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The vaccines were so good at their job that the hospitals were full of unvaccinated people even after most people got vaccinated, and this astonishing feat of efficacy persisted for quite some time.

Normally I'm sympathetic to a bit of healthy cynicism, but when the official narrative is backed by extremely strong extremely public corroborating evidence, sorry, I'm not going to sacrifice the safety of myself and those I care about to indulge someone else's politically-driven blindness towards said evidence.
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That server would have to process thousands of requests per second during a rush hour with very little delay. In addition to QR codes just being much more finicky than tapping a card or sticking something into a slot.
Quasi-NGO.
Maybe Netflix will lower its standards for production as well. Right now if you want to create content for Netflix you need to buy like a $30,000 camera .

What's the point of all that, if I can shoot 4K on a $2,000 camera and it's going to get compressed heavily anyway.

I actually think streaming would be best for lower budget productions, I'm not fully engaged when I watch something on Netflix anyway. It's kind of strange to see them spend $200 million or so on a movie knowing that I'm doing a million other things while it's on.
You probably had a few audio cassettes with data squirts too. I find it intriguing that few people alive today have ever used diskettes, and of those far fewer remember a time when there were crazy-many diskette formats, even on the same medium. Hard sector vs. soft sector. When do you tape over the write protect notch, when you want to write or when you want to protect?

I was always an island computer geek isolated from the mainland (except BBS long di$tance) so we had to start our own commercial ISP in the mid 90s to bring it. My first USENET was a post to alt.flame in September 1994: "Bigfoot! Watch out, boy! They are looking for you in Des Moines. Time to move on. Warning: the Kansas city account is being monitored by professors from the UT Anthropology Dept. Don't use it. Use the Finnish anonymous server through East coast account number 3 to forward new address. Courage, beast."

So there was an MIT Center for Cognitive Science! Did you ever find intelligent life on Earth?
The British Library - the UK's National Library - was devastated in October 2023 by a ransomware attack [0] which had a massive knock-on effect on academic institutions, students and also 20,000 authors who derive income from Public Lending Rights.

One of the reasons that services still haven't been restored is that the Library relied heavily on ancient bespoke software running on old versions of OS. New IT is being installed that is more proof against modern cyber attacks, but the older library software simply doesn't run in modern environments. So they can't simply restore from backup, they have to port / reimplement some of their operational software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library_cyberattack
The Seattle Library has 27 locations and a million books, serving a city with 700,000+ people (and a larger metro area - I forget if you need to be a Seattle resident to get a card).

To be able to query materials across the library system, handle reservations and item transfers, and so much more these computers absolutely need to be networked.

Perhaps you meant "don't need to be connected to the Internet", but I would wager a majority of the library's patrons search the library's catalog online rather than coming in person.

In the case of digital loans, moat patrons want to download their digital books onto their personal devices - over the internet, so clearly the library services need to talk to an online service.
Until you go to another city and discover that the local bus company has decided that instead of just letting you pay by Wechat pay or Alipay, you need to install their proprietary app to generate the QR code for the bus to scan, at which point the app then just turns it into a Wechat pay or Alipay transaction at the end. No benefit to the user, it just allows the bus company to extract all your PII in the process. Actually, they're not all proprietary apps, but there are several from competing companies, and you have to use whichever one the city has chosen.

Actually, I think part of the reason is that so they know who's on the bus in case it's involved in an accident, because if you buy a ticket from a bus station for a "short distance" (so out of the city, but within about 40km), you also have to provide them with a phone number even though they never call you or send you an SMS using that number.
It has adequate performance and the ease of development is worth it not being the most performant way to do things.
I think they're rightfully suspicious of what remains in their computers even not connected (knowingly) to the Internet.
Back when the 10-year treasury was yielding ~0.6% per year, investors were lured into deals that promised annual returns of 15% to 30%, with the "safety" of real estate assets.

As always and as ever, whenever an investment opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.

There's a great quote in the OP:

"When you’re at a casino, you know what you’re doing is gambling. ... Here, people were gambling but they didn’t know it."
I try my hardest to avoid Windows, but implying that Linux/etc are effectively immune to major hacks is absurd.
Just wanted to post this video link in this discussion:

Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdlBHHimeM
The problem is the tool is ineffective (to the point several cities have stopped using it). And anything that causes an erroneous/unnecessary police response should be viewed with extreme suspicion, given the massive flaws in our police model.
I would bet good money they some “whiz technology person” is now rabidly trying to figure out how to turn the card catalog into an “offline saas digital lending service” and pitch venture for a $2M pre-seed to pitch libraries on it
>Experimental COVID vaccines

They were never experimental. At this point in the game, if you're still repeating this lie, you're just revealing how little you understand about the world around you due to how much propaganda you believe.

