w3mmpp

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by w3mmpp 6y ago
If I may ask, what are the benefits of building this app in LispWorks instead of any other implementation (sbcl or else)?
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
> by throwaway888abc Pretty funny, good enough for reuters but not for HN it seems...
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
I'm gonna reference what you said again: > The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. "importance and virtue of public service". Unless you consider there is such a thing as public service w
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
> The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. Go check in countries with large public services and let me know what virtues they display... Spoiler: you're gonna be disappointed.
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
Yes same for me and the arctic. wait...
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
You're most likely penalized for some kind of wrongthink, don't worry about it. Upvoted.
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by w3mmpp 6y ago
Ah, Haskell, the language I wish used s-expressions...
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
I'm just reading about that city in Germany, Gangelt, where they did those blood tests to 1000 people, they found out that 2% are actively infected, and 14% have the antibodies (indicating a prior infection): https://www.tec
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
> Didn't the whole generations fight for something more complex than "the right to be not told to social distance during a pandemic"? Read the parent comment to which I responded. Particularly the "There are videos of
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Remember, this virus has circulated weeks before the confinement, so don't you think a doubling R0 have completely changed the number of cases that have been modeled so far, and therefore the CFR? Of course we have much to learn and th
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
10 times the rate of the flu is a good basis I think, or 1% death rate. But confirmed, not like right now where we all know we haven't counted a lot of people in that number of cases and therefore the death rate is a lot lower. Another
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
At this point, with an R0 at 6, it's likely the number of people that have been infected is 100X bigger, which means the real fatality rate is 100X smaller. An no, current tests can't show that because those people are likely cure
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Whole generations of people have been killed for freedom and you're ready to give it all back for a 1% fatality rate? It's a bad bargain imo.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
> that it's so bad that we might as well stop trying to protect ourselves? No the logic is if it's that much more contagious, a whole lot more people have caught it than the numbers show and therefore the fatality rate is way l
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Do you call what we have now weak measure? The whole economy is shut, what more do you want?
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Sure, let's just keep the economy closed, who cares if the death rate is 10%, 1% or 0.1% (seasonal flu), what difference does it make right?
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Those are very deep philosophical questions that you don't have to tackle on your own. Now, western philosophy is not much help on those questions, but you can look at the buddhist concepts of samsara, the cyclical nature of existence,
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
What are those patterns? I've used Azure functions a lot but never had (I think) a use case for durable ones.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Seconded. LinkedIn is a pretty good ressource if you invest some time developing your connections. A lot of SW recruiters but also small businesses for people looking for both employment and contracts (I found both through it). Anybody inte
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Great story! Can you share the name of your app? Reading your post, I did a search for vb6 to see what's currently out there, found some screenshots of the IDE, instant nostalgia :)
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Yes, and I guess it could also be ran into a VM with Windows 95-98 or that other open source clone, can't remember the name now and still be useful.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Out of curiosity, do you develop professionally in VB classic?
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
The article links to that research too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj... Under: "US academic study concurs" half page.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
> cars. In most European countries a car is not absolutely vital you're talking about cities, in rural places, europe is not different than the US.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
great info thanks, happy to see that people like you, who are not afraid to learn new stuff and integrate that into their long experience is still valuated.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Are you making a parallel between isolate yourself to not catch and spread a disease with "isolationism and xenophobia"? I sure hope you (and people in general) can separate the 2 concepts or we're really doomed.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
May I ask what you did previously in your career, was it related, sys admin or similar, or did you move to devops more recently? I'm getting close to 50 and I have to admit, I'm wondering what employment looks like after 50 for pe
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
+1
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Because young people are silly most of the time. They are clueless of their ignorance and how fast and radically their own beliefs will change over time. Every 10 years, you look at your own self and you realize how little you knew, how sil
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
> terse catharsis Doesn't sound healthy, or wise.

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