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> Hasta la vista, context switching.

Context switching is more about time wasted stopping one task to pick up another. Slack's context switch is when I'm working on something else and the OS pings me to let me know someone needs me.

When Slack wants my attention, it pings me instantly, and it will ping me repeatedly if a person... is typing... like... Captain Kirk... talks.

People have tried to address[1] this sort of problem through teaching, but even if you could get people to read that, there's a degree of systemic complexity in interaction. Many situations just don't lend themselves to writing up a detailed question ahed of time.

Slack could mitigate this through technical means. Hell, the OS could do a better job. Take it further, I'd love to centralize notifications through some service across multiple devices.

One possibility is to debounce notifications as we do with events in UIs. In practice, it means Slack holds my messages for a few minutes before I get a notification. Ideally, the other person should see this so they realize I'm not going to instantly acknowledge their Hi message. And people who type bit by bit can do so knowing it won't give me a flood of notifications.

The other possibility is scheduled notification times for low priority stuff. It's good advice to work in blocks, so it'd make sense at the end of a block for notifications to pop up if they're available.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
In Ohio they had the head of the state association of hospitals float the idea at a press conference. He seemed to talking about the possibility taking floors of existing hotels and using them for non COVID19 patients that didn't require super urgent care so that wouldn't be in danger of getting infected if/when the hospitals begin to fill up with people dealing with COVID19. They also asked doctors, dentists and vets to not perform and non-essential operations so we could preserve the stockpile if protective gear. I hope other states take more of the actions that Ohio has been doing and find it insane that 3 states held in person primaries during a pandemic whereas Ohio delayed it as a public health emergency and Georgia did something similar a week or so ago. Public health matters.
The way I've described it to people is that you need to get at least one review from someone who...

- is an Owner of the code

- has Readability in the language of the code

- is not you

If you are an owner and have readability, you just need someone who isn't you to sign off on it. If you don't have ownership or readability you need to get someone who has those things to sign off. If you can find someone who has both, great. Otherwise you'll need two people.

Having readability in a language can make you pretty desirable, particularly if it's in a language that your team doesn't often use. It's hard to get, and it takes time. My team is pure Java, but once in a long while we check in Python scripts. Most people have Java readability, but I'm one of two people on the team with Python, which makes me more valuable to the team.

It's really hard to get someone who isn't on your team to give you a readability review.
You don't like narrow minded, holier-than-though attitudes that tend to be more common (IMHO) in smaller towns.

Have you ever been to San Francisco?
Can’t help but feel like the timing here is very unfortunate - surely the pandemic has forced a lot of people to try various remote working tools for the first time this week, including Slack. Rolling out a major update just days after a lot of new users come onboard. Might be a source of confusion.
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The desktop app is just wrapper on their web app.
The R&D lockdown of Italy in 2020 (tongue-in-cheek personal take)
It's also called "can't be bothered"
If you only want a two month break start looking now. It will take about a month to two months to get a job and then you can push back your start date for another month. You can also go slower in the job process which will let you be picky and negotiate better.
Propaganda, deaths are recorded under other medical conditions. The same reason German national TV broadcaster does this https://twitter.com/ThomasKycia/status/1239671652755091456
Translation: Bad Poland breaking union of EU, very next day strong Germany limiting access for the good of our people.

keine Grenzen, unless there is 3M distribution center full of face masks on our territory, then https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/germany-f...
Guess the "decades run from 1 to 10, not 0 to 9" people won that argument.
The use of LPDDR4X memory with the memory clock rate at 3733MHz is pretty cool, this is enabled by the 10th gen Intel processor [1] that's in it.
Not that memory speeds matter too much when it comes to perceivable differences in most user based compute workloads, however IMO this almost 2x jump in clock rate makes it noteworthy.

Edit: I just noticed that the processors are of Intel’s new Ice Lake line (currently only for ‘mobile’ processors as Intel is seemingly having scaling issues with their 10nm node yields) which is from Intel’s 10nm node.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/375083/when-will-w...
However, if you and a thousand others owe the bank a million dollars, bank has an even bigger problem than just being owed a billion
The 16" looks great! But I really don't want to lug it around every day. I'm hoping some of it will carry over to the smaller form factors.
Given the choice; the vast majority of humans prefer to live in cities with population densities that are high. Given the choice & language not being a barrier, I'd prefer to live in Hong Kong at density 6,300 people/sq.km.