And yes, refusing to do what your employer requires of you for the job will get you fired. Welcome to the free market. For decades employers have made vaccines for many different diseases a requirement of employment. You have the freedom not to get vaccinated, and your employer has the right to show you the door.
You can commit a lot of sins with ABIs if you throw the academic books into the fire.

For example, on my side I'm developing tooling that allows one to delink programs back into object files. This allows me to commit a whole bunch of heresy according to CS101, such as making a native port of a Linux program to Windows without having access to its source code or taking binary code from a PlayStation game and stuffing it into a Linux MIPS program.

When you're doing that kind of dark magic, it's one of those "know the rules so well you can break them" situation. Instead of following the theory that tells you what you should do, you follow the real-life world that constrains what you can do.
Airbnb is one of the many players and they don't have any practical sized lockin over consumer or vendors. While Apple is dominant force with complete lockin over all iPhone users.
There's already Expanded Access / Compassionate Care options for terminal patients. It doesn't require the FDA rushing through unproven medications.
No - pretty much anyone in the state can get a card via reciprocality.
No, not "promising but unproven" at all. This drug failed its clinical trial. It got its chance, and the evidence indicates it doesn't work.
I spent two decades following this approach. I didnt know that I didnt know what meditating was until I did a 10 day silent Vipassana retreat. But even a decade into learning Vipassana I couldnt get the jhanas and took me two years pretty heavy practise for it to click.

some of us just take a lot of work to get there. monkey brains maybe.
Well if you want deregulation I'll start with all that land and patents owned by big corporations. Why the fuck should I pay money for some invention if I can come up with the one myself? Why some fuckers restricted my freedom of movement?
Not to me. React's insistence on immutability can be difficult to work around.
While SEPA Instant has a cap (100k), SEPA Slow (or, well, same-day/next-day, the normal one) does not, though some banks may impose their own.

Weirdly, 100k is not an absolute limit; the scheme allows banks to have bilateral agreements to exceed it, though I’m not sure how common this is.
I apologize, I had misunderstood the problem. The problem is the metadata not the actual books were managed on the computer systems. Sorry.
> do have an amount cap per day

This is related to fraud risk, which is only ameliorated by net-settlement systems in that they're slower. (An RTGS with a built-in delay would have a similar fraud profile.)

Wires' immutability makes them both ideal for large transactions and more risky for fraud. If I understand correctly, FedNow payments are reversible.

In essence, you have to pick two among fast settlement, immutability and low cost. FedWire is fast and immutable and low cost at volume. FedNow is fast and low cost. ACH is stupid.
Bazzite, Chimera and Nobara are trying to do the same thing on top of different mainstream distros if you don't want to do it yourself. For better hardware Nvidia Graphics issues are largely fixed with the new beta driver so by that time, it should be a good place.
Exactly what advantage would an esp32 based system have that you think it would cause it to be adopted that this current system would not?
Ditto!!!
There is a reasonable argument for a regulatory agency to make sure that the peddlers of medication are not selling you something that needlessly will harm you.

There is a weaker but still defensible argument that they should stop others from selling you flu medication that isn't proven to work. But one could imagine a less restrictive reality where such drugs simply must be labeled clearly and you make your own decisions. In fact, there's already a weird carve-out like that for "natural" substances, so you can for example buy artemisinin as a "supplement" if you want to...

But what's the humane argument for "protecting" people with terminal or otherwise devastating diseases from trying drugs that can plausibly work, and were created by people acting in good faith, and that had some clinical trials done, but the trials weren't as thorough as a committee wanted them to?

"Yeah, he died, but at least we stopped him from potentially wasting some money."
You trust vaccines which doctors recommend, just like all medical advise your doctors recommend. Otherwise you maybe a few that never goes to a doc because you never trust anything they say. Healthy skepticism is good but ultimately you go to them because they have a track record of saving people
This happened in Toronto last year and knocked out the system entirely for four months. It seems that libraries are a big target for these actors. I wonder who they are, and what their agenda is?
That is the purpose of the NPR tote bag

In some cases it’s a bumper sticker or in my case it’s a magnet that sits on my fridge
It's sad when drugs are sold on hope and not on science. This reminds me of Biogen's Alzheimer's drug that eventually was stopped after millions were spent by people hoping it would work with controversial clinical results:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/biogen-alzheimers-d...
They have the opportunity to stop breaking the law. If they don't choose to do that, they face punitive damages. It has never been unusual for punitive damages to exceed the proceeds gained from breaking the law. That's why they're called punitive.

