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(Obviously some developers are better or worse than others, so I presume your observation is assuming developer skill as a constant.)
(Yes, I know they have an onion. Try it some time. Guess which company's infrastructure blocks your anonymous request.)
That's got to be a very tricky analysis given how subjective quality is. But I'm sure there are people trying to pin it down.
Shame on whoever did that. You should lose your downvoting rights. The community deserves better.
I wish I could give you good, brief advice on how to avoid getting downvoted to death before you even get started. There are undoubtedly others who would do a better job. So I'll just say "try really hard not to appear like ChatGPT write your post."
Everything imaginable is being impacted by AI, in expected and in surprising ways. Communities are going to need to put extra effort into things that used to just happen, like welcoming new members. Here's mine.
(I hope I'm not wrong and that you're not actually a spammer. But I think my bet is safe enough. :-)
Stop. Stop encouraging parents to do or not anything regarding the medical care of their newborns. You are too bad at this and somebody's going to get hurt.
> why a shot is considered the best standard of care.
..."why a shot is considered the best standard of care" by the people who sell those shots, the doctors who were trained by the people who sell those shots, and the hospital administrators who make more money when doctors prescribe and nurses administer those shots.
There. I fixed it for you.
> Funnily enough, I've read the same article, and didn't come away with the idea
Then you didn't understand it, or you somehow missed the first paragraph. Here is the last sentence:
"However, excess vitamin K can also be very dangerous as it can cause hemolysis, jaundice, and cerebral palsy."
Please stop saying things like that. Somebody might believe you.
High enough levels of K in a newborn can kill them. Even "somewhat excessive" levels produce disease. No established protocol anywhere in the civilized world calls for testing before administering the shot, so it is literally "poke and pray". Once the shot is in the muscle you can't pull it back out. Just because the typical dose does not instantly kill a certain percentage of children does not mean it is a good idea to just yolo and do it. I hate having to keep repeating myself in the same thread, but, there are better, safer alternative therapies.
> I guess, if I am making an assumption,
Yes, you are making an assumption. An unfounded one.
> it's that since we have been doing this for decades with no real negative consequences,
You keep saying things like "no real negative consequences" and I really wish you would stop. Supported by what you missed above, I would bet that you haven't even begun to look at what those negative consequences entail, let alone how often they occur and under what conditions.
> that doctors and nurses are well aware of the doses required to boost infant vitamin K without harming them.
Have you ever been inside a hospital? Do you have any idea whatsoever of the sheer volume of medical misadventures that happen every day in them, throughout the so-called civilized world? There are entire law practices that exist solely to go after doctors who make mistakes prescribing drugs and nurses who screw up delivering them.[1][2][3][fuckit I shouldn't have to google this crap for you]
> My understanding is that allergic reactions are the most common complication, and even those are rare.
Every single allergic reaction to an unnecessary medical intervention is 100% preventable. A mother should not be coerced into accepting one just because a lot of scientifically ignorant people have already been scared into agreeing with a marketing campaign.
Every techie on this site ought to be well acquainted with the principle of risk mitigation by eliminating unnecessary steps, components, race conditions, etc. Why are you insisting on adding one, for someone else's child, where it need not be?
Poking holes in newborns should not be done unnecessarily, full stop. There are better alternatives for care. Humans are meant to get their vitamins from eating food and, in the fascinating case of vitamin D, from being outdoors in the sun without too much clothing. Not IM injections.
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225187/
2. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety
3. https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139
4. https://www.amcp.org/concepts-managed-care-pharmacy/medication-errors
The number of patient deaths resulting from drug errors has increased from 198,000 in 1995 to 218,000 in 2000. The cost of these misadventures to the US economy is more than $177 billion per year.
5. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8640408/Or, if the brain bleed occurs during or after birth, the first that that needs to be addressed is how the hell did my newborn get injured? Was the ObGyn doing the delivery grossly incompetent, like that one who ripped a baby's head off a few years ago? Or did a nurse drop them? Or, what the hell did happen? If a newborn is in critical condition one doesn't dally around with vitamin supplements that take several hours to diffuse out of the muscle. Again, this calls for a whole list of interventions. And probably handcuffs.
Really, these hysterical hypotheticals are too much. Stop trying to push big pharma products by scaring people. Women have been delivering babies without needing to poke holes in them for as long as there have been women and babies.
