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I'm interested what the legal basis is for this? I thought that the US constitution provided fairly unconditional protections, unlike say in Europe. (Not saying this is right or wrong, just wondering how the technicalities work in the US).
I can confirm. I worked for AWS and we always waived all fees when people made mistake like this. Many thousands of dollars.

We also asked them to summarize what happened so we can think how to help other users not to make the same mistake in future.
not GR? your name is, uh, evocative
Not sure why you are asking this, but there's evidence that plants do feel pain.

At least some can emit chemicals to signal to others of their species that they are infested with harmful insects so other plants can begin producing toxins to protect themselves from infestation. Some also emit a pulse when damaged, which one might think if as kind of like a scream, though it's not anything humans can perceive with our innate senses.

(At least, not most of us. There may be exceptions. Some humans are abnormally good at sensing magnetic north, etc.)
That's why you should really be looking at the rate of acceleration of the deaths, but you should still be looking at the deaths.
You can assign whatever label you want to it, but it's odd how difficult to agree on what is happening here, or if anything of significance is even happening at all.

Is there a flow of funds from government to one or more corporations involved in the scenario being discussed? YES/NO?

Is there a risk that the government may not get all of this money back? YES/NO?

Have we seen a scenario resembling this before? YES/NO?

Do (or has there even been instances in the past) American citizens in any way have the right or privilege to use the full powers of the United States Government to forcibly transfer money from the bank accounts of corporations into those of citizens, despite the corporations being guilty of no fault? YES/NO?

Is there a broadly held consensus that all parties involved in this scenario are being "plausibly fairly" compensated/punished for the role they have played in the events leading up to this scenario, and does the American public have the right to view 100% of the documentation that substantiates that claim? YES/NO?

Does the American public have the right to view 100% of the documentation involved in this scenario, so that they can confirm for themselves that not one single cent is being misallocated? YES/NO?

If an omniscient third party (literally, a God) was evaluating this scenario, are we absolutely certain that they would be unable to find the slightest fault, however small, in this scenario? YES/NO?
I believe you can hook into apis to shut things down, but it’s not super straight forward.

There are many Azure services that can’t be set to zero dollar billing without data loss, so I’m not sure how Azure could deal with those in a unified manner.
They probably will. I don’t think it’s reasonable to think they are throwing caution to the wind and not taking some measures to protect the folks working at these checkpoints, who are trained professionals following orders.
> Agreement to cancel could be made conditional upon publishing the design and releasing it into the public domain.

It probably could have been (that would depend on the details of the terms of the original contract), but it wasn't.
A huge portion of this has got to be MS's own services, e.g. tons of people who normally use Office and are at work are now use Office 365 online and doing a ton more videoconferencing with Teams.
In reply to jariel: Because they've said so, continuously and consistently from the start, with quite logical arguments. You could check the press conferences they hold every day if you want to see for yourself.

It's way too early to say (which is also pointed out by the government), but ICU cases (which is the critical metric here, since it's quite reliable and comparable, and the metric that matters the most for the Healthcare system) is showing signs of decline (or at least stabilizing).

In unsure if our approach is the right one (time will tell). It's clear that the government is taking this situation very seriously though, just using a different strategy. And honestly it seems to at least not be much worse than any other country at this point.
Apparently Team usage is up significantly. You can do video conferencing via Team which is one aspect that is quite different from Slack. I imagine there are some new use cases arising from that.
> Not only will the Apple-designed ARM CPUs perform at or above the level of a similarly-specced Intel machine, but the ISA transition will be seamless, with a nearly-invisible Intel binary compatibility layer that does on-the-fly JITing

Apple didn't bother with 32-bit compatibility for Catalina which would have been much easier to implement. You're being way too optimistic. Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility.
What's so weird about 54mhz? It's very close to the somewhat commonly used 6 meter band by hams
if you have an idea in mind, PRs are welcome :)
Good examples.

Might "fake news" be an example as well?
Projected cost of persistent storage is still tricky. But, yeah, something along the lines of "Turn off ongoing activity and you have to true up persistent storage soon or it goes away." I don't think one would actually implement a system where a circuit breaker immediately and irrevocably deletes all persistent storage.

And, as you say, it makes sense to have a pool--whether it's your whole AWS account or not--where you can turn on the "burn it all down" option if you want to.
> Party politics is a separate shit show. It should be an elected council with no single representation.

Ok, so your plan for solving the ventilator issue is to change the entire system of government. Good luck with that.
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I suspect the situation is that most customers have already paid for the service, and would demand a refund if they can't reasonably use the service.
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> or you are running a completely unsustainable business that only existed because of easy access to cheap debt the past couple of years.

