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Interesting. Would you happen to have a link to some human readable documentation and/or examples? I couldn't make much sense of the grammar in [1] without usage examples.

[1] https://github.com/rofl0r/order-pp/blob/master/doc/notes.txt
How about investing in "low- and middle-income" Americans and providing them healthcare? In addition how about providing required paid sick leave that can be taken without fear of losing one's job? These are actual things we could do to help people respond and deal with COVID-19. Yes, working on vaccines is important but testing and avoiding spreading the virus as much as possible are even more important. Right now, we have no hope of doing either in an effective manner. People will go to work sick, including with COVID-19 because they have no choice, because our government has left them no choice. They won't be able to get tested because they have no choice due to not having health insurance--another choice removed by our ineffective policies. I don't see any coherent plan by the government at this moment to address any of these issues and given the current situation, I would not be surprised if we have one of the worst outcomes of any developed country, possibly including China. The only hope is that the virus mutates into something less contagious or harmful and that should not be something we rely on.
One thing i've noticed about markets is that when there a little to choose from you buy few tools, but expect them to do more, and you are prepared to invest time into learning them. However if there are a lot to choose from, you want more simple tools, dont want to invest time, and prefer the tools you already know.
I’d personally drop gsuite, trello and slack and get a office365 essentials plan. I know, because I did, and it’s so much easier to manage and it’s also cheaper.

I’m not going to say the tools are better with Microsoft, because to me it’s really much of the same where I genuinely don’t really like any of the options. But because it’s not worse either, you kind of get used to it.

I think if you got the full teams/one-note experience on the essential plan that it might be better, but you don’t get the full experience in the browser. One example is that you can use Excel inside Onenote in the browser. But since I don’t really like slack or the g-suite stuff either, it’s basically the same with less hassle.
Most of the APLs don't automatically parallelise array operations either, because it's hard to know automatically when it's worth it. This is exacerbated by the fact that most APLs don't have a compiler, so the granularity of independent operations is fine.

While I don't know much about the mysteries of Ks implementation, I know that the most widely used industrial APL implementation, Dyalog, uses a pretty conventional explicit task parallel API for parallelism. They call it "isolates", and it's essentially about launching a thread that has its own internal APL state (with a lot of polish for convenience and communication, of course). There may be a few primitive operations that are automatically parallel internally, but they are rare.
Oh nice, remodeling a bathroom with that hardie board or what? Is that the concrete sheet for wet environments?
I think there would need to be a violent revolution to get rid of public stock markets. This would not happen because of a measly recession or depression, even if tens of millions die from the virus at the same time. I mean what is America if it's not the host for the stock market. Do we even have an identity not related to money? 90% of people at all class levels esp in software work for publicly traded companies or companies that desperately are working to become publicly traded. As an American most of the decisions that influenced your upbringing, your interests, your housing, your transportation, your hopes and dreams, your leisure activities, and indeed even the decision of your parents to have you was a consequence of those sacred numbers moving a certain way. We know no other force to tame and guide our society.

John and Jane Q. Public will go back to hating the stock market like they did 2008-2015, shortly after thinking they were smart to rent not buy a home so they can put more money in their Robinhood account. Meanwhile the big players will accumulate, things will go back to normal by this time next year, and John and Jane Q. Public will be saving rainy day money they will eventually use to FOMO back in on the same shares $RICHGUY bought from them at the lows. This is the American way.
The death toll is currently at 3,000 about 2 months after the Coronavirus first appeared in one location. The seasonal flu is caused by viruses that have been constantly circulating all around the world for years or decades. You can't really compare total deaths at this point.
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nice use of Google Collabs to show the modelling part
Not totally useless. You just need the dual:

def decrypt("(TOP SECRET)"):
return s
Is there a higher level than N95 that filters more airborne particulates or is that entering HEPA filter territory and impossible to breath through such dense material.
I couldn't find a reliable reference quickly, but I believe humans have a "90 minute sleep cycle." (Search for that if you wan't a bunch of half-baked hints.) If you wake up (and get up) during the correct phase of the cycle, then you'll feel good. Otherwise you won't.
What would the point be of getting tested for COVID-19 if you already show the heaviest symptoms? You’d be getting treatment anyway.
I believe the web packaging proposal allows something like this: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/web-packaging-bundles-wic...
Efficiency is a parameter. There are other ones. An energy source able to continuously produce without any combustible, pollution, running cost, waste, risk... would indeed be adequate and supremely efficient.

