In the UK, the recommendation is up to 45, but there are providers that offer it without an upper limit.

> Also, the eligibility criterion of not vaccinating people above certain age is NOT valid. I mean, sooner better. But if you are adult and there is any chance that you ever get a new sexual parter, get a vaccine.

The eligibility criterion has primary been about controlling cost to focus about the groups where the societal effect is greatest.

I expect it may gradually get broadened, but most places you can also get it privately even if you fall outside those ages.

E.g. in the UK, most private providers will vaccinate you up to 45, and at least some private providers will give you the vaccine with no upper age limit (and a lower age limit of 9) at a relatively reasonable cost (~180 pounds per dose - 2 to 3 doses)

Prioritization makes a lot of sense.

At the same time, guidelines go differently, e.g. "Vaccination is not recommended for everyone older than age 26 years." from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm.... These things propagate among doctors and most of them do not recommend vaccination (contrary to modern research data!)

I receive even e-mails addressed that way on occasion. It's not "dead" but you need to be careful as it can also easily come across as sarcastic, in a "who do you think you are? Let me treat you with overstated importance" kind of way (but then it would generally be followed by other excessive formality and a level of deference you know will seem over-the-top)

I think it's reasonable to think that he deserved more recognition.

But I also recall attending a Techcrunch party at Mike Arringtons house in 2006/7 or so that Engelbart showed up at briefly, and how fun it was to see him instantly surrounded like a celebrity, so I think you're righ he was recognised in the circles where it mattered.

> I think it's reasonable to think that he deserved more recognition.

That I will definitely agree with.

Yeah, I usually stress to employers and clients that I want to be cut off quickly, and usually remind them of what they need to lock me out of when I leave.

Even then, I've had clients for whom things have broken come to me in despair hoping I'd kept access. The day one of them for whatever reason decides to suspect that I was the one to break things, I will be very happy to be able to point to consistently having done what I can to ensure I get locked out.

I've had that, too! Fairly recently, an ex client who sold their business to someone with a full-time IT staff asked me if I had the password to unlock their NAS. No, I didn't. I turned all those over to the IT staff, strongly recommended that they change them, and deleted my local copies. Sorry, but no, I can't help you with that.

Sorry, but 6 months to learn YACC? And 6 months to build a prototype?

Parsing is the easy part of creating a language, and you're seriously overstating the complexity of YACC. You can write your own YACC-like parser generator in far less than the time you claim it takes to learn YACC.

It's not even that much more involved, just tedious. The serialization/deserialization of X requests and responses is fairly straight-forward (it could be more straightforward - it's not a very nice protocol, but it's also not difficult), as the article also shows, and it can be made more compact than that with a couple of helpers.

The biggest pain in doing "raw" X is the async nature of the protocol - to write a robust X client you really want an event-loop driven approach that embraces that like XCB does, instead of trying to paper over it (like Xlib did).

> but then we'd need to measure

Most butter here (and in a number of other countries) have measuring lines on the pack itself in 50g increments, so while I agree with you it's a nuisance to have an open one to deal with, the measurement part is usually a matter of using a knife along the marked line...

If the "certain brands" you refer to don't have those measuring lines, though, then a pox on them...

I'm not sure about that, I've resisted buying those brands and it seems poor form to open them in the supermarket just to check.

Do people here not always have an open pack of butter in their fridge?

We have salted butter for the table, and unsalted for baking. We don't bake often enough to want unopened packs if we can avoid it.

Pre-salted butter is another weird American thing that's completely unnecessary. Butter is also great for cooking and you can keep it for months in the fridge without issues.

It's not really an American thing. It's a pretty wild mix which regions use which how much all across the world (well, across places that commonly use butter obviously)

It's about 50/50 here in the UK. Not at all weird, it's butter for different purposes.

Salted butter is a weird American thing?

It's much easier finding unsalted butter in the US than in Portugal.

In fact, unsalted butter has been the default everywhere I've lived in the US.

Edit: not to mention, say, salted butter being a point of pride for Britany.

For my part: Only around christmas-time, as it's the only time I bake.

And that's a reasonable tradeoff - In 30 years of using Linux, I've only used machines that were actually treated as multi-user on the server side.

There's space for both - some people do need password protected separate users, but not all of us do.

What's stupid about it is that there is zero evidence to suggest it has any chance at achieving a sufficient effect soon enough.

The fact you walk / ride is admirable. We’ve been oversold on personal responsibility.

Milk used to come in glass bottles, buying milk now comes in plastic, very little you can do without a bunch of lobby and active work. We’re inside systems that are society wide, the ways the systems we’re all inside of run very much matters.

Sorry to have been so harsh; your two points didn’t line up in my head and I assume a bot. Please accept my apology, these are strange times.