Or you planned for revenue growth by doing things like buying extra equipment, hiring more workers, increasing office space, etc.

When operating a business, you have to plan for growth, or lack of growth, or even for revenue to fall. And your planning often costs money, or commitments to pay money. If reality suddenly doesn't match your planning, then you are in trouble.

And I totally don't get why people are so negative on debt. If I'm running a relatively new company, and realize I have a good product that is going to increase in demand next year, but I don't have the money to build out a new factory - I can get a loan. If I happen to be, say, Apple, I don't necessarily need a loan - I can finance it myself using cash reserves from previous years. Why is it better to live in a world where the only companies who can build up for future growth like this are huge companies like Apple?
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

I read it first as a teenager. I would say it helped me learn more about race, empty, systems, terrorism and young love.
Great points, thanks! I also appreciated considering alternate forms of intelligence and communication.
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Another good palette-hunting tool is Adobe Kuler.

It's interactive so you can lock down parameters you like and continue searching the possibility space
please delete all those videos on the internet and just post the markdown. the only use case is spam.
> Unregulated securities are often a synonym for "scams" that is why you have to be a qualified investor.

That's the point though, scams are scams whether they're run by a loan shark or Bernie Madoff. Anyone should be allowed to invest their capital in any legitimate venture they see fit, and anything that meets the legal definition of a scam should be shut down and barred from taking money from anyone.

It's quite patronizing that the government takes the stance of "If you don't have X amount of money, you're not wise enough to tell the difference between a scam, a foolish business venture, and a legitimately risky business venture. Better leave that to the experts (and their commissions)."
All my others have been posted already, except:

Shadows of the Empire [0]

When I read it the intriguing parts were that it took place between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Also, I still play and love the game on N64 (also on PC and on GOG). I never thought I would read and actually enjoy a Star Wars book. Dash Rendar is eternally burned into my memory and my favorite Star Wars character of all time now. I think I need to read this again after typing this. Even my dad liked it and he is not into Star Wars.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9549.Shadows_of_the_Empi...
You're choosing not to try to convince anyone that what you're saying is true. Why bother posting at all, in that case?
You got lucky, if it saved two different sizes for the each image...
It's one of my favorite books. Totally explains why Facebook would buy Oculus for $2 Billion. Ready Player One shows virtual reality's potential to infinitely expand our world. It's also just a really fun book with a ton of interesting pop culture references.
Fauci is not sharing the data he used but 0.01 is probably not the fatality rate he plugged in. That number ignores the many undiagnosed cases. Here are some estimates using alternative methods that don't rely on widespread testing:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as...
Does he really have 125B in cash ?
Why the heck are the Saudi's still considered 'allies' of the US. Besides the long-running terrorism concerns, there's the murder of Khashoggi, them spying not just on their own citizens but also on US ones, and they are currently waging a war against our domestic oil producers. With 'friends' like that who needs enemies?
> They flew to the moon.

Yes, because three successive Presidential administrations and six successive Congresses supported it.

More precisely, two successive administrations and about four successive Congresses supported it. The third administration began to back off, as did the fifth Congress; then the sixth Congress, along with the administration, stopped supporting it--and the moon missions stopped. Despite the fact that a large number of civil servants were making cogent arguments for why they should continue.

> They built a horrifying arsenal.

Yes, because every President and every Congress since 1945 has supported it.
It’s not just that IBM couldn’t ship a mobile-friendly G5, but that Motorola couldn’t ship any improvement over the G4 fast enough because laptops were an afterthought for their primarily embedded-centric business.

Intel is one of two suppliers for nearly every laptop CPU sold today. If Apple was just disappointed with Intel they could switch to AMD instead. Either way they wouldn’t fall behind the rest of the personal computer market as they were at the end of the PPC era.

Instead, they’re making basically the same bet they made with PowerPC—that a different CPU architecture can significantly outperform x86. Last time, it turned out that Intel and AMD, by focusing on the PC market, could keep up with and ultimately outperform Motorola, since Motorola was more focused on embedded systems. This time, it’s Apple producing the chips, except Apple themselves are also more focused on mobile devices than they are on personal computers. So it will be interesting to see if this bet pays off this time around.
Did you read? They were circles with remnants of fires and tool making in the middle. Not like a barrier lining the end of the ice or something.
Perhaps you didn't read the article.

I praised Google for the reason why they cancelled their April fools jokes, given the current climate and possible bad timing. "Google will take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic."[0] Google also gives verified medical advice about preventing the spread of Covid-19 and Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have all done the same to combat misinformation and unverified medical advice on their platforms.

