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Note that sftp != ftps. sftp is scp. Rsync is better if you can get it, but I'm pretty sure that whenever I transfer stuff using WinSCP and File Explorer (Android) it's using sftp.

That's bullshit and you must know it. If, say, Donald Trump were to use the software to save puppies, the steering committee would find a reason that this is actually worse than Hitler.

Please stop disrupting the narrative!

> really transformational cultural moments

Prediction: an astonishingly large portion of animal utterances will have to do with reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that humans pour into the atmosphere. You heard it here first.

IANA controls http codes only insofar as no one has told them to knock it off yet. There's no major interop risk from conflicting (200, 400, 500) codes in the way there is for other namespaces because the semantics are essentially contained only in the first digit.

Oof, what an ignorant article.

Just to take the most egregious example,

> To iterate over something using the natural features of the language (object references, array indexing), it would need to be an array managed by that same language implementation.

I seriously doubt that's true even in cython, and I know it's not true in rust. In rust, you could either just use raw pointers (but this doesn't meet the spirit of the demand) or you can assert to the compiler that this code isn't being mutably accessed by other code (an assumption even of the C code, or else it is incorrect) and get a slice. At that point there is no difference between that slice and one "managed by the language", whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.

Suppose the raw results from the trial are that ivermectin is effective. What do you yourself expect to hear in such a circumstance? From the study, from the media, etc?

> people with no immunity

So immunocompromised people? The rest of us have immunity.

What do you feel the difference is between "directly issuing system calls" and "some inline assembly"?

> vaccine effectiveness

does not mean "effectiveness at preventing the spread of the virus", it means "effectiveness at preventing severe illness and death".

zsh isn't POSIX compliant though.

It's a sad state of affairs that when people think zsh they think "battery status".

The most important thing about zsh you should think of is "no need to quote variable expansion".

The scariest thing about that comic is the alt text: "Pokemon hit the US over a decade ago". It has now been 24 years, making the age of the comic itself rather dramatic.

So in other words... The US paid for a bunch of other countries' vaccines? Explain again how this is a bad thing for those countries?

Things really looked grim for them for a while but it looks like the anti-progress team will squeak out a win in the end. Congrats!

It keeps them on the right side of political censors, while allowing them to get the truth out a tiny bit at a time.

It's projection because you may hate being wrong, but some people like learning the truth no matter what they believed before.

I guess you can continue to deny this kind of person exists; but it doesn't really matter what you think.

> people hate admitting being wrong

This is projection. There are multiple modes of approaching communication and not everyone uses the mode where communication is an exercise in one-upmanship.

> It's curious to me that so much of the focus on COVID vaccines focuses on the antibodies produced immediately after infection and vaccination and so little on the longer-lasting immune responses (memory T and B cells).

Lol it really isn't curious. The vaccines do really well at the first metric, and it can be measured in very short trials (which means smaller trials due to less attrition, and means more trials, etc.) The second metric, they don't do so well at and it's more difficult to measure. It'd be curious if things were any other way.

I'm not sure what to believe myself, but... One explanation which is just barely plausible, but by default is unfortunately the most plausible explanation, is that there is widespread fraud and powerful parties want it to remain in place.

What other reason could there be given the overwhelming evidence that no legitimate voter is stopped by these laws?

Because it is, and anyone who passed high school biology should know it.

Studies have shown that more than 87% of complaints about rust compile time are because people are enabling serde everywhere and for everything.

This doesn't really answer anything, though, because you don't have direct access to "The Consensus". How do you determine what the consensus is? Media reports? Whichever points come up most often on forums? Whatever points are most often reported in journal articles? The point reported in the journal article you most recently saw?

Dynamic relocations are a solution in search of a problem. It's entirely possible to write truly position independent code (not the same as -fpic and friends, which just emit relocs). It's entirely possible for compilers to output such code. But GCC does everything in its power to force dynamic relocations in, so that there's additional justification for the dynamic linker.

Yes, this is common. Frankly it was a bad idea to complain; you should be prepared to... be invited to leave your current position.

Here's why: Everyone (on the ground floor at least) knows that the code is terrible, but the organization is not optimizing for good code. Code quality is simply and literally a non-goal. The goal is to deliver Projects, where a Project is a unit of work which advances someone's career, whether it be an IC, a project/team lead, a project manager, etc. Now, it's okay not to internalize that goal for yourself; but you've exposed yourself as not understanding that this is the goal that everyone else has. Unfortunately, this makes you a liability w/r/t the goal.

There are ways to advance other goals in the organization, and I suspect these organizations only survive as long as sufficient people are doing just that, but they all revolve around making other goals coincide with The Goal described above.

Note that The Goal isn't a secret or taboo; it's explicitly acknowledged in some organizations. Not so long ago at Microsoft, for example, it is known as "impact" and is the explicit top-level metric for performance review. If you can figure out how The Goal it's expressed in your organization, you can attempt to rescue the situation by explaining that what you really meant was you want to advance The Goal (eg. "improve my impact") by delivering improved code quality in future projects which will have such-and-such an impact on visible metrics.

How does such a contract play out if the shorted thing is not marketable at expiration?

Yes, you just take one month of safety data on 60 patients and that's 5 years of safety data. It appears the anti-vax are innumerate as well as anti-science!

I'm a bit of a finance noob; is there any practical way to enter a long-term short position on usdt that would actually be redeemable if the Bitcoin ecosystem were to collapse after its downfall?

The article never said they started charging again, which means that "temporarily" was an editorialization.

Having a written agreement—I don't think it sounded like "formal contract" to me—is more transparent than the pre-existing situation where they were informally providing water. Your complaints are internally inconsistent and it seems you just want to kvetch.

Then Prospera stopped charging for the water, and the only condition they placed on completely free use of all the infrastructure that went into it was for the village to acknowledge that they were receiving the water.