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Having spent two decades in online meetings and conf calls with many partner companies, both SME's and Corporates, in my experience the only thing that 'just works' right of the bat under all circumstances is GoToMeeting [1].

For in-company meetings you can of course use whatever you feel comfortable with, but when it comes to large meetings with many external parties, some of which will phone in, many of which are very restricted in what they are allowed on their computer, nothing beats GoToMeeting (no affiliation), and I have tried or been forced to try a lot of different solutions.

For email we use O365/Outlook. Although I use GMail for personal/family stuff, I find the Outlook client still beats everything else out there for business matters, and O365 mail has been pretty solid the last few years.

As for planning, notes, follow up, tracking etc. We use Tasks in a Box [2] (full disclosure, I am affiliated with an investor in this company). It integrates very well with Outlook and has been pain free and solid since the 2018 release.

I don't like Slack, nor Teams. Skype used to be fine for persisted chats but they ruined it. I'd love Discord for business. I use it with colleagues and some like-minded companies, but as of now it is not acceptable for many businesses.

[1] https://www.gotomeeting.com

[2] https://tasksinabox.com/
Just read all my posts again and then you will realise that you constructed a strawman argument and addressed a point I never said. No-one directly said that beginners should be contributing to the Linux kernel when I actually said that beginners should get experience from joining other similar but easier open-source OS projects before joining a company specialising in Linux development to be long term Linux contributors.

Technically, anyone can contribute to the Linux kernel due to its open-source nature given that their patches are reviewed by the maintainers and it is then accepted.

> Why should kernel devs (paid by companies) spend resources on making it easy for beginners?

Not only I didn't say that, but you do realise that there are companies that exist who both contribute to the Linux kernel and offer training for a one time fee as an introduction into kernel development? Given the beginner meets the experience pre-requisites: Bootlin, BayLibre and several others have professional kernel contributors that do this.

> If you want people to get into kernel development, there are kernels wrote specifically for teaching purposes.

Read all my posts again. I go beyond just 'kernels' and named other complete OSes to get OS development and kernel experience from before joining a company specialising in Linux development. I said in the last post that '...the starting path is certainly not Linux.', it seems you certainly didn't read that.

Every professional Linux kernel developer started as a beginner somewhere and certainly wasn't born an expert. Some beginners were university students who either joined Linux companies by participating in programs like Google Summer of Code or took a paid Linux kernel training course by a company specialising in kernel development. You will notice that your last comment is in agreement with my whole argument.
(Genuinely curious) what old stuff do you think doesn't make sense to be set up immutably? and what odd stuff needs to run on a regular host?
It's currently unknown if there is an immunity after getting Corona.
If this is going to happen and we don't get a vaccine in time one interesting possibility is to look at stuff like hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic that seems pretty good in vitro and could maybe reduce the infection from very nasty to not too bad in the appropriate dose. I'm hoping for some trial and error research here.

paper showing it good in vitro https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/32150618/

medcram talking about that https://youtu.be/vE4_LsftNKM?t=200

some semi evidence of it working in real life - the lupus patients didn't get it in Wuhan here https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...

I was wondering how you could encourage people to try it and see if it works. My idea - if you got a thousand health frontline workers to try and compared with a similar number who didn't you may get decent data in a week or two if lots of one group got sick and the other didn't. Or it might not work. Don't know till you try though and could save many lives.
They are the same as people buying up hand disinfect to sell at a profit
You think the lesson here is about hustle? Heh.
I've read that coronavirus is a near relation to the common cold virus. How significant is it that catching a cold doesn't seem to give you immunity from catching another?
If you’re referring to the UK strategy, it is not to be “unchecked”.
I seem to recall that during the svine flu, kindergardens and schools emphasized better hygiene (wash hands, hand sanitizer, cough in elbow) - with a (at least anecdotal) dramatic reduction in sick leave. As kids didn't get sick at the same rate, did not infect parents who did not spread it in the work place at the usual rate.
For open source, I don't think there's a better one.

(Multiplatform) GUI is one of those things you really have to throw money at if you value your time.
Sure, I'm aware that this is fundamental research (likely not on actual protein folding, but haven't looked at the details), which will probably not have short-term outcomes, not on the timescales required for a 1st gen vaccine (perhaps not even 2nd gen).

That does however not take away from my main point, if anything it is in support of what I was trying to emphasize: such computational research is better suited for a compute cluster.
What kind of requirements point to nosql?
Nix (nixos, nixops) is worth looking into if you want a full solution and can dedicate the time and energy.
Resolving an issue is only helpful if you know that you have a fake good. For instance it was widely reported that companies were selling defective helmets and that people didn’t know until after their loved ones were in a fatal accident.

