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> MRNA doesn't modify genes, that's not how MRNA works at all

You are repeating how the tech works in theory, not how the vaccines work in reality.

In reality, the vaccines can do this. That's because the "process 2" manufacturing that was switched to post-approval scales much better but yields vaccines heavily contaminated with DNA, not just RNA. If you smuggle DNA into cells using the lipid nanoparticle tricks then it can be incorporated into your own DNA yielding never ending spike protein production and immune tolerance.

There's testimony by a scientist who sequenced residue from vials and discovered the problem here, but it was suspected even before that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWHhrHiiTY

He says he would no longer take the vaccines knowing what he knows now.

There are a whole bunch of case reports where this appears to have happened. Patients who end up always testing positive for spike protein for example, despite not being infected with SARS-CoV-2.

> The whole thing reads like the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

It's actually the opposite. Over-educated people constantly confuse the map for the terrain due to a naive belief in the angel-like nature of everyone in the same social class as themselves. Then they assume anyone who disagrees must be misinformed.

The people who are most pro-COVID vaccine are, in my experience, people with degrees who also know very little about it beyond what they've been told by pop sci media and public health authorities. The idea that what they've told might not be true is just inconceivable to them, and the luxury belief of intellectual superiority to the rubes is just too tempting to pass up. People who are skeptical are engaging directly with the collected evidence, not just what theory says that evidence should be.
Alameda meeting where Caroline Ellison admitted the firm took FTX customer money
Well, depending on the definition you could fit ZMODEM as an streaming + compression (RLE) protocol. I used it a lot almost 30 years ago!
@dang this looks like a fairly editorialized take on the title:

Original: "EuroRust 2023 Reflections: What's a Conference For?"

Current: "A bitter commentary on EuroRust conf"
Are there any standard alternatives today? Especially for bundles of data - music, images, json, etc. There's .tar.gz which has (I think) a variety of implementations, but it has issues with seeking and the compression isn't great, and brings with it a whole bagload of linux stuff. Maybe something using zstd?
Give me a break. You literally just type dw.com/rss. Logotypes or not this is pretty much a default address for RSS discovery.
They might have used Python still - the Omnigres page lists Python support, and PG has had PL/Python for a long time.
It's especially helpful for medium posts imho. The alternatives load several orders of magnitude faster.
Maybe they think it's legal, OR they know its illegal but possible fines don't put them off and are accounted for as cost of doing business.
I've kept Windows only for gaming and specific software, today most software is multiplatform or has a web version, and Steam uses WINE/Proton which makes probably over 90% of my game library playable, and for the rest there has many alternative ways.

It's only been a few weeks, but I don't have Windows installed on any of my PCs now. It's a shame that I still need lots of fiddling to figure out Nvidia drivers and why Wayland is not there yet, so for now I have to use Xorg, but for experienced users, it works really well.

I really wish it could be the same for newbies tough.
Wouldn't they also be ordered to change their behavior?
It's the mirror image to "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.". Unfortunately history has taught us that P.K. Dick's view is rarely the prevailing one and that even if plenty of people are exactly like that too many of them are not and they will happily do that which they instinctively know they should not do. Especially if there is money or authority involved.
It's the EU way of doing things. Data retention gets killed by courts every year, and every year a new iteration is being proposed by politicians.

Remember the Lisbon Treaty, which necessitated a referendum in Ireland - which was repeated until the politically desired result was in.
Reality is what people with power and influence agree it is.

Sometimes - as in science - many of those people are trying to understand it in good faith. The output is still subjective in the sense that it's filtered through the limitations of human perception and cognition. But it's reliable and consistent for most humans.

Sometimes - as in politics, religion, and economics - "reality" is a story told by actors with vested interests, usually promoted for their own benefit.
Reminded me of an old cartoon:

Scientist: I'm sick of you, filthy journalists! Get off!!!

News title: Scientist Assaults a Journalist
I really agree with this article. Knowing how the whole system fits together is essential in my opinion. I guess we need both generalists and specialists
I wouldn't describe this type of action as "bull as always". I'd use words like anti-consumer, unethical, hopefully illegal, etc.
To the rescue: Firefox reader mode, or NoScript block (default) JS for domain www.sciphijournal.org - makes it readable for me again. What were the site creators thinking??
This is true, but the question is not whether it helps or not but if the 86% increase is the right number or not.

Yes inflation was higher in big cities.
It's a common mistake for people who don't live in Europe. For example, would a Europeans know the nuances between Northern CA and southern CA?

https://seekscandinavia.com/netherlands-part-scandinavia/

Just read it.
An idea for LLM AI startup: editorializer (translates titles in journalistish), and clickbaitizer (translates titles in present day internetmediatish).
Isn't there a word for statist capitalism?
The actual phrasing is "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent."
The reliance on nodejs which lacks a standard library. It lacks a built in build process. It lacks a built in lint/format process. It lacks a built in test runner (although I believe this isn’t true anymore?). It did have a module import process, but it was so badly implemented (or maybe it lacked it in the beginning?) that despite nodeJS being the standard, most people are still using require JS.

