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If I'm basically expected to prove my value to a loudmouth that walked in a few weeks ago in a place I've worked in for >year because he can't figure out how to evaluate people - I'd rather do that in an interview for another company - sounds healthier.

So you're just googling post hoc and haven't actually looked into it. How scientific.

This study [1] is what got me interested, they claim gray matter loss compares to control group even in asymptomatic cases but they excluded vaccinated people from what I can tell. I want to see this level of data for the groups I mention and then we have a really good insight. And this data should be possible to get.

Your links are articles referencing self-reports and doctors guesses...

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...

>you know--Scientists--without political agendas study this problem very carefully...and do not see any widespread effects from the vaccine after a year.

?? This entire thread is me asking if there's some studies that compare long COVID sideffects with groups based on vaccination. Instead of linking these, since you're already certain (and I would very much be convinced if you can show me) you are saying "believe science" ? And I'm unscientific ?

By all means enlighten me and I'll edit my top post with links to stop spreading misinformation.

You're just being presumptive, overreaching in conclusions and overconfident in your narrative. I've seen two studies linked recently about long COVID. Neither included vaccination as a test variable. Since these two studies were recent and newsworthy enough to link on HN I'm assuming your "There is no data supporting widespread negative effects from the vaccine after a year." boils down to there is no data because we didn't look for it. There would be no data of asymptomatic long term effects of COVID if we didn't search for that either.

I have 0 problems with people at risk of serious COVID getting vaccinated, in fact I convinced my grandparents to do it. I don't really see what it buys me as a healthy 30 something year-old with no preexisting conditions, other than likely being a day out after the shot.

>We could have reached herd immunity with the vaccine by now, and variants would no longer be of concern.

How does that compute ? I thought nobody actually believed zero COVID is possible ?

>There is no mechanism for the vaccine to have some long term effect that wouldn't be apparent within a short time period give the MASSIVE number of people who have received the vaccine.

By the same logic brain effects of long COVID on asymptotic cases is impossible aince these people don't even know they had the infection and shouldn't be studied either.

Saying that the immune system is well studied and we know what happens when we don't even know the mechanism behind the long COVID sideffects is again overreaching.

And I'm not saying my "amateur conjecture" is likely true, I'm saying given the surprising sideffects of COVID on asymptomatic cases it's not really unreasonable to check this kind of things - especially when you're vaccinating a huge % of population in one step (other required immunisations happen generationally)

On one hand I'm being presented with avoiding long COVID sideffects as a reason to get vaccinated - on the other I get no proof that vaccination doesn't do similar harm and that it's actually protective of those effects.

I don't really mind social distancing measures untill people in the risk groups get vaccinated - all of my high risk contacts have been. So I don't get what we need to get out of, my government is already saying they will eliminate COVID measures after summer, UK style.

I'll get vaccinated at some point if I have to do it for travel or what not - right now I'm not convinced - the social arguments don't make much sense to me (variants will come up anyway, you can get infected and spread the virus even if vaccinated you're just reducing risk)

>The immune response from the vaccine works like any other type of vaccine immune response.

You are assuming because the mechanism is the same that the effects will be as well - it's like saying "we have this black box service we sort of have an idea of what it does and if we send it X/Y/Z we know what happens, it should work the same with W too - I've been in that scenario often enough to know that's an assumption that I'd rather see the data for.

I already saw that people in my peer group reported short term side effects like headache after getting vaccination, have taken days off from work, family members complained about dizziness the day after.

It's relatively easy to do these studies along with long COVID studies, should be insignificant even compares to money that will be spent on vaccination campaigns - so why skip out on valuable data.

>This isn't a meaningful claim for 2 key reasons. There has never been a vaccine that had serious side effects that did show up shortly after vaccination[2]. The history of mRNA treatments began as an experiment in gene therapy, but has largely ben abandoned because the effects never lasted long enough. As of 2020 this is an ongoing area of research[3]. No one has figure out how to stabilize mRNA so that it has long lasting effects.

This isn't really what I'm worried about. Right now people are talking long COVID, subtle long term brain damage and it seems like mechanisms are still unknown. So who's to say that immune system reaction triggered by vaccination isn't causing same kind of hard to detect damage. I'd be much more comfortable with the vaccine if the long COVID studies included groups :

- no vaccination/hospitalised

- no vaccination/asymptomatic

- vaccination/not infected

- vaccination/infected

I'm not a risk group and have no problems with social distancing so I'm waiting for stuff like this to come out.

I think this code is bad because it uses if/else (it should be if not abort) and it only tests/handles one error case and the log is not very valuable, would be much better to wrap the block in try catch and capture all exceptions (should be fairly obvious from exception that stripe.handleCardPayment doesn't exist)

TypScript is sort of this. It's the best of both worlds, if it wasn't built on top of JS legacy garbage type system and core types it would be ideal.

But a powerful structural type system built on a flexible object model is really a great mix - type as much as you need, ignore types when they get in the way.

I've coded in Clojure enough to know that there are cases where it completely sucks (mostly when you have to do imperative low level code). I used to have a link to a standard library implementation of channels that was downright hideous to read as an example of this (and that code transformed to Java is actually easier to follow).

