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Does Tb Vaccine Help Fight Coronavirus? Experiment Starts at Two Dutch Hospitals
The industry that can help is the kind that can quickly provide the parts that ventilator manufacturers can't source. If a molded plastic part is missing, the auto industry would be able to answer that I think. I'm not sure though how much of such manufacturing actually takes place at the car manufacturers themselves, vs. how much they are just assembling such parts sourced from other sources? I imagine the industries that can really help are these specialized plastic part manufacturing companies (for example). Assembly lines for cars won't help, it's the part production that can help.
The blame game isn't helping at all. This is literally the type of situation where the concept of blameless post mortem, an idea often praised here, originates from. The focus of everyone, regardless of nationality, should now be on solving problems of the present and helping where they can.
The problem with this code

book = Book.get(isbn="978-0099466031")
book.copies_in_stock -= 1
book.save() # WRONG! irreparable data loss here

is that in SQL you should write it like this:

update books set
copies_in_stock = copies_in_stock - 1
where isbn = '978-0099466031';

No needs of transactions.

I don't remember how to do it with Django's ORM but in Rail's ActiveRecord I'd use directly the connection object

update_query = sanitize_sql(['update books set copies_in_stock = copies_in_stock - 1 where isbn = ?', isbn])
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(update_query)

This saves a lot of programming pain, possibly skip some unnecessary bugs and get better performances.

sanitize_sql is from https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Sanitizatio...
That seems way less dangerous to young people than I'm otherwise seeing reported, and this is the report that's apparently so extreme it got the UK and US to finally do something.

What with all the people who are obese, smoke heavily, have asthma, immune compromised, etc I would have assumed 0.16% of people find themselves in the ICU if they get a cold.
I think we need to distinguish between COM and OLE/ActiveX here. COM interop in .NET is two-way, and the consumer doesn't even need to be aware that there's a VM running the code that they're invoking. OLE is much more challenging, because the UI framework needs to be aware of it, and because it's built on Win32 UI primitives - so any framework that doesn't use those is going to have issues much like WPF (Qt is another example).

Bitness is not a new problem - VB6 similarly has problem consuming COM components written in C++, but compiled as 64-bit. Or, to put it another way: VB6 didn't have a problem, because 64-bit wasn't a thing back when it was popular, and didn't really became common on Win32 until relatively recently. But in a similar vein, if you always compile .NET code targeting x86 rather than AnyCPU (which is the default for new .NET VS projects - not sure when that changed, but it's been several years), you get the same exact behavior as VB6.

Getting back to OLE and ActiveX - I would say that it was killed by Microsoft directly, not because of .NET. Back in the day, most non-trivial Windows apps made by MS supported OLE for embedding - this was most commonly used with IE, but you could also do it with e.g. Word and Excel... until you couldn't anymore. If I remember correctly, it was Office 2007 that killed it as an officially supported scenario (you could still do it, but if anything broke, you were on your own). That roughly coincides with WPF, and I don't think that's a coincidence - but it doesn't mean that WPF/.NET was the primary cause.
For you space fanbois ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian space program put on a "world tour" of their capsules and landers to raise cash. Museums could pay them to setup a major staffed exhibit.

I had a chance to go when it was in SE Asia.

I got to:

- stick my head inside one of the capsules and see the "gyro globe"

- operate their lunar lander via a remote control

- learn about their numerous trips to Venus.

One of the highlights of my life actually.

Also got to see the Red Arrows do a full formation takeoff with 9 planes at high speed around the same time, and went to the Langkawi military air show.

After takeoff, they levelled off at 200' and accelerated to about 500 mph. They were a blur against the trees just below them - totally awesome.

(In Asia and S. America, jet airshows are still allowed to do low-altitude and supersonic flight over residential areas. Those are banned in Europe and N. America because of numerous previous accidents.)
Vnzla has got strategically ties with Cuba, whom have already been exporting antivirals in great amounts to China, they will be fine, tho their prisons might suffer, just like most of latam prison population

If you want to worry worry about the US homeless population and those poor people on Mexican us sponsored migratory concentration camps and us Ice concentration camps as well
I’m saying that OP’s comment was reasonable and polite, yet you seem to be taking it personally for some reason.

The issue they brought up has to do with an entirely superficial part of the article. This is a vanishingly small hill to die on.
I wonder if this can be a solution to the heating problems on the older lines. I haven't done the math but a few weeks of closure or reduced service can be an opportunity for some heat exchange.
>apparently I'm conditioned now to feel sick after looking at exponential graphs.