I don’t know which, if any, nodejs alternative will succeed it, but if say Deno were to do so, the stack would be immeasurably simpler.

Right now, hopping between 2 different JS projects both of which do the exact same thing, means you may have to learn completely different build processes, completely different minting rules, completely different typescript compilers, completely different module import syntaxes/formats/configurations, completely different test runners, test description languages, etc. completely different standard libs (one may have lodash while the other is importing individual functions from npm), etc.

Heck, even your nodejs may not be nodejs but rather could be yarn, pnpm, etc

I believe nodeJS’s decision to essentially outsource all basic functionality while the JS ecosystem figured itself out was a huge reason for its success, but now that many things are more established, it’s causing a lot of unnecessary complexity.
You can end the trial early when it’s clear the treatment is working. This just happened last week with Ozempic for diabetes caused kidney disease.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/health/ask-dr-nandi/novo-nordisk-e...
> From my point of view it certainly goes away and the world _will be_ flat.

No, it simply means that you will start to build on a flawed premise and will run into the limitations of your knowledge sooner rather than later. Being informed about the world allows you to make better decisions and to reach further in the achievement of your goals. That is why the scientific method is so successful and why science and not obstinacy has driven us forward further in the last 500 years than in all of the preceding millennia together.
I have no problem viewing pictures shared by those who don't understand basic color blending and just want to swipe.

But I may have a problem with people who can't do a bash for/while loop or understand pipe chaining commands be responsible for administrating my company servers.

I don't see how the comparison between adminstrating servers and sharing pictures on social media is a useful comparison.
I mean you do need to trust them a bit more when they have the capability to remotely install software.
In 2023 there is only 1 legitimate use of MS Windows - your customer wants your software or website tested on windows. That's it.
> Microsoft uses all dirty tricks in the book to keep their users on the default browser (which is of course MS Edge).

At one point, I went to search for "Firefox" on Bing using Edge and this happened[1].

It's almost comical how desperate they are to keep you using Edge.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517187
One day the pendulum will swing back in the other direction. Until then, those of us who disagree with putting absolutely everything into the cloud will just have to sit back and bide our time.
Yeah this is fair. It makes sense.

Equality is about equal pay for equal results. Not handouts. People forget that although the handout might be good for society overall it is unfair to the person giving out the handout.

I don't think this step is intermediate. It is the most fair step possible.
> but I also think bargains have disappeared

I think the big one is the people who produce inflation statistics struggle to capture increases when products change, particularly shrinkflation.

The ONS (Who produce the UK inflation statistics) specifically noted limitations in their methodology because when a particular product (whether that's a particular brand, or specific size) is discontinued, they replace it in their subsequent basket with a similar item for measuring inflation but don't measure the change in inflation from the change in product.

For example a 25p can of peas may be withdrawn from sale by the manufacturer, so the next month ONS would switch to checking the price of a 30p can of peas (the next cheapest can). The fact that people who were buying that can of peas now have to pay 5p more for peas is never captured in inflation.
Searching words Microsoft Dirty Tricks on Google finds .....MORE
Having been an Oracle Apex developer I can't help but compare this to Apex. Does Omnigres have a UI editor?
The very latest MS Windows 10 update (last weeks) is down right deceptive in its Edge pimping.

After reboot I had a notification message "Make your Computer Faster".

I wouldn't touch one of them with a 40 foot pole on the open web but this was an official MS message in notifications so I figured it was worth a look as it might be some general advice about official new MS tools for tweaking, booting faster, cleaning dead files, newest iteration of the usual stuff.

It immediately launched into an MS Edge installation that had to be killed via process explorer. no dialog about "do you want to?" etc.

MS really has gone beyond the pale here.
Another wrinkle - lots of web apps have a need to say, I’m going to give you one bundle of JS for this whole hostname, regardless of URL, but then have to handle getting loaded from arbitrary URLs (that may have semantic meaning for your server) anyways. Everyone gets the complexity of a URL document hierarchy, even if your web app isn’t document-based.
Are you in Europe? I think these days they just use a different behavior for EU users so they can screw over everyone else.
After realizing that I'd have to recompile dropbear myself to disable SHA-1, I also thought about that approach.

