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PS: There are so many shitty comments in this thread adding nothing of value. So you don't like Texas and have different political views. Fuck off. Some of us actually want to discuss this.

Comment · 3 years ago

Fun read! Along the way I was trying to guess the cause and my best guess was TTL-related. However I don’t quite understand the actual cause! If the connection timeout is 3ms in practice, shouldn’t that be for a packet round-trip? So ~250 miles? And wouldn’t we expect at least a small delay on the remote SMTP server to process the packet?

Comment · 3 years ago

The issue isn't the possible noise in non-covid deaths. It's this rather bold statement:

"None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators"

How would they know? What investigators and what criteria? If there was a 20% increase in seemingly-unrelated deaths, would it be detected? These are the questions that Pfizer should have explained but instead we just got this one pithy sentence. Also remember, this is industry with a history of fraud and criminality. GSK was fined billions for covering up heart deaths in a diabetes treatment only a few years earlier and Pfizer is up on the list too. Our FDA needed to be our advocates and a lot of people feel let down seeing this rubber-stamped.

Comment · 3 years ago

Yep, you'd find huge stacks of their CDs everywhere. I remember always getting a free "frisbee" every time we'd go to Blockbuster. Also, AOL keywords.

Comment · 3 years ago

AOL lumbered on but what finally killed it was broadband and cable. They just didn't have the pipes and the luster was gone by then anyway. DSL gave it some life support but by 2002 or so everyone I knew had switched to cable. AIM use continued for few more years after that until texting killed that too.

Comment · 3 years ago

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Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks. That makes more sense.

Comment · 3 years ago

What's the real story here? Why did Trump say the $10B would not be spent if he was not re-elected? What "changing global market conditions" is Foxconn referring to?

Edit: I found this interview here with a former Foxconn exec that goes some more detail: https://www.theverge.com/23030465/foxconn-lcd-factory-wiscon.... Summary as far as I can tell is that the deal from the previous republican governor was controversial because of the tax breaks and the next democratic governor renegotiated the deal. Politics, basically. I guess locals are OK with this? Seems unfortunate though since people lost their homes and it would have brought jobs.

Comment · 3 years ago

Structurizr looks popular but I don't love needing to learn yet another DSL. Does there exist a way to describe things in an existing language with a library?

To use the example on their website, I would like something like this in JS:

  let { Component, Container, Diagram, Person } = import 'c4'

  let user = new Person('User')
  let system = new Container('Software System')
  let webapp = new Component('Web Application')
  let database = new Component('Web Application')

  system.contains(webapp)
  system.contains(database)

  user.uses(webapp).via('Uses')
  webapp.uses(database).via('Reads from and writes to')

  export new Digram()
     .title('Software System')
     .theme('default')
     .shows([user, system])
     .type('container')

Edit: As it turns out, there are a couple libraries like this:

- Python: https://github.com/nielsvanspauwen/pystructurizr

- C#: https://github.com/8T4/c4sharp

Don't see one for JS though. Smells like an opportunity for someone.