This isn't a situation where they do something unknowingly and then face some major consequences. This is a situation where they break the law, they're told to stop, they don't stop, they're told to stop again, they still don't stop. After that, rinse and repeat a few more times. 20% of global revenue sounds perfectly fair for this kind of stupidity.
Hot take, but the microfeature I love in blogs and websites is a date at the very top. I know patio11's points against it, but from a user perspective it just adds so much context that for me it's a no-brainer.
Ensuring people have options that aren't certain death is exactly why we care about effectiveness.

Opening up a market for "certain death with extra steps" doesn't address this.
What about the obvious middle position, where the FDA continues to do everything it does and labels drugs as safe and effective, but then theres also non-FDA approved stuff that won't be labeled as FDA approved and you can do it if you want.
I know what you mean, but practically if they provide a bunch of services that primarily help people without cars, and they don’t allow them in the complex, how much more ingenious (is that a real word? Haha) could they get? I mean it would be quite odd if your apartment complex could dictate to you: no, you can’t have a car off our property either.
Do you prefer footnotes over sidenotes? And do you think each post/article should have footnotes?
The tricky business is defining effectiveness (and the target population). This drug was not effective at the specified clinical end-point for one set of patients. But it did show promise for other end-points (production of a normal dystrophin transcript).

For complex diseases with a range of severities, failing the specified clinical endpoint is not the same as selling dyed water.
I don’t know anything about operations management, securitization, etc. What’s the difference between these two? Also, I work for a very large HW company, and we’re locked down. From my point-of-view “operations” just works. What does this look like for a small not-in-computers company? Like, how could the Seattle Public Library have secured itself from ransomware with a turnkey, reasonably priced solution?
Companies would sure not reduce the price by 30%, but perhaps 10%. This would mean their revenue increases, and the price conscious user saves money as well. I doubt any users would opt for not using the apple store if the price wasn't significantly lower.
> nor the fear of scratching a favorite game up and potentially ruining it forever

What's funny is that I can't remember when I scratched a CD enough for it to have any noticeable effect. Even the ones my neanderthal friends handled and returned covered in fine scratches worked fine. But it might be just because I kept everything in the original holders and made so many copies of everything; it's possible I just never noticed. I've had the actual disc readers burn out, though (looking at you, Fat PS2).

Man, I loved burning CDs. It felt like magic every time. My whole family was into it. I'd sit there the family's stack of slim jewelcases and spindle of Maxwell CD-RWs. Listening to the satisfying BRRRR and minutes later, out pops your warm copy fresh from the oven. I don't miss the random compatibility and disc protection errors. But when it worked, it was so sick.
Obviously take with a grain of salt since it has marketing goals, but this is a pretty decent overview.
Closeness to power generally seems to be a source of laxness, across many different societies.
Indeed.
As the Greeks might feel seeing the Parthenon marbles in the British museum. Or the Benin bronzes. Asante gold. The Rapa Nui Moai. The list goes on. Priceless national treasures in the treasure of another nation.
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If it is so clear, so put so many roadblocks. Let there be other stores/payment gateways which no one will use.
I can certainly happen, but it’s highly unlikely with Boeing. They are “too big to fail”, government taking over for a while isn’t out of the question though if this gets much worse. A court appointed CEO whose primary goal is to get QA and QC back into the corporate structure rather than as being looked as only an unnecessary expense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/world/asia/indonesia-bajo...
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I know some (former) CDK alumni and I'm not surprised. Notorious for paying below market in engineering and IT. A place to cut your teeth but not to stay.
Digital lending (Libby/Hoopla) was down too, but they got that back up within a week or two.

We are able to check out physical books, but can't return them. And we can't place new holds/requests for books to be sent to our branch.
https://archive.is/yVa8c
Many political scientists think that many "independents" are really Democrat-leaning or Republican-leaning and generally dislike both parties but think that one party is much worse than another so they consistently vote for one party or the other. See

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-who-ident...

for a perspective that the authors of the original article seem to be rejecting. If you look at the first chart they seem to claim "true independents" are 20% of the electorate whereas "people who are too ashamed to admit what party they are affiliated with" are 18%. Those are roughly equal. Contrast that to the 538 article which claims "Roughly 3 in 4 independents still lean toward one of the two major political parties" That's a big enough difference that it can't be explained by sampling error, but I think the later results are justified here

https://agadjanianpolitics.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/charting...

For one thing those surveys are just quoted up to 2012 plus there could be differences in methodology with the 20% result which was surveyed in 2020 -- maybe things changed in that time period.

The other major results are documented in a book they wrote

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-power-of-partisa...

