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a. The placebo effect is real. A bout of induced vomiting and diarrhea makes whatever you are left with feel less worse than that...
b. They couldn't afford 1st world doctors and medicine anyway.
c. They were desperate.
d. Scoundrels preyed on their desperation.
Mint Sauce? Nah. That mint flavoured sugar water.
Cheese is a Good Source of Protein? Nah. Bollocks, it's clearly a better source of fat.
I could go on for ages.
I'm truly glad I don't live in America... The amount of sugar in NZ food is frightening and I have to spend ages label reading to avoid the worst of it....
....but the amount of HFCS in American food is just plain stark crazy.
> Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.
Note also...
> evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated,
they didn't compare against 2 dose vaccinated, presumably because of lack of data.
Although http://touch.ethz.ch/ looks like an update to the classic.
The main take away, which is really really really important is Design by Contract.
I have.
And I repeat.
Don't be an Apparatchik.
Malicious Compliance is a valid response to an invalid situation.
Except for the people who, in addition to those who die year after year after year from flu, now die will die from Covid.
For them it won't feel normal at all.
Bollocks. The amount of productivity of each worker and the primary productivity of the land is finite.
That is The Pot.
Anything that drains that pot results in a poorer country.
A "cheap" bike is just a rigid frame with rigid forks.
aka. Don't be a Corporate Apparatchik.
Remember this isn't a black & white think.
Feel if you don't fit in with the corporate BS you'll be fired and you don't have another option now...
* Go slow on the BS and fast on the stuff that actually creates value.
* Malicious Compliance.
* Speak up.
* Speak to other non Apparatchiks and organise non confrontational solutions.
* Start working on alternatives.
Exceptions occur when "Very Bad No Good Undefined Horrible Things" have (at last, been found to have) happened.
So if you have no guarantee that the memory space is uncorrupted, you have no guarantee that all resources have been recovered, you have no guarantee that in attempting to deallocated resources that they have been allocated in the first place. (Read the fine fine print on exceptions in constructors and destructors.) TL;DR; Don't do that. But exceptions are what happen when people do what they shouldn't.
But our versioning scheme doesn't include zero.
Not even for minor version numbers.
As we (rightly) believe our customers don't trust them (for good reasons).
I used to don ever thicker layers of neoprene to survive in the sea.... and still my hands would go pasty white and lose all feeling and function.
Then I read about this guy and thought, never mind the theories, he does actually swim in water with literal chunks of ice floating about in it, so ok, lets try it.
And yup, it works. I now swim in ordinary trunks and my hands go a beet red and carry on working.
So what's my theory?
Dead simple. I have a big log of fuel (overweight with a big tummy) I just need to get it burning well. ie. Get the bellows going and get it burning.
Toss in this bit of plain observational science... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle
ie. Your nostrils can and do change size.
My guess is the "breathe lots and then hold your breathe" triggers the nostrils to expand so it's easier to breathe lots.
Is there any more to it? I don't know don't care. I just know I feel better after one of these cold swims.
Weird. But true.
In retrospect, I'm not surprised that such a facility exists within humans. After all, many other animals survive in cold conditions, early indigenous tribes did and still do.
> Rather, it’s cargo cult advice: it teaches you to imitate the surface appearance of good listening, but misses what’s actually important, the thing that’s generating that surface appearance.
Ok. seriously guys, this is actually a good article.
Color me very surprised!
Coming up shortly at a Chinese github like thing near you... Republican Party membership list.
There are other flavours that do better.
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.ht...
We're _very_ good at buffering things up and handling large chunks to gain high throughput. We have layers and layers of magic that make us _very_ good at that.
For cases where you have lots of devices throwing small chunks at high frequency and you have to respond (in this one, do a small computation, and out that one...) we've sucked bad.
That's why bare metal RTOS's still exist.
The io_uring / eBPF combo looks _very_ promising for opening up that domain in a tidy fashion.
I also hope there will be no reason to throw away "heaps and mounds of existing and perfectly working code and solutions".
I hope to replace my finely tuned epoll / read/write reactor pattern inner loop with io_uring / eBPF and leave 99% of the code untouched... just better throughput / lower latencies.
Next you'll be asking programmers to estimate how long they going to take to do something...!
;-)
Turns out there are some things about me cannot be changed, even in a fantasy world.
Yup, happy to change skin (and gender) in anyway.
But any scenario in which my follower or dog dies.... it's reload from an old save time.
Any quest that's too yucky ethically, I just don't do.
I went from a tipping + starvation wages culture to a no tipping + living wage culture.
Soooooooooo much better.
Sadly the push to deunionize and deregulate and zero hour contracts.... is pushing things towards starvation wages here.
But the solution isn't tipping. The solution is to pay attention to complaints of worker abuse and the boycott such businesses.
If that causes the business to die, we're all better off without it in the long run.
Killing off non viable jobs is a mercy killing, it allows viable businesses to survive.
Racing to the bottom is a loss for all.