I'll figure it out. I'm currently planning the update to 23.05, anyway.
We will always look for meaning. But when we find it, even in something entirely imaginary (which I don't think it was here - natural beauty has a verifiable positive effect on humans), that's value. And trying to be reductive about it mostly harms your own ability to find meaning and see beauty.
Palestinians have been bullied for decades, and now they are destroying their land, so that might be why people support Palestinians
My reading comprehension failed me, thank you for finding that image. That explains it alot better
So as a teenager, I was carrying 5-10kg of books and walking back and forth between classes every 40 mins.

As an undergrad I was travelling across campus multiple times a day, spent hours on my feet in labs, did multiple heavy grocery shuttles and also spent a lot of time partying.

In my first job, I could be sat in the same spot for 8-10 hours without moving.

A year in to my first job I had added 15kg (~30lbs ~2stone) - while consuming way less food and alcohol than my university days.
Nvidia seems to be doing pretty well, at least.
NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer
https://federicocappelli.com/torrenthound.html

A Mac app for searching torrents across multiple platforms that I developed for personal use, for now supports 1337x.to, The Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents. The idea was to expand the sources and features list if anyone is interested.

Any requests and feedback is welcome: https://github.com/federicocappelli/TorrentHound/issues
This is one of the most important topics
Your points (2) and (3) are presented as fact but I'm not sure the data would support it.

Anecdotally, from talking to people in the UK, it's the people who work 4 days a week who work over their hours more. Sometimes they end up working part of a day on what would be a day off, or they work more hours on their existing days to try and "keep up"
Pixel making too much money.
So you're saying that someone who likes both OOP and Javascript and more functional-style programming could be a sought after candidate?
I don't think anyone would ever follow such rules they would just say it's true. It will be like unlimited holidays meaning no holidays.
You can call it 'extreme epistemological solipsism'. I call it not treating a unverified story as true. Especially when the hyperbole is rife throughout.

'Snatch squad' is just a term. 'Police arrest' is another term. 'Terrorist detention' is another. These terms provide all the context the casual reader needs to consider themselves informed.
And the penalty for non-compliance, another 0.5% fine?

So long as repercussions aren’t more serious (see EU fines) or more personal (hold C-suite personally responsible for contempt of court or similar), nothing will change.
One thing the article doesn't talk about is RAM prices in 1997. The computer used by the author has 56 MB. But before the great RAM price crash, most users were lucky to have 16 MB, and too many still had 8 MB. Most of that was being used by Netscape. The gorgeous Apple Dylan IDE also required 24MB to run well, and most developer machines couldn't handle it.

I remember those numbers, because I worked for a company that was trying to ship a browser plugin that would have required 24MB itself. Our project plan was totally infeasible.

I think a lot of ambitious projects died around 1997, because RAM prices stubbornly refused to drop.

The "select versus activate" distinction mentioned in the article also made for an absolutely miserable user experience. It's the only thing I remember about OpenDoc, trying to get components to activate.

Developers spent those years learning HTML and JavaScript and how to run a Linux server. The internet was obviously the main show, and weird semi-proprietary document formats were the last thing anyone cared about.
I don't think it's an ad. It looks more like Livenowfox.com's content management platform using post tags to insert 'related videos'.
The App Store on iOS is a surreal Kafka-esque joke. You can type in the exact name of an app and it will either not appear at all, or won't appear until the n-th slot in the list.

The QR code search doesn't do this, so apparently someone decided that text searches should.
> and we just let the machines take over

... but then it's really the machines' Culture, isn't it? And we're just their pets.

I'm going to read Consider Phlebas based on the essay linked above, but I think it's a bit dishonest to describe this Culture as belonging to any of its inhabitants other than The Minds. It's The Minds' Culture, and everybody else are just their housecats. Kind of a disappointing future if there's any other option besides self-annihilation. Cozy, but disappointing.
What Are Accesibility Overlays?
So what were the dangers with QUIC protocol again? That the big-tech would control the market?
Aren't most SEPA transfers not settled directly bank-to-bank but through STEP2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBA_Clearing#STEP2

That said, in a system replacing VISA/MasterCard (which I personally believe is a goal worth working toward), it seems like the easiest way would be to connect all the existing national clearing systems (many of these already have instant payments on their own - Fedwire in the US, STEP2 in the Eurozone, Zengin in Japan, etc etc) in a two-tier system.
She is appointed by the MPs you elected, in a similar manner with the British Prime minister.
> will just have to sit back and bide our time

I doubt that day will ever come without a significant number of potential customers stubbornly opting to go it alone with DIY on-prem alternatives (or at least somewhat SaaS-less - e.g. turnkey-on-IaaS or similar) in the interim. Though I guess that "stubborness" might become more likely as more & more stagnation & inflexibility of cloud SaaS reveals itself to customers over the coming years.

