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The Maddie de Garay story is tragic and history will not look kindly on the unnecessary censorship of an injured child in Pfizer's original clinical trial. They could have used that incident as an opportunity to demonstrate the protocols for investigation and prevent of similar injuries.

It's promising that there will be slightly higher regulatory standards for the Omicron vaccine: clinical trial in humans must be completed before approval and clinical trial data must be submitted at the same time, i.e. no 75-year delays.

> the debate appears to have shifted with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) saying on Friday that international regulators now preferred clinical studies to be carried out before approval of a new vaccine ... Inclusion of clinical trial data in the regulatory filings may have an impact on the delivery of initial batches.
I made a macro because it was more complicated than just S.Y. It was more like `Something.get_stuff().unwrap().things`
Never had a lockdown? Tell that to all the parents whose kids didn’t go to school for months and months and months.
It is so impossible that it is the actual use case they are selling?

" The system found a match in the background of some photo taken at a trade show (the guy was working a both). It only knew the website the photo was from, which allowed the police the identify the trade show, which allowed them to track down the people working at that booth to find their suspect."
Of those, the only thing I see as being actually significantly beneficial to the public would be the story about expired Covid tests.

Knowing that a former gubernatorial candidate is/was a meth head isn’t a crowning achievement.
A valid question— certainly there's a school of thought that says one process per container, end of story.

However, there are lots of applications out there (especially legacy ones, think stuff like Zoneminder) which are made up of multiple small daemon-type processes sharing state across ports and maybe even the filesystem, and have a strong reliance on system services like cron or log rotation. Yes, with effort an application like this could be be fully "ported" to a container-native setup, but the path of least resistance is often to just make the container environment present as being more like a full VM.
I appreciate why we’re all calling this a mild illness in the grand scheme of things, but I am a healthy individual (vaxed and boosted) who got absolutely creamed by Covid earlier this month for about a week.

I was completely useless around the house and am still having trouble getting my breath under me.

To be fair I was never worried about having to go to the hospital but this is the sickest I’ve been in at least 10 years.
I have my own collection of these and would also like to see a pastebin of yours!
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To me moving beyond senior means you enable the entire team to contribute together accomplish Big Memorable Things.

This can mean a ton of things, which cannot all be served by a single senior+ engineer:

* mentorship

* seeking out, establishing, and evangelizing best practices, and not just coding best practices: architecture, documentation, testing, ci/cd etc

* high-level architecture knowledge and experience

* evaluating technology choices: tooling, databases, orchestration platforms, etc etc

* assisting management and product with scoping and prioritizing work

* the ability to put your head down and crank out a solution to something in code simply because it needs done and you can do it better and/or faster than others

* laying the framework of a greenfield project, maybe sketching out the codebase or POC for juniors to take and run with

* ...and so on and so forth.

A single person may be able to contribute all these things to a team over a time frame of multiple years, but in a 3 or 6 month time frame, most mortal engineers could only contribute two or three.
I’m really strongly rooting for Deno. I’m even implementing my current passion-project on it (https://github.com/brundonsmith/bagel). But I have a couple of significant (but solvable!) criticisms, if anybody on the team is here.

1) The documentation for the standard APIs is extremely wanting. The main, and weirdest, problem is that it seems almost impossible for search engines to index (or at least DDG). I can search for very very specific things, and still get kicked to the home page and have to manually navigate to the part I’m looking for (and the navigation is also pretty difficult; I often can’t find the thing at all and have to rely completely on editor hover-overs for documentation). It can also be confusing- some things like certain standard APIs appear to have multiple conflicting reference-manuals? And it can be hard to know which one is current or correct. Even getting past all the obfuscation, the docs are just ok. They often leave out deeper details (this last part is less of a problem and more understandable, this being a young project).

2) The VSCode extension still needs work. It’s usable, and better than nothing, and it’s better than it used to be, but (ordered from most to least significant):

- When I open certain files - usually bundles or something; maybe files outside of the project directory? - the language server crashes over and over and over, each time popping the terminal back up to show the output and distracting from what I’m trying to look at. This doesn’t happen with my normal, in-project Deno files at least.

- It doesn’t have auto-import as you’re typing like normal TypeScript does; you can auto-import by clicking the lightbulb, so I assume it’s a relatively short hop to plug that in. Makes a significant difference in flow.

- It chokes on absolute import-paths in Windows. Thinks they’re malformed remote URLs.

- It has caching issues sometimes. I’ll change some type in one file and other files won’t get the updated type until I close and re-open them, or sometimes the whole editor. This is uncommon so it’s not a huge deal.

