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Face masks from China intended for France 'hijacked' by US at the last minute
Is It Too Late to Prevent Mass Unemployment Owing to the Coronavirus?
Liability. Tell people that makeshift masks offer coronavirus protection, and hear the class action lawyers sharpening their quills from a hundred miles. Even if the masks, deployed at scale, help reduce the R factor.
Thanks. I've been meaning to start reading Pynchon for a while now. This gives him another boost in the proverbial ladder.
> Only N95 masks worn properly can guarantee protection for the wearer.

"Guaranteed protection" does not matter at all.

Masks that only offer 99% protection are well worth wearing. As are 40% masks.
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One critical NVC concept that this article leaves out is that people often express judgements as feelings. A small cut and paste from the list of "non-feelings:"

Unheard Unimportant Unseen Untrusted Unwanted Unworthy Used Violated Worthless
50th Anniversary of Smalltalk
> How could they guarantee end-to-end if not all gadgets support encryption?!

They can't. So they shouldn't.

> In light of this post it looks like for the majority of users it is end-to-end encrypted.

It absolutely is not. What they can say is for the vast majority of users, the streams are encrypted between all clients, and due to policy, Zoom won't view them as they pass through.

The problem is Zoom could intercept and decrypt streams, if they wanted to, which is why you can't call this "end-to-end encryption" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption
Heh, I probably would have said "Udemy style free for all" but the point is basically the same.

According to my email I signed up for a free trial a couple years ago, then closed my account when the trial ended. I don't recall the exact course(s) I tried, but in general they seemed like higher quality than the typical distance learning factories.

I know Nigel Poulton has some courses there on Kubernetes and Docker. Based on his books, and the audio adaptations of them, I expect his Pluralsight courses to be of high quality.
Yeah, if I were planning for that level of income, then we could probably comfortable cover our bills. My wife would have to already have a job. And we'd have a pretty sizable commute to get to work. So, bills would get covered, but life would be a lot less comfortable (though comfortable when compared to not being able to afford the basics).

But Portland is pretty affordable. $400k doesn't get you much in California (there are foreclosures in South Central listed for that much on Zillow right now).
It's amazing what you can get done in the name of saving the children.
Neither does 6 feet. It's all safety theater.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...
There's been a lot of press about people making their own face masks out of fabric and it got me thinking about copper-impregnated fabric (if you watch enough late-night TV you'll have seen those CopperFit infomercials). Copper itself has antimicrobial properties (studies say SARS-CoV-2 only lives 4 hours on copper), but does anyone know if there is enough copper content in those fabrics to make them a better fabric for face masks than cotton?
N95 Masks do not guarantee protection, but they do vastly reduce one's exposure.
Simple surgical masks do provide a very minimal level of reduction of droplet intake. Slightly better than nothing, but not far off from bandana-level protection.

Agree that covering the mouth is the most important thing. Hopefully this person just had it down while he was outside and not around others.
The other problem that the article completely ignores is the difference in power between the manager and the engineer. NVC and NVC-like forms of communication work when the participants are relatively equal in power, when one person can say honestly and forthrightly what they feel and be reasonably certain that they won't be retaliated against for being honest.

In my experience, that describes very few business settings. There is a massive power differential between the manager and the engineer (after all, the manager can fire the engineer, but the engineer cannot fire the manager) and very often the engineer doesn't know the manager well enough to know how they would react to a statement like, "I feel belittled by the fact that you constantly ignore my feedback and impose unreasonable deadlines because a salesperson put you on the spot in front of the VP."

As I see it, a work environment that's safe enough for NVC to be useful is one where the lines of communication are open and honest enough for NVC to be unnecessary. As a result, whenever I see or hear someone speaking NVC phrases at me at work (especially if they have never done so in the past), I am immediately on guard, because I know they're trying to slip a fast one by me.
People probably haven’t figured it out yet. Why work for $15/hr at a grocery store when you can make $20/hr sitting at home? Sure, not forever. But that grocery store job ain’t forever either. The UI benefits go until at least July 31. That’s probably longer than most of these temp jobs.
(It's "steel-man.")

