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No, J&J (also known as Janssen) is an adenovirus vector vaccine, as are Sputnik V and AstraZeneca. The main inactivated virus vaccines are Chinese CoronaVac and Indian Covaxin (VLA2001 is in trial…

Let's go to the data, as clearly perceptions can be skewed. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Relevant quote from the abstract: "Our …

Dillo was forked from Armadillo, which in turn was forked from Gzilla[1]. I handed it over to another developer in 1999[2]. It's interesting to imagine what might have happened if I had kept on i…

From the title, I thought it was going to be an extension of this discussion: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/376839/what-makes-depende... It's not, exactly, but som…

I think you're confusing two totally unrelated people. There's nothing in the Vice article about an emulator author, or any of the other things Near was well known for.

This is a good question and deserves serious thought, including real empirical data on what people believe, and TFA provides that. I also recommend more perspective from Ed Yong[1], which is empatheti…

There was a legitimate concern in the fall of 2020 that the FDA would rush the vaccines out prematurely for political reasons. That did not happen, thanks largely to the integrity of FDA Commissioner …

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2021210033

I added a link to a Scientific American article as an edit. But it's not primarily the cost of the vaccine itself, it's much more the ability to get time off work, and also the ability to ta…

These are two different things. The fact that Black and Hispanic Americans are not getting the vaccine is more due to access than it is to vaccine rejection. See https://www.scientificameri…

Thanks, I was previously unaware of this reference. On a quick skim, it seems to be more of an outline of interesting research directions for GPU architecture than a synthesis of where things are, tar…

I agree strongly with you about the need for good resources. Here are a few I've found that are useful. * A trip through the Graphics Pipeline[1] is slightly dated (10 years old) but still very r…

Indeed. Here's a recent meta analysis[1] (discussed yesterday on the TWiV clinical update). Money quote: "In comparison to SOC or placebo, IVM did not reduce all-cause mortality, length of s…

More commentary on this topic from Derek Lowe: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/14/wh... …

There are a lot of promising options for native UI, but none finished and mature. As of today, that number sounds like it is one more. Druid as it exists today is not a great fit for what you're …

I wish I knew, and that would shed much light on the disinformation landscape if it were known. He's almost certainly vaccinated himself (he refuses to say, and Rupert Murdoch is), so it's u…

I think it's more useful to look at propaganda channels that have wide reach, rather than Trump. For example, Tucker Carlson is doing full-on death cult antivax.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/an... …

Thanks for that citation. It is indeed among the strongest evidence for increased transmission. My point is that it is observational rather than biological evidence, which is not the same, and whe…

Let me speak to the second criticism (I'm not sure I fully understand the first one). The quote in context from the paper is: "there is no significant difference between B.1.1.7 and non-B.1.…

You're being downvoted, but that's actually a good question. An explanation that fits the fact is antigenic drift. A variant that's different but not necessarily that much worse will …

Some counterpoint. A lot of the assertions, particularly the fact that delta is dramatically more transmissible than ancestral type, are reported as fact in the mainstream, but the evidence for this p…

You can absolutely make hi-color images which are close to visually indistinguishable from the 24 bit originals, by using a good dither matrix. GdkRgb did this well over 20 years ago, back when "…

It's not holding up so well in RCT's, like this one[1] that was just discussed on TWiV 778[2]. BTW, I've joined the legions who are addicted to TWiV. It's a time commitment for sur…

For starters, real text handling. Just doing a full text widget with all the trimmings is quite complex problem. Druid has made good progress on this front but is nowhere near where it should be. I al…

Thanks! To clarify, the platform abstractions are both in piet, which is 2D drawing, and also in druid-shell, which contains a wide range of other things, including menus, copy-paste, and a good start…

This is my interpretation, yes. The language you are quoting is largely legal boilerplate. In practice, how it works out is that (a) if you want to do a game, there's a very good chance (though n…

I saw this on Twitter yesterday. As a datapoint, Google's policies on this stuff are quite enlightened by comparison. There are two paths people can take. One is to create an open source project.…

Really looking forward to seeing where this goes! A good, cross-platform abstraction for accessibility could make a big difference for a lot of people. Certainly I agree that accessibility is one of t…