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Facebook Research estimated 3.5 degrees of separation for users on its platform back in 2016. I'd be very interested to see any follow-up studies.

https://research.fb.com/blog/2016/02/three-and-a-half-degree...

Personally, I got a score of 2.91 degrees of separation at the time, and at that point I had 3715 friends. Now I'm at 4037. I only add people who I met in real life, even if I only met them once at the CouchSurfing meetup or a similar international group. I try to get back in touch with people when I travel, so I can be welcomed in every city around the world (and I try hard to welcome others when they come to wherever I'm based).
I'm not an expert! But my impression is labour law was pretty different then and very employer focused.
> We don't see amateur engineers, doctors, lawyers...

What about self taught people, don't they count as "amateur" in some way?
We need a couple more cases like that for people to be out baying for blood and for pandemic-level laws that allow people to be jailed/isolated forcibly.
If you're like me, it's probably because your thighs rub together when you walk. Tight-fitting pants will wear out quickly from this.

Wearing longer boxer shorts can lessen it, but the best thing is to find pants with a roomier fits, ie. old-fashioned straigh-legged jeans or chinos with pleats, that sort of thing. The looser fit lets the fabric move around, instead of rubbing in the same places all the time.

I've been very happy with reproduction Bundeswehr "moleskin" pants in black, they're like the dressy version of cargo pants, made from thick cotton fabric. You can take out the threads that hold the cargo pockets on, and then you have a comfortable and durable set of pants that don't look like you're some kind of security guard.

I don't know if you can get them in the states, they're widely available in Europe.

Otherwise look for slightly-old-fashioned menswear in thick cotton or wool fabrics. Good Tweed lasts for decades, if you don't mind the style. Don't go to big box stores, look for the dedicated niche menswear stores.
I have redirected the domain AlchemyList.com to the spreadsheet, which should make it easy for anyone to pass it on to others.
The US isn't doing anywhere near as much testing as Italy.
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The relevant question is not whether droplets can bypass a mask or not.

The specific question that is relevant is, given droplet exposure containing COVID, are there any differences in infection rates for people wearing a mask (use different levels of mask protection for comprehensiveness, from bandana to N95) versus without a mask?

A mask can be only 10-20% effective but still show a clinically relevant result. If you think about the effectiveness of washing your hands to prevent getting sick, it is probably a low reduction but it is still highly recommended.

People do not argue against hand washing just because the virus can still get into your system through other means. They support hand washing despite its imperfections.
The mask not only keeps airborne droplets in, or out. It keeps the wearer from touching mouth and nose involuntarily. This helps protect against smear infections!

I noticed this when I was wearing one during a flu infection. My fingers were frequently surprised to touch the mask instead of my face, and I went "oh, right, don't do that!"
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> 1. you go out, you wear a mask

If you can get a mask.

The mask manufacturers in the West are not going to ramp up without a significant amount of money up front. The last time they did with SARS they almost went bankrupt after it fizzled out and demand collapsed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/15/coronavir...

So, you need the US government to either command or fund the manufacturing ramp up.

Unfortunately, that requires people in charge who actually don't suffer from cranio-rectal impaction.
There is no harm in having more people trained in first aid. I have to do a two day refresher in it every three years for a sports coach licence.
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You can try Jitsi meet[1]. Open-source and with all the usual features.

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I am sure that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud will be the next victims of COVID-19. There's just no way to scale infrastructure up as fast as necessary. People think about cloud as 'elastic' but there's a fixed number of data centers with a fixed number of servers in each at any give time.
When it comes to ventilators, you'll have to be really careful about infection risk and particulates. Making an air pump should be relatively easy, but making things medical grade is more complicated. I think that's the main difference between amateur and expert, between homemade and professional. Explains the price difference as well.
Hm, ok. That would make it in the region of 1%. Thought my numbers were out of date since I heard 0.6% somewhere else.
> About the BS jobs, yes, there's undoubtedly a lot of those. I think the only way they go is if the crisis hits the economy so hard that many businesses collapse and are rebuilt, without those jobs.

