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I would guess he liked the overall sound/look/feel of the domain name.

+1, and it doesn't have the general toxicity that Twitter had. If someone is trolling, inflammatory, needlessly rude, or overly marketing themselves on the instance I'm on, it appears to me that they'll likely be quickly ostracized into oblivion, not encouraged with likes and retweets as they might have been on Twitter.

This is a poorly informed comment.

The same commenter also calls both Messi and Maradona dribbling playmaking forwards.

Some of their other comments when talking about Messi say, "If you come at the King, you best not miss."

The tool should instead provide an `--output=<format>` flag, where <format> is one of text (default), json, xml, etc.

exactly. if you can’t determine a ‘true’ owner, even throwing the diamond into the ocean is a more fair solution than the british monarchy just keeping it while no inkling of plans to ever rectify the situation.

unironically. yes. we should throw it into the ocean.

it’s more fair than the current situation and there seem to be no other plans to rectify the situation in the near future either.

> So you're suggesting that people eliminate all direct human contact [...]

> There's no point in trying when failure is inevitable.

I didn't ask that you eliminate all human contact. I called you out for telling other people that trying to avoid it is futile and for discouraging others from doing so.

In any case, one can still do their best to avoid covid, without necessarily avoiding human contact. Avoiding all human contact is just your straw man, it seems.

> a minor respiratory virus with a >99% survival rate

It's not the acute phase that matters. I (and most people) don't care about the acute phase. So your patronizing about phobias was not only unnecessary but also widely off the mark.

Covid isn't just a respiratory illness, like the common cold, that ends with a 'full' recovery after the acute phase. The post-acute phase* incidence and morbidity is on another level of magnitude. Covid presents as a respiratory illness in its acute phase. In its post-acute phase, covid is vascular and neurological. Some physicians consider it airborne thrombotic vasculitis, since it causes clotting and damage to multiple organ systems after initial infection.

For many, post-covid disorders are typically characterized by serious issues such as brain damage--or "brain fog," to be cutesy; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS); post-exertional malaise (PEM); and myalgic encephalomyelitis-like chronic fatigue--or "fatigue," to be dismissive. So much so that 1/3 of 10 MM job unfilled job vacancies in the US are estimated to be due to long covid absences.

*Many other viral illnesses, e.g., dengue virus, HIV, EBV, present post-acute phase issues, so this isn't unique or surprising.

i've always had the feeling that it's been way more stigmatic to talk about money* than about politics or religion at work. politics and religion were welcome conversations.

*by money, i mean things you bought with your money or what you're doing with your money. salaries, depending on who you're around, was also easy conversation.

i’ve noticed the same about their comments. and i didn’t even have to look at their history, because their batshit opinions, downplaying covid and long covid, have been obvious in every thread about covid i’ve seen on this site.

I can’t believe that the sibling comment:

> Vaccinated people are not protected against catching and spreading the disease, and they're not protected from long COVID or even heart issues like this paper shows. […]

has been downvoted/flagged. This site has really gone downhill over the last decade. Wishful, uninformed thinking, that goes against the reality of covid & long covid described in the quoted portion.

Humbly speaking, failure isn’t inevitable in avoiding covid infection. For example, if you’re fortunate enough to work from home, you’re already nearly there. The rest is curbside pickups, home deliveries for groceries, and responsible N95/P100 mask wearing.

Also, did you read the comment you’re replying to? I repeat its point: Failing once is better than failing twice. Failing twice better than failing thrice. And so on.

> Unless you avoid all human contact […]

Here comes the straw man.

Secondly, the original comment was likely talking about doing their best* to avoid infection. Doing one’s best but failing is an acceptable outcome. Even if one fails, being infected once is better than being infected twice. In general, for covid, being infected as few times as possible is a good thing and a worthwhile goal.

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*For some people, doing their best might even include doing some relatively unsafe activities on a whim occasionally. Being so doesn’t make them hypocrites.

The absolutes in this comment show heavy bias.

Vinay Prasad.

“Wearing an n95 to avoid the virus after vaccination is futile. You will eventually stop wearing it. And then you will eventually get hit with a subsequent epidemic wave. Or catch the virus between waves.” [1]

“So ‘I'm done with COVID’ is the honorable, equitable, altruistic, egalitarian, pro-science message that we need right now to combat the delusional thinking that ignored trade-offs for so long and would have us live in a bunker forever.” [2]

And seemingly, his warped definition of “Duty” [3] includes recommending children to be repeatedly exposed a virus that has deleterious, long-term effects effects on multiple organ systems, basing his arguments on comparing SARS-CoV-2 to a common cold virus (“Stop testing kids”). [4]

More of his egregious stuff is noted on a parody Twitter account. [5]

[1]: https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1485312764297891843

[2]: https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1485312770635538435

[3]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/stop-testing-kids

[3]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/duty

[4]: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/stop-testing-kids

[5]: https://twitter.com/vpwndf

source: https://twitter.com/OptifiLabs/status/1564367455220219904

Tweet says 95% of the $661k funds belonged to a team member. It's unfortunate in any case.

https://twitter.com/OptifiLabs/status/1564367455220219904

I think there are some lessons that can learned from this. For example, the command line:

  solana program close 

didn't seem to sufficiently represent the destructive nature of the action.