Unless you think it makes sense for them to show a bunch of April fools jokes on the front page with the covid-19 advice also present there?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-google-cancels-a...
To be fair, a situation where every single company in the world needed to ramp up on the cloud at the same time is completely unprecedented, and spending the money to do it would've been considered a fools' errand.

If people weren't on the cloud, you'd see them scrambling for physical hardware, which also isn't exactly easy to come by on extremely short notice when the world's logistic chains are under stress as well.
Thanks for confirming. Let's hope this is all we see.
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Google has established themselves as an authority on the topic of Coronavirus by putting those links on their home page. Similarly news.google.com has a link to see news about Coronavirus. If Google then adds a joke to other properties or pages how do I know what to trust? Should I even bother clicking the Coronavirus links?

Your previous comment said the joke would have nothing to do with coronavirus. The point I am trying to make is that everything Google does right now is related to the coronavirus. As evidence to support that position I provide the front page and news.google.com.

I have made no disingenuous arguments here and I would appreciate you not accusing me of doing so.
Because it is a very, very unhealthy country in normal times.
SRE here. I feel for your situation. Here's some advice. One simple thing you could do is set up AWS billing alarms and have them delivered to a notification app like PagerDuty.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori....

If you don't want to pay for PD, you can patch together any number of ways to get your phone to scream and holler when it gets an email from ohshit@amazonasws.com. It's also good to have clear expectations as to whose responsibility it is to deal with problem x between the hours of y and z and exactly what they are supposed to do.

Keep the alerts restricted to the really important stuff, because if your team becomes overloaded with useless alerts they will 1) dislike you and 2) be more prone to accidentally mistaking a five alarm fire for a burnt casserole.

There are more complex systems you could build, but that's a start.
Read Ecclesiastes, and you'll wonder what such a seemingly modern/timeless take on reality is doing among the other books. It's a bit hard to parse, but read a paraphrase to get started.

(Also recommend Heinlein's short story Ordeal in Space, on the subject of fear/phobia/duty.)
Tldw? What do you mean by timing?

Measuring time (down to nanoseconds) is easy. Hard realtime scheduling with microsecond precision... just forget about it, unless you're building a custom distro & custom kernel and have in-depth knowledge about all the drivers that are going to be running on the system (you almost definitely do not).

EDIT: I found a relatively recent socket benchmark with worst case scheduling latencies ranging from tens to hundreds of usec: https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/12/23/linux-preemption-...
It’s been some time since I’ve read it but this could be from The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset.
> and PIP has been so much better than conda for packages.

> Is there something else I'm missing about conda?

Yes. You missed pip working perfectly well inside conda since day 1 (and integration is getting better). In the past, pip did not participate in conda dependency resolution (and I think it still doesn't, at least not perfectly). But it's not worse than using pip outside conda; and when you DO have a conda package, it is usually more dependable.

> I can easily run any version of Python, virtual environments are way easier to deal with, and PIP has been so much better than conda for packages.

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? Genuinely asking; you can with conda.
Both, try pandoc you can write markdown notes with latex inside and it can produce bunch of other formats from that file, like pdf, html, LaTeX...
> I don't think it would save the university money, if done well.

IMO universities these days are mainly in the real estate business. The maintenance on a building with multiple 1k person lecture halls isn't cheap. Faculty are underpaid. And yet it's more and more expensive.
Good time to remind that 'the cloud is just some else computer' ...
Don’t forget Xbox Live on Azure, it has had a pair of outages in the last few weeks as well.
There is lag in the reporting I think. The total number of patients increased by 39 from yesterday, but those were probably assigned to multiple dates in the past. Therefore it will always look like the last few days are declining.
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Oh, that's true! And I fear that it won't be done all that well. Parents have long asked "Is this really worth $XX,XXX?" Those questions could get a lot louder.

It seems that some people are hoping that the COVID-19 outbreak will get a lot of universities, and individual professors, excited about the long-term potential of teaching online. I don't expect this to happen -- although I could of course be proven wrong.
That is one of the potential use cases behind fdir. I am actively using it for a testing framework (private).

The main methodology was benchmarking every little line of code. Since JS has many alternatives for every thing, I had to benchmark a lot of code.

No special tools were used. The performance gains are mostly from not using recursion, less function calls etc. It could further be optimized of course (and I am working on that).

