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Same. My reasons:

1. I understand software better and can see that my in-game actions are mostly changing variables, or values in a database.

2. Games are 'balanced' and therefore limit the upside for a potential great strategy I might come up with.

3. Nothing new under the sun: How many more pseudo-scifi research trees or weapon mechanisms or unit capabilities am I supposed to learn in my lifetime?

4. They don't make them like they used to. Older games had a hardcore element to them, were often quite difficult and unforgiving (a result of less market pressure and less polish). Instead of online guides and pro streamers showing how they are played, the games had a mystery about them; we often didn't even have a manual for a game we copied.

4. Less need to prove myself in competition with my peers through games and play (which is aparently a fundamental thing for children)

5. Less magic: The first game that had real voice actors, the first real 3D game seem to have had a greater impact than today's incremental improvements.

6. Limited time and energy. I find it tough to spend the prime energy of a day for a game.

7. Computer work makes me want to get away from computers eventually.

I do watch streamers and youtube videos of the games of the 90ies occasionally and find entertainment and closure (through experiencing games I never got to play).
I remember buying "Linux - unleashing the workstation in your PC" circa '94 which had the tag line "friends don't let friends use DOS !". I was quite stunned at how much better it was than DOS/Windows at the time. I've been a Linux user ever since!
The government should be running its own object store. And by government, I mean coordinated by Internet2/NSF with federation across all member orgs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

Use backblaze pods, demand off peak bandwidth of gilded age megacorps that own said fiber for sync/replication.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html 480TB/4U

Have 3x sites around the US the build the pods, each new pod gets preloaded with a smattering of rarely requested and low replication count objects (as a redundant backup). Then shipped to the site where it will be used. Local writes go directly to pods which are then kept in sync with the rest of the cluster.

edit, from the TFA

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And to put a cherry on top, the report found the project's organizers didn't consult widely enough, didn't follow NIST data integrity standards, and didn't look for savings properly during internal reviews, in part because half of the review team worked on the project itself.
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It is highly variable, and in my experience aiming to reduce that variability is one of the most reliable ways to increase total system performance, which is frequently dominated by max latencies.

In other words: max latency often indicates some degenerate case (assignable causes) that you want to work out of your system to improve its performance.
I'm curious about comorbidities in those below 65 that were hospitalized. The US generally leads the world in a lot of those health problems that predict poor outcomes if you get COVID19
How has cron support been coming along? I have also been wanting to play with connecting a WSL Rails app to IIS :)
Yes, and in 1Q2017, the fund held $84.9E9. Meanwhile, in the US, gross private savings total $4.64 trillion, while personal savings total $1.06 trillion.(Sep 11, 2019)

What happens when a major bank goes under and completely depletes the FDIC fund? (e.g. Bank of America)

Another key aspect of monetary metals is lack of counter party risk. When you deposit money with BoA, it is no longer yours; you become an unsecured creditor of the bank. BoA's derivatives counter parties are senior to you, so they will get paid first if say interest rate swaps go against BoA, and they need to post more collateral to that counter party.

Also, the problem with rates 'normalizing' is the magnitude of outstanding Treasury debt, and the fraction of GDP that the interest payments represent. 5% would be devastating, even though historically, that is a typical rate.
I largely agree with what you're saying. The only point I disagree with is 3. That's the exact same logic I used to make a large investment on March 6th. If I had time-averaged the investing, I would have saved a ton of money.

The point is that it's near impossible to predict market bottoms, so time-averaging helps with that. If your point is that you should increase investing now, I totally agree, but you should invest the money over a period of weeks/months, not in one lump sum (which I don't think is what you're advocating).
Fascinating that they recommend you take OFF masks while on things like crowded BART trains and airports (I had lots leftover from forest fires) if you are "healthy", even though that might mean you are asymptomatic, or not yet diagnosed etc.

Despite claims masks (with good adherence to wearing) are highly effective - primarily by reducing hand to mouth/nose contact, secondarily as a direct barrier. And surgical masks are dirt cheap.

It looks like other countries went big on mask production and wearing - be very interesting if the claims that you should NOT wear masks if "healthy" even on crowded BART cars etc checks out in the end.
Having WSL really has made me mostly stop dual-booting. While I have a Ubuntu installation for when I need a full blown Linux environment, I don't do that much development that requires a full blown Linux environment. When I'm working on hobby projects like small web apps, I have a hybrid setup using VSCode from Windows but using Bash via Ubuntu on WSL for the in-IDE terminal, which means the actual server is running from Node on Linux. For fairly vanilla web dev needs, it feels like the best of both worlds - I can even have Photoshop open on the same computer writing into the same drive.

