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As someone said, microservices is a technical solution to a people problem. Devs don't want to talk to each other so they wall off behind their own API. Boom, no need to talk to each other. Ever. Or is there?
People keep saying that responses are irrational but we know next to nothing about this virus. We don’t have a firm understanding of how deadly it is, how long it takes to incubate, how easily it can be spread, or what long term damage it could do to people who recover.

There are reports of kidney damage and damage to fertility among men who have recovered. Are those true? We don’t know. We have no idea.

The rational response to a deadly virus with so many unknown factors is to hunker down, avoid mass gatherings, and exercise other precautionary measures. These precautionary measures mean fewer people traveling, going to the movies, going out to dinner, attending conferences, etc. There is nothing the Fed can do to blunt this reaction besides pour money into Coronavirus research and hope they find a vaccine or remedy before it drags the economy into a recession.
I agree to an extent. From a utilitarian standpoint, the economic damage caused by the virus is not outweighed by a mortality rate of 0.2%. That being said, coronavirus has the potential to become worse (more infections -> more mutation -> potential to mutate more aggressively or more resistant to our research) so minimizing infections is probably a good idea. Not to mention, people tend to get angry when you start assigning objective tangible value to human life.
And who are you to say if the media are "over-hyping" the situation?

The medical community can call for calm if they think that's important, but from where I sit, isolating cases is paramount to stop the spread and getting a population ready for local quarantine situations seems fairly important too. You don't get there by sticking your head in the sand.

It's not nice to hear, but perhaps we do have to hear it.
Unless I'm missing something, that sounds like the same net effect. Why is one better than the other apart from price?
Does it matter what a product is called? (2011)
I mean is there a chance they were infected later? E.g. they thought source A caused it but in reality Source B ten days later did?
Plants get their carbon from the air (CO2) via photosynthesis.
Not if a substantial number of them now have antibodies against it.

More realistically, even if enough of them have antibodies to create herd immunity. (Via making it impractical for the virus to transmit to a vulnerable host)
How do applications like Kodi manage to overlay accelerated UI on accelerated video but Firefox can't?
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Just default on the debt far far down the line. Seing as how USD is still the reserve currency and they can still print, very far down the line. Keep borrowing from the future like there is no tomorrow until then, hopelly making sure the music doesn't stop playing during your political mandate period so you can get blamed for it.
The singular focus on shareholder value, to the exclusion of all else, has greatly damaged society.

There needs be a conscientious realignment to maximizing stakeholder value.

The corporation is best way to organize labour and capital in productive ways that we've ever come up with and it can be a tool for immense good, but not if it disregards the society, the environment, or the community it operates in.
And I think many would argue, better to let these companies die and be outcompeted
Kazaa was chock full of adware and possibly full-on malware and centralized solutions like Napster were shutdown. Still using Usenet to this day tho..
LE is actually following the rules outlined by the Baseline Requirements. "Traditional CAs" have a tendency to just ignore them when convenient.

For example, Sectigo has misissued nearly every certificate since 2002, including ~11 million unexpired ones (as December) and decided to just ignore their duty to revoke misissued certifcates [1].

Should the rules be changed? Maybe. However, when you're giving an immense responsibility to CAs then public trust is paramount. Ignoring agreed upon rules whenever you find it convenient does not inspire much confidence.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593776
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I mean taste in music is subjective but theres a lot of games out there with bomb soundtracks. Triple A games often have ambience instead of music so you'll have to look into solo projects or indie games. Here's a couple examples I really enjoyed.

[1] FTL OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKamecDZco
[2] Bastion OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWmrwF4MOI
[3] Transistor OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tIUr_ex3g
[4] Cave Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09KoR7g018
RBS did in 2012, didn't change anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system...
Unforgivable. Moving funds to Schwab. And that's saying a lot
90's era HCI research was so excellently focused on details. Apples Human Interface Guidelines from 1993 should also be mandatory reading for anyone building a human facing applications:
https://woofle.net/impdf/HIG.pdf
Part of the reason I had been hoping this virus wouldn't hit Florida (where I live) until summertime. It's miserably hot and humid down here from about June to September.

