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> First off, you didn't say "school" originally, you just said mass shooting

My original sentence :

> The UK for example changed gun laws after a mass school shooting 26 years ago. Not a single one since.

I don't know what to say if you didn't double check when I corrected you. Learn to read ? To argue honestly ?

BTW, TWENTY-ONE new mass shootings in the US since you wrote this desperately disingenuous reply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

>Also, if Terraform configuration is refactored, for example, to wrap a bunch of frequently copy-pasted resources into a module, state must be manually reconciled before proceeding.

Not true since Terraform 1.1 introduced moved blocks : https://www.terraform.io/language/modules/develop/refactorin...

> Not true. There was one literally less than a year ago:

School mass shootings. The last one in the UK definitely was in 1996 (17 dead), after which gun control laws were tightened : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

But let's take a look at your examples :

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting (2021)

6 dead.

It was the first fatal mass shooting in the UK since the Cumbria shootings of 2010. In response, the Home Office announced that it would issue updated guidelines for firearms licence applications.

>Another one in 2018: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Moss_Side_shooting

No fatalities.

Mass shootings are rare in the UK, with the most recent previous being a spree shooting in Cumbria in 2010, and the one before a school shooting in Dunblane in 1996.

> And another in 2010: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings

12 dead.

Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre and the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, it is one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history.

>And in 2009: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massereene_Barracks_shooting

2 soldiers dead.

That's a total of 37 deaths to mass shootings in the UK in 26 years. Let's see where the US is at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

202 mass shootings, 221 deaths in the first 4 months of 2022

What was your point again ?

> For one, anti-gun enthusiast would stop going on about "assault rifles", because only around 200 people a year in the US are killed by rifle homicides. It's totally negligible. Less frequent than blunt instrument homicides. Yet, that's exactly what anti-gun people focus on.

Yeah, for some reason people keep going on about the ability for any 18 yo nutcase to go into a shop and buy a military-grade weapon designed to shred organs beyond all repair*, enabling them to efficiently slaughter as many school children as possible before terrorized and outgunned LEOs finally have the guts to take them out.

These pesky humans and their dislike of living in fear of violent death for their children... Can't they just think about this in spreadsheet terms and look at the totally negligible numbers, like the rest of us psychos ? C'mon...

*https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-...

Uvalde police let the shooter do its thing for an hour because they feared being outgunned by his AR-15.

Tell us again how giving a firearm to Betty the school lunch lady will help in any way ?

What are automatic weapons designed for ?

> The problem is that USA is already full of unlicensed guns

The Uvalde shooter purchased his weapon a few days prior. Most school shooters do. Anything making that harder helps.

> the people who would most benefit from guns for self defense, low income people in high crime areas

In fact nobody benefits. IIRC owning a gun increases your odds of being shot dead by 3-4x.

> Registrations don't stop anything and only serve to create more criminals from otherwise innocent people if they don't file paperwork on time.

It works everywhere else in the world.

You don't directly kill other people's children by either voting or having your own children.

There are tests to allow people to drive a car though.

Uvalde police confronted the shooter outside but feared being outgunned by the AR-15 : they eventually let him in and took an hour before entering the classroom just for that reason.

So yes, it did make a difference (and also shows that "let's arm teachers" is a ridiculous solution)

You have to start somewhere and before considering taking them out of people's hands, not adding any more assault weapons is progress.

The Uvalde shooter purchased his a few days prior to the attack. Who knows what might have happened if he hadn't been able to.

Again this isn't unique to the US. Shootings are.

Use any other country you like as a comparison.

The UK for example changed gun laws after a mass school shooting 26 years ago. Not a single one since.

This looks like a reboot of the "Timeful" app by Dan Ariely, which was bought then shut down by Google.

> The spectrum was fun to learn to program on in a way eg the C64 wasn't.

But again you're pitting the Spectrum against the C64 and leaving out the CPC, which had an even more capable and accessible BASIC.

