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Sure, happy to explain.

I currently own a Logitech Pro Gaming Mouse (the wired version, https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-mice/pro-her...) and I'm very happy with it. However, it has a USB-A connector, and so I'm forced to carry and use a small adapter whenever I want to connect it to any 2016+ MacBook Pro, since they only have USB-C ports.

If only there was an identical mouse but with a USB-C connector, I could stop having to carry a USB-C/A adapter with me. All my other peripherals have USB-C connectors, so the mouse is the only thing holding me back.

It's not a big deal, but I am looking forward to being able to have all devices be able to connect via USB-C and be able to carry/own one fewer thing. It'd be slightly simpler and bring me a little joy.
“Of course, it's also airborne“

This is new to me — I was under the impression that it could spread by droplets, but hadn’t heard anything definitive about being airborne?
Intel Extreme Masters XIV yesterday, GDC today, next one is May TwitchCon Amsterdam.
Yes, the article in reference mentioned other developers harboring conspiracies like ' secret PlayStation libraries' supposedly at naughty dog's disposal, but actual credit by the developers was to their use of Lisp as a secret low level language, though admitting they also bent\broke some rules in the process.
Come back to the ground. It is easier if you take some steps to evolve. Find a job in a bar, spa, shop, cleaning, or so. Those jobs do not require a CV or ref letter. Then, you may get enough money to pay a room or basement. Once you are self sufficient, work hard to get further in you plan.
Actually the Washington Post broke the story (according to the AP).

According to the Washington Post, the people from the CDC who interacted with the quarantined patients all had full protective gear.

Allegedly there were social workers from HHS also sent to help assist who were not trained in how to don full gear and so were wearing just masks and gloves.

Note this all happened back at the end of January. So it seems unlikely that anyone was actually exposed, unless you think that there are HHS workers who got sick and it was kept out of the news.
Can someone explain how FCC fines work? I’ve always been confused by them. Are the companies breaking a law, or just some kind of regulation they agreed to? And if so, why does it take the FCC so long to do anything? It’s been well known for the years that mobile carriers have been selling location. It almost seems like the FCC lets it go on as long as they can in order to levy as big a fine as possible. Or am I just being cynical?
Not disagreeing. While some readers got bored (understood), others got more interested at the detail to which this was being taken and enjoying the care of discussion.

I’ve never programmed in Go from a vague sense of these issues. Hey, it confirms my uninformed biases!
Has this ever been done for any pandemic virus?

We have a "flu season" where hospitals are flooded every year. From what I read, there's not even a strong immunity after being infected with this virus, so won't people just get re-infected?

It doesn't seem like there's any version of this where things are not terrible for a while. I hope I'm wrong though.
The post I responded to said the fine “should be significant compared to what they can afford”. This isn’t the standard economic formula (which I agree with). It’s a different standard that would have companies that can afford more pay larger fines.
Facebook uses Ocaml in the form of Reason, they're a pretty big deal. I think they also use Haskell?

Lots of financial companies, including some serious heavy-hitters like Bloomberg, use functional languages like Haskell and Ocaml. I suppose the blockchain folks are pretty enamoured with it too.

Plenty of big companies like Twitter use Scala, which is plenty functional.

Even on the front-end side: JavaScript was directly inspired by Scheme; TypeScript was hugely inspired by languages like Ocaml and Haskell; React and Redux's inspirations fall directly out of the functional programming community.

Rust, out of Mozilla, is also a descendent of the functional programming world; its compiler was originally written in Ocaml.

Just the other day there was a conversation on here about type-system enforced optionals. Almost every "modern" language has grown these in the past decade, often including monadic combinators to help minimize boilerplate. All of this comes from what ML and Haskell were doing as many as 30 years ago.

Speaking of monadic combinators: these are also frequently used in modern languages with async libraries to avoid what the JS community termed "callback hell".

TBH if you've developed software in the past ten years, it's unlikely you haven't been hugely affected by what the FP community has been doing, and it's not impossible that watching what they're doing now give you a glimpse of where mainstream programming will be a decade or more down the line.
Reading this reminds me of situations for Anti-vax, religion vs science, red vs blue, flat earthers vs.... the rest of us?

Whatever their "idea" is, is infallible. Minds cannot be changed with logic or debate when clearly wrong/false.

A belief is unbreakable if the person holding it wishes it to be so. Discussing such topics over the internet will never lead to yielding any ground.

Perhaps at the core of it is the fear of being rejected or wrong. Or that their world as they know it is crumbling and keeping it together is of the highest requirement + cost.

I keep hope for these discussions in that people can change. As cheesy as it is to say, I've only seen people really change when it's with love. That we reach out the other side and simply love the person first. Daryl Davis is my hero on this[0].

