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He was a professor at my old alma mater, Queen's University of Belfast. I remember hearing a story about him going to Harvard to give a lecture and, as he was presented, one of their professors referred to himself as the "Hoare of Harvard"

Great news, and with the 92% effective covid vaccine, Moderna are really killing it.

Also there was a famous media interview by clive sinclair telling customers they could fix an issue with the a ram pack upgrade falling off with the use of blu tac

OH no!

That guy stuffing his face like it's a movie theater.

Telling on themselves

Ivermectin has shown great promise not only treating symptons of covid (5000% reduction in viral load in one paper) but also as a prophylactic. The small studies released recently suggest up to 83% effectiveness as a prophylactic. Of course larger RCT will need done, but fat chance of that with the economic incentive for big pharma and their politcal cronies and the weird political push to get EVERYONE vaccinated.

Getting downvoted by the hive mind so here's some links to a paper and offical news sources-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.31.21258081v...

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-...

meta study - https://ivmmeta.com/

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indian-ba...

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/antiviral-efforts...

Reeks of try hard blog posting. First 4 have nothing to do with remote working. Last one is about people not turning cameras on and using audio only, not weird or "ineffective" at all.

It's even better - they work out if you paid too much automaticallly and send you a check in the mail. Had 3 checks over the past decade or so from having time off between jobs but paying full rate for the remaining time. Nothing quite so satisfying as a £1000 check from HM Revenue and Customs!

Feel like shit, just want him back.

If you hate our culture so much why do you want citizenship?

Annotation based compiler hints?

This will be a special version of windows XP with all the rubbish taken out and only the required services running etc. We used a similar version of XP as a base OS for a security camera control device.

It will have been security validated to the extreme and to assume it is anything like the commerical version is wrong

I see airwars.org already receives funding from the open society foundation and other nerfarious organistions.

Perhaps you should ask billionaire George Soros for a sweaty wad of cash.

Where did they personally attack her? Please provide some quotes from the original article and not the hyperbole in hers.

"scenarios that is not covered by standard procedures" Actually I know people who work in benefits and this is very common. It is entriely up to the claimant to notify the office in change of circumstances and anything else can be considered fraud. Also if you are claiming family benefit then they have every right to ask about your personal circumstances in terms of relationships and if you are living with someone as this determines the amount you can get.

Edit - In her original article she actually admits to ignoring letters from the office. This is a huge mistake.

Where did they release her financial records? Have you read the original article?

This story follows a pattern of coordinated attacks on public services in The Guardian and other left leaning media outlets. Usually with the agenda of demanding more money and funding.

No doubt, mistakes happen in large bureaucracies but the story is usually slanted as some evil agency trying to destroy certain 'marginalised' sections of society. Whereas the truth is probably nothing like that.

I cannot help but think it is agenda pushing, distortion of facts and playing on emotions. Read the woman's original article and see the emotional language and phrases used. I think it says a lot about the intent of these media pieces.

Read the linked Centrelinks response and several things are refuted, so why in these comments is there an automatic pile on one side?

That's a far too level-headed and reasoned response for the current climate, even in HN.

I wonder what effect +OptimiseStringConcat has on those benchmarks. It's supposed to collapse a lost of .append calls and tries to use the minimum amount of StringBuilder objects

I once heard a (probably apocryphal) story of a developer who had been playing Doom installed on a server.

The sysadm caught him playing it and promptly unistalled the game.

However the important business application hosted on the server then stopped working and no one could figure out why.

Nothing would work... even after lots of debugging, error log analysis and redeploying.

The developer suggested installing Doom again and lo and behold, the application started working.

As we all know Scottishness is passed through the male gene*

(Stewart Lee).

This is the 10th article today about sexism/feminism/rape culture/woman's issues etc.

What's going on?

I had the LASEK (also called PRK) and the recovery isn't as bad as it sounds. The next day was painful and I had patchy vision for a few days afterwards but within a week there was no discomfort at all and my vision was fine. (It does take a month or 2 to settle down but your vision is competely fine during this period).

It does have the advantage of less risk due to no cutting and allowing natural regrowth of the removed upper layer of cornea.

The procedure itself lasts about 10 mintues for both eyes. You lie down and they put numbing drops in your eyes and wait a minute. Then the alcohol paste (for removing the top layer of the cornea) is rubbed on to your eye with what looked like an eyeliner brush. This was the only uncomfortable bit of the procedure - even then it wasn't physical as you cannot feel it, it was more just the idea of it.

A few minutes later they apply the laser; this is over in a matter of seconds for each eye. Now with the expensive procedure I opted for (called wavefront) they do a 3D mapping of your eye and program that into the laser so it's not a random shot. Also the laser tracks any eye movement at 200 times per second.

The LASEK carries less chance and severity of halos (according to studies I believe are referenced in wikipedia). I have them but they are hardly noticable.

Optical Express in Belfast

Got it done September 2013 and overall very happy.

I had poor eyesight (-4.5) and astigmatism in one eye.

Cost £3000 for the top end surgery (3D mapping etc.) also due to my thin cornea I had to have the PRK rather than LASIK. This took longer to recover and was very uncomfortable for a few days after.

I now have 20/20 vision though I do have a slight halo effect at night and very dry eyes most mornings but this will hopefully clear up like many others have.

Edit - I had the PRK procedure.

No I'm speculating. I'm imaging if I lost something involving physical activites I would rationalise it as my opponent being stronger/fitter/faster/better hand eye coordination etc. But how do you rationalise it when someone out thinks you? Deceives you? Displays more cunning and can think ahead better.

I might be making a false distinction but it just seems to be more personal and gets to the core of your being.

Yes it's true. Though with Chess it felt different. I guess with sports you are pitting physical or athletic ability against an opponent but with Chess it's your mind and intellect which seems to draw the ego out more. Winning is euphoric but losing is a crushing psychological blow to the essence of what makes you... your mind.

I love chess but stopped playing around the age of 20.

I played a lot in school and was captain of my school team. I played in league and cup matches for 2 years and every day I practised on fellow students in the sixth form prefects room. There was nothing quite as nerve wracking as sitting opposite your opponent in an important match and shaking hands and the first moves. On the other hand there was the excitment of knowing when you had beaten your opponent and just had to finish him off. I remember going to a tight end game with a top table opponent and had just Queened a pawn with another one 2 moves away. The referee gave me the Queen and said "Shall I leave another Queen here?" I replied "no thanks I just need the one" and grinned at my opponent. It's been said chess is more brutal than war.

I had to give it up as I began obsessing about the game. It was driving me slowly mad. I was having nightmares about being chased around a large chess board by the pieces. I haven't played a game since.

"It is interpreted at run time (byte code) rather than compiled"

The bytecode is complied to native code by hotspot after a few runs but C++ still has a big advantage with direct memory management and numerical functions. Though for most applications these aren't a necessary requirement.