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The reason for that is that, for simplicity's sake, all of the I/O functions share the same error type. `UnexpectedEof` should never be returned from `read_to_end`, but it can be returned from `read_exact`.
VB.NET half-broke the compatibility, which got it stuck in the weird space where automatic translation from VB6 was no longer possible, but VB still had lots of quirks that made it harder to coevolve it with C#.
This reminds me of a series of etymological (European) maps that I found once and really enjoyed[1]. I geek out over the footprints that history leaves all over language.

[1] https://m.imgur.com/a/zrznb
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The variability of critical care bed numbers in Europe
Isn't 365 doing that already? Add-ins for that version must be implemented in JavaScript.
really... another screenshot app??? and not an app, an extension to chrome?

which (according to the 2 gifs on their website) ONLY takes screenshot from chrome. so i can't take a screen shot of something from another application in another window. i see nothing new that this thing brings to the table?

why would i use this this over something like lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html), which is native, has everything that thing has and more like annotations?
Yes, but Rust doesn’t support those. So on platforms where both C and Rust run, bytes will be 8 bits.

Either way, no platform defines bytes to be Unicode code points.
I agree with the parent post.

One really interesting game to analyse technically would be Bioforge. Golden era MSDOS game that used some not seen before tech.
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You get these with everything. The "man who predicted the stock market crash", "the man who predicted the world series winner", etc.

If person A predicts a stock market crash each year, person B predicts stock market boom each year, person C predicts stock market would remain level each year, then someone is always bound to be right.

Those who predicted peak oil was "right" when oil spiked in the late 00s, but then fracking happened and now we laugh at the peak oil crowd.
This is very well explained in the classic book The UNIX Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike, in page 44:

Programs retrieve the data in a file by a system call ... called read. Each time read is called, it returns the next part of a file ... read also says how many bytes of the file were returned, so end of file is assumed when a read says "zero bytes are being returned" ... Actually, it makes sense not to represent end of file by a special byte value, because, as we said earlier, the meaning of the bytes depends on the interpretation of the file. But all files must end, and since all files must be accessed through read, returning zero is an interpretation-independent way to represent the end of a file without introducing a new special character.

Read what follows in the book if you want to understand Ctrl-D down cold.
Leaving aside the stuff about biological research, the idea that a country can be liable for damages in Western (or any other) courts is just bizarre.
The new ways of automating applications is Powrshel with its COM/.NET/DLL integration.

And UWP as modern COM is here to stay, no matter what, Microsoft seems to be willing to spend the money to keep it going, even it requires a new programmer generation.
> HTTP/3 is expected to use two to three times more CPU time than the earlier versions for the same bandwidth consumption.

I wonder the "for the same bandwidth consumption" is based on what. HTTP/2 with TLS I guess?
This reminded me of an article about how sea-faring cultures call it "tea", and land-trading cultures call it "cha".

https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land...
Seems like you missed the next part where he’s talking about matching two-to-one and also everyone getting paid even when closed. That’s more than enough they are doing. Also I dislike when people comment on why so and so is only donating X amount of money.
Nick Nick Szabo's long essay: Shelling Out: The Origins of Money

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
I would say that your definition is a little too strict. There are devices which rest on the top of the larynx (Laryngeal Mask Airway or LMA). These devices are not within the trachea but can only be used in those under a general anaesthetic and such are usually involved in the category invasive.

In essence, the main difference is invasive requires sedation (or the patient has a tracheostomy which is a bit of a edge case)
Hi, I have over a decade of experience working with addiction treatment centers and getting around these type of issues. The problem is the certification, I'd be happy to provide some guidance.
If you kill 100% of your hosts, to which other host will you go? 100% means all.
They are and they are also matching employee donations two to one.
Not entirely true.

Ultrasound actually has pretty good sensitivity for pneumonia (88%) and even higher if you look at the “difficult” cases requiring CT in the Cochrane review I link to below.

While the fundamentals of what you say are correct, consolidation by definition is the build up of fluid which is very well depicted by ultrasound. For a predominately peripheral airspace disease like COVID-19 ultrasound should theoretically be very sensitive.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5279077/
This would be a great thing for the government to invest in, iterate upon, and stockpile strategically. Even if we can't use them now, it would be good for the future.

