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I'm childless tech worker and I hate working from home.

I live in very small flat and I simply don't have space to separate work/home related stuff. I'm really struggling to focus on work task and when I finally do it I have problem to stop working (and end it too late). When in office someone will always ask why I'm still working or I will get hungry and food is waiting at home so I need to leave. Also video conferencing is poor replacement for talking with others.
I found this:

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
This is a very common "populist" view when the Olympics are held locally... true here in the US when the Olympics were in LA and Atlanta.
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Have you seen the news recently?
It's now being officially tested with patients in New York..
> Those people haven't stopped dying

Right... they're dying from covid-19.
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Whether it makes sense to break India down is a politically fraught question. I think most people would agree that its current extreme size is an artifact of the decolonization process; for most of India's history, even during British dominion, the subcontinent had hundreds of independent sovereigns.
Infantilizing an entire country. This is an interesting take on the state of things.
Ol’ Moneybags Mnuchin.
If any of this junk mail includes a prepaid mailer I just send it back to them. Its not much but does cost them money. They can pay to have their trash thrown out.
I don't see even in China, resorting to police violence in such condition.
> I believe community transmission has not started or rampant: Because our hospitals are not overrun with people with breathing issues

That is a serious, potentially fatal (literally!) mistake. One of the things that makes covid-19 so nasty is that it is transmissible long before the onset of symptoms.
The Shut-In Economy
I would guess every citizen of a hosting country has felt similarly.
The videos are actually available in 1080p.

If you can re-do the audio and tell me how I can do that in YouTube without re-uploading the video (it's embedded, for example, in the university's Moodle), I will gladly do that. If not, as I said, I'll do proper recordings once I got more time.
I did up to 4x 2.5 hour videos a day last week to get the lectures up on time. You can actually hear that in my voice sometimes.

I absolutely agree with your approach to learning.
Not only that, but elixir docs will automatically search markdown for appropriate content in backticks and hyperlink corresponding code (in elixir STD lib, erlang std lib, and I believe dependencies) for you. That's much harder to do in rst.
They are doing something of this sort. But it's not the employer but employee themselves that have to go to local police station and get the PASS made. Though this was the provision set by Delhi and not sure how this lockdown(nationwide) changes that.

Also I am worried about support services to essential workers as well. Like just today, my sister(see GP) called a medical equipment company to come and fix an issue with their device that her team is not able to fix. The company refused and just said to talk over video call.
Awwapp is pretty good
I know the S3 API quite well through hacking on rclone and I have to say it is pretty good as object storage APIs go.

If I could add one thing to it, it would be a way of listing a bucket to get the objects and the metadata back at once - it is another HTTP request to get the metadata otherwise.

The large object handling is pretty good (unlike, lets say the OpenStack Swift API which has 2 ways of uploading large objects both of which basically leave everything hard to the caller!). Large object handling (say objects over 5GB) is the Achilles heel of all the cloud storage systems.

The myriad ways of authenticating with S3 (which have grown like topsy over the years) are a significant complication. However that is the same for all of the Enterprisey cloud storage solutions (eg Azure blob storage).

There are quite a few re-implementation of the S3 API, CEPH, Wasabi, Minio, Alibaba cloud, etc all of which are more or less 100% compatible (though the rclone integration tests have winkled out a few small differences mostly to do with handling of characters like LF and CR).

So impressive work AWS, making an API which has stood the test of time and become a de-facto industry standard.
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I'd be the first reader :)
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AsciiDoc is pretty good, yes. But reST? Just no.

As a Python developer I’m no stranger to reST, and problems like the inability to nest inline constructs (e.g. [`code`](https://example.com) is impossible in reST) are simply ridiculous. (Talking about docutils here. Maybe there are other unofficial implementations that fix some of the problems, but anything not used by Sphinx is rather useless.)

I used to have READMEs of Python projects in reST because of PyPI long_description; those were converted to Markdown soon after PyPI started supporting Markdown. Now I write reST exclusively for Sphinx (mostly in the form of autodoc), but need to check documentation all the time.
> There is 100 new cases identified each day

Out of those tested. A minuscule fraction of the population is being tested. Case count is massively undrepresecnts the current infected and thus future near-morbid. The evidence for this is in the increasing case count even among the sample being tested.