I can understand the appeal of the Spectrum in its first couple of years, but I'm not sure why the UK market never shifted towards Amstrad vs C64 once the clearly superior (and also British) CPC was introduced in 1984. It did shift to the vastly more expensive Amiga later on after all.

As somebody who grew up with the Amstrad CPC in France (it was the best selling 8-bit micro there), I've always found the cult status of the ZX Spectrum in the UK difficult to rationalise. IMO, it's the biggest f***ing rose-tinted reality distortion field in all of retrocomputing.

I appreciate that the Spectrum was an affordable entry point into the fascinating world of computing, and that it had a bit of a first mover advantage in the UK market. But the vastly superior C64 was released only a few months later, and the also-British Amstrad CPC two years after that. How could the Speccy remain so popular ?

Let me try to explain :

The Amstrad had a built-in colour monitor + tape drive for the same price as the C64 (with also a cheaper green screen option), a fully RGB video signal (unlike the C64), a faster clocked Z80 CPU than the Spectrum, the best graphics capability of the three by far (16 colours 160x200 with a great palette, 4 colours 320x200, monochrome 640x200, no colour clash), the same AY sound chip found later in the 128K Spectrum, standard Atari-style joystick ports, a decent keyboard, and the easiest and most capable BASIC flavour too.

The C64 had a weird palette (no red !), but also hardware sprites which allowed smooth arcade-like gameplay, and the undisputed king of sound chips : the SID.

I can't think of a single hardware advantage for the Spectrum.

Contrary to popular belief in the UK, the Amstrad's worldwide unit sales (3 million in 6 years) were not far from the Amiga (4 million in 7 years) or even the Spectrum (5 million in 10 years). They're all dwarfed by the C64's ~15 million, though.

Software availability was similar : most games were released on all 3 platforms. The Amstrad did suffer from some disappointing (but easy to avoid) lazy Spectrum game ports from smaller UK publishers, but the larger ones (e.g. Ocean) also produced some of its finest games (the Amstrad ports of Gryzor, Chase HQ, Operation Wolf, Rainbow Islands, Dragon Ninja... are all the best 8-bit conversions of the arcade). This was also balanced by French & Spanish publishers that were all Amstrad-first.

In short : IMHO the most interesting and relevant 8-bit match is "C64 vs Amstrad CPC". These two were actually playing in the same league.

Yet, the dominant conversation online today still seems to be all about "C64 vs Spectrum" and I find that puzzling, as if people were still seriously arguing today that the Atari ST was a more capable and legendary computer than the Amiga.

Bitmap Books released a series of "visual commpedium" art books featuring the Amiga (of course), the C64 (fair enough), the Spectrum (lol for a gfx book), but still not the Amstrad CPC to this day.

Some of this may be down to ignorance : I came across people who were simply unaware of the CPC's graphics prowess compared to the Spectrum, as they had only ever seen "green screen" Amstrads, if any. Others had lazy Speccy ports in mind when they argued the CPC was slower and couldn't do smooth scrolling (I show them Pinball Dreams : https://youtu.be/yl_MSCpGC0M?t=1377)

But I wonder if besides the nostalgia goggles & ignorance, there's maybe a different taste for pixel art aesthetics at play ?

I was stunned to hear that some people preferred the Spectrum in this games graphics comparison I've put together : https://imgur.com/a/D7Ocd

What ?! I'm curious to know what unbiased younger people think about that one...

>any scientist name i'll give as a reference will be immediately categorized as "anti-vax" or "fringe and non representative"

That's because they probably are fringe and non representative. And for every Galileo there are 100.000 Dr Wakefield's

> a lot of the consensus around covid vaccines has been proved incorrect times and times again

If that were true it wouldn't be the consensus, by definition.

No,

What I'm saying is that this guy is a run-of-the-mill antivaxxer, even outside Covid. Check his tweets and blog : he writes fallacious pieces against childhood vaccinations like : https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/florida-vaccine-hesitancy-...