We also know there are a lot of people who tell pollsters the economy is doing better when their side is in power and is doing worse when the "other" is in power. After the election and inauguration a lot of people flip their view on the economy quickly, Democrats have worse approval on the economy because there are more R's like this than D's.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/15/partisan-...
Yeah I mean if you look at windows vs linux gaming benchmarks on phoronix it's clear there's about a 10% performance penalty. On the other hand there's a 10% penalty using bitlocker on windows vs almost none on linux, so it evens out if you care about privacy. Also you know for certain MS isn't keylogging everything you type to some godforsaken MS service, and the developer experience on linux is miles better.
Why? Hardware and software architectures often have radically different needs from their loader, it doesn't make sense to have one format to rule them all. And any format flexible enough to support all use cases would just be a container for other formats, and in practice, loaders would ignore the variants that they don't/can't support so developers would need to care about porting things anyway.

ELF is pretty stable across many architectures and platforms but it's proven to be inflexible enough for plenty of applications where people develop their own, or alter it in varying ways.
It's mostly about intent: just about no one on the planet looks at the marketing for a PlayStation 5 and expects to be able to use it to file their taxes. That device is sold as a multimedia platform; that it happens to be a general purpose computer with software locks is irrelevant to it's stated purpose. The consumer is pretty well aware of what they're getting.

Not so with your average Apple device with access to the App Store, outside of maybe the TVs these days. The iPad ad that made all the headlines recently was clearly trying to bill it as a general purpose everything device with few if any such limitations. In terms of how the devices are marketed to consumers, it's night and day, and that does make a huge difference when trying to determine if consumers have been mislead by shady business practices.
Here's the whole thread "unrolled", including the EPA report: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1805006150410162322.html
I’m going to assume the clinical trial bar exists for a good reason unless proven otherwise. The current system is battle tested at this point and is a significant improvement over the situation that predated the current regulations in terms of safety and efficacy.

And, yes, protecting people - both from being injured and from being ripped off - is a feature of modern society, not a bug.
Oh, being a devil's advocate is all fine. But when it's not clear what the advocate is advocating it stops being interesting.
lol, aspergers et al, are the opposite to good at concentrating.
You pay Apple because they provide infrastructure to which you distribute your apps. Is like taxes so your country provide infrastructure etc, it may not be 100% efficient use but these things aren’t free
I think the comment well addresses why this situation is different than the situation with banks - Boeing’s manufacturing and employees would not be harmed by a prosecution of its management.

Indeed, criminally charging upper management hardly counts as the business “failing” at all.
Didn’t these companies ask for and get immunity from liability relating to these vaccines? What do you make of that?

Also are these products really correctly labeled as vaccines given their protection is imperfect and not like actual vaccines? I wonder if some other term is more accurate and would eliminate some of the arguments around them.
If you do push auth, require the user enter a number provided. Throttle auth attempts to something reasonable based on your user population. Lockout auth after X number of bad attempts and require escalation. Provide a way to report unapproved auth attempts received (which should get piped to your incident response and identity compromise playbook(s)). This should stop any brute force attack in its tracks.

For TOTP, I prefer 30 second TTLs for the OTP. A tight window makes it very difficult to phish if you must support a user using TOTP. If someone has challenges with this due to the short window, upgrade them to device bound passkeys.
When I started to learn to code, we were supposed to be dismissive of the Java wimps, but now I think it is Python that is too convenient to be cool. It’s all very silly and anyone that takes it seriously should be regarded with suspicion I think.
It is a scam. You should stay away from the 'crypto space' and blockchains, which do not offer anything of value to anyone.

Some recommended reading:

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-is-a-scam.html
But if you watch all of those videos, a common theme is negligence and normalization of deviance due to management being cheap. If it's not news, every time it happens, it will keep happening. It doesn't matter what industry it's in.
Often it pays simply to remember what a rigidly ideological culture we inhabit.

Imagine it's 1986 and this story comes from SoViEt RuSsIa. Derek Lowe (who I hold to be adjacent to a National Treasure) would not be obliged to speculate about motives.

The entire bloviosphere would unanimously collapse into mockery.

The word is "corrupt." It's simple.
It’s not stranded, they are running tests. Please don’t exaggerate the situation. They just want to be safe. Stranded implies completely broken.
Is that sarcastic? If not I feel you have missed the point of this whole thread/argument.

People would rather the freedom to choose what they buy, who they buy it from, and where they buy it. This freedom of choice is much more important to a great many people than being locked in to a service 'because its good'.
Add an automatic timestamp column and you're mostly golden, you could rebuild most of the inventory state from that. Complex systems should be able to be rebuilt from simple logs. I'm not saying event sourcing makes it trivial to rebuild from scratch, but I suspect their currently ransomware-encrypted system was designed such that it's not even possible.
Big long time fan of this tech startup!