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Very good tweets on vaccines

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  • MikM Offline
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    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. 😜

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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

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        @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.

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        @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.

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        • bachophileB bachophile

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

          MikM Offline
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          @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.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          • MikM 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.

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            @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.

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              It’s a great thread. Thanks, Bach.

              Only non-witches get due process.

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                I wish somebody would summarize that thread in a tweet.

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                • KlausK Klaus

                  I wish somebody would summarize that thread in a tweet.

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                  @Klaus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

                  I wish somebody would summarize that thread in a tweet.

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                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • KlausK Online
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                    Can you boil it down even more?

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                    • KlausK Klaus

                      Can you boil it down even more?

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                      @Klaus said in Very good tweets on vaccines:

                      Can you boil it down even more?

                      Some day this will all just go away.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      • jon-nycJ 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.

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                        @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.

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