I'm not sure that irradiating the surrounding area for hundreds of years is as big a blocker as people believe; the earth is huge and we have a surplus of land in places people don't want to live. Most of the earths surface is already practically uninhabitable for humans and we are doing just fine.

Ironically, the places where it does matter (island nations like Japan) are almost forced in to nuclear because they have no space. They are probably doing more damage long term going back to fossil fuels than Fukushima did.
about which part is the question. Or our media was lying to us.
> You can actually just tap the volume icon on the Touch Bar and slide your finger back and forth immediately

No you can't! There is a pretty long delay. If you move your finger during the delay, nothing happens. Then when it finally decides to switch modes, you have to move your finger again for it to change the volume. Hope you didn't hit the edge of the touchbar yet. Combined with the phantom button presses when using the top row of the keyboard, especially the Siri button, plus other small issues, the whole thing is bafflingly terrible.
Trust your instincts as a child the C64 pallette was and remains horrible.
Those issues assumed a full ship, like the Diamond Princess situation. But, if all of the "passengers" were patients, and you only used balcony rooms (to have extra airflow available), and only used half of even those, would that mitigate the issue?

Are there other options to temporarily retrofit the ventilation system? How much worse is a cruise ship ventilation system from an old hotel's HVAC? Which is harder to retrofit?
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I have relied on my small iPad Pro with the older Prompt SSH app for occasional light programming while traveling. For more regular SSHing, a laptop or Chromebook is better. That said, I love my iPad Pro and I admit a positive bias that may not face honest analysis.
I don't want to die in Trump tower, thank you very much.
Putting everything in a single directory allows you to mount it from a remote for system with a single mount point. /usr means "the part of the OS that is the same across all hosts".
So what you're saying is that I need to shave my butthole, hit the gym, and lawyer up?
Definitely. Being an SRE with C++ readability, for example, is like a permanent employment guarantee.

I'd like to acknowledge the brilliance of people who name their code files "foo.javascript" to avoid having to get JS readability.
> I am implying that these explanations are so long worded because they're wrong.

Are you my Intro to Operating Systems professor? Because he would take points away from answers on the exams for being more long-winded than necessary, even if the answer was correct.

Joking aside, your perspective is bizarre to me. You haven't offered any reasons to propose that all([]) should be False, but reject the given answers for it being True simply on the basis that the explanations are long-winded?
The iMac Pro price tag is hard to swallow when I already have a 4k display that I really like (HP Z27)
Also a map would be a great visualization. A list doesn't really tell me much without a frame a reference
The site is from the 14th century. Europeans came to central Africa in the 15th century when there were still many well organized kingdoms and societies there. European interference in terms of guns and the slave trade was a major part of these cultures dissolving.
No south america :(
Because a response would look different in the everglades in florida, densely populated NYC, LA, snow covered Wisconsin, sparse Wyoming and Alaska and the Rocky Mountains ...

And federal solutions tend to gravitate to one size fits all. Or you must have 50 teams on federal payroll to tailor solution for each state - in which case they will probably duplicate already existing organizations.

There is a role for the federal government - to make sure that scarce resources are procured and distributed, to fund R&D, to disseminate knowledge and know how.
I've considered this myself-- investing my time in my own projects while trying to lower expenses to the absolute minimum.

It makes sense, in a way. If the market is valuing your labor less than it was yesterday, your opportunity cost is lower and it might make more sense to invest in yourself.
I think there's a sense that this time it's different. When you lose your job because the government decrees that your company shut down... well, it seems pretty clear that the government should have to help.
I hope memes like this that frame (often very skillfully) this as if everything was hunky dory ready to go three years ago get the proper investigation they deserve once this is over. I have a feeling we have a bit of a "fog of war" situation happening at the moment.
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sorry for the non-context response, but in hopes you see the reply (and missed the one from the other day), blockbattle.net is currently down. would be great if it could be back up, not sure of any other way to contact the creators, will not nag about this again here. if you want someone to take over hosting, would be totally up for it :-) great game, Thanks.
hows the disk on the air? I thought I heard somewhere the disk was was a weaker one, maybe that was the normal macbooks?

