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ECB is a standard mode on many crypto libraries. Devs don't know better, or are intimidated by IVs
I’d say hosting data that you don’t need to run your live ergodic (non-ML) software service, but that you’d need for other services: informing the business, flagging operational issues, training ML models.

Some of those can be done with back-end tools — say, if your software also contact to your customer service, and the managers of that center monitor their activity on a solution developed in-house, that solution isn’t “analytical” but should rather be part of the main architecture.

The main distinction that I’d make is: would it be a problem for your service if that data wasn’t available for a second, a minute, an hour? Anything visible on your app or website? A second is probably stretching it. Monitoring logistic operations, say drivers at Ubers? Up to a minute is probably fine. You want to retrain a ML model because you have a new idea, but database is down for maintenance? For an hour? You can go and grab coffee, or lunch — you are fine. Serving that same model for recommendations on a e-commerce website, that’s obviously not something that can take the same delay.
Yeah. And if I could reliably fall in love I wouldn't be single.
There exist easier targets, such as the loudspeakers which can be turned into microphones.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17...
I'm digressing but I've always been curious why people want to use the closed-lid mode. All it does seems to be saving a some desktop space. I place my laptop beneath an external monitor, this way I get a very good second display, a nice keyboard, and a very nice extra touchpad for scrolling and all kinds of multitouch gestures. Probably has benefits cooling the machine as well.
The tooling is just fine for me, DataGrip or not: I wrote a ton of PostgreSQL triggers and utility functions in Javascript thanks to the excellent plv8 (free) extension.
Development and unit tests for these functions is as easy as plain Javascript.
It is curious, and post revelations in the recent decade nothing is too weird to suspect - but don't underestimate the immense social value of jumping on the technological bandwagon and the free "hip" PR that it produces in media.
And when more people do it, more people do it, i.e the bandwagon effect.

People then look at the articles written in the media and say "hey i use that app too, cool, we are part of the same tribe".

Showing of knowledge of the tech-zeitgeist is an easy way for a politician or anyone for that matter to appear being both with the times", "tech-savvy" and just the same as regular folk.
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Recent Thinkpads have a physical plastic cover that slides to obscure the camera.
This is how socialism "works". One pays enormous taxes his whole life, but then, when it comes for government to protect one's health, they do nothing and name this even "liberal".
Turning cells into computers with protein logic gates
Nowhere does this article say "4.7-inch"
founder is Chinese, they have 700 employees in China, does anyone really consider this non Chinese app?
As someone who also just wrote toy compilers/interpreters:

I think it is a valuable thing to just dive into a subject that quite obviously interests you so much as long as you are humble about it.

At some point you change/tweak/break something. Then your humble instinct will say: "I bet this is a common problem, let me research it". And so you get deeper understanding of what you do in a fun and tangible way.

If that at some point means you get to read PLT about type theory and formal semantics, then so be it. But at this point you'll know much more about the 'why' and can assess/relativize the purpose, importance and relevance of a particular subject.
are you sure you can get all these benefits?

- You can separate it out from the rest of your SPA bundle(s), so shipping changes is completely decoupled from your SPA CI/CD process and can be done as frequently as you like and very quickly

I mean sure I guess I could do a lot of extra work to separate it out, it's true. But the real benefit of a vanillajs landing page is stuff is simple, and getting all the benefits by pre-rendering and hydrating using a system like react-snap sounds difficult.

If we follow the old saying Simple things (to say) should be simple (to do) it implies to me that Difficult things to say will be (relatively) difficult to do.
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How would you propose a blinded study will work to compare between a Placebo treatment and no treatment?
Mechanical switches are prone to fault.
As you say applications have to request permissions to access the mic/camera, here's a good writeup of how that was broken recently:

https://www.ryanpickren.com/webcam-hacking
This is timely, given people using similar (but less effective) background techniques in Zoom et al.

It's especially impressive in the video clip where she shakes her hair, with no obvious flaws in the background replacement.
>Today, the only observable counterfactual is a handful of paranoid, illiberal, dirt-poor nations where the government rules with an iron fist, which is certainly the case in Venezuela.