Unrealistic in a forum about cryptographic schemes, but it hurts for me to read the circles the author plays himself into.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
HIMSS 2020, a conference of ~45000 attendees from 90+ countries is still scheduled to go forward at Orlando Convention Center March 9-13.

I was actually blocked by HIMSS PR folks on Twitter for inquiring about their preparedness plan... which is inadequate to say the least. To top it off, HHS Secretary Alex Azar is a keynote speaker, so now cancelling or major attendees/sponsors pulling out is also a political issue.

This could actually be a catalyst for major transmission. It’s ridiculous.
Having used go full-time for the last 3.5 years, this article didn’t feel like a twist of the knife. Yet all the language evolution efforts I’ve seen in the last two years make me think that early Go was, mixaphorically speaking, lightning in a bottle that won’t strike twice.

- I’ve never hit the file system stuff. We all use Linux; all our code runs on Linux. I’m curious who the people are who are using Go on Windows.

- Network timeouts are a stupid gotcha I first hit about six months into my go tenure. You can set read/write timeouts on the Transport that’s used by the connection though; not sure why that isn’t covered.

- The wall clock time thing is new to me and looks crazy complicated; I’m angry that it’s something I have to know about now. It’s bad enough that time.Time operator == and .Equals() behave mostly but not quite the same.

Something that’s not in the article: the tooling situation (autocomplete, source navigation, and so forth) IS STILL WORSE THAN IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO. The old tools were perfect but were never updated for module support. gopls is still an unfinished mess; last week I had to write a script that auto-kills it if it uses more than 3GB of memory.
> (Exceptions might be things like General Relativity and initial Bitcoin paper)

If we look at this in a strict sense then those are implementations as well, just theoretical ones.

I consider a scientific pager, a thorough technical specification or a rich, well-structured design document not 'just' ideas anymore. So in a sense those examples actually don't relativize your point, but strengthen it.

Ideas are usually much more vague, they point in a general direction. Another interesting fact about them is that they are often incremental, small and pragmatic, but they are just as much ideas as the big, exciting ones.

Smaller, more practical ideas are my personal bread and butter. They also need to be taken apart, composed into a sound plan and implemented, but they don't ask for much.
I think China has indeed handled it really well and I doubt if many other countries would have been so effective. On Dec 31, the first case reported and the virus didn't even have a name. The first death didn't even occur until Jan 10. By Jan 22, the death toll was still under 20 and China was able to seal off city 3 times larger than LA the next day. They did create two 1000 bed hospital is literally a weekend from scratch. At this point, virus DNA was already analyzed and possible medicine already underway testing. BioArxiv had over 30 papers posted by this date mostly from Chinese scientists.

In most other countries, I think such speedy research funding, rapid construction and drastic measures would have been challenged in courts or would have been far slower passing through the long chains of approvals or simply delayed due to critics from political oppositions.
We see major cancellations of trade shows and similar.

At the same time, cademic conferences are moving full speed ahead... Including in areas with community transmission. Publish-or-perish becomes publish-and-perish.
FWIW. CD-ROM has stronger FEC than CD-DA. It still won't protect you from bit rot, particularly on writable media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#CD-ROM_format
What about a separate tanker car? Seems like that would solve the range issue.

What about biodisel or syngas made with renewable energy instead of hydrogen? Still carbon neutral operations.
If anyone wants another rabbit hole, reading through the Open Street Map Foundation resolution for the indefinite ban of user sorein is a good evening read:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/493
Also, SFO, the airport, is not even in the city of San Francisco. It's about ten miles south, in San Bruno. Not close to GDC, which is in downtown SF.
I am suspicious that a lot of people in the Bay Area have mild cases of COVID-19. I also see no reason to believe that the total number of cases isn’t a couple of orders of magnitude higher than reported, making the overall fatality rate quite low.

Ideally, enough serological tests could be produced that a public health authority could randomly sample a population and get an actual unbiased estimate of the infection rate.
Umm..what? Ubuntus primary use case was not web services, it was a user-friendly PC OS compared to the Linux variants at the time.

It's picked up a lot in the server space because of the familiarity of it, with respect to package management et all.
Many of listed video/interview pages have broken project links.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted because that’s the exactly correct answer.

The previous administration converted the highly successful infrastructure they built up while responding to the Ebola virus into permanent infrastructure which was quickly dismantled by the current administration.
Likely to buy these masks :D
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> Bikes shouldn't share the lane with pedestrians any more than they should share it with cars.

