heurisko

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by heurisko 4y ago
There's no reason for any restrictions, if the healthcare system is not in danger of being overwhelmed. Risk is a fact of life. And arguably your wish for everyone to wear masks and have compulsory vaccinations focuses disproportionate
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That the pandemic caused suffering, is without question. The question is whether the measures deployed to combat it caused more harm, overall, than good. In the UK, children died during lockdown, who may have lived had they been in regular
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by heurisko 4y ago
> 2021: "Coronaviruses do not mutate" and "You won't catch it more than once" > 2022: "Viruses become less deadly over time... so if we just bear with it a bit longer..." I can't remember anyone
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by heurisko 4y ago
The one study you cited didn't support your original claim > Unless we find a proper vaccine, today's children will live their whole life with this disease. Spending an extra week sick each year, accumulating organ damage and m
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by heurisko 4y ago
I remember arguing with people who said I should be lockdowned, but then balking at my suggestion that people should do mandatory park runs at the weekend, to lessen the chance of getting seriously ill with COVID.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40. And not to forget long covid's disastrous effects on all ages. I expect the number of younger people dying from missed cancer
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by heurisko 4y ago
No, it's the expectation on the teacher to provide material for 30 children to catch up, for a week each. It's a nightmare for the teacher, who then has less time left for the children who didn't go on holiday to progress.
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by heurisko 4y ago
If you have (in the UK) 30 children being taken out of school at various time for holidays, the it turns into a nightmare of catching up.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I like Ubuntu, but in the last few months I have been following how things are packaged more closely. For example, looking at the package for postgresql-14, an update still hasn't been released for the unscheduled mid-June release vers
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by heurisko 4y ago
22.04 uses the 5.15 LTS kernel. https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html But I assume as Ubuntu follows an April release schedule, it doesn't always match with an appropriate LTS kernel.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I don't think it is the case here, but this happened in the UK. > Tax inspectors were told that A-listers from Hollywood were starring in a £19.6m production that would be shot in the UK. However, the movie was never made and the on
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by heurisko 4y ago
Does this require a PPA? As the Unity version in the main repositories is still 5.5. https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/unity
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by heurisko 4y ago
I loved/love Unity and kept on installing it on my desktops. It's now running on 22.04. Don't see why it needs to be changed. There are so many parts that feel a lot of thought has been spent on them.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I think it is certainly a psychological phenomenon as well. I read twitter accounts sometimes and note that sometimes the person writing is mentally ill, but has so many followers encouraging them, that I dont think they will ever escape fr
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by heurisko 4y ago
Would plain virtual machines be acceptable?
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by heurisko 4y ago
This is the promise, but in experience nasty bugs occur when the abstraction inevitably doesn't work. If it doesn't work with an real life implementation e.g. docker test container, then I don't consider it a robust test.
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by heurisko 4y ago
Hibernate+Spring Data allow me to write native queries, and maps them to interfaces for me. Using an ORM doesn't mean you have to rely on behaviour that generates slow (e.g. n+1) query issues.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> If all big companies donated $500K a year to open source, that'd be a pretty significant change in the environment, wouldn't it? If those other companies stood to gain as much for $500K spent on marketing, they'd be doin
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by heurisko 4y ago
Because I doubt many would. I think reaction would be "Sure, this is nice I guess." But I don't think it is anything more than marketing on the side of GitHub. And I think what annoys people is when people seem to think it is
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by heurisko 4y ago
Because anyone with any insight into human nature can see this would happen. You're a traveller in a lesser economically developed country. You're in the wilderness, you haven't seen anyone in a while. You see a stranger, who
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by heurisko 4y ago
I wouldn't accept the money, because quantifying a altruistic/passionate/to scratch my itch act in terms of monetary value kills it. The same phenomenon applies to reluctance to remunerate blood donations. > Some studies i
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by heurisko 4y ago
> Ethically it is not very different from myself reading books, blogs and other available source codes, and then writing my own program based on whatever I learned. I don't think that's the same. It's more similar to copyi
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by heurisko 4y ago
If you're interested in this, then you might be interested in "The Dig", a recent dramatisation of the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial treasures at Sutton Hoo. In addition to the discovery of the treasures themselves, the
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by heurisko 4y ago
I'm a fan of Jetbrains and am now on their discounted subscription. They are quite involved in the development of languages too. My suspicion is they have an interest in creating new language features, that users will need updated IDEs
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Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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I agree regarding shared working spaces. I had a look at a WeWork and it seemed like a good choice for a remote job. The best I find it hybrid: a mixture of quiet home time and office meetings to talk with people. I've never had a horr
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by heurisko 4y ago
> (they/any) I wonder when the fad for putting pronouns after your name will die out. It feels a lot like the little 3rd person biographies people used to write about themselves in the 2000s.
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by heurisko 4y ago
Reminds me of the Simpsons episodes when Bill Gates "buys out" Homer's internet business. "Well I didn't get rich by writing a lot of cheques!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
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by heurisko 4y ago
It's not a particularly American phenomenon. I can remember reading "Deschooling Society" by Ivan Illich whilst in the UK's comprehensive school system. On retrospect, I don't think I realised the importance of scho
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by heurisko 4y ago
Also annoying is companies not allowing the plus sign, e.g.: user+addition@example.com

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