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Long term dear, it takes months to years after recovery for 'evidence' (I assume you mean scientific studies) because that's what long term means. The Ebola studies took 2 years to conclusively determine long term effects.

There is several studies in pre-read discussing permanent lung scarring (not exactly surprising from what we know about serious cases spending weeks incubated) and two discussing t-cell exhaustion but they are not peer reviewed yet but you should have no problem locating them.

For SARS we saw significant long term ling damage and, in a statistically significant number of people, terminal, worsening lung scarring over 4 years, so given the strong similarities in the genome of Cov-SARS-2 it's a concern too... we will only know in a few years time.

Humans have the ability to learn from patterns. Many viruses have long term effects, especially if the initial infection was rough - I listed a few examples.

Now we can call this fearmongering and ignore the possibility, but that seems more like a reflexive reaction to dismiss a realistic, potentially dangerous threat than a serious addition to this conversation.
So with that explanation, I would say you have not read the comment I was responding to.

>Agree with the rest, but sanctions don't hurt the people who actually came up with this shitty idea. It ends up hurting the normal guy on the road, who will probably not endorse the idea in the first place.

When you say this in the response of sanctioning the USA, but don't say that when sanctioning other countries, that does only one meaning. You don't care about ordinary people from other countries (although you claim you do). Which makes you a hypocrite.
Hardware-based alerts shouldn't go to the SREs, but rather to the people running the datacenter, who are in charge of making sure that broken hardware is replaced.
> C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.

So C caused everybody to get a lobotomy? C caused all the existing literature to disappear? How did C do any such thing as this quote is saying?

The only way the quote makes any sense is if C made people to decide that automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, and automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine were not actually the direction that we should be going in. I deeply suspect the "We're on the right path; all those others are fools who have been led into temptation" view of the history of computing. Just because of how comforting it is to those on the minority path, it is suspect.
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I'm not surprised, this is consistent with the Trump Administration's platform. And I even said that: "this should surprise no one
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This story and headline seems misleading at best, and fake news at worst.
Not necessarily! If Boeing decides to pay an employee an extra $50/month, and that employee saves all of that money and spends it on airline tickets, after the money that goes to the airline, the airline workers, the oil companies, and the airports, a small fraction of it returns to Boeing. Whereas if they didn’t pay them that extra $50/month, they would retain 100% of it.
Nice, this looks fairly comprehensive! It should be a fairly decent resource for people trying to get into the area.
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I just inserted a disclaimer on the top. Thank you for the suggestions!
I know why, but with full-width graphs that take up most of the screen, the scrolling issue is a real problem. As none of the graphs have content that needs to scroll within their viewport, you need to set the height/width/overflow/display to a combination that doesn’t cause this.
EG: https://www.ettus.com/
Shouldn't mortality rate be determined by total dead out of total recovered? Doing it the other way, total dead out of total infected, assumes everyone infected will recover.
It's not about the existing evidence it's about the lack thereof, and thus it must be considered as a possibility. To do otherwise is an extremely dangerous assumption. It's valid point and I don't see that as scaremongering.

I'm not an expert but I found this preprint:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v...
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Just put a disclaimer with the last update on the top. I will edit the suggestions soon, thank you
TL;DR: Those who program in Lisp know what they're doing; those who program in C don't.

Spare me your smug condescension. Your position is founded on a flawed premise.

You're in the minority for a reason, and it's not because you're smarter (or because you "get it" or "understand what matters" or whatever). Lisp is not the one right way; it's the right way for some problems and some circumstances. And the same is true of C. Pick the right tool for the job, not because of a worship of one tool. C is more often closer to the right tool than Lisp. That's the reality that you're trying to ignore with your "C users don't understand" rationalization.

Now, if you wanted to argue that C is overused, that in some circumstances where C is chosen Lisp would be a better choice, that would be a reasonable argument. But "C users just don't understand what matters"? BS. You need to get over your blindness.
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Trump is already considering domestic travel bans, they can always find an "exception" to the constitution like they did after 9/11.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2020/03/1...
"We write code that is handed to a compiler, and the compiler takes that code and generates assembly code that will accomplish whatever the C code tells it to."

Uhhhh....
Well I for one am distancing to the point of isolation, even from my family for a few days until a clean state of health is established following trips abroad. We have a vulnerable family member (young, but complex conditions) and are taking no chances. And yes, we accept that it could take many months - until either we do catch it or there is a vaccine, it’s hard to see the end of it.
> There are then techniques that are used to recover individual signals. I'm not really an expert in this, so forgive/correct me if I get this wrong, but my understanding is that multiplying two signals at frequencies A and B is the same thing as adding together a signal with frequency (A+B) and a signal with frequency (A-B).