Right, the rest of Latin America is doing far better than the country under decades of US economic attacks. That's why there's no immigrant problem of overly poor people from countries like Uruguay, basking in that glorious US assisted regime change.
I think PLT is generally broad enough to include anything related to making (vs using) programming languages — the more practical topics like compiler/interpreter construction, VM implementation etc seem to obviously qualify despite not necessarily being very formal.

Concretely, you can definitely design and implement your own dynamically-typed scripting language without knowing anything about type systems or formal semantics.
Another great channel to follow is Rob Avis https://www.youtube.com/user/VergePermaculture

He's an engineer from the oil and gas industry and he's excellent at designing for energy efficiency
Not surprised. Before using any China-related service you should think twice.
We'll see how it turns out for them. But so far, it doesn't look like they're about to be decimated anytime soon.
Ah the convenience of a not-too-densely populated country of homogeneous like-minded people....
In your reply, this part

> “ Let's work with this. Are you feeling resentful because your need to be listened to?”

comes off as quite infantilizing and degrading. If I received this reply, I would feel you are not treating me with respect and you’re trying to undercut me by appealing to an emotion (resentfulness) and shifting focus onto that instead of dealing with the actual problems.
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The only worse thing than Sweden practically doing nothing (saying this as an insufferable swede myself) are the insufferable articles somehow touting the superiority of the approach, as some sort of underdog or challenger?

The mention of Swedish exceptionalism rings true and some self-awareness would be helpful, not sure can you use that term unironically here..
And a11y support... building a full GUI library is a monumental task.
I open it a little bit, just enough for the mic to work, in these cases. Then close the lid completely when im done with the call
Bear in mind that underneath the ice, Antarctica is an archipelago, not a continuous land mass.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18757/what...
This whole article was pretty...odd to me.

I felt like it spread disinformation to glorify Sweden's decision to not implement lockdown. The decision to not suspend civil liberties is a complicated one, so I don't want to go into it; but lines like, "Stay at home if you feel sick," are EXTREMELY dangerous because much of the danger of COVID-19 is due to people being asymptomatic for such a long time, meaning people potentially transfer the disease to others even though they don't feel sick.
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Adding reminders is the only thing I ever use it for. They carry across to the iPhone, of course, so if I need to remind myself to do something later in the day it's quite helpful.

I'd use it to set timers, too (by far the most frequent thing I use Siri for on iPhone) but annoyingly that doesn't work from the Mac.
Not helpful to you except as an existence proof, but you can install Retropie on a Raspberry Pi and it will play SNES ROMs fine. I believe the emulator is a variant of SNES9x.
But I guess if you're being paid to pay attention to client needs, then you're going to get interrupted, no matter what the technology you use.
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Maybe they tried Skype first, which works horrible (tried twice, never managed connect all the participants at the same time), and finally relief over something that actually works. I have used Zoom successfully with 70 participants, and then breakout groups. The only alternative I can see that recently came to my attention is Jitsi Meet (https://jitsi.org/), which I will try next time I have the opportunity. But seems like it has at least one of the same weaknesses as zoom, with no end to end encryption (https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7syt0s/jitsi_meet_...)
As a fellow Swede I agree. Hospitals all over the world will be overwhelmed because of the pandemic. Even countries doing lockdowns will have a really hard time.

I sincerely believe that the Public Health Agency in Sweden are handling the situation in a good way. Will we fare better or worse than other, similar countries? We can’t know for sure, it’s only after it’s over that we can get a verdict.
But aren't some choices, while arguably no more safe, more ethical than others? If you know that your action will bring certain death to some category of people, shouldn't you choose to refrain from doing it?

The OP, dated Apr 4th, sounds like it is from 3 months ago. We learned a lot more since then about how reasonable people are in their behaviors and how inclined they are to understand sensible explanations.
This would result in a different UX.

Users would have to remember about turning it on/off, many would forget, leading to frustration.

Also Apple would have to place that manual switch somewhere, this would change the device's interface.
This is such bullshit. As soon as the body count starts to rise all this nonsense is going to out the window and the "exceptional" Swedes will be ordered to cower in their homes just like everybody else.
Wow there are lot of these, I wonder how to sift between all of them.

