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zerocount··on South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew
I second the absurdness. It's almost as if there are entities that don't want it to end.
zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
You and I stand on opposite sides of the fence. Neither one of us will change the other's mind. I also will respect your view points, but I won't back down on personal choice. That's the main issue with the pandemic right now.

My ex-wife knows two people who've died after taking the vaccine. One at the 2 week mark and the other the day after. She also knows a body builder, in excellent condition, who ended up on a ventilator from Covid. He was in that condition for months and has less than half of his lung capacity now. Those two would be alive if not pressured or forced to take the vaccine. And that is one category of people (dead from vaccine) that gets hand waived by the numbers, as if those people meant nothing. We all have stories...

I had Covid and recovered nicely at 51 years old, as did my ex-wife at 50. So there's another counter story. And I never said or advocated that vaccines are pointless. They absolutely work for the purposes of reducing severe illness and chance of death. I encourage people who think they're in a high risk category to get vaccinated, but not everyone needs it. But that's what's being pushed right now because if we can just vaccinate everyone, it will effectively go away. No, it won't. The vaccinated get Covid and spread it to one another because they don't get sick enough to stay home. I didn't have the energy to go any where. I had to get in bed and nap every two hours.

Why can't you show the data and allow everyone to make a choice? If you want to talk numbers, it's very rare that you'll end up on a ventilator or in the hospital from Covid. And don't talk to me about the collective good. People don't give a shit about me or you. I get one chance at life and I'm making choices for me, not for strangers. And I won't blame anyone else for doing the same thing.

My condolences to the loved ones of all who've died from Covid and the vaccine. I encourage all to make their choices without consideration of outside influence. It is your one life and you must do what you think is best. It's better to die free than live in collective chains.

Good luck and godspeed.

zerocount··on Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
I thought it was the best I've used. It was very intuitive and I could easily test my mic and sound. It handled my 5mb hotspot connection without stuttering. Contrast that to Teams: Desktop or web version? One allows anonymous use, the other doesn't. You have to Google to find out how to test mic and sound, which brings up the desktop version. I was using the web version and ran out of time for searching. The video would freeze every 30 seconds or so.

Zoom did it right and that's why it's popular.

zerocount··on American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
American companies tend to give employees as little as possible. Two weeks vacation is 10 days and you may be on call on the last weekend of that. Then you might get a few sick days but it's never enough if you actually get sick with the flu or Covid. So, many of us have to go to work sick or use vacation days. Nobody wants to use vacation while sick, so other people at work get sick because we go to work sick.

And then your vacation has to be approved. I had a manager who would only approve 1 week of vacation at a time. He said 2 weeks off is too long away from work.

So, it varies from one company to another, but generally it's not good because there's too much bullshit involved.

zerocount··on American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond
Too much random crap. My last interview devolved into: "What do you think of Agile?", "What would be your perfect job?", and "Would you use .Net for a new project?"

I was expecting a technical interview.

zerocount··on English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
What does "paying for things by handing out rope" mean?
zerocount··on English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
The texting culture we have today only makes matters worse. I'm seeing more people not capitalizing the first word of a sentence, ending declarations with question marks, puting a space between the sentence and the question mark, etc...
zerocount··on Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
Because "preserved" implies keeping something in it's pristine or natural state. This is a fossil. My immediate thought was it was "preserved" in amber.

In any case, the sub-title declares it as a fossil, which is more accurate.

zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
How convenient that the article, in effect, supports the current agenda of pushing vaccines on everyone. It does this through the angle of sterilizing immunity being unachievable.

It starts off with some Danish guy observing a measels outbreak in Scotland and how the people that had the measels 65 years earlier were not affected by the current outbreak. You can stop reading at that point because it totally ignores that critical part of the story. It then uses this observation as the catalyst for the 'myth' of sterilizing immunity of the measels vaccine. Then it goes into testimony from experts on how we can't prove an infection took place, blah, blah, blah... Right.

So here we go with the wiggle room that eventually justifies the Covid vaccine being given to everyone on earth. Never mind that 65 years later the old people didn't get infected with the measels. Their bodies must have had some seasoned immunity workers who remembered how they handled it last time.

