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The thing about public health is that it's a game of averages. Smallpox vaccination, because of the specific details of the vaccine itself, has significant potential side effects w…

I know one Covid long-hauler personally. She's in excellent physical shape, and has worked for several years as a paramedic (which is, in fact, where she caught Covid). She's got m…

Hilariously, around like the third sentence of this I thought to myself "I bet this guy would like Steve Ramsey". He really is head-and-shoulders above anyone else making content i…

Yeah, this sounds like an artifact of some kind of tax shenanigans rather than a real number

Standard practice for Google SREs in any serious outage is to communicate via internally-hosted IRC, since it has a minimum amount of dependencies outside of itself

Yes, though exactly why depends on the jurisdiction. In some areas a tenant blacklists is explicitly illegal; in others this would fall afoul of credit monitoring registration laws…

Closure, the printer spool “book” in question, is one of the best works on the philosophy of software engineering and life on the modern internet ever written.

It seems to me that while any one of those metrics isn’t particularly useful in isolation, if the same person is consistently at the top of all of them, that’s telling you somethin…

There are ~230,000 Persian Jews in Israel, ~70,000 in the US, and under 10,000 left in Iran. As a non-Persian Jew who grew up with lots of Persian Jews, I can tell you that 300,000…

I didn't go through a bootcamp but I know plenty of folks who have, and in my experience the overall average quality of bootcamps did seem to be significantly higher several years …

It means that your normal vest schedule doesn’t start for one year, so if your initial stock grant vests quarterly, none vests at all for the first year and then 25% vests all at o…

Both of those sound tedious, neither of them sound particularly hard.

Switch teams, ideally to something entirely different than what you’re doing now. Google makes it easy and painless (in most cases) for a reason. I stayed at my first team at Googl…

I take that back, it looks like it was pulled from the App Store a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/8z6fyi/heroes_of... That’s disappointing; sorry to get your…

Apple Arcade is a pretty good fix for this; for a basic monthly fee you get access to over a hundred games with no ads or in-app purchases

A simple port of Heroes 3 is currently available on iOS (though only iPad, not iPhone)

Heroes 3 did have multiplayer via LAN, and IIRC it had online multiplayer as well. It worked pretty well for the time; the fact that the game is turn-based probably helped in that …

Considering Tesla’s history, and the fact that this is pretty clearly a concept car, I genuinely don’t think that the designers have considered stuff as pedestrian as “crash safety…

“Strength” is the last thing you want in a car. Cars crumple in an accident because that significantly cuts down on injuries to both the passengers and whatever is hit; if your car…

This is so absurd that the only response that would make any sense for the Times would be to double down. Sulzberger should challenge Fred Smith to a fistfight live on CNN.

This has worked so well for me in the past that back in my undergrad Analysis of Algorithms class, I would take extra showers just to work through particularly tricky problem set p…

It's nice to learn about the backstory of Stasis in particular. The card art in Magic was gorgeous all around back then, but Stasis in particular has always been one of my favorite…

For anyone interested in kicking in some cash to support his work, the ID Ransomware main page has a link to his Patreon, where for a dollar or more a month you get to see pictures…

Yeah, I'd view Neumann a lot less negatively if it hadn't been for all the job losses. Someone getting paid a billion dollars to set ten billion dollars of Softbank's money on fire…

Much of the Christian symbolism is just there for the sake of aesthetics, but this is less so true for the Jewish (and especially Kabbalistic) imagery - there's actually a lot of o…