I list these criticisms because I want to see Deno succeed. Switching from using TypeScript on Node (with the build steps/configuration, ad-hoc testing and linting, and Node’s pathological legacy APIs) to Deno was a huge quality of life improvement, even with all these problems. Brought to its full potential, I think Deno could be a revolution.
Help Chile write free software values and digital rights into their constitution
https://www.howtogeek.com/402888/looking-for-a-microsoft-sig... looks like they dropped the program
you mean my roommates were right all along??
Knowing when to loop in others is one of the skills that makes a senior engineer. Too early and you end up wasting other people's time. Too late and you end up wasting everyone's time. Finding the sweet spot is important, but it's also important to learn which questions to ask. It's one of those skills that I wish could be taught, but it seems something you have to get a feel for over time.
"Made in USA" has fairly strict rules. You can sneak some components in but it needs to be negligible and not misleading.
You are wildly incorrect. Intellectual property rights were invented by ~500BC by Greek colonists in Sybaris (Italy) predating the invention of movable type and the use of gunpowder in warfare by well over a millennia.
I'm at 50 years and I remember seeing live television pictures of East Berlin and wondering if what I was watching was black and white or color (black and white TV's were still pretty common) and it was always a shock when there was an unexpected splash of color in an otherwise gray and dystopian hellscape on the TV. Turns out the cameras and everything were color, there just wasn't much color from the environment for them to relay.

For those so quick to shit on capitalism how about proposing something better? Yup, it's flawed, but that doesn't mean it's still not better than anything else we have tried.

And the current flavor of the moment, socialism/communism, sure as hell isn't the answer. Want a good synopsis of how well such systems work in the real world? Grab a copy of the book of "The Hunt for Red October". Skip to the middle where they describe why Ramius's wife died and in particular why it was such a senseless death. Clancy does an awesome job of summarizing the biggest problem with any system that doesn't franchise every participant or provide them with natural incentives to execute their own enlightened self interest.

Yup, there are aspects to capitalism that suck - but the answer isn't to chuck it wholesale for some pie in the sky replacement, but instead work on the aspects that suck. Many of them are well understood - most people can't be bothered to get off their ass and actually do something about it; preferring to bitch online and wait for someone else to fix it for them.
Except the divers are probably Marines. Enemies which are probably well trained and armed. No Dolphin will bump on them and place a device on their back...
The good thing is you have a ton of code on the Internet to use to test it. Unlike a dynamic language reimplementation, a static language transpiler can check if the results produced are identical to `tsc`
> (2) release of highly-contagious, low-lethality strain should be in the pandemic playbook.

political and ethical suicide
This is one of the things that keeps me with Apple. They're far from perfect in the reliability front, but they will keep supporting the software for much longer than I expect my phone to last. Looks like the oldest phone they still support is the 6s, and typically they support phones for a bit under 7 years after launch, and 5 after discontinuation.

Obviously they get slower and fewer features, but that's better than "Good luck LOL".
Try out https://calyxos.org/, their support is exclusive to Pixels, but without compromising security.
>This implies, then, that if it is rational to discriminate against young people, the same science must say that other groups which are protected from discrimination by the State are at least somewhat more mature than young people.

There is absolutely no such implication and the rest of the arguments in this article, which use this implication as a premise, become invalid. Other groups that have protection against discrimination do not enjoy said protection on the basis of their maturity or even on the basis of any scientific finding. They enjoy that protection as a fundamental principle, mostly because groups fought for that protection irrespective of any kind of scientific or rational consideration (other than the rational consideration to be protected from violence).
They're computer chips, not regular chips silly.
Super skeptical that porting this to a new language is going to have the kind of performance gains they expect ... assuming they want to replicate all of tsc's functionality
Hey, I'd gladly move to Latin America and work/consult part-time for a lower wage, if it means getting a better work/life balance.
For a whole computer stack, that's true enough.

Injecting malware in a single small widely distributed program and remaining stealthy for any length of time is a lot harder if it's open source.
This is the same chemical (denatonium benzoate) that's used in fingernail-biting-prevention aids like nail polishes; it's very bitter, but non-toxic.
Just FYI if you actually want to taste it, the bitterness is in the sticker, not the cartridge itself.
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Accelerate on the M1 is ridiculously fast (thanks to its special core set and specific instructions).

Some benchmarks I've done has it beating out CUDA on my RTX 2070. I have to got a proper gflops number though
> $1M seems ridiculously low.

If you see the entire picture, it's the most expensive cost any department can ever present.

it is a "revenue-less $1M"! pure Career suicide.

Specially because marketing can't even use it. today only false-equality sells. Eco-thinking is so 90s.
That's already the norm. However, not all jurisdictions pay out what hasn't already been paid in.
Do you need the whole solution or just a way to validate answers against them? The first n characters of a hash would work for the latter. For the former I'd encode it into something like base-122[0] or something else equally esoteric.

