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New comment by aodonnell2536 in "CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:13:50 +0000

You’re linking a study from early 2021, which is before the admissions began to start. The WHO was dishonest throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, at this point in time this is well-known.

The Wuhan Virology Institute is in the heart of the city, and a quick Google search shows a population of 11 million in 2018. Is this not a large city?

I find it seriously troubling that people still believe the nonsense spewed about COVID-19 and it’s origins in 2020-21.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:59:06 +0000

But not the laboratories doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in the exact vicinity of the virus’s origin? Even considering that several workers of this laboratory got sick with COVID in 2019, right before the outbreak? C’mon, it’s been 4 years already, this is becoming ridiculous.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Crafting Interpreters"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:39:07 +0000

Well, in the instance of this book, you should follow along with the steps that Bob Nystrom writes for you. From reading it, it’s clear you’re supposed to follow along and write code “with him”. He even outlines exactly where each line of code should go, and explains why along the way.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:33:07 +0000

I find it difficult to understand how you’re still propagating the “Wet Market Theory”. Please further explain why you don’t believe that COVID-19 did not emerge from a laboratory.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Dumb website only lets one user in at a time"

aodonnell2536 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:54:32 +0000

Upon visiting the website:

  failed to start application on imherefor.me
  This is most likely because your project has a code error.
  Check your project logs, fix the error and try again

Maybe it got hugged to death?

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Supreme Court tosses claim Biden admin coerced social media to remove content"

aodonnell2536 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:26:48 +0000

How is this from the right wing?

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code"

aodonnell2536 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:08:16 +0000

Not really a new phenomenon, though. People have been been calling others “The Man” for ages

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine"

aodonnell2536 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:57:44 +0000

cfront was a C++ => C transpiler

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Why not just embed Neovim?"

aodonnell2536 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:14:45 +0000

Been awhile since I’ve accidentally pressed r during visual-block editing but vim will gladly replace every cell under your selection with whatever character you choose after hitting r

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from?"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:55:20 +0000

There really isn’t much to be explained. I’m using the terms somewhat interchangeably because they are essentially the same thing - deep distrust is just high magnitude distrust.

One may distrust their state, but in some regards can still trust. One with deep distrust will likely never trust, their level of distrust is much higher. This does not require a conspiratorial mindset.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from?"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:21:16 +0000

With due respect, I reused your own example to highlight its absurdity.

That being said, you still haven’t convinced me. I claim I t’s very possible to hold deep distrust without attributing intentions/motivations to conspiratorial actions.

The act of distrusting does not require an assumption of motivations (or a nefarious/secretive plot, as you put it).

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Gruen transfer"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:14:36 +0000

An interesting anecdote and counterexample (at least to me): Just yesterday I visited a rather large mall to visit a jeweler for a simple ask, and while standing in the store 3 other jewelers were visible. The jeweler I had visited was unwilling to assist. After visiting two others that were noticed while waiting, I got some help. Was very convenient!

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 03:07:42 +0000

An anecdote: I regularly played Crash Bandicoot with my family while young on a PlayStation, and our device always had disc drive issues. Pretty sure we even went through two PlayStations while playing that game lol. Still loved it!

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:59:43 +0000

Now there’s “Overwatch” the game, “Overwatch” the anticheat platform, and “Overwatch” the OSINT platform!

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:54:23 +0000

I suppose it is subjective, but I consider about any health problem requiring a professional time sensitive. Time lost potentially leads to damage of one’s most irreplaceable asset.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from?"

aodonnell2536 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:44:58 +0000

No, I don’t believe it is. There’s much wiggle room between the two scenarios you painted.

Of course one can have a deep distrust of the government without believing it’s run by lizard people from another planet.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Monads are like burritos (2009)"

aodonnell2536 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:17:14 +0000

Would it then follow that commands/builtins like `time` and `sudo` are monads? What about shell commands in general, since you can always chain together stdout to stdin with pipes?

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:40:06 +0000

How come? This doesn’t seem true to me, and your second clause reads like a non-sequitor

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC"

aodonnell2536 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:14:53 +0000

This seems likely to me.

Considering the global market share of Windows, there would be a need to roll out such a grandiose service slowly, too.

New comment by aodonnell2536 in "World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September"

aodonnell2536 — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:29:28 +0000

Likewise. The idea gives me flashbacks to a picture of a teratoma I once saw.

(Nightmare material)