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Settle down and read more carefully.

Among the things you should have derived from reading more carefully is the fact that state I'm living in is taking it quite seriously. Personally, my hatches are battened down and I'm prepared to be isolated for at least a month, maybe two. (Have to admit it's hard to tell how far my supplies will go, I've never actually had to live on them before.)

You're talking to someone who specially prepped for this about seven weeks ago, in addition to the general prep I already had on hand. If you can match that, then maybe consider start lecturing me. I actually got a bit of flak from my wife for the amount of prepping I did, because it was before she'd hardly even heard there was a new virus. Now she's glad I did, because I bought all the things that are missing in the stores around here now long before it was "hoarding".

I'm in the top tier of taking it seriously. At the same time... Don't panic. Don't advise panic. Don't fall into the cognitive trap of modeling this as a zombie apocolypse or some other thing where the virus is intelligently seeking out victims. Isolation measures will slow the virus down. It isn't possible to keep it "out of the US" but it remains possible to keep it out of your county, or your city, or your neighborhood, with sufficient steps. Total doom is not yet inevitable, and even then, how you are impacted remains significantly under your control even if your government is feckless. Or, at least, it was, if you got your prep in before the panic rush... you may be a bit more at the mercies of your government now.
> How many software applications from the 90s can you still use effectively on your laptop [...]

I run Windows, so most of them.
I stand corrected. The Wikipedia article shows China much higher than Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette...
The RAM thing is disingenous. Even on a desktop it could be more expensive than that to add more RAM, say if all your memory slots are populated. If you have a Macbook with soldered RAM, it could cost you a new laptop and thousands of dollars to get more RAM. But I guess Spotify is worth it.
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I was thinking about that fact yesterday, when I pondered on my disgust at people looking in my shopping cart, and one person telling his wife they should also buy tea.

I'm probably a bad person for feeling that, but I just wanted to punch the guy in the face, because I'm sure people like him buy all the toilet paper.

Then it dawned on me that if you can't be smart and innovative, evolution-wise, at least be nosy, insidious, envious and without scruples.

Let the 1% bright humans get you out of your mess(like elect Xenophon your leader in times of crysis) then strike them down once the danger has passed.

Quite depressing actually.
In the recent couple of weeks I've been checking the COVID-19 stats of my country over and over, and with this I don't have to waste time checking. When there's a change, I'll be notified. I made this primarily for myself, and then I thought others might find it useful as well. Feel free to use it if you like. I'll add unsubscribe option in the e-mails tomorrow.
You could try https://www.yameeting.com/ we give free service for small meetings < 10 ppl with no time restrictions (no enforced limit except server capacity)

You can also use the Ninja Mode (disposables VM's), but you'll have to pay for that.

Disclaimer: I'm the owner of yameeting.com and we use jitsi meet behind the scenes.
We’ve been using these guys to pick tools, though we didn’t ask for self-hosted vidcon:

https://www.remote-theory.com/
Does it have to feel like a native app? Depending on the audience you're targeting, I'd argue that most people don't even care, as long as its a good user experience.
I think it could be perfect if you do something like Bose and measure the building before installing the bots.

As a professional cleaner I have the following suggestion:

Make A cleaning schedule with different frequencies for different tasks. For humans you have to limit complexity, the robot cant get enough of it.

The trick is to do a great job with the least runtime and perfect timing.

1 (Highest frequency): The visible areas when walking from the front door to the seat where your guests will sit. The entire house can be either 1) a complete mess, it will still look clean. Or 2) the entire house can be supper clean it still wont look clean.

Some cameras would be nifty here.

1.1: edges for 1

2: Same as 1 for all frequently used paths in the house except those covered by 1. Could split this up into levels of frequency.

2.1: edges for 2

3rd: All open surfaces not covered by 1 and 2.

3.1: all edges not covered by 1.1 and 2.1

The edges are done roughly every 4th round.

The 1st it can do multiple times per day depending on traffic. (1 times is a good minimum) It could by a dynamic number based on motion sensors. Timing is everything, if the room is empty it can do its thing for 2-3 minutes (quit if someone walks in) Nr 2 is done half to 1/3 as frequent as 1. Nr 3 is done half to 1/3 as frequent as 2.

I've used the above system for years and it continues to amaze me how quick one can execute the routine and how clean everything looks. Nr 1 sometimes takes no more than a gaze around the room.

