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I've seen forecasts that this may last a few months, or until a vaccine is created. We need to expand our options beyond death or economic collapse. Not only that, but this almost certainly isn't the last pandemic we'll see, I think we should expect another one of similar magnitude within 10 years (like we expected another major terrorist attack within 10 years of 9/11) and plan accordingly.

We techies are some of the ones best positioned to keep the economy going. No need to physically travel, can remote access resources, and the ability to value generation engines. In the information economy, we absolutely need to do our part. That should be what we take away from this tragedy.
This is exactly what we do! We have a Rails app exposing a graphql api for our cli and web app. The web app is a React SPA monster that we're replacing with another Rails app that runs at the edge and serves the customer UI, docs, marketing pages, and some other things. It's really pleasant. We love graphql.
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It's that the opposite of what they are saying. In a situation where you just described when the system in italy was very openly overwhelmed young people not only didn't die there's very little evidence they got sick, to begin with
Took Hubei nearly two months with a complete shutdown. The West cannot do anything remotely close to a complete shutdown due to different social order and there being multiple loci of infection. Therefore, the measures will be exponentially less effective. So the lockdown will be indefinite - multiple years at least.

Unless we let a small number of old people die of natural causes, we are basically switching to a totalitarian system.
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I'm interested, what is now possible with this? Is it high bandwidth VR sort of stuff?
> even if your nuclear reactor goes kaboom, it will still kill less people than your fossil fuel plant that does not blow up.

increased cancer rates in Belarus (especially in Mogilev and Homel regions - the regions which took the brunt of Chernobyl and where the breast cancer rate for example is double) produce several thousand extra deaths per year. I wonder how a natural gas power plant - the present day alternative to nuclear - would be able to kill so many people.
That's hardly unique to Apple hardware: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...
On 2 & 4, we seem to disagree on the central claim that new airlines can be spun up quickly in time for their liquidation not to jeopardize the travel sector in the future once this outbreak abates.

This requires two conditions, neither of which hold: a) properly functioning capital markets to launch these assets and build the operations around them (not the case -- asset prices are falling across the board and there's tons of forced selling), and b) the ability to spin up an airline quickly from a cold start.

And if we apply the thinking you've offered around (1), it might be just a tad more to the public benefit to have the government step in and buy on the cheap a majority of the business (massively diluting existing shareholders), keep the engine warm, and not have to deal with a cold start in 6, 9, 12 months. Then, just as with the banks, they'll unload the stock as the price recovers and the crisis has passed. Those gains go straight back to the treasury, as they did following the recaps in 2010.

What would less reckless behavior look like? How much money should the airlines hold on their balance sheets in order to cover catastrophic losses due to a pandemic (derided as "hoarding money" in some circles). Many businesses are a few bad weeks away from bankruptcy, and the airline industry, while indispensable, is famously brutal.
I heard that South Korea had/has a very large supply of very accurate coronavirus tests. Probably lots of testing is also why their death rates are low (not only hospitalizable cases are counted). Maybe a significant motivator in these decisions is whether or not you can test a lot of people?
>I also imagine the F# compiler's source code to be drastically smaller and simpler given both its history and the ease of writing compilers in F#.

I agree that the F# compiler's codebase is much smaller than C# (wc suggests 417k lines for dotnet/roslyn:src/Compilers/CSharp/ vs 190k lines for dotnet/fsharp:src/, which is hopefully all the right files).

But as far as simpler goes, the compiler is quite a bit complicated by having to implement F# in terms of .Net. Enum variants are actually classes inheriting from the class representing the enum, modules are actually classes, core library members being called by different names in F# vs not, the desugaring of computation expressions into state machines, ...

Then there's F#-specific stuff, like the core library, having two different kinds of parsers (#light on and off), two different kinds of generics, quotations, ...
That's how it was 30years ago. Now companies market to laypeople directly with simple plug and play solutions
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This used to be a good value Mac model years ago, but nowadays if you configure it well the pricing is on the kooky side for what you get. IMO they should consider discontinuing it, and instead introducing something like Mac Pro mini, with a real GPU at this point.
They are coming back again (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...). Numbers are lagging indicators, and the virus grows exponentially. They are going to go up again
The problem with this kind of comparison is that nuclear can cause one-time incidents resulting in massive social disruption and economic issues for a period of time. COVID-19 shows that, as a society, the world in general is not prepared for stuff like this; even the initial Chinese quarantines started causing supply chain issues that reverberated around the world.