Clojure has some cases where it's insane how elegant you can make the solution, but frankly static languages with good type systems and tooling come close enough but don't have the scaling downsides.

Money isn't everything, there's a status component related to those professions (especially if you are coming from poorer background) and a lot of people like the idea of being a doctor or a lawyer. TBH you have to be a certain kind of person to enjoy sitting in front of a screen 8H a day to work on stuff most people would find meaningless (eg. getting paid to optimize ad revenue, speed up PHP execution to save data center energy usage...).

Likewise being a plumber isn't that respectable either.

And let's not even get into the dating/marriage aspect of it.

I mean if they can't get Apple to include them in this (like you said you can use BT magic keyboard so clearly there's a way built-in) they have no chance at getting touchid

To people saying this is caused by use - this is irrelevant - people are upset because they use other comparable cables this way and don't have these problems nearly as often. I've noticed Apple usually has thinner cables - maybe it's that - frankly I'd prefer more robust ones.

Logitech can't even connect to the laptop via BT before you are logged in, I doubt it will get this integration.

My problem with laser combos (printer + scanner) is that they are >50% larger than an inkjet with same features. Inkjet is just the right height where you can use it on a shelf/desk and it won't be unbearable + you can stack some stuff on top.

WiFi kind of helps but still not a fan of having a giant box around for something that I rarely use (but still need often enough to justify owning)

Gold has actual utility

>The utility of cryptocurrencies is not decided by governments, or companies, or you. The utility will be decided by reality.

No the utility is determined by you me and everyone else collectively. The problem is financial mechanisms that allow inflating these bubbles are not market driven, central banks are flooding the markets with low interest rates, if they want to direct the markets they need to react to negative distortions they cause.

What is the utility provided by crypto ? Money laundering, avoiding capital controls, financial speculation ? All while burning insane amount of energy and hoging up limited chip making supplies.

It's clear cut that o the whole crypto is a huge negative for society.

I don't disagree, but I can see why they want high growth. But if you choose that path you need to actively manage the pathological cases, especially the ones you create.

I feel like investing in market pathologies has become too common and modern democratic governments are far too slow at doing there roles and curbing such behaviour.

Bitcoin is the obvious example of something that should have been banned years ago (and all proof of work crypto), but there are so many examples coming up daily, if there was ever any faith in institutions it's eroding quickly, and once you remove that you accelerate the pathologies (people start acting like anything goes) and society starts to destabilise.

Vote with your feet ?

I agree about PM/dev/customer part but disagree on dev/support rotation.

This sounds great in theory, in practice working on any non-trivial software means there are parts you know little-nothing about. Having spent time on support duty I'd end up pinging team members for help (disturbing people without having a sense of priority since I don't do support), budding into other people's stuff without the capacity or desire to follow it up long term.

The best way I saw to get devs into customers shoes is to let developers be involved in client rollout - like ship then on-site and see how people use the feature they wrote.

But frankly even then, devs shouldn't be making a lot of these ae user facing decisions, send the UX guy.

I've tried watching technical tutorial videos but I often found people making them aren't really experts in the domain, so I end up watching impressions of a mediocre developer trying to wade through some topic.

There are good videos (usually experts giving talks) but I wouldn't start with those.

People on this forum say EU - but they mean "rich parts of EU". Reality is EU has way more inequality between member states than the US, ironic given the propaganda.

>The odds of a silver bullet cure are effectively zero

A way to kill a specific type of cells doesn't sound impossible (zero).

Web "means" it's portable and sandboxed, so theoretically you can run untrusted from the web and it only has access to what you expose.

This stacks with DOM sandboxed APIs so you get same level of isolation in the browser as JS but better perf and a memory model more suitable to other languages.

Outside of browser you still get sandboxed low level VM suitable for running C and other low level languages. Eg. you could compile a C module for say node and ship it compiled as WASM

I disagree. I would not recommend flutter to anybody precisely because of how bad Dart is. It's such a productivity/maintenance drag that the framework is not worth it.

It's the worst of all worlds TBH. It has terrible reflection and metaprogramming capabilities which leads to ridiculous solutions like code generators at every step. Type system is super weak (eg. it just gives up on type checking ternariea for eg., had multiple runtime type errors because dart couldn't catch it at compile time), but at the same time also closed and very inflexible. Working with immutable types is ridiculously bad compared to C# or JS. Serialisation is terrible as well.

Flutter would have been a much better framework if it was built on typescript

If you are building form apps and stuff where delivering something working is the main objective (most enterprise apps) web UI is by far the best choice - ecosystem is huge, plenty of developers and designers to hire, tools let you export stuff like styles directly from designs, etc.

If you care about user experience - writing it for each platform would have ended up being faster in the last app I did with flutter - so many subtle things that dragged the development out for weeks where as native had all these things working out of the box. I haven't worked with Xamarin in a while but I remember the quality was the worst out of all solutions I've used. So many moving parts, "this works in the latest version" and then half of other dependencies haven't been updated, and you just said the same thing.