If you want to make real progress towards infant mortality in the developed world, CLEAN UP OUR FOOD SUPPLY FIRST.
Is it possible that this article might have an agenda and is less than 100% accurate?
See my longer comment above regarding this vitamin deficiency, why shots should not be the first response, and hints at why we have this status quo.
Whoever told you that is selling something. Vitamin K is fat soluble and even the cheapest, lowest quality formulae can deliver enough of a dosage for an elephant. Unless the newborn is already bleeding, immediate supplementation is unnecessary. (Unless you're expecting to injure the newborn, in which case please get in the back of the squad car, sir, and don't bump your head.)
I suppose it's possible the newborn is already bleeding, in which case somebody should probably figure out why and address that first.
> I guess I don't see the point in rejecting the shot. It's a vitamin, it has a clear benefit, and no drawback.
Please don't give medical advice. You're not good at it.
A big whack of K (either form) in a shot can't be pulled back if it turns out to be too much for the child. If the placental diffusion just so happened to be higher for a particular child, and their levels were not so very deficient, now you've got an overdose condition to deal with.[1] Normally that's not the end of the world, but to say there's "no drawback" is just wrong. Further, it's entirely unnecessary when there are safer, titratable methods that don't involve poking a hole in the newborn, such as adding K to pumped breast milk or painting the mother's nipple. Oral dosage can be spread out over many feedings, and at the slightest indication of excess (jaundice, for example) can be discontinued without further risk.
But of course, this requires the mother to have the wherewithal to remember to do the supplementation, and modern hospital protocols are designed with the assumption that the mother is incompetent at her job. Some of us have higher opinions of women and their ability to do what women have routinely done for millennia. A cynic might also point out that the hospital can't charge you as much for a bottle of cheap gel caps as an injection.
By the way, K1 is the plant-derived form, which some of us feel is a bit better to supplement with than K2, particularly when coupled with fat intake. On the other hand, if you do intend to let the hospital shoot up your newborn instead, maybe ask to see the vial first.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251206091225/https://www.vinme...
1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nox-reduction-technologies-ga...
2. PDF: https://www.ifc.org/content/dam/ifc/doc/1990/handbook-nitrog...
(Except the Citrix. I never admin'ed that, only used it for a few gigs.)
I am far from being an economist or political scientist, but that's what it appears to me. Every government I can think of puts its collective thumb on the scale in the economy somehow. And I can't judge which of the metrics cited (negative productivity growth, fertility below replacement, etc) are causal and which are incidental. So I don't understand how the claim is supported by the data.
Or is the entire piece just somebody's opinion with an agenda? I'd love to hear from someone unbiased who knows better.
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I used to have a stack of those login cards from the Sun courses I took. (I think they gave them to us to to log in to the "attendance" system, but really they were just souvenirs to show your coworker when you got back.) They sat on my desk and were a marvelous kind of fidget device, like shuffling a very scanty deck of cards over and over.
I bought a gen 2 SunRay in the hopes that I'd get around to installing it in my LAN some day as part of my eternal To-Do list. Sadly, I trashed all of that stuff when Sun got eaten and Solaris turned into a niche tech that I was almost embarrassed to have on my resume. I wish I had that stuff now.
Thank you for submitting this link, and (if they come by here) thanks to the author for writing up such a lovely, nostalgic bit of work.
...because right now no one is hiring _anybody_ who isn't a super duper senior 100x dev. The whole world of tech is facing a generational collapse. We need to pull a rabbit out of hat soon or we're all screwed.
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Rather silly of them to hide investor relations material behind an anonymity-hostile CDN.
PDF for those who want it. https://web.archive.org/web/20260506084407if_/https://invest...
I just want....I just want hard drive prices to come back down. *sniffle*
I wasn't trying to write a Great American [Cyber]Spy Novel. I banged out a silly short story over maybe 40 minutes while I was eating. Then I went back and cleaned up a bit of the text I didn't like and gave it to the world.
I smiled and chuckled a few times as I was writing, because that's what often happens when an author is making something he's happy with. I hoped a few others would get a chuckle out of it too. I gather that 2 people did, so far. That's good enough for me.
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Comparatively very little of that "humanity" corpus is coming from Shakespeare or Swift or Douglas Adams, much as we might prefer if it did.