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Sure, but he’s saying it wasn’t market forces that motivated them but their sense of civic duty.

That is something that “the market” often lacks in their relentless pursuit of shareholder value.
Is it widespread? I've never seen anyone else using powershell 'in the wild', admittedly for the last 3 years I've mainly worked alone, but I still see people using CMD scripts.

I usually get frustrated with it and bash out a quick cmdlet instead.
> But he came into that position because he's rich, not because of any particular expertise

Except Gates is rich precisely because of expertise and talent. Without a doubt he's one of the best managers alive. Doubly so when those organizations are operating in complex, technically challenging, domains like software or epidemology.
Really? Everyone I know in sales was told to work remotely.
Korea gear approach:

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/03/13/gettyimages-1205...

Europe (and likely USA)

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healt...

Leaning into the car with facemask down. Should end well.
Possibly, though bash is from a much earlier time when shell scripting language design probably wasn’t a very well known topic and bash evolved more naturally from open source. Powershell is much more recent plus had much more complete control over the language to prevent the kind of syntax warts bash has. Even then I would still probably take bash over Powershell for scripting but that’s probably more because of familiarity than anything else.
VB.net is already equivalent to a subset of C#, and it can mostly be automatically translated.
What you're asking for is wholly separate from what the person you are responding to is saying.

The point of stuff like what this thread is about is mostly silent companionship to help focus on a work-related task.

Engaging in active discussion, you're never going to get any work done that way.
It's very different than selling drugs. This bug's only value is for someone to use it in order to defraud someone else, and that's clear to understand. They are both illegal, but the two actions are not morally equivalent to most people.
Appreciate these thoughts talolard. I like the idea of partnering with local governments and non-profits, and would welcome any introductions or suggestions there. As you mentioned, most would want to see efficacy in a few pilot regions first, which is what we're currently working on.
Given the massive explosion in cases in Denmark, going from 514 to 1573 in two days, closing the borders is probably wise. For a country with just 5.9 million people, that's a recipe for collapsing your healthcare system if the cases continue to increase like that for much longer.

There are not many medical systems on the planet that could handle that per capita case load increase in such a short amount of time (specifically the intensive care patients that will go with it in the coming days and weeks).
Furthermore, parent is assuming investors are rational. In an environment like the current, when ppl see their portfolio drop 10% in a single day and worry about their lives, they aren’t making rational pros vs cons decisions. They aren’t calculating future value.

They are panicking and just do whatever they can to make their lizard brains feel better.
Thank you! Your last link is exactly what I was seeking, greatly appreciate it.

See omar_a1's feedback, sounds like he's pretty certain it's impossible.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering what Bento Lab or other synbio kits can do for self-testing if a complete from-scratch DIY option is time-constraint infeasible. Thanks again.
They had an opportunity to make a whole new, good, scripting language. And blew it spectacularly.
He has ten years of experience. Not many others can point to that.
I programmed in VB6 for thousands of hours, if not more. I loved the language.
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>anyone with symptoms to self isolate for a week, regardless of positive test.

In an ideal world we would already be doing this. I know that some people have to show up to work even if they're sick, but even at my job where we have unlimited sick leave, and are encouraged to use it, people still show up coughing and sniffling.

I don't get it.

If your employer encourages you to work from home when you're sick, and you're actually sick, please work from home! No one wants to catch your disease, whether it's Coronavirus or "just" the common cold.
Many sales environments are just fucked, look at the shit happening at Toyota of Kirkland, the town that is the epicenter of the Pacific Northwest Coronavirus infections: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/feflyn/dealershi...
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At my internship, everyone used to joke about how interns are t real people. However, I was treated 10x better than any labour or retail job I have ever worked. It is amazing how well people treat you once you have a piece of paper that says “engineering” on it, I can’t even describe it
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How is this inequality more so than it is simple role differentiation?

Can tellers not be trained for better-paying roles? Better yet, education is available to those who wish to utilize it (though the education system clearly has its own inefficiencies).
That’s so tone deaf - it’s astounding
But if we're holding companies liable for dangerous products... shouldn't we be holding the manufacturers liable?

What's the point is holding companies which purchase products liable for the quality of those products? That's a step removed for literally zero benefit I can see.

Just hold the manufacturers liable directly. In other words: standards, not labels.
Mobile in the US is closer to $15-25/GB for hotspot data. Damn.
It's kind of incredible the article doesn't mention it, but the typical city bus makes sounds at a decibel level that is harmful to the human body (anything above 85 dB is harmful).

