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> want to be FOSS but don’t want the tech giants to swallow your business?

I get the aesthetic and sentiment, but in practice this doesn't convey the reality. Having a business link or incorporate your open source software project isn't necessarily bad. At the very least, it's a social proof. There could be sponsorships, patches sent back.

There plenty examples of permissively licensed software out there that directly contradict this:

FreeBSD for Nintendo Switch and PS4, FreeNAS

Django, TypeScript, Jupyter. VSCode. Electron. Python. Ruby. CoreCLR. Windows Terminal.

Anyone of these projects, someone could fork it, rename it, repackage it as value added. It doesn't happen since the transaction incentivizes merging contributions upstream - maintaining forked code has passive costs. Pushing it back passes the burden (and also the benefit) of the changes back to the project.

> Go AGPL, they’ll avoid it like the plague.

I feel when we're thinking about gatekeeping who and uses our software and why, we're not really doing open source anymore.

In that case, writing commercial software license from scratch, or based off a permissively licensed project, and not releasing the source is an option.
Given that this is a pandemic, and Trump is very interested in winning re-election in the fall, I suspect money will become available to keep people solvent if they get sick. (Plus he said exactly that yesterday in his news conference)
> a python process for a typical app can easily be 2GB without very careful memory consideration.

Sorry, this is not true. I have a Python app that uses 2 threads. It's memory doesnt even exceed 200 MB.

Yes, Python threads generally suck because of the GIL, but they dont cause memory bloat like what you're describing.

For context, I use Python extensively for extract/transform/load (ETL) work. I deal with quite large files. My loaders all run in mear linear time relative to the number of records in the file, and none use more than 300MB RAM. This is against Python 3.7.3.

If your multithreaded Python app is using 2 GB of RAM, it's not because of the threads. Best look elsewhere. Maybe you're caching something large in thread local storage?
To have a median of $36K implies there are some pretty cheap cars out there. Say my $20,000 is hyperbole. What would be more reasonable? the median, or say.. $30,000? Why?
Not really sure what you’re expecting in a society that recognizes individual liability but not collective issues.
It'd only cause those negative effects if people don't leave the Bay Area, though, with that newfound flexibility. There are plenty of places, even desirable urban centers, that aren't the Bay. (I've worked for SFBA companies and I live in Boston--with its own housing crunch, though not nearly as bad, and TBH I'd live here even if I didn't work in tech, it's just my home.)
Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response
"Always assume positive intent." Yes, I did. Did you?
This is the point though, if things deteriorate none of these options will be viable.
All of these are easily solvable by simply getting the equipment you need to function. A coffeemaker is about $20. Making lunch and cleaning up shouldn't take more than a few minutes unless you genuinely need some elaborate meal. Geez. I mean, I understand if you aren't prepared for it, but if it is going to last for a while, just do what you need to do.

And is your work actually closer than Starbucks? I don't understand that one.
Health researchers urge authorities to consider broadening use of face masks
Not completely true. It can apparently spread to a lower respiratory problem in ANYONE (where it is VERY deadly, 50% mortality rate) it just tends not to do it very often in persons 10-30 yrs old.
As someone whos has written a very large and complex toolbox in Matlab [1], and now rewriting in Python I would not recommend locking yourself in to Matlab/Mathworks. However, if you don't use any GUI functionality you might get away with it, and you might be able to use Octave which can run must Matlab code unmodified (also see Octave online for deployment).

[1]: https://www.featool.com
The main reason I don't release with AGPL (and similarly red flagged licenses) is so that corporations can adopt the project.
I was going to say something similar to this.

We did some work with IBM a few years ago and my boss said when he went for an on-site visit it was basically a giant office building that was mostly vacant.
This fable is about someone who wants to destroy something he doesn't understand.

