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If you are ignorant of the virus, why talk about it like this?

50% of the patients in ICU are under 50, and it causes permanent damage to your lungs and organs.

If you don't take paranoid drastic measures, many millions will die.

If you do take paranoid drastic measures, lives will be saved, and then everyone will call you crazy for taking those measures because it ended up not that bad.

Just like people think Y2K was an overblown non-issue. Because it was fixed by millions of people working hard.
DOh - thanks, alas missed edit window, my bad :()
You got what I meant, no need to play with bs percentages. Old people will die, more than usual, and you would notice.
There is a certain cost to it.

Just like a reserve army full of reservists has a serious cost (those people all have to spend weekends training, after all: time that could be spent doing other things), a "health care army" would require people to get regular training to stay up-to-date and in practice. Basic first aid can be useful for anyone, but for having people ready to jump in and become healthcare workers in a crisis, they need a lot more than a first aid refresher once a year I think.
Specifically, it would allow for more than just the three options you mention there.
Instead of the whole xCloud idea (which I doubt is going to work) I see much more in the console as the workhorse for heavy games. Stream the input to the console and the video back to the device. Many home networks are well equipped the handle this latency. It would allow me to game on any device from home instead of just having a controller.
Smokers are a higher risk group for Covid-19, so you should probably avoid such bars, even if they weren't going to be shutdown.
A good deal is probably for future proofing and for auxillary applications that run parrallel to games like voice and social stuff.
> And if we do that, a very small percentage of the population will get the healthcare they need. So the rate we should use when considering the "rip the bandaid" off approach should be closer to 6% than 0.6%.

And if you take the "rip the bandaid off" approach, you can't restrict your analysis to just CoVID-19 deaths. The strain on the medical system will mean there will be an increase in deaths from other causes that didn't get the treatment they need.
Keep it short and succinct.
I would say that's a category error. But I'm not sure I understand your meaning, or you mine.
Absolutely. I've had both and the Neato is much better than the Roomba. The way I look at it - it's as if the Roomba was designed by students that just took a class on chaos theory and watched Jurassic Park, where the Neato was designed by actual engineers. The Roomba is fun to watch bounce around randomly. The Neato just vacuums the carpet in a logical algorithm, the same way a human would, more or less.
You are completely wrong. Tech is definitely not worst industry affected by the corona virus by a long shot. Service workers are definitely not a job that can be done at home. Tech workers usually have good salaries while service workers are likely to live paycheck to paycheck. Plus they do not have the same access to medical benefits.
This might sound crazy, but is there such a thing as programmable terrain? I can see this being technically feasible and adding realism to a VR game, but it might be cost prohibitive or a liability when people fall.

It'd be cool tho if it can be done!
Weird, it worked both on my wifi and LTE. This could be some internal dns glitch, lattefx.com (hosted on the same server) should be redirecting to cutvid.io which does have valid certificates. Anyway, I deleted the lattefx part of my nginx config now so it should not happen anymore (I guess).
It is animated with Javascript by updating transform:rotation every ~30ms. Couldn't the current time be set with Javascript and the animation be handled with CSS animations? Maybe CSS animations are not accurate enough time-wise so that the clock would diverge from the actual time (or other bad stuff happens like animations being suspended while a tab has no focus. I'm out of web development for too long to know off-hand how that behaves)?
This was one of the things that was lost with the decline of scouting. I remember quite a bit of training between life guard training and first aid training for dealing with common injuries in the wilderness, dealing with shock, etc. Yeah I get the religious associations were a problem but there's no good secular counterpart or places willing to host (as most troops/groups met at churches), the organization is slowly changing but I don't think its the only reason its been in decline.
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Right, I think this is specifically marketed with people with steady jobs (either people with WFHable jobs like tech workers, or people who are going into work anyway like doctors and retail workers) who are continuing to earn their usual income during the lockdown. If you're not getting paid yourself, it doesn't make as much sense for you to be a buyer.

At least where I am, enough of the customers of independent coffee shops / food places / stores / etc. are people with steady, WFHable jobs that it seems like simply managing cashflow and making sure it gets to the right people is helpful in and of itself.

I don't have a good answer to the gig-worker problem (well, my preferred option is government-run safety nets; the other option is regulations saying gig employment should be disallowed, but those have their own problems), but I want to throw it out there for brainstorming. One potential option is the platforms offer zero-interest loans to their workers, e.g., "here's $1000 now, but we'll want $100 back per month when this is all over, if you continue driving for us we'll automatically take $100 of your earnings per month, if you don't you'll just owe us." Of course many platforms can afford to do that on their own, but they could also fund the program with gift cards from customers. That is, there are two levels of gift cards here, one from customer to platform, one from platform to worker.
> Current total deaths are 6,000 with China already saying the worst is behind them. Why the US would have 4M deaths?

