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My dad is a welder, and he's always been a stickler for his own health; at his previous company (which went under, unfortunately, he had worked there for 40 years) he had a strong extractor (on a hose so it could be moved close to his work) and a positive pressure / filtered hood - always on.

He's had 'welding eyes' (basically sunburn?) and he's had metal splinters in his eyes, but besides that he seems to be in good health still.

He did have to insist on better ventilation and a positive pressure welding mask at his current job though; he's been complaining about fatigue, which cleared up right when he started using that one. If I had known he was made to work like that I would probably have bought him one myself, but OTOH it's a matter of workplace safety / worker health so he could've kicked off about it himself.
> I'm entirely mystified how people can get pip to work for anything that isn't either quite simple or is a shrink-wrapped product with carefully, and manually, selected versions of every component.

That might be down to which sorts of packages you're using. By far most projects I work on pip does entirely fine without manually specifying versions. I have rarely ran into version conflicts and when I have it's usually resolved by pinning a single package version.

The thing where I really see people trip with pip is when a package requires compiling a C module. Pip somewhat silently assumes you've got a working C compiler and all header files for the package. The error messages here are confusing and unhelpful for most python programmers. The whole push towards universal wheels is alleviating this problem but the current state of things is suboptimal.

Add to that the whole confusing state of creating python packages in general and you get a nice mix of dysfunctional packages and packages that'd work with the right headers. None of this is really pips fault and anaconda doesn't fix all of these issues either.

In my experience pip is mostly just harder to get started with but is afterwards a much better solution simply because pip doesn't hide anything from you which is a great boon when debugging packaging issues.
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Just a question, is 78/80 recovery sufficient evidence that a drug is working? Shouldn't they compare this with a placebo or baseline?
Modway Articulate is what we have for everyone in our office: https://www.amazon.com/Modway-Articulate-Ergonomic-Office-Ch...

At $150 I find it comfortable enough to sit in all day without issue, which is rare even among more expensive chairs I’ve tried. One of our employees has ergonomic issues and loves it. I really like having the ability to adjust seat tilt and back tilt separately, as well as initial back height. The only downside is the armrests don’t go low enough to fit under your desk easily, so we generally leave the armrests off when building them
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Automated reference counting is a garbage collection algorithm, and it is possible to have ownership/lifetime control without giving up on GC, Chapel, ParaSail, Haskell, OCaml, Swift, D are following up exactly this path.
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"X is 100% effective" from a lawyer and ex-mayor who is currently calling everyone who doesn't agree with him as being from the "demented left", without any scientific proof of the effectiveness of Hydroxyquinolone against Covid-19, is a false claim, no matter how you spin it. If it were 100% effective, we'd have evidence of that and doctors celebrating.

His is not a reasonable voice in this matter that is being drowned.
+1. When I had to use AWS for batch workloads, which at the time at least didn't have a TTL attribute on VMs, I made sure that the VM first scheduled a shutdown in like 30 min if the test was supposed to only run in 10 min.
Anyone looking into this (seems you can't get your hands on the hardware just now, skimming the comments?) may want to look int WLED...

All you need is a NanoMCU / ESP8266, a power source and LED-strips of you choice... There even are iOS (and i think Android) apps to control the strips via Wifi, options to sync N strips etc. etc...

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED
The proper name is the oligodynamic effect [1], and that seems well-proven to me at least but I'm certainly no expert. It seems the effect does cover viruses too, and copper has such an effect [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Pretty reasonable if you ask me. History is littered with quacks and snake oil salesmen. There is a reason why becoming a physician is such an arduous and selective process.
I think the goal here is going distributed so that by moving the end produce closer to you, you save on packaging, logistics, and other expenses. Plus growing something gives you joy.

Doing that in schools teaches kids about farming, about food, and how it gets on their table. I'm doing the same at home to teach my children the same.

Also in the times of the crisis you reduce the pressure to producers and shops by consuming your own instead of going to the shop.
> Can you run the latest Python 3.8 on your old extended-support Ubuntu Server 14.4 that you can't upgrade because reasons, on pyenv+virtualenv?

Definitely. If Python 3.8 isn't available from the package repository for ubuntu 14.04 you'll need to install it some other way -- either from source or from a binary package someone else compiled -- after which you can simply

python3.8 -m venv venv

to create a python 3.8 venv. This also works the other way around. e.g. if you want to install an old python version on a recent system.

Of course anaconda provides python binaries itself which is mighty convenient but it's not like it's the only way to tackle the problem.
>Why not an incentive when people return used bottles or others wastes ?