Maybe this will help to introduce basic income and to finally part with the silly notion that to survive you need an excuse of having some job even if that job is manufacturing products and services people don't really need and tricking them into buying those.
thanks for the ideas

Originally, I tried aligning the equations to the equal signs, but it increased the display width by about 30%. So, I had to choose from aligning the equal signs or a 30% font size. It still annoys me to see it centered, but half my traffic is from mobile.

More explanations is a good idea.

I think putting quizzes for students would work well for multiple choice questions. Numerical entry might be a bit more work. I'd have to get a library that evaluates strings into floats.
This is hard to put into the right words especially in a short way but

The entire "what should I eat" field is so full of bad science that I disbelieve everything. There is so much money to made here it's astonishing and it makes everyone's motives questionable.

I believe in a somewhat closer-to-the-nature approach without going stir crazy.

Moving from very processed foods to their less processed versions felt like a good move. I am playing this by the ear because as our conversation shows there is a study to counter every other study.

I personally believe that general food advice can't exist because surely our genetics play a role in how our body reacts to different foods -- foodstuff itself is very complex chemically, biologically.

In short, intermittent fasting is unnatural and
This one is actually impressive deserving to be called "case study", unlike the Medium article.
googled it apparently eufy is a brand of anker. suddenly not surprised by the price/quality.
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Fair enough, some, not all.

But still far more than just a few.
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Whether you page someone or not, a machine hitting thermal throttling repeatedly should be just as notable as the abnormal failure rate that started the investigation.
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Not really. The delivery riders, Uber drivers, couriers and postal workers that bring you all that stuff you can order online like food and goods. The people that work maintaining the cables for your ISP (and the technicians in their data centers) that let you work from home in the first place. The people that clean your streets. Ambulance drivers. Taxi drivers. Cooks. The people that collect your garbage. The people that maintain your cities. These are all just off the top of my head.

Really think hard about it; it's pretty easy to take a whole bunch of stuff for granted especially when you work in high-tech areas. I'm extremely fortunate that I can work from home, but what if my fridge breaks down or I just run out of milk and my Internet happens to be down?
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Will it? Won't it just prove that people might be able to "get by" at reduced productivity if they're suddenly forced to work remotely without being a "work remote" kind of person, or are properly equipped for it?
MTE is part of ARMv8.5, a hardware specification. There is no iOS device that ships with this–and I would expect very few (if any?) Android devices do as well. Do you have a source of it being a requirement for ARM-powered Android 11 devices? Because I would expect this to exclude almost every currently shipping device…
Worked fine in France as well, all morning.
In italy some big universities (like those in Milan) started using microsoft teams for streaming lectures and indeed they already had problems last week. My girlfriend who studies there said she was constantly disconnected from the service each 2-3 minutes and had to wait the same time to reconnect successfully
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> you won't fix people wanting to buy silly things.

If the supply will be lower because people won't need to manufacture them to have an excuse to not starve to death, price of silly things will go up and that does wonders to people's wants for silly things.
As this is for school kids 13-18 I meant the fundamentals like number representation binary /decimal octal and hex the basics of SQL networks etc.

Not the rote memorising of algorithms
Because in South Korea the rate is more like 0.5% and they've done the most testing.

As far as I can tell, basically all the data around this epidemic is so dubious it's nearly useless. We use it anyway because ignoring data is really hard when the alternative is intellectual darkness. Yes, that's a strong claim, but look at the error bars! Above in this thread we have someone giving two estimates for total dead in the USA that vary by a whole order of magnitude.

A difficulty with all current rates is that nobody knows the denominator: how many cases are there really? Some cases are asymptomatic, many are mild, people got the message by now to stay home and try to avoid overloading the health system so they aren't necessarily going to turn up to get tested unless they start to feel really quite bad. To know this you'd need mass random testing of the population, but nobody is doing that, not even in South Korea.

If you divide deaths by cases that turned up at hospital you get these higher rates. But that can't then be multiplied by population figures to derive total expected death rates. It's more like a "death rate of those who make themselves known because they have severe symptoms".

Another problem with these stats is people tend to interpret them as "number of people who will die who otherwise wouldn't have", i.e. imagining a drop in the population graph. But many of those who are dying were about to die of old age or other factors, so deviation from standard death rate isn't going to be that high. The causes of death will shift, but the total number will be less than a simple "Chinese rate * population" calculation.
Great read!

