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This isn't a far-fetched as you might think. This damned virus seems to mutate at an alarmingly fast rate.

Something very important that I didn't mention in my post - the virus mutates very quickly and each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant. Here…

People pushing extreme and divisive politics and religious beliefs are more likely to get votes when people are frightened and under stress. Unfortunate but true.

Gain of function research is very important in that you get to see how a pathogen behaves. From this you can formulate a plan/vaccines/treatment etc. It is too difficult to infer f…

That COVID-19 is new in humans, is incredibly fast spreading, evades both vaccines and tests worries me. Now it just needs to pick up some genes that can cause it to be more deadly…

"Interesting tidbit, the mongol empire had a significant but indirect part in the "discovery" of the americas by columbus." So did the Ottomans. Their monopoly of the eastern route…

"However, there’s a version of GNAT released by AdaCore called “GNAT Community Edition” which is similar to FSF GNAT but does not provide the runtime exception." Ok, so if I downlo…

That is what exactly I think the Wuhan labs was studying, given that SARS did jump from another animal to human very recently. What would happen if these things mutate naturally an…

I want one of these to custom-make shoes for me and my family. Son has in-turning soles and the podiatrist has recommended specialist shoes. Imagine that - the podiatrist can just …

Brexit in general. I have been following what looks like an absolute clusterfuck: From the exporters at the border who didn't know they had to have the right paperwork to the North…

This Brexit thing - it's almost as if the British people didn't know anything at all when they voted for it. So many of them are genuinely surprised at what is happening. What happ…

Thanks again for your work. I very much appreciate chisel.

We already have something that serves the purpose. It is called a test suite. Unit and functional tests usually. Keep them updated and run them for every build.

The people in a country that has outsized influence in the country I live in came to their senses and voted out their leader. Other than politics my 11-year old son understanding t…

Pharo Smalltalk. For web apps there is Seaside and small restful stuff like Teapot. But I use plain Zinc. Anyways, the famous Smalltalk interactive development makes for the fastes…

Windows Terminal with PowerShell. With Terminal I run git, psql, hg, vim, sqlite. With PS I slice and dice text, csv, xml, mock up web services and clients, curl, ssh, write helper…