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Grew up dodging scores of it as they flew over our bass boat flying down the backwaters of the Mississippi. Twenty years ago I wouldn’t be able to find a single person who had ever…

The conversation around this could benefit from more precise language. Long lived immunity against severe disease, driven by the T cell response against epitopes that are generally…

We are preventing development of serious disease with the vaccine. At the end of the day, that’s what should count.

Immunity to infection ≠ immunity to serious disease. The epitopes that drive long-lived memory are fairly well conserved.

You might be happy with something like VSCode + sourcekit-lsp once that combo gets more mature.

First, this proves that investment in drug discovery for all pandemic potential viruses, fueled by basic science research, needs to be a huge priority going forward. Imagine having…

I recommend checking out Juan Browne’s video [1] that contrasts studies from the aviation world and one from the telecoms. Spoiler: the former brings more technical analysis than t…

This should be a surprise to no one. The vaccines are designed to prevent serious disease, hospitalization, and death. Unfortunately the media has harmfully claimed that the vaccin…

This is a bit of a tangent, but this is emblematic of the fact that, beyond Xcode Cloud, the Apple Developer Tools team seems more excited to work on toys like Swift Playgrounds th…

Yes, they are. Strap one on and fly a fighter jet in Flight Sim 2020 and tell me they aren’t. But they are fatiguing, unflattering, and uncomfortable, even for 20 or 30 minutes wor…

Prosecuting FSD claims, historical or present, seems like a slam-dunk case for the FTC…

Parsec is outstanding for this use case, it’s basically a roll-your-own Stadia. Dunno what its future will be now that it was acquired by Unity

Understanding (confirmation?) of memory T cell immunity might also tamp down the popular concerns regarding waning / lowering of of circulating B antibody levels. It seems we’re ch…

Easy to scoff at an obvious headline, but SARS-CoV-2 may very well be endemic now. Going forward pandemic preparedness will no longer be reserved for the Fortune 5s or 50s. New con…

It’s definitely a pro-social, social platform. It shows that you don’t have to rely on polarizing or adversarial content to drive engagement (_ cough , like Facebook & Twitter coug…

The moderation is a definite net positive. Though those with political viewpoints opposite a given user and anti-vaxxers have abused the stringent moderation to wantonly get videos…

Calico seems like a vestige of Larry’s Google. Hope Ruth doesn’t Loon it. https://killedbygoogle.com

It’s definitely a fount of creativity! Maybe it’s all the Gen Zers but it’s also the least toxic social network around. There’s so much joyful content there.

Agreed. They can do it nicely, too, by extending the "Handoff" concept to further replicate application state between macOS and iPad OS apps. It would probably be an opt-in thing f…

ISDN still must be in heavy use in radio. Sirius XM has been using hardware IP codecs since the pandemic began, and once a three hour show you might hear garbled audio for a few se…

No. The RNA still needs to be fit in a lipid nanoparticle which is Moderna and BioNTech’s secret sauce.

Manipulating the source code leads to invoking the Swift compiler to generate the information required to drive the rich editing experience. I have found SourceKit’s performance in…

It’s worth highlighting that a ton of basic science work went into mRNA vaccine development, starting in the early 1990s: - developing the lipid nanoparticles that the mRNA is deli…

To correct the quoted assertion... There is little selection pressure on the virus for the spike proteins to evolve and change. SARS-CoV-2 infects human cells just fine using its c…

Apple has done a nice job of adding a lot of power user functionality to iPadOS, and iOS in general, but discoverability remains a huge challenge. Multitasking is a kludgy set of g…