It is much easier to ask people to reduce tuna consumption, than to relocate 100,000+ people, as happened in Fukushima.
I feel like this cost is being badly underestimated.
Considering that it was an email service, focused on making async communication better, one would think right now might be a pretty good time when a large number of people are working from home.
Remote work now is likely lower in productivity than normal-times WFH.
If a software company cannot adjust to remote delivery, albeit at lower than normal productivity, the rest of the economy has no hope.

I don't understand Google's decision here - I wish they simply predicted a longer than normal release cadence, versus none at all
Any bail out should involve the government diluting shareholder equity. We need airlines sure. But we also need to punish their shortsightedness and get reimbursed for the trouble. They operate razor thin margins, but somehow used all their cash on buybacks while increasing how levered they were. That doesn't deserve saving.

I'd go so far as to say that the government should take a 51% stake in return for their bailout money. I'm not saying nationalize the businesses or hold that controlling position indefinitely, but just for the time being to reorganize and guarantee the bailout money is used appropriately and executives fired for juicing their options with buybacks.
Does anyone have advice from 2000/2008 about what happens to immigrants on visas? When the work dries up do we all just have to leave and go home?
> Because the improved efficiency and growth are in part due to the fact you chose to save that dollar, meaning that during that time there were $1 worth of extra goods and services available for other people to invest or consume. You created a surplus and essentially loaned it to everyone else by choosing to consume $1 less than you produced. The drop in prices is the interest on that loan.

Well, no, the "interest on that loan" is the return on the investment. I lent the money to company A, they bought some tools to improve productivity, and they paid me back part of the increased value they produced. That's my reward for consuming less - I got my $1 back, plus some.

But at the same time, company B borrowed some money from somebody else, and used it to increase productivity. So did companies C through Z. Why should I get rewarded for my loan to A by the gains in productivity made by B through Z?
> I’m confused. What does the author expect from publishing this piece?

The gathering of reliable data by random testing of the general population.

I thought he made it quite clear.
If IntelliJ can't handle realtime rendering of text on modern hardware, perhaps the problem is with the software?

My kid spilled a glass of water on my 2018 MacBook last year (sob). At that time, word was out about the 2019 MacBooks with the new keyboards, so I decided to hold out, took out an old 2012 Mac Mini and have been doing my (Java/Swift) development on it for the past few months. It works so well, I've been in no hurry to pick up a new MacBook. Definitely don't feel animations or anything is laggy.
We need to stop seeing the iPad Pro and Surface Pro as equals. iPad Pro is a luxury item, and it gives me so much more pleasure to use it. Aesthetics, design, the way I feel - these things matter. And they matter to most humans. We're not robots who only need to get a certain task accomplished. We need to feel happy.
This is really the crux of the matter. Discussions right now seem to be one-sided -- dominated by immediate epidemiological models of human harm -- but it may well be that the long term effects of massive prolonged unemployment ultimately cause more human harm, possibly even more deaths (due to depression, substance abuse and other illnesses of despair, secondary effects of crime, secondary effects of homelessness, possibly starvation/malnutrition in some parts of the world, etc.).

I don't know what the answer is, but I hope that policymakers are weighing the big picture here and considering econometric models as well as immediate medical ones.
Nicely done. I've been meaning to dive into k8s clusters (with either k3s or kind) -- what is the advantage of building a Pi cluster over something like multiple vagrant nodes? Not criticizing at all, just trying to understand.
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It my understanding that the difference between this and other airborne things is that the particles that get expelled from covid patients contains liquid droplets that are pretty heavy and so they fall out of the air quickly and onto surfaces, they dont float around and linger.

Smaller lighter particles can just float around in the air for hours and linger, then you just have to breath them in. With covid you'd have to touch a surface that droplets fell onto, and then touch your face or something.

Verify this info before counting on it for anything serious, I am a lay person with possible misunderstandings.
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Maybe that will give you better chances of survival but think about it from an airlines perspective. Is it rational to basically ignore shareholders to hold reserves in case of a black swan that would cut your entire cashflow in the hope of surviving a few months at best?

You're basically giving no return on investment to your shareholders, which could have made use of the money in a more productive way than just parking it in cash/equivalents, so that they get the privilege of seeing that money burnt down at a phenomenal rate if that improbable worst case scenario happens? And all of that while investing in a riskier industry?

Again, the investors took a risk and should not be bailed out. But the buybacks and the lack of reserves make sense. You can't take a risk without expectation of return only to get an extremely risky solution (that may or may not save half of your equity value) to an improbable event.
I largely agree with your thesis here, but I wanted to point out that the taxpayer has a right to be cranky when executives receive large compensation packages during bailouts.