Some countries do that. Notably Finland and Sweden. When you buy a can of coke, or a glass bottle of beer, there is a small surcharge added to the price. When you return the empty container you receive your money back.

People discard cans/bottles in parks, at bus-stops, and people make a living collecting them and claiming the money back.

https://www.sitra.fi/en/cases/deposit-based-recycling-system...
There is also a reason why we don't typeset books in monospaced fonts, but oh well...
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Aren't all the Countries that are doing better, also countries that eat overall less carbs? I am a strong believer that Diabetes and Insulin resistance makes a huge difference.
Masks can also result in a false sense of security causing people to ignoring physical distancing and washing hands.

I'd much rather have people keep their distance and wash their hands regularly than wearing masks which may or may not have any effect depending on material/age/fit etc.
https://www.staples.com/Tempur-Pedic-Mesh-Computer-and-Desk-...

$240 right now. I prefer it over the tp9000 because of the lumbar support. Great chair at that price--unbeatable in my opinion.
Wouldn't Amazon be draining a credit card directly? Tied to the account you received the loan on?
So operating with 54MHz of bandwidth would result in a transfer rate of somewhere on the order of 54 Mbps?
What specific existential topics? I did find not TBP particularly deep. It felt like a Hollywood movie, but set in China.
> Those Asian cultures have a different epidemic curve not due to mask wearing, but because a totally different social structure, prior experience concerning epidemics, preparedness, attitude towards authority & emergency measures and other factors. So it's a fallacy of cherry picking to say that it's 'because they wear masks and all our authorities are wrong'.

And you’re not cherry-picking because what exactly?
Instead of a message, you can include blueprints in the bottle.
Search for e.g. "differential equations analog solvers"
> Of course, it flies in the face of a common sense view that someone careful, able to follow orders, just hold things or press button etc would provide some use in a world where the doctors are fundamentally limited.
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I realized that I never took precautions when soldering, I mean soldering on my main computer desk, not cleaning it afterwards, not cleaning my hands, and doing it in a closed room without opening the window.

I should be more careful in the future, fortunately I rarely solder and for short periods of time, like 5 minuts just to fix a wire that got disconnected or change a capacitor, so I don't think it will do any harm, still better to take precautions in the future.
Another approach to the 'highest averages' method, using a k9 dict:

v: 10400 3400 6200
s: 15

quotients: ,/v%\.5+!s
labels: s/!s*#v / list of 15x 0, 1, 2. arbitrary; could instead be party names
top: s#>labels!quotients / k dicts can have duplicate keys; can sort items by key(^) or val(<>)
seats: `freq@!top / count appearances of dict's keys

The ability to transform a dict's values while keeping the labels (keys) unchanged - sort, arithmetic, etc - is really powerful.

This answer is longer when minified, but it's faster in 2020.03.27:

\t:100000 +/s>(#v)^<>,/v%/.5+!s ⇒ 1494
\t:100000 `freq@!s#>(s/!s*#v)!,/v%\.5+!s ⇒ 691
It's an extremely personal choice. Bodies are different.

The following are somewhat pricey options.

In my opinion the Knoll Regeneration is pretty good.

Hermann Miller chairs are also good, but the Aeron is probably the least ergonomic thing they sell now – and definitely not "minimal". The Setu might fit your criteria.

Just remember, the ideal chair for six hours of sitting doesn't exist; your goal should be to keep changing your body position as much as is feasible.

https://www.painscience.com/articles/chair-trouble.php
Wouldn't something like Minecraft Vertical Farms be more effective, specially because you could just have a basin a top of another basin, and have the water drip from the top one to the ones below, thus requiring only one pump to pump the water that collects at the very bottom back up to the top. Of course, having aditional pump to add more water to the system would be helpful but not necessary. The only problem that I've faced with such a design is the amount of mass that all together would have and the required flood strength to support such a weight. That being said, having smaller such systems for room like enviroments shouldn't have many problems.
I am curious about the 36 sqft (3.34 square meter) and 1200 watt. As we end up with considerably less watt per area. We use about 100 watt per square meter. You have about 360 watt per square meter. So we use less than a third. Preliminary tests show very good growth rates. We will have better data in a few months.

This is for an indoor leafy green, mostly sallad, aquaponics growing facility.
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It’s totally viable to have a no growth business. Trustful clients, steady income, no debts. I’m lucky but for now there is nearly no impact on my web agency. And even if activity dropped to 0 we have cash for a few months to pay salaries. I always aimed for a rock solid balance sheet, and a bailout of our over leveraged competitors would be very unfair.
How frequently and duration did you spent on coding? On which programming language?

In addition, standing and coding could help to relief your other part of your body.
Seconded the last point. For me, starting to work out in the gym was a better improvement than just making changes around my desk.