Waiting for this miracle, we have to store energy.
If this hits in numbers like it could, people would be lucky to get an IV...forget biocontainment.
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Japanese bow, Indian Namaste, Roman Salute, my preference is Fist-Bump that at the end transforms into a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors (which is universally[1] understood).

[1] jan-ken-pon https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jan-ken-pon&redirect=no
I completely agree and at the same time see the other side: think of the typical drug kingpin or monster still directing 'business' and hits from prison. And you can't give phones to some and not to others because prisoners obviously interact with each other.
> Oh, actually: Stalin probably does. It's an R4RS compiler. Good luck getting it to compile, though. It took me a few hours and a lot of code changes to get it to compile half a decade ago (I wanted to compare the one I was writing, which was a lot worse, naturally, but much easier to compile). The compiler itself is slow as a tortoise, but it generates really wonderful code. It's probably rotted a bit now, though.

Stalin isn't really a good compiler in the realm of high-performance computing. What did and does make Stalin awesome is that it showed how you could compile away most of the overhead of using a very high-level language (Scheme) and end up with code that matched reasonably written C. That does not mean its competitive with the code generated by a heavily vectorising Fortran compiler for number crunching. Stalin is more about removing language overheads than about pushing the hardware to the hilt.

If you want a compiler built around the same rough philosophy as Stalin, then there's MLton, which is also still maintained: http://mlton.org/
> Adulting in 2020 is child's play.

As a fairly new adult in 2020, :(
“electric cars will be ordinary things in 5–10 years; self-driving cars not long after that” If we’re counting things that haven’t happened yet as improvements to our quality of life, why not include a cure for all disease and holidays on Mars?
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Famine in Australasia?? No idea where you got that. I live in NZ.
Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard epidemiologist, estimates that 40-70% of the adult world-wide population will be infected. [0]

Assuming a conservative 1% mortality rate, that would mean 30-50M deaths, a tragically huge number.

[0] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/key-coronavir...
The premise is "I often think that I wake up just before my alarm goes off."

If 90% of the time you wake up well before the alarm, the clock saying fifty-something, and can shut it off before it starts,

9% of the time you wake up noticably past the alarm,

and 1% of the time you appear to have woken up just before it goes off,

then that's not very confusing, and isn't going to prompt something like this article.

The article is about being much more precise on a regular basis. Or the illusion of it.
Other parameters: a renewable energy source produces without any combustible, risk, or pollution/waste.

Even 48% of a no-string-attached gift is a gift.
Thanks for the link. I watched a bit of that.

Freeman Dyson's opinion is one of skepticism, not denial. Unfortunately I don't think he's deeped in the science or the messiness of climate modeling, so I think he's just not an expert here. Bright, even eminent scientists can be wrong, even in their areas of expertise. For example, Ernst Mach was famous for not believing atoms exist, even declaring it loudly after having heard a lecture by Boltzmann. Einstein firmly opposed the nondeterminism underlying quantum mechanics, refusing to believe that physics is not deterministic (this is the source of his famous "God does not play dice" quote.)
It has a yearly subscription fees if the license is bought for use in a business
I think the syntax, `yield from`, and `@coroutine` are two things. `async def` + `yield from` means we delegate generator to another generator. Therefore, in the async function, using `yield from` is equal to declare an asynchronous generator function.

However, using `@coroutine` + `yield from` means we transform a generator into a generator coroutine. Because a generator is a form of coroutine, in Python 3.4, `@coroutine` turns a function or a future into a generator function. Note that if a function is a generator function, `@coroutine` does not do anything. Based on the document, Python recommends using `async def` instead of `@coroutine` to declare a coroutine because `@coroutine` will be removed in Python 3.10.
> This is not followed by most people in Europe

So why aren't you worried? My worry is that I'm hearing we're weighing the economic loss versus the health of people. The disease is spreading MAINLY because of air travel, and I don't see countries really doing thorough checks, or at least discouraging air travel for now, or keeping a list of people who returned from those countries.

Spreading fear in the media at least has the cheap virtue of encouraging people to wash their hands, avoid going to those countries, without the government spending money. The drawback is that people view this as fear-mongering.
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Apologizes for not getting the sarcasm, it seemed real enough.
That was an excellent article, thank you.
> the annual mortality rate in the US is 1 in 115 people.

Kind off topic, but my brain was wandering. If 1 in 115 people die per year, then you have a 1 in 115 chance of dying per year. Which means your average expected lifetime is 115 years... which is a bit high. But I guess that it's because there are more people being born than die per year and being young (and in a rich country in a modern era), their life expectancy is quite long. Still, I would have expected a higher mortality rate off hand.
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Given that. I don't understand how the US can fight a viral epidemic.

