Based on the earlier discussion, I have to wonder why C requires forward declarations if it's using a compiler that performs 4 passes and has dependency checking that even other languages defer (and compile) to. Is it standardization?
Based on the literature I've skimmed or watched, I find the correlation between NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) and T2D interesting. It seems that fat is distributed in different people to different sites (subcutaneous, visceral, liver) at different rates. Fat in the liver can result in NAFLD. In some cases, there seems to be elevated liver enzymes (AST/ALT) for months or years prior to overt diabetic symptoms in people who also had an A1C level considered typical for prediabetes.
The following article describes research for substances that appear to protect pancreatic beta cells. It mentions that one of the substances, adipsin, is correlated with subcutaneous fat.
Likely, many people with T2D have excess fat regardless of where it's distributed in the body, but in places like Japan, which is claimed to have a 10% rate of T2D despite an obesity rate of 3% (probably more relevant if measured as subcutaneous fat, i'm not really sure how they measured it), it could make for interesting speculations for some of the mechanisms leading to development of T2D.
Sideshow (actual) geeks used this trick to keep chickens from wriggling when they bit their heads off. Heard so from my dad. Not sure where he heard it. Avid reader, but he was a journalist in the 1970s and early 1980s. He might have heard it from someone he interviewed. Maybe Red Skelton, as he would have been alive in an era that allowed it, and would have needed work in either a sideshow or circus.
I think that even the idea of climate change turns many people off. It's likely not a binary choice, but altruism and egoism play a role in people's opinions about big issues. Whether it's imagination or experience, the altruists believe in something in addition to a sense of self that overrides repugnance or disgust to situations which lack an obvious means of individual control or guaranteed end results.
From the legal documents I skimmed, it looks like the state hospital association, state medical association, and american medical association were on the side of the defense. The SC chief justice and an associate justice dissented. I mentioned this to a friend who is a doctor, and he doesn't believe the AMA would take a position.
Edit: Nevermind. The AMA's interest is that it is against abusive legislation against physicians. They felt the facts were recited more favorably to the prosecution.
The app itself is entertaining, but a lot of false alarms. My favorite so far was a county worker who tripped my camera with his...i want to say water collection tool...from off camera before hanging a doorknob sign warning of mosquitoes. I took a screen capture while at work and zoomed in on his shirt to see the familiar county symbol.
Most of the crimes are petty...the older generation doesn't always lock their cars..., although one guy shot up a barbershop a mile or two away, killing several barbers. Good to know. Also, I know why that police chopper is circling or what caused that fire in the distance. My neighbors are pretty good at being on the DL, but this is a lot faster. Not as good as a scanner, but my local PD refuses to be on the internet scanner apps anyway.
Not to say that even the police reports get it right. Shoplifting and armed robbery aren't the same.
My sense is that unless content creators get views for calling out the behavior of other content creators, they risk losing likes and advertising revenue. Then they become the political agenda guy, and no longer the comic book movie critic, chef, video game expert, or theremin playing guy they were trying to portray. I'd like extremism resolved through naming and shaming, a living exile ideally, but I don't think drafting popular YouTubers to do so is completely realistic. Black Mirror, here we come?
Ideally, public naming and shaming should be enough. Unfortunately, unless you get views for calling out bad behavior, doing so can cost you likes. This might have some content creators hesitant to act. A corporation might have more latitude, so maybe they risk the backlash instead.
Trying to think through the alternative presented:
If the application is the only way to access the data, it would appear consistent until it wasn't. Assuming two application processes, process one would not immediately see the mistake it made, but process two would see it on startup. So, an audit table might be a good idea to see which process (or user) made which change, including the original erroneous entry, and any change needed to remedy the failed constraint. If the first process is still active, the second process could warn the first process, but that leaves a lot to chance. In comparison, once in place, relational database constraints are always "on" and enforced globally. Enforcement on a per transaction basis might provide a consistent slowdown, but still be preferable to a long startup time for checking the integrity of a large dataset with potentially many errors. In order to handle increasing startup times given boot time integrity checking, you may have to partition the data into more recently and less recently accessed data. In that case, you may find inconsistencies in reporting where the application only touched an earlier set of data once, and didn't enforce integrity checking. On the other hand, you could be presented with an opportunity to remedy the data before you can receive the report. If the entries that are permitted change over time, you would need some kind of date ranges on those values, so that the person receiving the report doesn't enter historically inaccurate data while fixing their own report.