If you do know the goods are fake and you pay with a credit card, you dispute it with your credit card company.
That's because the common cold mutates very quickly, so by the time you catch another cold it's effectively a new virus.
"Immutable infrastructure" what a laugh. In a large deployment, configuration somewhere is always changing - preferably without restarting tasks because they're constantly loaded. We have (most) configuration under source control, and during the west-coast work day it is practically impossible to commit a change without hitting conflicts and having to rebase. Then there are machines not running production workloads, such as development machines or employees' laptops, which still need to have their configuration managed. Are you going to "immutable infrastructure" everyone's laptops?

(Context: my team manages dozens of clusters, each with a score of services across thousands of physical hosts. Every minute of every day, multiple things are being scaled up or down, tuned, rearranged to deal with hardware faults or upgrades, new features rolled out, etc. Far from being immutable, this infrastructure is remarkably fluid because that's the only way to run things at such scale.)

Beware of Chesterton's Fence. Just because you haven't learned the reasons for something doesn't mean it's wrong, and the new shiny often re-introduces problems that were already solved (along with some of its own) because of that attitude.
When I noticed that some of the people who complained loudly about certain practices also tended to disappear when a problem was too difficult for them to solve, I stopped letting what they think bother me.

Bosses notice exceptional events. As the team or cluster get bigger, they start happening closer together. Depending on context, any event that happens once a week or once a day will be characterized as happening “all the time” and that creates a new set of problems.

You need tools to head these off. And yes they are a pain but so is telling your boss, “we don’t know.”
Ansible where possible, Chef when I have to (for legacy reasons, usually), and Terraform/Docker/Packer when given the option.
A co-worker from Italy told me. But you can find this for example here as well: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/italy-south-korea-dif... "Italy started out testing widely, then narrowed the focus so that now, authorities do not have to process hundreds of thousands of tests." (I don't normally read Aljazeera... just found this using Google.) It matches what my co-worker told me. See also https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/ (I have no clue how reliable that source is)
Could you say more about why ansible is better than shell scripts for one-time configuration? In my mind, ansible's big advantage over shell scripts is that it has good support for making incremental changes to the configuration of existing resources. In a situation like packer, where the configuration script only gets run once, I prefer the conciseness of a shell script.
FYI everyone, you're going to get a huge selection bias here. The kind of infected person who's going to see and answer this question will likely have symptoms on the milder side. Answers here should not be expected to be remotely representative.
The testing capacity exists, if you count devices that have (still) not been approved for use. That is the primary nature of of the failure here.
Options for sure, at least in rust.

Rust has tons of help dealing with options built into the language.
You can get colds from different viruses.
What Are Viruses?
Not an expert, but this sounds like social media hysteria rather than science.
The lesson is that if your idea of a successful business plan is depending on competing on a commodity platform without any differentiator, it’s more than likely to fail.

That’s not only about Amazon and Ebay, but also depending on SEO on Google, the app stores, etc.
I think bigger issue these days is anabolic steroid abuse which goes unnoticed. And only few people die from it, but it might lead to greater health care cost as most abusers die from cardiac issues young, 30s or 40s.

In many countries, it's pushed underground but they aren't hard to acquire like hard drugs.

There should be companies searching for safer compounds which help achieve same results without any of the long term risks.
Completely missing out that "char" is used in English.
Your quote literally includes the phrase "testable explanations"?

My point about tea vs water is exactly that having: "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge" helps with controlling for other factors when setting up and evaluating experiments?

Ed: hm, we may be talking past each other here:

> Testing "how" is not a requirement for science

Indeed, 'testing "how"' isn't really possible, only testing "if". But testing "if" with no idea of "how" is very difficult? (because without an idea of "how" it's hard to even define the "what")
> Are Ansible/Puppet/Chef any good for managing the hardware you mentioned?

Yes. Well, OK, maybe not good but better than ad hoc.
I haven't used either (yet) but Dhall or Cue lang should be on your list of candidates IMO.

https://cuelang.org/

(To me things like puppet or ansible seem like thin layers over shell and ssh, whereas both Dhall and Cue seem to innovate in ways that are more, uh, je ne sais quoi ;-) YMMV)
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Is coronavirus different in that respect?
Could it still be the incubation period?
Lots of them. I'm a manager at a popular niche restaurant chain. Our cancellations yesterday were up 200%, but the empty spots were filled almost immediately.

One of our employees has quit already (as of now, we don't offer any time off/paid leave). I've had a conversation with my bosses that I'll probably be gone in the next two weeks.
I recently started using this technique. I love it.

It's not too hard to learn how to do it in a functional sense. I don't need to do it well, just tie up some cables.

