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There's likely more than one bug, but this is the one I've followed as the most egregious experience I've had in quite some time, if ever, on Linux.

GPU hang on transition to idle
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/673

I don't know whether this qualifies as a break with no regressions in user space rule. I didn't run into it on either 5.3 or 5.5. My understanding is the backport to fix on 5.4 would be too complicated. Therefore I wonder why not just revert the whole thing from 5.4? I don't know the answer to that. I gave up on it totally and moved to 5.5rc kernels, rather than deal with 5.4.

Given this fact of 5.4's behavior, I think it's a bad idea for a distribution to pick that kernel to use, if they can't do the backport themselves, and yet expect to support i915 hardware. Yep, it's an LTS kernel. Ordinarily it's reasonable to pick an LTS for a distribution, but not this time around. Maybe Ubuntu should have shipped a late 5.3.x and then updated to 5.4 once fixed? I don't know if it even has been fixed now in 5.4, although I haven't gotten any emails on that bug since March 10.
That's true for 1:1, but 1:2+ does go through the server.

It's scaled quite well for us, though.
Literally survivor bias.
Adobe is a an English word though. More people are probably now aware of the software than the bricks, but it has a root there.
how many people were in it? I'm trying to set something up for my family to play Jackbox with more than 10 people, google hangouts caps out at 10 and I don't really want to make everyone set up the zoom app since I'll have to do tech support for everyone. (disclaimer: I work at Jackbox, I'm in charge of the multiplayer servers)
No. From a tactical perspective, minefields are very difficult to clear, especially in the short term to achieve tactical objectives. That's why they're effective. The fact they're dangerous decades later shows it's not easy.
Jitsi grew out of Google's Jingle extensions to the Jabber protocol for voice and video calls. And WebRTC call initiation requires at least a custom solution for exchanging SDP messages. So if you don't want to have an XMPP server in your setup, you need another server to handle all that signaling.
The craziest stat I heard today was on my local news, and it was about COVID19 in the county, Davidson County (Nashville, TN,) they said of all the active cases in the county only 2 had been hospitalized. That's out of 163. The others were sent home to be quarantined and medicated. I was floored. Why are stats like that not shared? That seems like very valuable information. Hospitalization rates should be one of the main stats being shared, imo.
Some historians attribute the French Revolution at least partly to a mass hysteria of the idea that aristocrats were planning on starving the populace during a grain shortage. And feudalism was abolished as a result.
There’s a lot of stuff that is aesthetically nicer about Apple machines. But a display is only one attribute of a machine. Many people would rather use software and hardware that protects their freedom, which is why a System76 machine would be a better choice for them.

I have a 2018 MacBook Air (Retina) I use for testing. The display is beautiful. I’m very familiar with running and tweaking MacOS. And honestly I don’t like it. I don’t like fighting with how Apple feels you should be allowed to use -their- hardware. I am way more productive in Linux now that I’m used to it.
Maybe they just did a poor job with that model? You have way way way more issues with your brand new designed for linux machine than I do with my 2015 thinkpad which has basically none of those issues.

Granted the only video conferencing I've done is google hangouts or facebook.

Needing to restart applications when switching monitors seems particularly strange.

Edit: Ubuntu non lts and gnome anything after 2 have been mediocre bug factories for a while. It's not too shocking to find they still are.
> self-medicating is nuts.

Agreed.

> no matter what the president says,

That doesn't mean giving prominent authority figures a pass on outright falsehoods. He said the FDA approved chloroquine to be prescribed for Covid-19. The FDA said they had not done that.
There's some research out there on this, and apparently at least some of the human coronaviruses have fairly impressive case fatality rates in older people. Still probably under half of what this one is estimated at, but substantial nonetheless. That's just not newsworthy because it's just a cold.
Another reason: maintaining a supply of chemical weapons is dangerous. Turns out no city/state wants that stockpile, either.

Years ago a co-worker of mine at the phone company had to go to military base in Terre Haute to work on some high speed circuits that weren't working properly. The network room was in the basement of a warehouse that stored VX nerve agents - rows and rows of it. When he got to the base he had to watch some training video on nerve agents, get issued a gas mask and the atropine shot then escorted to the facility. He said during the whole time he was incredibly nervous as the evacuation route involved running back up into the warehouse then through an exit.
I think the stamp will encourage the wrong behavior of scrubbing the spot where you got stamped.

