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> Markdown is "good enough" for a large amount of people who care less about what seasoned technical writers care about.

Ahh, I suspect here is the fundamental disconnect.

I suspect few people reading this are technical writers and don't need the tools which a technical writer would use. When they talk about documentation, my expectation is this is code documentation written by developers to be consumed by other developers, not technical manuals or user documentation.
My favorite character is Caius Detritus, you know the guy that bring discord in seconds wherever he goes in "La Zizanie". That's my favorite because when I was young, I naively though it was not possible. And one day, I cross pass with a one in a million A..H... that was exactly like that. Remembering Asterix and exposing him as Caius Detritus incarnation, I stopped his misdeeds (until he moved to another room ....). Great moment, and bedtime story for my daughter after reading La Zizanie to her.
Planning+your+own+reti
> Because in the initial days, the CDC had a valid point. The W.H.O/Chinese test wasn't that reliable (at the time) and it wasn't unreasonable for the US to make their own.

How would this be an excuse not to start using the WHO tests while the CDC was developing theirs? Even if the test was hot garbage (as you imply), surely something is better than nothing.
There is a trend of infantilization within modern culture. This has been underway for some time now.
As long as people are lyabble for the security exploits they produce I am all for it, hammer them hard with lawsuits.
I think the new web will be one made up of closed off islands that use strict paywalls to finance themselves. I also think the total amount of content will be lower and that the remaining platforms will more heavily skew towards "safe" guidelines.
There are some rubrics that seem to be helpful, such as "Nothing about us without us." AKA representation matters.

But I'm not actually interested in discussing politics in this thread. I'm interested in social phenomenon, which politics happens to be a good example of.

Edit: Though I will go on record as saying I am not for mandatory voting. I have mostly not voted in my life because I have been overwhelmed by events and I am not comfortable randomly picking names at random when that act helps determine who holds positions of very real power in the world. I don't think forcing people like me to pick random names at random in any way improves anything in the world.
Evergreen means always up-to-date like Chrome. Automatically downloads + applies updates.
Dow has best day since 1933 as Congress nears deal on aid
I believe it's hyped because is a more practical/modern lisp.

I don't think it provides more fundamental benefits than any other lisp than access to a plethora of standard Java libraries. E.g. I cannot Java, but knowing clojure has allowed me to maintain a large inherited Java codebase. Afaik I could not have done that in common lisp (and not only because I don't know cl).

I think almost everything is harder when you are not using lisp. Also lisp tends to bring joy to its users for some reason, so there is that.

Finally there is a huge difference between Python and clojure data wrangling. Pandas and spark are fundamentally table oriented, but if you are using nested dictionaries (clojure maps) you do not have those tools to help you. No matter what I was doing in clojure, it always involved processing nested maps, it's just the natural approach in the language, kinda like using classes in Java.

Hope I managed to clarify something :)
This has been a fear for 30+ years now. And it seems like at the end of the day, for most companies, the decrease in cost of labor does not offset the increase in costs resulting from miscommunication, poor training, lack of care in quality of work, and increased times to delivery.
FDA: Doctors can treat critically ill covid19 patients with blood from survivors
Huh. My bias runs so deep that I somehow misremembered a Chinese-language document from FTDI, which I guess I made up in my mind. Unless like some companies their drivers are done in their Taiwan office. It quite common for multinational companies to distribute projects to different sites.
> Here's a question I like to ask: do you spend most of your time making your code look "nice"? If so, I recommend not focusing on it so much. [...] It's better to focus hard on the core problems you're trying to solve and think hard about your layers of abstractions.

Absolutely. Modeling what you're trying to do in code is a critically important task, and a most surface-level grime is forgivable if you have an understandable foundation.

However, I worry that if you focus on the first half of this block, you might think the abstractions aren't important. To a lot of new programmers, abstractions and models are themselves merely "nice" -- if you can get it done without them, clearly they're non-essential, right?

I believe that most code is read more often than it's written. (You pass through a lot of code while tracing down bugs!) It pays to reduce the brainpower necessary to understand a block of code, and good abstractions and good models are key to this.
This doesn't work. Credit is an essential part of the modern economy and not everything can be shut down. For people to consume even the very basics, lots of intermediate transactions need to be made using credit and if you cease interest payments entirely, no one will lend and the system will freeze. Keep in in mind that no government actually has any authority to do this either, as credit markets are global. To unilaterally cease payments and order ceasing of payments is akin to (but actually worse) national default, which will completely disintegrate the financial markets globally. Even for ordinary people around the world to just survive, we still need international trade.

At a high level, credit and money are simply means to align incentives across a wide variety of actors and ensure cooperation. While theoretically it's not impossible to reorganize the economy as not to need it, it would effectively require a complete command economy and I don't think anyone would be able to do this effectively in the short term without completely destroying any semblance of the market economy in the long run.