And no, he's not acting rationally. It may have the flavor of it at first glance, but the implications of what he says being true would invalidate large swathes of science. So is he a genius or a crank ? I don't have time to comb through and debunk every single claim (Brandolini's law !) but good old Occam's razor says he's a conspiracist crank who fallaciously massages data until it fits what he set out to prove. That is to say, an ideologue.

Covid is about 10-14x more lethal than the flu (not to mention its other bad outcomes that don't kill you)

To anyone else wondering : that "good article" comes from a notorious antivaxxer : https://twitter.com/ichudov

The shortest documented timeframe between infections is actually 20 days !

No, because the disease is much less likely to progress as severely once vaccinated, which lowers your risk of Covid-induced myocarditis.

In any case : vaccine-induced myocarditis is almost always benign and resolves without treatment, and while there's been a lot of focus on it in the press and in antivaxxer circles, it's really a footnote in the list of Covid-related health issues.

It's many orders of magnitude less frequent than Long Covid, for example.

> These same young males have virtually zero risk from Covid.

This is a 2 years old belief that's convenient to politicians but has been utterly, comprehensively destroyed by science by now. It needs to die, yesterday.

For one thing, Covid-caused myocarditis is an order of magnitude or two more frequent than vaccine-caused myocarditis, at all ages. The latter also overwhelmingly resolves in a few days without treatment.

For another, there appears to be no such thing as durable "natural immunity" with Omicron. Reinfections are now documented to have happened as closely as 20 days apart !

Finally, not a single week goes by these days without a new study being released that describes "yet another creative way SARS-CoV-2 f*cks up the human body, yay!".

This week I suppose the most interesting development is a new meta-analysis reporting that HALF of people infected with Covid still have symptoms at least four months later (aka Long Covid) https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...

In the UK, an estimated 1.3 million people had long Covid as of early 2022, growing by 200K each month.

It was estimated that nearly a quarter million people had dropped out of the job market completely as a result :

https://www.ft.com/content/33444f29-bab1-4655-85b5-c0b1f68d9...

https://www.ft.com/content/8b9166af-2e85-4429-ab1f-362c189e4...

Covid isn't going to immediately kill us all, but it's pretty obvious by now that it's already a mass disabling event, the main unknown being how reversible the neurological + cardio vascular damage is going to be in the long term.

Of course, check out MorphOS.

Also relevant : https://lowendmac.com/

As with any creative device, it's not about power or checking boxes on feature list, it's about how you gel with the thing and gets your juices flowing, or not.

> and "takt" which is the Swedish word for "beat" (and/or "rythm", I guess) in the musical sense.

Wow, TIL ! Thanks, I had always assumed it was made to sound like "tactile" or "Kontakt"

> It’s a desirable item and I think will help them increase their addressable market due to the “all in one box” nature of it - really there is everything you need except sampling in one box here, all wrapped up in a fun UI!

This is such a crowded market competing for the electronic musician's attention though, between their own Digitakt, the OP-1, the tracker-style devices (Polyend, Dirtywave m8), the Deluge, MPC One, SP-404, TR-8S and the boatload of "all-in-one grooveboxes" iPad apps. Even Ableton Push, although tethered to a computer.

There's no way they'd recoup the R&D costs if us hobbyist suckers didn't buy several of these toys, and instead decided to learn one deeply, and focus on finishing tracks rather than cultivating our Gear Acquisition Syndrome ;)

That might have been true in the bygone era of "bands", rock music and guitar-heavy genres that Albini seemed immersed in, but in contemporary pop a producer (or team of producers) is literally all there is, plus maybe singers/songwriters.

And even if you look closer at rock, the most groundbreaking and successful acts have always been at the forefront of innovation in the sound / production department (from the Beatles to U2 or Radiohead)

> If you're in a neighbor country of France: congrats, your electricity is much more polluted than France's is.

Sorry but that statement is absolutely true, even of Switzerland.

As I write, France's consumption-based carbon intensity is 92g, Switzerland is 130 (importing 2.36GW of dirty electricity from Germany, 1.44GW from France)

https://app.electricitymap.org/map

It doesn't just look like it : they're mostly French words.