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by ufo 5y ago
I'm not convinced that the population of El Salvador is into it to the same degree that Nayib Bukele is. The whole thing sounds very fishy.
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by ufo 5y ago
All known cases of post vaccine myocarditis were mild and did not lead to permanent damage. Also, myocarditis can also be caused byviral infections. We don't know the exact numbers, because it is hard to diagnose myocarditis if the per
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by ufo 5y ago
I wonder how it deals with the lack of a garbage collector in C and C++. I could only find a single paragraph about it in the language reference and it doesn't seem to explain how to free memory in C, or how to deal with circular refer
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by ufo 5y ago
Does anyone know what is the difference between unfollowing everything vs hiding the news feed using CSS?
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by ufo 5y ago
To be pedantic... the musttail attribute goes in the return statement with the function call, not on the function definition.
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by ufo 5y ago
One thing that I would love to hear about is suggestions of how to make my files/output more awk-friendly.
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by ufo 5y ago
I feel like that sub is the new r/fatpeoplehate. "You see, we're just helping people to be healthier by pointing out that obesity is harmful".
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by ufo 5y ago
The argument Theranos gave is that it would allow collecting blood from a fingerprick (which would not require a trained professional, and because people are afraid of needles).
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by ufo 5y ago
I was surprised at how easy it was to use. I was expecting it to be difficult, as is often the case for software that is packed with features for advanced users, but it turned out that recording a window is just a matter of pressing a butto
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by ufo 5y ago
I'm trying to remember the citation, but I remember seeing a presentation once from someone who studied this and they said that the thing that worked best was a hybrid approach: use structured diff at the top level of the program (modu
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by ufo 5y ago
The human-designated dose of ivermectin is usually a one-time dose. One of the problems is that not only have some people use non-human doses, but there are also many who are on a continuous regimen of ivermectin. That can also be dangerous
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by ufo 5y ago
The most recent example would be the PreventSenior debacle: https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-brasil/exclusivo-... https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2021/08&#x2
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by ufo 5y ago
By the way, does anyone here know how Python compiles the match statements under the hood? Are they converted into something equivalent to if-elif, which tries each option in sequence? Or does it do something more clever?
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by ufo 5y ago
I know we can do that, but I still want continue ;)
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by ufo 5y ago
One thing I don't like about goto is that it allows the creation of irreducible control flow. Makes all kinds of optimizations and program analysis more difficult. When I have the chance, I advocate for more well behaved alternatives s
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by ufo 5y ago
Jesus, what a disgustingly clever hack! I wonder if we could use a similar mechanism to finally add a "continue" to Lua.
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by ufo 5y ago
In my experience, currying is problematic in dynamically typed languages. If you accidentally pass less arguments than you should, then you'll only detect the error much later, when you try to use the result and find that it is a parti
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by ufo 5y ago
This blog post doesn't seem yo answer the hard questions, such as why recommend Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi on every video.
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by ufo 5y ago
The basic structure of a phase 3 vaccine efficacy trial is that you give the vaccine to half of the volunteers and placebo to the other half. Then you you wait for them to naturally be exposed to COVID. When a pre-determined number of infec
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by ufo 5y ago
Another important thing to ask is the risk of myocarditis due to covid, vs the risk of myocarditis due to the vaccine.
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by ufo 5y ago
That is a misleading headline. Most of these reported cases of myocarditis are mild and did not require hospitalization, so it's kind of an apples to oranges comparison.
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by ufo 5y ago
In those cases the virus particles don't replicate enough to be detected.
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by ufo 5y ago
That distinction isn't as important for evaluating vaccine efficacy. It wants to measure if the person was infected, not if the person is infectious.
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by ufo 5y ago
Depends on the study design. Infections are detected by doing a PCR covid test. However, different studies might have different criteria for exactly who gets tested.
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by ufo 5y ago
The vaccines that are already distributed were distributed considering the original plan of only two doses per person. More vaccines would need to be ordered to get enough for a third dose.
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by ufo 5y ago
I think the first efficacy data is going to be about preventing infections. Data about preventing deaths will take longer to obtain.
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by ufo 5y ago
Thankfully, the most high risk people in Brazil have gotten two shots by now; we're moving towards giving a first shot to every adult, and starting second shots for everyone. The vaccination campaign was botched by negligence and corru
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by ufo 5y ago
I think this comment would also have worked without the "r" word.
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by ufo 5y ago
If GPLv4 were more restrictive, people would still be able to use the software under the terms of gplv2 or gplv3. The scenario where FSF goes "rogue" would be if gplv4 became more permissive, e.g. if it stopped being a copyleft li
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by ufo 5y ago
I believe there have been studies showing that ivermectin is not useful against covid in these situations either.

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