The official Chinese death statistics are probably severely under-counting deaths, in Wuhan at least. IIRC, they only counted deaths of confirmed cases, but the medical system was so overwhelmed that many, many cases weren't getting confirmed, and people were dying at home.
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Mind you, given the “Timely Dataflow” abstraction Materialize operates on top of, if you give it a query that only requires certain result rows from one of its mat views, then Materialize is only going to compute the intermediate rows (and, further back, retrieve the source rows) required to “render” the particular result-rows you ask for. (Sort of like how Excel, in memory-constrained conditions, only computes the intermediate cell-values required to render the cells currently in view, and thus, if an intermediate cell requires an `XmlHttpRequest` call to resolve, that call won’t fire if the cell’s value doesn’t need resolving yet.)

Because of that, you don’t really need to scale Materialize in a sharding sense. You can just have a bunch of “the same” Materialize node (i.e. every node just freestanding clone of a template node, with exactly the same sources and matviews) and then hit them with the parts of a map-reduce query launched by, say, Citus—where Citus was thinking it was talking to a bunch of Citus shard nodes each holding a table-shard named X, but was actually talking to Materialize nodes each holding a matview named X. As long as the query sent from the map-reduce job to each node is constrained in its WHERE clause to only the part of the data it expects to get from that node—rather than relying on the node to know what data it has—then the Materialize nodes would each just do the work required to supply that data (including only pulling in the parts of the configured sources required to compute that result.)

That’s just my intuition from how Materialize presents itself as PG-wire-protocol compatible, though; I haven’t tried this myself, and there might be some footguns in the path of anyone really trying to implement it.

And, of course, this is all irrelevant the moment you write a query that needs a pure reduce (e.g. the computation of a current finite-state-machine state over an event-stream source) rather than a map-reduce. Druid/Clickhouse/etc. can probably “scale” those, in at least the Hadoop “move the job around between each serial stage, so each stage has data-locality for the data of that stage” sense; while Materialize would give you no benefit at all in such a job over just querying a plain PG view defined on top of a Foreign Data Wrapper source.
I think a lot of WebRTC video conferencing solutions don't do server side video encoding - the clients encode their own stream(s) for high/low bandwidth, and server side they have a selective-packet-forwarder, or SPF. The clients are usually smart enough to only send the high bandwidth stream when that speaker is in focus.
It's not strange at all. You can probably mentally track your money and I bet you have a bank account :P

Now seriously, the goal here is for people to install it as a native app on mobile and whenever they are about to buy some crap, just open it and insert the price to "figure out the real cost".

Cheers
I am looking for a co-founder with whom I can work on monetising this:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

Might not be ideal for you as it is very early-stage and I have only a couple of paying clients but worth a shot anyway.

Even if its not for you, perhaps someone else who sees this might want to reach out.
That may be the least of your worries.

Those without portfolios will have been totally devastated much earlier and might become incentivized to burn all kinds of other things to the ground.
This is completely accurate.

I downloaded an app named Clicker for Netflix that was an Electron app. It wasn’t very bad, but it also wasn’t good. The dev rewrote it as a native Mac app. It kicks ass. It’s so much more responsive that it’s night and day different. It also gained a bunch of native controls (touchbar and such).

Building for the platform demonstrates that you care about your app and users.
because a lot of users here think that a compiler somehow detects undefined behavior, then emits wacky code just to spite them.
Agree - I stopped reading here.

Claiming ownership over women is not a funny joke, and completely lost my respect.
Or maybe just have year go from 00-99 and repeat as people commonly do anyway.

Current implementation of year definitely doesn't make sense because it doesn't cycle.
Don't repeat yourself.

There is an objective way to tell if design A is better than design B, and that is to measure how hard it is to make changes. You have to build that into your culture and not optimize for something else, or do things because somebody thinks that is the way to do it.

A big problem in current architectures is that what seems to be a small change (say, add a "cell phone" field next do a "home phone" and "office phone") field often requires a number of little changes in widely separated code:

* a database schema change
* changes to database queries
* changes to a back-end API
* changes to a front-end Javascript app
* changes to an iOS mobile app
* changes to an Android mobile app

Conventional system design means that what looks like one change to management is actually at least six changes, which might affect that many source code repositories, etc.