Without such system one just does "everything" every time which is a lot more work than it seems. (enough work to cut the same corners every time) The result also looks really inferior.
I'm not sure I follow? My claim is in the places finding they have covid now, for the most part it has already reached saturation levels. Not that it doesn't grow exponentially, per se. Just in many places that growth happened well before testing.
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Corvid19 is just a potentially deadly type of cold. There are many strains of cold, most are not (very) harmful.

The strains are specialized for some group of animals. This strain was specialized for another animal, and it jumped to an human host.

The virus will accumulate mutations slowly. Most mutations are irrelevant. They are useful to track how the virus moved from country to country, but these mutations doesn't change anything for the infected person.

But some mutations may make the illness more deadly and other more mild.

Also, other mutations (or accumulation of mutations) will make the antibody for version X not useful against version Y. So getting a lot of people infected or vaccinated against version X does not give protection or herd immunity against version Y.

This is what happens with the flu. There are many different versions that are different enough, so you need a vaccine that have the versions that the doctors guess will be popular this year.

Does the covid19 have two versions that are too different and getting infected by version X doesn't prevent you from getting sick again with version Y? Probably not yet.

Will the two versions develop before the pandemic is controlled/eradicated? I don't know. My guess is that virologist can have a good guess because it is very similar to other virus they know, but I have not reed any convincing article for yes or for no. It will be an informed guess anyway.

If the virus is not eradicated, but only contained, do the people in risk groups need to take a new vaccine for the version that will be popular that year? I guess yes. At least until the virus mutates to a not deadly version that flies under the radar, like all (most) of the other versions of cold.

(The technical term for versions probably is strains, but I'm not sure of the exact definition of strains, substrians, subsubstrians, family of strains, or whatever is the correct classification. So I prefer to use a version to make it more fuzzy.)
I couldn't disagree more about the ARD/ZDF being useful. I'd even go as far as saying they are harmful (biased news, promoting gambling, ...). But we can agree to disagree on that.

What I think is absolutely not OK is the current funding method using a compoulsory payment. If you say that public TV is beneficial to society then it should be funded through regular taxes which are collected equitably (ie. based on income). If however publicly funded TV is not a benefit to society then there should be a way to opt out. There was before ARD/ZDF added these online services.
Because it's not 10X better than CSV. It's merely "slightly" better than CSV, and there's really no pain or need for DSV at all. It has literally zero performance benefits but introduces a ton of compatibility issues.
Masks are not effective. There are not only professionals saying this, there are scientific studies, and as a result, fewer surgeons are wearing them, favoring instead a plastic face shield.

Why are they not effective? Because they don’t contain the aerosolized moisture from your breath. Most masks, unless properly sealed against your face and not impeded by moisture in the mask, will bypass the mask entirely and vent out the sides. How long does it take for moisture to impede airflow through the mask? About 30 minutes.

So, unless you are replacing your mask for a new one every 30 minutes, and are ensuring that its properly fit every time, wearing a mask is a placebo at best.

Can a mask block you from spitting on everyone? Sure, but so can your arm or hand when you’re coughing.
It is especially noticeable if you have a cat or dog. Even through weekly cleaning with a powerful "normal" vacuum cleaner won't help with everyday hair and dust accumulation. And personally I'm often too lazy even for a once per week cleaning. This thing (I have Roomba 960) collects most of the dirt in the most visible places. It really makes a difference. And corners don't matter in a big picture where every furniture item collects a ton of dust in hard to reach places.
You're not modifying the DOM so obviously those will be fast.

It's the DOM modifications that can easily hang the browser for a noticeable time if the reflow they cause is complex enough.
Ah yeah, you can split_at_mut here, but you're right that that's an actual error. My bad!
hey, thank you for noting! i'll fix it right away.
this is my first time using medium as well. I think i might abandon the account and repost the story on my blog.

thanks again :)
Yes this is definitely also true.

Druid complexity is coming down a bit compared to where it started. These days you need brokers, middlemanagers and historicals - for queries, ingestion and storage respectively.

In the past to do batch ingestion it also required Hadoop but there is now a native parallel batch ingestion system that runs on the middlemanagers as worker tasks that can read from S3/GCS/existing Druid segments.

