permille42

In recent history I have worked a lot with Golang and also encountered the tendency towards globals being the recommended path.

Specifically, I encountered it with logging, frameworks( Gin ), and DBs. It is interesting to me that you called out these three things specifically having encountered them all myself.

I agree also that it is a result of having poor DI support from the language.

I also like your point about PHP users using Golang. The approach Golang uses towards serving web content is very similar to me to how initial PHP frameworks did it.

Go tends to make it easy to setup concurrent things occurring, and so I've found myself spending a fair amount of time speculating on what is thread safe and what isn't.

No matter how much I see it I still do a double take when I see globals in Go modules. Seems like a bad practice to me.

Whatever. You obviously don't follow what I am saying at all so why bother.

Could we tone down the spin on titles originating from our own community?

Whether HN is an eyesore or not as is is a matter of personal opinion.

A better title I think would be "Dark mode for Hacker News" That doesn't put personal opinion/spin into the title.

The claim in the article, which is believable, is that many people either don't want to get the vaccine or don't show for some other reason during a single day.

For some unknown additional reason, doses within that day are supposed to be used up. There seems to be an implied expiration for doses, but a single day doesn't make much sense.

The result of both these together is that they are supposedly letting people not scheduled to get the vaccine get it on some days. The article calls them "walk-ins".

Apparently word of this has been spreading slowly, and in this case went viral and a ton of people showed up to attempt to get some small number of "leftover doses".

It seems like chaos to me and a failing of sensible procedure. I am not though a doctor or involved in the distribution process so what do I know. Perhaps there is good reason this happens.

You're right. The earth is clearly flat and that is a sensible assumption if you haven't left your local area or been in space or seen a picture from space.

Or not. Flat earthers are quacks.

It is the same principle essentially. It is illogical to think "hey if I keep walking that way I'll hit a wall eventually". That is why flat earthers are quacks from the beginning.

The same principle applies to space. What quack seriously thinks that eventually there is just a wall in space or that it wraps around?

Wrapping around makes zero sense in 3-dimensional space.

Recorded history only goes back to 2600 BC.

TLDR summary of article: Plain observation only shows 6 stars not 7 because the 7th is quite dim and close to one of the other stars. 100k years ago it would have been further away from the others. Therefore the story must have originated 100k years ago.

Bollocks and bullshit.

The person in the article doesn't seem to be in a high risk group. They state they pedaled their bicycle 5 miles to reach the scene. I get that the virus is dangerous for everyone, but I think those of us who are younger and generally more healthy should allow those in high risks groups / high exposure to get the vaccine first, regardless of whatever "leftover doses" exist or not.

Perhaps this person is in a high exposure group due to their job? I'm doubting it but I guess it is possible.

1. Google doesn't own or control "the internet". They can change Google Chrome however they want; so long as they are plenty of us who don't want whatever crap they are peddling we can and will continue to use the internet as it has existed for a long time.

2. Web browsing is not "the internet". I get that headlines are all about grabbing attention by basically stating overblown lies and then backtracking in the details, but come on now.

3. Cookies aren't going away. They are necessary for how a majority of websites with login/sessions work.

4. 3rd party cookies are crap, and they may well be limited by most popular browsers. That is fine and doesn't affect normal web users. It affects advertisers to some degree, but no more than adblockers do.

5. So long as Google is involved in it, they are going to try to keep advertising profitable for themselves. So whatever "it's good for everyone" nonsense they are peddling its just them trying to prevent the public from shutting down the crappy internet advertising that most of us internet users have hated since it began.

6. It doesn't sound like they are working to prevent fingerprinting. That is the direction things should go imo; we need to get rid of all ability to identify visitors period. There is no reason why anyone needs to know what websites I visit or why, and I think there are plenty of people who agree with my desire in that regard.

7. I'm on the side of those calling to abandon Google and their nonsense. They can't be trusted any more.

Neither the title nor the summary say anything about the "observable universe". They make broad claims beyond that. The detail of the article in no way mentions that there could very well be infinite duplicates of what we see out there beyond observable distance.

This is my point. We have no evidence either way, so it seems strange to me to blindly claim "this is everything".

My main response to this article is essentially the same question. I think the article is presuming some things to come to this conclusion.

The main thing that is being presumed is the "big bang". If you proscribe to believing in the big bang, then the entirety of everything we see is an expansion from a single dense explosion of matter.

It is still a valid theory but I myself don't understand the physics of what is observed well enough to be convinced this is true. I believe that they are seeing something similar enough that it could be perhaps a "localized bang" or something like that.

The main evidence used as "proof" of the big bang is the observed data seeming to show that the everything in the universe is "dispersing" slowly. That is at least what I've heard claimed.