[0]http://blog.kevinalbs.com/base122
It doesn't have to be a megacorp. Looping new people into a deep problem takes time, and can kill momentum if not done in a strategic way. Your personal time on any problem is finite, and you can exhaust that time-budget on bringing the wrong people up to speed. This is doubly true when the other person isn't on your team or in your organization: e.g., bringing in vendor support. (Maybe your experience is different; in mine, bringing in remote experts doesn't guarantee a faster resolution.)
This title hurt my brain.
I think it’s reasonably clear SoftBank’s stewardship of Arm has been poor - sure they have invested but the Arm China move backfired badly and this Nvidia uncertainty has also hindered Arm’s development.
SSI paper had Pfizer/Moderna 2 shots at 55.2%/36.7% for Omicron and waning quickly enough to require a booster within 5 months of the last shot.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
> 4 is an absolutely terrible alternative to vaccination. It's like saying if the boat sinks I'm going to either swim or put on a life vest.

I don't dismiss it prima facie like you do here. On one hand you probably have small but non-zero damage from the vaccines (putting aside the controversy of supposed significant damage). On the other, you supposedly have the ability to keep damage from the disease to also small (but non-zero) by early treatment. Plus, you get immunity to more proteins in the end. At least some studies out there indicate that infection-based immunity is stronger and/or longer lasting than vaccine-based.

But again, the reality of the situation may very well be as you imply. I just want to steelman their argument. I'm also rather skeptical of their claims about mitigating damage with early treatment, but maybe.

> 2 prior to vaccination was absolutely horrible nonsense.

I have mixed agreement here. As it pertains to careless massive spread of the thing, I'm with you.

As it pertains to individual choices, I really think it's a value judgment. Do you want to live life hidden away for this unknown period of time, the government apparently moving the goal posts over and over, etc etc? Or would you rather just take a risk in life like you always do, albeit a bit larger one than usual? Or maybe you're close to the end of life anyway, and you're willing to risk dying to see your grandkids one last time? etc etc.

I've always had zero judgment toward people who make this choice in as much as it affects only them. I was close to taking this route myself (in a controlled manner) winter 2020-2021 if the vaccines didn't come out. (On the other hand, I've had a lot of judgment toward people in as much as they affect others. It's been a tough couple years for me as a libertarian.)

> If you hold position 2 the only logical way to proceed would be to take protective measures prior to vaccination, vaccinate, then get infected.

This is more or less me, other than pulling back during hospital surges.
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Wait. Why "can't" Clearview comply with the order?

Don't they know the identities of the people whose photos they're scraping and storing? Thus, don't they know if those people are Canadian or not?

Or is Clearview just lazily scraping photos from the web etc. and storing whatever random username or pseudonym is attached to it, giving _that_ in search results? In which case, they should 1000% expect to be taken to task by jurisdictions all around the world for their gross overreach.

Wait, plus, isn't the very premise of their business just 99.99% pure IP infringement? They don't even have the legal right to use images posted online just because they're accessible. They are protected by copyright unless CC or public-domain licensed...
Maybe toxic is the wrong word. Perverse maybe. But I don’t think that being a good worker bee often gets people past the senior level, at least from what I’ve seen. But also getting past senior is rarer, so maybe what I’ve seen isn’t representative.
Another 2016 SE user chiming in. Other than a Battery Swap, everything still works great. I can get on the internet, send texts, make calls, do facetime.

Screen is still in perfect condition, but I'm not hard on screens. Camera is fine, sure others are better, but for snapshots the camera still works great. Speed is a non issue for me, as don't play games on the thing. All the apps I use putt around just fine. Battery... I would love for it to have been easier to replace.

I did recently replace my partners SE with a 13 mini because of the battery. It had been through 4 of them, 3 apple replacements and 1 I did. I believe that it was a hardware issue that was killing the batteries. I'll keep using this phone until the current battery dies or I can no longer use my banking apps due to lack of updates.

Personally I like the size of the device the most, followed the fact apple has kept it up to date for so long.
62x improvement is not achievable. 6.2x might be.

edit: I see they are running it with 8 threads, in which case yes 50x is achievable. In any sizable codebase though, you should probably split into modules and run with some parallelism via e.g. `wsrun` or `turborepo`
*if subject to that system
Not even one U.S. presidential term.
Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/oxytocin/comments/7n1r1n/my_oxytoci...
Isn't the idea of webassembly to compile native C/C++/Rust/Whatever code to be able to run in the browser?

Why not just compile OpenBLAS or another computer numerics library like that to WA?
So, lead paint actually tastes sweet, which can explain why kids who don't know better will eat it.
Even if it was as mild as flu, with its much higher rate of spread hospitals would probably still be seeing a big surge.
>The EC retains control of the fans because an OS process could crash, starve, or otherwise fail to do its job in a timer manner. Without that code running, the hardware cooks itself.

