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AIUI, Pony programs don't have a blocking wait. They terminate if they are idle.

Did people think young healthy people can't get viral pneumonia?

Why does she say this is no flu? Pneumonia is a known side effect of flu.

Covid-19 has no vaccine so more people will catch it, which is of course very bad. But the disease is still flu. People just forget what the risks of flu are, thanks to herd immunity.

Project was canceled last week.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN22J2FN

What goes in the database? The whole universe? What do you leave out? What do you denormalize and index? These questions are answered by the frontend.

For backend engineers who have trouble understanding that the front end is what all the work is in service of, tell them that the frontend us the Tests for their Test Driven Design.

I say this as a backend engineer. The backend genius shines when we figure out how to serve the frontend efficiently (low compute cost) and adapt to rapidly changing frontend requirements without delaying releases.

Yes, history is a fruitful source of evidence to disprove modern conjectures, but a poor way to prove conjectures. The predictive value of history is in how it teaches us to stop trying to make predictions.

It's also falling that a historian would discredit an idea by referring to "phlogiston" which is only the go-to cliche for "haha ridiculous premodern scientific bad idea" just because the name sounds old-timey and obsolete.

Press D to see a live view of the AI's top 5 guesses and probability for your drawing. It reacts to penis when penis enters the top 5.

That's quite a hair to split. Killing reddit may be the best improvement possible.

It's targeted marketing for people with low wisdom and high interest in chasing trends and buying worthless charms.

That's like saying people get utility from using heroin.

What is a "top mod"? Why does that matter?

Does CloudFlare have multiple external auditors verifying their claims?

Terrorism has been removed of its meaning since 2001. Terrorism means using violence or threat of violence to influence social or political decisions.

Not everything bad is terrorism. A mentally ill person going on a murder-suicide rampage after beijg ignored by a girl is not a terrorist. A person acting in their self-interest in a way that contributes to systemic racism or oppression is not a terrorist. Hunting or threatening people of a certain race or gender or orientation or hobby to scare them and others away is terrorism. Blowing up buildings to pressure decision makers into a policy change is terrorism.

Maybe manipulating a single individual via threats or minor violence could be considered small scale terrorism (but their are better words, like harassment or abuse or stalking or assault).

It's interesting that you felt impacted by their admiration, while they likely saw you as faking it and waiting for you to step up or admit defeat.

Why isn't your school providing that information? You should be able to see what the school is teaching your kids so you can refer to it to.

Mayo Clinic disagrees with you and thinks your advice is dangerous.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/osteoporosis/...

You may be an exceptional case, but your should mention that.

Or they can decline to let you connect to the corp net when you are out of office.

It's single column newspaper style. It's more readable on small screens.

I'd rather at surgeon be good at surgery than good at history and calculus.

But the current system in the USA will put the history calculus person in the OR.

Please read Solaris.

Or talk to an ant.

There's no reason to expect to be able to understand something's ideas just because it's smarter than you.

If you try to find a logical basis for hypocritical laws, you're gonna have a bad time.

There's no scientific way to define "experience". How do you know whether a microphone experiences sound or not?

> If you assert that the world is full of philosophical zombies rather than humans like yourself

Hm? There is no objective test for whether I am a philosophical zombie or not.

Consciousness is subjective, so it's simply incoherent to ask whether something is conscious or a zombie.

Unreadable on Android Chrome. Absolute position elements cover part of scrollable region donuts impossible to scroll all the text into view.

Web devs, not everyone uses the same small font size as you young kids.

> diverse range of people

At a tech company?

For a large fraction of "techies" at age 18 they uprooted themselves for 4 years for college, and then uprooted again after graduation.

Why would I have local friends? I spent half my day at work, obviously most people I know are at work. half of my home awake time is with my online friends.

When I was a junior my mentor was remote. It worked fine.

It's only harder if you have a 20th century notion of privacy and aren't willing to be on videoconference all day to emulate copresennce.