These compensation packages are a small part of the bailout money, and it's unfortunate that the people with the most knowledge of the company's position and needs are the ones who put it there. They're not fungible and there's no good way to say, "Fix this for zero salary before we fire you and start looking to claw back some of your prior bonuses."

Most taxpayers do have little idea what's going on, but they're at least on point about the injustice of that. Preventing that involves rather substantial changes, and doing them after the last crisis and before the next one -- exactly when politicians, some voters, and business all start to get cranky about burdensome regulation. Voters who said "I told you so" have some justification and a right to be pissed.
I leave those channels muted. They'll be greyed out at the bottom of the channels list when there are new messages.
What kind of apps are you using it for? How much data do you have to move to the edge?
A project like Chrome, where there is no super high value source code, shouldn't really be having this issue...
> Contrast this with developments in the few days since Italy put its entire country under quarantine, active cases have risen from between 5,000 and 6,000 to over 8,500.

Stopped reading there, it's not worth my time. It takes up to two weeks to develop any symptoms, so remarks like that are either misguided or intentionally misleading.
The Official Chinese Government Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Covid-19
And the performance still isn't even close to a mid range desktop machine which would have cost 1/4 the price.

I'm seriously considering selling my MBP buying this Mac Book Air top config (I need an OSX machine to develop iOS/OSX apps, otherwise I would go for Lenovo X1 Carbon) and building a desktop which will be always on VPN for heavy lifting + it can replace my gaming console.

I have a MacBook Pro 2018 and Intel NUC running Linux with exactly the same CPU. In typical C/C++/Rust builds, the Linux NUC is perceptibly much faster than the MacBook.

Didn't dive much deeper, but I'd guess the difference is thermals (despite the NUC having a small enclosure) and much higher system call overhead in macOS.

That said, I still like having a Mac as well, since there are so many great applications that I use frequently. But a sweet spot (as you suggest) is a reasonably powerful MacBook for the things that macOS is good at and a powerful Linux workstation or server for compute.
infection rate or deaths?
The VB compiler is written in VB: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/V...
They do. It also includes a screen, and a keyboard and trackpad. It's called.. a laptop.
Neat: I can type at 95 wpm on my phone.
Watch out, the little green men are going to eat your children! And they'll infect your precious bodily fluids with fluoride! A sinister, Communist plot!
The update today seemed to be bringing beta back in line with stable. (4.4.0 was in beta for a bit, and it was released today).
A large number of available and accurate tests definitely mattered. But that is not merely enough, someone had to make decisions and coordinate the efforts. I have no idea who that was, but they did a great job.
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I have some friends who have a band and do live performances at bars and venues, they have friends who do the same. All their gigs are now cancelled, understandably so.

They're looking at doing some web performances, but don't know where to start. Seems like there are a few good solutions like vimeo livestream, but these require a small investment upfront, along with the overhead of starting stripe accounts, marketing etc.

Are you aware of a simpler out-of-the-box solution?
The US can't follow the South Korean model because the US does not have the testing infrastructure for it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...

This article presents it as dueling narratives: open versus authoritarian. This implies that, as of now, the US has some choice. But we don't. We screwed up testing when it was small and containable, and now it's not.
Article presents opinions based on a broad and incomplete picture. This might be the most harmful type of publication right now, the author wants to justify his feelings of "The U.S.'s liberty is expendable, but it doesn't have to be" when the reality is the U.S. was not equipped in the ways S. Korea were. He wanted to make a specific point and ignored the obvious facts that would make the point invalid.
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Which is why commercial reactors cannot exist. The MW/$ delta between a military and commercial reactor is the risk premium for safe operation.
I've always wondered if the sheet metal used to build Naval ships was made locally in the states.

Makes sense, getting it made in China seems like a bad idea
I believe the badge options are Mac specific. I am on Ubuntu and talking with some Mac users just now they don't have the problem I have. On Ubuntu, there is no way (at least that I can tell), to disable the blue dot on new message. The only way I've been able to do it is with this:

https://superuser.com/a/1503241/45125

I have disabled notifications and that works as expected.
Final Cut and Logic are not sandboxed (not sure about Motion), they are only in the Mac App Store because Apple lets their own apps skirt the rules.

UPDATE: "Parasite" was also edited on Final Cut Pro 7, released in 2009, which is not only deadly commentary on Apple's failure to accommodate content creators on it's own, it also predates not just sandboxing (2011), but the entire Mac App Store (2010).
> Actually, there’s a better question: why should the U.S. copy China rather than South Korea?

