Nurses are not immune to online conspiracy dealers. Do they have evidence or is this about their feelings?

If they are unwilling to research this stuff or have qualms with the science and process that maintain their entire career maybe they should get a new career. You don't have a right to a job as a nurse.

I work in audio visual, if I believed light waves from projectors are a government conspiracy that gives people cancer then maybe I should get a new career because obviously I have no interest in the workings of what I am working with and why would I involve myself with a profession that has a mass murdering conspiracy underneath it?

Seriously, that's what all this antivax boils down to: you believe evil people are using vaccines for evil purposes. Why would a nurse be a willing participant in that. You should quit.

No I do blame humans for their bad logic, bad conclusions and falling into bad faith political conspiracy theories. I blame them, the media who pushes them and people like you who also push it hesitantly and cowardly.

They have no evidence, don't care about science, don't care about medicine. Only what is politically advantaged to their cause which has little to do with science and everything to do with disliking liberals.

I am no longer giving skeptics any benefits of the doubt. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. Full stop, no excuses. Bring evidence or shut up already, entertaining this nonsense has already cost lives and made the world a worse place because we want to be sensitive to their little snowflake feelings. We should stop.

Nah, I still blame the skeptic crowd, even with pertussis the effects were acture and any long term issues were determined to be unrelated to the vaccines but that didn't stop that crowd from perpetuating this idea that "vaccines have zero side effects any any side effects at all is unsafe".

Also the pertussis incident makes the case for more mRNA since that vaccine was a whole virus and mRNA is exactly not that, those types of reactions are eliminated with mRNA.

So why is the skeptic crowd up in arms about vaccine tech that is safer than the older methods? Because they don't care about medicine or results, it's political advantage. Same reason the covid antivaxxers didn't come into the fold until after the election.

Had 2020 gone the other direction I feel confident in saying most of the skeptic crowd would suddenly have a different opinion about the "great Trump vaccine". It's absolutely bad faith and ridiculous.

Apologies that response was meant for them and not you.

I mean we can think that but where is the evidence, after billions of shots into billions of people for 5 years now? So we have combined how many billions of doses for a 5 year timespan, at a certain point we can stop surmising and start making true statements.

Seriously, I have been hearing the "what if" crowd since Jan 2021 and they have been wrong at every time. It was 1 year, then 2 years, then 3 years, then 5 years. Will the adverse effects show up in 10 years? 20? Can we approve new medicine ever?

I'm sorry but the vaccine skeptic crowd is not interested in medicine, they are interested in political gains and antivax has just become another part of that.

IIRC, the DoD has pretty much moved away from Ada. They couldn't find enough good programmers.

The design was picked by a committee, and subsequent changes have been made by committee.

FWIW, the main reason Ada didn't succeed was that it was too expensive. Even Gnat required a more powerful computer than most folks had access to. And it was also the most complicated language around. But the REAL problem was that the length of the string was part of the type, and different types couldn't be the same argument in a function. There was a work around, but it was clumsy. The default string should have been UNBOUNDED, and the specific length string optimization choices.

"Why do scientists focus on medicine that works instead of medicine that doesn't because one those I have to oppose due to politics so can the researchers please take my hurt feelings into account."

"My script of talking points has reached it's end. Good day sir!"

Fact check: There are hundreds of reports of 4800 people having died within two days of getting a COVID vaccine but that does not necessarily mean the vaccine was the cause. Similarly, 380k adverse reactions were reported but not definitely the caused by the vaccine. Finally, given the breadth of deployment, the mRNA vaccines were the safest vaccines ever made. They aren't perfect because humans are not all identical but they were damn close.

I would also point out there there were about 600 people who died from overdosing on hydroxychloroquine which is not effective at treating or preventing COVID-19.

It's both interesting and distinct which has resulted in a lot of studies of Yersinia pestis. This has yielded a firm understanding of it's mechanisms. When making a proof of concept treatment, you first target a well understood target which makes Yersinia pestis an ideal target. A simple misunderstanding of the target bacteria's function could result in years of wasted efforts or delays.

A similar phenomenon exists for when we want to utilize a mechanism found in biology for our own ends. A good example of this is the use of HIV to design a retroviral vector for a gene therapy. It's been studied so much that we know a great deal of how it works.

Yersinia pestis is something you can get if you visit a national park because it's carried by rodents. See also: https://science.slashdot.org/s...

Better begin/end than syntactically significant white space. Wow this argument has been going on for a while.

Has Ada usage actually been increasing recently?

Possibly from recent use in military drones.

Also possibly a mis-read by TIOBE about searches for ADA because of the NVIDIA ADA architecture.

Currently have a project going using Python scripting in Blender using scipy.optimize.differential_evolution and Cycles rendering to optimize the shape of a reflector to match a desired light distribution pattern. It's not a perfect tool for the job, but it seems to be pretty accurate.