Bicycles are vehicles with wheels just like motorcycles and cars. Drivers are supposed to follow the same rules of the road regardless of what type of vehicle they use. That is, stay on the correct side of the road, signal intention to change lanes or turn. Make left turns while keeping to the left of same direction traffic and make right turns while keeping to the right of same direction traffic. Faster traffic passes/overtakes slower traffic on the side closer to the center of the road which allows for traffic moving at different speeds.

In the other hand, none of these requirements apply to pedestrians, so they cannot mix with traffic other than at designated crossing points. These crossing points work for pedestrians moving at pedestrian like speeds (3 to 5 mph -- 5 to 8 km/h). Faster speeds leads to the problem where drivers have insufficient time to see the pedestrian and yield).
Southern California Linux Expo is still a go in Pasadena, CA next week.
decent planning listed in the blog:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/covid-19-and-scale-18x-e...
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Those things do exist of course, but in 9 years of living here I don’t think I’ve ever heard the city referred to as “SFO.”
That's something curious about the UK at the moment - borrowing is huge, like the Tory government has borrowed more since they took over than the country borrowed previously in history, ever, (according to a stat I heard, but the actual figures are huge according to the Nat.Stats.Off too; this isn't just hearsay) and yet we've been going through massive austerity.

Spending on services has been drastically cut, but the country has been borrowing vastly more money. The only way I see that working is if taxes have plummeted (but taxes for ordinary folk have risen slightly if anything) or if the money is being syphoned off somewhere ... but we're talking GDP levels of cash here.

Anyone explain it to me?
Japan may not be the best source for anything right now, their response is a bit in panic.

I'd personally watch any publication from Singapore in this regard - one of their primary learnings from SARS was to become a biotech hub which enabled them to rapidly scale testing in this case and you can assume they have very good surveillance of existing cases.
Red Hat Summit April 27-29 is also in the Moscone Center in San Fran
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I’ve written go full-time for the last 3.5 years and it still amazes me that by default the linter doesn’t at least warn about unused/uncaptured return error values.
Something I did not learn from Warren Buffett, is that the value of a public company is not the stock price x the number of shares. Not in some fuzzy nebulous way or some of the time, but quite definitely in all cases. That's because any market has depth - there are only so many people willing to buy and sell right now at the market price. Most of the owners of, say, Apple (or any company) think it's worth more, maybe a lot more, than the "market" price. If someone wants to buy the whole company they pretty much always have to pay significantly more. It's the opposite for selling. Most of the people who don't own it think it's worth less than the market price, maybe much less.

So the market price isn't as real or as much of a consensus as people think it is. If you average a lot of opinions, the result isn't necessarily anyone's opinion, much less a correct one.
Certainly possible. If you book the event in corporate environment, the organiser may not have your direct email, and whatever system or person gets the notification may not forward it to you.
I'm personally a fan of MusicBrainz (and related projects). It takes a lot of work to build a completely free and open database like that. I wish it could be expanded to other areas, but that would require more people.
People could also have the flu and coved-19 at the same time.
I know there have been isolated instances in the past where a professional game is still played and broadcast on TV, but there is no general public in attendance at the game.

That would be a pretty radical thing to do in any area that doesn't have specific cases and needs that level of quarantine, but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility. Otherwise the entire season is postponed, and that's a lot of sponsorship dollars and network TV that's left empty.
That’s just 8 requests per minute. Can do that easily on a $2.50 vultr VPS. Beat that :D
Could get very messy for F1 if it's still a major problem after it warms up
Except the government learned from the Ebola outbreak, improved its response and setup infrastructure to handle future such scenarios based on their learning. The current administration dismantled that entire infrastructure.

So while it may not have been malice, there is a very straight line to be drawn from the actions of a couple of years ago and the inept handling of the situation today.
Is this a manuscript you just finished? I’d love to read it if so.
> Bikes can certainly share pedestrian areas, they just need to ride slower

That significantly reduces the utility of the bicycle in terms of transportation. If one can't ride at a pace that much faster than walking, then using a bicycle provides no advantage in terms of time. It's also more awkward to control a bicycle at slower speeds and you're more likely to fall and injure yourself compared to hist Ealing at the same speed.
The binaries themselves don't have issues. But Go's descision to make the standard library Unix focused isn't a flawed design decision.

If you need OS/platform-specific precision, you're free to create or use an alternative library. The standard lib was never designed to be the magic bullet for cross-platform, but the language internals, compilation, and execution do a good job for many platforms.

We need to keep in focus what the goals of each part of the language are intended for.
I remember similar stuff from the data compression usenet groups years ago. So if anyone is interested, I have software that’ll compress megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes of data down to a kilobyte! And it can encrypt your data so that not even state actors can recover!

