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boredprograming··on What's the deal with Ivermectin and COVID?
Yes. Most of these vaccines are live virus or toxoids. All COVID vaccines are mRNA or chimeric replication incompetent viruses that don't have the same risks.
boredprograming··on Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019)
What's said in private is a classic "they said, I said". It's not a legal danger. This article implies the danger is legal liability, which wouldn't explain so little willing to voice their views in private.

The only reasonable explanation is the poll is done on a very private or paranoid group

boredprograming··on Average Age of Cars and Trucks on the Road Jumps to Record
There's a potential wrinkle to these stats in the US. The "cash for clunkers" program, obstinately a boon for fuel efficiency, or a giveaway to auto manufacturers, depending on how you look at it, took a massive number of used cars off the road.

Higher reliability and the pandemic definitely have something to do with it. But so does the long slow recovery of the used car market after something like a million perfectly good cars were destroyed.

Less new vehicles are being purchased because there's ample supply of serviceable post-clunkers used ones

boredprograming··on What's the deal with Ivermectin and COVID?
Does it matter? We have vaccines that are almost 100% effective at preventing hospitalization.

I keep seeing this stuff being pushed by anti vaxxers on Facebook as an alternative to getting vaccinated.

Do we see drugs being pushed for smallpox or measles? No. Because the vaccine is cheap and more effective.

Get vaccinated.

boredprograming··on Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019)
In the same poll, only 31% said they would feel safe saying the same views in private. My take: this was a partisan political poll of an extremely paranoid group of people.
boredprograming··on IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari
You're right. Fuck I'm old
boredprograming··on IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari
Ehhhhh I'll give them a pass on this. Almost nobody is using it because browser support was never that great and it's being deprecated.

We should focus on reducing browser feature creep. There's hundreds of features and most of them are barely used or legacy

boredprograming··on Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers
Just to add to this topic, usually Reed Solomon codes are interleaved with Turbo codes or LDPC.

The reason is this: Reed Solomon corrects entire symbols, but can only correct so many symbols per block. LDPC and Turbo correct single bit errors. If you have a lot of single bit errors, mixed with completely corrupt blocks, it's best to use both.

Interleaving usually mixes the bits around too, to spread long chains of errors out between symbols.

This setup is used in digital radio, 3G, CD and DVD, DSL, etc

boredprograming··on Ripgrep 13.0
That's awesome!
boredprograming··on Ripgrep 13.0
How does ripgrep compare to Hyperscan? I always wanted to wrap that library in a grep utility and never got around to it
boredprograming··on Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
It's an example of how Fox is less honest than other news companies, exactly what you asked for. They let people on air spout obvious lies all the time. Find a mainstream channel that does the same. I'll wait
boredprograming··on Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
Fox news personalities frequently allow Trump and his allies airtime where they lie about losing the election to Biden. I don't know how you get any less truthful than that
boredprograming··on Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
Fox New's actual news coverage is mostly truthful. But a huge amount of their airtime is opinion pieces and media personalities who spout BS all day. Tucker Carlson is probably the most notorious. Plus they have Republican politicians calling in and showing up constantly, and they're allowed to say whatever they want.
boredprograming··on What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
I'm afraid so. The Democratic party has "more" people willing to help the masses, but not a big enough group to get effective policy. Both parties have traded full control back and forth, yet nothing gets done to help our insane wealth inequality.

Look at how quickly Biden's minimum wage increase got smashed. More interesting, look at how some populists on the right are also calling for it. And look at how populists and progressives on both sides are asking for regulations on big tech.

The progressive wing is split. Trump picked up a ton of voters that were mad Obama didn't help them. These voters otherwise align more with Bernie Sanders and AOC. You'll notice some MAGA voters have a begrudging respect for those two. It's because they honestly want to help people, reputation be damned.

The US is on a path towards oligarchy unless the voters can shake our parties free from their corporate overlords.

boredprograming··on What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
I don't think anything but a massive political realignment will fix our structural problems. The US has no functional labor/green party.

The right has elements of populism but serves the owner class. The left has a progressive wing that's basically powerless. In most other democracies these elements would be aligned in a progressive green party. But split as they are in the US, they're powerless.

Under Obama, Democrats had a veto proof majority for 2 years and didn't do much to help income inequality. Trump talked a lot about helping blue collar workers but similarly did nothing. I'm afraid both parties are too corrupted by big business

boredprograming··on Everyone and no one belongs to New York
The most interesting theory I've found was banning lead in fuel. There's been a nationwide drop in crime rates in the decades since lead additive was banned.

The 90's was when the first generation not exposed to tetraethyl lead reached their teens

boredprograming··on What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
Poverty in the US certainly isn't new, but in many ways it's worse than it used to be.

Labor unions were very effective at increasing wages for blue collar jobs. Particularly ones not easily outsourced, like construction. Businesses have lobbied to systematically attack organized labor for around 100 years. The few unions left are relics from an earlier time. Businesses have made it neigh impossible to form new ones.

The "gig economy" is a new form of exploitation. Technology has enabled a new breed of job that barely skirts employee regulations. This has undone decades of worker protections.

Importation of foreign workers has been good for foreign workers, but in the US is mostly a tool to suppress wages. You can get away with more law breaking when your employees are wholly dependant on you. Job Visas are indentured servitude.

The US has regressed in every income inequality metric over the last 50 years. To out it simply, the ultra rich own half the country. You don't see this same wealth concentration happening in Europe.

If wages kept pace with worker productivity, the average worker would make something like $150,000 a year. The productivity gains are real, but all this money has gone to the people at the top. Tax law is just a small part of why the median American is getting poorer while the average American gets richer

boredprograming··on DIY Portable 2.4Kwh Power Supply / Ups
I would have gone with Alibaba "Eve" LiFePo4 cells. They're less than $100/kwh in bulk. You can get $50 "Daly" BMS. For $800 you could have gotten 6kwh battery

also dont need expensive current meter when you already have shunt. you can get $20 solar power meters that work with the shunt.

I like the idea of using a dolly.

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