sci-hub proper hasn't been updated since it's indefinite pause in december 2020.
Alternatives are of variable success depending on field. It might be better for CS/Math, but medicine and life sciences it's pretty bad.
Sci-Hub complied with the order with the intent to actually argue their case (and possibly establish a legal justification for the site), rather than just defying the order and continuing to play cat-and-mouse with every authority.
Nothing lasts forever, but the model of buying a paper for 40$ from Elsevier isn't much better.
Depending on the field there are other sources, but still a hit rate is about 85-90%.
> Python is something I fundamentally love and use frequently, but I'm not the first to notice the terrible UX when it comes to managing different versions of Python itself, and its packages.
Python’s ecosystem looks like a trash fire and sits along nicely with JavaScript (they burn brightly in subtly different ways).
Neither are concerned with adoption at this point though.
> Maybe open source needs to work on attracting non-coders to its projects
I think Python is proof that the economic realities are more nuanced than this.
Nope. Windows CE was more in the old school “smartphone” (pre iPhone) and PDA, marketed along with a baseline hardware profile and called Pocket PC. Also used in a number of industrial PDAs (think postal service and warehouse scanners), set top boxes.
And then various and sundry embedded devices, but usually these tended to be smaller, often battery form factor and/or headless. While x86 a target more often than not, ARM or MIPS. Windows CE was early on pushed for video games on the Sega Dreamcast and a short lived smart car OS called Auto PC.
Signage, ATMs (if they weren’t OS/2), and test equipment more often ran bonafide Windows NT on commodity x86.
An absolutely irrelevant detail here. While there was an additional flourish of obfuscation of questionable prudence, the attack was not at all dependent on that. It’s a library that justifies all kinds of seemingly innocuous test data. There were plenty of creative ways to smuggle in selective backdoors to the build without resorting to a compromised tar file. The main backdoor mechanism resided in test data in the git repo, the entire compromise could have.
> Just want to add to what other people are saying, not only did VB6 support relative positioning
Did it? I know .NET WinForms does with Control.Anchor, but that is VB.NET, not VB6.
It’s been many years but I don’t recall any method for that in VB6. As someone else noted you could handle the resize handler and move things around yourself.
It would be good to point out William Makis is a disgraced, long unlicensed (pre pandemic) physician and anti-vax grifter, a quack.
Quite telling he still claims affiliation with an institution he was terminated from nearly a decade ago.
He worked at a cancer center as a radiologist but continues to misrepresent his expertise as an oncologist. Real piece of work.
Glancing at this article you have posted, I am genuinely intrigued and look forward to reading it today or tomorrow.
The thing about the IgG4 topic overall, is it's not just a small handful of papers that are discussing it, along with other immune issues that have resulted from the mRNA shots.
> It would be good to point out William Makis is a disgraced
Can you give us a solid citation on exactly how? I would like to see this.
> He worked at a cancer center as a radiologist but continues to misrepresent his expertise as an oncologist.
This means he had a front row seat to how cancer develops in patients, how cancer is successfully neutralized (or not) in patients, and also the internal politics and realpolitik imperatives of such a place. Given that cancer is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry, and a patient cured or prevented from having the disease in the first place is not profitable, unironically his work history could provide insight into how institutions that employ fleets of oncologists actually operate.
Dunking on nlohmann for performance is pretty easy. I’m interested in what the value proposition is over one of rapidjson, glaze, or simdjson (all of which have some amount of SIMD or SWAR optimization, and more importantly SAX and the use of something other than std::map)
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