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How long emptied, exactly?

Is Nial Ferguson really your idea of a troublesome dissident?

It may not have amounted to a desire to save communism itself, but there was enough opposition to the "shock therapy" liberalization being imposed after its fall that Yeltsin had to shell parliament at the U.S.'s behest in 1993. We got what we wanted, and the Russians got 10 years of kleptocratic asset stripping whose consequences led directly to Putin.

Ruby has had this in the same form as "_1" for a while (and the obvious other indexes in the case of multiple params), but I agree Kotlin's "it" reads much better.

I'm not sure providing that level of complex logic and scheduling is really a proper task for OS kernels. It's essentially what you get from green threads / coroutines which are provided by numerous runtimes and frameworks, but those have to be translated to the various different async IO facilities in order to be portable between OSes.

Ecosystem effects are definitely important to C++'s dominance in HFT, but it's also a domain where a lot of the guarantees Rust offers just aren't all that relevant. From a security perspective most code always runs in sandboxes accessible to only a select few whitelisted IPs. True, you don't want a segfault while you're in the middle of sending an order to an exchange, but most of those are pretty easily smoked out in simulation testing.

The glimmer framework also has an interesting approach there.

> You can say that shouldn't be a factor, that (parents of) children should only have to consider the cost-benefit for their children directly. I'd reply that that's selfish.

Then you would demonstrate that your sense of morality is quite warped indeed. I would argue that no one is obligated to undergo a potentially hazardous medical procedure in order to mitigate potential threat to others, but this is especially the case with COVID, where we are talking about a disease that was primarily a threat to elderly people who had lived a long life already. Also, I'm not sure why you would bring up effects on transmission when it was clear by the time of the pediatric EUAs that the vaccines had almost none. I'm also not sure why you bring up "long-term unknown effects of COVID" when the vaccines did not prevent infection, so there was no benefit to be had there.

> But in the end it comes down to: thousands of children died of covid-19. How many died from the vaccine? Do you understand why, statistically, it might be difficult to demonstrate a clear clinical benefit, while still confident that such a result would occur?

This is a deeply unscientific process you are describing, fraught with exactly the sorts of biases and guesswork that objective and repeatable processes are meant to eliminate. With regard to the question "how many children were killed by the vaccine?" I would say it's completely impossible to know because the plain institutional imperatives of the FDA and medical community were to assiduously avoid acknowledging any such events. I would reference VAERS, but every time I do I'm told that's not a reliable system, and there's no other operational pharmacovigilance system I'm aware of, so we seem to just not have one at all. But the anecdotes from numerous people who experience severe AEs in close proximity to COVID vaccination, and experienced tremendous difficulty getting doctors to consider the link, and saw no follow-up from the FDA to their reports, does not give me confidence we have any real handle on such numbers at all.

The only trials that they ran, in very small numbers of around a few thousand children, did not even attempt to demonstrate a clinical benefit to children, because SARS-CoV-2 was already such a mild illness for them it would have been impossible to discern one. So they simply measured an increase in "antibody levels" and called it a day. I think risk-benefit calls should be pretty easy to make when "no discernable benefit" is what's been put on the table.

And yes, it was obviously a mistake at the time to issue an "emergency use authorization" for use of the vaccines in people for whom COVID was not even remotely an emergency.

mRNA vaccines are absolutely weird and different -- their mechanism of prompting an immune response is fundamentally different as it involves prompting the vaccinee's own cells to manufacture antigens.

Even if they weren't weird and different, previous vaccine rollouts like Pandemrix show that caution is warranted in the early days of rollout for any vaccine. COVID vax fundamentalists couldn't accept that many people might reach a legitimately different assessment of the risks and benefits because in their absolutely hysterical worldview, SARS-CoV-2 was tantamount to a death sentence or lifelong disability.

Were thousands of the children for whom the FDA issued emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines dying from COVID every day?

Sending out not-so-subtle "hints" to pharmacies not to fill prescriptions for off-label uses of a particular drug, and encouraging medical boards to discipline doctors who write such prescriptions, is exactly the same thing as "preventing doctors from picking a treatment."