Druid is by far the more complex but you get a lot for it and with k8s it's not as hard to run/manage as it was in the past.
In many places, the tests run are well behind people already recovering from the mild cases. Would they show as negative or positive? (Genuinely asking.)
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I found this really interesting from the ecosystem point of view. You've got the hardware manufacturers (Oculus / HTC), the studios creating VR content, content creation tools (Unity), accessory manufacturers, distribution of content (Steam) but then The Deep team came in and created another set of knowledge/hardware/software for multiplayer venues, a distribution mechanism for multiplayer games, and a franchise model for venues - and they needed to create the first few games to prove the model / jump-start the market.
Have to say our leaders, the EU and globalism in general seem to be looking decidedly worse off: many leaders are following rather than leading; the EU love-fest has disintegrated into closed borders and selfish refusals for assistance; and globalism looks to have delivered us a rapid, efficient and apparently unblockable conduit for spreading a dangerous disease to all corners of the earth. Yay open borders!
Maybe it is a misunderstanding, but even if that is the case United deserves the bad press for not clearly communicating what they are doing.

Why do they have to be shady about it and just hide them without telling you why?

Maybe a little transparency would buy some goodwill and people would start giving United the benefit of the doubt.
Decent mutexes do support a timeout?
> what is the kind of threat that could break Chrome/Electron but not a native macOS application?

This isn't abstract; it isn't about whether Electron is theoretically vulnerable to more vulnerabilities than a native app. It is about Electron's history of CVEs.
Yeah, I’m not surprised (tell me about funding…); even so, seeing it in black&white is still a gut-punch.

I mean, any one of FAANG alone could easily run a PARC or VPRI just off loose change in their kitchen kitty. And sure, it’s totally speculative blue-sky R&D that might [probably] never pan out; yet if no-one ever splurged on such gambles now and again we’d all be here having this argument by parchment and quill pen instead!

We learn by trying and failing, not by being afraid even to try. And in learning we succeed.
Well, in the affected parts of China enforced isolation is in effect, and satellite imagery has shown that the air in these areas is dramatically less polluted now, so the effects are mitigated for now. Also, they're only testing in affected cities, not in rural areas, where the virus could be much more prevalent for all we know.

Their reporting of test results is unreliable anyway as they could be distorting numbers to make it seem like they have less of a problem than they do or to make it seem like their containment measures are working, and the tight control over the media and their totalitarian society makes it very difficult to independently confirm their numbers.

So I would take any reports coming out of China with several large heaps of salt.
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Yeah bloom filters aren't used by default my bad, by default you get no indices at all! I was thinking about the tokenbf/ngrambf indices. These help a ton in improving more sparse queries.

I will need to check out the materialised views. :)
The Vitamin D hypothesis is actionable personally, and a reason for optimism. It will not save you, it does not replace quarantine, but it may reduce the death toll, and summer may bring some relief.
While true, I bet you could also correlate lung damage to population density. Thing is, we know there are causal attributes to some of these places to poor lung health.
You stop caring about 1% of dust escaping after a few cleanings :)
The fact that we need such boilerplate solution to start building a simple Mac app without having XCode in the way in 2020 means a lot about the current state of native app development.
Looks reminiscent of a slide rule!

Very graceful in how it shows the interaction between the different lengths and frequencies of cycles (eg, days of week, months)

I wonder how they handle the changing number of days per month.. always keep 31, and just skip the extras every other month?
Tyler! I knew I recognized that name/company. I bought VirtualHostX eons ago and it helped me out a lot. This sounds like a great project, this guy makes good stuff.
This is a misguided thought.

Older people are more affected by SARS-2, but they are also more affected by nearly every disease. It comes with age.

Another huge factor is we're very, very early in this crisis. On average, it takes longer for younger, stronger people to succumb to their symptoms. Even if death is not a common outcome for young people, there are concerns of long term lung and organ damage. Not to mention if you have a bad case, it literally feels like you're suffocating.

Data I've seen from Italy and China showed two important factors:

* 41% of people in China's ICU's were under 50
* Italy's average death age from COVID-19 has been dropping. I'd expected this trend until we're about 4 to 6 weeks into this being widespread in Italy (currently 2 or 3 at the moment).
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Same. I was able to snag at least 1-2 work shirts or other swag from vendors, conferences, etc.

