It's usually true that parents can't expect their kids to live as old of an age as they do.(Which is what the original poster said) It's a round about way to say that parents are older than their kids and have kids. Or put another way, who do you think is more likely to live to be 81, a child who is currently one or his 80 year old grandfather? Just look up any actuary tables if you want to see this.(Older people have a higher probability of living to an older age than younger people precisely because they're older) Of course I've seen people give that stat to confuse people into thinking life expectancy is going down. (Admittedly it went down in the US due to opioid death but that's a bit of an exception.)

Like Dexamethasone and they're used to prevent a bad immune response such as inflammation or a cytokine storm. Basically they're used to get the immune system to not fight as hard and they tend to get used when people are really bad and it's a bigger worry that the immune response is worse than the disease. Looking at that guy he's taking anabolic steroids and no idea how they affect the disease course. (Although those steroids do cause heart issues which is bad for covid-19.)

I'll go with what the Duelfer report said which was pretty much

Iraq didn't have them.

The reason they didn't have them was because Saddam got rid of them

The reason he got rid of them wasn't because he was a good guy. He simply thought the easiest way out of sanctions was to get rid of them but keep the ability and knowledge to build them. Then inspectors would find nothing and sign off on getting rid of the sanctions. Once that happen restart his programs and start making his fun stuff again. I am also under the impression you're supposed to replace your chemical weapons every so often anyway because being caustic also means you can't store them forever.

Not death rate, at least according to this https://www.worldometers.info/... total deaths us vs canada is 219,695 vs 9613 However the deaths per 1 million is 663 vs 254 or 2.6 to 1

Politics is all about meeting with other people which is how you get this. I'm more surprised how few other politicians have gotten it than the idea some have.(I won't be surprised if Biden or Pelosi get it no matter how careful they try to be.)

Honey bees are not actually native to the US in the first place. Of course if they're in trouble in the old world and the US can't import more that would be a problem.

I mean with 8k the following resolutions are basically whole fractions, 4k(2x2) 1440(3x3) 1080(4x4) and 720 (6x6)

I'm convinced most of them believe they have some form of eidetic memory and think they don't need to document because obviously they'll remember. Of course I've never met any developers that actually convinced me of that.(Most actually have pretty bad memories.)

Given that the CIA used to use polio vaccination as a cover for spying. (Good going CIA you fuckers.)

The big problem I've seen is you have someone who starts down this road and quickly thinks "I'm awesome" and go from this low/no code stuff to things where it actually matters. What's worse is that they often have extreme confidence that they can convince people who don't know any better that they're awesome. Their stuff kind of works but behind the scenes it's not very well written and management doesn't give a shit. I've worked with people like this and they didn't get things like what's the difference between a list, array, or map. So they pick just one and always use that even if it doesn't make any sense. Or here's a good one, I'm awesome so I don't see any reason that I need source control so I won't use it.(Yes, that happened too.) When you have some one like that you just make for the exits as fast as you can because my experience is they make a complete mess and management won't say boo about it.

Funny thing, here's an article where doctors actually say we should reopen schools because of how covid actually affects children. https://www.npr.org/sections/c... Admittedly it's a month old

Is why you need it. If you need it because of electric shock, choking, or drowning you've got a better chance. If you need it because you had a heart attack your chances go way down. Oh in the case of heart attack AED's help but for those that don't know that thing doesn't start your heart, it reboots it.

You have to be really careful what you mean by "survival rates". At least when I took CPR for first responders years ago they gave rates that meant "Got to the hospital alive." which were based on how long after they went down before they got CPR. It's been awhile but the number for "Got out of the hospital alive" was something on the order of 2% and most of those were not "fine".

I'm trying to remember if quick sort also had a problem in that it was unstable and heapsort wasn't. By unstable what I mean is if you have say a bunch of e-mails, first sort them by date and then sort them by sender a stable sorting algorithm would have them grouped together for a given sender and in that group they'd still be sorted by date. An unstable algorithm they'd be in groups for a given sender but in that group they'd no longer be sorted by date.

I figure I'd write this down to be very clear since my impression of a lot of companies doing coding tests is they don't appear to have asked themselves any of these basic sets questions which is disturbing.

What does your test actually measure? Do you know what it measures? How do you know what it measures?

What are you actually looking for? How do you know what you need? Are your tests actually set up to help you look for the things you're interested in? Does what you're looking for actually match the position you're trying to fill?

What I've found is a lot of companies don't really know what their tests really measure, are testing for things that they don't need or don't match what they hiring for. Just as an example on one interview I did every test was pretty much a software architecture test(Design plans that could be given out to other engineers in rational rose, etc) and yet I had applied for a software engineer position. My guess is they wanted to pay for a SE but wanted a SA which when I applied was very unrealistic to be blunt. If they understand the position and the tests they can use to rate candidates, my impression is that they often don't understand the test or the position or what they want so they get a shit show.