emergence of the homo sapien species. What is less likely is the notion that evolution magically stopped above the shoulders while geographically distinct human groups spent thousands of generations adapting physically, culturally, and likely cognitively to drastically different environments.

>OP seems to be trying to whip up a moral panic to suppress speech

These accusations of racism are the moral panic. This is pushback.
You can stop an airborne virus quite effectively with a correctly fitting mask with sufficient filtration.

It is indeed true that wearing a mask with high pressure drop for a long time can be bad for you. You could try to find one with lower pressure drop and try to mostly stay outside and not wear it so much. (Or you could wear a poorly fitting mask such that lots of air bypasses the mask, with worse results.)
Thanks! I updated it and replied to the parent comment.
GP's point was that Omicron has outcompeted the other variants, and it's not dangerous enough to need to be protected against.
The satellites are responsible for half of the near-misses in orbit, according to research by Hugh Lewis, head of the University of Southampton’s Astronautics Research Group.

considering starlink satellites make up about half of low earth orbit satellites, i guess this isn’t saying much…
Both of these can be false (or mostly false). For example at most big firms, performance based comp has a known upside. Something like your bonus is x% of your salary multiplied by some performance indicator based on your eval, and the max is like 2x or something.

Similarly, salary bands can have soft caps, where growth becomes harder as you're further from the minimum, but never becomes impossible. Neither approach is necessary better, but all are used in different places.
I use Rectangle currently but it doesn’t auto-tile. Not that I can find anyway.
>and is easy to breathe in with

My understanding is that for Covid your mask is expected to filter exhalation, protecting others from any virus you may have in your system. My understanding is that masks do very little to protect you from inhaling unwanted virus carrying particles.

Of course, it seems to me that a good mask should really be doing both jobs at once, with a good seal. Which means no beards and headbands. My understanding since the beginning of this pandemic was that everyone was going to get this bug, it was just a matter of "flattening the curve". So, why are we still talking about masks? I sometimes fear that the right has turned it into a political issue, and in response the left has ALSO turned it into a political issue, instead of a rational one.
I could point out how an ICE Bus vs an EV Taxi is not a dramatically different use-case, could point out how ridiculous it is acting like an M11 in a rust belt public transit bus hitting a million miles without an overhaul is "w/e"...

But I don't think your reply is meant to further the conversation, but rather to present a distraction: whether for self-satisfaction of stating the obvious or to divert the conversation from the actual point... why else would you just conveniently ignore the bulk of the comment?

So allow me to bring up more examples instead:

https://www.motortrend.com/features/million-mile-tundra-the-...

https://www.cars.com/articles/1990-honda-accord-owner-crosse...

https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=24960

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28991860/the-milli...

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When you're done finding nitpicks about those we can also just look at how unreliable they are for everyone not going 1 million miles:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-reliability-model-s-3-...

And if the common diversion to "oh that's just fit and finish stuff" comes out we can go to:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/drive-unit-replaceme...
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/drive-unit-replaceme...

> Of the vehicles that have been reported to the Plug In America Model S owner survey, 32% of the 2012 model year cars have had their drive unit replaced at least once, 27% of 2013's, and 18% of 2014's and so far none of the very few 2015's reported. As you can see, the older cars have higher numbers. Is that because Tesla has improved the newer cars or because the newer cars haven't been on the road long enough for them to see the issues yet? To answer that question, one has to analyze the data using methods from reliability engineering. That's what the folks a Green Car Reports did; see page two of their article for more details.

Recalls are one thing, imagine there are mass production sedans from the last decade where 32% of owners needed a new engine? We're not talking about a F1 cars here, run of the mill sedans.

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Oh yeah, and you get into gems like this, where they're having so many failures that now they won't replace parts that are functionally broken because they're not broken enough...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/drive-unit-now-they-...

Imagine taking an ICE with a rod knock to the dealer and being told "that rod knock is not loud enough and you can still drive so we're going to let it go"

(For reference a dealer would take apart the engine and find what's wrong under warranty, Tesla will send you off until it fails I guess)
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Sorry if I come off as stand off-ish, it's just such a boringly plain conclusion that I can't believe it even has to be said in so many words.
What were their gripes with Lomberg?
The two are not mutually exclusive.

I find most N95s easier to breath in the many cloth masks simply because they actually hold their shape and don't collapse into your mouth every time you inhale.
In my opinion, they also smell quite bad when new. If you air them out for a day after opening them, then they don’t smell any more.
Since when did highlighting text copy it? That would be a true nightmare for me as I use highlighting to focus when I read, extensively.
I guess I can stop wearing this mask when I spray paint too, it makes it so hard for me to breathe.
3M 8110S is quite small FWIW.
no worth refuting because you have zero evidence that they work.

