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While not having packages isn't a huge deal for new projects, it can be a pretty huge stumbling block for dbas who want to migrate from Oracle to Postgres, but need an easy way to port their pl/sql code to pgpl/sql. Most of the syntactic differenes (like pgplqsl code needing to be delimited as a string) can be automated, or handed off to a junior programmer. Not being able to use Oracle's package system would require some major refactoring to how you organize your functions and procedures
>I don't think that my country (America) typically goes easy on those who flout tax law, but in general, I support law enforcement universally, and I would support cracking down on those breaking tax law and building more jails to house them.

Again the poor are scrutinized more in this area than the rich. The rich move their money offshore and use expensive lawyers and social connections to make this happen.

Insisting on locking up poor people for tax evasion is a terrible idea, most of them don't owe much tax anyway. It would cost you more of your money to lock them up than it saves.

Once society really starts to go after the rich for tax evasion, then arguments like yours might become more credible, but even then I'd never be in favour of locking up poor people for unpaid taxes. It's disproportionate and counterproductive.

Sometimes people are going to cheat, and it won't seem fair. It's not worth disturbing your peace of mind over it.
You can just change the user for every query.
The CL article seems to be underplaying the vulnerability of ECB, with the "not recommended" description. Any cryptographer will tell you it's downright trivially broken, with textbook practical attacks taught to undergrads.
I have a suspicion (based on absolutely no evidence, other than that I'm an Engineer, and expect Apple has some brain cells); that the way this feature works is with a magnet and reed switch to physically disconnect the lines with no "communication" via software/firmware or other electronic means;

Based on their "hardware only" wording for the newer devices, I'm inclined to believe this is the case.
So long as the software could read the setting of the switch it probably wouldn't be too frustrating.

Lenovos used to have a physical wireless disable switch, and I recall it only causing a moderate amount of frustration and I doubt much effort was put into making it problem free.
Not really something to encourage at this time.
How would Google reliably know which people had it, so it could warn people they'd been near?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
Anecdotally even my old 69yo father who thinks Google Chrome is the same as Google.com has covered his webcam with tape and bought a laptop with a mic hardware switch so I really don't see this as a usability problem in 2020.

What do you mean with "flip a switch for every microphone on their devices"? Why would you want to have more than one mic and one switch per device? And turning it on in hardware is way faster than in software so a hardware switch is both faster and more secure and breaking a hardware switch seems a lot less likely than custom OEM made software failing or stop getting updated. Dust and water is no problem as lots of phones already have hardware switches, including my Android phone. I really see no problem in hardware switches at all.
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This reminds me of a story about a top investment bank in Copenhagen (told to me by a long time employee but don't know the level of embellishment), one day there was a big company meeting down in the very expensive lovely cafeteria they had.

When people came in they looked up their names and gave them either a red or blue card. At the end of everyone coming in the person in charge stood up and said "as you arrived you received a red or blue card, the ones who received a red card have been let go, please get your things and exit the building."
Bi-temporal tables support badly wanted.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/temporal-data-tables/
Physical one on ones, yes. Conference call mass layoffs, with misleading subject lines though...that's just lazy and disrespectful.

Orchestrating 400ish one on ones via Zoom wouldn't have been that much effort. I assume they could have spread it across several leaders.

Edit: From their careers page..."while prioritizing a culture that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and integrity"
Mark your calendar for June 25th when the ultra 4K release comes out.

My guess is that the blu-ray release was just an early one that happened to be a poorly done transfer.
No, it is not false. "Common sense" is not evidence, and neither is the experience of China and Italy, because both imposed strict lockdowns.

In order to say that these measures were supported by evidence, you would need a country that did not impose strict lockdowns in an otherwise-similar situation, but which had a worse outcome. Sweden may end up being that country, given time, or it may not. As a third possibility, Sweden may impose a strict lockdown, causing us to remain without evidence for the efficacy of strict lockdowns vs. softer measures.
Flutter _may_ deliver, but Google has this nasty habit of killing projects right after you personally buy into them.
Mostly embedded, industrial systems, medical devices, set-top boxes and home routers. You connect to the serial port or gain access by other means and most of the time you are greeted by ancient versions. It gives me the chills.
Anecdotal, but someone very close to me who works on machinery realized one day that he could not smell gasoline at all. A few days later, he tested positive. It seems to be a good indicator for some.
Good point. Sweden is a small country and not very densely populated, even in the metro areas.
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Your internet doesn’t even need to be terribly fast. 25Mbps should do it:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
> Reiki focuses specifically on this aspect in emphasizing the focus, intent and emotional commitment of the practitioner. Replace "energy" with "emotion" and it begins to look legitimate.

