It could have other interesting implications. Like, no more grinding labels off of chips so a customer has a fighting chance of replacing things. That would be a nice world to live in, I think.
If your immune system develops an antibody based on epitopes that differ in the second strain, I would think you could contract it again. Two people who overcome a virus may ultimately derive different antibodies, and some may do better at matching the class of viruses than others.
I don't think it's very common to be that unlucky in your own body's development of a suitable antibody.
At least, this is my understanding based on a recent microbiology course I took. Immune response is a fantastically complex thing.
Per [1], it was a special toilet designed to support flushing at depth (I guess it makes sense that it's a tough problem to solve when the sub is under pressure). I guess previous iterations of U-boats had to surface to flush. It does seem like keeping it in a tank until the next surface would be a better solution though. I mean, they have to surface for other reasons too, right?
I was going to reply and complain that it was pancreatic cancer. But after fact-checking a bit, I see that fruits and fruit juices seem to have been linked to pancreatic cancer[1], and there may be some truth in your claim. TIL.
This comes about because people can't get past the idea that art is a natural gift, whereas it is in most part a learnable skill. My thinking on this changed after watching the Great Course's "How to Draw" lectures [1]. Dr. Brody explains most people don't realize that with effort and practice they can learn to draw effectively; that it's not something you're born with.
If you accept that it can be decomposed into small skills, which can be practiced, and aggregated to create effective art, then it can be tested and graded.
Many people will say "I draw like a six-year old" but that's really because that's around the time when they stopped. Some people learn faster the skills faster than others but that's the same with math or science or any other skill.
The english alphabet is made up of 52 drawings that billions of people have learned. Everyone can draw them in some form because they practiced and it was required in school. Those same skills can be used in drawing anything. It's similar from being taught addition and then working your way up to calculus.
Having those skills doesn't necessarily produce great art but everyone can certainly learn how to draw or paint or sculpt. There's really no magic there.
When people say they can’t draw, they aren’t referring to being able to draw a simple geometric shape like a letter. They mean a portrait or a still life or landscape or something.
It's the same skill, just a different degree of practice. Depending on your skill level drawing involves a lot of simple geometric shapes and then using those shapes as a point of reference to draw the final result. The reason why art seems so difficult is because people don't see the intermediate steps which were taken, they only see the final result.
That's not what I'm saying. I understand they are saying they can't draw a portrait but what I'm saying is the only reason is because the skills usually weren't taught past a certain level. Those same geometric shapes are used in the construction of everything else.
I think this "different language" concept is in many ways either revisionist history or scope creep. Originally, Larry said he wanted to remove historical warts, clean up the language design, and etc. I think the apocalyptic and exegetical snowball rolled faster than expected, and after the mushroom cloud dissipated and the dust cleared it was easier to say, "Oh, it's a completely different language."
- revisionist history. For most intent and purposes, Perl 5 and Perl 6
are two different languages and pretending otherwise helps nobody. In fact,
it just creates misunderstandings and misplaced expectations. But why didn't
they change the language's name a lot sooner? I honestly don't know. If many
of the people involved in the project would've acted sooner, things
such as clarifying that Perl 5 and Perl 6 are actively-developed, independent and
different languages, even when the names suggest otherwise,
would be things of the past. Nonetheless, even now there's the alias Raku,
the name Perl 6 is the most used and probably will be for time to come. Will it catch on?
- scope creeps. As you state, Wall's goal was "to remove historical warts,
clean up the language design, etc" which he deemed "the community's
rewrite of Perl and of the community." but as we all know, things changed
along the way (e.g., untimely delivery) and Perl 6 turned out to be a total
different language to Perl 5 or to what many people envisioned as the
replacement for Perl 5.
If they wanted it to be considered a separate language, they should have changed the name. Perl 5 is not a different language than Perl 4 or Perl 3. Changing the meaning of the version number at that point is just hostile to being understood.
It is both, but it is the only correct reflection of the current reality. Trying to pretend it's the same language will only end in (further) confusion and disappointment.
I kind of put vscode in the same category as notepad++. Actually, as a text editor, I think N++ has some nice features that vscode doesn't (like macros, I think).
