It’s more than passing strange that when a man serial dates, it’s considered a near-felony but when a woman does it, it’s considered cool and liberating.
Thought we were aiming for equality, yeah?
Month: June 2021
No Diesel
I had no idea what “4DX” was, but I thought it might be where they waft the scent of a sweaty Vin Diesel through the theater.
I was glad to discover it was in fact not that.
Panic! At The Covid Fiasco
CDC Director Walensky reiterates that vaccinated people don't need masks, don't need to worry about Delta, and she's the type to announce "I have of impending doom" about COVID just a few months ago.
So, seriously…can we drop the panic about Delta?https://t.co/4Gkmfgpv9F
— Samantha Godwin (@samanthaagodwin) June 30, 2021
But Samantha, panic makes the right people money, so panic we must. Ahhhh, my hair is on fire! Delta is chasing me down the street, ayiiii!
I didn’t think much of Walensky when she started, but now she seems to be on top of things so I’m liking her more. Also, this person is substantially right. Really great thread.
I will never, ever fucking forgive liberals for saying things like if you have friends or loved ones in another country, well, that’s your mistake for not sticking to someone in your own nation! And that wanting to visit them (or vice versa) some time in the foreseeable future made you evil and bad. I’m not kidding, that’s going to change a lot of my political thinking, to the extent it has not already. Fuck any of you that said anything like this, or even thought it, especially after you were all crowing about open borders for two straight goddamn decades.
That makes me more enraged than I have any words for.
Infraw
For the first time in a while, am about to offer a woman an infrastructure role, working on my team.
Not through lack of trying/searching at all. Get 500 resumes, 500 are usually from men. That makes it hard. She had better troubleshooting skills than most folks I talk to, and I am glad of that. Most people are extremely deficient in that area, especially if you cannot Google it.
I need people who can solve shit you can’t Google.
Terridus
I’m not afraid of Covid. But I am scared of the people who are scared of Covid.
Yield Tax
this to me is one of the most concise accounts of World Since 2008, implemented differently by the US, germany and china https://t.co/58yCclm1Cu
— veb (@tragicbios) June 29, 2021
Yeah, fuck, that is a great observation.
Hinting
Hint for modelers, who often seem to fail due to over-complexifying things: the winter Covid surge (and, yes, there will be one), will be best modeled by using vaccine rate with a small (1.2x) multiplier for the likely-greater transmissibility of the Delta variant, and comparing this with what happened last fall/winter.
Thus, if there is a 70% full vaccination rate, and last year’s winter case count was 40,000 per day, then winter 2021/2022 will have a case count of approximately 14,000 per day. That is how you do it if you want at all accurate results, but the temptation is to make models as complex as possible to demonstrate intelligence and bona fides.
But there’s a reason I’ve been right and, mostly, all those mooks have been wrong. And it’s gonna happen again.
Note that my numbers above aren’t predictive. I haven’t actually used case counts because I don’t have time to look them up. Those counts are for demonstration purposes only of how you’d produce a model and forecast that doesn’t totally fall on its face.
Oooh So Scare
Media narrative seems to be that the Delta variant is the scariest type of COVID – a new emergency.
Also, Delta is dominant in the UK and we should fear it becoming dominant elsewhere.
But UK deaths w/COVID are flat at ≈10 a day for the last 5 weeks. In a pop of 66.7 million. pic.twitter.com/3K9t8LX2ex
— Samantha Godwin (@samanthaagodwin) June 23, 2021
This climate of terror benefits politicians and the rich enormously, so most of the emphasis will now be on fear-mongering, and on attempting to herd us back inside, fearfully hiding under our beds once again. It’ll be very hard to resist that pressure but it’s vital that we do.
Not many seem able to, though. Their minds are just too far gone.
Reverso
Also, many things that liberals think are scientific conclusions are in fact normative ones.
Conservatives have the opposite problem.
What Lies Below
The pandemic allowed to be exposed the nasty streak and secret desire that many folks who claim to be liberal have for closed borders and onerous restrictions on personal freedom.
It was always there, but needed an excuse to emerge, like a demon being summoned forth with a blood sacrifice.
BeyAnc
Using XP doesn't make me old – right? Right? 🥺 https://t.co/ke1uwxQLLl
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) June 29, 2021
Did not use a compy with a GUI until I’d been using computers for more than a decade.
Guess that makes me beyond ancient.
Power Lab
At one time, I used to see scientists as beacons of truth-seeking and verity, who would never stoop to the despicable lows of politicians and other aspirants to power.
Then I turned eight.
Still, even after my disillusionment, it has been disappointing lately to see so very many virologists, epidemiologists and scientists in general just outright lie in the press and on Twitter about lab safety, about their own research, about Wuhan and its notorious laboratory, and about how research is conducted in general.
Don’t get me wrong. I understand the motivation. They are rightly worried about losing funding or their research being forbidden altogether. I get it. However, do they really think they are helping themselves by this massive campaign of mendacity that many people (like me) are easily able to see through?
This isn’t about a lab leak or not. That is irrelevant to this issue. This is about the lies being told right now that could lead to all manner of screw-ups and tragedies in the future. After all, if viral research is as safe as these people would like us all to believe, why the deceit and misdirection? Why the smoke and mirrors? There would be no need for any of that if these obviously-risky inquiries were as benign as they claim.
No hide
No more masks, prison countries, lockdowns, whiny babies hiding inside.
Get vaccinated. It’ll all be ok. Or hide inside crying, I don’t care. Just don’t try to make me or anyone else do that. The fucking pandemic and all the idiocy around it has turned me into a reluctant libertarian of sorts, I guess.
Spinning
Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report.
Which is exactly why it’s pushed so hard by the cloud providers. Kubernetes and related scam tech allows machines and resources to be spun up willy-nilly, with very little infrastructure control, by people who neither understand the technology nor how to do capacity planning.
Sometimes better tech takes over for good reasons. And sometimes you get some junk like Kubernetes and containerization in general.
No Thank You
Delta variant: LA recommends indoor masks regardless of vaccination status.
Nope. Not gonna do it. Time to stop living in fear.