I mean, there's no reason why the EC can't be the default and the emergency fallback for fan control and the OS takes over after boot. Apple got this working on Intel MacBooks, I'm sure Windows and Dell/Lenovo could too if they wanted to.
Save you a click:

“A bittering agent (Denatonium Benzoate) has also been applied to the game card,”

To prevent children from eating them.
There is CardDAV sync built in to iOS Contacts, but I don't think the person who programmed it actually tried using it. When you create a contact on the iPhone, there's no reasonable UI for putting it in a group (it can be done, but it's ridiculously hard); and only contacts in groups are synced via CardDAV. So in essence you can't create contacts on the phone.
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Milo and the Magpies
Point and click, puzzle, adventure game. Beautiful art style and music.
Your statement is essentially "given OPs current state and prior probability of him making a mistake on the job, and the action of taking modafinil, that probability increases given the OP takes that action.

Which is not an accurate statement.

Modafinil is a nootropic, which means that it can increase attention, therefore decreasing the chance of a mistake. The probability that someone will experience more wakefulness and attention is high in this regard.

And it being FDA approved lowers the probability of an adverse reaction that can cause someone to not be in the right mind and make mistakes to a very small number, which accounts for things like heart conditions.
Wait, didn't people make this exact same argument about the alpha variant (B.1.1.7) that had a massive worldwide surge around this time a year ago?

What happened--why did we go on to have delta, omicron, etc. surges?

Or put more bluntly--why should anyone believe that *this time* omicron will be any different than the past variants which were touted as finally bringing herd immunity, but failed to do so?

Why is it that every surge seems to bring the exact same arguments and people saying "don't worry this one will stop the pandemic"? I've been reading it for two years and still haven't seen it happen anywhere in the world.
Sony is older than Apple and was one of Steve Jobs' main inspirations. He even wanted to make everyone wear uniforms (which Sony and Nintendo still did then) - that's where his same outfit every day habit came from.

They weren't focused back then, but neither was Apple.
> [...] I just don't like sports [...] Most sports enthusiasts actually like what they're doing so it's easy for them.

That's true, but some people worked to find a sport they like. Personally, I like trying new things, which is how I found a few sports that I like (mostly weightlifting).

I think it's worth trying to find something you like, especially if you enjoy new experiences. If you find a sport you like, then it's a new hobby you can enjoy, and getting healthier is just a nice side benefit but not the main thing IMO.

> It's important to enjoy life too.

Just fyi, being healthier usually means you enjoy life more. I mean, depending on how unhealthy you are. Though to be fair, just dieting to lose weight is in most cases going to improve both health, and how you feel on a daily basis, quite dramatically.
Okay, yes, I agree with all of that. Flakes are kind of a module system, but having clearer semantics around functions and classes would definitely help with both code readability and producing better stack traces.

And a proper type system would be awesome.

Regarding docs, it is interesting that portions of the nixpkgs source do seem to have docblock-like comments above the functions, but AFAICT there's no formalized process for extracting or rendering those. Given that https://github.com/nix-community/rnix-parser exists, I wonder how big of a leap it would be to actually extract those, render them into rST pages, and generate a searchable Sphinx manual.
Interesting, in theory you could make a rough js to golang compiler given the relatively strict subset of typescript that I recall the typescript compiler using (not that the strictness means a fully sound implementation is easy, but that you can use the regularity to cheat text transforms)
We have big plans for something quite similar to this. Stay tuned.
Eh, I don't really mind if the batteries are a pain to replace as long as they only need it every 3-4 years. Especially if the tradeoff is that the battery is bigger and more water resistant thanks to its internal placement.

I recall back in the era of user replaceable batteries they tended to not last very long, and were of incredibly spotty quality.
tldr, driving laws that restrict when and with who 16-17 year old permit holders can drive with may not be completely rational.

Unlike racism, islamophobia, antisemitism, sexism and other forms of bigotry, you will likely outgrow ageism against youth. That's why it (rightfully, in my opinion) doesn't get the same priority as other ism's.

The article starts:

> Is it rational to discriminate against youth as a group, given the liberal, individualistic values of the present society? The common answer is yes, because Science says that young people are immature.

I sincerely doubt that this is the common answer. Most people will probably say "yeah, I was a fucking idiot when I was 16" or "my teenager really isn't a mature adult yet". They will appeal to their own common sense, not science.
I learned about this when it first came out and Jeff Gerstmann just shoved one in his mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzw0rWubE_4
>Did Sony do this with the Vita cartridges?

Well, wonder no longer. I just licked a PS Vita copy of World of Final Fantasy and it only tastes faintly of plastic.
It's not entirely about the business structure or its fundamental revenue sources. Don't think like an accountant here, it's about the brand. In terms of being the top-tier tech and hardware firm of your nation, Sony is Japan's Apple. It's a strong household name too, regardless of their conglomerate style being close to Microsoft.