You are being rude and condescending to a third party, when I think you meant to be rude and condescending to me.
You comment was ambiguous, using pronouns with multiple referents. I chose the referring that was the most charitable possible interpretation of your ambiguous comment. Your intended point is even more obviously wrong.
I prefer Pi to Claude Code these days, and use it most of the time when I can. The interaction and permissions harness is an order of magnitude better than Claude in my experience, just out of the box. I barely have time to read all the model output, much less fine tune some crazy agent harness tooling that changes underneath me daily and might or might not be documented.
Tariffs are in every way inferior to the prior administration's CHIPS act and IRA, which are in the process of being destroyed merely because they had bipartisan support.
Did the US make any preparations for war before abducting Maduro from Venezuela or before getting into a war with Iran that cost them freedom of passage in the Strait of Hormuz?
Right up until Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia maintained that, no, that troop buildup wasn't meant as an invasion force, and a good chunk of the world believed Russia because it was a moronic idea to invade Ukraine. Trump is far more moronic and power drunk than Putin, and would perhaps not even organize troops befre invading Canada, all because somebody in the inner circle goaded Trump into it.
Eliminating these animations is indeed a massive win.
Overuse of animations is a terrible thing that has made iOS far worse over the years. I long for the days of yore, when the loading screenshot had a chance of being accurate.
These days, when loading something like the health app I get a series of three different screens, rather than just landing at the destination it knew o wanted to start at. It is idiocy of the highest order. Why show some series of random screen transitions while starting the app? Somebody who has no clue about UX programmed that piece of crap, and then an entire team put up with this behavior. I dearsay that if this shipped under jobs there would be a director level firing to stop it.
Same BS happens with Apple Maps. If you launch the app and it remembers that an hour, day, or two weeks ago you had your phone in a particular orientation forever ago, it slowly rotates the view pane over 1000-2000ms from you ancient view pane as if you've been waiting patiently over two weeks so that Maps doesn't suddenly disrupt your view...
Animation can be helpful but at some point a half-wit VP shoved it into everything Ruth disastrous results and Apple is still recovering. Liquid Glass is a similar disaster of incompetence being promoted far beyond capability.
Or take any cancer drug approval over the past decades, those all had phase 3 trials that succeeded before the drug was released.
I have to admit that I can even conceive of what your point is here, or why you are acting so emotional and indignant about the required step before drug approval, as if it doesn't exist.
That's a tremendous amount of misinformation to pack into a single sentence!
There were several companies working on "old school" style vaccines, they take longer to develop!
And at least one of the old school style vaccines proved to be less safe than the mRNA vaccines and was withdrawn from market, precisely because there were safer vaccines out there so there was no reason to let a less safe version be sold, even though it was still far better than nothing: https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-dangerous-side-...
Further, the very concept of "old school safe tested ones" doesn't even make sense with respect to COVID, because there were no COVID vaccines before COVID existed, and every single vaccine must be tested to evaluate safety.
Further, the concept that "its more difficult to produce inactivated vaccine at mass scale" is at best unsupported for the current day, and back in the early day it was 100% false. Mass producing mRNA vaccines was extremely difficult. They were very quick to design and get a prototype, but mass production was a new and very very difficult effort.
And as for "the reason why they were producing mRNA vaccines" is that the "they" there was a company that focused on mRNA vaccines so of course they would work on that. And the advantage of mRNA is that it is able to be designed and engineered with purpose, rather than the random chance of trying to get an inactivated vaccine, which is far more laborious and slow.
It's so weird to come into these threads on HN and have people just pack so much falsehood into so few characters. Such false information should not be left up uncountered, but it's exhausting to even list what's wrong, much less show all the evidence.
> As many of us said at the time, the mandates weren't worth the destruction of public trust
Public trust was not dissolved by the actions of the government, it was dissolved by propagandists cynically using falsehoods and half-truths to gain power. That's it.
People don't distrust science because of anything scientists did, it's all because of the propagandists and the easily tricked and the political grifters.
All of your accusations are, in the very best possible light, half truths, but in reality they are just lies. I think the rational part of society is tired of treating liars with kid gloves. The pandemic was a traumatic experience for all, and extra social graces were extended for a while for those who impose upon kind and polite people with their weird beliefs, but we've moved past that moment.
Of course there's a huge overlap, but perhaps more significantly is that RFK Jr. who is in charge of the entire regulatory structure is both an anti-scientific anti-vaxxer and wants to tear down the safety and efficacy regulations around peptides at the same time:
They confirmed this when the vaccines were authorized. And as part of every drug, there's continual, ongoing, review of the data to ensure that safety is maintained, and that nothing has changed about the drug and its manufacturing. This is the "phase 4" of a drug, continual ongoing monitoring.
> Even during the pandemic response it was eventually acknowledged that early claims of vaccines preventing infection or even spread weren't supported by the trials.
To the very best of my knowledge this is just misinformation. If you have a citation here, please provide it.
Yes, I've been very excited about that for more than 10 years. It may not pan out, it's far more speculative than infectious disease prevention, but when combined with checkpoint inhibitors, and I fear they may not do the bold thing and do fully personalized therapeutic vaccines, but it does provide a great deal of hope.