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by uecker 1y ago
That you should be very careful about what you install. Cut&pasting some line from a website is the exact opposite of it. This is mostly about psychology and not technology. But there are also other issues with this, e.g. many indepen
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by uecker 1y ago
It is definitely not fine. The argument seems to be that since you need to trust somebody, curl | bash is fine because you just trust whoever controls the webserver. I think this is missing the point.
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Of course, one you have identifies the bounds to each pointer you could just do bounds checking in C.
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The memory model of C is intentionally designed to allow safe implementations (still from the time of hardware-segmented methods).
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by uecker 1y ago
The package manager takes care of the dependencies. And one does not need to compile the libraries one uses, so how complicated this is does not matter. I install the -dev package and I am done. This works beautifully and where it does no
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by uecker 1y ago
No, this is not how you do things in a functioning community. You do things based on societal contracts that also protect the interests of minorities.
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by uecker 1y ago
I never found it hard to add a C library to my projects using pkg-config. And yes, when the package came from Debian I have some trust that it is not a huge supply chain risk. I think the problem started with the idea over language-level m
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by uecker 1y ago
While memory safety is important, I do not believe it is now suddenly so important that it needs now needs to be solved quickly at all cost. There are far more pressing issues. I also do not think at all that C/C++ are dead end. In f
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The point of freedom in software is certainly that I can create my own fork. And individual projects a maintainer can certainly do what he wants. But it is still worrying if in community projects such as Debian when decisions that come w
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They are of no commercial interest to Ubuntu.
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by uecker 1y ago
I think the spin that Rust is necessarily the way forward is what is wrong. IMHO Rust has severe problems and what is considered "modern" is mostly taste. We have seen the same thing in the past with a push towards C++, Java, man
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by uecker 1y ago
I wonder why they blamed the vaccine?
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Myocarditis from the is usually mild while myocarditis from COVID may have worse outcomes. And for myocarditis, the 10x would apply only for a specific age group and males, and not overall.
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by uecker 1y ago
This seems like a bad way to phrase it. The vaccine is certainly a lot (many orders of magnitude) less dangerous than just 0.1x as dangerous as COVID. Maybe you wanted to say that the risks from COVID are only 10x more without vaccinatio
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by uecker 1y ago
COVID vaccination for healthy children is not necessary because the benefit is small compared to the risk (but still considered positive and vaccination is recommended when there are certain risk factors). It is indeed unfortunate that th
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by uecker 1y ago
You say this as if you discovered some major flaw. And is, of course, expected that also some vaccinated people die from COVID. The point is that the risk of dying substantially decreased with vaccination. Something one can only find out b
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by uecker 1y ago
You are right that there seems to be a copy mistake in Figure 2. But the mistake is the wrong direction, i.e. the risk from COVID actually is even higher as shown on the figure. But again, the main problem is that you pick such an inconsis
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by uecker 1y ago
Please specify which numbers you exactly you are referring to. Slides are also irrelevant, all these studies are published. You also need to understand that there are many independent studies confirming this (many I looked at as well as
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by uecker 1y ago
This is not a study but a review article, so it seems you are bit confused. The point is very simply and confirmed by many studies: The increased risk from COVID when unvaccinated is much higher than the risk from myocarditis caused by the
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by uecker 1y ago
I am working in this field, so I am aware of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis as rare condition caused by Gadolinium contrast agents in people with kidney disease. As far as I know, there was no new case in the last 10-15 years after the took
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by uecker 1y ago
I am not sure how you come to the conclusion. My link goes to paper that is a bit old, I did not do a new literature search, so I am not sure how the risk calculation may have changed since then. But at that point (2021) the benefit of vacc
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by uecker 1y ago
Maybe this helps? https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....
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by uecker 1y ago
You may want to look at this paper to get a better idea of risk and benefits, e.g. Fig 2 and Fig 3: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.... One also needs to understand that myocarditi
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by uecker 1y ago
Note that MRI with contrast has very low risk and I am not aware of any evidence that Gadolinium retention even has adverse health effects. It is a concern though and this is why it is being studied. But I do not think the use of MRI contra
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by uecker 1y ago
Please do not spread misinformation. Nobody expects "cardiovascular issues" "popping amongst the neighbors" and there is no evidence supporting this.
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In the paper it says 0.1%. " Cardiac symptoms are common after the second dose of BNT162b2 vaccine, but the incidences of significant arrhythmias and myocarditis are only 0.1%." Also note: "subclinical".
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by uecker 1y ago
It is certainly a lot more complex than C. Whether it codified the things one needs to know is a different question. I would even agree that partially it does and there are aspects I really like about Rust, but I do not believe it matters
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by uecker 1y ago
I don't buy this story. It may attract some people during the hype phase. But in the end, Rust is more complex, so it will make it harder to maintain software. And then, this also only can work if the rewrites completely replace th
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by uecker 1y ago
Indeed. This is exactly the problem. It is no fun helping with maintenance of an existing project, fix some boring bug, deal with all the historical constraints, necessary support for old systems, etc. It is so much more fun to cargo-downl
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by uecker 1y ago
Of course! But the problem is much more severe. I can't comment on coreutils, but there are not enough resources for high quality maintenance of the core tool chain. It is completely surprising that effort is wasted for creating ne

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