For OP: Personally I don't have a super fancy chair, cost me about 80-100 euro IIRC but don't even know what "brand" it is. Generic office chair :P
I do it because most of the time I’m more interested in code than comments.

In my experience comments often ”lie”, so I put them in italics because they’re to taken with a pinch of salt. :)
When he talks about the interface [1] I think he touches a really important point: you have to know the user and usage to decide what interface to use.

As he says it is very tempting to use modern technology like touchscreens. But because he knows he will touch it with oily fingers that's not an option.

Great project!

[1] Part 1: Proof of Concept @15:10
One valuable property of plotting deaths (total) vs. deaths (last week), or cases vs. cases, is that the shape of the plot is immune to consistent distortions in reporting; if country A is consistently down-playing the death rate by x%, the slope will still be the same, although the position along the line will be x% smaller in both axis. If the distortion is changed, to y%, then there will be a departure from the common slope, but if the real rate has not changed the graph will return to a positive (but shallower) slope after a couple of weeks.

And indeed, every country but South Korea and Japan show pretty much the same pattern. South Korea had a pretty vigorous response, but Japan? Perhaps reporting standards in Japan keep changing?

Hm, Iran deaths look funny, too. They suddenly leveled off at 900/wk (linear chart). Ah... cases log chart shows a short deviation, then resuming slope (even steeper!) So, reporting change?

[Edit: SK also outlier, Iran, added cases vs. cases]
Those certainly aren't Washington numbers, so where are you getting the "100 new cases a day" from?
I struggled with soldering for years, thinking I was just bad at soldering. Then I got to use a basic Hakko iron and it was infinitely easier. I immediately threw away the Radio Shack iron I had and bought my own Hakko.

The cheapo irons are such a waste of time and money. Unfortunately, I think they tend to set-point people for what to expect for iron prices. Going from $10-15 for a junky iron to $65-80 for a good one seems like a big leap. But this is a tool that should last you forever, if you take care of it, and the productivity improvement is well worth the cost. Consider, you’ll spend hundreds on components for a hobby project of any moderate size. Just buy a good iron already.

It reminds me of how much I hate the phrase, “it is a poor Workman who blames his tools”. Yeah, yeah, skilled people can get good results out of junky tools. But you won’t actually ever see it happen, because skilled people care about their work enough to only use good tools. The only time a skilled person uses junky tools is when there is literally no other option (and no, having to wait for a delivery is not one of those cases).
Steelcase Leap or Humanscale Freedom would by my recommendations.
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Reminds me of some of the horror stories from the peak of the outbreak in Wuhan. Doctors and nurses treating patients without any PPE because, well, there wasn’t any left, and they had all tested positive anyway.

I don’t know what the fatality rates were for those healthcare workers at those facilities, but it would be good to know for future reference.
I guess you could add Return to that list as well, although more likely to be applied to clothing than alcohol sales.
CO2 stays in the atmosphere for centuries (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38136820_Atmospheri..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...), so a temporary decrease or even a temporary stop will not make much of a dent.

I’m sure we will see papers on this, though, just as we saw them after 9/11.

Also “if CO2 causes global warming”? I thought that has been established; even the starkest deniers only debate whether human contributions to CO2 emissions make much of an impact.
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1. You can have both. Jumps (conditional or unconditional allow for more complex control flow and different control flow than was immediately thought of.

2 only having structured control flow makes it a difficult target for HLL, which is what was is supposed to be.

3. A few years ago I was working on an array language and was trying to use tree based optimization and code generation, but I put it on hold until i understood more - can you recommend and links or papers?

4. Wasm is an IR, both target and source. Why not add a goto and structured primitive. There are clearly some things that cannot be compiled anywhere remotely performant.
Net neutrality is about the network itself, the internet, not cloud computing.
Check out this awesome course cs107e (http://cs107e.github.io/) from Standford. It will guide you to build a complete os from scratch in Raspberry Pi.
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If you want something minimalist I can recommend the HÅG Capisco. It looks a little bit weird, but is really comfy once you get used to it. The chair supports active sitting which means you won’t sit in one position for eight hours straight, instead the chair will invite you to move around and try out other seating positions which will inevitably lead to more movement and stronger muscles.

https://store.flokk.com/us/en-gb/products/hag-capisco?store=...
Naive question, but isn't it forbidden? How could an application ask for it?
I have a Herman Miller Mirra 2 that I like a lot. But it's very personal, you should go try several out, which in most of the world you can't right now. Higher end chairs also come in multiple sizes, making it even more important to try them out.
Just buy a filtering fan already. They are cheap.
Is it known how long it takes for CO2 levels to decrease?