My understanding is that it's not that you need to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds and you're good to go but rather that if you're truly washing your hands thoroughly it will take you at least 20 seconds to do. Most of the time people don't fully wash their hands but just their palms, there's also your thumbs, behind of your hand, in between fingers, etc. There are few videos floating around showcasing how to properly wash your hands with gloves and paint. Here's a one I found on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbX0xwKORjk
Context for the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis

He wrote a column a couple days before this paper. Linking the response as well.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/18/we-know-enough-now-to-ac...
Yes but software projects are not countries.

Also, anyone can fork, so really he's not a dictator of everything, just a specific flavor.
Is ansible really reusible? We had an ansible deploy for bringing up MySQL database. I stopped using the codebase and came back to it months later; and I spent two days trying to get it to work (it was an unholy combination of local and community yaml) and eventually just rewrote the damn thing as a bare sequence on literal MySQL (in 20 minutes I might add) and disabled verification - definitely worst practices - to get it to deploy.

Maybe the problem is that I'm not an ansible professional.
If someone has an acute problem with low blood sugar, do you let them die right now because increasing their blood sugar won't cure diabetes? This is how insane people sound to me right now.

And from what I've read, this is how the great depression was created - people said "oh, the banks that are failing are weak, so they should fail".
They know the Watt-hour capacity of the battery (~70 Wh) and they now know how many watts each activity takes in steady state (W). What's the non-linearity? Does the power usage of those activities change with time, or does the integral capacity of the battery change?
it's infuriating to read as a healthcare worker
conspiracy theorist
What do you mean by “common sense”?
GCP did not do $9B in revenue. Google Cloud did. That includes GApps.

And by struggling I mean struggling to keep up with Amazon and Microsoft, whose cloud computing units are significantly larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage.

In other words they are behind and falling father behind.
We switched from Slack to Mattermost internally, and while setting it up I noticed Jitsi integration offered. I've been really impressed by it, and we're working to move most meetings to it. Some teams are still using Zoom, but I don't think that's going to last very long!

My Brazilian Jiujitsu academy is trying it out, too, for virtual classes during shutdown. We just held the first today, and a bunch of non-technical parents were able to get things set up for their kids so that we could all attend a class together. It worked quite well. Given the price, it's a really impressive piece of software.
Great strategy. I think Bogleheads is the single best resource for finances on the web.
Thanks Microsoft!!
What I found interesting was as the run on toilet paper began, people in my office started to spread the good word about bidets, and then a couple of days later, sure enough, those were selling out on Amazon.

Which is amazing because bidets are very far from being a thing in the US.
There's a tonne of speculation about CFR still at this time. Maybe I'm hyperbolic, but there are still ~1,500 serious/critical cases in China which is 1/3rd of all active cases. I have a feeling like the 4% CFR is high here because many of the COVID cases became clinical diagnoses instead of rtPCR; in other words, the Chinese physicians started using CT scans and clinical presentation to diagnose COVID instead of testing. Normal viral pneumonia diagnostic criteria is a chest radiograph and clinically compatible features (e.g. fever, cough, dyspnea, etc.). My take away is that they probably ran out of test kits and therefore many asymptomatic patients are out there.

As time progresses I have a feeling that the official CFR in China is going to spike soon when they start deciding to take people of ventilators, unless the CCP decides to pour massive resources into keeping these patients alive. Regardless, I have a feeling like the number of deaths/resolved is significantly lower than what it actually is and I wanted to nerd out here for a second because I love talking about medicine.

Edit: I want to say that I still think that we should be taking this entire pandemic seriously and am in no way commenting on this article's suggestion that we are in anyway over/underreacting. I'm making a comment on CFR.
What an absolute legend, that guy, making product decisions on stage hahaha. I absolutely love it.
"sociopathic in its use of literary lyricism"

WTF? :)

> The use of chemical weapons, as parent's comment writes, is indiscriminate in who and what it affects, whether it be enemy or own soldiers, or innocents: women, children, animals and even fauna. To have your skin melt, or your lungs liquified because some monster on the other side cooked up a recipe shows how inhumane and lacking in compassion people can be.

Yeah because Wilfred Owen wanted long slow agonising deaths for everyone (he was an equal opportonist, hawk and warmonger). Nice trolling though.
> Most ICUs don't have any sort of sealed off clean zone.