China is getting back to normal life after a seemingly-effective program of quarantine and testing. Korea and Taiwan look similar. Refusing to quarantine early enough, long enough and resolutely enough leaves us looking like Italy. Far more damaging and chaotic for the economy and civic society.
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Lots of programmers / hackers in the US are about to lose their jobs. These will be outsourced to low cost foreign workers.

Is it legal to dump all of your company's inside information onto the internet after this happens?
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static const char str[] = GIT_COMMIT ;

cc -D GIT_COMMIT=\"`git log --format="%H"`\" test.c
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Eventual consistency is a valid distributed strategy.
Anyone have recommendations on how to write a really structured book? I've been working on a text and I really want each section of chapters to be formatted identically, but also be editable, so that I can edit the chapter definitions, re-publish and merge with content I've already been working on.

Sometimes I go into a tool like Airtable to define content pieces, but there are a lot of pieces.

What I'm looking for is a way to define a chapter/sub-chapter recipe and work on iterative changes to content even as I refine the recipe definitions.
If looking for more of a "crash course" to be up and programming a web-based project rapidly, have a look at: http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/02/the-python...
...Org mode anyone? https://orgmode.org/
I would be interested to read if you could share the source for the above. It’s true that Japan only seems to be testing people with serious symptoms at the moment. But we would expect hospitalizations and deaths to be higher if the number were really that high.
Not to mention this sort of discoveries are so common now that it would be lucky to get a mention in top journals like Nature and Science at all. The incentives for biology is still deeply traditional; new, interesting, or novel discoveries do not necessarily get well rewarded at all. The biology research and development system strongly favors academia politics and close sourced large corporations.
This assumes backups work.
That doesn't affect cfr, which was higher even before the hospitals got overwhelmed. I suppose it's possible that Italian doctors are just generally bad, but I doubt that.
Wen you use this level of precision, you need to consider the quantum effects. And [the current version] of Quantum Mechanics is time reversible. The problem is that they mix some Classical Mechanics that is time reversible and Quantum Mechanics that is time reversible, and the wrong mix is not time reversible.

Autonitpicking: There are some technical details about time reversal, but as far as we know the CPT symmetry is not broken.
> I've checked the chat logs with my Italian friends, and the discussion about people still carelessly gathering in social places (and in fact, photos were being posted on forums) was referring to March 9th.

That's what I meant by cherry picking. Some were ignoring the requests, but a lot of others did respect them. I was already working from home from a few days before.
This is not the plan for any state in quarantine.

It likely will become the plan. But states are still shooting for containment, when most epidemiologists think that ship sailed long ago.
That section stood out to me as well. Semantic markup may be useful, but it's not the defining characteristic of good documentation.
The previous occupant of my apartment had a .com with real WHOIS information. I got a scam invoice for a renewal at multiple times the actual cost.
Can you explain how improper use of masks can make things worse?
should've asked 39.99 euros. Many would have sent it without thinking twice: peace of mind, just in case...
Obviously well written documentation is never easy and documentation format also depends on use case. For most of my needs Markdown is good enough. It's easy to learn, easy to use and well supported.

I like to think that its simplicity (or lack of features) forces me to just focus on simple text to write easy to understand documentation.
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I work for a major broadcaster, we have a lot of equipment to ship in 2 weeks weeks time, equipment that still hasn't been configured, and indeed that's spread around multiple buildings across the country. We were expecting this, but we also had to be sort-of preparing to ship kit on time

Very glad they've made the decision now
we have a federal structure on paper, and autonomy is ensured to various regions where it is necessary, but with the current far right government with its "one nation" policy and hindutva, i see India having a difficult time in the future.
I'd settle for a good shared whiteboard, but the gold standard is still Hiroshi Ishii's Clearboard:

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/clearboard/

It is one of those simple, elegant ideas that can't really escape the lab due to hardware limitations.