Because it's too fucking late for the South Korea response. I'm sorry, but asking questions like this at this point is completely useless, and the "wait, woah, slow down" response is exactly the sort of attitude that kept us from being able to pull off what South Korea did in the first place.
Yes, and S.Korea was prepped and ready with tests when the pandemic hit (or shortly thereafter). They tested their country so they knew who had it and who didn't so they could focus efforts. Because testing is hard to get in the U.S. still, the rates are unknown and the only way to prevent it is with social distancing.
but it's overall very usable and I see no reason yet to upgrade.

HiDPI. Once I had used a HiDPI screen for a while, I can't really tolerate LoDPI displays anymore.
Perhaps because some testing needs to be done on physical devices in a real lab?

"Please test this build of Chrome on these 1000 various models of android phones" sounds kinda hard to automate.

Even if you had automated it, you'd probably still need someone in the office to poke hardware that locked up, etc.
Why does it matter when you can afford that RAM? Just buy and forget about it, it's cheap enough. We used to land to the moon with CPU less performant than Apple's HDMI adapter cable, it's fun comparison but not very useful, that's just the way things are and it's not going to change anytime soon.
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I’m in the same boat: Wolfram Language has enlightened me (or you may say, corrupted me completely), so a prerequisite for any new computing device is that it can ran Mathematica.

Which is way I had to switch back from OpenBSD (which doesn’t run it) and Linux (which until today’s update, didn’t have HiDPI support) back to Mac OS.
Some people need to carry their computer around, so the laptop has to be a compromise between stationary computing power and portability. The MacBook Pro strikes this balance quite well all around. Of course there are bigger and heavier laptops, if you require even more performance and are not limited by portability.
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I wouldn't say "updating them regularly". The last three updates were in 2018, 2014, and 2012. That 4 year stretch without an update had many thinking they would just discontinue the Mac Mini.
And they have to do it EARLY. It is useless to compare or even worse suggest these solutions now.
Yes. It’s comparing apples to oranges. Basing your argument on “Well South Korea has decreasing number of cases, the US is increasing” is an unfair argument. China’s cases are decreasing as well and they used the martial law options.
I'll take industry standard lifetimes on dimm and m2 slots if this is the trade off.
But didn't South Korea too have aggressive location tracking and even made those details public?

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00740-y

So not exactly CCP style lockdown but not a 2019 style free society either. They did make the hard choices necessary to got it in control. But it wasn't as simple as more testing.
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strategically perhaps, but the optics on that are so awful. I'd argue it's the wrong thing to do if you thought you'd be more profitable in a crisis.
I mean, that just sounds like a matter of time does it not? Or a business opportunity. I can't imagine that there's some fundamental limitation to these devices that precludes a good experience.
South Korea has got over the hump of death count growth NOT because they are preserving the open society, but because they act swiftly. In fact, they acted in late January. When did U.S. acted upon? U.S. squandered 2 months and wait till WHO declared this is a global pandemic.

And they have tested 140k of the cases now and more, how many cases has U.S. tested so far? Not even close.

What about contact tracing? Have you heard South Korea let confirmed cases leave the hospital with fake name + addresses? Or knowing that family members may have infected and still going out to the public?
U.S. has. [1][2]

That's the difference you can maintain a society. Lock-up is the second last resort. And then you will have to follow U.K. to let it be.

[1]: https://people.com/human-interest/nj-woman-with-coronavirus-...

[2]: https://www.kcra.com/article/father-of-missouri-coronavirus-...
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I'm a Sr. UX + HMI Designer with some previous front end Dev experience, and was recently laid off. Given the effects of COVID-19, I'm thinking that senior UX jobs may be hard to come by, and am wondering about retraining and entering another field. What do you think might be good job options?
The world is already in a recession, we just can't quantify it quite that quickly.
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Chrome runs with user privileges on billions of computers. The impact of someone hacking the software delivery chain and inserting malware is enourmous, let alone the risk for the brand/user trust. And don't forget that Chrome is not a charity project, but meant to secure Google's search and adtech monopoly. They actually pay a lot of money for Firefox to ship their search engine as default, and that's for a tiny market share.
>Good luck with the wedding

Thank you! I think we should be fine as long as the government office is open next month when we go to get our license.
2020 has been cancelled. A false start to the new decade.
That makes sense, but when you're asking philosophical questions about the ontology of computing and information, then if talk of information is just a shortcut for the messy complicated physical process, one can eliminate it from the fundamental "furniture" of the world.

One might respond with a shrug and who cares, but then we have people making rather strong claims about the universe being a computer and bit from it. Similar to mathematical universes instead of just physical stuff.
Foreign firms can operate oil companies in the US.

The new owners may be Saudi...
It's pretty clear from that very page that SK reached its inflection point somewhere between March 5th and March 8th.