robflynn

No? Are we in an influenza pandemic or epidemic right now? Again, we're talking about events here.

There have been six of them in the last 140 years with respect to influenza. The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 675k (in the USA, like 50 mil worldwide or something wild like that.)

They clearly mean from one specific event. What one event in the USA has lead to 2 million deaths? You're combining all deaths and treating it as if it were the same thing.

That's definitely a problem. I wasn't claiming it wasn't an issue, I was curious how long ago it happened because I wanted to know if it was the same as the issue I experienced years ago.

How long ago was that? There used to be a bug related to that, but disabling iMessage on your device before you switch off would resolve it. Not obvious, I know. I'm unsure if that's still a thing or if I'm even remembering it correctly.

I'm genuinely curious how this is an antitrust thing?

Apple phones can send texts and communicate with any other phone on any other network and vice versa. They just don't use iMessage to do so. I can't DM my discord friends from my work Slack, for example.

I uploaded a private video of a screen recording of me demoing an in-development feature of a website for a client so that I could ask them if that's how they intended it to function. There was no audio.

That video received a strike and was flagged as a scam... before I ever even sent it to the client. YT is ridiculous.

I was shocked the first time I needed to download something from PACER and saw that the pricing was per-page (of a PDF!)

I was once brought over to a project that used exceptions for flow control, sometimes nested several layers deep. It was a nightmare to debug and untangle.

That's funny, I love that.

Yup! My best friend growing up used to report typos and would send copy corrections and stuff to them back during those days.

So crazy to think about that all being done by hand back then.

That reminds me of a book I had in the early days of the web which contained a list of the websites at the time!

Let me know when a fat person walking into a room makes other people fat.

Those are all good questions that I don't have the answer to.

I know I didn't make the original claim, I just took issue with the initial reply as I felt like it was removing nuance from the discussion. My reply didn't really add much and I probably shouldn't have made it, so I'll try to add something to the discussion below:

For me, I think, it comes down to whether or not something is presented as an opinion or as fact/truth. There's far too many opinion pieces presented as news these days and a lot of people have trouble processing that.

A headline or claim like "China manufactured this virus as a bio weapon to attack the united states!" at the beginning of a pandemic when no one has any information yet is bad.

Discussing whether or not it could have been a lab leak and whether or not it was manufactured is a different thing, and whether it was or was not an attack are acceptable topics, though, I think.

How you actually enforce this I have no idea and I know it's easy to go down the rabbit hole of "who watches the watchers."

I'm not speaking about Rogan or anyone in particular. I'm only commenting on "vetting" not meaning "I only want to hear what I want to hear."

It feels like you're twisting words here.

Wanting things to be vetted is not the same thing as saying "everyone has to agree with me."

There's a difference between taking a differing opinion and just spouting outright bullshit and lies.

Maybe there was some implied sarcasm I missed.

Ah, sorry, didn't see it had been edited.

Yeah I'm not sure what they're getting at. Isn't Endocannabinoid system just a shortened form of Endogenous Cannabinoid system?

Some theories have been posted and I agree with those, and think there's also a subset of people who assume if a product is being sold in a store or by some company that it is automatically safe and works because they assume the government or Walmart, or whomever wouldn't let them sell it otherwise.

Nah, it's CBD (Cannabidiol)

If something were naturally occurring in a remote location where not many humans were around to cause mass spread, and the virus was being studied (but not engineered or modified) and the virus escaped, that could be an example of a naturally occurring, non-manmade, virus which escaped a lab.

I'm pretty sure Spring is a season, and thus mother nature owns the copyright on that and the tee shirt company should have to change their name or cease operations.

That's how this works, right? Ridiculous.

Sure, that is a legitimate protest, but the statement that was made was "there is no possible good use for a mac" and that is simply not true. You're reframing the issue to be about morality when that wasn't in question in the original comment.

I did miss this! Thank you for mentioning it. I've been putting off a Vue2 -> 3 migration for a bit now.

This appears to be a game (in development) for a handheld device I hadn't heard of. There are a few other posts about it on his blog.

I didn't see any code, but it sounds like the post was detailing how he marks (manually) which section of his models will have a dither pattern -- basically just masking.

There are a a bunch of posts about it if you go to his blog index, there are only 7 pages so it's easy enough to flip through them, they're all labeled with the DailyDriver name. There might be something in there about the render process.

Me too. I wouldn't be where I am today without it. That's such a strange thing to think about.

I got on AIM right around the time it came out, so tail end of high school for me. I had been doing some programming, linux, script kiddy, basic web development stuff for a few years but nothing too serious.

At some point I switched fully to Linux and couldn't use AIM anymore. I found gaim which was AIM-only at the time. I installed that and began using it and eventually ran into some bugs or missing features and decided to begin contributing.

This eventually led to me becoming an official part of the gaim team and, eventually, moving across the country to work and live together at a start-up in Southern California (they hired the team, as well as the lead developer from competing/friend project Everybuddy).

I eventually became lead developer of the project and continued to build out features and a development team. Managing/maintaining a popular open source project was such an impactful moment on my life, especially coming from a small rural town where I never really thought about things like that.

I ended up retiring from the project around the time the naming dispute was happening and the project was becoming Pidgin due, well, due to a few things, mostly burn out and some personal life issues, but was with the project in some fashion for about 9-10 years. Going to linux shows, doing a few interviews, working with and living with my friends, playing with linux / open source software all the time, having gaim-dev meetups, getting paid to do what I love... I was thinking about this a few weeks ago, but that timespan is my fondest. I have so many great memories from then and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

All that because of a chat program.

We use this where I work and love it. It has the added benefit of letting you package preferred vscode extensions with the devcontainer as well.

What do you think is more efficient? Some how convincing all Americans to learn the metric system to the point that they can intuit differences in temperature, or, explain it in a way they can understand it by simply using a different unit of measurement?

I mean, I agree with you, but trying to get the entirety of a country to educate themselves in time to do something about it is not really going to work.

I have depression and anxiety and the pandemic ended up helping me a lot. Yeah, the isolation sucked, but it did help my anxiety a bit when I stayed to myself.

During that time of reduced anxiety, I was able to introspect a bit more without external stressors and was able to identify some trauma that led to the depression and anxiety -- something that I wasn't even aware was affecting me.

I really don't know how to actually deal with said trauma, so I'll be going to therapy for that, but I think the lessons I learned and the benefits I gained will stick with me since I'm taking concrete steps to deal with it now that I've identified a problem.

Without the year long pause we all went through I'm not sure I would have had the time to sort through my brain so thoroughly.

That's why I like to eat brussels sprouts! I feel like a giant eating whole heads of cabbage! I even got a tiny little grater so I can pretend to make slaw as a giant.

Would this not allow companies with deep pockets to continue to abuse the smaller channels who might not have $1000 lying around to put in escrow on the off chance of losing the $1000 just because some lawyer somewhere made a bad decision? Or they just get their video removed because they dont have $1000 to begin with.