Last year during Germany’s Covid peak about 1 in 12 people was infectious at any given moment. It got so bad that Germany experienced negative economic growth because of record illness. Record disability is, of course, to be expected.
@ironchamber yeah, just jumping in and saying: "hey I'd like to help, here's what I'm thinking of doing - does that sound good?” will likely work well!
@ironchamber there's also the Bytecode Alliance Zulip where you can jump into if you have any direct questions or want to bounce ideas around - all the jco folks are in there ^^
Legit question: why do data centers use vast amounts of water? It’s for cooling right?
I’m wondering why it isn’t possible to use heat pumps — potentially even at scale, to achieve cooling? I’m legitimately interested in why water is being used, and why alternatives are hard to deploy.
Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.
HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.
@ironchamber Honestly? If I’m writing Rust code, I just pull the `wasi` package from crates.io. Or if for some reason I’m using a custom interface I either copy-paste it or use git submodules.
Now that that's out of the way, hopefully we'll start seeing governments act on implementing clean air protocols. More research is nice (hi Far-UVC), but the focus of governments worldwide really ought to be to roll out mechanical ventilation where possible, and HEPA filtration everywhere else. This should be standard.
This is probably the biggest release to date: it introduces the `ConcurrentStream` API, which makes it trivial to create structured asynchronous concurrent pipelines. Things like fan-in/fan-out processing becomes trivial using this.
Just took me 5 or so years to author; but it's finally here! :D
caught what is likely to be a norovirus abroad - happy I prepared for this eventuality and packed dissolvable electrolyte tablets - so at least I won’t be dehydrated
most likely vector by which I caught it: breakfast buffet. while I’ve taken every precaution not to catch Covid (and to my knowledge: I haven’t), I did get my food from the communal food line for two days in a row now.
Incubation time is 12-48hrs, so the timing would check out too.
on my list of things not to do again: no more buffets of any kind, ty.
I believe I can largely trust service workers to apply proper hygiene standards. Placing that same trust into random adults and their children was probably not the best decision making on my part.
48hrs later: partner is also exhibiting norovirus symptoms. Arguably worse than mine. Despite our best efforts not to, they almost certainly caught it from me.
Hand washing and disinfecting surfaces may not do much to prevent the spread of Covid; it certainly does help prevent the spread of contact diseases like norovirus. It’s on a very different scale though (a bad day or so, vs potentially bad rest of your life). But would still not recommend getting.
Again: if you’re on an airplane, you should be wearing a high-filtration mask. It’s sound practice for the entire flight, but especially before takeoff and after landing.
Here are the CO2 measurements from a flight I took yesterday - the two peaks are from embarking and disembarking, showing the plane’s ventilation systems being shut off. This is unfortunately a frequent practice.
Jco is a native Javascript WebAssembly toolchain and runtime built for WebAssembly Components and WASI 0.2. It can take WebAssembly Components written in any language, and run them natively in Node.js - and in the future in the browser too!
This is something I've helped build over the past few months, and I'm really excited we've been able to ship a 1.0 release!
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