Yah, this is the gist of how a heterodyne receiver works, along with filters before the mixing to reject the unwanted frequencies.

In practice, in software, you do quadrature. That is, (rf * sin x + rf * cos x) and (rf * sin x - rf * cos x) will each get you just the sum and difference frequencies; this way you avoid any prefiltering.
Finding ways to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19 is less sexy, but it is likely to be the place where investors can make the biggest difference to other humans.

Zero/low-interest loans will stem the inevitable downward spiral that comes with loss of free cash flow from otherwise great businesses. This is the time to ensure the stable capitalization of good businesses (and investors are likely to get paid back in spades in karma, if not cash, for doing so).
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That way of prioritising things makes sense, but in this case it meant the on-call SRE and someone from the edge networking team wasted their time diagnosing the hardware problem.

It seems a shame that the blog post wasn't able to follow

« They immediately removed ("drained") the machines from serving, thus eliminating the errors that might result in a degraded state for customers »

with something like « and they were shown a notification that there was a low-priority automatic ticket showing a possible hardware problem on those machines, so they subscribed to that ticket and didn't waste any more time ».
I'm literally parroting what experts have been saying for days and weeks now. If you ask that question, you are clearly not paying attention.
Because people find it inconvenient to use middle names everywhere, particularly if they’re long?
Take your pick:

https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/emergency-ventilator.html
"Only 0.0019% of the population has the virus"

This is not at all the same thing as the earlier mentioned "confirmed".
Not stopped, no. Slowed. Give the healthcare system a chance to deal with those that are coming in, without being overwhelmed. Give the researchers a chance to come up with an immunity shot. Time is our friend in this situation.
Another way to tell the same story:

"Someone at Google bought cheap casters designed to hold up an office table, and put them in the bottom of a server rack that weighed half a tonne. They failed. Tens of thousands of dollars were spent replacing them all"
Mathup is a mathematical expression authoring tool that translates from an AsciiMath-like language to MathML. It was previously called Ascii2MathML. Mathup is a complete rewrite that includes changes in the grammar of the language.
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That's called the Red Cross.
Thought that the discussion of the mechanism by which the virus generates the shortness of breath symptom was particularly interesting. As well as the R0 discussion and COVID19s plot in relationship to other diseases.
This is again very personal.

I love my kid crawling on me while I work, she sits on my lap and watches around or hug me a bit.

I work in the living room, my wife is there, my kid too. The desk is equipped for work, to be clear (good chair, screens etc.), I occasionally play games on it in the evenings (not often, to be fair) and I work in my "home clothes". Been doing this for over 10 years now.

I have my rules: if I don't work enough or I see I lose focus often, I'll work more hours. If I work too much, I'll work less the next day.

The other day I was even shocked realizing how much time people spend chatting at work, my day seemed more intense at home than their at the office.

To everyone its own. My style has been working great and a hug or cuddle from wife/kid is a great boost to my productivity!
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... I guess Gary was right. In other news, we have five years of war ahead of us.
As a software developer I would love to focus on understanding technology thoroughly. Actually, just a small subset of "technology", because there are so many tools that will be gone in five years anyway. I would rather focus on the, uhm, less ephemeral aspects of technology.

However, the pressure at workplace is exactly in the opposite direction. First, one should become a "full stack developer", because why hire two or three experts when we can have one person do everything. Then one needs to become a "dev ops", so that we don't have to hire a system administrator either. Afterwards, one is pushed to also do some management, customer support, etc.

I suppose the ultimate dream is a company consisting of only two kinds of people: the boss, and the infinitely replaceable all-knowing employees. Generalists are popular, because you can always fire one and distribute his former workload among the remaining ones.
Skip to the front of the line? Raid their neighbors' house? Again, people will not be rational and if things escalate (which I don't think they will) they will revert back to tribalism very, very quickly.
As someone who lived 22 years under a regime that was under US sanction, I disagree.

The normal day folks like us bear the biggest (by a large margin) brunt of the sanctions whereas the rich and ruling class go about their day merrily. Sure they'll encounter some inconvenience like not being able to travel to certain countries or being able to expand their businesses as much as they wish to, but they live in secluded districts with 24-hour electricity while us plebes get 12 hour electricity every day (This is just to mention the least annoying effect of artificial scarcity created by sanctions; the government couldn't get parts nor get training on technical know-how to fix/upgrade the hydro generators because of the sanctions).