Even better replace "energy" with "attention" or "sympathy". See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_positive_regard
One factor is that for many countries, that's the only activity that people are now allowed to do outside of the house.
They don't go outside anymore and search for "when do I have to go to the hospital if i have coronavirus". Or you can just report it.

(Disclaimer: I work on an app that tries to do that. Ideally privacy preserving. And we implemented it using Google Nearby API to detect whether people are close. But that sends all messages over Google servers and that would be a deal breaker for us, but the tech itself would be really cool to have. Let me know if you can help.)

Also Related Work:

Singapore doing this: https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/

This as hardware: https://estimote.com/wearable/
I think you gather a bunch of trusted delegates (probably senior managers) and make a lot of 1:1 video calls
If size wasn’t the issue, I would probably have the biggest monster iPhone today. For the SE form factor (maybe reduce the top and bottom bezel for some more screen size) and USB C (because lightning in 2020 is insulting) I’d switch back from Android for nearly any price. SE was my last iPhone. Also, a headphone jack would be nice, but I’d live without.
I feel you, but there would be a really easy solution to that, just make it clear with the network connectivity icon that the hardware switch is off.
Don’t know why it hasn’t been done.
And who's the authority on what's extraordinary then?
Postgres use always reminds me of this presentation: http://boringtechnology.club/

I self-admittedly love esoteric databases and storage engines to a fault. I'll try to shoehorn things like RocksDB into whatever personal project I'm working on.

At work however, the motto I spread to the teams I work on is "use Postgres until it hurts". And for many, many teams - Postgres will never hurt. I'm very happy for its continued existence because its been a solid workhorse on various projects I've worked on over the years.
The maps app pops up a notification asking for the permission every time it opens.
You cannot select a specific listening port for a specific transport, because each WebRTC transport requires, at least, a different listening port in the server:

https://mediasoup.org/documentation/v3/mediasoup/api/#WebRtc...

YouIf you want to listen in TLS 443 for all clients, add a TURN server into your backend. Just that.
In the same way 911 was used to normalize 4th amendment violations, which have now lasted for 20 years...Covid19 will ratchet this up a level to include checkpoints, electronic tracking, social credit scores, etc.

Every year they will trot out their next virus scare. We will look back on the Covid19 scare in awe of how innocent we were in light of what’s coming.
Just a warning (I don’t know the specs of that ThinkPad) but just because it’s a physical switch doesn’t mean it actually physically disconnects the device.
Wow. That’s quite bad indeed, especially since the Public Health Agency has strongly urged that anyone that can work from home ought to do so.
But how am I supposed to use my computer when the lid is closed?
This is 100% correct. Netflix is watched primarily on apps on ARM based devices like streaming boxes and smart TVs.

The tech enthusiasts that still think that Bob in accounting should use IRC instead of Slack don’t like that reality but it’s the truth.
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It may be the reason, or even that in PT personal space is measured in cms vs meters (part jokingly), too many variables.

But taking in account the supposed 'exponential' growth of the virus, we should have seen a more aggressive curve in Sweden vs Portugal if the lockdowns were the solution.

(I am personally against the lockdowns as they were implemented as I think long term they ill do more harm than good, but I'm trying to keep my biases from these discussions and use impartial data sources)
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In order to send a datagram to multiple IP the first, and naive idea, one can think of is to change the datagram protocol to allow for multiple destination. Today, 2020, is the right time. I am thinking about platforms that have hundred or thousand of simultaneous receiving ends, so that the branching point occurs near the destination. Again, googling this proposal is not new (1) RFC 1770, category informational.

Edited: It seem that RtcDataChannel can be used with SFU, example LiveSwitch in 2018, but they don't use multiple destination datagrams (3)

More on similar proposal (2).

(1) IPv4 Option for Sender Directed Multi-Destination Delivery. The Selective Directed Broadcast Mode (SDBM) is an integral part of the U.S. Army standard for tactical data communication networks as defined in MIL-STD-188-220().

(2) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238663190_IPv4_Opti...

(3) https://www.frozenmountain.com/developers/blog/archive/indus...
Xperia 5 is tall but narrow. It is an unusual, but great looking phone. Specs are good, but software does fall short.
Let alone some GUI libraries like this one are starting to require hw-accelerated web canvases + vulkan for drawing on the screen just for the requirement to have a cross-platform GUI on the desktop these days which is quite frankly unnecessary in this use-case, unless you're developing a game.