Right - most ICUs aren’t set up to handle infectious diseases.

Here’s the CDC recommendation on doffing procedure. Note the repeated mention of the “doffing area”: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/ppe-training/n95Respirator...
We have the data we need. We know how fast it grows, we know how bad it is. It's at least order of magnitude (as in, surely ten times) worse than flu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F...

As shown, in Italy there were 55 times more deaths per week (two weeks already) than the peek during the flu season. And it continues to grow.

> are people actually going to hospitals when they don't need to?

Surely no. In Italy, it is known that even the people who should go to hospitals can't be all admitted because the number of cases grows exponentially and fast, when uncontrolled. No limited resources could handle that.

People already die because the hospitals are too full.

Additionally, all people who are checked but than estimated to be able to survive without the hospital are advised to stay at home. But some of those still get sicker and die at home. That happens, infrequently for now, even in other European countries.

The reason people are admitted to hospitals is that they have so big problems breathing that they either immediately or at least soon have to be connected to the breathing machines. Which nobody would ever do to a healthy enough person, it's to save the life.

That's what are ICU on the graph above "intensive care units" -- the number of beds in typically small parts of hospitals where typically small number of people has to be connected to the machines to help them survive. Now the demand for those is huge.

And even 30-year old doctors get to have to be treated so:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11226440/three-junior-doctors-...
Recently started using this and found it very seamless. There is a Keybase chat bot to drop meeting links into your conversation so you can jump on a call: https://keybase.io/jitsibot/chat
But then you get a VGA port.
I'm the creator of a remote-first community/open source project called CodeBuddies (a not-for-profit), and we built Jitsi into our hangouts (meetings anyone can schedule to pair program or study together) -- i.e. whenever someone schedules a hangout to meet with someone else in the community, we embed Jitsi as an iframe onto the event page.

We initially used Google Hangouts for the project in 2014, and we've been using Jitsi ever since Google Hangouts deprecated its API in 2017.

I generally love Jitsi; like Google Hangouts, it allows multiple people to screenshare simultaneously in our virtual coworking sessions. However, I have stumbled upon a couple of issues with it:
- higher rates of audio or screensharing issues, especially when the participants are long distance or if one of them has a poor wifi connection, or is on an older computer.
- screensharing with the browser extension sometimes doesn't work, or times out

We're actually rebuilding the CodeBuddies platform right now, and for the next iteration I am strongly considering paying for the Zoom API instead because it's more accessible to people with lower quality wifi connections and for folks on older machines.
There are solid/liquid forms that persist for much much longer. Look at the efforts UK went through to clean up after the chemical attack in Salisbury (which was a liquid in a perfume bottle).
> Hollow points are against the Geneva convention. The round you linked is only for use in special circumstances to prevent over penetration, Things like terrorist hostage rescue. They won’t and can’t be legally used in general warfare.

You're wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet#Legality
An Oral History of a Socially Distanced Wedding
Hospitals only get paid for actually treating people. Many of them have asked for financing for disaster preparation, but nobody was willing to pay for it.
Can't have livelihood if you aren't alive!
So epic. They got lots of complaints of battery life in the earlier models, and that was the one thing keeping me from pulling the trigger. With this huge battery and these specs I will have a really hard time not buying this to replace my old Vaio.
> larger and growing faster in both absolute dollars and by percentage.

Where are those specific numbers? AFAIK they don't split it out from all of Google Cloud.
Whatever the numbers say, it is hardly the case that anybody has underreacted. Everywhere, we've always been at least three weeks behind the curve, which is an eternity when dealing with this virus.
Arbitrary: Rust library to construct arbitrary instances of a type for fuzzing
They said it was a teaspoon of Chloroquine Phosphate. I can't find what the density of Chloroquine Phosphate is anywhere, but if it were only as dense as water, that would be 5 grams, which is 5x the first day dose for treating Malaria.
Care to share which field you’re in?
Actually, I'd say that even if they think they're a household name, they should still explain what they do. I'm not very tuned into the consumer economy and there are likely a lot of "household names" I've never heard of.

It gets old researching every company name that's not familiar :-(
There was a similar discussion on HN about 1 week ago, where a commenter described making a "lightning strike" trip to Mexico to buy Chloroquine from a less regulated source, so they can dose themself if they get sick.