Whether it's useful depends on how often you are adding or removing cables. It's not a fast technique. I use it for my PC monitors + keyboard + mouse + audio, and it's been much less of a hassle because the wires don't get tangled any more. The real boon is in my audio equipment. For example, I have a (musical) keyboard, and that needs 10' 2x audio + 2x MIDI. Having those cables tied together has made a huge difference, preventing them from getting tangled with other cables, and making it easier to keep them out of the way. I also have a 19" rack of audio equipment, and I use this technique in the back of the rack. Barring equipment failures, I don't expect to change anything in the rack for the next few years.

It's functionally equivalent to using lots of zip ties or velcro ties, and most useful if you have e.g. multiple cables that that traverse the same 10' distance.
Okay, so how is this a problem that exists with Amazon and not the hypothetical website that this man should have set up? We're starting to go off on a bit of a tangent here.
We are not looking at it as a weather app since we plan to add other features as well, but you are right, it can be confusing. I tried to update the title but seems I cannot update the title now. On the other hand, I'm slightly curious, what did you actually imagine this to be?
That's because `UnexpectedEof` is never returned from `read()`, it's only ever returned from `read_exact()`. In fact, `UnexpectedEof` didn't exist originally, it was added together with `read_exact()` to represent its unique error case (which is: `read()` returned end-of-file, but we still needed more bytes to completely fill the buffer). It's an error to return `UnexpectedEof` from any of the other methods of the `Read` trait, and since it's an error, it makes sense for `read_to_end()` to stop and propagate that error.

(In fact, thinking better about it, there are some cases where `read()` could legitimately return `UnexpectedEof`, like when it's a wrapper for a compressed stream which has fixed-size fields, and that stream was truncated in the middle of one of these fields. It's clear that, in that case, `UnexpectedEof` is not an end-of-file for the wrapper; it should be treated as an I/O error.)
That's a very good question. I have not seen anyone address it yet. I guess there should be probably similar research on other viruses.
That was Churchill
On the one hand, I'm a big believer in the market, and that rising costs in times of scarcity prevent individuals from buying more than they need. And if Uber charges 20x for a ride on New Year's Eve, fine -- that's just what happens with supply and demand.

BUT -- it feels like a big problem when a few profiteers are creating that very scarcity in the first place. I don't mind this guy buying a bunch of kits in bulk liquidation... but driving around to empty every store of its shelves? That really rubs me the wrong way. Same as when ticket resellers buy huge chunks of concert tickets to arbitrage, creating the sold-out situation.

But it still confuses me how there is zero hand sanitizer on Amazon right now. Why isn't this guy selling it at least for a non-gouging price? Purell will surely come back in stock in a couple of weeks, no? Now is literally the only time for him recoup his investment... while spending a couple weeks packing, labeling and shipping nonstop.

Why is he sitting still?
"Eh, it's probably nothing"

Better duck into the nearest Wallmart and start mega-hoarding bog roll as evyone will do the same the minute they learn of people hoarding bog roll. XD
Doctors' reports seem more trustworthy than patient social media because patient social media is likely to have a stronger selection bias. If you're in excruciating pain (or just part of an older demographic) you're less likely to be tweeting about it than if you have a mild cough, so expect harsher symptoms to be underrepresented.
You many run out of things temporarily until more deliveries arrive and they stack the shelves. There will be no long term shortages.

It's a good idea to buy and store some durable supplies because you may need to self quarantine for few weeks. It's also a good idea to shop less frequently and buy more at once to avoid getting infection. It's unfortunate that everyone decides to do it at the same time.

'I need to do something to protect my family' is very core need under threat. When there is little you can do, you take little more toilet paper so that you have done something. It's both silly and very human.
> 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.

This argument makes no sense at all. We should start listening more to science and less to random comments in a forum.

Reduction of meat production is needed to reduce global warming. Miss-information and under investment in clean energy, health care, education, and other basic necessities put all us at risk.
> Early on, doctors were quick to note that there is no herd immunity with this particular coronavirus.

Of course there was no herd immunity at the start - nobody had had it yet!
The preprint you have quoted shows that the novel virus genome is very similar to a different Coronavirus (RaTG13) in some parts, and less similar in others. We have only a small sample of all the Coronavirus genomes that are out there in animals, so that's not particularly surprising.

From there to jump to a conclusion involving human involvement does not follow.

What exactly are you suggesting? That scientist have a bank of unpublished viruses collected from the wild that they play with and accidentally release? That makes little sense, particularly since it implies that people would be collecting viruses in the wild, at which point they would come into contact with animals and could get infected directly. But we already know that people collect bats for food, so that explanation only adds unnecessary complexity.