Sure, you can’t recover the data, but it’s compressed and encrypted so that your adversaries also can’t.
It probably depends on your circle of friends and acquaintances but for at least a decade in text messages and social networks I have seen people use airport designations in place of the city they represent. For example,

“Spending next weekend in SEA then staying with friends in MPS before returning home to SFO.”

So no, SFO is not only ever unambiguously the airport.

I believe the combination of more frequent flying, booking tickets ourselves online (rather than by telephone) and increased communication on devices have combined to result in this quirk of language.
It's all in "the air" in California now . . . .aerosolized . . .
But he’s the President so even without the flawed premise what you’re saying makes no sense.
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When I started studying CS in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 90's, they taught us Miranda to have everyone on the same level.

Which was not such a bad idea: I had three years of C & five of C++ under my belt already at the time but never touched a functional programming language.

Very few co-students had worked with Lisp and they did have an advantage. But they still had to new learn a new language.

Trivia 1: I was going out with a German-Iranian girl who's name was Miranda, at the same time.

Trivia 2: As I was also studying graphics design with an emphasis on typography then I made her a t-shirt for her b-day that used the 'Mirinda'[1] logo but turned it into 'Miranda'. She never wore it which hurt me a bit at the time.
Maybe I should dig that out and donate it as the logo for that language since theirs is an absolute eyesaw? :]

[1] Mirinda is a carbonated soft drink (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirinda) The logo in the 90's looked different -- like this: http://tiny.cc/24rnkz
I wanted proof, not promises. I want to know the they cannot scan my data if I pay, not that they promise not to.

That's why I'm so interested in projects like ProtonMail and Bitwarden. I want E2E encrypted versions of everything, and I'm willing to pay for it.
You should be reading published literature. The paper I'm citing was from either a hospital or University and had some 20 authors.
Most people outside of San Francisco would know that you mean 'San Francisco' when you say SFO, though. Same as I think of Seattle when I see SEA, Dallas when I see DFW, St. Louis for STL, etc.

Inside the city that's not always the case, but even when you're abbreviating sports teams and the like, it's common to use the airport code to refer to the city name if they match up so well.
It should be higher.

It should be shaking in their boots high.

Like a single mom getting a speeding ticket high.

AT&T generated $47.99B in 2018

They do not care too much if they are fined 200M.

How about we make it 2B? Now they are nervous, now they see where the line is drawn in the sand.
Sadly legit.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485245-trump-hits-demo...

"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he told the crowd in North Charleston.

"One of my people came up to me and said, 'Mr. President they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn't work out too well," Trump said. "They tried the impeachment hoax."

"This is their new hoax," he said, apparently referring to Democrats' criticism of the official coronavirus response.

Trump, who opened the rally by declaring the "fake news just doesn't get it," accused the press of being "in hysteria mode" in its coverage of the virus.
They'd also be pissed if they paid all that money and brought an epidemic back to their community as a souvenir, or got locked into quarantine on their way home.
Apparently, there are some conditions where it can go airborne, but most transmissions are by droplet. I'll amend my comment. Healthcare providers will been using airborne protocols, which was where i got the idea.
Yeah, I think Ebola is a pretty strong argument against using R0 for public consumption. Ebola has never spread in the presence of a functioning health system, and even without a functioning health system outbreaks have been localized - a metric showing it's as contagious as the common cold is not measuring the common-sense definition of "contagious".
It's important for different people to have excessive faith in different beliefs. If everyone was just about the right amount of reasonable, then small errors in judgement would cause them to give up on an idea that might turn out to be valuable. People believe things for emotional reasons they don't understand and the logic is just an attempt to justify it. They might still have valid emotional reasons behind it. In the case of religion, it does have value even if it's wrong.
I thought the WHO were the criminals
This book is incredibly helpful - I just wish they'd do a follow up book around how you interview users on your product once it exists.

I guess the same principle applies "tell me about a new feature you want for our product... Did you actually try to find a workaround? No" *X probably isn't a feature we should prioritize top then

I'd love to see more examples of ways to get good existing product feedback.
Critical infrastructure to slow a deadly pandemic?? Not in MY backyard!
Consider emailing the City of Orlando about this. Their response will be public record in accordance with Florida open records law. They know this, and will act accordingly. Whatever their position, it’ll be in writing.

https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Contact-Us
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I mean, the big knock against China would be the initial secrecy which prevented earlier discovery of the virus.

Of course, the US especially can’t complain about that now that they are actively suppressing news about the virus even after we know it’s a real virus and that it’s here.
The US Olympic Marathon Trials are in Atlanta on Saturday.

It's only national athletes but 700 from every part of the country and their friends and family.

If anyone is a carrier, dozens might go home with a "present".