In the end, constructing a GUI from that would be questionable and would end up being even more uglier than a barebones Qt5 example. You might as well create your own in-game GUI library or use ImGUI with Rust bindings.
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Hey, maybe all the billions of fines that Google paid to governments can be used to tackle the coronavirus crisis now, right?

... right?
Confirmed cases is difficult to measure as countries test so differently.

Sweden has a lot of deaths (though not exceptional if you look at per million inhabitants) and I believe it will rise; the question is how much lag there is and how much lock-downs work, what type you are talking about and how long you can keep it up.

There is also random chance I feel. For example in Sweden we have something called "sportlov", which is a week off from school (it is a different week for different parts of the country) and for Stockholm it was end of February and a many went to the Italian alps skiing for example.

How much did that affect the spread? So while one learning is that I think somewhere like South Korea is a role model, be more prepared and actually have protective gear in storage units instead of relying on global supply chains always working another thing is just how many with "just the flu" walked around in the biggest cities in your country before it was taken seriously.
mollie.com seems to target the EU market.
I'm glad Google has time for this yet can't build a simple website to help us.
According to Googles Mobility Report (https://www.blog.google/technology/health/covid-19-community...):

Sweden:

Retail: -24%
Grocery: -10%
Parks: +43%
Work: -18%
Resid.: + 5%

So, apparently you'll have to look in the park for your compatriots.

For comparison:

Germany:

Retail: -77%
Grocery: -51%
Parks: -49%
Work: -39%
Resid.: +11%

Spain:

Retail: -94%
Grocery: -76%
Parks: -89%
Work.: -64%
Resid.: +22%

I have the feeling, each and every country has to go through the process that they think, they are unique snowflake.
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Exactly this is creepy dystopian. And also think how much it tracks everything you do including opening apps and everything you search
I have been using this for a while. What would you suggest instead of:

> The workers, raw materials, and signals to turn sections on or off are separate.

People are used to the idea of thermostats using on/off to maintain temperature which is not a terrible association. As you say gene expression is different, but I can’t find a better analogy.
I'd have to turn off Reddit and go outside.

More seriously, I'd need start a competing tourism business to pay my bills.
No, no it isn't—at all.

Others have said it better than I'm going to here, but please disabuse yourself of this notion.
Most people install the app and leave it installed.
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Interesting how mssql has bad documentation. Judging by my experiences with docs for azure and various windows and dotnet APIs, Microsoft's documentation is usually pretty solid. Not that it's surpising, since proprietary rdbs'es tend to prefer "vendor lock-in" over "making the product pleasant to work with so the customer doesn't jump ship"
They seem to be quite popular some places. But other places they seem like a fad. There were quite a few when they first came out and almost nowhere to be seen 6 months later.
IPv6 could have and address for "reachable by default", I find that very useful, also IPv6 allow many addresses so that is not wasteful.
I disagree that all of our computing systems keep them apart. We’ve got systems like Bash, and Excel. Even when I’m not doing “programming”, I’m doing programming. I wish more systems had that flexibility. Even when the average user isn’t writing programs in it (like the web), all of the long-lived platforms today are programmable.
(Disclaimer: I work on an app that tries to do that. Ideally privacy preserving. And we implemented it using Google Nearby API to detect whether people are close. But that sends all messages over Google servers and that would be a deal breaker for us, but the tech itself would be really cool to have. Let me know if you can help.)
First of all, are you aware of shorthand methods? Are you aware that you can have non-arrow functions without the "function" keyword :) ES6 has grown :)

And there was no goal intended with the grep. This is what you wrote:

> And I'd love to see the codebase of a JS app that completely bans the "function" keyword

I just grepped "function" to give you a personal anecdote of an app that doesn't need to use the "function" keyword much.

That was the first time I interacted with you, I was trying to be nice then, and you were completely hostile. Some of the replies were completely uncalled for.

---

EDIT: You just edited your message to add the part about shorthand methods. My point still stands. I never claimed to be only using arrow functions (in fact, you're the one who DID claim I was only using arrow functions!). I only claimed we rarely use the "function" keyword.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glowworm_(H92)

Back in WWI it still worked, with the famous HMS Dreadnought ramming a submarine.
I hear what you are saying, but quite frequently it's not stupidity, just ignorance.

It is true that in a highly connected world anyone could educate themselves on the benefits of vaccines, but it can be hard to overcome long held beliefs (passed down through education) or peer pressure (in communities that reject certain scientific facts).