An ideal design would let you create a feature by writing all of your code in one place. Of course this would require a big change in how applications are structured and built, but it could lead to a durable advantage. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_product_line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature-oriented_programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-code_development_platform

The biggest barrier to the above I think is that when you talk to a team they always have shiny objects that they can't live without. Maybe they think functional programming is great (yeah, you can handle errors with monads, but you can drop errors on the floor just as easily as you can with exceptions, return codes, etc.) or that immutability solves everything, JDK 13 is the best, whatever. So people are thinking about everything except the thing that management will care about which is long-term sustained productive development.
Sometimes I wonder who this kind of advice is written for. What kind of attitude or perspective does someone need to benefit from this advice? How much of it is written for the author to say it versus someone to find it useful?

I think back to the people in my major who had obviously never had a higschool job, nor worked on a project that required them to engage in problem solving (outside the highly structured and guided problems in school assignments). Most of them figured out what work is, bombed out, or gave up. A few were still around in senior year, having found new ways to skate by.

People are under-served by the systems we shoot kids through. And my criticism is not in the typical "we don't train for X" way. Not only are there infinite X's, but the system creates expectations and boundaries that adding more Xs just entrenches. A person can be perfectly competent at some set of tasks, able to be trained on others but still see everyone (including themselves) as cogs in a finished system solved by the smarter people.

What I'm getting at is the lack of insight that lead to the time a friend of a friend saw my roommate watching a youtube video on the TV of something being built and asked "Why are you watching this? Just buy one at the store." At the time, that statement was as bewildering to us as it was bewildering to them that there could be value and entertainment in watching and understanding the process.
> 50% of the patients in ICU are under 50

And what % of patients infected actually end up in the ICU vs. just have a sniffle and a cough for a few days?

When the mortality rate is 0.2% for people < 60 years old, I just have a hard time believing that it requires the response we've been giving it. I would bet that for healthy, non-vulnerable adults (i.e. they don't have a pre-existing condition that makes them extra susceptible) the death rate is virtually 0%.

I'm not saying "do nothing", but I am saying "shut down the world" is too extreme in the opposite direction.
Please, how? i've spent a few days trying to stop those with no luck. I can turn off only some of them and even that gets ignored by some applications :( (like "start menu", or settings manager itself)
We don't moderate the site that way elsewhere either.
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110% they misunderstood the US Government offering them exclusive rights in the US market, not for the US market.
The foundation of this article is so stupid, even CNN couldn't propose it with a straight face.
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Awesome... Looking for College Chemistry... Would greatly appreciate.
It’s not more deadly.

The fatality rate is 0.6% or so, and almost entirely focused on the very old or il.
> Luckily the users can decide for themselves what is unethical or not

Do we? I run Slack and Spotify, but it's not like I have a choice since there's no native version for Linux.
What percentage of Apple's revenue comes from France?

French courts are concerned with price fixing in France, and I'm not sure that price fixing in France amounted to $1.2B additional profit. It's not that large of a market.
Typically around 1% of the mortgage amount, I think?
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There are vastly more chemical responses to having sex and yet most of us don't do it casually with large group random people, only with the the closest ones and often with one any given period of life.

Touch could be also culturally restricted to closest family with ill effects milder than caused by mild infections you get through that, let alone ncov19.

Some human cultures are less touchy some more. All survive.

Chemical responses to anything less than touch are way less documented and I suspect easily replicated with good quality audio-video connection.
Tbh I'm not gonna buy a giftcard for a place that has a high chance of going under in a few months.

Yes, I know that can help cause it but still. We're staring down the face of a global recession and I'm got a family to look after.
But doesn't the 20's then lead to the 30s? And can't an argument be made that WW1 would have contributed as well?
C made mediocrity and unreliability the accepted standard. As parent says, C’s a great choice for writing OS kernels. It should have stayed there.

Imagine if upon purchasing an automobile you had to agree that if the wheels fly off and the engine explodes and you all die horribly in a hurtling ball of glame, you (or your estate) have absolutely no rights to sue the manufacturer for that outcome. Look at the Ford Pinto, look at Merck’s Vioxx; look at every bit of employee and customer safety legislation written over the years and why it got written in the first place. Now go read your software EULAs, and explain to us how a culture of shameless recklessness borne on zero liability is so positive for progress again?