For instance, if we're supposed to reduce by 50% before 2030, after how many months or years would we notice a difference?
The secret ingredient in N95 masks (and surgical) is a very fancy modern material: melt-blown non-woven polypropylene.

This is what makes a paper thin surgical mask way better than a thick cotton one.
Seems pretty pointless when you take horizontal gene transfer into account.
Not me. I don't want to see Trump, Ellison or Murdoch running around with reset 30 year old risk profiles.

Anyway software teaches us there is a constantly increasing cost/work to maintaining complex systems in ever changing complex world - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...

So no worries of this ever working out imho.
It refutes nothing — it's some layperson's uneducated opinion based on a couple of cherry picked statistics (as gombosg already pointed out).

Let the epidemiologists guiding global responses to the pandemic provide guidance and everyone else should call out anyone trying to peddle their own made up conclusions.
Good for back: https://www.lifespanfitness.com/workplace/treadmill-desks

I have this one with an electric-height desk (custom built) and switch between chair and treadmill. I would recommend it. However, the treadmill, when not used, is taking a lot of place.
"An individual will always, every single time, without fail, know what they need better than a 3rd party who nominates themselves to make decisions on behalf of others"

This is completely false. Most individuals in a panic buying situation never know what they really need compared to a calm, educated and knowledgeable 3rd party. This crisis has also proved your assertion wrong - witness the mass buying of perishable foods and toilet paper.

Food that was thrown out in a weeks time into garbage and food that was denied to others because of panic buyers.
I researched the same thing yesterday. Looking for something that promotes "active sitting". I came up with this list (for the German market). Most are quite pricey (in the 500-1000€ range):

○ Viasit F1 Move

○ Sedus Swing Up

○ Profim Accis Pro

○ Aeris 3Dee

○ Köhl Anteo Up with AirSeat

○ Rovo .. "Ergo Balance" models

YMMV. Bodies are different etc.
I'm very interested in hearing about more options as I haven't ordered just yet.
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In Poland (perhaps all of the Soviet bloc?) it’s always been a thing. I remember collecting them as a kid, competing against local drunks. It was hard to find one back then. These days they’re too cheap for most people to care.
If the individuals are healthy/sane, then one could definitely argue that they provide additional value in terms of experience. I find it quite sad and unfortunate that we as humans spend our entire lives accumulating knowledge and experience, only for it to vanish in an instant. Or in the even more unfortunate case, over many years due to dementia and other mental causes.
>Unless you're exceedingly lucky (or it was recently reprinted), its basically impossible to get your hands on a digital version of an old book.

I read a lot of old books - early 20th C, 19th, 18th, 17th C, and medieval and ancient. Archive.org has most of what I search for - nice scans, in multiple formats, free. Also you can often borrow mid-late 20th C stuff online from there for a few weeks if not they're not downloadable outright. Libgen has a lot of stuff from early-mid 20th C and before. If those fail, I order it online, usually a few dollars. We're so spoilt!
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Well count yourself lucky.

I worked in one company that had them and the difference is astonishing.

Right now we use Kinnarps; something like this in black, maybe an older model: https://www.kinnarps.com/products/seating/task-chairs/plus/

The adjustment options are meh, they get super warm, I find myself shifting in place a lot.

Before that the company I was working for didn’t put any real value in the chairs they bought, think ASDA/Walmart office chairs, but used for a decade or more.

Office chairs aren’t often invested in by most companies in the UK or Sweden I think.

Anyway, When I was working on an Aeron I could sit comfortably for hours and hours. The only downside is that it “clicks” more than other chairs with a big hollow clunk... maybe the other downside is that I’m seated much longer.

After using one at work I went and bought one even though it cost me >1% of my annual salary at the time. I don’t regret it at all.
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> Let's first all stay the fuck home

This is a good point. Preventative medicine is the best medicine. That's true in general, but is especially true during this type of crisis.

We should also be more strict about isolation measures and lockdown, both individually and as a matter of policy and enforcement. That would keep our hospitals from flooding, to a much greater degree than an army of respiration therapists and ventilators would.

> All this well intentioned backseat driving isn't going to move the needle, not even a little bit.

But how else shall we spend our weekends locked indoors without pointless arguments on the internet? ;)
That's an odd reason to dislike something. Perhaps they are everywhere for a reason?
well, the message has arrived here. the masks haven't ;). the bad thing about the whole issue is that these are low-labor products (just look at youtube for videos), so nothing would prevent a business from producing them domestically in the US/Europe... Unfortunately it's low-margin/low-tech as well, so we optimized it away...
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