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> visor mode: I always have a fullscreen terminal one keypress away

Last time I tried this (which, admittedly was sometime back), I found that this was ugly as heck if one has multiple screens and them set to be above one another-ish (e.g. on laptop with desktop screen(s) offset above) - it turns out that iTerm was just sliding the window in from 'offscreen', which if one has windows as I do, means it appears on an upper window.

It's slick if your screens are in 'acceptable' positions for iTerm - otherwise it's an ugly mess. Which is a shame, because I quite like / want this feature.

(Not that Terminal offers this at all mind)
That'd be TCB--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time

But we'd need a different standard if we colonized planets outside our solar system.
The virus will still be spreading until at least April at this rate.
Your CEO probably isn't a health care professional and doesn't want to promote or advise specific behavior that isn't in line with official recommendations.

It is also worth pointing out that not everyone can work from home. I know someone who would love to, but two autistic children under school age at home makes that essentially impossible.
Mine are all MP3.
As the article about epistemology posted yesterday mentioned, at some point, a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.
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Something useful is to write the copy for the future project. Writing the draft for the docs too as if the project was already shipped. It helps a lot with focus and alignment. Making sure we want to build the same thing. Adding new ideas. This is basically a period with no constraint as no code is written yet and no sunk cost to hinder your thoughts.

A useful exercise is to imagine you're making a tour video showing off what the product does. What would be in that video, and then the code to write to make that happen becomes clearer.

Also, reflecting on the project that was done and all the hidden skeletons can be useful. The mistakes and inefficiencies. How to avoid those in the new project? For example: it was super hard to add functionality or remove it in the previous project. The next project starts by being extensible, with a plug-in architecture with zero change to add am extension. You write how you would add extensions and then write the code to allow that flow.

How to transfer the learning from the previous project on to the next one, and just individually but as a team.
Not only does your quote not say what was alleged (that Apple denied that battery usage was a factor in slowdown), it actually says that Apple placed high usage as one of the factors.
2020: The future of remote work is here.
Ask HN: As a programmer, how to help medicine?
I've often wondered what programmers can do to contribute to medical research and medical care. What can we learn to make ourselves more useful to doctors, scientists and hospitals?

Whether it's improving diagnostic machinery, running simulations, or designing better interfaces for practitioners, there must be ways we can help. I've often wondered about this, and current events especially are making me consider it again.

Advice?
I don't understand the need or upside to mass testing? We know the spread is inevitable. It doesn't change the course of treatment right now, or the recommended precautionary measures.
Something like this, I reckon.

https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/gre13.htm
Waymo is already doing rides without a safety driver to passengers who have signed their NDA. Which means they're confident of their behaviour on some really difficult problems, like pedestrians.

Sure, it'll be at least a decade (if ever) before they can do everything a human driver can do, but a "meaningful product" they pretty much already have.

They don't have to support driving in blizzards or on unmapped roads to be a meaningful product. Uber is useful even though it's only available in large Metro areas, Waymo can be a meaningful product even if it doesn't work in many places.
I hope that doesn’t make a bunch of people think that WFH is a failure because it didn’t work when they threw people suddenly into it without the appropriate tools or norms.
I honestly thought they were worth more than that as well. I've been surprised by the ability to lease a static IP from my ISP for $5/mo for years. I just assumed that they had a surplus, and that was simply the current market clearing price on a surplus they didn't want to outright sell.

Still, if you want to talk about deflationary value store, you could probably do worse than buying IPV4 addresses... :)
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Longer than April, it's been spreading in China since December and it's still spreading now, 3 months later, it's just beginning to spread elsewhere. It's probably going to be a while. The goal of the various health organizations is to slow the spread so that hospitals and medical services aren't overwhelmed by everyone getting sick all at once.
I think so. How many people fall ill as a result of attending any given large conference? Probably hundreds -- but conference organizers have never been considered liable for this. If the coronavirus phenomenon shifts liability in the popular perception, there's no way you can afford the PR risk of hosting a major gathering.
Maybe not a terrible company, but no single rain droplet thinks they're responsible for the flood
Wait, are we talking about MAC as in cryptographic Message Authentication Code, or MAC as in ethernet Medium Access Control (addresses)?
> Other professions and industries have to live by a reasonableness standard and cannot hide behind "everyone else does it this way" as a defense.