The obvious play here is just to pay individuals (not businesses) enough money and access to healthcare in the medium term and to let businesses (that aren't obviously strategic to national interests, those can be considered separately) do what they need to do. There are already legal mechanisms in place for businesses to avoid paying creditors and landlords. This is a strange plea for a handout. If the market changed as to make their rent abnormally low relative to their profits, they wouldn't be paying extra rent.

For residential tenants, rent forgiveness at least makes some sense, though I think direct payments to individuals are fairer and avoid cascading effects. For businesses that during the good times keep all surpluses for themselves as profits, to argue for rent forgiveness during the hard times is comical.
Ditto GCC after 4.x.[1]

4.0.0-4.9.4 (last) was Apr 2005 - Dec 2016. Almost 12 years. Starting in 5.x they dropped the 3rd release digit and started bumping the major version more frequently. Between Apr 2015 and the present, GCC has put out 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x.

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
I rather like using BEM but have only used for 6 months or so on short projects. What is the “BEM considered harmful” article in 5 years going to say that we don’t know now?
Oh, I see: Options / Computing Preferences.

Would still like to have a "suspend when lid is closed" or "suspend when temperature is > 70°C" option, but I guess that would require a lot more hardware specialization than the authors of the tool could reasonably be expected to do.
Just realized you may not have access to texting. Email me instead if you need to. We’re going to make this all work out for you.
> procuring the necessary explosives to injure 1000 people may be harder than procuring the equivalent sarin gas

Bullshit.

Procuring sarin is nontrivial organic synthesis. Procuring ANFO is just a question of ordering some diesel and fertilizer.
Yep, I've been finding it comforting to talk about it (even briefly) to clear up some of the pressure. I think it's nice that you've done that and I appreciated it when someone brought it up similarly with me while on a call. It allowed me to relax a bit and refocus as opposed to just trying to ignore the interruptions and being anxious about it
Not trying to be funny but is there no online course?
I'm really glad to hear it. To be honest, I've always seen the race to 4k or whatever else to be inherently decadent.
Gaston is one of my favorites, laugh-out-loud funny as a kid and adult. Such great set-ups, visual gags, and word-play. For adventure, sci-fi, and incredible art, Yoko Tsuno was another great one that has stood the test of time. Oddly, I don't like Tintin as an adult, it's too whiz-bang and bumbling.

After growing up on European comics, the ones in the US were bland, just plain crude (Garfield), or overtly political (Bloom County, Doonesbury). The only one that had the equivalent depth and humor, while being uniquely American, was Calvin and Hobbes.
Even without it though, yes: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=t...
I wonder why this mentality doesn’t transfer to flight sims.

Pilots can’t stand flight sims as training tools, and actively dissuade student pilots from using them.

I’ve always found it strange, especially in the world of VR.

Building up the radio call muscle alone would be worth the sim practice imo.
Install a private CA root cert on all the machines in your network, and set up a router that's able to MitM TLS sessions to do deep packet inspection. Palo Alto Networks' kit has this kind of capability.
Maybe free newspapers go out, and free blog platforms go out, but that means that physical local papers don't go out of business and stop having to rely on clickbait. Losing some things means gaining others.
> Let me present you this: People need N95 masks. Thank goodness, 3M is now churning out millions of them. But, wait... 3M is a company, but its staffed with people. So, those people need to go back to work, right? Those people need to drive to work, so they need gas stations

Please find me a state in this country where gas stations and supermarkets have been closed, or a PPE factory that has been shuttered. Everyone knows that there are important things that can't be turned off. It hasn't been turned off, anywhere. That isn't what people are arguing about. Trump wants people to go sit in movie theaters or fly somewhere and stay in one of his hotels.
4.x ran for nearly 12 years actually! April 2005 to 4.9.4 in December 2016.

The 4.3.0 release was significant for at least two reasons:

1. True C99 "inline" support
2. Switch to the GPL3
Favipiravir – possible treatment for Covid-19
...and also: bad abstractions can be major impediments to it.
Firefox users can turn on privacy.firstparty.isolate which I believe will scope third party cookies to the top level domain you are on. It is off by default, but I've been using it for sometime without issue (except very persistent re-captcha).
New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight Covid-19
If you ever get the chance to visit Venice - a city which is relatively well designed for tourists (you walk in a one way loop) - they're not struggling for customers. On a hot day even in spring it's absolutely heaving and full of places to rip you off. Also plenty of places to eat reasonably, I should add.

Most tourists are not coming by cruise. They're Italians (train to Rome is cheap and takes three hours), Europeans (dirt cheap flights) and other airborne visitors. Since it's easy to get to, lots of people go to Rome and then do a day or a night in Venice.

Santorini is tiny. It's set up as a luxury island for couples (and it's beautiful, so you see why). I guess cruising there is cheaper than ferry and hotel.