You have the best medical services in the world; but if a significant part of the population is not going to use that because of the threat of financial ruin, then you are never going to get on top of an epidemic.
Electric cars are already fairly ordinary in certain parts of the world. Not necessarily the most common, but nobody will give you a second glance now if you have one.
Does anyone know where the 2% death rate for 1918 flu comes from? I've seen it quoted multiple times, but Wikipedia says:

It infected 500 million people around the world... The death toll is estimated to have been 40 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million

But later

The World Health Organization estimates that 2–3% of those who were infected died (case-fatality ratio). It is estimated that approximately 30 million were killed by the flu, or about 1.7% of the world population died. Other estimates range from 17 to 55 million fatalities[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Leaders are one thing but the state machine is/should be running all the time in the background. Trump, for example, might make a call (quarantine x county or state for example) but presumable CDC /Pentagon /FEMA etc already have plans and supplies in place.
> (every conference gets a simple phone number, no stupid 9-digit code plus pin plus participant id)

in our case, UC constantly failed hard to properly encode an essentially static excel sheet over screen share - jpeg artifacts the size of basketballs that never went away, even when given infinite time to "catch up". zoom has zero issues with screen share, but randomly drops calls, and yeah the phone + 9 digit id + participant id feels intentionally user-hostile (especially having to repeat that bs again after a dropped call).
> I believe I could hit the button in my sleep, or wake up just enough to hit it and then fall back asleep fast enough to forget the experience. I remember many times waking up at my alarm starting to go off at 9:30am (or some other round ten minute interval time after 9am) even though I scheduled it at 9am; I must have snoozed it several times and fell back to sleep quickly enough to forget the experience.

That happened to me quite a lot during college, and due to a quirk of my alarm I know for certain I wasn't just sleeping through it: The snooze button was between the two arrow buttons for setting stuff, and if I hit an arrow by accident while the alarm was going off, the set alarm time would change. It pretty regularly ended up several minutes off of where it was supposed to be.
Yes. I wonder whether it is feasible to run unit tests in spreadsheets: they are essentially long chains of functions.

Debugging a larger sheet seems really tough.
The business stake holders are going to be there. Sure at some point it might be just too much work but typically there is somewhere in between where you can piece it together.

> I don't mean this in a deragoratory sense - it sounds to me you provide great value to your employers - but just in that you work in a specific market segment and what is true in your segment might not hold in others.

I've worked in many different sectors. Normally fintech though.
From the other side (vendor perspective) we see this SaaS fatigue a lot.

We have a free, open source, unlimited use product that has a very good, commercial, alternative. What we hear in calls is that there are just too many SaaS tools in the company and the monthly cost (or security review of all tools) ends up with the management saying "pick your top 5,10,15 most important" and drop the rest.

The GSuites, Slacks, AWS, Notions, Zooms, etc (picking from the article list) get in the top priority list and that list is so full the medium priority stuff just gets crossed out and pushed down to budgets lower down. Our category just rarely makes it.

A lot of the time we win out just because the company wants to avoid the admin of the paid solution, the tool just isn't _that_ important. Being creative in your business model, I think, is the way to go, particularly in terms of freemium offerings.

With the number of SaaS apps trying to get your monthly cost, being outside the core list is getting harder and harder and you need to define those niches and totally own them. Forget starting at the company level, start with 1-5 people groups for a _long_ time.
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I remember paper tape being dodgy when both punching and reading the holes, meaning that once a certain number of bytes are processed, random bit errors are a certainty.
That's like saying "I planted an oak tree last year. It's smaller than the pine trees that have been growing here for 50 years, therefore oak trees are smaller than pine trees"
So the mortality rate is 0.2
%. You're missing the likelihood of contracting covid in your calculation. If you calculate with that the risk is even lower.
Remember having to call movie theatres for showtimes?
I had this thought for a while too. A VC invests then has you subscribe to his other companies. A circle jerk basically.
Only, it’s more one hour and a half rather than half an hour. Excellent quality stuff nonetheless
There is no net reduction of co2 emissions here, that's why its marketing.

The fact that sequestration in plants happens first does not make it better for global warming if you then burn it right after.

Encouraging plant growth on top of a decarbonized energy cycle, now that will make a difference.
I think eru meant "inspired [to post this link here]". I'm pretty sure that eru is not gwern.
Eh, the problem with the "IT department dictates all the choices because the devs are stupid" approach is that it takes ownership away from the devs, therefore leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I can't be trusted to make technology decisions for the system I know about (and the IT department knows nothing about), then why should I care about delivering the best possible product?

