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You could create and use an embedded DSL tailored specifically for your application. This is what Jenkins does with their "declarative pipeline": it's basically Groovy-based DSL, and if you need anything not covered by it you need to use `script { ... }` element.

The problem here is of course how not to make your DSL suck, which Jenkins' did not avoid. But if you're lucky, your language of choice already has a few libraries implementing embedded DSLs for configuration, and it's quite possible that at least one of them is actually usable.
In general, sure, but since n95 masks protect against corona and plain surgical masks don't...
To expand, if the admin wants they can enable the vault and have access to emails, drive, etc.
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Random speculation aside, if you (like me) are currently at the tail end of COVID-19 and beginning your convalescence from it, it's wise to assume you have some degree of myocarditis and behave accordingly - that is, as best you can, avoid activities that may strain your heart and circulatory system for a couple weeks to a month following end of active COVID-19 symptoms.

I'm not a doctor, and this isn't medical advice, but it isn't alarmism either. It's well known that pneumonias, however caused, tend to be rough on the heart. So it's just common sense to regard this pneumonia the same way.

Look at it this way. If you aren't at risk, but assume that you are, the worst that happens is nothing. If you are at risk, and assume that you aren't, you may well not be so lucky. So, especially when you may not be able to rely on the usual degree of hospital support - better safe than sorry.
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Title is clickbait BS.

Hydration plays a huge role in elimination of the toxins that cause a hangover.

Article even states that hydration is part of a hangover just not the primary contributor.
Ownership of the email address/account is important. If you're using a corporate account, communicating on behalf of your employer, and have been informed ahead of time that all emails from said account are monitored, I don't believe many people could reasonably argue an expectation of privacy for personal correspondence in such a setting.

Additionally, if you work for a company or industry where such correspondence must be preserved and tendered on request due to applicable laws or regulations, such organizations are legally required to have access to all employee emails.
Recently I decided to resurrect a very old Macbook White (2008) by install FreeBSD in it.

All of my workstation (laptop/desktop) have dropbox installed and yet dropbox is not available for FreeBSD.

This is where rclone come to the rescue. There might be other software that can take the role of dropbox client but rclone gives me the flexibility of switching to other provider if I decided to do so in the future.

Bless the author of rclone.
The estimates on Amazon right now seem way longer than the reality. I'm getting all my packages in 2-3 days despite Amazon estimating a week or more.
It's easy to dismiss fandom as just for the sake of it. I've heard it about Apple and Nintendo and in both cases it just seems like a lazy way to dismiss other people valuing things differently. Mostly, anyways.

I'm a huge Nintendo fan because, despite glaring problems, the kind that warrant a special Nintendo-specific eye-roll, their games and consoles also offer stuff others don't. The highs make the lows tolerable.

I absolutely hate so much about New Horizons, and most of it is 'typical' Nintendo. Bad online/multiplayer, endless repetitive dialogue gating core functionality, and weird hardware limitations (two people on one Switch? enjoy a single shared island!).

And yet here I am playing it about as much as I played Stardew Valley back when that was 'hot'.

Do you really think that I and so many others are spending hours playing a game with so many flaws just because it's Nintendo?
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Creating a derivative work isn't termed a "rip off" in open source its an expected use case. You don't have to work with someone before making your own work derivative of theirs. If it comes to pass that your work directly competes with theirs for developers or users you just have to convince potential users and developers that they ought to use yours instead same as any other competing entity in a free market.

For example I'm pretty sure Ford doesn't consult with Toyota before they introduce a new model.
Re your first paragraph: What's funny is that I get almost the same effect by avoiding writing ideas down. I find letting an idea sit and stew in my head to be a good vetting process.

If I forget an idea, that's a feature of the system, not a bug. If an idea survives for a while and I find myself coming back to it often, then after a month of it being an idea I might act on it. At that point the idea is a lot less nebulous and I have a pretty clear idea of where to get started and an idea of where it's going to go in the future.
I turn 40 soon and am about as far away from a hipster as you can get, but I have only negative associations with eclipse.
Another possibility that is perfectly reasonable.
It is regulated in Europe, not banned. In general, employers can read your email, they just have to do it a certain way.

Here's a guide for UK employers:

https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/2-107-4386?transi...
I made the mistake of recommending standardization of development tooling at one point. Not one of my finer moments.
> “If you are no longer interested in a project you started, maybe you already got what you came for”.

Agree, I've been through this myself plenty of times. I think there's a way to turn this into a tactic though: a completed project has loads of gaps and finishing touches that a learning prototype lacks, and it comes with it's own interesting challenges that are hard to predict.