Except "everyone else does it this way" is quite literally an acceptable definition of "reasonable"...
In a book written for people on Earth with a purpose other than explaining physics? Of course it glosses over a bunch of stuff before any of Earth as we know it existed. Really - if one doesn't believe in God, fine, but the number of arguments I hear where people say, "An omnipotent being must not exist because I obviously know better and would have done this differently" just astounds me. It's as illogical a train of thought as anything you hear from religious crazies.
(Replying to sibling due to HN constraints)

@jimsmart Yes I can believe that might take a bit of tweaking to get right. The author (George Nachman) is very responsive though, so I'm sure he'd appreciate the report. It might be reported/fixed/discussed already?

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/8536
Does it show seasonality?
While we have a pandemic going on...
Doesn’t seem that easy to fuck up, you just use internal WG IPs for the L2 tunnel. Packets just won’t go anywhere if WG is down.
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Telling people to work from home isn't necessarily of benefit if they're still out and about in the evenings, and most people don't have a few weeks of food stocked at home. If the cost is minimal but so is the benefit, there's not much point - your CEO may as well tell everyone to eat oranges and get enough vitamin C on "why not" grounds.

Saying "Prepare to not leave your house at all for two weeks, and we'll give you a couple days off to prepare but get on the VPN once you've quarantined yourself" would be of much more benefit, but it's much more disruptive.
Did they remove it?
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I’m perfectly comfortable with a “functional” as it pertains to Rust. In particular, Python (and to a lesser and more recent extent, C++) have had a lot of functional features (iterators, first-class-function, etc) for quite a while. The lack of GC actually makes it harder to use closures in Rust than Python or even Go.
can anyone explain this? why are those 503s related to leap?
Twitter should look into on how working from home affects productivity.

I'm sure it'll decrease in the short term. Although, if this goes on long enough, it would be neat to see if people re-establish strong lines of communication and if there are any productivity gains from certain teams.

Obviously, I'm not hoping that the virus affects peoples lives longer, but they might as well get some data while there are government restrictions.
> Maybe it just means that there is a small and vocal community around Clojure

There's relatively small but vocal Emacs community. There are no books being published; almost no podcasts; it took forever to organize a conference, but they still couldn't find a venue, so it was a video-conference. Every few years there's a new "Emacs killer" but the ecosystem (after over 40 years) is very much alive and thriving.

Same thing can be said about Clojure. It's a very vibrant ecosystem and there's a lot happening in Clojuresphere, but of course, with almost every post about Clojure, there would be at least one person to claim - "Clojure is dying." Well, if that's true, then buckle-up folks. It's going to be a very long, steady ride.
Better link: https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/
And it's not like some advanced tech is needed to make speakers that sound good in a small space like a monitor bezel. I have a 7 year old portable Bluetooth speaker that is probably 1" x 2" x 5" and it sounds great.
switch to old reddit?

facebook, twitter etc have decided that their content is so low quality it's not even worth searching so they re just not supporting it
Actual link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/join-...
That's my opinion of Auth0 and similar services, no offense to Auth0, but people still use them.

As for federated auth... Twitter, Facebook, Google and Github authorizations seem to work okay-ish. Integration is rarely good. Login, User and Account are three different things, and people tend to conflate them poorly, this causes issues down the road in most projects.
I feel like I had an aneurysm reading this. For 6 paragraphs the repeat that they shrunk the lines of code down, that the rewrote the whole thing and that it’s a massive undertaking and that a message app should be small. 6 paragraphs of that slightly reworded and I just gave up. I honestly think this was written by a bot.
This. My wife is a doctor and she cares and tries hard to keep her patients healthy, only to have them oftentimes undo all the work she does by ignoring her advice and doing some other nonsense. This is true even when they are completely insured, the real medicine is free and it would require very little efforts. She seems exhausted by it especially since she's the one who then has to deal with the subsequent unraveling of their health and sometimes the emotional spiral of their early death.
Looks like it

Edit: nvm, just was a bad link
Not to mention, lawsuits and insurance coverage.

You'd be a fool to insure someone against coronavirus-related liability for an upcoming event.
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I had stadia too.
Some more impressions :

- the tech is on point ! Playing on my 4k tv, it looks pretty incredible and plays just fine.