Saying that he shouldn't have to understand it, there should always be a good explanation available somehow, rather completely misses the point.
This kind of degradation impacts cars with bad battery thermal management systems (the early Leaf) much much more than cars with good liquid cooling systems (Tesla, others). I think Tesla’s degradation curve is supposed to keep it usable well past 250k. They’re targeting 1MM miles, not sure if they’ve demonstrated that they’ve hit it.
"Trust your team".
Furthermore, they weren't complaining, but exclaiming about their 'inconviences'
Only one does now, IIRC. Used to be two, but one was converted to a grad dorm in the past few years.
Your stats are more out of date than this. There are now more than zero deaths in Germany, and presumably the death toll will grow substantially from here, like it has in every other country with COVID-19 infections.
Money is fungible. They could just make medical care free for all for 2020 also if they want... but this will have more of a general economic stimulus that think.
Is that paper using cooperative beamforming like pcells?
If I'm not presenting slides or sharing a screen, I will often take my Zoom meetings on a walk via the iOS app.
Keep the hacking ability. Your large target demographic may not use or need it, but tinkerers will hype your product for free, at least in theory. See the RTL_SDR as an example, although it is a low cost DVB tuner.
Or live in Japan.
Define "didn't". The 1st generation Nissan Leaf in 2011 was was pretty terrible, but they kept making them, and brand new ones (since 2017) are actually quite nice, with more power and 200 miles of range. Definitely not Model S nice, but luxury cars are a totally different segment. There's room in the car industry for Nissan making the economy electric car and Tesla in the luxury or up-market segment.
Here (PDF warning) is a link to a study done (in 2018) that shows that an electric car produces less co2 emissions than an ICE car over 150,000km.

It takes into account different types of ICE cars, it takes into account the environmental impact of building the batteries, it takes into account the emissions produced by the power plants for several European countries, and it even predicts how things can improve or change if current trends continue.

With the exception of Germany (where lifetime EV emissions are very similar to an "efficient" ICE due to their more "dirty" power generation), an EV produces less CO2 over it's lifetime.

In fact the higher upfront emissions in manufacturing an EV are "paid back" within 2 years on average.

And because the environmental impact of an EV is so dependent on how "green" the power generation is, investments in green power can lessen the impact of cars already sold!

https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...
Regarding the people you meet, if class resumes normally in the fall then you're only missing 1/2 semester worth of networking.
Another concern for many people is charging. There are a lot of renters and apartment complexes in Europe. So the big question mark in people's heads is whether they can charge at home and have to negotiate with their landlord.

This needs government regulation that guarantees tenants can get charging infrastructure installed with some reasonable cost-sharing setup.
Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago
If you're going to ask people to watch something, it would be nice of you linked to it.

Maybe this is what you wete refering to, but I could only find Bill Gates guessing grocery item prices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_higXixRA
Absolutely not! I think EV's will succeed. The real signal to me will be effective competition across all segments of the car market. At the moment, the non-tesla cheap alternatives are drastically range limited in many cases, and also undersold and under-available. I've been reading blogs for 2 years waiting for the AU market to bust open, to no avail.

My dream is an ioniq, or for Nissan to wise up and fix the problems with their battery model (rental?) or for a european manufacturer like VW to make good on the promise of their common-design chassis and break open the market. They aren't doing this yet for very good reasons, not dissimilar to why oil companies include a small number diversifying into Solar and Wind, and a lot who are selling as much oil as they can before it becomes a stranded asset: Most of the car production line is sunk cost around ICE. re-making ito EV implies a huge re-fabrication of the plant around EV not ICE and lots of sunk costs go up in smoke. If I was a BMW or VW or Toyota or Mazda exec, and my annual bonus depended on volume profit sales, standing up to propose a giant hole of capital be dug now, to save 15 years hence is .. well.. sensible but also not in my gene pool.

The current generation of auto execs have no motivation to compete right now. They'd rather buy off the Californian clean air taxes by investing in Tesla shares to green-wash their needs, believing they can rush in at the end and steal the market.

