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> An ecosystem most knowledgeable SREs will recommend your team not use unless you are able to do a relatively large amount of due diligence and have dedicated staff who are domain experts for kubernetes

Who are those 'knowledgeable SREs' and what are they recommending instead? Docker Swarm? VMs?

There is a place for those approaches, but people often underestimate the amount of work that is involved to bring large services into production, work that has been packaged and commoditized by K8s, by domain experts.

Moreover, it allows people to speak the same language and easily share their solutions.

Actual domain experts are required (today) if you want to bring databases and other stateful workloads to Kubernetes. But stateless? I'll run MicroK8s in a Raspberry Pi if I need to run containers. There is so much stuff that's taken care of by K8s that I can't'see why one wouldn't use it, unless they need to just run a single container somewhere.

> and proprietary cloud setups.

Proprietary? https://github.com/googleforgames/agones

You don't have to run it on GKE, you know. You can manage it yourself. Which I'm not sure why you would do, since you are complaining about the lack of domain expertise.
They say they'll reject stimulus for equity because they have "plenty of other options."

So they shouldn't be asking for help, and shouldn't receive any. Save that money for other companies that don't have plenty of other options.

Boeing asking for help that they don't need is the corporate equivalent of hoarding.

(Members of Congress already contacted.)
> make the shareholders take it in the wallet for their reckless business practices

The problem is that those business practices weren't decided by the shareholders. The shareholders in most cases are mutual funds holding millions of people's retirement savings. Those people had no say in the business decisions made by the companies; they don't even control which individual stocks the mutual funds invest in. Their retirement savings are not what should be taking the hit.
I thought the CDC funding cut didn't pass?
Well in 4 days you don't need to know any more.
Yes. That is the whole concept of lender of last resort. The goal is to avoid a panic fueled fire sale where prices become decoupled from anything resembling fundamentals and instead collapse as everyone acts in concert to irrationally unload otherwise valuable assets. By acting in this capacity the government can allow the market price seeking mechanisms of capitalism to operate on an appropriately longer time horizon.

The government is uniquely situated to do this because 1. It can use future tax revenue over the long term to pay for supporting the broader economy in the short term thereby providing redistribution over time, 2. Can address the entire economy in a systematic fashion rather than having individual actors chaotically rush to negotiate individual deals, and 3. Can print money to prevent markets from seizing up when panic sets.

The alternative is to let everything just liquidate with the resulting mass panic, cash shortages, bank runs, needless bankruptcy, supply chain disruptions, and eventually massive reduction in demand making the market smaller for everyone.

The liquidationist mindset was dominant in the 1920s and espoused by Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury. Some argue this made the Great Depression far worse than it needed to be. We largely avoided that in 2008 because the government stepped in.
> a monthlong shuttering can and will drive many into bankruptcy.

They should have saved up- a decent emergency fund is three+ months of expenses, or so I'm told.

In a better world...

Didn't save up? You lose your business. Either it goes under or you sell it at fire-sale prices to somebody who has the assets to keep it afloat until things stabilize (possibly the government).

Your workers? Of course, the government will support them as individuals. And you, too! You won't be homeless or starving, even if your business fails completely. You just won't have your business anymore.

"But what about startups or very small businesses who haven't had time to accumulate enough capital to survive this?" Then you do what you usually do to turn a rare risk into a predictable expense: buy insurance.
Miranda played a much larger role in Nell's education than merely acting a role in the Primer.
+1. Add:

- Use long expressive variable/function/class names that tell me exactly what this variable/function/class does

I have to constantly fight the urge to have code fit in the littlest amount of space possible.
They were different times.

Tintin is rather fascinating in that regard, in that the first 3 albums at least are egregiously incorrect caricatures of russia/africa/america with a decidedly colonialist, white supermacist, paternalist bent (very real, inarguably so, take a read yourself). A product of being literally ordered by an ultraconservative catholic priest. At a certain point in his life, Hergé (the author) met what would become a close friend (the basis of the character Chang in the albums). This caused such a wild shift in his worldview that the albums shifted from being these oversimplified caricatures of "inferior nations" to being one of the most thoroughly well-researched and eclectic comic book series/universes of all time.
Since we're seeing business in a rent strike, I wonder how well a rent strike would work for the average citizen.
Precisely. I don't understand why the WHO would put out such information with reckless disregard of current events.
Just to play devils advocate. Wouldn’t that be a large dead weight loss if every corporation had six months of operating expenses sitting around in low interest accounts? In total it could be as large as half the worlds GDP?
They could have done buybacks instead of cash sitting around.
Aren’t they also freed from servicing their debts as well? Why does pausing the debt cycle affect them disproportionately?
There is a growing consensus that constant positive pressure is what many patients need: https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/

Developing a closed mask that doesn't contaminate everyone around them might do much good.
youtube-dl violates the YouTube terms of service. That's why they scrape the website intstead of using the api.
> Some tech companies are worth more than some country's GDPs.