All the empirical evidence (like the epidemic curves in countries that do require N95) points that they don't.
For someone who can think critically and solve problems, translating a solution into Python is the easy part.
Afraid if it? I am and have been hoping wearing masks is a forever thing.
YouTube banned most videos from “JCS – Criminal Psychology”
Exactly.

That's what OP meant. Those logic are defined by business and then translated to implementation logic by dev.

Today there are many situations where one can remove outsourced dev shops, if business themselves can implement the logic that is there in their head. Lowest hanging fruits are perhaps internal IT Tools and workflows.
Really sad to lose so much educational content.
So why do cooporations have equal rights with individuals and not equal responsibilty with individuals?
You don’t trust the mask your wife made for you using material from an old t-shirt and a pattern she got from the internet? /s
It'd be interesting to see people getting denied a religious exemption against shaving because some bureaucrat wanted to flex a bit more power a bit longer.
Ah I see the confusion now. By intermediary I meant "trusted intermediary" (e.g. like PayPal, Visa, a bank, etc.).
Maybe not to you, but there are a lot of youth who never get filled in on that fact.
"and in at least one instance, a forged report was presented to a court as evidence" perjury is absolutely news.
It takes more effort to wear an N95 than nothing. But it’s certainly not impossible, and for most people (including my overweight, out-of-shape self), it’s not insurmountable.

It’s like wearing pants. You’d have a lot more mobility if you didn’t, but we do it anyway.
It was very well publicized back on summer 2020. How often do you want the CDC to repeat it?
Imagine showing this article, complete with the date, to someone from March 2020. Two years into the pandemic and the news media is just finally getting around to recommending that people wear basic respiratory protection? They would wonder if our manufacturing capacity had been destroyed in a war!

This whole pandemic has demonstrated abject failure of our institutions. It was very easy to pin it on a terrible micromanager whose most intelligent moment was brainstorming that people could inject bleach, but it's not like the CDC did an about face when the "experts" were left to their own devices either.

High quality N95+ masks and face shields should have been distributed door to door by USPS as soon as the manufacturing capacity became available, as well as testing kits that they're just finally rolling out (credit where credit is due), hand sanitizer, and whatever other Covid paraphernalia I'm forgetting from the past two decades^Wyears. Using any of these things is inconvenient and uncomfortable, but the point of leadership is to show people the right direction, ask them to do the work, and to acknowledge that it is indeed work. Instead we got pandering to irresponsibility and performative altruism, and laissez faire choose-your-own-solipsistic-adventure - want to sew ersatz masks from old shirts and pretend you're not in an industrialized society? Cool! Want to pretend to fight creeping totalitarianism by assaulting a grocery clerk? Also cool! Unsurprisingly, Covid Likes This :thumbsup:

One of the last things we need is even less faith in our public institutions and general society, but downplaying the scope of the failure out of tribal loyalty isn't the right thing either.
Can you share the sources of your information on this?

I sympathize with your view on this, because I've heard a lot of seemingly contradictory information on this. But if we're going to sort this out, I think we need to go beyond stridently stating our individual conclusions.
My point is that at a population level, the multiple of reduced severity * vastly greater infectiousness appears to be a net higher overall impact in terms of hospitalisations and deaths.

This is especially the case for countries which have to date managed to contain earlier Covid variants. Australia comes to mind.

Or China.

Masking to slow spread seems highly apposite.
For those that aren't aware. It's pretty easy to write an escrow smart contract which ensures both parties got what they signed up for. But anyone falling for this scam definitely isn't going to ask "Can we use an escrow contract to double my money?"
I'm still not sure how comes we have inflation closing in to 10% but banks are willing to give me mortgages under 3%. Somebody is getting suckered here, and I suspect it's me, but I am not sure yet how.

> Somebody out there is getting a 2.75% cash flow in a 7% inflation environment

Everybody with cash savings, I guess. Savings rates are abysmal for a while now. Otherwise, not sure.
I’m not asphyxiated, but after 15 minutes in a KN95 I can definitely tell that something is on my face. I had zero problems with cloth.