Until we have transparent OLED displays or 3D cameras that extend their field of view all the way to the screen surface, it will be nearly impossible for common people to have an interface similar to that
But if oil war ends in next 18 months, and demand goes back to where it was (which it will in 18 months)... why would things not go back to how they were 2 months ago?
I need SARMs, SERMS, and I'm mainlining test e. Don't worry guys it's for therapeutic use.
> Well... why not make fonts with glyphs that are say, 5000 x 5000 pixels... and then instead of rendering for a particular size, line by line, stroke by stroke, curve by curve, why not instead use an interpolation algorithm to shrink that 5000 x 5000 pixel glyph to the exact size you want?

TrueType doesn't need a virtual machine to parse the vectors either, only to hint. Your proposal doesn't provide any hinting capability, so it doesn't solve the problems the VMs were created to solve. Moveto/lineto/curveto commands like TrueType uses are trivial and are not causing the issues here.

Fonts are going to be complex no matter what, largely because of international text and advanced typographic features. The real solution is to move to memory-safe implementations.
That would never work due to external threats. If northern India became a separate nation state it would be vulnerable to invasion from China or Pakistan due to lack of strategic depth and limited resources.
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I would put real money on a bet that the author did not ever try it, and has never ran into those issues, and is simply speculating
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Recently, I switched from iOS to Android. And I was missing Apple's Continuity feature. Where I could easily make or receive phone calls on Mac, get access OTPs, messages quickly on my Mac. I also noticed I was ending up landing social media or hacker-news :D spending hours every-time I picked up my phone for a call(there're a lot in this work from home situation).
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Then test the caregivers too. That's still far less difficult than quarantining everyone.
You can't easily install the nice washlets in many places, because they require power to operate. If a bathroom wasn't designed for it, it's very likely to not have a power outlet near the toilet. In Japanese bathrooms, there's an outlet right next to the toilet just for the washlet. In my American bathroom in my condo built around 15 years ago, the only outlet is on the other side of the sink (meant for plugging in an electric razor or hairdryer), so you'd have to run an electric cord literally across the sink, which obviously is a no-go.
I would think that after an assassination the fear would really be about violence, that might keep folks in more than say a curfew for something less direct.
Actually testing has gone up exponentially in Seattle.

But we’re still finding a flat line of infections. Which suggests it’s slowed dramatically.

That sounds like good news, but we’re seemingly past containment, so it does seem like we’re kicking the can down the road.
But given Indians population and ICU capacity wouldn’t flattening the curve sufficiently take years of ongoing sustained effort? I don’t see how that can be sustainable.
What about the $250 upgrade for i7 - worth it for $150 more than the i5? I'm going to be getting it and I want to have it for 4-5 years as I have with the 2015 MBA, getting the better processor seems like a decent future-proofing.

I mostly develop in Python and Go, but I do want to get into Rust and I understand the compilation is demanding.
Italian bank will take cheese as collateral
The further away from base stations you get, the more your phone will have to turn up its transmitting power, and the quicker the battery will drain. Going out into the wilderness will drain your battery quicker than expected.
Would things have been different if it had started in a country other than China? Politics aside, starting in the most populous and most trafficked country on Earth seems like the worst-case scenario.
Yes, I usually start my shell sessions in $HOME. I also have shell aliases set up so I always see hidden files, and it would drive me crazy if I weren't able to tuck most config files into another directory.
Pandoc solves most of the shortcomings of markdown. I've written papers and Thesis with it. The main problem is that it isn't standard and some missing features need additional plugins. So your pandoc-flavourved markdown doesn't properly render in GitLab/GitHub.
Mostly because the people in China know that violence would happen as the government reminds the people from time to time. So they keep quite and obey.

Since India doesn't do this regularly, they have to give a crash course to people who think that the law won't touch them
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There is a pseudo-insurance scheme called Ayushman Bharat[1] which is freely available for people below a specific income limit.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayushman_Bharat_Yojana
Rajasthan govt is doing it right, they are giving special ID cards to people with special services.
My understanding is that US envoys and a moderator was the main reason for the ceasefire.
As frightening as they are, these appear to be outlier cases.
I have been using using Zoom and Slack for over 5 years or so and it is astonishing to me that companies like Microsoft cannot copy their UX at some level at least. I had my first interaction last week with Microsoft Teams and it was dreadful. The registration and sign up is an act of frustration and beyond friction compared to modern apps like Slack and Zoom. I would fire the IT team that picked those products.