- the launch catalog is ... disappointing. I played a little bit with the releases games. There was nothing of interest to me. There are some great games on the platform .. but I have already played them. I have zero interest in Destiny 2 (one of the free launch games for pro subscribers).

- nit : I might be very tempted to try stadia again IF I could play doom eternal with a mouse and keyboard on my tv (with the expectation that the game will be worth playing).

Some of this could have been solved by shoving tons of money in the direction of some studios so that stadia got some big exclusive games at launch.

Even the "orc must die" games that will come later this year might have been enough for me to keep the "founder" edition past the 2 weeks return period. That's not a big license like Zelda that will get people to buy just because of the brand name but at least a game where I have some fond memories (and the orcs catapulting physics could use stadia's backend.
Mass testing is the only way to gauge the appropriate response for things like level of quarantine and directing additional resources where case clusters will overwhelm healthcare infrastructure.
It's still beneficial to slow the spread. It will be easier for a health care system to handle X cases over the course of six months than X cases over the course of three months. Mass testing has the potential to get infected individuals out of the population more quickly, and thus create a slower spread.
Not a lot of 3G coverage back in 1996, honestly.
I don't really see any reason why the US shouldn't already be on lockdown the way most of Asia is.
Google Cloud, Azure and AWS all support internet companies like Netflix or Amazon. Is it any mystery that they compete against F2F companies like malls, theaters, and stadia? Is it a surprise that they're being so cautious? They have little to lose and lots to gain.

I feel sorry for the service workers who are being squeezed so hard by this disease.
Completely agreed.

WhatsApp has been more successful than any other technology in history in getting people to use end to end encryption by orders of magnitude. Yes, there are limits. Yes, people with strict privacy concerns should consider other options. But altogether WhatsApp has been an outrageous win for privacy advocates.
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> I want something like this

It's existed for almost 40 years, and it's called emacs. If anyone questions emacs's ability to display incredibly useful UIs, try using magit[0]. Emacs sucks though, so I hope this comes out better!

[0] https://magit.vc/
This post is dripping in PR-speak. “Retransforming” the event? Can we not just have plain English for once?
If you come to think of it, $5/mo is an outrageous price. You can rent an Amazon LightSail VPS for $3.5/mo, which comes with a static IP address.
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I'm surprised SXSW hasn't cancelled yet. That's a huge gathering starting in less than 2 weeks.
I've seen conflicting opinions about that - seems that we may have to wait and see. [1][2]

[1]: https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/will-covid-19-go-away-on-its-o...

[2]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/what-happ...
Ah, good for you, I shouldn't have made assumptions based on the fact you were using iTunes.

I'm always sad to see how many people use DRM'd audiobook sources (like Audible) when DRM-Free options are readily available!
So they’re on the way to their own Pizza Effect?
Is it a case of mistaken identity, or a nickname based on demeanor or skills or other attributes? (I haven't read much Tolkien, and not in decades.) Tarzan is sometimes called the "King of the Jungle" but not because anyone looked at him and mistook him for an actual king.
HELP. Service Rewrite Project Proposed
HELP. Our Staff Eng. proposed a company wide engineering efficiency initiative which vommitted itself onto my team as a gigantic 6 month microservicify, migration, deprecation, rewrite headscratcher.

As a frontline eng. the benefits are definitely minimal and worse - I'll probably get tapped to work on it and deliver 0 business value and get 0 personal value from the project.

How do I not waste 6 months of my life? Why does this stuff exist? Who benefits from this?
Also just LOOK at this empty state.

12 buttons. And that’s apparently stripped down. Yikes.

https://imgur.com/gallery/drOgDwF
I totally forgot Apple doing this before, I think that's the time period where Apple actually followed this methodology you described. Snow Leopard was the fix-up release, while Leopard was the feature release. And yeah, agreed that Snow Leopard was a wonderful release.
I think the bit that got me around GOPATH was last time I'd written Go, that was the only way. Then I fired up Go again, v1.12 and decided to take advantage of a Go module for a new project, which I naturally put beside my existing Go code. And then I got to learn about the settings for GO111MODULE.