This one [1] looks interesting just as a story

[1] = https://store.hbr.org/product/do-you-really-think-we-are-so-...
This reply, for example, is infantilizing. You have not engaged with the points I made at all and instead are pretending that a reply all about feeling or perceptions is in any sense an adequate way to respond.

The only part of your reply that contains non-belittling words is the first sentence where you admit, “I honestly don’t understand your point.”
I feel this is closely related to Therapeutic Touch. While these practices may be generated by a placebo affect, I would argue that there is a difference between feeling better and being better.
Therapeutic touch was largely debunk by a 10 year with a simple experiment that blinded the practitioners as to whether they were applying their touch to a patient or not using a piece of cardboard [0]. The practitioners could not tell the difference. Interestingly, the author is the youngest person to publish a research article.
Science based medicine has a nice response to this article as well [1].
[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/187390
[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-editors-of-the-atlantic-...
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A lot of logging software allows for UDP connections though. Not all logs are critical, and in times when you have close to 100% network saturation, dropping some log traffic to maintain a functional production environment is not a big deal for most.
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Admittedly on (some?) Android phones switching between the last 2 used apps is a double tap of the Overview button. Marginally faster than either of the 2 methods used on iPhones (Touch/FaceID).

This being said I'm sure OP's statements are just gross exaggerations based on their personal (dis)preference. Even if continuously switching between apps was their day job the difference is so small it's irrelevant. And anyone who's able to operate one of the phones is perfectly able to operate the other.
I have mainly used SQL Server but some Oracle and Informix earlier. I think all of these has been rock solid. When working as a consultant you rarely hear anyone saying that the db was instable.
Sweden has imposed several restrictions and Sweden will have problems regardless of lock-down or not due to a very limited amount of ICU beds.
> Nurse: Strength?

> Doctor: 1 part in a million

> Nurse: Are you sure? It looks serious

> Doctor: You're right, we need to strengthen the dose: 1 part in 10 million

Hah!
> The figure of the family doctor that takes his time and actually shows you attention has vanished.

They're still plentiful if you seek them out.
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Yes, the actual values are points, and one point is 1/72 of an inch, which is the same, as if the values were in inches. I just wanted to point out, that the units are physical (unlike "logical" units in an SVG or in a webpage).
I generally don't do front end development professionally.

I do know how to manipulate the DOM without frameworks. Learned it over a weekend.

If I were interviewing for front end, I wouldn't recall the syntax immediately, but I would know what to google or be able to have enough of a conversation with the interviewer to show them I have the basic understanding of what is happening.

I do backend. A similar situation might be something like using curl to make individual http requests.

Yeah, we don't do that in real life and I forget some of the parameters and flags available, but if I acted like I had no idea how to use curl, I hope an interviewer would be very disappointed with that.
Programming language design for humans is a completely different thing from PLT. It's more about usability, HCI, psychology. And if by success you mean popularity or any metric that includes productivity of the language, understanding of usability will definitely help you there, but knowledge of PLT will almost certainly hurt it, since it makes you think that a lot of PLT ideas are acceptable and usable.
Wonder if it's similar to oscillators[1] in Game of Life. I.e. a some molecules have two different arrangements with same energy, so they can swap between them by absorbing a bit of thermal energy or something.

[1]: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Toad
Why publicize something that threatens your existence?

Kudos to Production IG for doing this, but I don’t think this is indicative of CC commercial art. It’s just too contradictory in the current world we live in.
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What should I say if I got promoted for dropping code quality to meet deadlines?
Yep, those factors probably explain a good part of why the Swedish authorities have decided on these policies and recommendations.

Our State Epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has been pretty explicit in stating that these policies are not “one size fits all”, other countries will need to set their own policies in accordance with their situation and conditions.

PS. IMHO, the homogeneity of the Swedish society is sometimes a bit overstated. Believe or not but there is still some room left for having your own opinions and lifestyle here ;-) And our society is probably less conformist now than during the postwar/cold war era.