So if you're interested in learning what a finished product would entail, you can only achieve that understanding by finishing a product. I've found that there are some products where I'm interested in understanding all of the details, and some which I'm not, and that's sometimes helped filter which projects I should stick with.

The worst outcome is when I have to shelve a project because the tooling just isn't mature or usable enough to make the project fun.
Well then give us a list! Nearly everything else I've checked is either out of stock or doesn't deliver to my house.
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With hospitals in first world countries to larger or smaller extent already using 3D-printers to strengthen faltering supply lines I think the distinction is not so clear. Let a thousand flowers bloom and the doctors decide what they want to use. They can make the best tradeoffs.
Did the lawyers who thought it might be illegal explain their thinking?

I would assume even just to do business fluidly they might need access.
Right those population level samples only started on a limited basis in a few areas last week. For now the actual denominator is a total unknown; the range of upper and lower bounds is so wide as to be effectively useless for planning.
I didn't realize Zero Mission was already 16 years old, but I'd say that was a pretty good, albeit short Metroid game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759882
> I usually use my supervisors strategy against them. If they ask for documents, I bury them in paper work

I like this idea in general, but in this particular case, what's stopping them from just not reading them? They can keep asking for docs and not reading them without inflicting any pain on themselves.
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> Why is it the United States' job to identify health problems in China?

Because a health problem in China, or anywhere in the world, presents a RISK to the the United Stated
Finite-element analysis - as far as I know - has the advantage of being able to estimate its own errors with some practically useful local upper bound. Because physics at that level is very much local. (Though it can't really help with higher level problems, like cyclic dynamical load and resonance problems, but there are other tools for that.)

> [...] most programming doesn't use static analysis tools beyond type systems.

Yes, unfortunately. :( It'd be great to have access to much better/stricter tools to be able to check just some interesting/important parts of programs (eg. pure business logic modules/functions) without resorting to reimplementing them in static-analysis systems.
On the specific axis of email privacy: seems unnecessary in this modern era, where the practical solution to keeping your private correspondence private is to log in from a second browser session to an email account other than the one provided by your place of employment (ideally, running on a computer other than the one provided by your place of employment, talking to a network other than the one provided by your place of employment.

That's a lot of words to say "Use your smartphone email client and don't connect to the wifi", but there you go ;) ).
Ironically Facebook uses PHP, which definitely falls into the "withered" tech category.
Edit: Article can be read here:

http://archive.md/k3zNE

It seems like WSJ.com should not be the link used without a follow-up link giving access to the whole community.

>Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
I was thinking the same thing. The rush from the possibility versus the actuality applies to relationships as well.
Sadly, I came to that conclusion last year for different reasons.

I've got an excellent ThinkPad laptop and do development mostly in .NET[0]. When I received it, it was loaded with Windows, and since the rest of the team ran Windows, I figured I'd keep it, enable Hyper-V and run openSUSE virtually. This was a couple of years ago and lasted about two months before I reversed it.

Linux under Hyper-V was unbearable if I was in anything other than a pure text terminal. Graphics performance was bad to the point of being unusable -- I ended up installing a commercial remote control tool which "helped" but came with so many additional trade-offs that it wasn't worth it. I briefly experimented with a couple ofother virtualization apps but had similar results.

So I switched it around; I installed OpenSUSE, configured everything with libvirt/vmm (unfortunately, the GUI didn't provide a lot of the necessary settings to get things performing well). At the end of the day, it probably took me a solid two very late evenings to get everything reasonable[1]. With just the Spice/guest drivers (no video card redirection), I have reasonably reliable clipboard sharing, host/guest file sharing[2], not-really-accelerated-but-very-usable video[3], and Visual Studio with ReSharper runs (estimated) 20% slower than it did on bare metal Windows 10 Pro. It's not going to play games, but it's usable for Office/Outlook/Visual Studio (the latter being all that I have installed there).

[0] At the time, a lot of our projects were IIS hosted (on-prem/cloud); within a year we were 95% Linux deployed. I decided about 3 years ago that my knowledge of Windows was so thorough that it was bordering on boring. I wanted to feel that way when using a "typical" Linux distribution, so I figured immersion was the best approach and ended up reloading all but one (nearly disused) machine at home.

[1] There are a ton of guides on how to get Windows 10 working well, however, I run Tumbleweed which generally ships with bleeding-edge everything. Finding guides that were relevant to the latest versions and included explanations as to "why" settings choices were made were few and far between; I ended up just immersing myself in the actual docs.

[2] Why is this so painful?

