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alexpw
·3 anni fa·discuss
It suggests the new plastics have the PFAS. Any that are fluorinated by Inhance. To your point, the recycled may have them too, as a consequence.
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
+ Violence in video-games cause kids to become violent / school shootings.
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
[Late Update]

The fish 3.5.0 release is not responsible for my tmux issue. False alarm.

Downgrading did somehow help me regain shell interaction, but I can't create a new session/pane, etc.

I think something else broke my tmux setup during the brew upgrade, or possibly even before it.
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
Thank you in advance!

tmux.conf [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/alexpw/7d406734f912f835d705066de8286...
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
This killed all shell interaction within my tmux setup, somehow, and I had to downgrade in osx/brew [1] back to v3.4.1 [2]. I'm still wondering what part of my (probably outdated) tmux config caused it, but the most suspicious part is the run-shell/if-shell stuff.

Anyway, have things to do before I can try again and dig in. Thought I'd post in case someone else ran into this.

[Edit] Tip: swap to a different shell before uninstalling your current shell. Sigh...lol

[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/5497 [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/ad5...
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
I enjoyed reading the Philosophy [1] behind Sup, for the glimpse into how Gmail's immediate search feature changed how people use email clients, and how it inspired Sup.

[1]: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/Philosophy
alexpw
·4 anni fa·discuss
> An updated design, also known as a Comparetto Cube, [1] uses four filters and a cardboard base that can sit directly on the floor.

I never understood the purpose of the bottom filter in the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, so it felt like a waste of a filter, but I'm a big fan of the Comparetto Cube (no put intended). And 4 packs of filters are readily available -- 20x20x2 is suggested for the Comparetto Cube.

[edit] Also, thank you. I couldn't recall the Corsi-Rosenthal name/link, but thought of the wiki immediately.

[1] https://www.thisoldhouse.com/green-home/22231148/diy-air-fil...
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
Which alternative to MBFC is preferred? AllSides or AdFontesMedia or?
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
You should still get vaccinated. Post-infection immunity is very heterogeneous, with respect to what level of protection you'll have, and how long it will last. You might have great protection for a bit, or you might get reinfected just like the first time, like many have.

The combined protection of natural with vaccination will be better than just one or the other. I hope you stay safe.
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
The mRNA vaccines were developed to target the spike protein of the Alpha variant. We got lucky it works so well against Delta, or else they would have had to roll out a new vaccine.

Based on your wording, it sounds like you have the mistaken impression that the mRNA vaccines are expected to account for and target all future variants. A future variant may have a large enough mutation to the spike protein and render them 0% effective. But they can rollout a new vaccine very quickly with EUA. Sorry if I've misinterpreted.

I don't remember ever seeing #s promising long term effectiveness, but eventually later seeing a chart with projected effectiveness waning over time. What they should do is be careful to present variant specific numbers. There's too much generalizing, like I did as well, lumping Pfizer and Moderna together.
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
So it's a white lie, at most, because he was always accurate. He stayed within the "real range" of 70-90, but he varied based on what people could tolerate hearing.

If he said 70-90%, then people may only hear 90 and think no way we'll get there. Sounds reasonable. If people hear we'll never get herd immunity due to delta and the potential for new variants, will more people get it or will it eliminate a reason for some to get it?
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
"My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins."

Your freedom to catch and spread covid to me is not supported by established law. It's also why we don't allow smoking in restaurants, etc. And it's also related to seat belt laws. George Washington forced our soldiers to take a smallpox innoculation and it was pivotal to us winning.

In 1905, in Jacobson v Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court upheld the Cambridge, Mass, Board of Health’s authority to require vaccination against smallpox during a smallpox epidemic. It ruled that the public health trumps your ability to freely engage in society if you will endanger it.

You'd like to reach herd immunity, but you didn't offer a solution; instead, you gave a hopeful outcome if we do nothing. We have millions that refuse to vaccinate yet wish to move freely in society. They are clogging hospitals and costing our society an estimated $6B, and climbing. Reaching herd immunity while using your version of freedom means that long covid disabilities and deaths are just an inevitable that we're hopeless to prevent.
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
The long-term safety is an angle that sounds reasonable, but isn't, and is used as an anti-vax talking point. A doctor is expected to know better.

First, historically, no vaccine has caused adverse effects beyond about 2 months. Second, millions have been vaccinated for nearly 9 months already. Third, the mRNA vaccine is metabolized in the body and leaves no trace of itself past 11-14 days. Fourth, it is not a daily medication.

A reasonable analogy of drinking a beer and being worried the after effects might hit you a year after the fact, because it's untested, is obviously approaching absurd.
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
It is true/correct. It's much easier to measure hospitalizations rather than infection, and the #s in the real world confirmed the advertised effectiveness from the trial, for Alpha.
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
Kudzu enters the chat.

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Uh oh
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
1) CSV can often be human readable at a glance (more so than most other formats, depending on that data), and that makes it appear deceptively simple and compact. Possibly due to that, I'd bet most of us have been bit by a writer/reader that doesn't respect the RFC rules.

2) I ask for TSV, whenever convenient. It's been more reliable, and I don't have a comprehensive why, but I think it's slightly more resilient to writer/reader inconsistencies, for me. It may be that there's just less need for escaping and quoting, so you might dodge a smart quotes debacle when asking for a one-off from an Excel user, for example.

3) Despite the issues raised, the notion we'd retire it makes me hug it tight, because for the majority of my requirements, it hits a sweet spot. I still reserve the right to raise my fist in frustration when someone does: ",".join(mylist).
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist, appears to make serious claims related to covid vaccines without supporting evidence. Searching his name reveals he's being given a voice by some of the right-wing media, but if there was substance to what he had to say, other doctors, researchers, scientists, etc, would eagerly jump to verify and act on it.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/04/scicheck-idaho-doctor-make...
alexpw
·5 anni fa·discuss
Because analytics wasn't in the title and like you said, it's an often repeated post, I thought they were repositioning/retargeting themselves as more general purpose, or something noteworthy, which had me curious.