My only gripe was how slow containers in WSL were on Windows, but with WSL2 that issue is going away.
yep. if we wanted it to happen we need protectionism and tarrifs.
Obviously. It needs to be enshrined in law. Stress tests, like for banks. It would also be more efficient / profitable for banks to keep lower capital reserves...

Edit: alternatively, countries could be much more trigger-happy when it comes to banning flights from potentially infected areas where some kind of virus starts - basically a lot of false alarms. Companies would simply have to adapt.
تعاني من مشكلة ضعف المشاهدات في بداية القناة اليك الحل والطريقة التي يجب اتباعها
Debugging for one. You have to use a C++ debugger alongside Rust, and the lldb debugger is immensely superior (especially where structs are concerned in locals/watch).

I strongly recommend you have a look at vcpkg for getting tooling such as make and gcc installed.
Ironically, the problem is not that we have done too much damage in the short term but that we haven't done enough. What we need to do is stop people from going outside unless absolutely necessary. It's pretty much that simple, but no one likes what that looks like: martial law, forced quarantine, forced house arrest like they have in China. The government should deal with the short term pain by stepping in and back stoping every business by guaranteeing payroll for a few months. It will be insanely expensive and be political suicide, but it would work (as seen in China). What won't work is the weak, iterative preventive methods we are employing now which don't stop the virus from spreading (as people won't comply) and lead to prolonged economic pain.
Re: for a crash to happen, one of the FAANGs has to fail, spectacularly.

Demand for digital services has gone up due the epidemic. Big Tech will do fine, but everything around them may crumble.
Reading this review, I can't tell what Lindley hoped to contribute with this book or why Al-Khalili found it noteworthy enough for a NYTimes book review (which itself is so brief that it doesn't seem to say much beyond something like "despite the claim to the contrary, Physics is more than math, and maybe in the future we'll be able to test some of the untested ideas that came from mathematical beauty.")

What am I missing here?
Why don't they offer assistance to the companies already manufacturing them? Can they send supply chain specialists? Even things like sending material handling staff to relieve their regular staff will help.
> The way that Mathematics and approaches this is, using the Axiomatic way. You can view this as a game: Let's make some assumtions / axioms, and see what we can build with it.

It is often described in such way and you can see it like that in retrospect, but actually it is often intuitive grasp of mathematical structures first, axiomazation second.

For example, natural numbers was understood (including number theory) for thousand years, but Peano axioms are from the end of 19. century.

But that does not say there is 'absolute thruth', there are just infinite different graspable math structures and it is arbitrary (or pragmatic), which we consider interesting to develop.
At least VoiceOver on Safari uses the `display` CSS property to decide how to describe an element unless you explicitly give an element a different ARIA role in the HTML, so this isn’t 100% correct in practice (although it obviously should be!). [0]

[0] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197786
They really are changing the language for this event.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/new-york-gov-cuomo-orders-75...

This is pretty damn close to quarantine, without actually saying quarantine in the headlines.
> if you could dynamically load the result just below the query rather than opening a new page.

s/rather than/in addition to/

For those of us with javascript disabled, the way the page works is perfectly fine as it is.
Lessons I learned from running an online conference with over 6700 registrations
> The gatekeepers are there for a reason.

Self-Limiting thinking.

Unless you're a rules, systems, and process guy.

This is a real life Kobayashi Maru test.
alaskan self sufficiency is a product of military heritage and pre industrial life style. right now my clothing includes a knit sweater, and trousers sewn from loom cloth.

my neighbour built hs wife a loom out of birch it looks really snazzy, and there are a lot of ego cases that dont want medicines they want to go when its time not drag it out.

a lot of people here are rough cut and fiercely independent.
>There is just too much confidence that confirmed cases are representative of the spread of the virus.

Is that really the case? I'm finding it to be pretty common knowledge that "confirmed cases" is simply just that.
3 am to me means in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping. So I'm curious, do people at the South Pole typically follow a similar sleep/wake cycle despite the time zone they follow?
Wikipedia has a fairly detailed (and as far as I can tell, accurate) page, though it’s not complete by any means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_codenames
What if many of the passengers who tested negative on the Diamond Princess had it and had already recovered when they tested negative?

This is considered in the article I posted.
That’s an interesting insight. Companies as they grew and supporting companies who could specialize and take advantage of economies of scale would provide attractive alternatives to vertical integration. Most of the auto industry is like that. Not sure how feasible integration would be in a modern economy these days.
That's the theme of my post :-)

I used copy and steal in the same deliberately ironic way they're meant in the famous quote "Good artists copy, great artists steal" - i.e. wrt the creative process of reusing and extending existing ideas to innovate and create new things!
Ugh I can't believe not everybody was born in 1988 and learning CSS at age 15
past-tense -- would you do it again?