There is a tension between first mover advantage and second-system effect.
Google is a corporation and I cynically expect any corporation to care more about employee->employee transmission than employee->family.
I think you underestimate the reasons why people find living in certain cities desirable. There's a lot more to do with it than merely having your job located there. Downtown SF and NYC are always going to be hugely desirable, regardless of whether people are working from home or not.
I'd say I'm in the camp of cancelling everything right now, instead of waiting till the last minute. Seems doing so now would also have less of a social impact.

That said, what I've yet to hear about is what the end game looks like?

Do you cancel everything for a month or two, and then go back to normal? Wouldn't the virus just take hold again? So do we go on a routine monthly quarantine every quarter?

Do we cancel everything until we find a vaccine?

Do we quarantine the "at risk" and actually have everyone else interact even more so that all the healthy people get it quickly and recover to develop immunity?

If anyone knows, I'd be curious, what kind of end game are we looking at here?
You are a good human!
I have a lib that queries quant data from a internal webservice. We have to break up large queries into smaller ones (like 4 days at a time). We currently use multiprocessing to get some parallelism. I prototyped using aiohttp. It was nearly an order of magnitude faster using a single thread. Unfortunately, cant use aiohttp because it doesn't do Negotiate/SSPI auth, which aiohttp doesnt support.
oh yes - definitely want people to hack and add features (or use it as auto configuring pipes for other projects etc...). I'm just trying to say "at least for 1.0" we are trying to stay focused on this one primary thing. ;-)
The crazy bit is that there's a life outside of work, at least in most of the developed world, and yet the comment you replied to highlights a different reality.

A symbiosis, if only temporary between the corporation and the employee.

Cue David Attenborough's voiceover.
I rode in a DS19 as a child, the owner doing adjustments in time to us singing. I also rode in the steel finish new model as a small child puked over the outside: Citroen wouldn't replace the door and he drove his luxury vehicle around for years with a rather nice blemish in the finish..

A friend had an ex-diplomatic corps DS19 which had a glass barrier between the driver and the PAX. Now that is stylish.

The best I had was the Lesney toys "safari" DS19 model car in zebra stripes.

Sideways open rear door on the wagon.. Death trap for non LH side parking.
This is usually put forward as a conservative parable. I'm not sure it necessarily takes a position there. It does not assert that the fence should not be removed, just that one should make the effort of attempting to understand its context prior to doing so.
I imagine they'll be hard to come by these days, personally I doubt wearing a face mask will make a real difference. From what I've seen here, most of the cases are from people who had close contact with someone who was already infected, be it over dinner, or from family members. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any cases from people getting randomly infected on the streets.
At least here in HK I understand, people often come in close contact with strangers, be it on the bus or MTR, of just walking on the streets. But I imagine that in most other countries there's less population density, so it's easier to keep your distance.
No, that was for depression and ptsd.
I stopped seeing my doctor when he told me he thinks I have bipolar.
I've never seen a true dorm with a kitchen, the transition apartments owned by the university for juniors and seniors had them but freshman and sophomore dorms I've been in tend to have microwaves and thats it.

Its the right decision in my opinion since the largest number of fire alarm evacuations I've had to do were in those dorms because 18 and 19 year olds living away from their parents can't even figure out how to not burn popcorn in the microwave every couple weeks for movie night.
My job (at Google) would be pretty damn hard if I couldn't duck into the office to do certain tasks. I work on hardware devices. I can get by working remotely for a bit, but there are certain things I need physical access to. I will commute in for a short visit tomorrow to pick up and flash some devices, etc. then turn around and come home. I suspect others will be doing similar things. Mandatory WFH at this point would be very tricky.

But as others have pointed out, we really are being messaged to stay home if possible, and I think that's very responsible.
You generally start with healthcare workers, then high risk populations, then the general public.
Google is in fact allowing its employees to take their desktop monitors home, which I first discovered when I saw someone walking out through the lobby with one on Monday and thought it was hilarious, only for that to be repeated.

