It is awful that 60-80 people died tonight, needlessly. The shocking way it happened has garnered a lot of attention.
Quietly, for the past few weeks, nearly 1000 people per week have died in the US from covid. It is no longer shocking, & so garners little attention.
Please, pay attention.
January 17, 2025. Provisional COVID-19 Deaths for 2024.
Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 on Death Certificates
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You can honor David Lynch by wearing a mask in public.
He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore.
Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
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Book cover of The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena
Sorting out old books, I stumbled over this gem. Got „The Algorithm Design Manual“ from Steven S. Skiena as a present in 2002 and it was highly useful for developing algorithmic skills. Would highly recommend the new edition from 2021 to anyone who wants to advance in this area (also for experts)!
If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors
This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org
The exploratory nature and the way you explained UI, concepts etc as needed.
A nice guided walkthrough by @tudorgirba.com of using Glamorous Toolkit for problem exploration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssEo... #gtoolkit
As a journalist, this is why I continue to write about Covid in the present tense.
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Headline: “Wearing a mask is part of our duty to take care of each other” Body: “No matter how much you want to ignore it or pretend it’s over, it’s not. Our society is enabling the continued spread and evolution of COVID-19 as a more transmissible virus that negatively impacts marginalized communities like the elderly and the immunocompromised, causing excess deaths and increasing the risks of long-term health effects. Viruses can’t evolve to evade the physics behind engineered solutions like high-quality masks. Yet our abandonment of simple and effective variant-proof protection measures has left our older adults and marginalized communities isolated and at risk. This letter is a plea to support the older adults and marginalized groups in our community, who we have let down. It is our responsibility as a civilization to take care of each other. Please do your part to make indoor spaces safer for everyone. Protect our older adults and marginalized groups: Wear a proper mask indoors.”
Wrote this piece around this time last year for the Waterloo Region Record. I think it’s still a good message in the current state of the world.
Smalltalk has a syntax (see the famous Smalltalk syntax postcard), but everything is a message. Each object receives a message (with syntax structures like blocks or arrays already mapped to objects) then decides what to do with it (executes a method). Message-sending instead of parsing.