This doesn't mean much. Plenty of people are worth more than some countries' GDPs. Wikipedia's list of countries by GDP goes down to US$42 million.
That’s an awesome idea. You should write a more concrete proposal and send it to the fed. I have a few friend there and and some of the larger REITs. I’d be happy to help get it in the right hands.
Each month, the US treasury spends close to 4x (~$370 billion) the stockpile of cash that Apple has accumulated over decades ($100 billion.) It's a whole different level.
Avoid using the microwave to get faster internet
As a side note, a down vote shouldn't be the same as "I disagree." If you disagree, please explain why. So far, I've heard no helpful criticisms. Nor have I heard any reason for the down votes -- if I'm doing something wrong, you need to say what it is, or I'll keep doing it.

If you want an echo chamber, then by all means bump this down to -50 with no further explanation.
I hope that one of the outcomes of this crisis is we take a proper evidence-led approach towards building and design standards to reduce the spread of infectious disease.

For all new buildings or products, any surface which is touched by hundreds of people each day needs to be redesigned to be contactless or to use materials that minimize transmission; products like hand dryers should pass standards that measure whether they spread bacteria or viruses; buildings and public transportation (buses, trains and planes) need to use HEPA filters to reduce airborne transmission risks, and to filter out air pollution; and sinks for hand washing need to become a standard feature at office receptions or entrances/exits.

We should also be able to reduce the normally accepted steady state of deaths, ill health and economic impacts from flu and other unnecessary sickness.

But this is going to be more and more necessary as global disease transmission becomes easier. It could be a new strain of flu or a drug resistant TB next year. There has to be defence in depth and in advance, not just hoping always for a magic fix after the problem has occurred.
You can just open them and then wash your hands...
Don't leave it in low interest account? It's likely millions of $$$, so index fund would be a likely storage for a lot of it
I get you.

The plotting tools I would actually consider in an "Intro to Data Science" course, not in an "Intro to Programming".

I started to write a library implementing Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra book assuming nothing but core Python. What inspired me to do that was reading Philip N. Klein's book "Coding the Matrix". I thought writing a LA library for fun and study purposes makes sense if you want to go on and study data science. However, that project is not yet ready to be published. Would that be what you are looking for?
The FDA had test kits which were flawed. It got caught with its pants down in public. The rest is damage control.
This interview is about way more interesting stuff than just iPod
I don't think bidets are standard in the US and still need a water hookup, which is a small but definable barrier. TP is cheap, viewed from a short-term cost.
I'm able to pay my rent. If me paying mine means the newly unemployed people don't have to during this thing then I would prefer the situation that's unfair toward me.

We really kick the lowest people into the dirt here and the place we do it the most is housing. It makes our economy extremely unstable, not to mention it's pretty unpleasant to know that you're only a couple mistakes away from being in a similar situation and to be around a bunch of people who feel the same way. It doesn't need to be like this, the US is mostly trees and all but the most dense places have lots of room for growth. We've prevented it and now it's time to pay for our mistakes.
> The economy is effectively frozen.

This is a huge overstatement. Certain sectors of the economy are frozen: basically, those sectors which serve demand that is discretionary and non-essential, the sorts of things people have stopped doing because they don't want to get infected. Grocery stores, drugstores, etc. aren't frozen--in fact their sales have probably skyrocketed over the past few weeks. All of the supply chains that feed those places aren't frozen either. Not to mention that there is now a huge new demand for various health care items, from masks to ventilators, that companies will be wanting to meet and will be hiring people for.
The metric needs to be, equally miserable. The innovation needed, is a misery metric. Once most everyone is equally pissed, that's the solution - doesn't matter how bizarre or ideological is seems.

But of course, the track record suggests the actual solution we get will look more like neo-feudalism.
I'm curious about the major pains with React-native you experienced. Is it because of the toolchain for RN? or some specific scenario?
I'm not sure you got the point. The argument has nothing to do with the absolute amount of cash an organization amasses. The whole argument is about organizations building up economic reserves that enable them to endure long periods of recession or market downturn or a bad product launch or an earthquake. Some companies might have more cash than most states, but the same argument holds if a fruit vendor stocks up a few thousand euros that enable them to remain in business during a disaster.
Another related topic of interest is constructivism in mathematics. Unfortunately the wikipedia article is pretty abstruse, anyone have a more down to earth one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

(Note this is different from constructible numbers, which the author mentions. That has to do with classical geometry.)
Well, you might have nothing anyway, if it takes twice as long for Dyson to produce anything by starting from scratch rather than using an existing design.