All that I'm saying is that while these people might now learn through pain and suffering, I don't really feel they all deserve it.
The headphone jack is not coming back to iPhones, ever. Apple is quite focused (stubborn?) on such changes, forging a future and sticking to it (almost all the time).
A lot of people don't go outside anymore and search for symptoms. Even people who don't normally worry are going to search since it's allergy season, and some symptoms overlap.
There is no raw udp or tcp access from browser js, just higher lwvel protocols that are implemented over tcp or udp.
That was in the (fiction) movie 300
1. Doesn’t work when there’s a general lockdown

2. People could just be searching out of curiosity and heightened awareness

3. Can’t self-report if you can’t get tested
Thanks for this. Do you plan to go higher in the stack and release components to get-started-quickly ?
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After months of zooms and many #PoorJennifer moments I'm sure that the number of us with camera covers will increase
Well, if we're talking "fairness", why is it "fair" that someone gets to permanently deny a piece of the Earth to everyone else? It's not like they made it in the first place, it's not even possible to make more. I argue that every fenced-off area incurs a debt to every citizen of the Earth.
Most of the mass is in the supporting base layer, which presumably does not contribute much noise. If this layer also needs to be special glass then why are the LIGO scientists even considering using it? I assume they are not idiots, and only the wavelength-thick layers need to be assembled molecule by molecule.
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So, you need one kind of distributed ledger to keep track of your stuff in another kind of distributed ledger.
You can do a serological test (IgG/IgM) that looks for antibodies to the Coronavirus. It is a fast test and will tell you if you have had it in the past and you can safely be around people who have an active infection.
They absolutely do, just not in the standard way.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-product-placements-in-...

They give away devices, to studio, cast, and crew. Apple puts your movie prominently in ads or on the iTunes Store. etc.
Oh, goodness, yes. Remember: BASIC was successful!

It depends on your criteria for "success," of course, but creating languages has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my interaction with computers over my life, don't miss out!
This is simply an aggregate (on country level) on how many people (as change to baseline) have been at what sort of location at what time (with a granularity of days):

* Retail & recreation

* Grocery & pharmacy

* Parks

* Transit stations

* Workplaces

* Residential

It's quite clear that this can be easily derived from the information they have in maps.google.com plus phone movements. It's unlikely that this data presents any privacy concern.

On the other hand it's probably mainly useless with regards to fighting Covid19. As the data is not detailed enough for such a purpose.

Also I think we should point out that releasing this data in PDF form seems to be deliberate to prevent anyone else from providing meaningful insights by adding infographics of their own.

[Edit: Clarification that does not contain number of people but simply difference to baseline]
I don't think the distinction is a FET vs a reed switch -- the means of blocking electrons, rather, it's in what decides whether that switch is open or closed. I would consider a circuit like this driving the FET/relay/etc. to be a "hardware disconnect" (using HDL to describe the circuit, not suggesting it should be programmable logic):

module mic_enable (lid_closed, lots, of, signals, mic_enable);
input lid_closed, lots, of, signals;
output mic_enable;
assign mic_enable = !lid_closed & lots & of & other & signals;
endmodule
Sometimes it doesn't have to be "I figured it out". Just being able to say to yourself, "I feel X about Y, but maybe I don't want/need/choose/have to feel X about Y" can be very empowering. And I'm not talking abstract empowerment, I mean in a very practical "I have more control over my life, my self, and my choices" sense.
Reliably* - coming with limitations

1. Text pdfs only

2. Template is needed

From what I've spoken with 50-60 paid customers for a service I maintain, the most common concerns I listen are

1. No, We get scan pdfs as well

2. No, We deal with lot of customers, cannot template all
I wondered about this. I've started to think they probably see a lot of threats, tell people, and it's more or less dismissed if it's not immediately clear why it's a threat.
> What do you mean with "flip a switch for every microphone on their devices"? Why would you want to have more than one mic and one switch per device

The ipad has 4 microphones. iPhones have at least two. They’re located in different places to either catch different sounds or implement noise canceling
But we can look at hospitalization and deaths to get an actual idea of which areas are being hit the hardest. We generally know how long an outbreak has been occurring in a region. The differences between Spain and Japan, for example, are obvious when we look at the start of the outbreak and the results (in terms of death and hospitalizations) at different weekly intervals. If the virus spread uniformly through all populations, we would expect Japan to look a lot more like Italy and a lot less like South Korea, based on the nature of their respective government responses. There are discrepancies like this all over the world.
I wish people would qualify their “Apple Hate” every time they mention it. It would make it easier to know who’s opinions to discount.

An alarming number of people still believe Apple slowed down all their old phones for the sole purpose of selling them new ones for example.
Would have been an even better title if they somehow worked Zoom into the title.

“Google Is Tracking People's Movements in Their Communities During Coronavirus although they are mostly working from home using Zoom.”