My company's recently been pushed off JIRA on-prem to their cloud offering & the migration has already been an absolute travesty. Any gaps there might have been in the near-universal hatred of JIRA have been thoroughly wiped out by now.
There are countless terminal emulators for iOS that support ssh. Termius, prompt, and blink off the top of my head.
And there is a Rhombus Project update hidden below the fold!
Newbies need to buy Linux preinstalled, which is for some reason very hard to find in shops.
It's interesting, that second option seems too malicious, how would you even coordinate a common understanding of this?

Perhaps it's just enough in the grey-zone that it is a "cross that bridge when we come to it" issue and that they don't need to figure out the specifics of any laws/regulation, because if they are on the wrong side of it, in the past it has been proven that these types of regulations are quite toothless.

This specific issue on its face seems a security thing, where users are warned against installing software from untrusted (as defined by microsoft) sources. It very handily doubles as a way to scare users into not installing competitors for their own applications (like browsers and office packages), of course.
> WTF, Apple?

People are still believe there are ethical companies, whatever it means for them.
There is nothing you can do in the front end that a .NET Forms application from a few years ago could not also easily handle.

And the .Net forms application would be immeasurably simpler in terms of complexity and as a bonus, would have the backend thrown in almost for free as well.

I deliberately picked .Net forms because despite being much simpler than today’s front end stacks, it was still, much like any MS product, an overengineered corporate driven MS tech.

Something like Ruby on Rails, Laravel etc shows that front end is not inherently complex.
Well yes of course. Upgrading year over year you're not going to really see any major changes. Going from a 14 Pro Max to a 15 Pro Max is pretty minor.

My comment was more that I've not had any of the issues I've seen reported over the past few days. No overheating. No screen issues. No battery life issues.

I'm not saying they don't exist of course. I was just adding my personal experience to add balance.

I will add that while the upgrade from my Xs Max is obviously pretty big it is still iOS at the end of the day and it isn't actually any different in general. It does a few new things like the Always On Display but overall it is the same as my Xs Max just faster/smoother. Naturally the camera upgrades are very impressive as is the Pro Motion screen. My Xs Max had a battery replacement 9 months ago so it still had good battery life but the 15 is clearly much better. Even with the always on display it loses around 1% battery every 4-5 hours which is what I would expect. My Xs Max would also lose around 1% every 4-5 hours even without that feature.

Naturally I am interested in hearing about these issue as it alerts me to keep an eye out for such issues developing for myself, but as with anything reported on places like Twitter I take it with a grain of salt as it could just be someone deliberately damaging their device to drive engagement and grow their presence sadly.
Streaming was a thing if you include tape
Rails 7.1 Introduces Autoload Lib with config.autoload_lib(ignore:) Method
Sucking It Up
No need to guess, the article states that it was named after a New Yorker cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
> By fixing yourself into the current Tokio API, you're locking your app into some decisions that might not be the best.

The impact of tokio on your app's code base isn't actually particularly big, and it wouldn't be too much trouble to change (the interface of other runtimes is very close to tokio's AFAIK). the main issue is the ecosystem: most of it is using tokio already so opting out of tokio also means cornering yourself in a place where there's little available external libraries to use.

The ecosystem strong ties with tokio isn't a good thing, and I wish there were ways to make things generic over the runtime, but it's not an application developer's decision in any case.
It didn't really got more expensive because salaries have increased as well. Maybe for a tourist coming from a country that hasn't seen that much inflation (Japan?)
makes sense from that structure. Dev is already busy with one job, they won't get a raise to also get some QA learning on the side. So there's in fact negative incentive to pick up more responsibility, even if that dev does in fact know QA (unless you own stock in the studio. But that's still a stretch).
Yep.

Modern clients are complicated because state management is complex.

Ironically, that's what the early web largely got rid of - for example this web page I'm using now has very little state to manage.
37signals is certainly looking in the other direction: https://once.com/ .. though more at the smaller end of the market, not enterprise apps.
For a ton of people and roles there's nothing really magical about being in an office. If you're any good at remote communications you can connect with people over Zoom, Slack or (ugh) Teams and form professional connections. Personal connections are a different animal.
>Because our mind evolved as a tool for survival of our self which is to say as a tool for survival of that which may pass on the genes which create said mind.

Said mind is not only created by the genes.
Two weeks ago M$ bricked my father’s laptop with an update. Reinstalled, bricked it again. Went Mac, not going back.
As I mentioned, dialup for many was a luxury.
Like most webservices these days, your app runs in a Linux instance in a Docker container in a VM running another OS running on a physical server running another OS.
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Both sides have a fortified dogma and kill in the name of their god.

You can be a democracy and still commit crimes against humanity, at it happened in Germany
I'd agree, lock-in and subscriptions are too tasty a target to give up voluntarily