I guess nobody should stop him trying to make some of these at a crash pace, because there's a nonzero chance they might work out, but it does seem unlikely.
Ugh, can’t Europe behave? Healthcare, Internet.... they should get their s* together.
We have laws that limit legal action vs government, and even simpler laws like good samaritan laws for reasons.

We don't want people who make good faith efforts to protect / help people sued... because the end result was not entirely positive.

Dude is in a car accident and his car is on fire. I pull him out but his arm breaks?

I didn't cause the accident, neither did he, I didn't have to pull him out of that burning car.... but it probabbly makes sense that I'm not legally liable because we want people to help.

Same goes for this sort of ultra expanded view of government liability.

If they're not protected, the result is without question inaction. Voters don't want that, nobody really does.
I don't remember UMDF as supporting video drivers. It was mostly pluggable stuff like USB storage, sound etc. But I haven' touched that stuff since 2005 or so.

Anyone that remembers WinNT 3.51 or so would likely remember the horrible video performance before most windows graphics code was moved to the kernel in win32k.sys...
We're using webex at work but I've used half a dozen different tools so far with friends (no FOSS ones unfortunately) and they all work about as well.
>This advice is analogous to a billionaire telling a minimum wage employee to save more.
We're witnessing the fall of the Roman Empire. CDC just implements the will of healthcare bosses who want to take the most of it before this card house falls apart. In the corporate world this is called the phase of creative destruction.
I have a V7 and it’s excellent. Really well thought out. Feels a little like if Apple made a vacuum cleaner.
But everyone will end up poorer if we let mass bankruptcy to wash over the economy. Many of these SMBs and large corps took years to establish and have domain knowledge, trained work forces, supply chains that can’t just spin up easily. A little collective sacrifice and collaboration goes a long way when everyone is sinking together.
It could be, or maybe we just had bad luck too.

I don't think the design of the motorised head was good at all, since as I said I found hair and dust got through the cracks into the housing and I needed star shaped screwdrivers to get in there and clean it.

And the main body has a flimsy flap that opens/closes with airflow, but it gets stuck very easily with our dust situation. So I have to pick at it down the tube (awkward), unscrew it, or hope running water flushes it (tends to just consolidate the dust into paste). If the flap stops moving the motor cuts off every few seconds.

Overall it was great for a year or two but for the price (and based on our consumer laws here in AU) I'd expect 5-10 years of service for such a vacuum cleaner. It now needs a lot of TLC and cleaning compared to our bagged Miele roller.
That is cute as hell.
Most companies don’t want to suddenly try to rebuild teams from scratch in 6 months. So generally a furlough is preferred outside of the most generic skills. Giant tech companies are likely more concerned about how long the economic recovery takes and if anything can be done remotely.
So essentially a CPAP machine.
- They have a replacement API and, per the article, are working with the developer to make it a smooth transition.

- there isn’t an obvious motive to handicap third-party developers here (applies to Safari adblocking as well)

- the stated motive of increased security and stability is entirely plausible

FWIW I tend towards assuming good faith in the case of Chrome as well. If we accept the reason given for Safari (because plausible & no obvious other, see above), it wouldn’t make much sense not to see the exact same motivation to be sufficient for Chrome. I’m not sure if Google having another, less user-friendly additional reason should make much of a difference. It’s only if the specifics around the alternative APIs diverge that Google’s ad business might become relevant again.
When you compile to object files zig will generate C header files that you can use when linking. Granted this won't help with embedded systems where zig can't compile to.
I think Leslie Groves or Admiral Rickover would have figured it out with a few phone calls.
I know. They should have done it two years ago.
I love this story. A much needed happy item. Great work Save the Redwoods League (SRL) and thank you Rouch family.
The descriptions I've read of the cave suggest that it wouldn't have worked as a backup anyway- a human can wriggle or be pulled through, but a pod large enough to hold a human would be too big and inflexible. It would have snagged on something, and then what?
No, huge tax cuts and cutting regulations that prevent sub prime loans that leave the government incapable of handling a crisis is what causes Banks to fail...
I was excited to read this because based on the title I was interested to see what an MBA take on "how to build an economy for Longevity", however that would've been defined.

Unfortunately it's a take on how to tune businesses to focus on the 50+ demo, and yeah I stopped reading.
Why does zig purposely fail on windows text files by default? Do you really expect a language to catch on when you are purposely alienating windows users by refusing to parse \r for some bizarre reason?
> approximately nobody is going to be confused by this in the real world.

Do you really think nobody is going to be confused when you tell them to use "Screen"?

"I'm staring at my screen right now, what do you mean?"

"It's the name of an app".

If people have to introduce your app as "use the app called Screen", then it's a bad name. Think Viber, Skype, Whatsapp, Colgate, Facebook.
The CDC is still instructing healthcare providers NOT to test UNLESS a person has either come into contact with a known COVID-19 carrier OR recently traveled abroad. Otherwise, the guideline is "do not test."

