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I don’t believe it will convince those that don’t want to be convinced. But I want to be convinced, and I want transparency in the science that my taxes are funding and in the enlightened society in which I wish to live.

Transparency in science should include publishing raw data, as apart from re-creating the statistics in the report there is no other way the trial is repeatable.

As far as I can see, in the UK, these adverse effects are not being logged or recorded in such a way that any analysis could be done to determine the scale, or even existence of any problem.

I heard that there was a public database in US for this sort of thing. But it has it’s own problems about data quality.

I'm a pro vax person, and I've had three vaccine doses. But I have a few anti-vaxers around in friends and family, and it can be hard to argue with them that vaccines are totally safe and effective for them (not talking about the population as a whole).

I would like safe and effective vaccines, and I would like to know that the vaccines I have been administered have really got the backing of truly scientific trials.

Surely releasing the trial data is a net positive for all the national populations that have paid for it.

It's hard to analyse the data from treatments, as treatments don't have a control group. Trials are designed with control groups, placebos and double-blind process to gather data and then analyse it.

We may have loads of data from real people being treated, but good luck trying to analyse it in a scientific way.

We need effective vaccines, and we need to be able to trust them. Just treating people with a vaccine doesn't always give that trust and confidence.

(I hope I got my medical terminology right, I'm not a clinician, but have been close to covid-19 related medical research)

The BMJ seems to be on good form. First publishing the whistle blower account of pfizer [1], and now this call for raw vaccine trial data.

I commend them on this approach, and can only hope that the vaccines are as safe and effective as we have been told.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635 - "Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial"

How can you be surprised that a web email front end is able to do .indexOf() on your text?

It’s not creepy, it’s user friendly.

You can run ublock origin on macOS with Firefox

Assuming the battery is not soldered in.

I was on a team that tried to implement this at a bank, using azure. The idea was not at the app level but at machine (vm) level.

Machines in the legacy data center didn’t have internet access, and so they didn’t want could machines to have it either.

But once we locked down the network so many things broke. Not just user level stuff like doing code builds in maven, but also machine level stuff like enabling drive encryption.

Preventing out of band exfiltration on of data and downloading of exploit materials is very important to a defence in depth approach and none of the clouds seem to embrace it.

The problem was that all azure services were provided on public IP ranges, so given them at VM services needed to communicate with azure Ana gent endpoints we couldn’t block on the IP, so had to implement via HTTP proxies.

Using explicit HTTP proxies was a config night mare as not everything honoured the HTTPS_PROXY env var (e.g. Java). And using an implicit proxy was a nightmare of MITM, custom certs, updating a myriad of trust roots and then the proxy would use a ‘captive portal’ and cause broken redirects.

They didn’t know it was vulnerable, they just didn’t like it for other reasons.

Should maintainers of all core apache libs just remove or disable features they don’t like, when not known to be insecure?

That said, log4j2 isn’t that old. Not sure why this was added in the first place. At the very least it’s a performance issue.

Those thinking Brad Fitzpatrick is arrogant to open source should look into Brad Fitzpatrick’s contribution to open source.

I think in china you could make one for a lot less than a million dollars. They have some pretty good electronic fabrication facilities there.

Which boundaries are these? I’ve not hit them. But then I don’t use the api features.

Another difference is that In a jar file, all file names are utf-8 encoded. Where as in a zip file the encoding is not specified.

I was a web developer at the time and Netscape was much worse to develop for than IE. It was poorly documented and I could make it crash just by loading an HTML file. Change a few chars and it wouldn’t crash.

IE had great documentation on MSDN and worked as documented. In 1999 I thought IE was the best browser to develop for.

Things changed after that of course.

Four letter extensions work really well for .java and .json. It seems strange the abbreviate zstd anymore.

So what in your opinion are the causes of the current shipping issues?

Indeed. Why competitors are excluded is addressed in the article.

That twitter thread offers no insight into why the problems occurred in the first place. Something which the original article does attempt to do. Also the suggested remedies are just a temporary band aid. Without identifying the cause of the bottleneck you aren’t going to be able to solve the bottleneck.

I would suppose that they don’t “know” they just feel compelled.

There are dragon flies that migrate from India to Africa. It takes three generations to complete the round trip. So how do they know? It must be just a feeling.

I guess that a long time ago when India and Aftrica were adjacent parts of Gondwana land, the migration must have been quite short. But as the continents drifted apart the dragoon flies had to adapt to the longer route.

Sea birds can fly for longer. For instance an albatross.

I absolutely love the smell of tomato plants. My grandfather used to grow them in large green houses. Now when I smell a tomato plant it reminds me of walking into those hot hunting greenhouses and being surrounded by ripe tomatoes everywhere

Borrow is used like this some times in working class England too. But this form is frowned upon in more ‘educated’ circles.

Do you never nod in agreement when someone else is making a good point. Or use hand gestures? Also you can smile at a joke when you have your camera on. Sometimes it’s nice to have a joke with colleagues.

Because sometimes you don’t need to write a whole load of justification if everyone on the call already agrees with you.

This now an option in zoom as of a few weeks ago.

MS Teams has had this for a long time.

Are you saying it’s not important to know what a binary search is?

If I interview someone I don’t go deep into algorithms but I want to know that they know how about binary search or hashmaps. Ignorance of these shows ignorance of the basics of computation.

This video from asianometry has the info on the water issues for TSMC

https://youtu.be/Dq04GpzRZ0g

And climate issues. Taiwan is suffering from drought in places, and TSMC hasn’t been able to meet their water saving goals.

It takes a lot of water to make the ultra pure water needed to wash the wafers. Without access to lots of water they will too will have issues.

Use https://starship.rs/ and get a performant prompt that stays the same when you switch between bash, zsh and fish.