One of the most infuriating things about COVID was seeing this sort of passive-aggressive buck passing raised to an artform. In my kids' school district, no one individual could be assigned responsibility for the fact they had to wear pointless cloth masks across their faces for six hours a day -- the superintendent blamed the state health department, the state health department blamed the governor, the governor blamed the CDC, the CDC blamed state health departments, and round and round it went.

There's a pic floating around out there of Brock Pierce shaking Merrick Garland's hand at the White House.

Yes you're correct, the idea is that they're not adding any keywords or bytecodes, just some new standard lib APIs that will get some special treatment by the JVM.

The basic feature set is at-most-once thread-safe initialization of values, which can then enjoy the same constant folding and other JIT optimizations one would get from `static final`, but can be initialized at any point during the program's run.

Even this is soft pedaling it a bit. A bunch of soccer hooligans chanting genocidal slogans got their teeth kicked in.

Perhaps it's in bad taste to Westerners who've imbibed a steady stream of atrocity propaganda about October 7, which avoids acknowledging that many of those killed and captured were legitimate military targets. By all accounts these are the antagonists presented in that mission in the game.

According to Israel's own figures 393 of the 1139 killed on October 7 were active duty military, so it's certainly possible to construct a game mission around it which does not involve actively hunting down civilians.

Yeah we just have any linter failures fail the CI build, but it's left up to submitters to decide how to resolve the violations.

And Java will soon have StableValue: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8312611

It's funny that the wildly overestimated IFRs like 3.4%, which were taken as gospel in the early days of the pandemic and drove the actual policy of sweeping shutdowns of schools, preventive medical care, and the economy at large -- a totally experimental and unprecedented measure with no empirical evidence whatsoever to demonstrate the benefits would outweigh the costs -- are not subjected to this same label of "hubris".

Iaonnidis's estimates of IFR in the 0.1% to 0.2% range were much closer to the mark.

I think one hangup for a lot of people here is that they picture the mechanics as having to be something like "the CIA groomed Frankfurt School writers as witting agents from birth" when in reality, it's more like these guys were just selected from the huge menu of takes vendors as having the correctly calibrated mix of left wing appeal and non- or anti-revolutionary compatibility.

"The CIA and the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism": https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-scho...

Yeah there's a JEP around deprecating access to sun.misc.Unsafe, but that's part of a larger effort including Jigsaw to push the Java ecosystem in the direction of modular builds, where more invariants are assumed to hold (e.g. " 'final' fields are actually final") unless explicitly opted out for each module. I would assume the lack of such guarantees in the status quo wreaks a lot of havoc with EA.

Profiling and debugging would be separate considerations -- I'm really not sure what limitations those impose on the JVM JIT.

> ability to modify code at runtime

Would Java's moves towards "integrity by default" mean that this could be ruled out in more cases?

Sounds like you're agreeing that the article describes Louk's captors as "rapists" without evidence?

Yeah in Java land specifically I think the question would become, "does the generational hypothesis still hold up once we have Valhalla and a much larger share of short-lived objects are stack allocated as value types?" but of course it may be years until the ecosystem reaches that point, if ever.

I'm an erstwhile techno-optimist who was disabused of his Panglossian views by the Utah Data Center, drone warfare (now advanced to the point of remotely piloted rifles gunning people down on the streets of Gaza), crypto ponzis, AI enclosing and monetizing decades of humanity's collective mental efforts, and the general indifference or even embrace by most of the tech community of all of the above. Technology has liberatory potential, but not in the hands currently wielding it.

> There was no context, no history

Well the header at least offers an accurate disclaimer as to the general state of October 7 discourse. Naturally, the author launches immediately in the first paragraph into lurid tales of rape unsupported by evidence, the standard for this sort of atrocity propaganda, which has been used to launder the case for a genocide which Israel and the U.S. have carried out over the past year.

The FIX financial protocol still uses ^A.