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Same 😆

The absolute number of hospitalisations is all I am really concerned about.

Ah, right, I had immediately converted their phrasing of "a greater health risk" to mean 'greater severity of illness' (on the TV reports they'd been saying that directly). Now I see where you were coming from, that it's a greater health risk to the public as a whole👍

There’s no evidence JN.1 poses a greater health risk than other COVID-19 variants.

In NSW there is about 30% higher hospital admissions compared to previous wave.

Yeah, but that could be due to a greater number of cases, rather than the severity of illness. Very difficult to tell now, because we no longer have reliable figures for case numbers to be able to determine whether there's a higher rate of hospitalisation per case.

However it seems to have peaked due to Xmas (but not NYE, I suppose because that is for younger people).

See figure 1 https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/respiratory-surveillance-20240106.pdf

Hospitalisations can also trail infections by 2 weeks, and that data only includes up to the 7th of Jan, so I don't think we can be confident about the effect of NYE yet.

You're correct, but I think most people would be more inclined to characterise Dutton as 'mashed' rather than 'hot' 😆

Void - https://voidlinux.org/

HP, as well as being hostile to its customers, is also complicit in the Israeli occupation, and is a major target of the BDS movement: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

Don't buy HP products.

"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linux'."

So yeah, he pronounces 'Linus' like 'LEE-noose', and 'Linux' like 'LEE-nooks'. (Roughly, anyway. It should get the point across for most English speakers, I'm not at a computer to do a more-correct IPA transcription right now.)

"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linux'."

"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linux'."

There's a nice list of this feature by language on the Wikipedia page for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator#Examples_by_languages

Yeah, you're quite correct, it's not exactly equivalent, I just went on auto-pilot because it's used so much for that purpose 🤖

It's much closer to being a true null-coalescing operator than 'OR' operators in other languages though, because there's only two values that are falsy in Ruby: nil and false. Some other languages treat 0 and "" (and no doubt other things), as falsy. So this is probably the reason Ruby has never added a true null-coalescing operator, there's just much fewer cases where there's a difference.

It's going to drive me mad now I've seen it, though 😆 That's usually the case with language features, though, you don't know what you're missing until you see it in some other language!

Ruby:

a || b

(no return as last line is returned implicitly, no semicolon)

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this is not strictly equivalent, as it will return b if a is false as well as if it's nil (these are the only two falsy values in Ruby).

There are new claims being published.

Recent article: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

(Euronews MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/)

Yeah, I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted for being against the rules.

Here's a recent article from an actual news organisation: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

And their MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

It seems like it's being grown in a lot of places now. Many people in this thread have mentioned Oregon (USA), and I know it's also being grown in Tasmania (Australia).