• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 31st, 2023

help-circle




  • Haha also yearly for me. I have actually written a small utility in rust that interacts with mysql, but it was basically just transposing python to rust, plus it’s hacky as hell and I didn’t really learn anything.

    I’ve stuck that rust book in the “one day” silo, along with the guitar, learning French, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep. One day.






  • As always, if a headline is in the form of a question, the answer is: No.

    As it was a few years ago, the only “cure” is bone marrow transplants from somebody with the gene variant that is resistant to HIV. And bone marrow transplants, since in their application need to wipe out your existing immune system, are riskier than just continuing to be on ART.

    The other potential cures in the article have only been tested on monkeys and mice, and even if they end up working on humans that’s many, many years away.

    The article is kind of a waste of time if you already know about the bone marrow application, as expected. Actually, that’s kind of harsh, it’s mostly positive, which we need more of, but from a science news perspective there’s not much there.