There's a company already doing gigabit over wifi to homes but you run into line of sight issues -- if figure with all the dark fiber we would just patch into that
Well, isolationist policies are not really possible for small countries, they can't possibly make everything they need. Having bigger countries depend on each other is also the opportunity to somewhat teach them diplomacy; otherwise they would have an even worse behavior towards small countries.

Imagine China or the US without any need for an external country, their behavior as citizens of the world would be 10 times worse.
I concur with your assessment. Severe travel restrictions will hurt everyone but the rich and you can be sure he only means tourist travel, a huge contributor to pollution is cargo being shipped and flown around the world. What we need are cleaner methods of transport, not less transportation and movement.
Well, the flip side is that during times of crisis, one would expect market forces to weed out the former kind of companies (leaner, and with globalized supply chains). So which ones survive, and which ones are out-competed are a consequence of which set of market forces we soften and which set we allow to play out.
Congrats on the initial launch of your project!

You might want to consider seeding the website with some sample events, workspaces, etc.

It's a little hard to get a sense of what the functionality you've built is and its benefits without seeing some examples.

Best of luck
Thanks for the link, that's really interesting!

The claim about relying on absolutely nobody else sounds like an exaggeration though. Even if we limit the scope to consumables, I don't think they produce their machines' lubricants.
As a counter point; ICE has recently said they will only be arresting illegal immigrants who pose a public safety risk and will be delaying enforcement actions until after the crisis for others.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-says-it-will-not-detain-mos...
Unfortunately, that is not how a lot of people think. Wish it was.

Furthermore, when you see that (larger) number it has a psychological effect of "this might be serious".
Totally agree. That’s the number I’ve been watching most to get a sense of how many total are infected for different regions e.g. 1 death today = 50-200 people were infected 2 weeks ago.
> There's also a format where you pay for packs. You open a pack, grab one card, and then pass it on to the player left of you. Repeat. Sealed deck or something it is called, but sealed deck itself involves too much around RNG.

Close. Sealed is when you get 6 packs yourelf, and construct the best deck you can out of the cards therein. You are thinking of limited, in which everyone gets 3 packs, and takes one card, and passes the rest along, until every person has 45 cards they use to construct a deck.

These are both fun, but as you said, it adds additional RNG to the RNG already present in the gameplay. There are strategies that come with that additional RNG, but there are certainly players who simply find it a turn off. More importantly to me is that it requires buying 3/6 packs per person (~$12/$24) every time to play.

Cube formats are becoming a popular alternative. Instead of opening a set of brand new packs to play, players construct their own card pools and simulate a limited or sealed event from it. This eliminates the need to rebuy new (and potentially already owned) cards, and also allows for players to create interesting card pools that aren't available from packs. But it requires significant upfront investment in terms of planning.

Probably the best format these days for those not interested in the steep costs is Pauper. Its traditional Magic in that you construct your own deck from the pool of all existing cards, but it's unique in that only Common rarity cards are legal. This eliminates a lot of the flashier cards out there, but Magic has been around long enough that there is still lots of creative space in terms of designing unique strategies. There can still be expensive cards, as some are quite old, but because they are all common rarity, really expensive decks tend to cost in the tens of dollars rather than the hundreds.
Ah yes, let's let a potential deadly thing go on the "market" and just hope it works. Because every first responder is going to take time to read reviews and ensure they thing they are wearing is actually going to work.
Bing Covid-19 Tracker
I finished Grim Fandango because it is a wonderful, beautiful, heart-breaking game. Still dear to my heart. But let me be honest, I looked up most of the solutions. I don't have a sense for the weird solutions to a good chunk of the problems. Often I don't even know what is the problem.

I purchased the HD remake of the game on Steam in 2015 to experience it once again. Just followed the solutions. It was much like watching a movie (a very good one).

I remember I once played a Broken Sword game (I believe it was The Sleeping Dragon) and that was an exception in that it was super easy to solve. Disappointingly easy :-)
U.S. state coronavirus curves show many could be close behind New York
Yes, and its becoming extremely popular.
Wolfram is also recognizable as the Tungsten element (W). Lots of projects are named after elements.
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If the north pole is all the time zones this means different latitudes are have different time zone coefficients. The closer to the equator the more defined and separate of a time zone reality
The trick to cron is to have WSL always "running".

In my case, I use X410+WSL and have a xfce panel always active on my desktop, and that is sufficient to keep WSL alive and so have a working cron.
Life-Changing Traits Your Kids Develop When They Learn Programming
> even looking at an exponential growth rate,

Do you know how exponential growth works? The exponent matters. A lot. There's a big difference between 1% growth per week and 10% growth every day. According to the actual math and models being used by epidemiologists, over four million people could need ICU-level care for COVID-19.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200317.45791...