A lot of people starves and the education system suffer, which sets the entire generation backward by at least 3 decades (while the rich and ruling class send their kids to international schools and then at institutions in nearby neighboring countries; some even went as far as faking their children's identities and sent them to places like Australia, Canada and even US to study).

Sanctions aren't that effective and they only hurt (and kill) the people at the bottom of the society.
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Seems to be going as you say:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to...
Way to take all the fun out of diagnosing a problem. THE most fun part of engineering IMO.
That is not applicable here. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted that freedom to travel in the US is a fundamental right like free speech; regulation of interstate commerce is prohibited from violating those rights. Suspension of that right requires a narrowly targeted and compelling government interest, blanket prohibitions are prohibited, and requires due process for affected individuals.

In other words, "you might have COVID-19" has the same authority granting power as "you might be a terrorist" or "you might be a child pornographer", which is to say, very little absent specific evidence.
You make me want to buy aluminum futures for all the tinfoil you've got under your hat friend.
C++ ecosystem is beyond recovery. It's just too vast, archaic and osified. It's much more practical at this point to learn Rust and use it for new projects when possible or keep doing whatever you did before to get you C++ project built.
This may be true, if the employees are receiving high salaries under normal working conditions. But sometimes, the high pay is a result of insane work conditions. For example investment bankers, lawyers in biglaw all work crazy hours and are under an immense stress from juggling multiple projects at the same time. You sacrifice your health, family, friends for earning a high salary. The turnover at those jobs are super high and the job requires a certain amount of breaking-in.

In my experience (as someone working in Biglaw), high pay equals high stress, because the employers demand it.
I always appreciated Ted's insight into the bad things about technology. His manifesto is well written and makes a strong case. However, I could never understand how he gets from pointing out that technology has some harmful side-effects, to believing that his conclusion is a justifiable rationale for murdering people.
Not voting means you trust the decisions of the people who do vote. So it's like voting for the winner, whoever that might be. In that sense, the vast majority of Americans caused Trump to be elected.
> Why does my company give a raise every year: If they don't, I'll leave.

AND someone decided it probably costs less than hiring a replacement for you.
I guess science no longer requires scrutiny and discussion. Two guys with credentials worked on it, that's all I need to hear to feel better.
How do you know that Germany isn't already trying to screw over the USA and the rest of the world? One of the first things they did is block mask exports to the rest of Europe.
This is not Katrina. We have time to react. State of emergency can be issued, food stocks requisitioned and rationalised until this is over. I have lived during communism, the Chernobyl accident, the 1989 revolutions. We will get over it, eventually. The question is at what cost.

Keep safe, limit non essential travel, preferably cook your own food that you eat at work, avoid crowded places and wash your hands. I alsi don't use taxis and publuc transport. Walk or bike if you can.
Unfortunately the number of ECMO machines is far cry away from what is required for this to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...

Even if you manage to double or triple capacity unfortunately it is no match to the exponential growth.
I don't get this narrative, everybody on the planet earth is currently relying on "heard immunity".

What they don't agree on is about measures to take, which is two-dimentional slider (time, social distancing) that outputs multidimentional output of - time, age group death rate/absolute count, nhs capacity, economic impact, heard immunity, retransmission etc.

On one side I'm impressed by the world's rapid response.

On the other hand I'm surprised how poor published scientific modeling/decision making is. We know pretty much all of parameters we need to know by now. Making an online model should be as easy as interview task for data scientist. And we have greatest minds focusing/ready to dedicate time to it. Why are we doing fruitless political arguments? Just share the model and data on github. Refine it every day with new data.

I'd start with real estimated infection counts (they can be derived from official confirmed infection counts by mapping on age weighted symptoms that require hospitalisation - those people are tested only plus incubation period estimated population - those people will not be tested but they are infected).

Any current estimate I've seen seems to lag in time if you take under account incubation period (4d) and real estimated infection count vs confimed cases (5x+).

We need plots for next 3 years or so with breakthrough placeholders - ie. it is highly unlikely that we won't have cure at some level to deal with it in 3 years from now.

It is highly speculative game if you estimate further in the future, yes, but medium term there should be obvious optimal decision.
Yes, you are right. 250m was the voting population in 2016. Turn out was 55%. So 24.8%.
Bit of a trolley problem, when "accepting it" means "not trying very hard to stop it".
And your point is that it would be better to write pre/postprocessing logic in the build system? That sounds like a recipe for disaster and slow build times.
Curious. Melatonin is anti-inflammatory. Would this pose a similar (hypothetical) danger as NSAIDs?
> They remember your orders forever so if I’m not sure of size or brand I can always look at order history.