Also how bad or good would the performance be on an air to develop ipod/iphone style apps?
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First off, I'm sorry to anyone who's been laid off. That sucks. It's happened to me in the past so I know how it can be scarring.

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Before, not after, but yes.

Or I could have just been doing it wrong, there wasn't exactly a training class when visiting countries in which they are common.
No toilet paper, it's a precious commodity now. That could probably be its own service. In all seriousness, I decided to concentrate on a specific niche of food-only.
Many cheaper hotels do that as well. They have an HVAC unit per room.
Indentured Servitude Agreement also works, with how bad some of them are for the students.
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It's likely possible to install HEPA filters in the ventilation systems, which could effectively prevent cross-contamination(1). While they do restrict airflow more than normal filters, you can fix that problem by simply making them larger. Not so easy to do in your house, but with engineering support on an emergency basis it might not be so hard, especially if you can close part of the ship so your total airflow needs are less. Eg maybe use every other cabin or something.

1) It's a common myth that HEPA filters don't filter viruses because they're too small. In fact, they work basically just as well on small particles as large ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA
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> Given the choice; the vast majority of humans prefer to live in cities with population densities that are high.

Moving to cities for economic opportunities is not a neutral choice in any sense. I’d question that most people actually prefer crowded cities.
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Would a crowdsourcing app to help affected people quarantine properly(supply essentials for free on their doorsteps, get household members a separate house etc) be useful? Get govt, corporate donors to bear cost? Not underestimating the effort but trying to understand.
They're also considering the impact on developers targeting Chrome and Chrome OS platforms[1], which is a welcome consideration.

Edit to add: this also has a follow-on effect of reducing the possibility that end users experience problems due to breaking changes or bugs, which is also important considering nearly everyone is depending on the internet at this time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22620254
There's a post going around on twitter saying that Gilligan's Island and Lost are proof that you don't need toilet paper in a crisis.
Actually coal plants are a huge emitter of radiation already. The radiation emissions of one coal plant might not compare with one full-blown nuclear plant disaster, but it certainly a noteworthy emission on average.
Thank you so much. I do indeed have experience with Typescript and will be getting in touch.
Civilization deserves a gap year tbh
Population density. Climate - so far COVID 19 seems to thrive better in cold and dry conditions. Culture - not all measures will be easily sold to all. Medical fatalities - availability and capacity.
I suspect size requirements have relatively much more influence over the design and construction of naval reactors.
Because fresh air needs to be heated or cooled, and that's expensive when you're running everything off diesel. Heat exchangers do help, but they're not perfect, so every bit of outside ventilation costs money.

This is why fume hoods which exhaust to the outside can be surprisingly expensive to run in cold/hot climates.
Here's a good opinion piece in the Times about that very subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
Complaints about names tend to provide little in the way of insightful feedback. Changing the name won’t move the project forward very much if at all. Mostly it’s a distraction. Based on evidence of multiple successful projects named ‘helm’ listed, there’s a good chance it’s a good enough name.
I'll be honest, it won't be much work, and should be done quickly.
I assume you meant hotels, not hospitals.
If everything works right now, then slowing feature-work down makes sense for products critical in the current situation (which is the case with ChromeOS for students doing school remotely, as you have described). Because imo the goal should be to keep things as stable as possible to avoid interruptions for people during critical periods and only issue hotfixes for bugs that break functionality and for security vulnerabilities. Feature-work could still be done in some capacity, but pushing it to customers in prod is too risky.
That's the distinction I mean though: You don't see a way to save it, but it doesn't mean Google doesn't keep the record. What prevents that from happening on calls on amounts which didn't sign HIPAA contracts?
High yield muni bonds and other high yield bonds were hit especially hard, now down farther than stocks even.
I updated a couple weeks ago and every tab was discarded when I tabbed away, reloaded when I tabbed back. It's better now. I can only imagine the problems that would cause for a school with a couple hundred of these checked out.
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By 'local' I meant local and state governments, i.e., non-federal. Sorry, I didn't phrase that well.
You're correct. The target demo for iPad Pro is (and has really always been) only for Apple superfans.