If it helps, all the exponential graphs of Covid-19 are just logistic curves in disguise. China and South Korea have already shed their disguises. Italy might begin to do so this week, but maybe not yet.
Awesome to hear! Why we do what we do :)
and the way alaska works is everyone that needs gov services has to go to anchorage or fairbanks, they drive if close by or fly in a small charter about half of alaska is isolated in small villages, but the housing is often packed with a generation and a half so the conditions are conducive.

three or several people living in close quarters for 6 or 7 months of winter is a usual household, and then every body eventually mingles in a central location at about the same time for grocereries and gov services
The peak tube is usually crowded to the point of you can’t get on, this week there’s photos of spare seats as they leave zone 1.

This image is from six days ago, I’d usually expect to see ~25 people in this space https://imgur.com/lUC9hO4
Yup, you can subscribe to different tracks with the same email, you’d just have to refresh the page and sign up again
> But is it really necessary to act like everyone else are the weird ones for not giving their anus a sponge-bath in the bath tub every time they shit?

Who said anything about using a sponge?

My comment wasn't directed at "everyone else", only those using bidets at home.

Elsewhere in this thread there are numerous comments from people debating ways to dry after using the bidet, complexities surrounding dirty towels or useless wet TP which then leaves pulpy clumps on your butthole and hair. I know the problems, I've used bidets, it's kind of awful.

Why on earth would you subject yourself to this at your own home where you're in control?

At the office or in a guest bathroom, ok, I get it. I've used the Japense style bidet seat attachments at the Googleplex, and think that's a neat thing for an employer to do for employees and makes sense as an improvement in that circumstance, but it's an unnecessary compromise at home.

You presumably have proper bathing facilities. Instead of tapping into your toilet water line for some inferior fixed soap-less water splashy splash onto your butthole awkwardly sitting over the toilet, just get a handheld sprayer for your tub/shower and do it well.

It's way better, and you can properly dry off with a bath towel leaving it clean enough for reuse. Nobody should ever have to exit their own damn bathroom with a dirty bottom.
EU warns of broadband strain as millions work from home
It’s kinda scary people with the ability to react and reduce suffering whilst also benefiting in kind are willing to exploit a global emergency and use that suffering to justify coming out a little ahead.
As the article states, "all TCM prescriptions have shown very good clinical effects", so it doesn't matter which prescription you use, they all work about the same. Of course that means the effect is unlikely to be due to any active ingredient, but rather due to the medicine being labeled "traditional" and the psychological effect that has.
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The timeline is interesting. The lockdown started on Jan 23. At this point they had a few thousand cases and 50 or so deaths, less than many countries have now.

The announcement of transmission without symptoms came out on Jan 26. Around this time China also extended restrictions over the whole country.

Many countries including the US started announcing travel restrictions on travelers from China in the next few days, to take effect around Feb 1. The WHO and China called it an overreaction.
Don't both deserve blame? Imagine 2 forest firefighting teams who guard their own section of forest, and don't trust each other. Team B notices a bit of smoke rising out of Forest A, asks them about it, and Team A says "Don't worry, we have it under control". When the reports of fires in the outskirts of Forest B comes, team B is too relaxed about it, claims they have it under control without even going there for a closer look... Surely you'd say both teams are incompetent?

One of the government's duties is to protect its citizens. This podcast [1] (from 18:00) says John Bolton axed the National Security Council's pandemic response team, and funding cuts to the CDC reduced their ability to surveil other countries for outbreaks of diseases.

That Stupid Angry Moustache Man has managed to get many of us killed after all...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/mar/19/how-donal...

Edit to add: Those NSC/CDC cuts, those teams were there because the previous admins knew it's a dangerous world with many untrustworthy/uncapable actors (e.g. a poor African nation would not be able to tell you exactly how fast Ebola is spreading). It's ridiculous to cut off your own monitoring capabilities, and then to say "I'm not responsible" and blame others when the problem hits you.
According to this study [1], more than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the winter of 2013/2014 and 2016/2017, which would give an average of 34k deaths per year attributable to flu-like diseases.

To me (someone that has very little knowledge on the subject), the arguments by Dr. Wolfgang make sense. I hope an expert can comment on his arguments.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
Not snarky at all - an attempt at an humorous aside. I thought about trying to tie it to Lua / Erlang / Julia coders vs. C / .NET / Java etc., but thought that a bit of a stretch. :)
The company I work for has switched to fully remote. Our team has handled it pretty well so far, but I know others within the company (particularly non-development teams) are finding it challenging.
Because it's becoming obvious the disease is vastly more widespread and far further ahead than the official numbers based on death rate/testing data show.

