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A traditional vaccine introduces a neutralised version of the virus (or more typically the antigens - the bits of the virus that can trigger an immune response) into your system and then your body, through trial and error, creates antibodies to attack the cardboard cutouts of the enemy that have been introduced.
The RNA vaccine, by comparison, delivers the instructions on how to build the antigens instead of the antigens themselves. It's not the instructions for the full virus, just fragments (eg the spike protein) that will trigger the necessary antibodies to be created to tackle the antigens. What the cells create are just pieces of junk, really. The assumption is these bits are totally harmless inside the body.
It's like you throw a bunch of blue prints into the workshop that creates proteins and hope that someone in the workshop picks up the instructions and starts building. We can do better, however, by throwing the instructions into the planning room of the cell's factory, instead of the factory floor (so to speak) to give it a better chance that someone will actually start building these pieces.
Basically there's a serious lack of oversight, resource allocation, accountability and focus going on in our cells. The minute you give them an interesting distraction they grab it and run with it.
Kinda like software developers I guess.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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friend of mine. PhD in MicroBiology, posted this on the FB. I trust him
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How mRNA Vaccines Work
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Did CListCtrl really win the vote...
BY A LOT?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Nope. Hugo Chavez won - even though he's dead! 
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Nope. That's just Liquid Nitrogen.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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CHoneyCtrl is better. It already knows what you want so you don't have to click anything.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Is it better if you don't combine cataphatic interpretation with apophatic interpretation?
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Where are you stalking me from? 
I visit some backwater places on the Internet. Well, GP isn't that backwater but their politics are atrocious. I get along with them because the atlantic separates us.
Cataphasis would be an interesting way to work with code. Code will do anything it wants short of what it says it won't do. Sounds like multithreaded code to me.
Real programmers use butterflies
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MMFA..... My code name is adjacent to AMNZ
modified 24-Nov-20 11:05am.
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Ah hello. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hi..
I edited the last message. It's alphabetical.
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How sweet!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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honey the codewitch wrote: so you don't have to click anything.
I heard that you don't even need to start the application. It already knew what you wanted to do and did it for you.
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Quote: Real programmers use butterflies
I consider myself to be a real programmer, but where do I buy pants with a butterfly? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You send the butterflies to get you pants, albeit *very* indirectly.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I almost forget about CListCtrl!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nor did I.
But this provides counts: Site Map[^] so I knocked up a quick C# to find out: 63343.
And a quick check says that doesn't include Tips* (so Projects probably aren't there either) If my authorship history is anything to go by, that would add a significant digit to that, at least: 17 articles to 88 tips.
That's a significant body of knowledge right there - not at all bad for the age of the site, given that most of 'em are pretty damn good quality!
* Because I looked in a small sub category for a specific tip of mine and it isn't listed
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: so I knocked up a quick C# to find out
In .NET5 without a main() function I hope!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Nah - I have a WinForms OneOffJobs app I throw code into and recycle when I have a on-the-spot job to code / test / try.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have a WinForm program called "Test" (good name, eh?) which is full of commented-out code. Anything I want to test on a one-off basis goes in there and then gets commented out in case I want to steal bits back later. That project is about 15 years old and has been updated more times that I can count.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Wow, two others who do that. No one I work with seems to or, at least, won't admit to it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Time to sell some on Black Friday!
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Interesting.
Monetizing the freely given work could be possible, if done ethically.
Like publishing a "Best of CP" compendium perhaps. The articles that have stood the test of time.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day*. 
(*Shout out to Beau of the Fifth Column.)
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I knocked up a quick C#
In America this translates to "Had a quick fling with C# and got her pregnant".
And yes, I have been told on countless occasions here at this site, that Americans do not speak or write English, correctly.
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Slacker007 wrote: that Americans do not speak or write English, correctly.
FTFY
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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