It's funnier because this is the NYC office and no one drives, so he was probably lugging it all the way through the subway system.
Im in the same boat as OP and this advice just seems totally alien to me. i don’t optimize my productivity like this, I’m just a guy that understands how computers work. I think there are a lot of people like me
Haha, right? I remember writing my first bot on reddit; it was named after Obama, and it made rate-limited "You're welcome!" comments to all of those "Thanks, Obama" eyerolls during his first term. Someone else quickly made a bot to thank it whenever it commented, and they got along very well. I thought it was hilarious at the time.

But it only lasted about a day. Come on, who makes these rules? :P

Good times, when you come to remember them...and now that I do, that was also the first time I spun up an AWS instance. These sorts of fun and games are good for learning, but I do understand why platforms dislike them, especially once they go mainstream.
'nice' cars and 'well designed' cars are dis-joint sets.
Primaries, Cooler?
Oh you're right, we didn't include this in the text. For businesses with high authentication volume, we offer pricing per MAU or a monthly subscription.

Thanks for pointing it out!
I agree with you but I'm sure we'd get used to it pretty quickly too.
That isn't a stable equilibrium though. Just one has to break and have their portfolio companies outcompete the other funds (LPs are also always looking for the highest returns) - or a new fund can enter (there's plenty of capital to go around) - it's just not a market where there are few enough firms with strong enough incentives to hold an unstable equilibrium forever. Especially when there are LPs competing for returns. If everyone performs the same, they can't charge higher fees for their funds, they need to compete for LP money, and so on. I'm not saying it'll happen within a few years, but I'm saying on the decades (or almost century) long scales it took for the funding market to evolve to where it is, it'll evolve to take all those factors into account as well. There just aren't enough incentives to keep that sort of unstable equilibrium.
I live in Boston, I'm in my 30's, and I've decided I won't cancel anything. If I get the virus, so what? I firmly believe it's unwarranted panic. I'll enjoy the empty metropolis and remember this event for the rest of my life, like I remember 9/11, the financial crash, and how my parents remember the JFK assassination and the Blizzard of '78. Strange times

EDIT - Let me clarify. If I get the virus, I will quarantine (of course), but I'm not going to prematurely ruin my life in fear of this event, which is in itself not a death sentence - only 0.2% of those under 40 die at worst case https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Everyone needs to RELAX
Yes, don't mean to minimise the challenge of having a home office that befits the name. While I am fortunate enough to have the space, my company does provide a stipend for people without it to e.g. rent a desk at a co-working space.

My concern remains that companies who are doing this on the fly, due to an external influence, with employees who never signed up to be remote-first, with new, unfamiliar tools, and without the ingrained culture that a distributed-from-the-start company enjoys, will nonetheless tar us with the same brush when their experience turns out to be disappointing.
>Why shouldn't more people have enjoyable cars?

To my eyes (auto mech first job/into car/driving experience more than i can afford): There has not been an interesting new car (on my sub 6 figure radar) in around 15 years.

In Washington state subaru are pretty popular seeming (all wheel drive due to rare snowfall in the city). I hopped on the band wagon with an 04' wrx, with a sti conversion, suspension/bushings/motor/turbo etc changes). I'm having more fun with a deeper connection for 1/4 of the money than any porsche i've ever entertained on the freeway. I get that labels are cool, but at the mechanical level it's just a word for OEM perception.

SO yes enjoyable cars. But sadly no nothing to buy. I would love to be a 'normal person' with a car payment and something that is 'new' and fresh. I dont want to knock any newer popular cars but good lord. . i could.