As an alternative to stockpiling, maybe someday it would be nice for the US to establish disaster relief factories, which have raw materials and rapid manufacturing equipment that can be used for a set of products, as needed. Create a set of product designs that share many of the same components and materials, but the products themselves differ in function and in the type of disaster they address. You could have a few teams of machinists and engineers who are paid to make and learn the designs for these disaster relief devices, which would require two weekends a month perhaps. When a disaster happens, you deploy them nearby and they produce the needed items.

Also, OMG:

"The farmer’s mother and brother took turns, squeezing the device 15 times a minute nonstop for 18 full days and nights, which kept him alive until a mechanical ventilator became available. Thirty days after being admitted to the hospital, the patient recovered enough to be weaned off the ventilator, and two weeks later he was sent home."
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There are several VB-like FOSS clones, Gambas being the most well known.
I was sppecifically responding to the bullet list in the "Adopting QUIC" section of the uber article. I don't think the general "middle boxes ruing everything" argument addresses this.

BBR has very few if any middlebox problems. Neither do tail loss probe improvements or any other sender side optimizations such as TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. TFO may cause issues in corporate environments (works fine with my home equipment) but fallback is easy. So I don't think this really "addresses" the issue. Improved acking is not strictly needed if you use tcp timestamps for RTT estimation and still ack improvements have been added to the kernel over the years.
Yeah VB got me into programming as well, there was a book literally called "programming for kids", it came with a copy of Visual Studio 6 and it was a few simple things like making a calculator, making a simple pong clone etc....that was the best thing as a 10 year old. Now I'm a professional C++ programmer, so....yeah, thanks VB! We'll miss you.
As I've had the privilege to study under some of the people who have been very deeply involved in Erlang and BEAM development I've heard stories of repeated endeavours trying to put type system onto Erlang. None ended up with a satisfactory results.

So other ways of handling the situation was developed. That is one of the reasons it got a very good QuickCheck lib for example.

On the other hand I would be super happy if this would end up with a nice result. Typed Erlang would be awesome. That is why I am as hopeful for Unison as I am.
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It shows an atypical pneumonia. I believe this appearance in combination with a lack of cultures for other pathogens which do this was how Covid was first suspected in China in December.
I would like people realize we have to take care of each other and stop thinking about themselves.
I'm so sad to hear "I don't care if I get the Covid-19, I'm young, I will not die".
What about the others you will infect?
The issue is that with the kind of ventilation required you need to sedate the patient with gasses and you need to recycle those gasses and unused oxygen. With the length of time patients have to be on this you don't want to lose those gasses and also pump it out into the atmosphere. The Manley design could be a good starting point I suppose, you just have to replace the weight system with controllers and add a carbon scrubbing stage to feed back the gasses. The carbon scrubbing stage is the tricky one, it's something that requires good chemistry and not mechanics and electronics.
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Yes, it is the to go programming language in life sciences corporations when Office users outgrow their VBA skills and get to have IT install VS on their computers.

I know a couple of places like this, no R, no Python, VB all the way.
Why is that an issue for you? It seems like the downstream connection would be on AWS' internal network, so HTTP 2 doesn't have as many advantages.
Just how much extra bandwidth are we using?
While sat sipping my morning brew and browsing the news an interesting thought crossed my mind, just how much extra load there must be on the net right now?

Cities and entire countries are on lockdown, many people are stuck with nothing to do and nowhere to go or in many cases people are simply choosing it with reported footfall at brick and mortar businesses reportedly down by 60% here, these people have to do something and its a pretty safe bet that in the majority of situations that thing will be somehow connected

Just think how much extra strain the likes of Netflix, PSN/XBL/Steam, Facebook etc must be under, along with that other things that were previously events youd attend like sporting events etc are being done in a closed space and televised or streamed (and of course lets not forget Pornhubs donation of free premium to anyone in Italy, its nice to get a chuckle out of the news in a time of such bleak reporting)

Sadly im not a data scientist or id probably be able to knock up some sort of fancy visualisation of it but as im not ill just have to make do with it as a fun thought experiment
Please check your trump derangement syndrome. He's not the cause of all the world problems.
Here Is the direct link to the map: https://coronamap.it
Not just DOS. CP/M also used CTRL-Z, principally because file lengths weren’t stored on disk - just the list of 128-byte blocks. So to get granularity beyond multiples of 128, you need an explicit EOF character.
My father had a custom-fitted backpack made back around 1980, which he gave to me, and it's the best backpack I've ever used.

It goes against practically everything in the book about modern backpack design.

