paul_f

Count me in. Left joins only. It works, is fast, and I only need to remember one type of join

I imagine the motivation behind this paper was, it is embarrassing to the rest of the world that Sweden got it right about lockdowns and masks, so we mush punish them. Let's write a paper claiming they did something else unrelated wrong.

That paper could easily have been written about at least one COVID policy in every country on earth, but Sweden was singled out.

GIF is an acronym pronounced as a single word. Jee-Eye-Eff. Hence, 'jiff'. You can tell who knows what GIF means by how they pronounce it.

Babybsitters? You might want to sit this one out.

Omicron is not Delta and it certainly not the original strain. This makes no sense to me, why?

The area affected is infinitesimal compared to the total area of the sea floor. This is hardly an issue to get worked up about.

A rule of thumb, whatever you expect to make as an income, charge your customers at least double that per hour. Then you can spend up to half your time finding new business and still break even.

Reminds me of this, can an olympic cycler toast a slice of bread? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ&ab_channel=TheTo...

PHP supports complex data structures using associative arrays which map to the application requirements. Which can be easily saved in JSON. A SQL database with rows and fields does not always work well with these data structures. Often, as long as the data size is manageable, a json saved in a mediumtext field in MySQL works just fine.

I hear that too, and frankly seems a dumb reason not to use a language. Does it get the job done, can you build value quickly, yes and yes

It is absurd to be 100% dogmatic about solving this problem. Otherwise you look like a zealot, who refuses to talk to anyone who disagrees with you in.

This doesn't have to be binary. There are shades of green.

From the CDC: Vaccine = "Produce immunity". Immunity = "you can be exposed to it without becoming infected" It's right there. This definition, and the most common understanding is that a vaccine means "without being infected".

Yep, just wait 2 weeks :-)

"Just wait two weeks" - this mantra is a bit overplayed? The USA is not monolithic. COVID has proven to be seasonal. Flu season in Texas/Florida are quite different than New York/Michigan.

According to the CDC, here is the definition of vaccine/immunity: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm

Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected. Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease

That is not the correct definition of a vaccine. Nobody would say that about a polio or diphtheria vaccine. COVID shots should NEVER have been called a vaccine.

They are instead similar to seasonal flu shots. Flu shots do not prevent spreading, their main advantage is reduce hospitalization and death.

Ground source heat pumps exist, but cost a minimum of $10,000 to install. That is only if you have a large enough plot of land and the right soil type. It can easily be $20,000.

The finance company becomes the owner once payments stop. Telsa is therefore helping the legal owner of the car. I don't have a problem with this.

Youtube TV would GLADLY unbundle ESPN. Disney will not allow it. Disney insists that every Youtube TV subscriber pays for ESPN or nobody gets it.

Google is fairly asking that whatever price they pay for ESPN, that no other streaming service (including Hulu which Disney owns) gets a better price. Disney said no. This is the fundamental reason Google does not now have an agreement with Disney for the channels.

I cannot tell if this is satire or not. Entering Poe's Law territory

Had the pleasure to announce the SH architecture and the SH-1 at the Microprocessor Forum in 1993. Maybe the first high performance embedded RISC device. Sega was the launch customer, but what we really wanted at he time was the hard disk market. Simple pitch: 10MIPS, 10M devices, $10 http://www.verycomputer.com/31_7a04bb69b4bdf1ee_1.htm

Was not a fan of the name SH, thought it was boring. Tried to get Hitachi to call it "Sonic" instead. As in (S)onic the (H)edgehog

Yes, this is correct. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-coronavir...

Why do people walk when they could be jogging?

It does not even require hacker, a thief could show up at your house and demand your keys.

Counter that it was an inappropriate argument, don't fire the person who made it. Seems overkill at an institution that used to take pride in intellectual freedom.

Has worked brilliantly well for me for many years.

Queen Victoria was the largest drug lord in history by many accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

Would it be unusual for a sub to be traveling in a poorly mapped area? Seems they would only follow well known trusted underwater pathways

Felony obstruction of Netflix's business model? :-)