As I’ve said before, geeks are not the only ones to blame for this, but they are the ones who actually enjoy it this way.
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Druid committer here. Fwiw, Druid was designed to run on huge clusters and that really shows up in the multi-process architecture. The idea is that if you separate the components needed for ingestion, historical processing, query routing, and coordination, then there are two benefits: they don't interfere with each other (spikes in ingestion load won't interfere with ability to query historical data), and also you can scale each one individually for your workload. You could even auto-scale some of them. For example, the original Druid cluster was operated with load-based auto-scaling for the ingestion processes.

That being said we are currently working on reducing the number of processes to 4 (from the current 6) for a "standard" setup. The main reason is that at smaller scale there isn't as much of a purpose to having a larger number of processes.

We're also working on removing some of the knobs. Actually, depending on what version you originally looked at, many of them might already be gone.
Electron is cancer.

The last time I tried vue+electron was about two years ago:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/tagster

Over half, HALF of that code is electon boiler plate:

https://github.com/SimulatedGREG/electron-vue

That's worse than Rails back in the 2000s. It's a bad pattern and a code smell.

Electron doesn't contain a toolkit of components. Last time I check, Atom's UI wasn't broken apart into its own package (it might be now). That's part of why all electron apps look entirely different .. and bundling each set of HTML components with an electron web browser involves insane amount of packing tools.

I rewrite that app and others in PyQT5. Here's one of them:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/mpvbuddy

So much cleaner. The code in the project is almost all my code. There's very little boiler plate. The dependencies can easily be updated. The Qt5 layer is entirely abstracted by its Python packages or the system Qt5 packages.

I like Qt5 but I can understand the frustration. Your model isn't tied to your data. You have to tell Qt when your data has changed and emit those changes because it's all Retained Mode. Web web browser frameworks like React/Vue and others, you get system where the data is updated with the model (thanks to Shadowdoms or other tricks) and that is something missing in the native toolkit space. Most of the immediate mode GUI toolkits are minimalist and meant for games.

Divinci Resolve is made in Qt5 and is cross platform (I think they even have a Linux port now).

I know Qt5 has its own issues with portability and packaging, but I still prefer to build Qt5 apps over anything in electron. There's no reason to package an entire fucking web browser and rendering image for each application you build. Electron is cancer.
I'm no tlimiting my statement to just PCRs, I'm saying all the crazy expensive lab machines that can be that expensive.
Agree to all - also, showing (continuous) progress within the year is eye opening.
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Except you need them on the local LAN to share data, and you need them to have internet access through the local LAN so the vendor can log in remotely for maintenance and troubleshooting.
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With respect, travelling to relocate for work or to visit family seem like they fall into the category of necessary flights - I mean, if you said to everyone "you can only take 10 return flights in your life from now on", people would spend them on relocating and family visits with considerable ease. They would think twice about that ski trip though.

As you say, the average business trip is more about status and could easily be dropped. But it's not fair to put relocation for work into that category.
Do you mean you were forced to assemble your computer, part by part?
I feel like clunky is fine, but a lot of these kids programming apps are not just clunky, they're finicky. Weird mouse hit zones, massive slowdowns, glitches, crashes, lost data, etc. Even the "good" ones have most of these issues.
The OS needs to handle downloading updates in the background while streaming or recording the game, running Spotify and Xbox live party voice chat, and the dashboard. It could probably make do with less but you can't change (e: increase) the memory allocation later.
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Yes, though Microsoft has downplayed the idea.
Controllers are fine when you're used to them! I absolutely suck at using a mouse and keyboard, but I've been using a controller since the PS1 and reguarly come out on top when playing cross-platform games (including battle royales or ranked games at high levels). Just give it a while and it'll click :)
What online business would you start to weather an economic storm?
I agree that keyboard/mouse allow for greater precision for shooters, however I prefer console controllers for shooters anyway because of the difference in "posture" since its handier to have on the couch or standing in front of the TV. However because of the inherent advantage in accuracy I'd rather everyone have to use the same equipment since it levels the playing field.
For me, HS was easy and college was brutal. But I agree that short of a startup, work is much easier and should be.
If you can infect all hosts you can't do better. And I think this virus can, even being twice as lethal as it is.
Not all prions need to break skin to be an issue. Kuru, one of the more infamous prions, was transmitted orally [0]. Mad Cow is also thought to be transmitted orally, but research is on going. Though a low possibility, the absolute last thing you need is an even more complicated issue running about during a world-wide triage/crisis. To save live you are trying to eliminate variables, not add to them.

[0] Kuru is not something you want to research whilst eating, fyi. Hell, none of them are.
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Good post! I fail to see why it was downvoted.
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