jackfoxy

Anecdotally, I once worked with a guy who told me his wife was so hooked on seaweed is healthy she ate too much of it over time and the iodine destroyed her thyroid.

All things in moderation.

The Monty Hall problem is a fun one to code up, and yeah, there are otherwise smart people who refuse to believe it.

I coded it up in F# https://github.com/jackfoxy/LetsMakeADeal to convince one of the founders of a start-up I worked for. He just grunted and walked away. Pretty sure he still doesn't want to hear about Bayes' Theorem.

VsCode, or Codium, which is what I use, does not have a macro facility. That for me is the killer feature of Notepad++. I have no experience with the other editors, but I suspect they also have no macro capability, or if they do it doesn't measure up.

Took a look at it and rejected it pretty much out of hand...don't remember why, but IIRC it doesn't fully implement macros among other things.

I would certainly accept this vulnerability in order to have Notepad++ on Linux. Nothing like it.

It was a single well-documented event with survivors to tell the story. And the story of the survivors itself is a harrowing tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship) It's entirely possible there were other incidents and the loss of ship and crew was just written off to "lost at sea".

"Natural Key" actually refers to column(s) already available in the dataset you are turning into a row that is unique by row, and thus a candidate for being the key. (Subject to all the normalization, etc.).

An artificial key is a column of made-up data added to the rest of the column. It has no use other than to provide uniqueness. In most cases there is already a unique candidate key in your data.

> Tutorials show harmful patterns.

Try to find a sample SQL database, for any vendor, that does not employ artificial table primary keys. This was a requirement in the 1980s so that your queries would execute before the heat death of the universe, but that has not been the case for decades. Microsoft is particularly guilty of this. Artificial keys are an anti-pattern. (And, btw, there's a dearth of literature on why artificial keys are an anti-pattern.)

Here's the only sample database I know of that consistently uses natural keys across all tables, created by a SQL educator who knows his stuff.

https://github.com/ami-levin/Animal_Shelter

A "dash" is a very small amount of the liquid. So yes, there is a vanishingly small amount of sugar. It didn't make the drink sweet. There was probably the equivalent of 4 jiggers of bourbon. I forget the name of the glass it was created in, essentially a tall tumbler.

A real mint julep, which I had the pleasure of drinking in New Orleans, is bruised fresh peppermint on the bottom, crushed ice, filled up with premium bourbon, and a dash of peach liqueur. No water and no sugar.

It's a great drink.

But a news site (SFGate) that purports to be local to the area should know the name of the county seat of one of the Bay Area counties.

Redwood, California? Was this article written by ChatGPT? Did a local human editor even read this?

The USA didn't invade Texas. Texians (Anglo Texans who had migrated) and Tejanos (Mexican Texans) alike were fed up with Santa Anna's rule and successfully rebelled, forming the Republic of Texas which lasted for 10 years, at which point the Republic accepted the American offer of annexation in a referendum. The Mexican/American war spun out of the aftermath of the annexation.

> the structure has weathered significant damage since it was first built in the ’70s

Another case of the architect getting ahead of the materials and engineering available. Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed much more aesthetically pleasing structures than this monstrosity (judging by pictures, can't recall it I saw it the one time I was in Paris), is notorious for leaking roofs.

Ward puts out quality content on his channel. He frequently interviews professional military analysts and asks the kind of questions professionals want answered, not the puff-piece talking head interviews on the major networks.

"You will own nothing and be happy." - WEF

They thought of everything except...their website, which crashed Error establishing a database connection

...and since you brought up Merlin engines. Search YouTube for Jay Leno's Garage. He has one episode of firing up a Merlin on a test stand, and another of a Merlin powered custom automobile he bought and restored. He takes it out for a drive pointing out the engine is never running above idle.

I figured this out about a year ago. As well as ad-free viewing I get YouTube Music, so I don't need to pay for an additional music service.

Now, if they would only stop with the censorship. When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?

Skip the retelling and go straight to the source, South, by Ernest Shackleton.

This is a good read documenting technology history in the first half of the 19th century. Babbage drew on his experiences trying to source manufactured parts for his Analytical Engine. At the time manufacturers just could not meet the specifications (tolerances) for the many mass-produced parts the project required.

I think by the end of Babbage's life the parts could have been manufactured, but by then both Babbage and his financiers had moved on.

Add to the list of preposterous baseless debunked conspiracy theories that turns out to be true, NIH has finally admitted that Ecohealth, the NGO headed by Peter Daszak, the most vocal opponent of the lab leak theory, did indeed carry out Gain-on-Function research with chimeric coronaviruses in bats that were able to infect humanized mice.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nih-admits-fauci-lie...

Hoon, the higher level functional language of Urbit, is homoiconic and very Lisp-like. Written using runes, which define relationships of daughter branches in a binary tree and using limited semantic white space it does not suffer from the forest of parentheses which happen in Lisps.

Edit: Yes. And I know the difference between evidence and proof and even the difference between skepticism and certainty.

I also recognize ad hominem arguments.

> I change my mind when facts/reality change. What do you do?

Exactly this.

Which is why I remain skeptical. My elderly father had a massive stroke 3 days after receiving the second shot, which was administered right after he recovered from covid, which he contracted after the first shot.

I'm also certain his care givers did not report this to the FDA's voluntary MedWatch database, which is the only way the government is tracking adverse events.

It's pretty easy to find old video clips of both Biden and Harris talking very skeptically about how fast a vaccine could be rolled out, its efficacy, and safety before they won the election. Contrast with the administration's policy today.

The article dismisses the stringy fuse because spherical mortar bombs had a hollow wooden fuse, but 18th and early 19th century hand grenades were also spherical and had a stringy fuse.

And the military is the pawn of a corrupt State Department, national security elite, and military industrial complex, which renders moot the mostly honorable conduct of people in the military.

Family lore has it that my great grandfather, living in Manhattan in the last decades of the 19th century, was a race walker, and pretty good at it.

Martensen called the pandemic on Jan 26, 2020. The WHO called it March 11.

For the next 6 months he produced videos every weekday analyzing the covid news of the day and relevant published papers, always citing the primary sources. Since then his covid videos have been less frequent, but always data and science oriented.

YouTube immediately demonitized his videos, and may have banned a couple. He uses made-up names for 2 notable off-patent drugs because he claims YT will censor him if he mentions them by name. He has a PhD in pathology from Duke University and has published in Nature. You would think he is qualified to discuss this stuff.