Also, school would be out.
> glass is orders or magnitude more expensive to ship product in

That sounds like nonsense. For a filled ~300ml container of soda, a glass bottle would be ~20% (ballpark) heavier than an aluminum can. Even if shipping costs increased by a similar proportion (actually less, but whatever) and we include the cost of cleaning bottles, it seems we would still end up ahead compared to the song-and-dance of recycling, which is incredibly resource intensive.
It is very much by design. Even before the current situation, it had been a tradition to appoint commissioners in pairs, one from each party, resulting in deadlocks.

The situation has always been precarious, but especially for the last decade, during which some have benefited more than others.
This is a valid criticism, but it's not lisp specific.

We know somewhat how to control accidental complexity in systems that are highly constrained and don't let you deal well with essential complexity. And we know somewhat how to give you powerful tools to deal with essential complexity.

We haven't figured out in general how to make systems powerful enough to deal with the range of essential complexity, but constrained enough that this sort of accidental complexity isn't common.

Of course a lot of real world systems don't do a great job of either.
Trump did not call COVID-19 a hoax.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...
Software engineers are uniquely qualified to analyze supply chains and supply chain problems. In this case, technical analysis looks a whole lot different than the chicken bone divination stuff you see with thinkorswim or other trading platforms...
If you don't know, when you run `echo -n foo bar`, the shell splits that according to its syntax and runs `echo` with the arguments, `-n`, `foo`, and `bar`. The array of those 4 strings is argv.

To better expand on what fctorial is probably trying to say, argv is a simple list of strings. Plain text is a nice common ground among the myriad of programming languages that executables can be written in. In order replace options with "a structured, typed, reflective API", argv could no longer be a simple list of strings. There would have to be a common typesystem among all programming languages. It wouldn't just be needed for the understanding of argv, but also for the output, since the output of programs is used to feed the arguments of other programs. This puts heavy restrictions on the liberty programming languages can take in defining their own typesystems while retaining compatibility with such an inter-program typesystem.

This isn't to say that it can't be done, but I'm fairly certain it would suck on multiple fronts. You might be able to gain some things, but you'd certainly be giving away others.

EDIT: I don't want to spend too much time expanding what you'd be giving away, but to start

1) Having the common ground be plain text means that you get 1 form of output that can be used both for human and for machines to read. The programmer might not even intend for their output to be used by other programs, but it will always be trivial to do so. You can propose that they could have 2 forms of outputs, one plain text for humans and one typed for machines, but there would be no guarantee that they would have the same information. It's likely that one form will miss information that the other has, and you'd be left with humans reading output meant for machines or machines reading output meant for humans, so you gain nothing.

2) Less brevity. You complained about options being too detailed ("remembering copious minutia"), but that's because they're meant for interactive use. This is not a problem about the interface being untyped. It's about the interface optimizing for being quick to use. This would either also arise with a typed interface (although more difficultly so) or the CLI would simply be more tedious to use. No win there.

3) It would be more inconvenient to use interactively. For example, if you want to differenciate between a number 5 and a string "5", you're going to have to add syntax, like the quotes I used in this sentence. You can see the inconvenience by setting you shell to be something like python, for example. There would be too much syntax for interactive use.
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I definitely agree with the LEGO Duplo recommendations. Of all the toys, our Duplo's have endured for years.

For a 3 yo, simple wood blocks with different shapes and sizes are great for developing spatial skills and generally provide many hours of fun.

I've tried many other "STEM" toys over the years, but find most battery-operated toys, robotics sets, lose their appeal quickly and go unused. Just keep it simple.
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For all his faults, and he had many - from infidelity, focus on manager/corporate rankings instead of absolute performance, allowing accounting shenanigans that still haunt GE etc, wasn't Jack Welch was a product of the period in which he ran GE?