It’s fair to say that opponents have overblown the negatives, but there are negatives.
“The Early Days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan Linux.conf.au 2022
You might be able to delay it a bit. You won't be able to prevent it. The virus is here to stay and everyone will be exposed.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
are spray painting particles the same size as a virus? ... something to ponder
That was actually what I ended up doing too.....but then I miss having tabs and go back to the system terminal, and Allacrity explicitly doesn't want tabs. Argh. It's all so anoying.
Take a look at the people who work in the types of labs this virus leaked from: they're not wearing N95 masks, they're wearing full body positive pressure suits. Not PAPRs, because even the P100 filters on those don't filter viruses, but positive positive pressure suits with air plumbed in from somewhere else.
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Since the beginning, I have been using N95s when I'm actually worried about catching the virus and think I might be able to prevent it (like grocery shopping early on, flights, etc.) I use cloth masks pretty much everywhere else for compliance or because I think the situation is low enough risk.
I'd guess that over 95% of people using these masks are unable to keep a seal on the mask. I'm still capital S shocked that we have not invented some better sealing system. Every time my glasses fog up, I know that whatever "protection" I am getting is nil, especially with omicron.

The OP is not "removed from reality", they are correct. We had many ways that we could have significantly reduced transmission - e.g. moving the majority of life outdoors (outdoor classrooms, outdoor restaurants/food-carts, outdoor shopping farmer market style). No one wanted to do this at any serious scale.

We need to do things that actually stop the spread, rather than continue useless healthcare theater. Design masks that can properly seal for the majority, or they are useless. Mandate uber drivers to have their windows down during drives - Mandate airlines to not pack people like sardines (which will NEVER happen).

Don't try to take this contrarian attitude with folks like this, it just makes you look like an ass. OP is not an anti-vaxxer. OP is not trying to hurt others. OP is frustrated y the lack of efficacy of current mitigation strategies.
gasp... come back to earth. Of course you can, with the right fit you are basically filtering it out. What's so hard to understand
Can you please share some sources that led you to this conclusion?

I don't have a settled view on this, and I'm eager to find good sources of information.
Gee. How about a license to be able to live? Isn't that where it is at?
Yep, works for me

Thank you
The field can't help being click bait with a name so loaded with implications that the work does not back up.

e.g. that the warp fields studied would be capable of causing something to move.
That's the one I use and it covers really well. The only downside is that you can't put it on super quick.
Crypto scam is redundant.
Well, I mean, i understand the size of an airborn virus particle and the effectiveness of an N95 at filtering said particle sizes.

Virus aren't magic.
> How sad that it has taken this long to reach acceptance that you need a mask capable of filtering the air you breathe.

A lot of us were lied to about masks at the beginning of this, so it's not terribly surprising.
The CEO of my local provincial health authority Dr. Michael Gardam had some comments on N95 masks. He said visitors to the hospital here were asked to remove their N95 masks and were given medical/surgical masks instead. Partly due to not knowing how old or contaminated the masks were of visitors but also for mask performance issues.

Dr. Gardam said, paraphrasing, N95 are good at filtering when you breathe in but when exhaling they are not so great (poor fit?). The medial masks were good filtering both in an out maybe not as good as the N95 for filtering inward of very small particles. N95 are best at filtering small particles but larger droplets can be filtered by either the surgical or N95 masks.
> It’s time to admit defeat and plan for what that looks like and stop pretending like anything at this point is going to make this virus go away.

This isn’t defeat though? Winning doesn’t mean nobody gets the virus, it means we’re minimised ham and impact as much as possible, where possible.
We might all get it, but there’s no reason for us all to get it at the same time and cause undue stress on our hospital system.

> really don’t see the point unless you’re immune compromised or at some other high risk

Because I have an active lifestyle and don’t really feel like risking chronic fatigue or lung damage unnecessarily? Because I have things I want to do, and having to sit at home isolating and being sick impacts my social life negatively? Because even if it’s not covid, I’m kinds of liking not sharing the air with that random person on public transport with some infection?
> The lack of CDC guidance on this point speaks volumes as to how serious this is.

It speaks volumes, at least. Heckuva job, Brownie.

I'm still flummoxed by Fauci's -- let's call it -- equivocation about masks being pointless, for which he later apologized and explained he was trying to conserve the supply of N95s for medical personnel. There is certainly an admixture of manipulating the public to achieve a desired outcome (rather than leveling with the populace) and gross incompetence and callous indifference at play.

If they really believed it were that serious, I hardly trust they'd do any more than cover their assess.
> In reality, the Jyske mortgage borrower in Denmark is likely to end up paying back a little more than they borrowed, as there are still fees and charges to pay to compensate the bank for arranging the deal, even when the nominal rate is negative.

Ahhh, there it is. So they probably just make Central Bank finance their fees, using borrowers as a conduit. Clever.
3M Aura’s cured my fogging glasses.
Its not unlike the travesty that has befallen our once informative channels: natgeo, discovery, animal planet...though perhaps not quite as extreme. And the National Geographic magazine has been obsessing over woke politics for a decade now as well. Its a damn shame to lose these institutions to such blatant politicking.