Death is usually around 20 days after first symptoms
In SQLalchemy you can

book = Book.get(isbn="978-0099466031")
book.copies_in_stock = Book.copies_in_stock + 1
book.save()
Oh fantastic! I'll hit you up for the Customer Engineer. Love that kind of gig.
Can’t one turn this argument around to any other school of philosophy?
I'll preface this with the statement that I am as far away as you can be from an antivaxxer. I do believe vaccines work, and that everyone should get their vaccines. Vaccines save lives and are safe.

However, I am a bit worried about a vaccine that is rushed to approval and use.

If the regular process to approve a vaccine takes years, I'm pretty confident that the vaccine is safe for 99.99% of the population. This is further verified by the sheer number of people getting the vaccine for years without adverse reactions (very rare cases excluded, like 1 in 100,000 or 1,000,000 rare.)

But what about a rushed nCoV vaccine? Wouldn't it be potentially more dangerous if it underwent weeks/a couple of months of testing for approval instead of the usual years? And if it wouldn't, then why do we require any other vaccine to undertake years of clinical trials before approving it then?

An other hypothesis I have (but can't verify, I don't know enough about how vaccines are made) is that the nCoV vaccine is basically another flu vaccine. We know how to make safe flu vaccines since most of the potential harm comes from the additives/preservatives in the vaccine (I might be wrong on that, please correct if that's not right.)

So, making a nCoV vaccine is basically the same additives/preservatives as the flu vaccine but with nCoV strains in it rather than the ordinary flu. And this way, the absence of danger is pretty well established already because the flu vaccine has been proved safe, the only question is whether the nCoV serum works or not. And thus, the only risk from a rushed vaccine is not that it is harmful but that it might not be reliably giving immunity.

Again, this is a guess from my rough understanding of how it all works. I'm posting this here hoping that someone much more knowledgeable than I am can chime in and clarify.
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True. It's even easier in Django using F Expressions

book = Book.objects.get(isbn="978-0099466031")
book.copies_in_stock = F('copies_in_stock ') -1
book.save()

F expressions perform operations at the DB level directly using column name without ever pulling that data into Python code.
Redundant how? You say you don’t see how this could help, but the opposite - not doing it - is certain not to help. I don’t understand your criticism and cynicism here.
Only if you subscribe to the weird capitalist modern bastard child of libertarianism, which should really be called something else, given that actual libertarians would probably hate it with a passion.
India mulls up to $1.6B rescue plan for aviation sector after coronavirus
The only thing I can see is on the BBC News website they have a line that says: "The Army is preparing to provide support during the pandemic"

Definitely doesn't sound like a lockdown.
Does ActiveRecord (the Ruby library) support e.g.

Book.where({isbn: "978-0099466031"}).update_all("copies_in_stock = copies_in_stock - 1")

without breaking? It's been a long time since I've used it and I can't remember whether you have to use .execute or not.
Tumors are actually a great example of over testing. The key is, you don't know what would have happened in the alternate universe, but when you say the word "tumor", you just assume it's a super dangerous thing that would have inevitably killed you.

The truth is, when we do a careful autopsy of old people who died of non-cancer diseases, we usually find a ton of hidden tumors that have just quietly been lying dormant, not really harming them. In those cases, ignorance is bliss because doing anything to remove the tumors only could have increased their risk of death given that the tumors didn't kill them.

We don't know what bucket of people any one person is in, we can only look at overall statistics.
Presumably, if it gets to the point where you need a safe-haven store of value, you won't be converting it to cash. You'd be transferring it directly to the recipient in exchange for food, shelter, or weapons.
It reminds me a bit of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theor...
No. They are writing about those languages and need to cite the original. Show phrases in that language and then comment on them in English.
> Then you have the problem of how to define your subset of c++. It's easy to say 'no exceptions, no RTTI, no STL'.

how about you just don't do that like 99% of modern C++ projects and just accept "whatever the C++ compiler accepts".

Remember that "whatever the C compiler accepts" covers most of IOCCC too.
Well there are about to be a lot of real situations.
Support includes avoiding riots and looting. Something Boris Johnson got in trouble for back in 2011 when he was Mayor of London.
Misleading should be removed
Yes I am curious about that. Someone else said that the Rails authors used to like and defend this pattern and that presumably they changed their mind. Maybe because they ran into problems? I'm not at all close to the Ruby community but would love to know.

https://lobste.rs/s/valayp/troublesome_active_record_pattern...
Mathematica is worth learning and using since it's so far ahead of the open source alternatives (e.g. Python/Jupyter and associated libraries ) in usability/interactivity/rapid development that it comes across like future-tech.

