minsight

Awesome. We know a lot more about Long Covid than many people seem to think. This is a good summary of where we are.

There are testable markers. Drastically low serum cortisol is one of them.

Long Covid has a collection of effects on the body which can be observed using commonly-ordered tests. A dramatically reduced serum cortisol is one.

I literally bought a 14 year old Corolla yesterday. This article helps counteract the "why didn't my car get written off 4 years ago when they were cheap?" voice that's been running through my head the last week or so.

You are doing a ton of good this Christmas. Thank you for your efforts here and there.

It's pretty easy to think that software is basically designing search engines and providing a place for someone to play Farmville. But keep in mind that there are many places where software and automation plays an integral role in a process that can become dangerous very quickly. My resume includes stints designing thermal imaging software to control glass plants, implementing shutdown and notification controls for power generation plants and writing automation control logic for drywall plants. There are a bunch of opportunities for people to get hurt or killed in places like this. The people who build and manage these places require that the architecture of such systems be performed by engineers because of the legal jeopardy that would exist if they didn't have such requirements. This legal jeopardy extends into plant control and automation and employers in these areas insist that workers be certified professional engineers, too.

You seem to have forgotten about the code of ethics and the definitely-not-trivial qualification exams.

Feel free to point out the evidence of superiority provided by those who accredit medical doctors and lawyers.

Iron rings.

You can call yourself a software engineer. You just need to have qualified with the professional body in charge of engineering. Like, say, a doctor or a lawyer.

I wouldn't expect much in terms of value or growth from a platform owned by those clowns.

Embarcadero was acquired by the same jackasses that bought out a company where I used to work. The new owners had a bunch of attitude and kept crowing on about "their playbook". It turned out that the primary technology that they were buying us for was the one part of our product that we actually licensed from another vendor. I believe they spent millions and didn't get what they were looking for.

They had an offshore team that theoretically could work with the codebase, but I don't remember seeing anything of consequence added to the product in the past 7-8 years. If I ever found that they bought out a company that used technology that I depended upon, I'd migrate to a new solution.

Interested in COBOL-based accounting packages?

> All changes are synced with the cloud and stored immediately

An optimistic outlook, to be sure. Many Dropbox, iCloud, AWS, etc. users who've been burned by their experiences might beg to differ.

I can't resist checking out the details of anything that Google might describe using the phrase "Large-Scale".

As much as I'm interested in the nuts and bolts of their solutions, I'd also be very interested in the problems that become solvable with quick factorization of matrices with billions of rows.

I used to work for a company which got bought out and it turned out that the technology that they wanted us for was exactly the one piece of our code that we white labelled.

There's a big difference between virii and viral RNA being found after 17 days. One will kill you. The other is just viral wreckage.

Meta II by Dewey Schorre

http://www.ibm-1401.info/Meta-II-schorre.pdf

When you have a good language, you don't need a good IDE.

There are things that shouldn't be sold and ways that things shouldn't be sold. A better market for false eyelashes shouldn't come at the cost of the many abominations that Facebook has introduced into your world.

(Which means driving. So I'm going to have to dock the title a few points for accuracy.)

Fahren.

Thanks for the recommendation. Dynalist seems too impressive not to try.

The money isn't wasted if it gives you joy when you most need it.

If you're anywhere near France, and free in December, there's https://www.botconf.eu/2017/math-gpu-dns-cracking-locky-seed...

This is a very intereresting video featuring one of the authors (Nada Amin). Strangely enough, I watched it a few hours ago. It's a quick overview of the "tower of interpreters" idea and some possibilities that it brings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A

Isn't the first swap unneccesary?

Idera bought out a company that I used to work for. They immediately let half of the workforce go without compensation. They are normally (in Canada) expected to pay severance, but an extremely optimistic interpretation of our employment contracts led them to believe that they could let us go and pay severance to anyone who was still unemployed some lengthy time (If I remember correctly, about 9 months) later. They are the Gordon Gekkos of the software world and I wish them absolutely no success. If you get bought out by them, lawyer up and start searching for a job immediately. If a product that you use is acquired by them, then start shopping for an alternative.