I suddenly had alopecia areata. If you don't want to Google it, there were coin-sized areas of my head spontaneously losing hair, starting with my beard.
My GP said "this is not a health problem, if you want a fuller beard use rogain". I was embarrassed enough to go home and try to tough it out.
Within 6 months the whole left side of my head was completely bare, except for splotchy outlines here and there. My right side had hair but it was spreading fast. I looked like a hyena. It was not a great experience.
Went to a dermatologist, got steroid shots, and my hair grew back in a month.
You get quotes for housework, apply to multiple jobs, test drive cars, but when it comes to health, we trust the first asshole with availability? Never again.
Interesting, i didn't know about the "Bundesländer" having their own security services. Maybe that is why Germany has the reputation poor security services as whole, as it is harder to direct resources. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing and makes sense given the history.
The UK started electing the head of the police service for each county, and it just becomes a politicized popularity contest with anaemic voter turnout, rather than having a competent person get the position.
At least we don't elect judges, which has and even worse effect of politicizing those tasked with interpreting and enforcing the laws concocted by politicians.
In theory I'm also for decriminalization, but in practice it doesn't work. Some drugs are so intense, can't compare to your Friday night beer. See the heroin epidemic in Amsterdam during the 70s, some neighborhoods became completely uninhabitable and an emergency status was declared. It just doesn't work.
Our kid was lucky enough to have the bullseye mark on her skin when she came down with a massive fever. Had not thrown out my medical microbiology college texts from the late 80's and sure enough - the picture matched up. She ended up getting some pretty serious antibiotics.
I really, really wish there was a human vaccination available for lymes. We treat our jacket and pant legs with permethrin when we are in heavy wood. That makes a huge difference for the normal wood ticks, so has become part of the normal routine.
To be fair, many (non-game dev) Rust projects I have seen/used do provide great user experience precisely because they are laser-focused on performance and have blown existing alternatives out of the water. (Think ripgrep, fzf, etc.)
Prototyping is certainly necessary but it shouldn't be at the cost of runtime performance – at least not too much –, because it will typically be very difficult to improve performance after the fact, which web development frameworks, and in particular shitty "web" applications like MS Teams are a testament to.
Brutalist architecture can be done with good acoustics in mind, it just takes the same sort of planning & design that a non-brutalist building also needs.
The Barbican Centre in the UK is a very famous example of a music (and arts) venue with brutalist architecture, and while its acoustics are considered good but not amazing (or "serviceable", to use the description of conductor Sir Simon Raffle), it could have been much better but its problems weren't caused by being brutalist.
This is correct. I wonder how Rust models SoA wirh borrowing. Is it doable or becomes very messy?
I usually have some kind of object that apparently looks like OOP but points all its features to the SoA. All that would be borrowing and pointing somewhere else in slices or similar in Rust I assume?
Clearly, effect systems, as we know them today, are very heavyweight,
and not worth the effort in the small. But we have to present them
somehow. Those come into their own in large-scale programs, and especially as large-scale programs
evolve, as they are being changed by programmers other than the original authors.
All that said, the whole point of the article, and the research on
direct style effects is to make effect typing much more lightweight.
Effect types as we do them today, metastasise along the call graph, and that is a big problem. Direct-style effects essentially use
implicit arguments, as popularised by Haskell and Scala, to hide much of this complexity. Whether this experiment will succeed, or
direct style effects suffer from other problems is unclear and we have to wait until we have enough experience with them. And that can only start, once there is
a language that implements support for first class direct style effects.
The article suggests that this is coming to Scala, and I'm looking forward to being a guinea pig.
I'm guessing that having a tick for longer than 24 to 48 hours was a clear enough reason. I assume people who get hundreds of ticks will be checking more thoroughly and remove them within two days.
I agree antibiotics shouldn't be prescribed without a clear reason. People are being prescribed antibiotics all over for things like the common cold and for some insane reason we're still putting antibiotics in farm animal feed.
But it seems unethical to then take a gamble on whether someone contracted Lyme disease or not just to give the antibiotics we save from that gamble to someone with a runny nose. If we want to save antibiotics then we should test the tick for Lyme disease, not wait for symptoms to appear.
Similar. I thought mining would be an interesting alternative to running SETI@home on my home PC in the very early days of Bitcoin. Left it going for weeks then wiped the drive, installed Windows, and sold the PC.
Is this kind of like US pharmaceuticals where the prices are very high in the US because they can be and that “subsidizes” the development of these apps so the fees can be cheaper in other regions.
> Who is out there telling McDonalds to keep their prices down because the gross margin on post mix soda is 98%?
McDonalds generally has "employees" in the jurisdictions they operate in and thus should be following all the local laws that come with that term. The gig economy companies have a long public history of skirting labour laws.
So when they say "DoorDash has claimed that the new fees they’re charging are a necessary result of raising pay for workers" (according to this page anyway) they invite this type of analysis.
Yea that’s what I figured. The one that pulls data from the web with every click. It just bugs me when a view will sometimes render absolutely nothing, sometimes while checking subscriptions, other times in the middle of a flow like adding hardware keys. UI’s that fail to produce feedback need to disappear.
The last application of the death penalty in Canada was in 1962, it's been outlawed even in cases of treason since 1999. I'm very confident that no Canadian politician with any level of influence is looking to change that.
Is there some sort of barrier preventing those Asian competitors from entering Western markets? If it's as simple as you make it out to be, they should be swooping in and eating the incumbents' lunch with their lower overall costs.
No one “depends” on IP addresses. Wikipedia could very easily (and likely does) use browser fingerprints for some things. They don’t serialize to something human-readable, though, so I wouldn’t expect them to appear anywhere but debug interfaces.
IPs havent been a viable way to ban or identify people since the early 00’s. For sure with the launch AWS, and the ease of swapping IPs there. It’s been laughably easy to swap source IPs on requests for at least a couple of decades.
I think the only people you’re getting privacy from is people who didn’t really care enough to invade it in the first place.
My GP said "this is not a health problem, if you want a fuller beard use rogain". I was embarrassed enough to go home and try to tough it out.
Within 6 months the whole left side of my head was completely bare, except for splotchy outlines here and there. My right side had hair but it was spreading fast. I looked like a hyena. It was not a great experience.
Went to a dermatologist, got steroid shots, and my hair grew back in a month.
You get quotes for housework, apply to multiple jobs, test drive cars, but when it comes to health, we trust the first asshole with availability? Never again.