Someone mentioned to me yesterday that the Tesla Cybertruck is a bit odd looking. To me everything is an ugly marshmallow these days (including my 04 i guess but it has a pleasantly stout looking rear). So dear Tesla, thanks for making new car life potentially interesting.
Give it another month and then we'll regroup and see how much stuff is closing down and going WFH in Germany.
As an apartment owner, we missed mandatory charging in the basement by two years (its off-the-plan, the change came after we were built. Across the road have it.). The retro-fit cost of high power is going to come. Its a lot more than build-in during construction and goes to if there are sufficient transmission infrastructure investments in the local supply path to your apt. We expect to get 32 amp circuits to every 3rd, 4th parking spot which in principle will share with a long pigtail but the advantage of a park with power will now disadvantage some owners. It requires separate billing. It means having to move the entire apt complex (460 units) to separate billing models, smart meters.

It's likely we'll install the ring, the circuit, but not fit outlets unless the owner pays some quotient of the cost, and we will have to inform everyone there is a process, but not everyone can get one. It will be very unequal.

Retrofit is going to be a very painful topic for years, for apartments, which is also why their lovely high, un-obstructed roof line is not covered in Solar Cells: it makes perfect sense, but its like herding kittens to get the body corporate or condo committee to agree to spend money.

Or pool heating: the retrofit cost is $150,000 for something which could have been planned in for under $50,000. Insanely short sighted design decisions echo down the years.
Relax, it won't happen. Americans would rather see every single one of their relatives over the age of 80 die before they allow the government to forcibly lock down travel.
Explained in https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
We cancel large meetings now to reduce the peak and delay it, so the health care system isn't totally overloaded. Eventually, a vaccine.
Did you try FF preview 4? It's quite good.
You're incredibly selfishly increasing the risk to everyone else around you, but I get it. I was in the same camp just a few days ago.
This is the just the speedbump into the 32 hour work week.
It's wrong to treat the brain like any other muscle. It's more comparable to a neural network (pardon the tautology). You feed in data (knowledge) in hope that some of it sticks and forms new connections that you can use to better tackle new and existing problems. There's no rule of the universe that states that the process of feeding data into the brain has to be challenging.

Now, I'm not arguing that hard work has no merit. Clearly, working hard can increase your rate of knowledge-consumption and get you further faster. For some people, you included it seems, that works out great. For others, the ever-present "110% or bust!" attitude can have serious mental consequences. Accepting that education can happen without rigor won't harm those that intend to push themselves anyway, but it sure would benefit the constantly stressed-out students.
Depends. In the short term (12 months) CBT has been shown to be very effective. However, over two years it has been shown to be just as effective as doing nothing.

The problem of time turns up in multiple kinds of treatments, and I believe it has simply to do with how long the depressive episodes last. Usually by the time people seek treatment that will be at the peak of the episode. Regardless of the treatment, a couple bunch of month will pass and people find themselves getting better. I suspect most depression studies a deeply flawed because of this effect. At some point the treatment will stop working. But it's not that the treatment stopped working, it's that a new depressive episode has begun and the treatment never really did all that much in the first place.
Absolutely. I have to feed myself on weekends. And I'm not gonna be one of those people who eats out for every meal.
You close the lid.. .
You get the email....
If the task was really important...
You open the lid again ...

And trust me one will open the lid when one sees their manager's face in front or may be some situation of losing money or etc
For reference, I’m using TimyCBOR because it’s include with Amazon FreeRTOS.

You’re on your own for malloc, which for me is great because FreeRTOS Heap4 management is quite good. So I malloc an object I’m decoding into and parse away.

There are two options parsing arrays and strings/bytestrings and I just chose the option where I specify the pointer to use, vs them using normal malloc then free() later.

I really like this setup. I made a deinit(bad_message) that works anywhere it failed (parse, validate, eval, etc), goes through and looks for pointers that I previously would have malloc’ed.

There is another popular library but I forget what it’s called.
> I tried to reduce my screen time by not having external monitors at home, and now I code on a small 13-inch laptop display.

Unblock yourself maybe? Pitch to your management that your productivity is bad and get them to either: a) let you bring hardware home, or b) expense your monitors for WFH.