Some takeaways:
- Metaanalyses are very cool.
- Putting too much emphasis on costly large-scale randomized controlled trials gives an advantage to new and expensive drugs over established out-of-patent drugs.
- Ivermectin should be approved both as a treatment and as a preventative for COVID-19 (but see post #1099).
Summary: America (or rather, the American left) dominates European politics, of which there is little nowadays. The West as a whole is highly homogeneous and the lack of diversity in opinion is hurting progress and making Western democracy itself vulnerable to attacks by authoritarianism.
He is not impressed by the German version.
A JDK downloader and updater.
With the growing number of JDK distributions this looks like a useful thing to have.
A 3D game engine written in Rust.
If you declare an automatic module name, then your library can be used on the module path without fear of it suddenly breaking when you start actively using the module system.
It’s virtually no work at all. Just do it.
An economics blog.
Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes.
A book on the Java module system.
A meticulously designed monospace bitmap font. Perfect for your text editor or IDE when you are on a low-resolution display.
An interview with David Shor, Barack Obamaโs presidential campaign data scientist.
One point he makes: Democrats have tended to win elections when they have focused on issues rather than ideology in their messaging. Cases in point: Hillary Clintonโs defeat in 2016, Bernie Sandersโ strong showing in 2016 versus his weaker performance in 2020.
A tool that lets you explore the JavaScript UI components in your application (or component library) in isolation, one at at a time, with mock data, and provides a way to document use cases and functionality.
A perfect fit for WebComponents.
Size and loading speed comparisons of various WebComponent utility libraries and frameworks, all the way from tiny to huge.
An article on ๆ ชๅผไผ็คพ้ๅ็ต (Kabushikigaisha Kongougumi), a Japanese company that was founded in 578 and is still in operation today. Their speciality is the construction and maintenance of Buddhist temples.