In a country where people literally can't afford to see a doctor, and the masses are panicked by a disease, when the leader tweets out a couple of drugs that look promising .... yes, I think it's reasonable to assume that some people will take it as medical advice.
We can only hope it will happen again.
Quarantine as in quaranta giorni?
> Nobody will care whether their electricity comes from coal or renewables.

They will once their taxes start going up.

> We can get rid of those 40% of emissions without imposing restrictions on people.

Without imposing restrictions on _the people_ who are generating the most CO2 emissions per capita. How do you think this is gonna hold? Air travel should be restricted, or at the very least taxed in proportion to its emissions, because it's cheap, easy to implement, and doesn't impact the survival of millions of people, whereas increasing the price of electricity in developing countries does.
There are pictures of homeless people still on the streets of San Francisco ..and they are ‘exempt’ from social distancing as per London Breed, the mayor of SF.

I don’t understand what that means? They are ‘on their own’ ..to do what? Die?
That's not the attitude I'm looking for when shopping for a secure OS.
Interestingly enough, even at the height of this craze, the Asian markets were well-stocked.
Anecdote: I've had anosmia for exactly a week now, without any nasal blockage or any other symptoms of covid-19. It seems to be slowly getting better as of today (I can smell cologne, a bit). My doctor's office said they wouldn't test me, but that I should assume I'm infected and stay at home.
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regarding 2), it's my understanding that hollow point is not very effective against targets wearing armor, and also that they are indeed prohibited outside of situations where overpenetration of structures is a concern. seems to fit the pattern.
>Is there a single event in history has been solved by panic?

Surely there's a historical figure who at some point fled in panic. Having survived, they then changed the world.

If you're having an asthma attack, running outside in a panic might get you away from the airborne allergen.
This is a menu option in Thunderbird (hamburger > View > Folders > All/Unified).
Do you mean overreacted where you have written underreacted?
It is government spending anyway. Even if they were throwing the same money to subsidize football or ballet dancing, the benefits for the economy would be almost identical.

Btw how many wars did the USA win due to its huge military spending? Oh yes, the number is exactly zero.
> BOSH client abstraction to convert that to http

This still means the outside world can interact with the XMPP server, correct?

If so then this is my concern - an XMPP server seems like a huge attack surface for the tiny bit of functionality Jitsi needs (I'm confident it's using less than 10% of the actual capabilities of the XMPP server, which means the rest of the code paths are mostly untested in this scenario and are ripe for abuse and potential exploits).

In your case, is this an internal server or is it open to the Internet?
OMG you're fun.
Let's check back on this piece in...2 weeks, say, when there are 10,000+ Corona deaths in the US. Well see how it ages then.

Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/corona...

427× 16 =11102
I like a lot of Kenny Rogers' music. His stuff is good, even for the era (which has a lot of good music.)

I felt sorry for him after his most recent plastic surgery, though. He got sort of a 'plastic' look, reminiscent of the Tim Allen movie with a fake Santa Claus.

RIP, Kenny. Thanks for the songs and photos.
It worked better for me in Firefox than Chromium.
Read the second paragraph of that section. And sorry, Hague convention not Geneva. Either way, only special circumstances aka special operations from my understanding, which is more like international policing than warfare.
> Is there a single event in history has been solved by panic?

What does that mean? "Panic" is not a strategy, it's an instinctive response to fear.
It's pretty interesting that a starfish is more closely related to us than it is to, say, an octopus or a crab.
+1... Software Engineer here at Khan. I can confirm that as well, and I can say with all confidence that we have a good work-life balance here :)
My argument is that it would require less code (thus less potential bugs and vulnerabilities) to implement the SDP exchange. I'm suspecting that Jitsi only uses a tiny bit of the capabilities of the XMPP server which means most of it is there doing nothing besides being a potential liability.
Consider for a moment that the economic impact of all of this may ultimately kill more of our citizens than the virus itself. I feel everyone in power as well as the experts understood these risks when making the decisions they did. Circumstances were non-ideal, and choices had to be made. At this point, I personally feel as if we need to seriously reconsider our position. 2nd order effects are already popping up throughout the economy. Some of my friends are currently in really bad places regarding mental health and the market/work/society. I honestly don't even know what to tell them anymore. I wish I could do something to help. At least if they had coronavirus I could help them find medical treatment.