My argument isn't that modern software would run faster on such a CPU; my argument is instead that:

1. the most trivially-true version of the argument: software written for that CPU would run faster on a modern "remastering" of that CPU, than it would run (directly, via a lot of microcode-level emulation; or indirectly, via actual emulation) on a modern CPU. (Yes, some software that's still binary-forward-compatible with modern CPUs—only using generic ISA ops—would be faster on the modern CPU. But I'm talking about the worst, most persnickety edge-case uses of the ISA. The kinds of "requires a whole different model of the world to have the right side-effects" ops that make IBM write emulators for their previous mainframe architectures, rather than just shimming those ops into their new POWER ISAs and doing load-time static recompilation to the new ISA.)

2. smaller transistor size would mean less total power draw per cycle—i.e. it's a rather dim bulb—which means you could overclock the heck out of that CPU.

3. As long as you don't also make the die-size any smaller (but rather just lay out your small transistors with super-long trace-paths between them), then you're not decreasing the thermal surface-area of the die in the process, so you can then attach a modern cooling setup to it to clock it even higher.

4. Or, if you like, you can shrink the die-size and produce a compact 10nm 8088, at which point it'd probably be, say... 1 sq. mm? Smaller than a Cortex-M0+, for sure. That's the point when things are small enough that you can start to do wacky things like covering the entire (uncapped) die surface in a focused laser beam, to cool it by entangling the coherent "negative temperature" photons with the traces' positive-temperature baryons, as an indiscriminate version of an atomic-force microscope's method of ion capture.
Everyone who is still working to provide essential services should be wearing masks.

There is a major shortage of PPE, so non-healthcare workers should be wearing nonmedical fabric masks or homemade masks. https://shouldiwearafacemask.com for a full explanation with the science.
"and developer just have to follow good practice"

Uhm, the exact same is true with vanilla js.

If you write crappy code, your code will be crappy even if you use a framework.
It is not possible to extrapolate with certainty the quality of code from the bugs that remain in it when released.

“There’s a misspelling in the HTTP headers spec, so obviously this was written by amateurs.”

“Browser X has an RCE, so obviously they don’t care about security.”

These are obviously faulty logic when stated about other scenarios, and apply here as well.

Has Zoom been found to have the same specific technical issue reoccurring over multiple releases, to the tune of “buffer overflow” or similar? If so, then that’s a trend to throw up warning flags about.

A series of bugs that share no commonality other than being bugs is, perhaps, not so much.
> If you cannot state your need without judgmental comments (blaming others, etc), you are not going to get far in solving the problem. Your problems are valid, but you have to be able to communicate them in ways that don't trigger defensiveness.

I think this is true in certain contexts where you don't have much power over the situation itself (which ranges from resolving conflicts between family members to resolving conflicts between leaders of non-allied countries). But the engineer has a BATNA here - find another job with a better boss. It's such a common BATNA that "people don't quit jobs, they quit bosses" is a catchphrase. The engineer can get extremely far in solving their "unmet universal needs" like fun and safety by finding another job. It's in the company's interest, one would hope, to keep them.

And this still isn't being judgmental: the engineer simply needs management who understands the process that they are managing. The engineer is not only allowed but expected to exercise technical judgment in determining whether that's happening, same as an engineer should exercise technical judgment in determining whether a proposed vendor product fills the need (and would not be doing their job if they refrained from analyzing the vendor product for fear of being judgmental). Perhaps the manager doesn't have the requisite technical background to make proper product decisions. That doesn't mean "the manager is a bad person" - that means that the manager isn't (by themselves) the right person for the role. Maybe they should seek a technical team lead, or promote a manager within the team, or something.
At a question and answer session in my region (we have them daily) one question was about masks.

The doctor who answered said most (non medical) people don't know how to wear them properly. Another problem is taking the mask off without infecting yourself.
Cloudflare specifically used to bring in paid interns from programs that targeted women that left the workforce due to having children. Plenty of interns were offered FTE once the internship ended. So I know they are happy to evaluate different types of interns, not just college students.
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Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic
As isolation habits go, it's slightly safer to overindulge in news than in liquor, but not much less unhealthy.

If you're worried about a real collapse, then do what you can to prepare, sure - ideally remembering that, by all the accounts of people who've been through such collapses and later told the tale, what really gets you through in the long run isn't liquor, smokes, or bullets, but relationships.