Mallorca is somewhere in the middle. Relatively cheap to fly there, cheap to stay and cheap to eat. But again, not designed for a thousand person instantaneous load who thunder through, buy trinkets and leave.

Remember you get a bed, breakfast and dinner onboard so why waste money on land if you only have say six hours to visit? (unless the ship docks overnight)
So many re-inventing SCRIBE from the '80s. Kind of funny actually.

In the 70's and 80's we used ASCII terminals to edit documentation, and only some terminals supported attributes like bold, italic, and underline. But you needed to be able to read it in its "raw" form.

So there were many systems developed that let you put the "markup" inside the document and keep it as reasonable as possible. The one I wrote a number of term papers in was SCRIBE that ran on the TENEX later TOPS20 machine and put the "final" output to a Diablo Hytype printer.

Consider that you had a team of 20 software developers working to build a software package for writing text documents that could both be read when being created/edited and later processed into beautifully typeset documents using a film typesetter.

This in contrast to a developer saying "hmm I'm putting up all this stuff in HTML and typing too much, I'll add a few shortcuts here, here, and here. Ta da! It works for me."

The availability of cheap dot matrix displays and "desktop publishing" set aside all those goals of editing with a text editor and instead using "WYSIWYG" environments of increasing complexity and bloat.

I applaud the reStructuredText people for wanting to attack the problem but I really wish they could look at what has already been done in this space to avoid the mistakes of the past. A version of SCRIBE that was UTF-8 clean would be pretty awesome as a starting point.

In my own workflow I find working in text faster because if I use a WYSIWYG editor I get so distracted by it looking "wrong" that I can't focus on the text itself. I would truly love something that was TMWYW (tell me what you want) rather than something that keeps trying to show me what it thinks I want.
You fail to realise that in a lot of cases the landlord is also the one who gave himself the mortgage.

Quite a lot of commercial real-estate is owned by financial institutions and when it isn't the trust fund shareholder is also on the board of directors of the bank.
> 5 kg of explosives? Definitely not.

For the costs they went with for the gas they could have toppled half a dozen skyscrapers in Tokyo.

They were insane.
Main point is to be consistent, if it is ugly the same way it is OK. If each time it is ugly different way start thinking about making it consistent.

Most value is from consistency, if you make the same mistakes in the same way it is easier to find them. If you make the same mistake in a different way each time, good luck finding it.
Reality check: what is your budget for documentation? "As little as possible" says the vast majority. OK then, Markdown it is. For anyone else, sure, spend a few days setting up LaTeX to actually produce PDFs (no, PostScript is not end user friendly) and a few weeks duplicating the Markdown you already knew how to write because you know ASCII formatting and basic HTML.
The Rise of Alternative Venture Capital
Postgres moved to this model somewhat recently. Two years ago we were talking about doing "the postgres 10 conversion" and now they're up to pg v. 12, or maybe higher already, I haven't checked.

Semi-annual releases are nice, features ship when they are ready, and releases aren't delayed because that feature that's taking just a tiny bit longer than expected, well, it'll be fully baked by next year's release.
Yeah not every developer is able to cope with programming languages that promote engineering best practices.

By the way, better check your github issues.
I just noticed quicktime 7 was deprecated in Catalina
For the 0.60 release, could you please provide a download for Raspberry Pi running Raspbian?

On my RPi 4, 'uname -m -o' returns: armv7l GNU/Linux

Thanks!
Also, it would be nice if people would clarify what they mean by "remote possible".
There are big updates every half year, yet there are folks on versions from 2017. Something is clearly not optimal.
Yep, it's countable. I have defined a relatively simple one in https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html#Halti...
I also agree with this. Some people treats languages like forks. It's just a fork why pick another it will do just fine right?
Well languages are more like artist tools I think. Of course you can draw a perfect horse with pen/pastel/charcoals as in writing really good i.e Chat Server with Java/Erlang, but each of them has different taste, feeling, community.
Picking a language is pretty different than picking a fork. And those all the way Javascript / Java lovers feels like 0.7/0.5 mechanical pencil users that tries draw everything with that. How about trying a brush? (Maybe I shouldn't have pushed this analogy this far)

No offense to, my fork lover friends.
All we can hope for from the federal government is that they keep the checkbook open. It would be nice if they would stop dispensing such terrible misinformation but I don't really think that's realistic.
Everyone's vulnerable to phishing, no matter how technically literate. It's too easy to click through an email during a moment of inattention. I've often thought that the only way to reliably prevent phishing is to enforce the use of a password manager browser extension, which will refuse to enter a saved password except on the original domain. Nobody should ever be manually typing passwords, or even copy-pasting passwords (in the rare case copying becomes necessary, it should be done with a big bold warning).