There's about zero customisability, you can adjust the length of the shoulder straps and hip strap and that's about it, but I'm a very similar build to my old man so it fits me almost perfectly.

It's an external aluminium framed pack, with a lot of hard canvas and leather. The shoulder straps are relatively narrow, and made of canvas, they look incredibly uncomfortable, but after I broke them in they were incredible, they moulded to fit me.

The external frame allows for really good back ventilation. The thing I dislike the most about modern backpacks is that I basically end up with a giant sponge on my back. The frame also serves a protective purpose, along with being made out of thick canvas, everything inside the pack stays safe, you could throw it of a cliff.

Of course, it's heavy, bulky, and if it doesn't fit you it's hell to wear. But for a 40 year old backpack it does incredibly well.

I think that the biggest difference between old outdoor equipment and new equipment is that the new stuff is all generic, one size fits all, and designed to be comfortable from the moment you walk out of the store. You can buy a new pack and boots, and go on a 5 day hike the next day without having to break in any of your equipment. Perfect for our fast food, turnkey culture. Older, and modern bespoke equipment made in the old way, will last you an entire lifetime, but it takes time to break it in and maintain it.

I've always found it interesting that at the point in history where humans were spending the most time in the wilderness, we had the least technically complicated equipment. When the Europeans were exploring and colonising the Americas they did so with nothing but timber, leather, canvas, and a bit of steel. Now we spend a couple of weekends a year in the bush, bringing a plethora of space-age technology just to try and survive: carbon fibre, nylon, and titanium gas cookers that boil water in 30 seconds.

I feel like people often become more reliant on technology, not less, when they go into the outdoors.
Nothing, apart from the fact that languages with type systems designed more carefully than C happen to be functional languages, to one extent or another.

(Though by the way: having functions that evaluate to a value when executed is itself a feature that belongs to the functional paradigm, although one so trivial and common that it’s not usually thought as such. But a purely imperative/procedural way of returning values would be via out parameters or global variables.)
So after forking PHP, they're now going to fork Erlang, too?
HTTP/2 push comes to mind. Your services hosted behind an ALB won't be able to make us of it if the connection is dropped to HTTP/1.1
In the WHO China report, they mentioned that improvements in the standard of care caused a big reduction on the death rate. But surprisingly there were no details about those improvements!
Basically China already has a lot of experience treating this disease, but I did not see any details about what they learned. I still hope that maybe there is some communication directly between the medical professionals, but probably this is just wishful thinking.
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Yes, but we also have the benefit of modern materials science.

You can make a backpack with a lot more parts/materials and still have it lighter than a backpack made 20 or 30 years ago.

Of course the downside is that you can't repair them when they break. You can't weld, glue, or sew broken parts any more, and good luck getting replacement parts or modifying your pack in any way.

Some of us like our creature comforts too. I could go ultra-lightweight, but I don't want to be eating nothing but beef jerky and snickers bars, and sleeping under a couple of square feet of tarp. I want to eat real food and sleep in a tent (actually I've always been a hut man).
Good to read they're doing what they can. In the meantime, there's business like ours (in travel, 70-ish people, not profitable) that are fighting to survive this crisis. Would've liked to see an extension of the deadline for the apple sign-up requirement. I know we're late, but this means we need to spend valuable time redesigning our sign-up whereas what we currently need to do is redesign our entire business model to stay alive. Curious how others in the market feel about this
Python seems to be the new "beginners" programming language (the "B" in Basic), it's taught in schools now and makes Basic look rather archaic in comparison. So I would say the writing is on the wall. What was good about Visual Basic was the IDE and GUI builder. Sadly this has no real modern competitor in terms of ease of use.
The short answer is this.

Wall Street exists to profit by skimming money off society, like a predator waiting for gazelle to approach a watering hole.

The Chinese government produced an excellent short film on this that was shown on airlines about 5 years ago. At the end was a warning to the USA not to devalue the dollar (to wipe out Chinese holdings.) :)

Silicon Valley VC's also do that, by skimming 2/20 (or more) from institutional investors with no downside risk to the VC.

The long answer - it will take you decades to study and learn. Do some reading and watch NBR.
May be what iOS 14 looks like
Dutch scientists might have found antibody that blocks Covid-19 (not conclusive)
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At least in Europe, they need to continue paying wages, unless they established some (potentially illegal) freelancing scheme over employment.
Livestock production is far more efficient use of land than agriculture to feed vegans which requires far more land to feed the human population far less efficiently. We can use low quality land for livestock grazing or feed. Something that you can't use for human vegetation.