I am married to a healthcare provider. Nevermind clinical judgement, context, or an abundance of available tests. If you don't meet the above guidelines, my spouse is being firmly instructed to follow the CDC guideline: do not test.
They pop up this often because it's an unpopular opinion, so it's a fun pastime to read explanations for these things. But that also implies that it's not a serious threat to the common belief, otherwise it wouldn't need to pop up so often. That's my theory anyway.
In German they are called Lustiges Taschenbuch and have been a fixture of most kids' rooms at least since the 80s
CPAPs i believe have been ruled out as they vent exhalations indiscriminately, spreading the virus throughout the space.
I agree. The real win is that it’s so light and convenient that you just end up vacuuming more frequently or doing spot cleaning when you notice something. It ends up being a difference in kind rather than degree.
Or perhaps we should elect officials that structure proper long term incentive systems.
It seems doubtful GS anticipated this better than hospitals... more likley they had a budget that allowed them to prepare for a wider range of events.
The CDC is still instructing healthcare providers NOT to test UNLESS a person has either come into contact with a known COVID-19 carrier OR recently traveled abroad. Otherwise, the guideline is "do not test."

I am married to a healthcare provider. Nevermind clinical judgement, context, or an abundance of available tests. If you don't meet the above guidelines, my spouse is being firmly instructed by the clinical practice manager to follow the CDC guideline: do not test.
> Wouldn’t that be a large dead weight loss if every corporation had six months of operating expenses sitting around in low interest accounts? In total it could be as large as half the worlds GDP?

That should be enough to sustain the whole world economy then during something like Covid, no?
> It's easier to stockpile billions of dollars when you have no idea what to do with it.

You are missing the point entirely. A company only stockpiles money if it evaluates all other options, including paying dividends to shareholders, and still decides their best course of action is to not spend it. This is not a decision made passively or by forgetting to make a decision.
I too was first introduced to those things flying through Reykjavik, and since then I've met them in a few office bathrooms.

They are the absolute worst. How anyone thought it was a good idea is beyond me.
There's a one-sided version I saw recently (internet says the Airblade V), which seems to be less of a game of Operation and actually mostly seemed to work.

But to your point, the intake vents are mounted very low on the side, and I think I'd feel a lot better about recirculation if the intakes were farther above the outlets.
I'm just saying there's a lot of use cases where people actually saturate their network connections on workstations, and you shouldn't discount them just because 'I'm not running mac as a switch'.

But yes, network perf is needed only for workflows that involve large remote resources, and not to all video editing use cases out there.
Doesn't seem like a good idea to keep your rainy day fund in an index. When things go to crap, you're going to take a huge hit before you can turn it into cash.
I see two grammatical errors in the opening sentence that you quoted. I'd call it a poor work of fiction. Besides, "the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year." Coronavirus is a disaster?

Ref: https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-peo...
I downvoted for the “it ain’t rocket science.” These are difficult problems.
OK, then what do all the landlord do when their mortgage is due? Property taxes?
Add &disable_polymer=1 to the end of the url and see if it's different.

Here's an add-on to do this automatically:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-polym...
Coronavirus: India enters 'total lockdown' for 3 weeks after spike in cases
Lol... just copycat the fastest and cheapest approved model for the high numbers you need? Dyson doing a Dyson is soooo smug or exceptionalist again. Sigh
Don’t you feel like you’ve lost all self-respect when you joined this cult that continually requires you to pretend to be stupid?
Well, I guess we'll be ready for the second wave a couple weeks after Easter.

Actually maybe not, isn't that going to take them months to produce? Do you see an ETA in there? I can't find one.

(I mean the ventilators)
Thanks, shame it got flagged for no good reason.

That discussion notes the lethal dose to be around 3-5g and the couple as having had a teaspoon which would be around this mass.

However, this theintercept.com source is the only one I could find that mentions a teaspoon as being their quantitative dose - even the original NBC report didn't give a specific number. So I wonder how reliable this information is.
Why is that? Did the executives and board sell their equity for cash prior to the drop in stock prices?
Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply ignore dead bodies
Netflix pays talent guarantees as Hollywood starts to address fallout
It's not just the ISP that are oversubscribed. Google probably didn't budget for people all around the world suddenly sitting at home watching Youtube all of a sudden.
As a contributor to RN and someone who loves SwiftUI just as much: it’s mostly the toolchain. You have an unbelievably vertically integrated framework with SwiftUI.
Someone needs to socialize the idea that patina on bronze, brass and silver is a good thing. Frankly I'm a little surprised the hipsters didn't latch onto it right from the beginning.

It turns out that copper can not only kill bacteria but also degrades naked dna/rna strands, preventing gene transfer between species. Problem is, the last time we were still using brass a lot, it was all lacquered in plastic.
I see Big Business PR is working overtime. Well, somebody gotta make money on misery I guess.