Heh "far right" in Canada would be America's Democratic party. America's "far right" is straight up blossoming fascism.
MrGG
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As always, if a headline is in the form of a question, the answer is: No.
As it was a few years ago, the only "cure" is bone marrow transplants from somebody with the gene variant that is resistant to HIV. And bone marrow transplants, since in their application need to wipe out your existing immune system, are riskier than just continuing to be on ART.
The other potential cures in the article have only been tested on monkeys and mice, and even if they end up working on humans that's many, many years away.
The article is kind of a waste of time if you already know about the bone marrow application, as expected. Actually, that's kind of harsh, it's mostly positive, which we need more of, but from a science news perspective there's not much there.
I am also interested in alternatives as I still use Clockify. But I also need to rant about Clockify: oh my God it is so damn buggy. Whenever I use my VPN on Windows to connect to the office (split routing, so only traffic destined for the office goes over the VPN, not all traffic) Clockify goes in and out of "No internet connection..." for 5-10 seconds. It's also constantly logging me out, and will sometimes pop up a ton of "new update available" dialogue windows at the same time.
It also doesn't have great rounding options. And one of my clients has a tiered billing structure (X dollars up to a certain number of hours, Y dollars for anything over that in the month) which I don't think I can track in Clockify at all, so I end up doing all of that manually every month.
I thought about looking for FOSS alternatives but haven't gotten around to it yet. Also thought about doing my own FOSS thing with a paid hosted / support component, but I don't have much cross-platform GUI dev experience.
That's actually pretty neat!
I said a few, friend 😛 I agree it's not a big deal, but for developers that are totally entrenched in that ecosystem it might be alarming. Hence OP's post.
That is disturbing. From my perspective, anyway. There are already so many great (and more appropriate) stacks for web backends, why Frankenstein a Frankenstein into it?
Actually, if you really care about quality and types on the front end rust+wasm is not a bad idea 🤔
Now that I've typed that and read it back, were people using TypeScript for anything other than front-end web dev?
Expect to see more posts like this. With a few projects announcing they're dropping support for TypeScript we're going to have developers worrying that this tech that they've sunk so much time into is suddenly becoming obsolete, so they're going to evangelise hard in favour of it as a defence strategy. Same thing happened when Perl went out of flavour.
Yeah, that lack of startup capital is why I'm not doing it already. A bunch of us are saving to pool money together to self-finance. You can also just start with a couple of nice trailers (which you wouldn't be able to charge as much for, of course) and gradually work towards full cottages. Some cottages in areas I frequent around here are just trailers and are still going for like $300 CAD a night in the middle of September.
At least insurance should protect you against total loss?
Exactly, cottage rentals for income. To supplement farming and other ventures, anyway.
I'm lucky that my work is 99.9% remote, so as long as I can acquire a stable internet connect I can continue to work out there if needed. Existing entirely in the woods is incredibly appealing.
Where's my ring?!
Also, we're all working poor. Wealth has transferred to the hands of a few. Of course some of us have slightly more than others, but from the perspective of those with all the wealth we're all just living on pennies.
I'm sure you have SOME kind of skills that could be marketable if massaged the right way, no?
Total tangent, but: the famous Stamets from Risa is also Canadian? 😀