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> You can't compare adverse reaction statistics for varicella and COVID in an apples-to-apples comparison, since the first COVID vaccine was given just less than three years ago vs. 25 years of a varicella vaccine.

In 1998, people could have said the same thing about the varicella vaccine compared to MMR, DTP, and Tdap. Around the same time period, they had started administering the rotavirus vaccine and subsequently found an association with incidence of intussusception and stopped administering it. Rotashield was subsequently withdrawn from the market. After 8 years, other rotavaccine formulations were approved and are now part of the routine childhood immunization schedule.

What happened with Rotashield did not happen with the Pfizer and Moderna formulations of the COVID-19 vaccine and subsequent boosters.

> Long-term study results for COVID vaccination simply don't exist for obvious reasons; it's only been about three years since the vaccine was first publicly administered.

This is the case for all vaccines when they first start being used.

> Countries like Sweden recommend against vaccinating children 5-11 because they think the benefits don't outweigh the risks.

Which vaccine are you referring to?

> It's funny, but the UK doesn't have varicella in the vaccine schedule for children for fear it will lead to a risk of chickenpox and shingles in adults[1], which can be more severe.

The varicella vaccine has been routinely administered to children since the late 90s in the US. If it lead to an increase in incidence of chickenpox in adulthood, then we would have heard about it by now. As for shingles, it remains to be seen, but this condition is not uncommon in the older population who were infected with chickenpox in their childhood.

We wouldn't continue recommending the COVID-19 boosters if there was a real problem associated with the vaccine that was worse than the morbidity/mortality statistics from the infection itself.

> The established practice of encouraging blanket COVID boosters to otherwise healthy five-year-olds probably tilts more towards harm than the benefit side of things.

Other than the fact they cover existing strains rather than projected strains, what makes these boosters different compared to other vaccines like the one for varicella that's also given to otherwise healthy children?

What people really want is to type their reply without having to include the original message in their response. That's how most people comment on places like Hacker News and Reddit.

It's not that people don't care; it's the client they use that basically have them reply to the l most recent message regardless.

I blame conversation view.

That requires the client to implement FIDO support. This was added to openssh 8.2p1. For example, mutt doesn't have FIDO support and you have to use an external script for oauth2 support. Both require implementing support for interacting with a HTTP API (which is not application level protocol agnostic).

On the other hand, you can configure mutt to use a client side TLS certificate and SMTP servers (e.g., postfix) and IMAP servers (e.g. dovecot) both support client side TLS certificates without having to support sending HTTP requests or parsing HTTP responses.

But they're not application level protocol agnostic. Based on my understanding, they require use of HTTP. If I want to get MFA using an email client communicating via SMTP and IMAP, then the email client needs to be able to interact with the HTTP API.

Unfortunately, MFA has become synonymous with SMS, email, and OTP. All of these methods require sharing a secret between two parties without any way to verify the authenticity of either party.

Key based authentication where both parties have private keys that are not shared is a much better alternative. Unfortunately, client side TLS certificates, which are application level protocol agnostic, never really caught on.

> Google also "gave away" their Gmail service for a long time, destroying the many mail services that ISPs and others were doing as part of their offered services.

Back in 2000, I signed up for several web based email services including excite, yahoo, hotmail, and a few others I can't remember. This was well before gmail and none of them required me to have an invite to even sign up like gmail did. Other than hotmail, and yahoo, none of them are still around today despite the fact that they were giving away email services like gmail did a few years later.

In my first comment, I wrote:

>> Like chai vs tea, the two words (that I know of) are aam and mango.

I was referring to either aam or mango being a word that's common in many languages throughout the world, like chai and tea. So, আম or Āma is similar enough to Aam (आम or آم).

I don't speak or understand Bengali and can't read the written form either, but when looking it up on Google translate, I got the following result:

আম or Āma

which is similar to the Hindi/Urdu word Aam (आम in Devanagari script) (آم in Urdu script).

I believe mango is another candidate for a word that's nearly the same in many languages. Like chai vs tea, the two words (that I know of) are aam and mango.

In my case, it was a few managers in the org who decided to change over from scrum to kanban.

If there are some teams in your organization or company using kanban, you can use them as an example. If issues brought up in the retrospectives are not being addressed and those issues are related to the scrum process, then that might be a way to get something to change.

Kanban is one alernative[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)

> In 2020, there were 23.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in the US.

How does that compare to 1920, or even 1820 when home births were the norm?

> exclusively breastfeed

What's wrong with doing this before the baby is ready for solid food (around 4 months IIRC)?

> only used organic cotton diapers

What's wrong with using those types of diapers if they're better for the environment compared to a standard disposable diaper?

I find reviewing code on GitHub unpleasant. A lot of scrolling is required and it's difficult to find previously written comments and their responses. You can't really determine who is responding to whom if more than 2 people are involved.

None of those things are problems when reviewing code via email.

Except now you have to look in two different places instead of one.

I remember the free space on a 1.44 MB freshly formatted floppy disc under DOS 5.0 was 1,457,664 bytes. I guess the file system metadata used up 16,896 bytes.

> I'm completely convinced that if you find yourself frequently rebasing/cherry-picking/reflogging you're using git wrong.

A lot of people want to use git as a checkpoint/backup system, and commits and associated changes reflect that. The rebasing/cherry-picking/reflogging is one way to update the set of commits on the branch in order to make a set of meaningful commits for the feature branch they're working on.

Though, if you know enough to edit diffs by hand, you could use git apply --cached to stage parts of the diff in a way to make a sensible set of commits instead of a single commit for a large change.

How many crossover SUVs come with 3rd row seats? How many of those are comfortable for a average size adult? How many are easily accessible when parked in a tight space? None of these are issues with popular minivan models.

Why wouldn't a minivan fit this purpose?

The French came up with a poignant term for this: "Autobesity"[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/paris-charge-s...

> I can't even say I was happy about playing Zelda since Wind Waker(and really MM/OOT + 2Ds were the genuinely good ones).

I really enjoyed playing Wind Waker (especially with the additional content from the Tingle Tuner). I played through Twilight Princess and, while it was a good game, I didn't enjoy it as much. I never completed Skyward Sword because I lost interest in the game. It was the same with Breath of the Wild at first, but then I started playing again after a several month hiatus and really enjoyed that game as well.

Just looking at the per month commit counts, it looks like they dropped substantially from February this year compared to the past.

I've been a vim user since 2004 when I had to use it as part of the introduction to UNIX course.

Thank you Bram for writing, maintaining, and improving vim over all these years.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day

Teach a Nigerian to phish and he'll become a Prince!

The only real way to understand it is to read the man page. That said, once you get the hang of it, you can sum all numbers on the stack with the following program

    [ + z 1 <s ] ss ls x p

The [ and ] delimit the macro definition that's placed on top of the stack. ss stores the just defined macro in register s and removes it from the top of the main stack. ls loads the macro from register s and places it on the top of the main stack. x executes the macro and p prints the final result.

As for the macro, + pops the top two elements on the stack, adds them and places the result on the top of the stack. z pushes the stack size on top of the stack. 1 pushes 1 on top of the stack. <s pops the top two elemenets on the stack, compares them, and if the top element is less than the the second element, it executes the macro stored in register s. Otherwise, it doesn't do anything.

The macro will execute as long as the stack size is greater than 1. Once the stack size is 1, it will terminate and the p command prints the sum of all the numbers on the stack.

You stored 3.14159 in register i and removed it from the top of the main stack. Then you tried to print the top of the empty stack with n and pop it. That's why you got the stack empty error.

> there are very few software RPN calculators _that aren't just HP emulators.

What about dc?