Since we don't have anywhere near that many ICU beds, and there's an even more acute shortage of ventilators, a high percentage of those people wouldn't get the care they need and would therefore die - eclipsing even heart disease in the list you cite. So no, measures to reduce that exponent are not unreasonable. We need to reduce both the number of contacts people have per day and the likelihood that each contact will lead to infection. Please study some math beyond what you've only partially remembered from grade school.

> You also have control over your own susceptibility and spread of something like the flu or the common cold

Those are far less likely to reach a level where they require hospitalization, let alone ICU-level care. Yes, they're preventable (not 100% BTW), but there's no danger of affecting others by increasing strain on scarce hospital resources, so it's not a very constructive comparison.
d / t

What is t, really?

It's really just another form of distance, whether you express that in terms of cesium nuclear energy state changes, or the distance a clock hand moves. So d / t is really d_1 / d_2.
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> She said that "social distancing" is a medical technical term that doesn't translate super well to the public.

Which is 100% the opposite of what I in my daily life observe: everyone, young & old, private & work, calls it social distancing.

It addresses the issue better too, then the "proposed" physical distancing. When you pass people physically the (need and) possibility to keep that 2 meters is often impossible where as while socialising it very much is.
Don't get me wrong, I think CF is a great language. (I've spoken at CF conferences and run CFUGs) I would just always have options :-)
Another factor is that “confirmed cases” is very very frequently reported as just “cases”.
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Hopefully serological tests will be widely available which would tell us if we’ve had it or not.
There is a third option. Apply the same regulations to the manufacture of all products sold in your country. You want to manufacture in China and sell in the US, that's fine -- but you have to do it in accordance with US environmental rules.

That does two things. One, no more cost advantage to global manufacturing in whatever place has the least respect for the environment, which lets others compete better and removes the race to the bottom. Two, there are lots of different and potentially conflicting rules everywhere, so then you get more specialization as there is an advantage to smaller companies that only comply with the rules for the markets where they're selling.
In 1965, the Vertical Assembly Building, which was at that time the largest enclosed volume in the world, cost $117M (on a $23.5M original construction contract). That would be about a billion dollars in 2020, but it was completed in 3 years and was used to stack 13 Saturn Vs. It was later used for the 100+ Shuttle missions as well, but there were additional costs to modify the building for this purpose. The VAB is still planned for use for future missions.

https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/nasas-vab-...
That is not a universal experience.
Perhaps it doesn't work for every museum, but for the one I tried (Van Gogh Museum) you can get a Street View-like view where you can actually move around the museum and look around, by clicking the yellow human street view icon.
Now I'm genuinely curious, as I lived 23 years in Australia. What freedoms are you talking about?
Is anyone here using gitlab with a runner to build QT applications upon commit? I've got a friend who needs this and he is only using QTCreator but it seems like building inside a docker container should be possible. I guess I'm asking: can all the things discussed here be done from command line instead of inside the editor and if so, how do you determine those commands?
true... sorry I forgot that monster still exists
Fun, I have exactly the opposite experience re. VS and Qt Creator - VS sometimes takes, like 15 minutes to start a debug session on a large project while QtC can get to work in the same time that it would take gdb to start. And that's without counting the clang-based code model, all the niceties under the locator (ctrl-k), etc etc

> Where can I define macros in QtC?

the IDE is imho not the place to do that. Just use CMake and target_compile_definitions(my_target PRIVATE MY_MACRO=123)

> - In debug mode, QtC is unable to display certain types of variables, way too often.

very strange, but then I mostly use it on Linux with gdb / lldb, maybe the cdb integration is less good.

> - I have fiddled for days with the .PRO file, read all the StackOveflow posts, and I still can't suppress reams of pedantic warnings

If CONFIG += warn_off in your .pro (switch to cmake !!!) does not work please file bugs !
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Cryptocurrencies – Including Bitcoin – To Be Mined in 2020
Over a decade ago, the supply chain hype was RFID chips. Now, more htan ten years laer, they are not used besides your occasional pallet tracking. or for hteft preventin at shops. And RFID would just have replaced bar codes, so no process changes necessary for a first implementation.

Blockchain is a different beast. And most companies wouldn't like the full transparency that comes with it. Decentralized ledgers would result in a lot transparency for everyone. And that trust building is a main issue. That, and that the information flow (blockchain) has to be always sychronized with the physical flow (goods).
Probably because Ian doesn't try to commercialize and push a proprietary system of computing on the world with Ian plastered everywhere you can see.
WSL+X410 is an amazing combo. I have every linux desktop app I want at my finger tips, with a functional and superior to cygwin/msys shell.

And with WSL's import feature I have trivially replicated this WSL environment to all of my machines.

Yes, it's won me over.
There are more residency spots than med school grads. If a grad doesn't match its because they didn't list undesirable programs, not because all the slots filled.
Did you see the parent comment that I responded to? I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest here.