15 years ago, I had one of the first robot lawnmovers (Husqvarna) and did exactly the same thing: Watched it for hours, observing how it worked.

Back then, it seems it was programmed with instructions:

- Go! If you hit an edge, rotate in a random direction and ... Go!
- If crossing the base-wire (a buried wire leading to the base station) while battery level < 40%, follow it and charge.
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Lisp-programmer does not count brackets, but visualizes the linked list world in some other way. My world consists of brown and red LEGO-bricks. They are clued together in pairs and brown bricks are things and red bricks abstract links. These greasy fake bricks were only playthings we had in the cheap-ass post-war daycare center 1957.

Anyways it would interesting to see 3D-environment where this Lego-paradigm is implemented. I sometimes think about it, but do not find really beautiful way to name things, except tags with letters on them.
I think so too, since the introduction will be anything but organized. People asking if they can just move their workstation to home...

But currently MS Teams is working fine in central Europe (Ger). There also isn't any incident report in the Office 365 portal.

There are some interesting browser based soft-vpn solutions that could work for a large amount of users. They could connect to their individual workstation instead of some terminal server that never was meant to support more than 20 concurrent users.
That's all fine. The problem is when industry does that.
While the average degrees of separation is six, only 0.5% to 10% of network uses succeed (see Results section).
They do, but I'm just pointing out that trying to use constexpr as the judge of what is defined is generally not a great idea at the moment unless what you're actually trying to do is find some language-lawyer compiler bugs to file.
You sent in a text document to an email address of an actual person if I remember correctly.
As far as I know a mask is more effective to contain when worn by the infected. But that doesn't mean the not-infected (including those who mistakenly think they are not infected!) to not wear one. Because it does protect. Not only from airborne droplets but also from smear infections.

Reducing the likelihood of infection by ten percent can make the difference between eradication and an epidemic.
I'm still in the cynic camp for a few reasons.
1. My flat is small. I can do a decent vac in about 15 minutes. 30 minutes if I do under the bed.
2. When I do the "big vac", I have to move 6 dining room chairs. Then shift the table a few inches. Zoom. Shift if back. Same goes for some other legged furniture.
3. I also do the windowsills. No bot can do this.
4. Don't you end up with little arched dust patterns in every corner of every room? How does a round vacuum do this? Seriously! This is the deal-breaker for me unless they have some little robot-wars-style dust-brush that shoots out to get into the 90 degree angles.

All that said, I really really want one!
Not the op, however this advise is misguided.

If you're sick but don't know it, your coughing/breathing is spreading the virus.

So everyone wearing a mask prevents the infected, including those that don't know that they're infected, from spreading the disease.

And for those who are not sick, it may offer small protections.

Tiny downside for a large upside.
I created something similar for front end js applications https://github.com/spicalous/webpack-scaffold

using: webpack, babel, sass, auto-prefixer, eslint, chai, karma, mocha
"Have" is a strange word to use to describe someone who resigned before they ever started.
> The real question is one of prioritization: if a rack's temp has raised but there's no customer error, is it an immediate problem?

A server CPU that's thermal throttling is about one step less serious than shutting off. While it's not urgent to deal with dead machines, a dying machine should be in the top priority bracket you see on a day-to-day basis.
It is because if a file is made of a hundred 1-line functions that’s not good code. The separation of concerns is likely not meaningful and it’s detrimental to the reading/understanding of the file.

Why create a function that shortens/clarifies nothing and is used once? If you want to explain some code, use a comment, don’t make spaghetti
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Not completely true. VSCode is not so bad in general, and for an electron app it is actually great. I also kinda like their wireless sculpt desktop (keyboard+mouse). But the rest is garbage indeed.
People have significant others and children at home. Even people that work remote full time will be taking a productivity hit during the COVID-19 disruptions. I fear companies are going to look at the decreased productivity and conclude that remote work isn’t viable for them.
Did you read the article? It mentions "Two helper classes that make building a typical macOS source list easy." which is exactly what OP is talking about. So helpers classes, while not being all the project presented here, are an important part of it.
What they don't say there is how long it takes to scale up and produce those "billions" of doses. I found documented claims of 10 million doses until this summer (https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rna-vaccines-are-coronav...) with the existing production capacities.
Not directly, but they are stating they are not recommended, when in fact, they help a bit:
- wearing something on your face will help you remember not to touch your face. It's not much, but it's something to reduce spread by hand to mouth contact.
- if the mask has good filtration (N95+, sealed on the side), it still offers some protection against dropplet.
- if the person wearing it is infected but asymptomatic, they will reduce, at least a bit, the spread (e.g. when sneezing), as long as they're not wearing one with a valve.

