Very good tweets on vaccines

[Mik]

I remember distributing software on floppies. At that time drive assignments for files were hard coded in the software. We had lots of problems figuring out whether to send the hard drive or two floppy drive version out until I wrote a batch file to see if the C drive existed. We could send both out on the same disk and let the batch file figure out which to install. Seemed like a big leap at the time.

[bachophile]

Well u can also just read the nature article but the tweets are meant for mass consumption.

[Klaus]

@Axtremus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

@bachophile said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

It’s an 138 tweet thread, ...

Like distributing a modern operating system software using 138 floppy disks. But if all your consumers read only floppy disks, you just have to break up your software into 138 floppies.

I still remember when I first got my hands on a copy of Unix System V. Must have been ~1990. It was on more than 60 5.25 inch floppy drives. Man, that was the shit. It's command line interface is still decades ahead of a 2020 Windows.

[Mik]

@bachophile said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

Well u can also just read the nature article but the tweets are meant for mass consumption.

It’s a fascinating article on both background info and why the Covid effort is different. Thanks for posting.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

@bachophile said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

Well u can also just read the nature article but the tweets are meant for mass consumption.

It’s a fascinating article on both background info and why the Covid effort is different. Thanks for posting.

Agree. Started to read and will save to read later.

[jon-nyc]

It’s a great thread. Thanks, Bach.

[Klaus]

I wish somebody would summarize that thread in a tweet.

[George K]

@Klaus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

I wish somebody would summarize that thread in a tweet.

[Klaus]

Can you boil it down even more?

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

Can you boil it down even more?

Some day this will all just go away.

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

@Klaus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

Can you boil it down even more?

Some day this will all just go away.

Still too complicated. How about, say, "We are fucked but maybe not"? On that level of discourse, I could maybe begin to understand it.