His ability to manage a behemoth of GE's size during the globalization push that resulted in the death of so many industrial companies during that same period is undeniable.
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I think in some regards, classic GUI interfaces peaked in about 2002/2003 with KDE2. The influence of Win95/98/NT4 on KDE was definitely there, but they took it in its own unique direction. Definitely some inspirations from NeXT as well.

I had a really nice FreeBSD+xfree86+KDE setup at that time. The closest I can come now is something based on XFCE4.
Thanks for clarifying more of what Wayland is. I was really hoping for a better remote desktop solution on Linux and had high hopes Wayland would deliver on that. My understanding is it doesn't, but is that something a compliant implementation could add as extended functionality? Or is that all wishful thinking?

Sometimes I boot my Linux native installation as a raw disk VM in Windows 10 with VMware Workstation and then use Windows's remote desktop. That is surprisingly more responsive and a better overall experience than either VNC, X2Go, or X11 forwarding can deliver. I'd love to see something on par for Linux desktops.
there is a difference between complex and complicated. Also consider that systems where complexity serves a role are not complicated. Also: simple things that are aggregated into complex things through a hierarchy that is also simple can be reasoned about with failure happening subsystem level (and can be easily mitigated - think supervision trees in erlang)
Would be a good franchise.

People probably prefer if CO2 was removed in their cities and not at some location kilometers away.
SXSW is hardly a "fan-run convention", though.
Right, but I believe OP's argument is more align to the idea that some things are "nature" and others "nurture". Further, which perceptions of the world are prewired will always be a hotly debated topic.
I'm not talking about the people purchasing dollars, I'm talking about the country borrowing in dollars. That's the real problem with its debt.
That's true, but it's important to acknowledge that "aging is a disease" and "aging is not a disease" are statements about the word "disease", not about aging.
Will it bring back toilet paper at Costco?
They have learned: privatize gains, socialize losses. The government is so fearful of meaningful corrections they will do whatever is necessary to make the people at the top whole instead of letting them suffer catastrophic losses. So party on.

There are ways to go about this and wipe out investors without causing complete economic collapse (e.g. nationalization and orderly dismantling) but "we've" already decided not to go that route.
There is no screen tearing. That is quite noticeable.
The main issue with GPLv3 is the so-called Tivoization clause. It basically states that if you have a product that ships with any GPLv3 software, you need to give your users the ability to install a modified version of anything you included that's GPLv3. Which basically means you can't lock down your device.

That's totally fine if you're talking about a workstation, laptop, or server. But it's a big security risk on an embedded system like a smart TV, mobile phone, or game console - both from an IP protection point of view, and also from a botnet/pwning point of view.

FreeBSD (and others presumably) don't want their users to need to worry about accidentally installing something from the core system and finding themselves in violation of the GPL.
Whether he was a symptom or a root cause, I think the disease is correctly identified.
I am not looking forward to going to HIMSS this year mostly because of the ongoing scare (with some personal reasons). The worst part is I have no clue if my fear is irrational or well placed. How am I supposed to make an educated decision in this climate.
What is the difference between efficacy and effectiveness in clinical trials?
I think the analogous effect this time is to revisit the healthcare supply chain
You're not describing a philosophical problem of "what's possible", as all of these things are perfectly possible on a desktop with Wayland and broader Freedesktop standards, and many have working examples currently. Wayland being as small as it is, is not supposed to be a restriction on features of your entire desktop.

But there's no standard interopability with a standard X11 socket anymore. There's interopability with KWin and Mutter and wlroots and a bunch of other things through FreeDesktop standards (Wayland being among them).

You might consider it a philosophical problem that Wayland is not trying to solve all the problems that X11 tried to solve. You might attach a lot of philosophical value to that architecture. But Windows, macOS, ChromeOS and Android seem to be doing extremely well on an architecture that is a lot less like X11 and a lot more like Wayland.
> users complain endlessly that the software is too complicated.

Try to solve that problem? I realize I'm over simplifying it but have you really done everything you can to simply and streamline the software for the user?
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A product of the period? It was the leaders of the time that produced the period.
Sounds like it's time to chargeback.
plug for my all time favorite paper in the subject https://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sy...