If I was Microsoft I would invest in UX. But maybe their customers don’t care about frustration and there is selection bias there.
Translating “Wash your hands” into 500 languages
The whole thing about warmer region being less infected is still very much controversial, and not backed by any strong science.

India, like other warmer regions, has not been very active in the diagnostic. This is also what explains the low numbers you in Africa, Middle-East, and part of Asia.

Right now there is only one way that we currently have to stop this, and it is to do it Wuhan-style. Full lockdown for 8 weeks.

And forget about chloroquinone, studies published over the past 2 days are showing that it doesn't make a dent if you are already infected.
The advantage here is that you can deploy a dedicated specialized instance for you needs. Just by defining a set of JSON schemas. For example this one is dedicated to information security:
https://objects.monarc.lu

A Web visual JSON editor is available for authenticated users. (Based on the JSON-editor project)

Ask if you have questions.
I should have been a bit more clear. I'm saying both sides should table their most controversial parts and just pass the subset they appear to agree on. then they can go back to trying to cram student debt forgiveness and the huge blank check for wall street into the same bill.
BTC is going to go up as an anti-inflationary store of value after the US announces massive cash being injected at all angles into the system. Once this virus passes in 18 months, there will be a ton more money and not a lot more assets. Yet BTC will stay steady. So BTC/$ will go up.
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I think it works fine for people who have accounts set up. But if you get invited to a Teams (or Skype for Business) meeting, you are often required to log in with an account. This is very different from Zoom, which you can participate in without an account.

I have also been sent in infinite loops of download installer, install, now go download installer again.
A large part of the US depends on septic systems. After flushing, the water, feces, and toilet paper all end up in a tank on the property. The toilet paper and feces there dissolve into the water thanks to bacterial action and other processes, and then eventually flows into a field line that distributes the water into the soil. This is entirely a passive process that can go decades without maintenance, though newer designs in wetter areas sometimes have a pump that sprays the water on the surface after chlorinating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_tank
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A traditional word processor can do a decent job of that, e.g. LibreOffice.
I have always been under the impression that they can only take money out of your deposit for _unreasonable_ fees. There is an expectation that wear and tear occurs from living in one spot.
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Ah! You don't know nothing about the Indian state we are discussing. It's Uttar Pradhesh, sorta like Florida of India.
> given Indians population and ICU capacity wouldn’t flattening the curve sufficiently take years of ongoing sustained effort?

Indians will die due to lack of medical care. We're too far down the road, and New Delhi has done far too little, to prevent that.

The choice now is in the magnitude of deaths. Keep in mind that while the curve is being flattened, capacity can be increased. This is why every country is manufacturing as many ventilators and ICU materiel as possible.

This supposed tradeoff between near-term economic gains and long-term decimation is a false one. If tens of millions of Indians are dying, it's going to wreck the economy. Moreover, it will do so in a more-lasting way than a quarantine (and the accompanying healthcare industrial ramp-up) would do.
I always find certain weapons like the hook sword shown at the bottom to be interesting as they don't show up in other cultures, although the straight sword is pretty much available across the globe. Did it excel in some manner for the threats in China that were less relevant elsewhere? Maybe better armor in the west would have made it less relevant?
Unlike other postponement announcements, many of which are cynical attempts to prevent people from demanding refunds, this feels legitimate.

I can see it being well-contained in Japan in a year, with strict restrictions on entering Japan. I think the advice is gonna be for people who want to watch or participate in the olympics to go there about a month early so they can isolate first, and longer if they're in a country that doesn't have it under control. It's through strict border control that Japan has been able to keep it from spreading as much as other places, and I'm sure it's going to be less convenient for people going to the Olympics. I'm just guessing at what it will look like from the perspective of people going. If they go very early, athletes will need to do a lot of training in Japan, but I assume it must have been common for olympic athletes to arrive early and train in the host country in past olympics. Some may even want to travel from a high-risk country to a moderate-risk country first and spend at least two weeks there first before going to Japan. There will probably be people who won't endure the inconvenience and won't go to the olympics, but it will be much better attended than if they tried to hold the olympics in Japan late this summer.