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by fcurts 6y ago
"Maybe" at individual level becomes "certainly" at city, state, or nation level.
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by fcurts 6y ago
I have (both my parents died from cancer in their 50s). How is this related to this topic? Lockdown or not, crowding and not wearing a mask is irresponsible - you aren't just putting yourself at risk, but also the people around you.
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by fcurts 6y ago
Except for the ones that will end up fighting the worst illness in their lifetime. It may not be them but their parents or grandparents.
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by fcurts 7y ago
I had the same gripes with RST. Then I found Asciidoc(tor) and never looked back. Asciidoc is as easy to learn and use as Markdown and more powerful than RST. Best combined with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
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by fcurts 7y ago
For us, Asciidoc(tor) is the answer. As easy to learn and use as Markdown, more powerful than RST. Best combined with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
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by fcurts 7y ago
Asciidoc(tor) is far easier to learn, read and write than RST (I have extensive experience with both). Our developers love it. We use it together with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
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by fcurts 7y ago
The Ruby implementation (Asciidoctor) is a separate implementation by a different team. I recommend to use it together with Antora (Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx).
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by fcurts 7y ago
I don't buy that. Judging from the actions of governments around the world, many of which made drastic course corrections based on recent findings, the consensus is that the risk of millions of deaths due to underreaction is far greate
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by fcurts 7y ago
In that case, why wouldn't the same hold for underreaction?
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by fcurts 7y ago
Hospitals in Italy are currently reporting dramatic shortages of many kinds.
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by fcurts 7y ago
They buried or cremated them. Unsurprisingly, the system can't handle a sudden one-of-a-kind spike.
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by fcurts 7y ago
> An argument in favor of lockdowns is that postponing the epidemic wave (“flattening the curve”) gains time to develop vaccines and reduces strain on the health system. However, vaccines take many months (or years) to develop and test p
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by fcurts 7y ago
https://reason.com/2020/03/17/italian-daily-death-rate-up-20... The evidence is overwhelming. Questioning it is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I won't commen
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by fcurts 7y ago
Please stop spreading FUD. Thank you.
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by fcurts 7y ago
> If less than 30% of the additional deaths this year were attributed to corona virus and 30% lies within a reasonable variance of this number over the years, then we wouldn't have noticed, or not? You seem to be misinterpreting the
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by fcurts 7y ago
> how likely is it, that we would have never found anything being wrong just based on the people that die from Pneumonia related issues this year if we had never found Covid19? 0%. Just read the reports from Wuhan and Italy. For example,
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by fcurts 7y ago
Some observations: * Santa Clara County has over double the population of SF County. * Santa Clara County has always been ahead of SF County in confirmed cases. * According to https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coron
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by fcurts 7y ago
> Why do people think that waiting 2 weeks or 2 months will solve it? Who said it will solve it? It will flatten the curve as it already has in other countries, hopefully avoiding a catastrophic overload of the healthcare system.
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by fcurts 7y ago
When you are broke, live on the street (which is a very tough life everywhere in the world), and possibly fight with mental illness or addiction, moving to a more affordable place (which will still be unaffordable for you, esp. in Californi
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by fcurts 7y ago
> my guess is that I can't use graalvm to produce a binary which I can sell without either open sourcing everything I've made or paying too much to Oracle. GraalVM CE is licensed under GPL 2 with Classpath exception ( https:&#x
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by fcurts 8y ago
A more feasible option is to compile Clojure byte code to native code with GraalVM ( http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilation... ). GraalVM's native compiler still has some limitations but i
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by fcurts 8y ago
Dart 2 has a sound type system and catches this at compile time.
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by fcurts 8y ago
Apparently some links broke, but nothing was taken offline: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8... > Can you source that claim? From https://www.azul.com/elimi
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by fcurts 8y ago
The quote describes the situation before JDK 11. As of 11, performance of Oracle JDK and OpenJDK will be exactly the same. They'll sell support and certified LTS builds.
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by fcurts 8y ago
As of 11, a "closed source Oracle JVM" won't exist anymore, and there won't be any performance difference between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK.
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by fcurts 8y ago
I'd be surprised if the exact same codebase (as of Java 11) was 4x slower just because it's called OpenJDK.
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by fcurts 8y ago
You won't have to pay for using Oracle JDK 8u181 in prod, and you won't have to pay for using OpenJDK 11 and higher in prod. You will have to pay for using Oracle JDK 11 and higher in prod, which is built from the exact same codeb
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by fcurts 8y ago
That information is outdated. I'll say it once more: Oracle JDK 11 and OpenJDK 11 will be built from the exact same codebase. https://mjg123.github.io/2018/05/25/Opening-Oracle-JDK-Featu...
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by fcurts 8y ago
> How is a license that puts no restrictions on usage "less business-friendly"? Use of GPL licensed software is heavily restricted in many corporations, whether or not it has the Classpath Exception. Among other things, it&#x27
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by fcurts 8y ago
> TL;DR: Yes. You have to pay for Java now. You have to pay for Oracle JDK but not for OpenJDK, which is just as good, except for a less business-friendly license, no commercial support, and no LTS builds straight from Oracle (instead yo

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