There's a scene in Mad Men that I always like to bring up when it comes to things like this, where the Drapers are having a picnic in a bucolic park, and then they just get up and walk away, leaving their trash behind. It looks crazy and stupid to us now, because we all collectively woke up and realized that damaging the world around us makes life worse.

People are using buses less partly for the same reason that they stopped littering, and normal cars have gotten steadily quieter over the years: they're waking up to how painfully awful city buses are.

The day will come when someone will make a show about our times, and it will feature a city bus pulling up and drowning out a conversation, and all the characters in the scene, who ignore it or just start shouting over it without thinking, will look as ridiculous to future viewers, as the Drapers did to us in that scene.
Back in the very old days I wrote Excel Apps in VBA. You could pull an entire range in as a 2d array and dump it back out the same way.

The debugging environment was better than any I have used since. You could drag the execution point anywhere, edit code in between steps, view everything. It was amazing.

IntelliJ is pretty good now, but not like that.
That's right. So since it won't be a part of the language, libraries like this are being developed.
I can't edit my comment, but according to the Verge, Google is not building a website to help with the response.
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ seems to collect ideas and there's a newsletter and chat group.
This.

If public services are expected to keep operating, it's rather obvious that the skeleton crews required to keep them operating include the guys actually providing the services to the public.

But what's really important is that some self-righteous political activist saw in a pandemic a good opportunity to force his political views onto others. Good job, comrade.
I work in the trade show & event industry, and a million is a drop in the bucket. Actually, it’ll pay for the artist fee for the welcome reception concert (think like a “Rhianna”)

The shows I’ve worked the overall topline budget for a 2 day single-company show at San Jose Convention Center (SJCC) that uses all of SJCC usually $30-40 million. Moscone South in SF is $35-50.

That’s just direct cost for food, Union, fabrication, etc... doesn't include venue rental (client usually pays that direct) & doesn’t count the extra that flow to the hotels, Uber/taxis that the guests generate.
The herd immunity level is (1 - 1/R0) where R0 is reproductive rate.

If the effective reproductive rate can be lowered with measures (like increased social distance and gatherings) the level where herd immunity is reached is lower.

Another reason to use countermeasures is to prevent hospitals from filling up too fast. There is limited number of ventilators available.
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It’s pretty widespread if you have to do sysadmin scripting. There are a lot of useful cmdlets. I am embarrassed to admit that I also run it on my Mac with good success.
bloomberg anywhere exists (cloud version) -- but there are regulations that require trader behavior to be monitored. no personal devices on the floor, for example, last thing you want is someone to send encrypted messages over signal that the SEC/your bank can't read. these seem to be mostly waived: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/finra-con...
You're even more compromised if you are removed.

In the US, do you think companies have not moved manufacturing from union plants to non-union plants? Do you think they have not moved manufacturing out of US plants? Do you think this does not have to do with union membership?

I believe the adversarial view of unions and employers results in inefficiency and waste. I was suggesting an alternative view of unions and employers, but I believe I now understand you: you think this is impossible.
bash out

Freudian slip?
For the same reason Bob is forced to buy car insurance in case he hits someone else's car.

The botnet that infects Bob's equipment will harm others. The same way his car might.
While there’s nothing technically stopping them from being able to work remotely, in practice there are local regulations in place which means traders can only operate from the business location itself, using phone lines with recorded features etc. so they are unable to do insider trading. When offices had to be evacuated for other natural disasters, different offices in other parts of the globe would step up and manage the state of play until it was safe to return. TL;DR, yes, they need to come in.
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It would be unexpected for them to be perfectly represented. Even with large external pressures to be representative any variation means you get the most average person paradox where having a board perfectly representative is less likely than having nonrepresentative characteristics
Would it be impossible for Excel to allow coding in multiple languages? I totally get that there's a huge (disturbing) amount of business critical stuff using the current scripts, but they really should move on to something more modern.
sysadmins who are fully invested in the MS ecosystem do use it a lot. People doing cross-platform work, don’t.

In terms of wider adoption, it suffered by maturing at a time when a lot of people had moved on to more powerful devop solutions. And of course, being MS tech (although technically it was acquired), it carries a stigma.

I just found it un-intuitive, ugly, and verbose. Compared to my beloved python it looks really really bad.
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My first real job was on a .NET stack that was 1/2 VB.NET and 1/2 C# for legacy reasons. It was weird at first, but I mostly stopped noticing after a few months - the two were completely interoperable and they both compile down to the same .NET IL. In practice, coding in VB.NET was 99% the same as coding in C#, just with a slightly more verbose syntax. Not my favourite language, but much better than its dismal reputation would imply.