Across society we seem to be regressing to the lowest common denominator. Entertainment, education, consumer goods, advertisement...this can't be sustainable.
Except that key binding for copy and paste are application specific and not always configurable, so indeed Linux echo system does actually stop you from making that sorta mod.
The Delta and Omicron variants are sufficiently contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect to protect those who otherwise lack immunity. Instead we expect almost everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other therapies are pretty effective at preventing severe symptoms.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
In most cases, the productivity tool is about the habit, not the specific tool. If a text-file todo list doesn't work for you, try something else. However at the end of the day its the habit, not the tool that is the most important thing.
I’m more drawn in than I expected. Something about this reminds me of Stephenson’s writing:

> The senior officer concluded, perceptively, that, whatever we were attempting to do, we were far too incompetent to do it properly, or to cause too much trouble along the way.
I just checked the data from https://covid19.who.int/ and Austria had 93 cases per 10,000 last week where as USA had 164 cases per 10,000. Which seems like a significant difference.

I don't know if Austria mandates masks but your last sentence doesn't seem to hold up according to WHO.

I know South Korea mandates masks and they had 5 cases per 10,000 last week. :)
Cooking with a flame is _natural_, visual, and instinctive.

Cooking with induction is like cooking in a video game in comparison. No thanks.
An ipad with archive access to the old scientific americans. I have one from the 1890s I got in an antique store and it's great.
I'm sure doctors wear them just for show... :/
I did find it very interesting that the people most excited about masks were, for the most part, not particularly interested in masks that are actually effective.
Not only was the doubling part from Runescape but this kind of live stream-replay tactic was also first used for phishing Runescape accounts when Twitch first got popular. They would replay developer live-streams with 'use the link below to log in for free RS membership' subtitles, and view-bot the streams to the front page of RS twitch. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guys who pivoted to crypto to target much more foolish victims.
It is reporting "not affected" for me on Firefox stable and nightly. It does show a list of domains at the bottom that it would check if the brower was exploitable.
Intentionally corrupting popular libraries by maintainer
I think this is interesting story on many fronts from both an ethical front as well as systems to communicate better exactly what packages are being used.

Right now, many packages are deeply dependent on other packages. If at a wrong time, things could break, and worst, timed correctly, malicious code in at some random interval that may go uncaught.

What is the correct direction we need to head as developers and the toolings needed? This is not from perspective of just the maintainers, but this makes the point that breaches and unauthorized pushes could happen.
The original "no code" dream (ie programs would be written by dragging boxes around in a UI) could have led to this. If instead the future of software becomes large ML models, software engineers will be critical. Feeding the right data, managing configuration and deployments, debugging issues all require software engineering skills.
My understanding is that there are relevant factors beyond just particle-size.

So I could be wrong, but I don't think we can get away with such simple reasoning.
Gaming was always the one thing that kept the more tech-savvy on windows boxes. I know it kept me there for a long time as a teenager.

If that can be broken, I don't think 10% is infeasible. Though I think Microsoft would have to really screw up to lose their status as the "default" OS.
Even if Omicron is 10x more contagious and not serious enough to require 1/10th hospitalizations than previous variants, the load on healthcare system doesn’t become lower than previous variants. Use of Masks slow down the rate of infections enough so that healthcare system doesn’t get overloaded again and cause more deaths and sufferings of both Covid and non Covid patients alike due to system load and failure.

When I read comments like yours, I am very glad that I decided to stay in Japan at the start of COVID-19 instead of returning to US. Here majority of people wear masks, irrespective of type and fit, when they leave home and take off only after returning home. Only taking off mask when absolutely needed such as eating or drinking.

Wearing mask is all about reducing viral load rather than preventing infection completely.

I hope for better critical thinking and logical reasoning and discourse on forums like HN. But I guess I have become too old and jaded.
It boggles my mind that the general public, media, and even healthcare workers treat N95 mask as if they are as good as it gets. Industry routinely uses elastomeric half- and full-face respirators with P100 filters, and they have been easy to find in stock again since August 2020.

P100 is a comparable grade to HEPA, both 99.97%. Respirators are more comfortable and seal well easier than purely fabric masks, they don't pull on your ears, they don't fog glasses, it's just silicone making contact with your skin instead of gross wet fabric so they are much more comfortable. They are also much more effective for smoke and pollen.

I wear a 3M model 7502 face piece with model 7093 filters.
It’s easy to get caught in compliance paralysis.

Generally speaking, masks will be designed or optimized for heads in different sizes. Until you get to really young kids where they don’t fit, there’s no magical reason that they won’t work.