You can get something like an Asus Zenbook 13 for hundreds less, which has a real i7 CPU, supports much more software, has a dedicated GPU, etc. while weighing about the same and having about the same battery life.
Im sure it isn't, but i used various mac minis as an entertainment center since 2008. It's compact and fits nicely into the TV cabinet or dresser.

I've used any wireless mouse/keyboard bought from Best Buy since. Prefer they are separate as I dont type. Just click through my bookmarks to read and watch content.
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Worth noting also that speed in this case means quicker feedback, which means learning and integrating more domain expertise during the same unit time.
People are downvoting you because you are being controversial and you know it.
Damn, this leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I bought a Macbook Air in September for $1,800 and it's performed terribly.

I can barely compile Gatsby sites and it struggles on displaying Apple's own marketing pages (that run fine on my ipad and iphone).

Even more, you can only trade in up to the 2018 Macbook Air, which means I'm stuck with this lemon.
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Most of those are true within states as well, though. Most contain both cities and rural areas. So why is it better to separate one state’s rural areas from anothers?
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These are all moonshot projects. If someone can come up with a creative and simple ventilator that relies entirely on 3d printed and massively available electronic parts they can save a lot of lives and it appears to be entirely possible. If they don't produce anything of value, at least they tried.
Is there a way to derive infection rate from the R0 value? Because we don't even get close to 50% infection with the flu, and covid's R0 isn't like measles or anything.
You’ve never been to 3rd world countries, they’re very creative there.
Putting the cpu/gpu of the 16" MB Pro would enhance the mini greatly. The thermals would be be much better than in a laptop resulting in better performance. Yet, you wouldn't have to pay for an unused screen/battery. Also, while you can use the MP Pro in clamshell mode, it is making the thermals even worse. So why should one get a laptop, if one wants a compact desktop?
For a reason. Dorms are shared everything. Not really a great place for isolating people.
x+y1 vs x+y2, with y2 = 1/3 y1
> to allow them to be re-purposed

Or, maybe just to make sure they are not super powerful disease spreaders on normal times.

I imagine they are hard to regulate, but a country can make some seal of approval, and maybe even punish people seeking treatment for transmissible diseases after they come from one without the seal. (Even tough that second one is very heavy handed and hopefully unnecessary.)
Are there worries about actually being able to get these with all of the supply chain disruptions?
> Specific high-tech industries require specific hardware and specific expertise (like the melt-blown fabric mentioned in the article) that you can't just keep on standby indefinitely.

This depends on the product design and one has to be flexible. Do you think it's impossible to build N100 filter cartridges without melt-blown fabric?
Don't want to get too political here, but if you consolidated the response to COVID-19 to the federal government and didn't allow states and county public health officials to act, we'd probably be in much worse shape.

I don't like the idea of consolidating pandemic readiness to a single entity that may or may not be up to the challenge of addressing it.
Correct. I know individuals whose expenses related to abandonment of their homes in the region (such as temporary housing, replacement of household goods, etc.) far exceeded ¥1 million. The original amount, much less the reduced compensation, didn't seem appropriate in light of the experienced abandonment-related damages.

I don't know enough about the ¥8.5 million calculation, and what damages it is meant to cover, to conclude whether it is a reasonable sum or not.
Heh, ok bud.
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Thanks so much! This is fantastic advice.
And here we find a way to actually sustain those businesses while they don’t have any non-Healthcare clients
There do appear to exist ones that don't need electric hookups. I'm sure it's not as nice as the fancy Japanese ones, but they do sound acceptable.
I am reading this on 32" 4K monitor (2 of them actually are hooked to a gaming laptop). I do not notice any blurriness.
He's not being a barrister on his iPad though, he's just taking notes. And I question whether an iPad pro gives you anything over the cheaper options for that.
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