5 pages of pure awesomeness
> Housing is overpriced because anyone can go to a bank and get as much cash as the house is appraised for, which is circular.

The appraised value is just a signal how much collateral a bank can rely on for the loan, which is why most loans with good interest rates have a maximum loan to value ratio. Banks don't want to own houses, they want to own a piece of the borrower's future productivity, manifested as interest payments.

The limited housing/transit supply (due to zoning restrictions) coupled with concentrated job growth are what drives up housing costs.
Would you like to see the public debt payed? when that happened the last time?
One important question is not just "Where is CO2 removal now?" but "Where can CO2 removal companies go if they get adequate funding and consumer uptake?" I subscribe to Climeworks and think of it a bit like an ongoing Kickstarter.

A lot of articles about climate change also leave one with an unfortunate sense of helplessness. This is something an average person can do.
So I guess that means the 36 serious/critical I pointed out are not necessarily serious/critical at the moment either. Is there an actual place that counts that?
I specifically address higher end GPU segment, e.g. current RTX2080/RTX2080S/RTX2080Ti. If you want/need top-tier performance in consumer GPU market, in recent years AMD had generally nothing to offer in two years window. I afraid that this trend may continue with the AMD's "Big Navi" and NVIDIA's new 30-series. I hope Radeon will finally catch-up this year.

AMD Radeon is an amazing choice in low/mid GPU market segment though.
Lots of people doing their daily jobs are not aware of the information loss that occurs whenever they are saving/exporting as PDF.
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Adobe Summit 2020's cancellation was also discussed on HN yesterday [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22470462
I was there. Deloitte were certainly brought in to help and manage, but it was an all hands to the deck, 24 hour operation for the main recovery process at the Maidenhead offices.

Everyone contributed to the recovery.
They will absolutely get kicked in the nuts at some point in the future. They obviously didn't learn from the ransomware incident, and look to be actively opening themselves up for another attack with this move.
Performance was worse than X11 for a long time[1] and is finally catching up for some singular compositors. However most compositors still have worse performance and every single compositor has different quirks. Latency still seems to be worse across the board. In my test not one Wayland compositor could beat xterm input/output latency on X11 because of enforced global vsync.

1.:https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gnome-32...
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I understand why people use this talking point. It's easy to say and the reasons why it's nonsense involve details.

You can't compare life expectancy without accounting for cultural or geographic differences. The US has a higher rate of motor vehicle fatalities (as a result of driving more), more suicides and drug overdoses etc. These bring down life expectancy because they disproportionately impact the young. The US also has a lower population density which worsens emergency response times.

But one of the biggest factors is that the US system is really terrible for people without insurance. The outcomes for US patients with health insurance are better than they are just about anywhere. Lack of insurance is an economic problem, solvable by instituting a UBI or similar so that the people who can't currently afford insurance become able to.

One of the reasons why the US system is more expensive was already described above -- paying market prices when other countries use price controls has the US subsidizing medical R&D for the rest of the world.

There are also several other reasons costs are high specifically in the US. For example, there aren't enough residency slots but residency is required by law, which limits the supply of doctors. The FDA requires extremely expensive clinical trials but doesn't pay for them, which makes it nearly impossible to bring a new medicine to market that isn't under patent. There is a major lack of price transparency which prevents patients paying out of pocket or with high deductible insurance from comparing prices for non-emergency procedures. These are regulatory failures, not market failures.
> SARS, MERS and so on, which ultimately turned out to be nothingburgers

As a reminder, SARS and MERS were contained thanks to massive international effort to identify the spreaders, quarantines (including whole hospitals), and restrictions on air travel.
Sure, but at this point it’s also one of the strains the yearly vaccine covers. The situation will change dramatically when a vaccine becomes available.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2019-2020.htm
> So it sounds like we didn’t learn much from 2008. Will we learn from 2020?

We learned a lot from 2008.

This is a different ball game. There is plenty of credit today. This is a supply shock. There are not applicable lessons from a credit crunch to a panic/virus induced supply shortage.