(Obviously some developers are better or worse than others, so I presume your observation is assuming developer skill as a constant.)

(Yes, I know they have an onion. Try it some time. Guess which company's infrastructure blocks your anonymous request.)

That's got to be a very tricky analysis given how subjective quality is. But I'm sure there are people trying to pin it down.

Shame on whoever did that. You should lose your downvoting rights. The community deserves better.

I wish I could give you good, brief advice on how to avoid getting downvoted to death before you even get started. There are undoubtedly others who would do a better job. So I'll just say "try really hard not to appear like ChatGPT write your post."

Everything imaginable is being impacted by AI, in expected and in surprising ways. Communities are going to need to put extra effort into things that used to just happen, like welcoming new members. Here's mine.

(I hope I'm not wrong and that you're not actually a spammer. But I think my bet is safe enough. :-)

Is it possible that this article might have an agenda and is less than 100% accurate?

See my longer comment above regarding this vitamin deficiency, why shots should not be the first response, and hints at why we have this status quo.

Whoever told you that is selling something. Vitamin K is fat soluble and even the cheapest, lowest quality formulae can deliver enough of a dosage for an elephant. Unless the newborn is already bleeding, immediate supplementation is unnecessary. (Unless you're expecting to injure the newborn, in which case please get in the back of the squad car, sir, and don't bump your head.)

I suppose it's possible the newborn is already bleeding, in which case somebody should probably figure out why and address that first.

> I guess I don't see the point in rejecting the shot. It's a vitamin, it has a clear benefit, and no drawback.

Please don't give medical advice. You're not good at it.

A big whack of K (either form) in a shot can't be pulled back if it turns out to be too much for the child. If the placental diffusion just so happened to be higher for a particular child, and their levels were not so very deficient, now you've got an overdose condition to deal with.[1] Normally that's not the end of the world, but to say there's "no drawback" is just wrong. Further, it's entirely unnecessary when there are safer, titratable methods that don't involve poking a hole in the newborn, such as adding K to pumped breast milk or painting the mother's nipple. Oral dosage can be spread out over many feedings, and at the slightest indication of excess (jaundice, for example) can be discontinued without further risk.

But of course, this requires the mother to have the wherewithal to remember to do the supplementation, and modern hospital protocols are designed with the assumption that the mother is incompetent at her job. Some of us have higher opinions of women and their ability to do what women have routinely done for millennia. A cynic might also point out that the hospital can't charge you as much for a bottle of cheap gel caps as an injection.

By the way, K1 is the plant-derived form, which some of us feel is a bit better to supplement with than K2, particularly when coupled with fat intake. On the other hand, if you do intend to let the hospital shoot up your newborn instead, maybe ask to see the vial first.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251206091225/https://www.vinme...

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nox-reduction-technologies-ga...

2. PDF: https://www.ifc.org/content/dam/ifc/doc/1990/handbook-nitrog...

(Except the Citrix. I never admin'ed that, only used it for a few gigs.)

I am far from being an economist or political scientist, but that's what it appears to me. Every government I can think of puts its collective thumb on the scale in the economy somehow. And I can't judge which of the metrics cited (negative productivity growth, fertility below replacement, etc) are causal and which are incidental. So I don't understand how the claim is supported by the data.

Or is the entire piece just somebody's opinion with an agenda? I'd love to hear from someone unbiased who knows better.

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I used to have a stack of those login cards from the Sun courses I took. (I think they gave them to us to to log in to the "attendance" system, but really they were just souvenirs to show your coworker when you got back.) They sat on my desk and were a marvelous kind of fidget device, like shuffling a very scanty deck of cards over and over.

I bought a gen 2 SunRay in the hopes that I'd get around to installing it in my LAN some day as part of my eternal To-Do list. Sadly, I trashed all of that stuff when Sun got eaten and Solaris turned into a niche tech that I was almost embarrassed to have on my resume. I wish I had that stuff now.

Thank you for submitting this link, and (if they come by here) thanks to the author for writing up such a lovely, nostalgic bit of work.