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> I'd vote for politicians who support this. I'd happily pay more taxes to support it. I'd support the development of international institutions in this field. Is that good enough for you?

Have at it then, you could even donate to private research if the government won't come take your virus research money from you under threat of force. Enjoy!

Already paying taxes and doing my job, done and dusted, so we are good. Next! Solving world problems are so simple.

So what will you, as a part of "we", the collective, do exactly to make it happen?

Ah, so ... if andyjohnson0 is not part of the human species ... the heck is andyjohnson0?

Also if andyjohnson0 wants their "leaders" to do something ... I mean ... andyjohnson0 can vote no?

And are you suggesting "our leaders" are dragging their asses or something?

Chelsea Manning was not jailed or fined for refusing to testify in and of itself. I also refuse to testify, for example, but I'm pretty sure no cop will come arrest me and put me in jail and no court will fine me.

Context is a thing, and it is relevant here.

Okay - so ... "we (as a species) need to get better at rapid vaccine creation. Like an order of magnitude better" ... and andyjohnson0 will do what exactly then to make this happen?

> need to get better at rapid vaccine creation.

What is stopping you from making a vaccine for COVID-19? I can promise you nobody will be upset with you if you do it, you don't need anyone's permission either.

Checked access to c++ containers also throw ... https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/map/at

How are the two things related?

Not even once ... https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/

But is Scientology's view not that we are essentially manipulated into our current value and belief systems?

Why does your goal of trying to limit their "manipulation" have more validity than their goal of limiting yours?

Interesting, I was not aware of this - the problems I described were from designs in the 1960s

There were designs for this but AFAIU the amount of mass needed for shielding the reactor would make it impractical. Not sure if technology has changed much but presumably the only way to get around this is to reduce radiation as the mass of shielding has more to do with fundamental physics I think.

> I was still struck by the brazenness of advertising something whose ethical dubiousness has been so thoroughly publicized.

I actually don't entirely see the problem here. I mean taking money from Scientologists to fund services I use (I don't use facebook, but hypothetically if I did ...) is a good thing in my view.

I guess you are worried that people will convert to Scientology, but really if the only thing that is keeping people from being Scientologists is not knowing about it then I think the problem is in no way related to Scientology.

The real issue then is that large swathes of society have been advocating for completely abandoning any sense of objective values while they loudly shout value judgements at the top of their lungs like petulant children with no sense of propriety having temper tantrums.

Blocking Scientology ads won't change that. You can't fix a problem not caused by the visibility of Scientology adds by changing the visibility of Scientology ads.

Just a shot in the dark here ... but maybe the person you are responding to got the idea that this is a VM from the fact that TornadoVM literally has VM it it's name...

I also knew about it a month ago, I was more optimistic then. If no new information ever comes into play or if views and outlooks never changes then markets would be static. People knew about viruses for decades now also ... does not mean all possible consequences of viruses are already priced in.

> Recession? Definitions are toxic to the real problem.

Okay, then lets not use them. Is what we are seeing now primarily a consequence of of COVID-19 or not?

Ehh... I mean ... if the whole rest of the world was somehow unaffected by this ... then ...

You do get that a reasonably conservative projection is that within a year most people in the world would have gotten COVID-19? How the heck did Trump do that?

The only means of slowing COVID-19 has massive effects on the economy. There is now way in hell this would not have had a massively negative impact on the world economy. If you could give some meaningful argument for why US is handling it worse than the rest of the world, by all means. But just saying "Trump is bad" seems to be completely disregarding the reality.

> This will be blamed on COVID-19

Good. Because I don't buy for a moment that without COVID-19 the situation would be what it is now. Hindsight is 2020 and predictions of doom and stock market collapse is a dime a dozen.

Well that rules out Norway then... thanks Trump!

Which country was totally prepared for this?

I am quite annoyed with text user interfaces, especially in lui of a proper CLI. On two occasions that I asked people to make a CLI for something and then they made some abomination that can't be used from a script but needs to be used interactively.

Again, flatpak, appimage, docker ... you can use one of these, don't have to use 15.

> Way simpler to do on Linux than M$ Windows.

Where, pray tell, do people who write the software for this "operating system" store their source code if not somewhere that is connected to the internet? Do they use punch cards?

> Which of those is ubiquitous enough to ensure availability of what you're looking for in that format?

Have not met someone who hates AppImage. flatpak is also rather ubiquitous. I use both every day.

OLTP in this context is indeed online transaction processing.

This general approach of «let it "crash"[1]» or happy path programming is what I used when I wrote OTLP systems for mobile networks which were performing financial transactions. The exception handling would allow you to write fairly complex business logic and relying on exception handling to recover to a stable state.

[1]: Crashing in Erlang terms is not at all what people generally mean with crashing. It is a very unfortunate word because in part many of the problems in node.js comes from joyent not understanding what "let it crash" meant - it did not mean let the unix process crash. Erlang does one process per transaction and they are incredibly lightweight. Some details from joyent can be found here: https://www.joyent.com/node-js/production/design/errors

Exceptions are ideal for happy path programming. You keep state in the stack and build your software so things get thrown away. For some types of programming this is not that important but for OLTP it is very handy.

https://ninenines.eu/articles/dont-let-it-crash/

Basically this approach is handle errors if you know what to do with them, otherwise leave the error for something else.

In erlang, where you have one process per transaction, and nothing handles the error, the process crashes.

In C++, you could just have an exception handler around a transaction, and then when an exception reaches that point you throw away the transaction, but log that it failed, you could have exception handlers below this to try and do rollbacks etc.

This is overly simplified but it gives a basic idea.

Yeah ... this seems like a bit of a truism. Humans evolved in "the world". That implies that we are at least somewhat adapted to said world. What would be surprising is if we were not somewhat adapted to perceive the world. Saying that we have some adaptations to perceive the world is about as novel as claiming water is wet.

> compile it from source

Way simpler to do on Linux than M$ Windows.

> [no way to ] to directly distribute binaries without a gigantic fucking headache.

I mean, flatpak, appimage, docker, etc ...

Another alternative

  find /etc/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f \
    -printf '%s:%T@:%p\000' \
    | sort -z -t: -k1,1g \
    | sed -E -z 's/^[0-9]+:[0-9.]+://g' \
    | tr '\000' '\n'

Sorts by size, can just change -k1,1 to -k2,2 to sort by date. Tested on fedora 31 with gnu find, sed, sort and tr.

And really the answer given at the stackexchange link is quite on point:

> However ls is really a tool for direct consumption by a human, and in that case further processing is less useful. For futher processing, find(1) is more suited.

Find is the right solution, find gives you an enormous amount of control, to re-implement find in ls seems counter productive.

Linux is incredibly simple compared to Windows once you actually your computer as a computer instead of as a really poorly made gaming console.