A safer, phish-proof enterprise password manager may be your killer product here.
SK reformed their pandemic response in 2014-2015, the rest of most developed countries left their old plans in place.

I am amazed that anyone expected the CDC, FDA, or other Fed, state, local public health bureaucracies to spring into action doing the best right thing.

They are government bureaucracies that historically bumble around, waste resources, act slowly, are led by career bureaucrats, and so on. Just like other large bureaucratic organizations, expecting them to work in times of crisis is unrealistic.

The CDC and FDA had a plan in place -- developed long before Trump took over, they executed that plan. Unsurprisingly, the plan under produced and came in behind schedule, like many government programs. It is unrealistic to think anything else would have happened.

We have all witnessed government agencies big and small completely drop the ball when it counts. This time is no different.
If this were a big issue, people would have noticed a correspondingly large impact on Windows gaming performance.
Previously in Android app development, the application sandbox has been sufficiently leaky that if a user has another app installed, it can cause problems for the app being developed.

It's useful to be able to warn users that they've got an app installed that will conflict in this way, and suggest an upgrade/uninstall/warn them of poor behaviour.
I've just tried this, and by far the biggest issue I've found so far is a lack of ability to turn off remote control while sharing. This is important for lots of reasons - not least if you want to step away from a machine for a second without signing everything out without remote users having the ability to do whatever they like. Other than that, the experience is quite nice.
> When community spread was detected in Washington state ... Testing wasn't the problem.

If you detect community spread without testing you are too late anyway.
Our team likes it because it integrates with google drive. The whiteboards show up next to all your other files. The feature set is pretty minimal, but maybe that's a plus and not a minus. Still wish we could just draw (raster) in a Google slide though.
Hah, but as you said it will probably only buy you one day (or a half day), so not exactly helpful long term
The "somehow" is that React Native on Windows is built on top of WinUI, just as React Native on Android or iOS are built on top of those platforms' native UI frameworks.
Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights on’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic
Somehow in between the actual cable companies and the UFC is a distributor called Joe Hand Promotions. They employ freelance private investigators to go to any bar they find advertising UFC fights, sit in the bar and witness that the fight is being shown, check against their DB to see if they've paid the commercial rate, and then have aggressive attorneys shake down the bar for high four or low five figures. It sounds crazy but every PPV night Joe Hand has a number of freelancers out there, following up on any bar advertising that they have the fights on Facebook or what have you. Here's an investigative piece on it: https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/9/12/12586828/zuffa-anti-pi...
that's a good point :D
So, you don't see a difference between clustering on physically separated nodes and VM?
Two studies are available:

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209580992...

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.17.20037432v...
I'm pretty sure setting up OBS would rate among the most demanding tasks ever attempted on a computer for most users.

Most users are not techies.
Why do I need a Facebook cookie for this?
> If it were really an explanation of how the English word is being translated into Latin, there would be no reason to use multiple inappropriate Latin words to substitute the same English word.

> We should also note that the glossary appears in the "preface to the second edition"; in the first edition, you were apparently expected to read the text using your personal knowledge of Latin

The background is the author of a 458 page tome adopting the common practice of substituting [sometimes extremely loose] Latin translations for perceived vulgarities in text, and the glossary being a second edition addendum to help the non-Latin reader decode unfamiliar words appearing at different points in the book rather than a systematic attempt to codify English vernacular into Latin. That's all in the first paragraph of TFA...

> This is especially funny given that another word glossed as "cohabitation", conjugium, refers to marriage.

Sure. To describe a non-marital sexual relationship (scandalous) as a marital one in euphemistic Latin (prude-friendly, mildly amusing to the Latin-speaking reader if it's in the context of an obviously unmarried relationship) in one or more passages of the book.
Not because 'cohabitation' is a standard English euphemism for conjugal sexual activity, which it isn't and almost certainly never has been
Can you please explain why this is racist, Mr. Non-racist?
Nah. Medium brought us an Eternal September.

People who could figure out how to blog earlier on were smarter than latecomers, and had more to say. It is so sad to hear from people who are blown away because their Medium post had 75 views and then having to break it to them that I thought 180,000 views was pretty good.

I was watching the first lecture of a quantitative finance class where the prof was repeating that "many smart people don't like to do repetitive math and that's OK" and maybe it is but it does make you an inferior animal, as much as the Extreme Neurotypical Phenotype has the amazing ability to come up with the same wrong answers as the other ENPs.
People are blaming trump and while I'm no fan, the cdc is an embarrassment. How many decades did they have to prepare for disease control?
Oxford Study: Coronavirus May Have Already Infected Half of U.K. Population
Interestingly I had trouble using Spacy as it requires an internet connection to AWS to load their models and therefore work. This was blocked by deep packet inspection in my use case.

I looked a bit for a workaround but finally decided to just do the work in NLTK.

That's one disadvantage of Spacy.