Ironically, I've heard complaints from people who've re-ordered things this way that the fit changed between orders.

> I’m sure that in another ten years I’ll just give Amazon my measurements and tailored clothing will magically appear whenever I order it.

Other sites do this. I'll be a bit sad if Amazon crushes this market too.
Correlation is a symmetrical relationship between two properties, prediction is not.
I tried this on three of my own articles. It worked very poorly. There’s a lot of room for improvement before asking people to pay for it IMO.

I may try my hand at writing one with the reqs outlined in the top comment just for a fun coding project.
Did it ever change? I know that around here, when the weather is nice, after a shift a lot of the workers go straight onto the meadow behind the factory and drink heavily there. I don't suppose they drink because they're happy...
This doesn’t take into account certain people are more productive when paired up (and less productive when paired with other people).
The thing Sam Altman could have done, and still could do, that would have by far the most impact in this and similar crises, is support the adoption of universal health coverage and sick leave policies, as well as financial assistance for those devastated by these shutdowns.

Startups are cool. But to the extent the Silicon Valley community has fought against a social safety net and effective public sector they’re part of the problem.

Not singling him out specifically here as my understanding is that he actually has done some political work along those lines, but the first sentence here implies that investing in startups is the only thing he knows how to do. That rings false.

He’s very wealthy and powerful. He has enormous influence over people who set employee policies at important companies and has the ear of world leaders.[0]

There’s many things he could do that are much more effective than investing in startups.

[0] https://youtu.be/rKoACC5iOhQ
I'm very obviously not a lawyer nor lawmaker, but I'm under the impression that anything can be classified as an act of war as long as another country is willing to treat it as such, and other superpowers/blocs are willing to sign off on this assessment, and back it militarily and through sanctions/incentives.

(Though this would all probably swept aside as soon as somebody reverse engineers the vaccine.)
That's why they don't give me a big raise.
As a ham who got licensed at 12 here in the states, I'd encourage you to fight the social element and give it a go... I had mixed feelings about it but it ended up being interesting to learn everything in a classroom style setting.

The hobby itself is huge, from talking locally, digital modes that are available under the signal to noise ratio (basically talking to people under the static around the world) and being in the UK, you could use the geostationary satellite and talk to anyone from UK to south africa, brazil and the middle east with very little effort. (https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/)

Check out https://www.essexham.co.uk/ they're pretty 'modern' as I understand it and could point you in the direction of a more local test session.

I've actually been tempted to spend a few weeks visiting a friend there and take the UK foundation course just to get my UK license for the added challenge ;) I used my US license over in Amsterdam when I was there over the summer.
A small tilt like that wouldn't impact most water cooling systems. Most cooling systems would run with a 45 degree tilt, and some are completely sealed and would work any way up.

I suspect this isn't a water cooling problem, but instead a heat pipe system, with a phase change material in (often butane). Heat pipes are used to conduct heat from CPU's to heatsinks in most laptops. They have a liquid in which boils, and then condenses at the other end of the pipe, and then flows back again as liquid. Heat pipes usually look like a thick bar of copper, but are in fact way more thermally conductive than copper.

The inside of the pipe usually has a felt-like material to 'wick' water from the wet end to the dry end, but wicking is quite slow compared to guaranteeing the pipe is perfectly level and using gravity to just let the liquid flow downhill.

I'm 99% sure that's the reason this system doesn't work with a slight slope.
It’s not clear to me why you think this isn’t supply and demand at work. Ford had a particular demand for labor, and the market had a particular supply of it. What you’ve described is Ford defining what he thought his business requirements were, making differentiation judgements about what kind of labor he wanted to hire, and coming to a conclusion about how much he was prepared to pay for it. The only factors I can see that would introduce inefficiencies to discovering an equilibrium price in this situation are that Ford was doing something brand new, so he perhaps didn’t know exactly what he had demand for, and he was doing it in the middle of the second industrial revolution, so the market conditions would have been changing perhaps more than usual.
Except I never mentioned sanctioning other nations. If you conflate my opinions with those of other individuals - of course you think I’m a hypocrite. Groups do not have idea or opinions - groups are just piles of individuals.
Worth noting that Rover apparently had a VVC system [1] that allowed the duration of intake valves to be continuously varied all the way back in 1995.

[1]: https://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/vvt_4.htm
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Also not a doctor, but one of mine recommended a max daily dose of 3g, so that's what I'm working from.