It's never ending. "We don't have proof." "There's not enough evidence." "We can't quantify what defines that." But just to be safe, give this to everyone and punish those that refuse. I can't believe people actually suggest that unvaccinated people not be allowed in the hospital or should just suffer their 'bad decisions.' Really? Is that what it's come to?

zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
Yep. That wasn't the goal for the Covid vaccine. It was to keep people from getting severe cases and preventing deaths. It works, but it should be targeted to high-risk individuals and not a blanket strategy that's not needed for the majority of the world's population.
zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
The whole 'hospitals are overwhelmed' thing is getting old now. A few do get overwhelmed, but everything seems to work out and you don't hear any more about it.

So enough with the fear mongering, if you're not high risk, go get Covid and be done with it.

Oh, and we're not refusing to protect ourselves. Our bodies already do that, it's called an immune system and when I caught Covid all the little immune workers showed up and took care of business. You don't need the vaccine unless you're high risk.

And another thing, before vaccines the hospitals and their staff were doing just fine without the vaccine, yet some were fired later for not taking it. It's insanity and it's profit and politically driven hysteria.

Masks keep us from spitting on eachother. They help.

zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
That's exactly what we need to be questioning. Keep asking questions and pressing for answers that make sense. We need to move on.
zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
He merely asked for the number of deaths directly caused by Covid. Where do you get the idea that anyone is questioning what it means to die from Covid?
zerocount··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
He's talking about preventing infection.
zerocount··on S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases
You are correct and shouldn't be down-voted for saying something that is unpopular, but true.
zerocount··on S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases
No he didn't. The very first sentence is, "Vaccines frequently prevent infection and spreading."
zerocount··on Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
It's hard to believe that your lack of contribution tipped the scales so the company failed. Doing good work, in itself, doesn't increase the value of the company.
zerocount··on Why Not Rust? (2020)
You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder and you come off as a spoiled child. Just as the anti-Trump crowd doesn't like Trump's personality, you reject Pike for his arrogance.

He's done great things. Think about the caliber of people that man worked with every day. And then he goes to Google and sees thousands of 'ordinary' people slinging C++ and doing web work. We become products of our environment. There's a lot of gap between him and you. And that's ok. You'll go on to do another 10 years at another big tech company and live a good life.

I'm way below your caliber and I see some arrogance in your words. I think both of you are arrogant because you unconciously became a product of the environment. I'm just a nobody that fails 9/10 interviews, including Google 2 months ago. It takes luck for me to get hired anywhere and I find it hard to relate to the middle class people I work with because I've been so poor. But I bet you I come off as arrogant to tradesmen, cashiers, janitors, and many others. Just let it go.

zerocount··on Why Not Rust? (2020)
[Ice Cube voice]: Started off with too much cargo, dropped 4 letters now I'm making all the dough.
zerocount··on Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
And it keeps getting worse with each version.
zerocount··on Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
I always thought PowerShell was slow and it's got the whole .net baggage with it. Good one with the "Microsoft semen!" Had me laughing out loud.
zerocount··on Test your product on a crappy laptop
I agree. The few times I've cared fell on deaf ears.
zerocount··on Test your product on a crappy laptop
$600 would be a prime dev laptop for me. I use the cheapest, non-chromebook, I can find then throw FreeBSD or Linux on it. I prefer desktops and spend much more money when I build one of those.
zerocount··on Perl Turns 34 Today
Ruby's the most intuitive language I've ever used and my favorite to write in, but Perl and raw JavaScript are just dirty, tough, cowboy languages that are a blast to code in. You can just let go with all the best practices and write some gnarly stuff.
zerocount··on Perl Turns 34 Today
Ha ha, now that is the best comment ever! You said it way better than I was going to!
zerocount··on Perl Turns 34 Today
While you're at it, get rid of all the Rust, C++, and TypeScript as well. Let the world C the light.
zerocount··on Perl Turns 34 Today
Yep, Python's the new Visual Basic. Also the Rust people might be a little weird too since Rust likes to kick you in the nuts with its type system.
zerocount··on Perl Turns 34 Today
They got good info, but good luck finding anything. It's like a Sanford and Son junk yard where you have to dig for things. Your best hope is just linking directly into a forum post that solves your problem.
zerocount··on From Node to Ruby on Rails
Hypermedia is just the addition of graphics, sound, etc... to your web page. I don't understand the context you're using it in here.
zerocount··on Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022
I agree. I had to do the PayPal thing with my Visible phone service because I couldn't delete an old card. Luckily PayPal doesn't require me to have anything linked just to have an account.

Why do companies want to store this data any way?

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