You don't need to soak in the news to do that. Indeed, soaking in the news probably makes it harder. Anxiety can get paralyzing, and there's a lot in the news to be anxious about. But it's also worth remembering that what's going to happen is going to happen whether you obsess over it or not. It can't be hurried, helped, or fought. It can only be dealt with as best you can, and from here it seems like you're not really helping yourself by what you're doing just now. So, maybe consider trying doing something else for a while? You know, just to see if it feels any different.
Framework debates aside, if you’re looking to do something in pure JavaScript this looks like a great resource! Bookmarked :)
Interestingly the N64's RSP has some instructions specifically intended for implementing MPEG decoding
(ctrl+f for "MPEG"in http://ultra64.ca/files/documentation/silicon-graphics/SGI_N...)
It’s free and opensource.
Privacy Experts Say Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible
I'm running Zoom in a virtual machine, & while I'll continue to do so, this news will pause me from recommending others (who are unwilling to sandbox applications) to not use Zoom

Still, would like their WebRTC UI improved. The use case I'm in requires gallery view & the web ui lacks that, so I ended up having webrtc streaming me out while using Zoom in Windows Sandbox to view (Sandbox isn't able to use my webcam). "easy to use" wouldn't describe my experience
Singapore is run by competent people and the US is not.

Simple as that.
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Feel free to trust who you want but I don't think Apple should be able to get away with calling iMessage end-to-end encrypted when they have most iMessages stored on their servers and the keys to decrypt them.

> At some point you have to trust somebody, right?

It's possible to use an actual end to end encrypted app that doesn't have the keys to read your messages stored on their servers.
Does anyone know how this could technically be possible? For a meeting with all Zoom clients they say they use E2E. When a new participant joins, they are immediately added to the meeting.

Is a new pubkey key generated and passed to existing participants? Is there one shared symmetric key that is sent to the new participant? What stops zoom from "adding a participant" and allowing themselves to decrypt the meeting? Is there no server-side transcoding done at all?

It's obvious phone enabled calls can’t be E2E
Ultimately amazon is a very large company and is responsible for all the warehouses and laborers it makes use of. The problem is that these laborers are treated unfairly.

Who needs sick time should able to take it and it should be paid time off; Amazon workers are not well off people, they live paycheck to paycheck. By taking sick leave would leave them without a rent check, Some of them would think twice, some would just come to work sick. And why don't they do something like an incentive program for workers? To give protective equipment to their workers, give a bonus for working during the pandemic and charge more for shipping if needed. Yes we will be charged more, we would buy less but the numbers would balance out. And knowing those workers are human to, I wouldnt mind paying more for shipping just to mitigate their impasse.
Is that possible to change, perhaps if self-hosting? Video quality of screen sharing and frame rate are absolutely atrocious, to the point that you have to wait ten seconds until text becomes readable.
Nope. As a species we tend to over-prepare for the "last war", rather than basing them on actual risk probabilities.
So, a threads-only Slack. Or, old-time phpBB forums, but with non-sucking native apps.
Or, Wordpress' P2 made for public.

Finally - I waited years for this :).
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On top of my own company's, I'm constantly signed in to 21 Slack workspaces mostly belonging to clients, and the endless notifications are starting to become a real problem, particularly when people use @channel or @here all the time. Add into that the Slack's notification sounds are some of the most grating noises to hit my ears since Skype's. If I'm concentrating on a complex task and Slack starts going off I come very close to throwing my laptop out the window.

In short, I hope you succeed in solving this.
I almost agree with you, but I think it actually does bring you much closer to resolution.

The reason is that by default the rhetoric and content, (as you've put it) are deeply conflated in the minds of the people who are engaged in conflict. NVC can tease them apart, and often the content that is left is literally nothing (ie. it was all just a matter of feeling respected or whatever), or a trivial disagreement that can be quickly solved.

But even when the conflict turns out to be non trivial, NVC is a boon. If all parties to the conflict are now in a non violent frame, then what has happened is the problem is quite clear, the stakes for everyone involved are quite clear, and all the people are in a collaboration together to figure out a solution that addresses what matters.