I sometimes miss VB.NET's XML Literals/Embedded Expressions feature. Back when virtually everything spoke XML, it was very nice to have first-class support for XML as a language feature. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/program...
The decision to make the console output as the return value of a function alone almost destroys it for larger scripting projects. It’s a really bad decision and they could still fix it by adding some environment variable that disables this “feature” while staying compatible with old scripts.
When I learned diaphragmic breathing years ago, there were some studies around suggesting that it helped clear the lungs, especially the lower lungs, of debris and fluid, which can help prevent bacterial pneumonia.

Anecdotes != data, but I've had 1 'chest cold' in the intervening years, whereas as a child and teen most of my colds were chest colds and clearing my lungs was a major step in every recovery.
Is there really a lot of production VB.NET? I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn there is more production VB 6 code and development on that stopped two decades ago.
> I'd agree except I have friends in sales and almost unilaterally they were told to keep coming into the office, despite their entire job being done from phones and computers.

I work with people in sales, and IIRC they were the first ones to start to work from home, days before the software development teams started to follow suit.

It's not a class issue, but a company or even team issue.
And slaps a glove across Trumps face, which I suspect is the root cause for this gesture.
> Going to the grocery store once vs four times is not going to make the difference between you getting the virus or not

Not sure if I'd agree with this. In my neighborhood, there are already multiple confirmed cases (some a few blocks away).

The only way to minimize my (and therefore my family's) exposure to the virus is to avoid any external contact. Encountering 10 people for one grocery trip versus 40 people over 4 separate trips. Statistically, I'd take the one-trip option.
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You think people don't ride buses because they are loud to the people around them? A bus is still going to be there if they ride it or not.
The hazard is jobs that are 1) not remoteable, 2) done by old people, and 3) done at high people density.

What I'm hearing from a friend who runs a branch of a major bank is that almost no one comes into the branch, because that's only needed for loans. The ATMs outside are busy.
This doesn't seem to be about inequality as much as just practicality.

Back office folks have always been not as necessary day to day in person as much as front line anyone / anything.
There is no robot hand touching the screen though.
Not sure what throw away account has to do with it. Interesting accusations regardless.
I agree with what you're saying, but a major concern here is that new unions aren't forming. Glitch workers didn't form Glitch Workers' United. Instead they glued themselves into a large preexisting CWA local - just as Kickstarter before them attached to an OPEIU local - which means they'll be organizing in CWA-approved ways and their funds will go towards the CWA's preexisting social and political causes. Attaching yourself to existing powerhouses seems to be the model of modern American unionization, and it doesn't really allow for much experimentation.
"the containment effort for individual cases is now over"

Most countries didn't even attempt containment, as far as I can tell. Leaders seem to have surrendered to mass infection at the opening of the battle.

It seems pathetic and criminally negligent. It's an intentional trade of hundreds of thousands of lives (potentially millions) in exchange for some unpredictable economic gain. This could conceivably make sense if an uncontained financial crisis would lead to even more human suffering than an uncontained infection.

But it seems that we're likely to end up paying in a massive number of lives and a massive amount of money. When an aggressive containment strategy might have cost us primarily in terms of money.
Exactly. The writing was on the wall all the way back in 2001. It’s basically been a 20-year-long transition, and one has to admire Microsoft’s dedication to their developer userbase in that area.
This would be the reasonable title. However, in the current zeitgeist everything needs to be framed as some sort of injustice.
Bus companies are investing in EVs since it is likely fossil fuels will be banned in city centers pretty soon.

Perhaps the culture really is that diffrent in the U.S., that I never expected someone to prefer personal vehicles to public transit for environmental reasons.
What does DMT stand for?
And why should beginners be contributing to the bloody kernel? Why should kernel devs (paid by companies) spend resources on making it easy for beginners?

Here is the thing: kernel development in the most widely used production one is not a trivial thing.

It is like pretending that architecture students should be helped to go work on the next biggest skyscraper as their first project and spend the time of actual architects to make it easy for them.

If you want people to get into kernel development, there are kernels wrote specifically for teaching purposes.
Have you seen this? Not sure if it's helpful for your regulatory problem, perhaps you could reach out this guy:

https://onezero.medium.com/900-000-americans-tell-google-the...
Same in Finland, but there are exceptions. For example medical staff will be tested if they feel symptoms.

