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Which state is that?
If it's the pneumonia style (i.e. the infection is in the lungs, not the lymph nodes) you have to start antibiotics very quickly or it's basically 100% fatal. So it's treatable, but only to a point. The good news is basic masks and quarantine are extremely effective, so the risk of outright spread beyond the initial patients and very early health care workers is very small.
Re:Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:31AM (#49908701)
To be honest, it sounds like you just like managing code more than writing it. That's fine! Many people like to customize their editor for hours, but for me I'm more interested in the code.

> If you haven't lost work to "git reset --hard"

I haven't, because why would I ever need to run that? I've reverted individual files, but never a full repo (I've been working with Git for 15 years)

Re:Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:28AM (#49893919)
I know you mean well, but if it takes me more than a few hours to figure out a tool before it's even basically useful I'm out.

Git didn't take me hours to figure out while floundering, you `git add .`, `git commit -a -m "hello!"`, `git push` and it's instantly useful for doing the basics of making sure your code is somewhere else besides your laptop. The rest is details and comes up only when you need it.

"It's only after the many more months it takes to absorb its ways via osmosis that you start using it the way its makers intended." This is an insane take, and means jj will never take off (I will bet a large amount of money on it). Even with Vim or Emacs you can start writing within the first hour of opening it.

AH! THE YOUTH!
Re:Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:40AM (#49826325)
I'm like 30% sure this is satirical but if it's not...

I never, during daily driving, use hashes in git, it's all branch names. If I'm using hashes it's because something went quite wrong and I'm into https://xkcd.com/1597/ territory. Why would I want to move whatever a "revset" is around commits? Doesn't that just... break the point of a commit as a confirmed set of changes?

JJ seems like a thing for people who like managing code vs writing it.

Re:Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:19AM (#49815663)
I've tried JJ multiple times, but always tapped out after a day. Having to work with raw SHA1 hashes is so utterly tedious and I never quite figured out how to... just use it in normal day to day work.

The book looks well done and a labor of love, but the #1 issue Git users have, merge conflicts, isn't discussed until chapter 13 (reminds me of a Neovim tutorial I read recently where "editing text" isn't until chapter 6).

Stock options are wage theft for the vast majority of employees taking it, it's gambling and the vast majority of bets don't pay off. It is genius, convincing people to work for less or free.
Re:Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:13PM (#49092674)
It's the same show, Nova just rebranded it in the US. BTW, here's a full video of the BBC version but available everywhere. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223gx8
France and England are trying.

The problem is money doesn't build supply lines overnight. Nor does it hire experts both locally and globally and get them there. Much of the data collected on patients by USAID can't just be handed over to another government for a myriad of privacy issues. Patients then have to know that their old clinic no longer exists and they have to go to a new one (is it in the same village anymore?). In the meantime viral counts go up, people get sick, infect their partners or newborn children. You can't just "pick it up later" without causing real harm.

> or do they not care

Do we not? Why can't we care, why is it now someone else's problem because Musk is still mad Mandela was let off of Robin Island?

It is not, at all anymore.
Ok... so you have to

1. Know you were exposed (many many many people don't know they're HIV+)

2. Have the means to go to a clinic within 72 hours

3. Have the social capacity to go to the clinic safely (in many parts of Sub Saharan Africa doing so would insult your partner)

PEP is an emergency drug, not a prevention at all.

*PrEP

It... was, until Musk dismantled USAID and Congress defunded PEPFAR.

So many comments by people who have never stepped foot out the Global North making wild assumptions.

And clearly only the people in the USA matter.
We did, Musk has sentenced hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to death by dismantling USAID.
> but if someone is unwilling to go on PrEP, why would they suddenly be willing to get a vaccine?

Because PrEP at even its best and most modern version requires an update every six months for life. If you're well-off and in SF or NYC or London that might be easy, but there's so many externalities such as:

- People who misjudge the risk they're at, so don't go on the meds in the first place

- People who live in regions where getting to a doctor even every six months is a challenge

- The six-month injection is extraordinarily expensive and a life-time treatment, for a disease you don't even have yet.

If instead it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime series of shot, like many other vaccines are already, we can start considering a path to extinguishing the disease, not just teaching people to live with it.

Then there's the financial savings of a series of three shots once vs a lifetime of them.

People just need to read the decision, this is specifically discussed...
If you read Roberts's opinion he literally explains the definition of jurisdiction as it stood when the amendment was drafted (he cites three different dictionaries) and cites floor arguments directly from the Congressional record. It's not long, takes about 15 minutes to get through.

The rest of the documents are the concurrences (Jackson) and the three, frankly insane, dissents. Thomas's is 90 pages long somehow (I couldn't get through all that one, it's properly crazy).

Re:Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:57PM (#48592751)
Even back then Mike Judge said he had to tone down the absurdity he saw on fact-finding trips to Bay Area. He said no one would believe how absolutely stupid so much of all of it he saw was.
Just to expand on this:

"ye" in "ye Olde mill" is actually just "the" but originally "þe"/"þee". The first printing presses to England were imported from Germany, which never used þ, so printers used something that looked sorta similar, thus "y".

"Ye" was a different word, the 2nd person non-formal version of "you" (which was historically formal: see-Shakespeare and how he played with "ye" and "you"). Thorn was on its way out along with "ð" both of which were in Middle English. The sounds didn't leave English, but we merged it into one letter cluster "th" (think "that" and "the", which have different th sounds).

Even in NYC you could get by pretty much just fine without a phone (a credit or debit card is pretty much required though). The hardest part would be losing contact since expectations of how people organize and meet up are completely mobile phone centric, and plans are almost expected to be modified in real time.
Re:The iPhone's Last Stand on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @10:01AM (#48461268)
Personally I hope you can also type to Siri, which is what I'll use WAY more than voice. I work from home and live alone, but even then I don't want to basically be talking to myself all day. I also live in a major urban city and while random people talking to themselves on the sidewalks certainly isn't unheard of it's not a great look, much less on a subway or cafe.
Don't just limit it to the US, it's going very well in the UK too!
Re:Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:49PM (#48455172)
This one actually certainly is, it just hasn't shown up in court because no one's dumb enough to enforce it.

The Constitutional Convention discussed a national language at length in 1789, and adamantly didn't include a language requirement on purpose.

Re:Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:47PM (#48455157)
Again, this is a hiring issue, not a legal one. You want to make it against the law for your boss to hire bad managers?
Re:Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:52PM (#48454686)
This is a hiring issue, not a legal one. The US has no official language, and no language tests, so requiring English in law would be dicey to put it mildly. What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet?
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:09PM (#48448941)
This has been a thing for all tech companies for years.

According to what I was told by some FANNG people (I've never worked for them myself) some employees were/are were sent to public speaking classes after being hired specifically to teach socially awkward programmers how to talk on stage, and this is what they teach them, weird hand movements and all.

Re:The American Missile Crisis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:45AM (#48384014)
And the US having 30,000 (or whatever absurd number) makes the world safer?
Re:The American Missile Crisis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:09AM (#48379796)
Before discussing anything related to nuclear missiles *[Command and Control by Eric Schlosser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)) should be required reading.

More missiles do not make the world safe, and due to human fallacy it almost always make us less safe.

I'mm exactly the same. Fluent in Linux, but you'll pry my MacBook out of my cold dead hands.

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