So, some protection is better than no protection. Consequently, It's difficult for me to understand why discouraging people from using face masks is a good idea.

Use it properly and keep social distancing, while regularly cleaning your hands.
There was a thread on Twitter by someone who figured out where that storage locker was of the guy that tried to corner the market on hand sanitizer for profiteering:

https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/123930677615307161...
There are a fair few restrictions already and I'm sure they'll ramp up over time. At the moment quite a few countries (eg Singa, OZ, Taiwan) require 14 day self isolation for arriving brits.
> Native Mac apps feel like a dying breed that are succumbing to janky web views

Yeeaaahhhh, not really. I was a diehard "native" person until recently and I can't believe just how much better developing for web technologies is than writing native Mac.

If you're experienced enough to write a polished Mac app (and that is a non-trivial undertaking) you're experienced enough to write a polished front end in Electron.

Use a lightweight framework (e.g., Vue), be sensible about what you're asking Chromium to draw for you and unless you're doing something really simple -- be ready to write a backend in C++ or equiv.

I'm not saying that is easy, but in terms of complexity it's a wash. The upsides are substantial:

1. Multi-platform with very little additional work

2. Modern web standards + a good IDE are so much fucking better to work with, really

3. Easy to drop into WebGL if you need it

4. Less vendor lock-in

The only place I see it making sense is if you're only working with a single platform -- of course, you have to ask yourself how good of a business decision that is.
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Revisiting the double slit for a single particle makes sense. I don't know why I forgot to do it. thanks!
There are lots of things that contribute to enjoyable work. Giving people the feeling their time isn't worth anything is probably the best deterrent. Stuff like: being late to pick people up; having them show if there is nothing to do and have them sit and wait for 8 hours doing absolutely nothing; similarly, having people sit and wait after the work is done (Extra points if they also act as if they did you a huge favor!); shit tools and materials requiring a lot of extra work every day to save 10 euro; insufficient time to do a decent job; treating any kind of communication as disruptive.

In a call center you give people 30 sec to 2 min to recover after a bunch of calls. If you take that specific moment to complaint people don't know how fast to gtfo.
Where I live, it's common for people to just call in and stay home for the day when they are sick. They don't need to game a device or convince a doctor. There is some trust. Maybe this could be tried elswhere?
I don't think it's going to show anything worthwhile as the whole pandemic thing is a huge confounding factor and the adoption has been hugely ad hoc. In particular people are going to suddenly find themselves working from home in completely unsuitable conditions and the whole social distancing thing means normal remote ideas like coworking spaces and coffee shops aren't really an option.

As someone who has been remotely working mostly from my home for two years today I'm joined by my wife and a three year old and a five year old. My work desk is in the living room as our house is teensy and trying to do anything of substance with two kids is very hard! On top of the added stress caused by the global situation being a distraction in itself.

My wife should be remote working but a last minute change meant it's now up in the air whether her office will actually allow VPN access. This is after they issued her with a brand new laptop, monitor and so on. So now she's spending the day at home tidying up our storage.

Remote work in this context is nothing more than trying to keep the wheels turning and people expecting the benefits that come with doing it more deliberately are definitely going to be disappointed.
The information about masks is from a public health perspective and not a personnel health perspective due to a global mask shortage. Just because it’s better for society as a whole that all PPE go to where they can help the most people, doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the best result for you as an individual.

If there were an infinite supply of masks the advice would be entirely different.
5. Limit the spread for a year or two till we have a vaccine.
Where did I mention any country? I only have to walk 3 mins outside my apartment in Berlin to find cafes teeming with irresponsible idiots. It's unbelievably demoralising.