Otherwise healthy people should not go to hospital if they feel symptoms. For most people it's just a flu.

All events with more than 500 people are forbidden.
It’s simple. Just stop going to the sites. I stopped fb years ago and since the last election stopped reading/going to news sites (nytimes, FT etc). Somebody wisely said fast news is not news. And I tried that and it works brilliantly. I read or check economist once a week and that tells me what’s going on. You could do the same with weekend edition of various papers to. It’s great. It automatically removes the crap and you are still informed of the large things you need to know. And if there is anything that is truly urgent that you need to know it I have seen it will surface and get to you automatically through employer, friends, Neighbour’s etc. try it for a couple weeks and you won’t regret it. Plus you have nothing to lose. You can always go back to your old ways.
Nearly every comment on the NYT site makes the same point: buses are unreliable, and filled with homeless, mentally unstable or drugged people who make them a terrifying experience. What is the response of cities? Kneecap the alternatives like Uber/Lyft, or spend taxpayers' money not on fixing those two problems but on ridiculous ideas like paying people to take the bus. Almost as if the people are here to serve the bus and not the other way around.
Visual Basic was one of first languages i have learned. A lots of its spirit was moved into C#. Maybe its good, but on the other hand we loose a good one leaving more Space for JS and the creature called TS.
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Place your quota of women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, LBGT minorities, disabilities and the rest and you end up with a board where the best potential candidates based on skill are excluded.
No, she was jailed to coerce her into testifying as she refused to. To be found in contempt of court, she would have needed to be charged.
A 60% false negative rate test is better than no information whatsoever.

No! It's decidedly not better! This isn't web-scraping where any little bit of information you extract is good, even with a low signal-to-noise ratio. These are human beings. Being wrong here has serious consequences, to the point that you need to weigh the usefulness of the test against the risk of harm of misdiagnosis. You can't just go around diagnosing people willy-nilly if you're not sure about the results!

A false negative means someone will go out with a false sense of security, potentially interacting with vulnerable community members thinking they'll be fine. They may develop further complications due to writing off their symptoms as the flu, and not seek out medical intervention if the situation goes South. A false positive means someone is going into quarantine for two weeks at a major economic and housing consequences (particularly if you want to help poor communities). False positives and false negatives mean more lives will be lost. The stakes are higher, and so too is the need for ethical rigor.

So if we narrow the scope to just testing for Covid-19, are you saying it still takes several years to get to the point of just administering and evaluating the test, right?

I'm not saying the test will take several years to develop, I'm saying it would take you, a self-described layperson, several years to gain the technical skill and know-how to know how to correctly research, design and validate the test.

Specifically, labs are carefully controlled environments. Just getting into the grunt work mechanics of the technique, at bare minimum you need to learn aseptic technique, pipetting, sterilization, reagent prep, handling hazardous chemicals, biohazardous waste disposal, and establishing appropriate environmental controls for your lab. Starting from nothing, those will take at least a year of full-time experience to develop for any semblance of competence. Otherwise you'll be a bull in a china shop; your results will be too tainted by bad technique and inadequate environmental controls to get anywhere.

So is this one of the few areas of human endeavor that is absolutely non-automatable, or can we break down what is/is not within the realm of automation, and possibly leverage the few staff we have relative to the current need?

It's perfectly automatable, but that doesn't mean it's trivial. For one, someone needs to... actually automate it. Someone else needs to implement, maintain and troubleshoot the robotic lab equipment doing the automation. Still require highly specialized skills to do so.
Nine out of ten things I need a teller for a bigger ATM could handle. Like an ATM that will dispense any denomination of coins or bills or cashier's checks. I've seen ATMs that take checks, too.
I took a VB course in college and was immediately hooked. Then I immediately switched to Borland. There is something about being able to compile a runtime-free, native binary.
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Looking at the above critera, what comes to mind is politics.
in case you don’t read the article, there is an interesting historical anecdote: why it’s called “spanish flu”

> Interestingly, it was during this time that the Spanish flu earned its misnomer. Spain was neutral during World War I and unlike its European neighbors, it didn’t impose wartime censorship on its press. In France, England and the United States, newspapers weren’t allowed to report on anything that could harm the war effort, including news that a crippling virus was sweeping through troops. Since Spanish journalists were some of the only ones reporting on a widespread flu outbreak in the spring of 1918, the pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu.”
You've got to give Ma some credit though, this is a classy way to do it. USA/Trump receives foreign aid.
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