frostirosti

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Comment · 1 year ago

Bazel is just such a nightmare for me. It's amazing when someone understands it really well and can set things up. But for anything short of that, being on the hook to fix or debug things makes it a nightmare. That and trying to port anything over from sbt, like scalafix for instance, to bazel is a pain.

Also too, bazel has this issue of googleability? like I feel like I can take any build issue I've run into in sbt and find the solution and an example by just searching, but with Bazel, anything outside of the happy path is a recipe for pain

Comment · 1 year ago

here's an idea for freight transport efficiency: trains

Comment · 1 year ago

paging 2000s Bethesda puzzles

Comment · 4 years ago

re: Housing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies) In San Francisco there's the tradition of painting your home as a "painted lady" which means you painted the home using 3 contrasting colors. Also there are some that have painted in this matte black painted as well which are definitely a striking appearance

Comment · 5 years ago

I wonder if the answer to all of this changes if insurance companies decide that covering the cost of laboratory confirmation of covid 19 antibodies or the cost covering the expenses related to hospitalization exceed the cost of vaccination people who may not need it.

If Aetna decided to not cover hospitalization if you are not vaccinated (or I'll give you laboratory confirmed immune), then it would be an entirely different calculus for people.

The argument of "Oh well I'll just find a different insurance provider" doesn't track in the United States either because most people do not have that option. The mandate and the exchange has been almost entirely gutted, so you're left with the option your employer provides.

That's another good point too. The government really doesn't have a lot of say in terms of whether or not you're vaccinated, it's entirely your employer. At the end of the day it's not Aetna/Kaiser/Blue Cross/et al. covering your health care costs, it's your employer. They certainly do not want to cover any unnecessary expense. So requiring employees to be vaccinated is the simplest, scalable, and cost effective solution.

If we're going to point to organizations that have no tolerance for the unvaccinated for diseases other than covid, we need look no futher than the US military: https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/who-and-when/military-membe...

Comment · 5 years ago

> do not want to be vaccinated What's the reason for this? The vaccine has been approved fully by the FDA and hundreds of millions of people have received it.

> 2. ... Sure, and people who have had covid and get it again as well. But why risk sick days, lost productivity, severe illness when there's an effective, safe alternative. The capital cost of caring people who get sick with covid is far higher on a per capita basis for those who are unvaccinated.

Comment · 5 years ago

I mean, it's the JVM in the end right? It depends on the JVM you're running on between windows and linux

Comment · 5 years ago

could also be the case that the two volumes are empty, ie have no pages

Comment · 8 years ago

The Kubrick exhibit at The Jewish Museum in SF was great! Really showed how his work changed over time and his unmade Napoleon movie would have wild.

Comment · 8 years ago