Unfortunately it's also the single tool most hampered by its licensing and silo-like ecosystem.
Japans response was profoundly different. This is how airport arrivals were handled in Jan 24 in Japan: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001270041.html

This is how arrivals in the US were handled a few days ago, this hall practially is a breeding ground for new infections: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/us/airports-coronavirus.h...

My point is NOT Japan good USA bad, I just want to show that there was the option to get a grip on the situation in January.

The past is the past, and every present discussion should focus on things that can be done now.

The question of how is to blame the most can be answered in a year or so, when things have calmed down.
It sounds like it took many decades for the surrounding soil to heat up, so without 100xing the rate of cooling from the soil relative to the existing rate of heating I'm skeptical, given that the heating resulted from a temperature differential of likely a few dozen degrees, you would need a substantially cooler environment to cool the soil. Maybe with a massive investment you could do it by cooling the tunnels to substantially sub zero temperatures.
I don't know if that makes a company to avoid, but that's certainly a good point of awareness to raise.
Panic-Buying Isn’t Prepping for Covid-19 – Reason.com
Also not technically the U.S, but during the Revolutionary War the continental dollar underwent hyperinflation, leading to the phrase "not worth a continental". By the end of the war they were worth less than 1% of face value and had ceased to circulate as money.
This paper seems to have nothing at all to do with COVID-19.
The Prepping Industry Wasn’t Prepared for the Coronavirus
> However, I have no idea about how to solve the data retention problem except for being open source.

Make it good enough and few people will have that concern, and even fewer will decline to use it because of that. Look at GitHub, Trello, Todoist, and many others; they all started as tiny web apps without much trust.
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In retrospect sure, but as late as mid-January the WHO was saying there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=t...
Free market knew of this possibility, but pocketed the profits for shareholders instead of making investments to prepare. And the government didn't intervene. This is a culture problem. We weren't listening.

SARS experienced countries made very different decisions, over the past few months, and since 2003.
(Author here,) I know it seems like a synthetic example but this kind of code is quite common, particularly from devs who don't know databases well. I suppose editing a json field or something would seem more plausible and I should have used that example (though there are also ways to do that in Postgres I think).
Light flow is pretty amazing and I'm surprised phone makers haven't at least integrated some of the features.

It started out as a way to do custom LED sequences, but you can also set custom vibration patterns (at the millisecond level) for every type of notification.
I'm sorry if it's slightly off topic, but could we 3D print plastic masks? It seems they could at least protect from the biggest droplets. Better than nothing, I would say. Even we could create a transparent full facial mask, protecting the eyes.
What say you to this, Bokelley?

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That's probably because there's a legal obligation to put an expiration date on it. Where I live all consumables have to have an expiration date so there is a best before date on table salt. Salt.
Most likely this is because it's cheaper and easier to put an expiration date on everything rather than discussing the exceptions on a case by case basis.
Sports Leagues Offer Free Streaming of Older Games Amid Coronavirus Shutdown
Why is it so important that it runs on the JVM?
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"literally zero chance"?!?

Ok, I'm going to hold you to this. I am screenshoting it.
Maybe that's right. Thank you very much
There were previous reports suggesting that this could not be the case, is this an updated findings and should we really count on it?
I already posted my experience from 2008 somewhere else for anyone concerned about a recession. No two crises are equal, but might give you some pointers.

My personal perception of the 2008 wreck is the following: a some people got royally screwed, many people got screwed, some people didn't feel a difference, and a few people actually thrive. I was in the second category.

First, my company imposed a hiring freeze. This included both hiring new people or renovating temporary contracts. Then, they relied in natural attrition to shed people. Since many people were contractors, those were the first ones to let go. When that wasn't enough, they started laying off full time employees.

I was lucky since my team was left mostly untouched, while other teams were dismissed entirely. We did get our bonuses cancelled and salary frozen for a few years, however. That, coupled to higher taxes and inflation, means that my income went down over the years, but at least I had a job.

My biggest takeaway is that YMMV (duh!). Many people are concerned now about losing their jobs. In my opinion, companies (particularly large and stable ones) will rely on hiring freezes and attrition to curb their numbers. If it comes down to it, you are more likely to see teams being fired wholesale rather than each team bleeding a bit.
What is the reasoning for implying that Japan are handling the problem more effectively than others?

A friend of mine living in Japan thinks there's a "burying their head in the sand" type mentality going on.

They've only performed 32,000 tests (which is 16,484 people); which makes it hard to know exactly how the disease is spreading there.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-...
How do story submissions compare to comments?
More info for those like me who were unaware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling
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As a developer by trade, it was definitely raising a LOT of red flags for me. I don't blame you for taking it with a grain of salt, though.