Thanks for taking the interest :)
Very influential in my teens:

Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner

USA by John Dos Passos

Cache Lake Country by Rowlands

First adult book I read all the way through (I was fascinated! Re-read it recently and enjoyed it.):

The Mysterious Island by Verne
I vaguely remember the exact same sentiment being expressed for both pip and Pipenv. The project I'm working on is currently migrating from Pipenv to Poetry, and while it's an improvement I have no hope that the fifth generation (setuptools, EasyInstall, pip, Pipenv, and now Poetry) Python packaging tool is in any way the last one.
I think this is a good one: https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees.html
Not a lawyer, but have navigated IP partitioning with big engineering firms for over two decades. General answer to you question is "no", but the truth of course is that it depends on when and how you've protected your IP, and what country your in.

If you're in the USA and you patent a technology, then join a company, the company doesn't have a claim to that technology unless you both explicitly agree to it during your onboarding. For example, it's possible a part of the reason a company want to bring you onboard is that they are partly interested in you're IP and partly interested in your ability to develop/implement that technology (the latter being exceedingly more difficult that generating the initial idea). In any event, you may agree to sign over IP rights (fully or partially) in exchange for better compensation.

If you don't patent your IP before joining a large company, then you need to review the IP terms before you join, because in general (certainly not always) companies do tend to claim ownership of any IP you create while employed at their company. However, this clause is mostly to protect the company not inhibit your creativity or success, so you can easily get a waiver to keep building and securing IP for your own gain. That's what I did.
Can Virus Hunters Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Happens? (2018)
Bezos and Musk also were heavy sci-fi readers in their youth.
> For example, you can easily output a HTML table from server-side code, then Vue can convert that into a interactive component while using the existing structure and data.

If you're using vue, you inherently use state or props, and those are handled using {{ myState }} syntax. If you load everything from the backend, it's going to have the actual data in the table. How would you convert the already-rendered HTML to something interactive if the template isn't set up that way?
No. At least not the one that has useful stuff on it. Companies selling it to consumers and consumers/businesses putting stuff on it is what made it such a resounding success.

The internet created by the government was just a network connecting research labs together.
I never hear anyone mention his Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra, which I tend to think is kind of a masterpiece of its type, for what that's worth.

https://youtu.be/axVXBZBBUPM
I don't really understand the whole "urban agriculture" crowd.

People do often live in crowded cities, but there's plenty of space to grow stuff on outside of cities. It's the same kind of thinking that gave us the solad roads (which were, predictably, a catastrophic failure).
Any cpu with a cache cannot do it because you are not sure if the data is in cache and will arrive on time or not. If there is something else on the bus (USB, video, network...) you need to design the whole system to ensure that the cpu gets the bus when it needs it regardless of other uses - most computers are not designed this way. A multitasking cpu generally cannot do this because you cannot be sure some other process isn't using the cpu when you need something.

That isn't to say it can't be done. Audio is very time sensitive and Linux does it well with the right kernel options. (video is easier, though it uses far more cpu and data on the bus, it is less sensitive to delay).

Depending on how bad delay it might or might not work. As rule though most real time control is run by low speed 8 bit cpus that have exact timing. You have a high power cpu doing the calculations and then the microcontroller just runs the result of the calculations checking in for new orders as needed.
Several schools, after requests, are graduating students early, precisely because of covid. And I don't think normal times and these are the same. Having younger, less likely to be infected staff is not nothing. And the variety of tasks is a lot lower right now, than during more typical times.
Created a quick game mvp during coronavirus quarantine. It's ~2 days work and there may be bugs, but it's a silly concept just for fun. If you see anything noticeably bad or have any suggestions, let me know and I might address them; but it's a silly concept so.. I might not.
What would have been the correct solution here? Group them into compressed archives first to reduce file count?
The "basic" list seems to be properly sorted: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countries-where-co...
"The Mysterious Island". It was my first book by Jules Verne, and it striked me with it's utter realism. Most his other books, like "20000 leagues under sea" or "Journey to the center of the Earth" are based on a fictional devices or exceptional characters, but Cyrus Smith became for me a realistic exemplar of a man using his engineering skills and knowledge to change his life and world around him.
/r/covid19

/r/coronavirus

/r/china_flu

Here is a list of people/material about covid that someone on reddit made
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cAYhunUoy2J5MY9QU5t0...
Wow, I may be biased because this fills a particular niche usecase for me, but this is truly incredible.

I can't stand hearing the sound of my own voice, but do a lot of tutorial content production in Markdown for guides for learning material.

This would allow me to re-use all of the existing material I have, which already includes detailed step-by-step screenshots and text instructions, to make voice-over videos with slides and publish to Youtube. Amazing!