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Cake day: March 28th, 2025
  • Ether@aussie.zonetoClimate@slrpnk.net•Event With Links to [ie: funded by] Oil Industry Teaches [US] Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science [ie: lies to them about it]
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for sharing the article! I don’t know whether it’s possible to edit the title, but if it is, consider changing each use of “e.g.” (exempli gratia) to “i.e.” (id est) or “read:” (expression meaning the message that you believe should be read from between the lines) as I believe these changes might better communicate your intent. Thanks for adding the clarifying commentary to the headline though, it’s certainly more eye-catching and to the point than the publishers un-annotated version!

    (This whole comment is assuming that these are your additions and not simply an earlier version of the headline. The version I saw through the link didn’t have them so I assumed they’re yours but they could’ve been removed by the publisher for the same reasons I suggested editing your title - if possible and you agree with my suggestions)

  • Ether@aussie.zonetoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explainedEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This was a really interesting read for me as someone who’s done immunology at uni, but might be harder to understand for others. However it’s still communicated really clearly so I would recommend anyone who’s interested to read it as I’m sure that the authors have done a good enough job to prevent education being a barrier to entry.

    I’ll disclaim the rest of this comment by saying I gave the article a casual read and am putting minimal effort into this summary so am at risk of mischaracterising the article. It gave a more in depth explanation to why the Astra Zeneca COVID19 vaccine was dropped in a lot of places. Previously I just had a shallow understanding of an increased risk of dangerous blood clots, but the article did a great job of explaining more in depth what caused those blood clots (the development of unexpected autoimmune platelet antibodies). It also talked about the subsequent investigations and studies into what caused these reactions. One of the reasons it was such a rare side effect, 1 in 200,000 iirc from the article, is because it relied on both a rare side effect of the type of virus that they engineered to carry the vaccine into your body and a rare mutation in patients’ B Lymphocytes (an important white blood cell from your adaptive immune system that produces protective antibodies). It is standard in epidemiology to measure incidence, risk etc per 100,000 people, so the fact that this is only 1 in every 200,000 shows how rare this is, but because so many people were getting vaccinated against COVID the medical community still decided the risk was too great.

    Sorry for any errors, hope my comment was helpful/interesting!

  • Ether@aussie.zonetoProgramming@programming.dev•Materials for Learning C? (for contributing to the kernel later)
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    7 months ago

    The default answer to everyone who has ever asked this question (including me last year) is to read K&R C, the 2nd edition of the original book published by C’s inventor.

    I wouldn’t recommend powering from start to end like a normal book, I wouldn’t even recommend a hard copy, but it’s a comprehensive reference and the appendeces etc are good. I haven’t read much of it at all tbh but it’s nice to have. It’s still being sold but you can get it from a tonne of libraries etc. I got a pdf from a “friend”.

    Otherwise, I recommend watching and following along with Free Code Camp’s several hour C tutorial. Their editor of choice is so outdated I was’t able to install a working copy, but using JetBrains Clion or VS Code or Visual Studio etc etc are all good replacements.

    I’m still new to C so hopefully someone will come along who’s been doing it since the 1900’s.

    The Malloc and Nick Barker YouTube channels also have some excellent C videos that you might like.