[3] I can play web video at just about 30FPS; audio works similarly well with some crackling. I eliminated the audio devices after install, though -- I limit my Windows use to things that I can only do in Visual Studio and I don't need sound for any of that.
I don't know for the rest of the world, but in France you can indicate your mail being private by adding a prefix to the subject of your mail with "Privé". Then the "secrecy of correspondence"[1] apply. Some company restrict the usage of private messages using the company-provided mail, but it is not the default case.

The company cannot access those messages without your consent or without a suspicion of a crime (like a leak of data).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

Source in French with some court's judgement : https://www.arobase.org/entreprise/email-personnel.htm
> I spent a lot of time on a single project, learned a lot of things along the way, but progress was very very slow mainly because it started to feel like 'work'.

Can relate, my personal solution was to talk about the project to people around me (often non-technical), some would be interested to try, and when I feel like giving up, they are the one reminding me they are looking forward to use it.
The idea is that women have less access to various support networks that men do, typically referred to as the "boy's club", and therefore create their own replacements.
I’ve observed this with big and small business alike:

+ bought a baking steel direct from the seller (shipping time ~5 days vs. 1 month+, so I canceled the amazon order)

+ monitor out of stock for over a week on amazon (in stock at bnh, shipping time ~4 days)

+ monitor arm I didn’t even bother looking at on amazon (shipping time direct from seller ~2 days)
I don't think I can see those. I know if you turn history off in Hangouts, I can't access those either. Unless something recently changed.
I'd bet a few dollars that this is the most common answer. A little piece of anecdata, being stuck, jobless and confidentless due to too much of this dopamine rush theory, i did propose to write something for my 'boss', at a food store, a little single user vue app [0].

a few conclusion :

- i did actually deliver something functional (for a change)

- i still had twenty thousand dreamy ideas (as noted in a lengthy TODO file)

- doing something for someone else changes our your brain rolls. you dream less because you want to make them happy

- it was painful at times, dealing with constraints

- but solving these was a good feeling. a bit less exciting but longer lasting. a feeling of knowing more and deeper (much unlike dreamy brainstorming)

- it makes you operate for true progress, you aim at surgical advances instead of abstract designs. that is a great thing. sobering

my 2 cents

[0] the theory behind it was that I'd do something simple, without pressure, that I may sell, or at least put on my resume (vuejs being trendy)..
Excerpt:

"The force due to gravity reduces with the square of the distance. If you double the distance, the force is not halved but reduced to a quarter of its original value. This law, called an inverse square law, is based purely on geometry: we live in three spatial dimensions, and therefore the inverse square law holds."
Since we are on a technical site where many are in some type of software computer related field, it does apply here.

But “billions of people” worldwide don’t have the luxury of multiple job openings where they can be picky about their employer.
In the Netherlands there was a court case which ruled that an employer cannot just read an employees work email, as even work-related emails are considered private information.

There are some exceptions of course: if you notify the employee and have a justified reason you can check some emails. So it's not outright forbidden. It matters a lot on the case and what you did, exactly.

I'm not aware of the situation in other countries.

(In Dutch: https://www.cnvvakmensen.nl/nextnow/blog/2016/march/mag-de-b... and https://www.sprengersadvocaten.nl/publicaties/wanneer-mag-ee...)
Jisho is my go-to for Japanese:

https://jisho.org/search/%E6%9E%AF%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B
Start practicing CYA (Cover Your Ass) diligently. Follow all of the rules, document everything (email follow ups for any any conversation), and be tactful at all times. Give him no space to find fault, and have proof. Discuss your concerns with HR if you can.

Personally, I would be looking for an exit, either mine or his.
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It's a power trip, especially given most employees cross-pollinate their email accounts with personal email either accidentally or because they don't understand the repercussions of doing so.

Searching LastPass I (an engineering manager who knew from day 1 this very problem set) signed up to HBO Now and Task Rabbit with my work email - entirely by accident.

It's worse in email-obsessive non-technical roles like sales. They can spend 3+ hours per day in Gmail alone and anecdotally sign up for all manner of personal deliveries and dating profiles through that same work email!

Ultimately email providers like Gmail should do a better job separating professional and personal accounts and informing their users how little privacy they actually have. I heavily blame GMail's multi-account selection interface and how non-technical users can struggle to change the default account they are logged in under. I think the odds of Google warning users to worry more about their own privacy is slim to none. /rant
Hard to know without more detail, but if your boss is a "fear biter", you should be looking hard for a new job.

In the meantime, one (unpleasant) strategy that has worked for me in the past is to start adoring them at every possible opportunity. This can't be snarky--you have to make it seem authentic.

Also, check out on trying to get anything done. Just go with the flow, don't go out of your way to fix things.