Puppet (the server software) seemed to go hard on this and I think I ended up with 5-6 shirts even through we never rolled it out into production. I mostly wear em to the gym or use em for sleeping.
A lot of plastics will deform when autoclaving. There are enough lists for autoclave compatibility that I forget the answers, but this looks like a pretty complete chart.

https://www.industrialspec.com/resources/plastics-sterilizat...
You're probably right that Germany has the most trustworthy numbers. The numbers you give work out to 30% growth per day, a 2.6-day doubling time; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pa... says Germany is at 6245 today, very close to the 6304 you'd predict from your numbers, although the Robert Koch Institut hasn't updated their page yet.

So, what accounts for the difference? The paucity of international travel (but then why is the spread so much slower in every other country — Germany is hardly famous for close physical contact with strangers)? Or is it just that Germany's comprehensive testing is allowing them to detect almost all the cases, while everybody else is underestimating by a factor of 10 to 50 or more — a constantly exponentially growing factor?

It seems unlikely that the pandemic was growing by 30% per day since December; it would have already infected 450 million people. Can we really impute that difference entirely to containment measures?
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All those taxpayer-funded entities and government-granted monopolies benefiting from Shadowserver can't scrape up the funds to keep this thing going?
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Plastic, like buttons, which are on clothing.
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That's only part of what keeps developer costs down.

First of all, unless you're on a Mac, every other system can run old applications from the ninetees

Secondly, web is a moving target, you spend less now (maybe) but rewrite every 6 months, even if you don't want to (that library is not updated anymore, now we use this one instead)

Last but not least, electron is not a stable platform, a native API is

What happens to software written today in a year?

Wil it still run the same?

I don't think it will honestly

So you have to bundle electron, for every app

Sounds not very smart to me
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You question contains an implication in it that all current other tax spending will not be reduced, and that "pandemic preparedness" will have to be added to the current load.

If this goes really badly in the next couple of weeks or months, that's not going to be a true assumption. A changed nation is going to be looking at its spending priorities and a lot of reassessing will be done. Predicting exactly what the result will be is difficult, but predicting that there could be a lot of change is not.

If we cross the logistic curve's inflection point today, then this may ultimately blow over and be remembered as an inconvenience (and, humans being humans, an overreaction). If this continues on for much longer and kills hundreds of thousands and (based on some of the nasty stuff I've read about) permanently damages the lungs of millions more or other such things, causing disability and long-tail mortality increases for the next 50 years, this will be a generation-defining event comparable to the Great Depression, and the usually-reliable "tomorrow will be mostly like today" prediction methodology will catastrophically break down in the next couple of months.
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The word quarantine comes from having to spend 40 days mooring outside of Venice before being allowed to enter for trade.
I thought that no vaccine was developed for SARS and MERS because the diseases disappeared, so : not enough volunteers to test the vaccines, and also companies lost interest.

from an npr interview[1] :

BRIGHT: Unfortunately, when the virus disappeared, the funding tended to disappear with it. And the companies that were making a SARS virus vaccine lost interest and shipped it back to their more profitable vaccines.

[1] : https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815307821/planet-money-why-th...
>All the massive famines I recall from history were in the exception category

I'll provide another example. The cause of Ireland's Great Famine was the potato blight, and no one thinks that the British intentionally imported the blight to Ireland. The million deaths were the fault of the British, who chose to export food for more money rather than feed the starving people.
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> Everyone else should wait for the upward trend to make sure it's not going to get much worse.

"Don't try to catch a falling knife."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fallingknife.asp
"I have a hard time believing he'd go so far as to deny the world a vaccine for this"

American here: You HAVE NOT been paying attention.
That clears up some of the mystery. I was wondering how 7-Zip could do it but not explorer or command prompt. But it makes lot of sense that 7-Zip is just fully utilizing the internal file API.
Good Youtube channel with daily updates: https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
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I wonder if anyone is really looking past the coronavirus pandemic at stuff like this. It seems like a great time to sneak unpopular legislation through without much outcry.

I also wonder what continuity of government is like once DC gets locked down. Is the legislature prepared to operate remotely? Is it preparing? In 2020 I see no essential reason why physical presence should be required for lawmaking, but I haven't heard anything anywhere in the news, ever, about the infrastructure that'd be needed to support this kind of "remote work". Have I overlooked something?
That's mobile. Single-small-screen use patterns are quite obviously very different than desktop use.

I care very much when normal Macintosh facilities are ignored, widgets don't act like they should, etc. etc. The entire point of the Mac is that seamlessness.

I wonder how many of these folks claiming nobody cares about desktop consistency will turn around and say the reason why Linux on the desktop isn't popular is because of lack of desktop consistency.