Having the build tools a core part of your language itself is both a strength and a weakness for Go, I think.
Yeah but it decreases the odds of a whole office getting sick at once, which seems like worst case
I think super fueling a COVID-19 outbreak would bite into the economies a bit more than canceling a few events
I put some money into the Slack stock a few weeks ago based on that thinking, on a lark. Worked out well so far. Any ideas about other companies that will benefit from this inevitable giant wave of remote working that will be growing rapidly for the next 6-12 months?

I think we'll see entire new categories of people working from home on a large scale. Lawyers, marketing people, accountants, etc etc. Basically anyone who is dealing with information rather than physical goods.
Relating natural language aptitude to differences in learning programming
I have six internet connections at work. 4 x /29 + 2 x /28 and a /26 on top of one of the others. I also have six IPv6 allocations.

Anyway, there is absolutely no real value in IPv4. You should always be able to find a small chunk somewhere. A proxy will work wonders with one IP.

Lack of imagination, or expertise will make IPv4 very expensive when it becomes scarce but unlike a diamond ...
I don't know if this is purely coincidental but folks doing ML are using something similar to make machine vision better at identifying. https://distill.pub/2019/activation-atlas/
Was this inspired by Windows RG (https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg) ?

It is obviously way more impressive but I’m surprised nobody else has mentioned it.
A few years back we had an earthquake that forced many organizations to stay away from their offices (just days for some but years/permanently for others) because the buildings were declared unsafe (structural issues, disturbed asbestos, and such).

Long-term, one outcomes of that has been a matured approach to flexible working - The tech (if not already present) was rapidly deployed. The biggest change has been a cultural one. Everyone being forced to work remotely for a period of time killed off those little snarky comments about 'shirking from home' that previously were being made about any employee that dared work remotely. Some organisations used the situation as a springboard to push 'flexible working', made easier at the time by the prospect of moving into new offices and planning fit-outs to support it.

Working from home presents a similar trade-off for organizations as having open-plan offices. You save on office space, but you risk reducing productivity. A watershed event can take you over the cultural hump - Afterwards there's no longer a question of whether you can support flexible working, because you were forced to work through any barriers to it under urgency.

tl;dr strong external driver for something that would otherwise require an unlikely internal drive to accomplish
You could get involved with the University of Washingtons FoldIt project

https://fold.it

Then there is Crispr

https://www.broadinstitute.org/research-highlights-crispr

Maybe you could develop something along thise lines?
Hmm, static IP suffixes are a thing of the past anyway with IPv6 ?
"Tens of millions" ? More like quintillions, and that's for a single IP prefix more typical of a home connection !
I've never had issues with Lightroom.

With regards to Apple Photos, I have ~130k photos synched without issues (that I can tell). No problems with iCloud sync either these days.

I also double sync the photos as JPG to Google Photos.

Having everything in Apple Photos is great for mobile browsing... the other night I pulled up images from 2006 on my iPhone!
To keep away martens from the engine compartment of cars (the ones living in urban environments like to crawl in there when it gets colder, and then nibble on the wires), we (= Dutchies) hang a bathroom refreshener under the hood. You know the plastic ones with the rock-like thingy in it that smell very strong. You have to replace them pretty regularly though.
Seattle CEO who pays workers at least $70K US says it's paying off
IEA says plastics will be a third of fossil fuel growth by 2030 and half by 2050: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/778665357/the-u-s-natural-gas...
My Android phone started crashing mysteriously under load. I was so fed up after a while I switched to iPhone. I now assume that the degraded battery without throttling was responsible for the crashes.
Human Bodies Change: 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn’t the Average Anymore
Costner would be pleased...
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According to Apple the slowing of the phones were mainly due to:

* Temperature changes

* High usage

* Other issues

How are customers supposed to decipher that the problem is the battery from that statement? This is straight up denying the actual problem.

Not to mention that when I took my old 6s to the store to see what was the slowing down about they told me it was perfectly fine and was running at the same speed as new.
Cancer patients in chemo are the opposite of healthy. They are at vastly higher risk for a huge range of things because the ideal chemo treatment takes someone to literally the edge of death while killing off as many cancer cells as possible. Cancer meanwhile is doing it’s best to evolve past this setback to continue growing as fast as possible.

This quite reasonably makes most doctors very cautious during the process. To the point where significant studies on exercise have been done to verify it’s still safe.