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PopeUrbanX

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PopeUrbanX··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
Thanks, I hate having to resize my browser window just to make 100% width paragraphs readable.
PopeUrbanX··on Ask HN: Why don't most CS academics make novel video games?
Why don't the best motorcycle mechanics make novel airplane designs?
PopeUrbanX··on Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)
This post is about Canada.
PopeUrbanX··on Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)
Good. Take away their free healthcare, too, so that they stop taking up ICU beds that smarter people might need.
PopeUrbanX··on Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired
Don't browsers these days loudly warn you if something like that is happening?
PopeUrbanX··on Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?
Did I say that the question can't be asked? Do you understand that there's a linked webpage attached to the title of this submission?
PopeUrbanX··on Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?
That's not at all what I just wrote. Read it again.
PopeUrbanX··on Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?
Because an increase in total number of vaccinations have coincided with an increase in transmissibility of the virus due to emerging variants.
PopeUrbanX··on Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?
No, these are clearly very marginal academics ("independent consultants", seriously?) doing bad science.
PopeUrbanX··on Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?
Anyone who's read even a handful of scientific articles in the biomed space can easily tell that this is a garbage paper in a garbage journal: https://retractionwatch.com/2021/12/19/elsevier-subjects-ent...

Please flag this terrible post.

PopeUrbanX··on Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
Which of Thiel's companies was it? Palantir? Just curious what your contribution was in his longstanding efforts to make the world an objectively worse place.
PopeUrbanX··on Consider SQLite
Yeah but you don't need to go through a web worker to use any other database product. Seems like with absurd you'd have to create a separate worker for each query and write your CRUD stuff in a potentially clunky, asynchronous style by passing messages to/from those workers. Sounds painful to me.
PopeUrbanX··on Consider SQLite
Do you know of any oss projects using absurd? Or maybe an ORM built on top of it? It doesn't seem like there's any ecosystem built around it yet, and their example project is too trivial to be useful. I'd have to have to built even the most basic CRUD functionality from scratch.
PopeUrbanX··on A New Coefficient of Correlation
I think it's safe to say you're not the intended audience for anything math-related, given that you're going to a dictionary to try to figure things out...
PopeUrbanX··on Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
It amazes me that someone who clearly doesn't like IDEs thinks their opinion is worth anything in a comment thread about IDE usage.
PopeUrbanX··on New record levels of private aviation flights
Ok, I'm just a liar then. Go fuck yourself.
PopeUrbanX··on New record levels of private aviation flights
Because PICUs full of kids sick with COVID isn't "normal", you ignorant fuck?
PopeUrbanX··on New record levels of private aviation flights
There's a preschool near me that I walk by every day. Their playground is constantly full of 3-4 year old kids, all of whom are properly wearing masks. In other words, you have worse coping skills than a toddler.
PopeUrbanX··on Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)
Dictating to other people how their personal workflows should look: Hell No
PopeUrbanX··on Air travel is good and we should want more of it
I think it would be great to live in a world where everyone can fly as much as they want without feeling guilty. This would be a lot easier to do if there weren't 8 billion people in the world.
PopeUrbanX··on AWS us-east-1 outage
The very expensive EC2 instance I started this morning still works. Of course now I can't shut it down.
PopeUrbanX··on AWS us-east-1 outage
I wonder why AWS has Ohio and Virginia but no region in the northeast where a significant plurality of customers using east regions probably live.