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These misinformation policies are pretty scary, I'd rather have both sides proving their point together rather than shutting down one of them. Who is the higher authority here to decide about this ?

That's some pretty dangerous territory we are stepping into.

When Samsung decided that all SSSP app/packages should be built and signed with Eclipse IDE it brought all kind of troubles upon us.

I had to move from Vim and a single building script I wrote to this resources heavy complicated to configure IDE.

I don't regret a single day since I moved away from Eclipse.

Re:Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:27AM (#29821270)
Use case ?

I was on the iOS side, they cost too much for what I do with my mobile phone.

Now I always buy mobile phones under $200, my current mobile phone battery last for 5 days without recharge, previous mobile lasted for 5 years (using a custom ROM).

Re:Another World – The Making of with Eric Chahi [video] on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:14AM (#29809142)
Another World and Flashback were truly amazing, nostalgia kicking.
We made a simple tool to store/generate passwords, it's really easy to use and they only have to remember a single password to access them. Even after that we still have employees using pieces of paper or text files with their passwords on the OS desktop.

It's extremely frustrating.

>Why not? We kinda already did it for the flu every year. And if it is the only alternative to lockdowns [1], I think most of us would prefer that.

Because this is not a fatal illness for everybody, it should target the most vulnerable group of people willing to vaccinate/use boosters. The very same thing happening already for the flu shot every year.

"Pollard also stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to everyone age 12 and older. More data is needed to ascertain "whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses," he said."

At this point are they still considered tinfoil hatters ? Someone in my entourage was talking about COVID chip last year and I was telling myself "this is nuts, too far fetched", but here we come.
Re:Ask HN: Programming and Educational Games for Kids on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:38AM (#29649906)
For young kids Ubisoft free game "Rabbids Coding" is fun, they learn about loops, conditions while having fun watching Rabbids doing silly actions. Not many levels but just enough to learn the basics.
Re:The Dangerous Push to Give Boosters to Teens on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:54AM (#29647360)
Double vaccinated coworker caught COVID twice, and the second time he told me it was hell. It's not protecting people around you when there is a breakthrough: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...
Re:Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126) on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:40AM (#29639078)
I went from Vim to Sublime Text 3 to VS Code, in the end it's all about what helps you work faster/better. There isn't in my opinion a choice to make here, really depends on the task you want to achieve. VS Code works fine for my projects.

(I still use sublime to quickly edit text but I was really disappointed with their latest version)

Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:23AM (#29550169)
It was my daily driver for programming, editing.. pretty much everything text related until their latest version. Autocomplete became extremely annoying and the editor feels less snappier. After years I ended up switching to VS Code, and I keep sublime text when I quickly want to edit a text file.
For those having hardware supporting TPM and compatible with Windows 11.
Re:CTF Beginners Guide on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:30AM (#28715662)
As the article mentions, PicoCTF is a great start for someone willing to try one of those, the difficulty curve is not steep so anyone can do a couple levels before starting to need to do some good reading.
> "..a rare heart condition.."

Heart inflammation, myocarditis, pericarditis : https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...

This thread reminds me of many videos from Louis Rossmann unfortunately.
This is unfortunately what happens when politics and profits are more important than science itself.
Re:Reddit front page cheers and celebrates someone dying of Covid on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:24AM (#28549044)
Reddit has threads like this on a daily basis.

Even if I do not agree with someone's ideas, I won't be happy about their death when it backfires. Friends and family still suffers from their loss and there is nothing to cheer about it.

This is such a childish behavior.

> Data from one study shows that of more than 3,000 adults ages 18 to 34 who contracted COVID-19 and became sick enough to require hospital care, 21% ended up in intensive care, 10% were placed on a breathing machine and 2.7% died.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

"Overall, 1187 (36.8%) had obesity, 789 (24.5%) morbid obesity, 588 (18.2%) diabetes, and 519 (16.1%) hypertension"

"Morbid obesity, hypertension, and diabetes were common and associated with greater risks of adverse events. Young adults with more than 1 of these conditions faced risks comparable with those observed in middle-aged adults without them."

It might be an idiotic question and I'm not trying to offend anyone, but about 42% US citizens are obese, could it be the reason why the US has so many deceased and patients in intensive care ?

Re:Vaccine skeptic Joe Rogan tests positive for Covid-19 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:35AM (#28402113)
> "a horse dewormer and bogus COVID-19 “cure” that has become popular among anti-vax conspiracy theorists"

Says a lot about this article when they describe Ivermectin as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin

"Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981.It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.Ivermectin is FDA-approved as an antiparasitic agent.In 2018, it was the 420th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than one hundred thousand prescriptions."

And they just call it a "horse dewormer".

Re:How to Post in LinkedIn Every Day on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:56AM (#28233858)
This is my personal opinion of course but LinkedIn became Facebook a couple years ago and that's the reason I don't go there anymore.

I don't want to read random nonsense on a supposedly professional platform. It used to be about building projects, technology and other interesting content but it's not the case anymore.

Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:54AM (#28208013)
Thank you for the explanation.
Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:42AM (#28207583)
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by short term effect, the first sentence in the article you linked mentions it's an incurable disease and it took them years to admit it was linked to Pandemrix.

English is not my native language so maybe I didn't understand what you meant by that.