The program's designers should likely have chosen the verb "shutdown", instead of "close".

Literally every meaningful mitigation to an airborne virus has been gutted gradually since 2020. No masks. Laughable isolation periods. No updated vaccines for new variants. No restrictions on large/indoor gatherings. False-negative RAT tests. So, yeah, there’s the explanation.

The sentence you’ve quoted, from the abstract of the paper, refers to the state of knowledge before this paper was written/published.

The results section of the paper updates this knowledge. It says:

“Compared to those with first infection, those with reinfection exhibited increased risk and excess burden of all-cause mortality, hospitalization, and at least one sequela in the acute phase and the post-acute phase of the reinfection.”

“… the risk was higher in those who had two infections (HR 2.11 (2.07, 2.15); burden 234.58 (227.08, 241.92)), and highest in those with three or more infections (HR 3.00 (2.71, 3.31) …”

From the article, “The Covid-19 pandemic is the primary cause of the decline.”

And it is going to decline further. Covid affects multiple organ systems; the acute phase of the infection, it is safe to say at this point, is not the primary cause of concern.

Covid-19 infection increases the chances of a stroke 4x and of heart failure more than 10x, among other disorders, within 12 months of infection. [1] A chief scientist at the WHO recently said [2], “We need to prepare for large increases in cardiovascular, neurological & mental health disorders in countries affected by the #SARSCoV2 #pandemic.”

[1]: https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1564612325356670978

[2]: https://twitter.com/doctorsoumya/status/1564649057599078401

It's also not capable right now (macOS 12/iOS 15/Xcode 13) for some parts. For example, there is no simple way to declare initial focus for a text field in a view. One has to resort to "onAppear" hacks, such as:

   .onAppear {
     // 0.05 is a guess. anything lower seems to run too early
     // and does not have the desired effect.
     DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.05) {
       focusTextField = true
     }
   }

Similarly, dismissing text field focus & on-screen keyboard upon scrolling/tapping away is a source of programming pain. It seemingly was bad in the old APIs. It is worse in SwiftUI in my limited experience. Same for scrolling a view such that an active text field isn't covered by the on-screen keyboard.

When speaking generally, that suggestion may be acceptable. The previous comment, however, specifically mentioned long covid. Biomarkers for long covid are known. Both patient experience and biological research confirm that long covid isn't psychological.

"Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid - Study implicates lack of key hormone, battle-weary immune cells, and reawakened viruses," https://www.science.org/content/article/blood-abnormalities-...

"Fewer microclots = less severe acute symptoms," https://twitter.com/resiapretorius/status/156015016679088128...

Not OP, I just took a look at Porkbun.

They appear to take security seriously. You can choose to receive emails upon each successful and/or failed login. You can view a list of recent logins to your account on the website. You can force log out all sessions. Additional authentication methods include two-factor codes, WebAuthn w/ physical keys. You can download a set of backup, one-time-use codes. You can restrict IP addresses allowed for login. They also check if your email address is present in known password leaks, and prompt you to turn on 2FA for added security.

The web interface is quick, has a simple design (Bootstrap/Foundation? for CSS), and doesn't feel flimsy.

"You were the core developer of a Node.js clone? And it had a built-in Sass compiler? Wow, color me impressed."

A reply on Twitter had a well-put answer, "This is how you say 'we only want to hire young people' without technically violating labor laws."

the american individualism is showing.

No, the binary information too is a privacy concern. For example, one could enter a coworker's phone number to confirm that the coworker has a 4chan account. This isn't good.

I'm disappointed and growing hopeless about the state of software engineering at these companies that this sort of issue is not caught in engineering design documents, during development/debugging, or during code reviews. Any competent engineer should have the sensibility to have seen that the implementation they've designed or programmed leaks private information in some scenarios.

Or, perhaps the UX design team intentionally decided that mentioning the Twitter username associated with the email address would be a "helpful" piece of info to present at this point in the login/signup flow. In this case, too, the design team should have known that privacy far outweighs any potential helpfulness.

Same, I don't see the number in the article. Was it removed from the official Twitter post?

An older external article[1] about the hack mentions 5.4M accounts.

[1]: https://www.cshub.com/attacks/news/54-million-twitter-accoun...

follow up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354824

so actually it works on long press right now.