> So meat eating is not only a big driver in climate change and antibiotic resistance but is also dramatically increasing the likelihood of these crossover pandemics.

The human population grew from 250 million in the 1800s to 7 billion today thanks to meat consumption, oil, etc. Blaming meat, oil, etc isn't going to get you very far because facts and reality are hurdles that you just can't overcome.

> It's time for us to quit our toxic addiction to meat.

The only truly toxic thing is vegetation because plants release toxins to prevent being eaten.

https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-can-hear-themselves-bein...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_defense_against_herbivor...

Not to mention the amounts of pesticides and chemicals that you have to use on vegetation for human consumption.
They may all be affected, but with selective ACK that means the receiver will still ACK most of the data, the server will notice that one packet was missing via SACK, resend it along with even more new data and all you got is a larger batch coming in 1RTT later, throughput isn't affected if your congestion controller can distinguish spurious losses from congestion (as BBR does). The problem only snowballs when future requests will only be made depending on previous data.
I have an oxygen concentrator, a CPAP/APAP machine and a finger oxymeter. Do you maybe have any links to a crash course into how to use them as an improvised non invasive ventilator, more specifically on how to decide what pressure to use, or maybe can suggest some relevant keywords?
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It's not just the performance – it'd be nice if backends could take advantage of the fun new features like push, stream prio, etc.

(Though with HTTP/3 around the corner, I can't imagine anyone will bother working on HTTP/2 to backends.)
Do you feel the same way about Bill Gates' philanthropic work?

Is what Gates does also "always PR"?

Both of these men could afford to retire to a private island (or chain of islands) and never be heard from again. You think they do what they do primarily for PR reasons?
This backpack sounds interesting. Do you know where he got it made? Do you have any photos of it? I find modern backpacks awkward at best and having a custom-fitted one sounds great. Also, I basically only use duffel bags to avoid the whole bag sweat issue.
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Why does this not exist already? We need a global database with global testimonials of those that have survived; What their symptoms were, What the experience was like. Preferably with histrionics of their infection(where they likely got it) and their location data histories mapped. We could have an app that geolocates that data to any area and warns people in or getting near that area with amber-like/emergency mobile alerts that they are entering a location known to have infection. Global cultural privacy concerns aside, why does this not exist already?
I'm not sure I understand why you see this as a dichotomy. Sometimes inspiration comes from a weird idea, sometimes it falls out of mathematical analysis.

It's not like it is exclusive, everyone thinks a bit different thankfully. Like your example of the positron and electron seems fine; math and experiment in a cycle of discovery. You wouldn't know to look for a positron if you didn't study the electron experimentally and try to come up with some math for it.
I look forward to trying this out and I like that it has a one-click deploy to Heroku. The pricing with some of the common tools out there can get ridiculous.
Don't mix it with hydroxychloroqine. They can cause a heart attack when combined.
Apple to close retail stores worldwide, except Greater China, until March 27
It doesn't, the data is copied device to device.
Because the US is the only country in the world and Trump the only political leader in the world?
It’s happened in politics for a long time. Two decades ago, a political advisor in the British government sent an email on 11th Sept 2001 saying the day was “a very good day to get out anything we want to bury”. It didn’t go down well, but others have been much more subtle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1588323.stm
How realistic would it be for someone to be able to make a business out of it at this moment? The problem I would see and described in the article is quality assurance. But I believe this could go a really long way in helping with ventilator shortage that could very well be inevitable.
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It's not a technical deep dive if that's what you're looking for
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80% will experience mild to no symptoms. Of the remainder, only a few % actually die..heavily biased towards old people and people with pre-existing health conditions..??? You don't get to die so easily....
Let’s call for global cooperation and modern solutions rather than going backwards in time.
That only tells us that Cuba is inclined to view such offers as "power moves".

Is the Gates Foundation an organization devoted to making power moves around the world?
It's not meant to help the present situation. It's meant to help with elections.
They dont test people, its that simple.
Apple Closes All Stores Outside Greater China for 2 Weeks
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This is cool, but if you spend 10 seconds in ICU with a patient needing ventilation you will immediately realise the process can’t be scaled up merely by virtue of having more machines.

This is why the only way to avoid the Italian situation is minimising and spreading out the case load.