Alternatively, are you suggesting that scientist worked on specifically modifying an existing virus, e.g RaTG13? If that is what you're saying I suspect you are not familiar with how hard it is to engineer proteins for specific functions. It's a herculean basic science task, not something that is commonly done in biomedical labs.

Even in the Twitter thread that you linked, the only thing that Eric Feigl-Ding actually states is that the origin of the virus isn't well understood.
Where does it say that they're actually using the compute for COVID-19?
So, Linux-only? ;)
I’m having trouble defining the line between logging and statistics, and things like retries are firmly in the middle here.

Record retries: yes. Log them? Mmm, maybe not.
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> I think that the biggest difference between old outdoor equipment and new equipment is that the new stuff is all generic, one size fits al

This article literally is about methods of backpack fitting. Custom-made bespoke backpacks are described as well. There is entire section on methods of ventilation.
It's getting very hard to believe the UK story. I mean, i get exceptionalism, but this is going too far.
Echoing the sentiment on "Money Stuff" - this is one of the only email newsletters that I subscribe to and regularly read.
There was a lot of talk about this early on in China’s epidemic. Is there any newer evidence anyone’s seen? Seems to have gone quiet.

I wonder if this is would be more effective in the second stage of getting COVID-19, which is the immune system going haywire rather than the virus directly causing problems.
Why do we wear exhaustion as a badge of honour?
This is a state Senator saying that there isn't enough reagent that is needed to prepare the samples for testing:

https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1238811865481990144

So if that is true, the testing capacity isn't going to be limited just by device approvals. Also need to establish the protocols for other reagents and so on.
the best option is antivirals AFAIK, which will probably become available before the vaccine
Use electron then any skills you gain will be practical and you can use edge.js to run MS languages.
Just for reference, the clients are all still ruby based. It's only the web servers for the puppet masters ( the parsing code is still jRuby ) and puppetdb that are written in clojure that runs on the JVM.
That seems a little racist, but in any case:

There aren't very good studies for basically anything in medicine (let alone outside of medicine). Triple/Double-blind large studies are expensive in the extreme. We don't have strong evidence for the majority of things we do.

Recent examples might be mamograms causing more cancer than it detects and stents, it turns out, are no better than a placebo.

Therefore, the lack of a decent studies isn't in itself that interesting. Neither is it illogical for people to turn to old wives tales for knowledge because the filter of history on the knowledge is more powerful than retail medicine in terms of anecdata.
All signs point to the coronavirus infection inducing normal immunity. The number of apparent reinfection is extraordinarily low, consistent with being due to testing error, and in any case not relevant even if real if it only applies to a small fraction of the population. Furthermore, the virus does not have a segmented genome like influenza (thought to be responsible for its rapid evolution and ability to evade vaccine) and is a single "species" (unlike the huge family of viruses, mostly rhinoviruses, that cause the unvaccinable common cold).
Over 200 different viruses can cause a cold.
Frankly I do not give a flying hoot about political intricacies of China. If you live there and looking to blame your leaders be my guest.

I am way more concerned about what is happening in Western hemisphere where I live. All I know is we've allowed major f'ck up all on our own.
Herd immunity is the end-game scenario. All other measures should be done to decrease the infection speed to prevent the health system from melting down.
Exactly. The few really sick people who are 70-80+ years old will likely not be social media users.
This administration's handling of this pandemic is absolutely atrocious as you point out, perhaps that is where we have a silver lining. Coming close to a US presidential election perhaps Americans will consider their penny-wise, pound foolish healthcare policies.

The fact that the richest nation on earth permits about 10% of its population no access to decent healthcare is morally repugnant. But even if one is not persuaded by the moral argument, perhaps the economic impacts can change views.

With no national sick leave policy, potentially infected uninsured citizens will have the incentive to go to work, raising the risk for all. Children of uninsured whose parents are unable to take sick or medical care leave may be shunted to older care givers who are most at risk. Uninsured families are acting rationally for their own economic circumstances, but creating a larger risk profile for all.

Let's hope Americans are sobered by this experience and consider a more sensible healthcare policy.
How do you imagine "total collapse"? Hospitals falling down, no doctors left?
It sure can and does overwhelm the healthcare system. Maybe you can even call it short-term collapse, but if it keeps functioning it is not total collapse.
Something seems a little off. If this thing truly incubates for up to 14 days, during which time it can be transmitted, it seems odd that so few people are ill.

Is it possible that many people, in fact, are infected but do not get sick?
Yes, but to be clear, some of those containers have been .Net Core containers (running in Kubernetes) for me. I appreciate not having Windows in an estate isn't common to all setups.