[Edited to add PS and fix spelling error.]
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I actually had a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B laying around for months until I decided to finally do something with it. I guess I was never into hardware that much and I could not think of an interesting software project that I could pick up.
> we wouldn't want to go full Haskell and avoid success at all costs

Can you elaborate on that statement? To me, it implies that going with Haskell avoids success, but I might be missing something. If that really is the implication, can you explain?
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All times I have seen systems using db security as the main security solution they have gotten into a lot of problems later and most of them changed.
Yes, my last point was meant generally (can't edit anymore). Ie. we often tend to try to convince others with long-winded arguments, while what may be needed is just listening and learning different perspectives. It rarely works well that you can actually "convert" people. When that succeeds, the ground for critical thinking tend to get even worse, ie. in closed or cult-like groups!

More important than the positions we take, is the critical introspective thinking that leads us to along the way (free thinking).
The impact of the pandemic varies from region to region and no one can explain why yet. Japan has a very low transmission rate despite minimal government action. Developing countries and/or areas with warmer climates seem to have a lower transmission rate as well. In Western Europe and the US, cases double every 2-3 days instead of every 5-6 days like in other regions. Except for Iran, which had one of the earliest outbreaks. And Brazil, where the central government has refused to take action.

There's a lot of unexplained variation and maybe the approach in Sweden will enlighten us. But I wish the article talked a little more about what people are doing, because it may be more subtle actions that make the difference. People talk about the lack of hand-shaking in Japan as a possible factor. What peculiarities of Swedish life might be at play? Their transmission rate is in line with similar nations (~doubling every 5 days) but their testing rate is on the low end of Europe. Are they lucky or doing something right?
I'm not claiming anyone is right, but you aren't addressing the authors point that the gamble is actually the lockdown. No countries have ever done that before. The author accurately states that the repercussions of lockdown are unknown and that it is possible that more people could die from the lockdown than from the disease. However since nobody really knows, his point was that it was strange that the vast majority of the world chose the unknown path of lockdown.

I think his point is worth looking into. Most people are loosing money, which has a direct impact on health. And I for one had my Dr. Appointments canceled which were for testing. But the delay of those tests can potentially have lasting consequences.

Point is that it is important to analyze both the immediate and long term costs in any strategy fairly. But instead of that, the entire world went with lockdown with very little data to back it up, primarily based on the idea of flattening a curve in order to not overwhelm the health care system.
This works on more then just that os, but it does require tiger rn to run the server.
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This was exactly UK / Boris Johnoson's approach. He flipped as soon as the updated models indicated that 100k+ people will die. No leader wants that as their legacy.
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You can watch it here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/polar-extremes/

If you get blocked because of region; New York works.
That was not broken. What was broken was origin validation in Safari. There is a difference between a vulnerability in the OS permissions system (which this was not) to control mic/camera permissions and a vulnerability in an application that has already has OS camera permissions.

If you do not give an application permission to access the camera, then vulnerabilities in those applications do not lead to camera access.

(Unfortunately though, Safari is not controlled through this permission system, probably because it was provided through the OS. Permissions can be controlled for other browsers. IMO this should be fixed by Apple.)
There is a growing consensus in immunology/rheumatology that infections may be a major cause of autoimmunity. One mechanism is molecular mimicry - antigens from foreign invaders that are similar to your body’s own proteins trigger your immune system to attack both self and invader.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199912303412707
> The theory of lockdown, after all, is pretty niche, deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested. It’s not Sweden that’s conducting a mass experiment. It’s everyone else.

I don't buy that. China did a lockdown, and (at least officially) it has contained the disease. Also there are buckets of models and studies that support this course of action.

> We can expect our Covid-19 death figures to rise faster than our neighbours’ — still all within the confines of a bad winter flu, but these graphs can scare people.

Coronavirus is not 'like the flu'. There is so much data disproving this I won't even bother linking them. Do a Google search 'is coronavirus like the flu'.

> They publish their own models of the virus spread. It shows how many people will need hospital care: the system, they say, can cope. And when asked, they say they don’t think Imperial College has made a better call.
> This Swedish exceptionalism is about principle, not epidemiology.
> yes, they make us different to Italy and Spain

I feel like there is this narrative floating around that blames countries for their fate regarding Coronavirus. Sure, governments have done a better or worse job dealing with the outbreak, and different places were better or worse prepared. But the veiled message that I get is "Italy and Spain got so many deaths and their economy got wrecked because they are inferior".