No way to live, of course, so work on that next job.
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Hate to break it to you but in America, rent and wages are paid in dollars, not % of net worth.
My friends and I played euchre at Playok.com and then just made our own Euchre room on Jit.si. We even had a main room and then sub rooms 00, 01, 02 and you'd just join the main room, get assigned a table and jit.si room and then just join both.
Not me. Amazon is estimating 2-3 weeks on most things now, and so far are sticking by their estimates.
I really felt this. Seeing things go out-of-stock or become unavailable for months was a strong reminder of how things used to be online - when I purchased different types of items from different independent web retailers. I went searching for many of them, most are gone.

Does anyone remember Pricewatch? Old school computer parts sellers like CompGeeks? Those were really interesting times.
You can often configure these a bit, things like number of open connections allowed.

Is it expensive? Is managing it yourself actually cheaper? How do salaries effect this calculation?
Probably in your boss's office, around the time you're pulled into a meeting with the admin, your boss, and HR, and your boss says "So that message you sent over the company IRC on such-and-such day: what was in it?"

... with all necessary and legal steps taken regarding your continued employment at that organization should you refuse to voluntarily divulge the contents of the message or a way to decrypt it.

https://xkcd.com/538/
Any good resources for that?
Of course in usual times, taking the lower salary in exchange for the increase in stock is perfectly acceptable bet. Stock is only an advantage if your company survives.

In times like this, it could be a strain on your bottom line (depending on how much your day-to-day living costs are), as well as a higher risk because chances of your company going under are much higher.

> As a founder you can still up your salary to a sustainable level and let your employees go. Employees don’t have that option.

Hm... yeah, one could play that game for a couple months, but eventually you'll run out of money no matter what.
Entirely understand, enjoy and good luck with it!
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This seems pretty passive aggressive. Wouldn't it be better to be proactive and bring it to their attention of their manager directly? i.e. request a private with problematic person's manager and outline concerns. Generally you shouldn't go over your manager's head, but when that person is the problem then in my mind that's an exception.

If it goes badly then it is time to start looking for a new job. But if you have a reasonable company culture then it shouldn't do. This is why employees (even senior ones) have managers.
I just bought something from Best Buy online when Amazon said the same item was in stock, but would not arrive until April 27th. BB said it be here Thursday, though is usually a day early because of proximity to the warehouse.
http://archive.is/k3zNE
Why did you need to delete the message?
This is the way to go. Never do personal stuff or expect privacy on any device your employer is touching.
I always search for alternative sellers. They are more likely to have someone who knows the product. A plumbing supplier will know something about pipes and I have some reason to trust them when they give advantages to their different price levels. I don't need 200 different brands of 1/2 inch pipe connections, I need the 3 different levels of pressure they are rated for, and the choice of material they are made from. They also tend to provide reasonable sorting so that I can find what I need without scrolling for ages.
I think the industrial design of the Switch has a very smooth “fun per minute of setup” and I think that’s a big edge it has for families with younger children.

Or, a user doesn’t need to set up a computer and install a digital client like Steam. Switching input mappings is easy, and taking the entire device with those same input mappings to another room is simply picking things up. I love to play games on a computer, but it takes a lot more work compared to a console, let alone the Switch. I think that’s why it’s kept such a strong attach rate.
>If anything I'd be appalled if I was the patient, and was basically just left to die because of all the certification red tape.

AFAIK that's what already happens now with highly experimental drugs. You can't just give terminal patients whatever you want with the excuse "they were going to die anyways".
* 2017

Article still needs proofreading lol
Zoom CEO: 'I really messed up'
https://support.google.com/vault/answer/4388708?hl=en

March 7, 2019

If your organization enables Gmail confidential mode, Vault can hold, retain, search, and export all confidential mode messages sent by users in your organization.

Confidential messages sent after November 30, 2018 are visible to Vault in the mailboxes of all internal senders and recipients. Messages are always available to Vault, even when the sender sets an expiration date or revokes recipients' access to confidential mode messages.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/7684332?hl=en

Confidential mode messages and Vault
Vault can hold, retain, search, and export all confidential mode messages sent by users in your domain. Vault has no visibility into the content of confidential mode messages sent to your organization from external parties. If your domain uses Vault, carefully review how Vault handles confidential mode messages

To support Vault's requirement to access confidential mode messages, Gmail attaches a copy of the confidential mode content to the recipient's message.

Here's what you should know about this copy:

It's attached only when the message sender and recipient are in the same organization.
It's only available to Vault.
Senders and recipients cannot access the copy from Gmail.
Third-party mail archiving tools cannot access the copy.
To delete all copies of a confidential mode message, you must delete it from the sender account and all recipients' accounts.