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dimator··on Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece
This was probably done without any kind of pain killing anything, besides (just guessing) alcohol. It must have been absolutely excruciating for weeks, before the jaw healed. Unbelievable.
dimator··on YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007
The fact that it is back up is even worse. If the take down was correct, why bring it back? If the take down was wrong, where was the initial oversight? It's all so arbitrary.

The back and forth is what really reinforces that nobody knows what they're doing and content creators are really just at the whim of tech giants. Trying to come up with and impose policy on what humans produce is hard for the justice system, with it's multiple levels of courts and lawmakers and hundreds of years of jurisprudence. What hope does one company have.

dimator··on I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case
The section "How high are my chances of getting a breakthrough case these days?" goes into that. If you're looking for a hard number, I don't think anyone can give you that because it's highly community specific.

I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article, though. My impress was that it's a reality check on what the vaccine is capable of and what one individual's breakthrough looks like.

dimator··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
Sexual promiscuity does not clog up hospitals. Speeding motorists do not clog up hospitals. Obese people do not clog up hospitals. Covid patients disproportionately clog up ICUs. Surely you see that difference?

If our health safety net (hospitals) were not being affected, then yes, covid promiscuity would be treated identically to any of the above. There's principles here that you don't want to acknowledge.

dimator··on Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
I'm progressive, and I would completely be behind this policy. Unfortunately, both parties need campaign funds, and so they'll both concede to social media lobbyists.

Until we solve campaign finance reform, no progress will be made on even the most agreeable of policy positions, as long as there are deep pockets opposed.

dimator··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
> Aren't unvaccinated individuals the ones who made this decision? You may disagree with the conclusion of their dubious risk analyses, but if you choose not to get vaccinated then all bets are off.

This is the crux of it. They've made the decision, but when they fill up ICU beds and prevent sick or injured people from getting the quality of care that hospitals can provide, then their decision affects others (and this is not a hypothetical, it is happening daily).

If unvaccinated people agree to sit home and not go into a hospital when they can't breathe, that would demonstrate that they're living with the consequences of their decision.

dimator··on After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
I highly doubt it's running on Mars. For one thing, sibling comment has a list of repos that have the badge, and it's a lot of python packages. I suspect it's more along the eath-based infrastructure and data processing side of the equation. Still a pretty cool get, though.
dimator··on An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
I highly doubt that. I think in most Americans' minds Afghanistan has been an abject failure for years. It has not been among the main talking points of this administration or the one before it. I believe most Americans will just be relieved it's done, and won't care what happens there next.
dimator··on Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
Rather than forking elm, there's purescript, which is unlike elm in all the restrictive ways. It seems to have regular releases and plenty of packages as well.

https://www.purescript.org/

https://pursuit.purescript.org/

dimator··on Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda
Just as a counter point, I can't wait to be back in the office.

Remote work, while granted is hyper productive, I've never felt so disconnected from my teammates. There are people I used to have contact with daily that I haven't even slacked with in months. A chat/Zoom window is a much higher barrier to conversation than meeting for lunch, coffee, hallway paths crossing, waiting for the bus etc. I'm completely out of touch with what they're working on, aside from little blurbs in stand-ups. We have all become little siloes. I miss whiteboard conversations.

And that's to say nothing about the personal connections that have suffered. As adults, the place where you spend the most time with non-friends is the workplace, so that's the best bet at making new friends (in the same way school is for adolescence).

The funny thing is, when I was in the office, I felt most productive when I was given long stretches of time to just do focused work. But productivity is not the end goal of a career. It's collaboration and team achievement.

I have a feeling that the powers that be that are beating the back to work drum recognize some of these aspects. Obviously they see the productivity metrics, but they see the amount disconnect as well.

dimator··on A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
Then we're toast.
dimator··on Google Groups has banned comp.lang.tcl
I loved Forte! Installed next to it was mIRC. Then you're all set!

Ah, simpler times, before everything turned to shit. I miss custom native internet clients.

dimator··on Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub
This is cool. I found something off. If you filter by haskell, you see:

""" krispo/awesome-haskell

A lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers. """

dimator··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
This is the citation I found for this claim:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/06/the-cdc-now-recommend...

Overall, science is a process. If research came out that changed the recommendations, well, that's how science works. This is no different in my mind than the gradual change in the recommendations towards cigarette smoking over the decades, only in this case it played out over weeks and months (that article was from April of 2020).

If you want something infallible and written in stone from day 1, that's what religious texts are for. But to claim that scientists lost credibility because new research led them to change their minds is to misunderstand the purpose of science.

dimator··on Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett
The same content in YouTube form:

https://youtu.be/VchkiTUisu8

Very engaging speaker.

dimator··on PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries
Yes. Auditwheel inspects the native python parts and shoves any external .so dependencies into the wheel, making it hermetic.
dimator··on Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]
I would wager excel is used more, because spreadsheets are "live" and opened/updated much more than a written document.
dimator··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
I don't think the iOS-ification is overblown at all. The fact that unsigned apps are met with increased hostility, and increased hoops to jump through to run them, demonstrates this. It's not hard to imagine in the next couple of macos releases that homebrew stops working, or requires grotesque hacks like local building/linking to escape the signing requirements.

Do we honestly think apple is going to reverse course on this? I highly doubt it. Open platforms are not their m.o. for many years. They've let the walled garden around macos have too many cracks and holes, and they're going to recapture those users that have taken advantage.

dimator··on Urwid - Console user interface library for Python
I was looking for python TUI libraries recently. I got turned off this one due to the dependencies.

A simpler model is available with https://jwlodek.github.io/py_cui-docs/

dimator··on Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
SpaceTime (that channel) in general is of impeccable quality and production value. Definitely worth subscribing.
dimator··on Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
I've found myself using this rather than come up with the equivalent `find` predicate.
dimator··on Tracing Paper (2020)
Kind of a reckless, noob move by someone like the intercept.
dimator··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Quick yoga in the morning.

The first thing I do, 2-4 times a week, is to roll out the mat and do a 10-30 minute yoga session. There are hundreds of free yoga videos on YouTube, with some experienced teachers. You don't even need that many different ones, I re-use the same dozen or so. There's something about the familiarity of re-doing the same movements that really makes you concentrate.

Mind and body feel better afterwards.

dimator··on American Airlines 737 Max declared emergency after engine stall, safely lands
At this point, is there any consumer trust in the aircraft anymore? How can any airline not consider having these in their fleet as a complete liability?
dimator··on Ask HN: What's the coolest YouTube channel you've found in the past month?
Graham Hutton is a haskell expert and teacher, and he is uploading a full course load of haskell lectures:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCBDp7ydYTHi1dh4Gnf3VTPA

I believe these also correspond with an actual course, although I can't find a link.

dimator··on Flutter 2
That doesn't follow. There's any number of reasons the web app would be shut down, usage statistics being the most likely.
dimator··on NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
Images I would argue serve an invaluable purpose: inspiring the public and the next generation of space explorers.
dimator··on Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube
It really was a highly enjoyable game, both 1p and with a party. I'm pretty sure it was the only thing we needed 4 controllers for :)

The speed runs for that game are mind melting, if you're into watching those.

dimator··on Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users
I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience?

The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on their ux and their ads.

It's a bit like saying you miss street fighter 2 cabinets. Ok but, there are no arcades left.

dimator··on Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
I never understood the big deal. The rental stores all had super fast rewinding machines, it couldn't have taken the teenager staff more than 30 seconds to do it themselves.
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