I will go against the trend here and give a big thanks to the whole Julia team for all their wonderful work.

I've been a heavy Julia user for +4 years and adore this ecosystem. I use Julia for parallel computing, modeling and solving large-scale optimization problems, stochastic simulations, etc. During the last year or so, creating plots and dashboards has become much easier too.

Julia makes it surprisingly easy to go from "idea" to "large-scale simulation". I've used it in production and just for prototyping/research. I can engage with Julia as deeply as I would with C code or as "lightly" as I engage with Matlab/R.

I'm excited to see what comes next.

I’m not sure if you are being ironic, but Benjamin Franklin was a pretty good composer: https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/polyphonic-archive/article/ben...

As a career musician I’ve never heard a piece of Benjamin Franklin’s music in my life. I didn’t even know that he composed until this comment. The link you provided has no examples of his music to listen to or to read.

Without any examples of his work it’s hard to believe that they are of any consequence. I don’t think anyone can just write a piece of music, but you don’t present a strong case that anything he wrote is even remotely worthwhile.

Hell, Bruce Willis has a band that’s released records. I just don’t see any reason to think they’re worth listening to over anyone else.

I'm not being ironic. Your article says he composed two pieces and his instrument skills were "modest". I suspect most people are modest at the hobbies they dabble in. That doesn't make a "universal genius".

Abortion restrictions do not reduce abortion rates. They only reduce safe abortions. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/21/health/abortion-restricti...

How about faculty? Professors are, on average, more than 40 years old. Do you think they should teach in person?

During lecture at least, students are always at least 6 feet away from the professor. Moving to and from classes is a different story, though.

6' is nowhere near enough distance to be safe indoors in a room with potentially up to hundreds of other people in it. The virus can stay airborne for hours in enclosed indoor spaces.

If you have a lecture hall of 100 people that meets regularly each week, and the people in it aren't wearing good masks, it's practically a guarantee that by the end of the semester everyone there will have gotten it.

Yep. Don't forget about air conditioning, as well as shared facilities such as restrooms, break rooms, cafeterias, and so on.

And don't forget _bad_ air conditioning / poor ventilation in old buildings, with which universities are replete.

The 6' rule isn't a magic bubble of impenetrability. It's just a rule of thumb that (1) most people can easily interpret and enforce and (2) is expected to reduce the rate of spread "enough" to make it worth enforcing.

Likewise masks don't make you safe, they make you safer, etc...