So you're right that it doesn't automatically solve any specific, objective problem, but it sets up the environment so success becomes way more likely.
If we flatten the curve enough we are able to offer healthcare to everyone who's sick. That's a win.
Sure, even marginal gains are worth it.
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Your link seems to be broken, here's a working version: http://web.archive.org/web/20040313034855/http://www.gamasut...
The Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History
Imagine if we had a healthcare system like Singapore. Not like the one we currently have now, where the government interferes in the free market and as a result the cost goes through the roof.
that's valid javascript (it's also very dangerous javascript)... and would be valid php if you sandwich it between a $ and a ;

elixir is not npm for erlang, hex is more like npm.
I learned jQuery on a project where everyone was expected to be full stack but only 2.5 of us could do any deep work on the front end.

I have done much, much harder things than convincing my coworkers to distinguish between 'important' nodes in a composition and incidental ones. Never put the incidental ones in your selectors.

If I'm a "Select All" checkbox, I need to find all of the checkboxes in "my" block of HTML that are not me, and select or unselect them. I don't give a shit if that's two divs up, one over and three down. Or if some IE bug means now it's three divs up and two over. I care about some top level element, and any of its children at any depth.

That's it. If I write my element selectors that way, I'm done and the layout people can put in a scrollbar later, or an expando. Also if I write my CSS the same way, it's easy to make these sorts of changes and it's easy to correlate the CSS with the Javascript that affects the same elements.

So much simpler than spending all day in a debugger when you're not in bug triage.

Most of those query selectors we relied on now have feature parity in the spec. I don't see why you couldn't use the same strategies in a vanilla situation today.
Ahh you seem to be on that phase...
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In Intel's "Tick-Tock" model, there was a running theme of the names. The Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors were successive models on the same core microarchitecture, and then similarly for Haswell and Broadwell, and finally Skylake.

And then the 10nm debacle happened, so everything since then has been X lake.
That would require new procedures, innoculations, innovations. Because flattening with nothing else would take 20 years (total needing hospitalization divided by available beds). We can't be in lockdown for 20 years.

And the US curve hasn't flattened yet. It's barely deflected. We can expect full infection to occur in about 1 month if we don't do a whole lot better.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Virological assessment of German hospitalized patients with Covid-2019
yeah, so a more positive mind would call for more people to join in on a good cause here.
Just have employees sign a waiver.
>If you cannot state your need without judgmental comments (blaming others, etc), you are not going to get far in solving the problem.

This is not universally true, but you state it as if it is.

>Your problems are valid, but you have to be able to communicate them in ways that don't trigger defensiveness.

Wrong. Triggering defensiveness is something which happens as a matter of degree, and there is no problem with triggering small amounts of defensiveness if the other party is an emotionally mature person who has perspective on their own defensiveness.
I'm the founder of Huan [0] - we make smart pet tags. We're the only ones making tiny cat-sized ones too (only 17mm in diameter)!

Once I'm done raising this round (great timing, I know) we'll start deploying our mobile sensors that let us create ad-hoc BLE networks that can be deployed dynamically and find missing pets very quickly without requiring a GPS.

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Love how Amazon staff will get surgical masks while doctors in America have to re-use theirs and use them for a whole shift.
It still sends as many people to the hospitals as it sends to the hospitals, weak epidemiological data or no. If that's more than the hospitals can handle, people start dying who otherwise wouldn't. That, too, is not an indicator subject to measurement bias imposed by lousy testing regimes. It's also a thing that is happening. We will see more of it before we see less.
With millions stuck at home, the online wellness industry is booming
When it's sufficiently complex, a majority of the workforce don't know it's a scam. That's a difference compared to poorer countries.
Techcrunch is stealing my back button too
There's a distinction between enfranchisement and motivation. The former is fundamental to democracy, proportional to its health, and in my opinion, a duty. The latter is a cultural and a political challenge.

I don't think the two should be equated or conflated.
Nobel prizes, atleast in Literature, are given for a body of work and bodies of work take decades to create. Every decade, approximately, is different and every generation is very different. American literature has often been blamed for being insecular and very focused on the American way rather than having a universal appeal. I do not pass judgment on that but I will say that only writers that can appeal to fundamental societal truths, dig deeper into the superficial differences and unearth commonalities in the human condition will be considered great.

If the so-called millenials are not reading DeLillo, the onus is not on DeLillo to say things that appeal to them. Rather, the onus is on them to figure out what DeLillo is saying and see if they identify with him.

(Edit: I am not American and english is not my first language. I like American literature among others.)