Sorry, I've seen exactly that pattern happen in my (still) current company and it just leads to teams that are completely unable to think for themselves and work like machines in a cog.

I'm not saying company guidelines shouldn't exist or that you should allow a proliferation of 200 different programming languages, but I have never seen the "devs are stupid" approach work; if this is indeed a problem in your org, hire better people! (Which doesn't mean: smarter hackers. It means: responsible, professional individuals that work well together in a highly effective team and can be trusted to make decisions in the best interest of the product.)
A lot of sales engineer jobs pay well... but often in sectors like electrical engineering or medical.

It's because the skillset is rare; hospitals aren't going to buy some medical equipment from some sweet talker in a suit. They prefer a nerd who understands exactly what they're selling and what the advantages and disadvantages are, maybe even explain training needed. I had one oscilloscope sales job offer, where the boss insists that the hardest part is understanding the tech, and the sales part is easy to train.

Many sales roles give commissions, which can come up to a hell lot.

Software probably doesn't involve the dirty details anymore, but I imagine things like selling a database, AWS-type service, military technology, machine learning, and so on.
This looks pretty interesting and may well be an improvement over PCG[1].

For non-simulation purposes, however, using a fast-key-erasure[2] ChaCha20 or AES-256-CTR RNG has served me well enough, and doesn't leave me worrying if maybe someone could abuse the RNG for whatever purposes (e.g. cheating in a game by using RNG manipulation).

[1] https://www.pcg-random.org/

[2] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html
algorithm_signed() and algorithm_unsigned() in the conditional compilation example need to be templated functions for the example to make (more) sense.
Someone points this out in the email chain, as well, linking to Schneier's famous list of 9 warning signs: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1999/0215.html...

I'd add the following three generic warning signs of crackpots, all of which are on display here.

1. Person doesn't know mailing list etiquette, for example top-posting and failing to send hard-wrapped plain text messages. Also not understanding the purpose of a mailing list intended for something else.

2. Person claims that others are rejecting basic principles of open-mindedness and making trivial errors in reasoning, or that they don't understand foundational elements of their field. Accusations of rudeness and threats to professional reputation.

3. Person uses just enough technical jargon to give the impression that they have some fluency in the relevant field. When corrected, they often seem to just barely misunderstand the correction, in order to give correspondents the false hope that they are open to being shown their errors.

Thanks for the Trisector link, it's been a couple years since I've read that one.
Yeah, I agree save-lisp-and-die is cool. On the other hand you can just write a python script, copy it over and have it run on literally millions on computers out of the box (even accounting for the python3 debacle) – that's pretty handy, too.
We were at Carmax (nationwide used car dealer) on Thursday evening and they had probably 15 plug in battery electric "electric cars" on their lot of ~500 cars. Not a significant fraction, but three different models were available to choose from, and competitively priced against the other cars on the lot.
I'm not personally worried, but today I cancelled my hotel reservation for RubyKaigi in April. Do I think I am going to get Corona Virus? No. It's very unlikely. Do I think I am going to catch Corona Virus at the conference? No. It's very unlikely. However large numbers means that the chance it happens to someone at some conference is incredibly likely. Indeed, there were just 8 cases in Hokkaido that seems to have originated from a trade conference.

There is no real need for me to go to a conference. I can wait until next year. If we avoid unnecessary interactions in large numbers then it will make a difference. Some people need to meet, but I certainly don't need to get together with a whole bunch of strangers in a remote location to talk about Ruby, so I'm not going to.
Thank you, I haven't read that one. It's going to be read within the next few weeks :)
not sometimes. they go hand in hand. Ebola also spread in DRC during some of the worst fighting. It's an anticipated side effect to disrupt medical supply chains of the enemy to avoid their ability to recover.
Trump was in a press conference this week with health officials who claim there is a potential vaccine already in the pipeline, but it takes 4-6 months and 11 months for the next 2 rounds of testing (which does not include the possibility that it doesn’t work and doesn’t include the manufacturing ramp up time). If nCoV19 is seasonal, it likely won’t be ready for the next 2 cold seasons.
There's actually an entire episode of Seinfield about this, one of the main characters gets a new phone number and it's one digit off of the (in)famous MovieFone number in Manhattan.
I've always wondered what makes micro SD cards not suitable for long term storage. What makes them decay
I find this interesting, It shouldn't take much time before we have a new category of startups:

- that lets you (as a startup) optimize spending on day-to-day tools (similar to optimizing your cloud spendings)
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