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Given that this article is talking about vertical alignment of, among other things, “text” and “buttons”, I was hoping they’d go into how to do proper alignment of inline-block elements of differing heights within the same inline reflow (e.g. text paragraph.)

I’ve yet to see a grid system that has guidance—let alone tooling!—for working with paragraphs of text which embed inline-block elements in them of “abnormal” block heights (= larger than the text’s own line-height) without somehow breaking the grid.

Picture, for example:

> You’re invited to [test-drive our new Beta]!

...where the text in brackets is a button, and this button has enough padding/border that it has, relative to the line height, ~1.5em of outer bounding-box height.

Before grid systems, this used to be a pretty classic appearance for a call-to-action!

I’d expect, if I were writing traditional bespoke CSS and not using a grid, that I could achieve all of the following at once:

1. the text inside the button is baseline-aligned with the text beside the button;

2. there isn’t too much or too little space between the edges of the button and the surrounding text—i.e. it feels like it’s “part of” the line of text, rather than feeling like the line of text and the button are two cells in a table;

3. the line of text that the button is a part of, within the paragraph of text, doesn’t awkwardly have different line-height than the other lines in its paragraph (which is what inline reflow chooses to do by default, unless you give all the lines in the paragraph that same line-height as a minimum.)

4. the paragraph doesn’t awkwardly have a different line-height than the other paragraphs on the page;

5. the paragraph doesn’t seem to have too much margin on the top/bottom edge compared to its immediate siblings (which usually happens, because line-height in CSS is applied per line, rather than being interspersed between the lines of a paragraph, meaning that it overpads the top line);

...but I have no idea how to achieve these properties together on a grid.

I feel like this is an important and oft-overlooked consideration, because “CTA button” here can be word-replaced with “emoji” or “highlighted reference to a username/tag” and you’ll end up with the same problems.
It'd be more comforting if they're being paid or they're bots, but the depressing truth is, many many people probably believe the conspiracy theories they believe.
From my perspective here in the UK, where the health secretary is making threats to ban all outdoor exercise [1] because some people aren't following the social distancing rules, the Swedish approach sounds far better. At least in Sweden the citizens are being treated as adults, given the data and allowed to use some personal judgement.

Note that I haven't seen any claim from the UK government that the existing rules aren't sufficient as long as they're being followed - a claim which I might find hard to believe but at least would be consistent with threatening a broader ban on outdoor activity. The quote from Matt Hancock is: "If you don't want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home, then you've got to follow the rules." As though we're all school children being told that we'll all get detention if the trouble makers in the class keep acting up.

It feels like the purpose of the lockdown - to reduce transmission rate of the virus - is being forgotten and there is increasing focus on having a list of Allowed Activities and Forbidden Activities, rather than trying to make a consistent trade-off between cost (risk of transmission) vs benefit (health - including, very importantly, mental health effects of retaining or losing freedom, not to mention the more ideological desire to keep some semblance of civil liberties).

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52172035
Starting a restaurant to get rich is dumb.

Starting a restaurant because you think your great grandmothers naan is superior is not dumb.

Neither is it dumb to start a restaurant because you love feeding people, or a bike shop because you love repairing bicycles, or <insert any other scenario>.

As long as you know what you’re getting into, it’s a perfectly honorable way to live your life and there are ways to make it work.

EDIT- at least there were ways to make it work during non pandemic times. I hope we will see an upswelling of these types of businesses in the wake of this, although you couldn’t pay me to take bets on a timeline.
From the abstract: “The estimates, calculated by researchers in the UK, used aggregate data on cases and deaths in mainland China.”

- Sadly this makes the paper not worth the paper it’s written on (or whatever the data traffic fees are to serve it)
From what I've read the lethaliy is higher both because they can't test enough people (meaning that they tend to only test the more severe cases) and also because the hospitals were overwhelmed (meaning they can't provide appropriate treatment for everyone).
Brace yourself for an onslaught of garish advertisements. If the content is truly exhaustive, a book would be a far better presentation format. I didn't survive long enough to find out.
There has been exciting work on directed evolution of enzymes for drug synthesis, particularly for transamination (conversion of a ketone to an amine). This is I believe being used commercially now, for example for the production of the diabetes drug sitagliptin.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/10/06/ch...

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...
Not anymore, now that women’s cricket is being heavily promoted.

All the top level players and commentators were referring to “batters” during this past Australian summer.

Times are a-changin.
Really academia needs a way to request comment on an experimental procedure without requiring results or conclusions. Then you could publish negative or questionable results and seek speculation from other researchers.
The refueling system is fundamental to the transportation problem. Without refueling you don't have transportation, you have one time deliver and Elon knows that.
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Just playing with it now, and I love the idea.

Have you thought about adding the zoos and aquariums that are live-streaming their animals?
It's simply a problem of what is considered to be evidence in the scientific community. If everyone "got cured by a miracle drug", that implies you already have the compelling evidence in hand that the drug, in fact, is a cure. This is an example of begging the question.
Your analysis that ventilators don't work may be valid. Your conclusion that therefor trying to flatten the curve is useless is dangerously invalid. Most people who come down with Covid-19 don't require ventilators. Flattening the curve buys time for all measures, including development of other treatment approaches.
Everything you've said here is consistent with the parent comment. You've got a lower bound on the infection fatality rate of the whole population, given the usual distribution of ages. But you've only got an upper bound on the fatality rate of a population artificially chosen to have an age distribution that includes nobody over 70. (Actually you do have a lower bound but it's 0%.) That is relevant to anyone who's under 70 and is asking about a population who's only member is themself.
I think you're both right.

He's still right because my experience suggests that it is 100% likely that somewhere, some system relies on a bug in the TCP protocol stack of another system causing a segfault to shut down something critical.
IANAL, but unfortunately I believe this results in outstanding charges against the estate. closing a payment account is usually not considered a valid way of terminating a subscription. I would hope the "creditors" would have the decency not to go after the estate in this situation, but you can never be too careful.
> The majority of popular screen sizes are divisible by 8

Uh, divisible by 8 pixels, not 8 points.
On my screen 8 points is 10.67 pixels, which renders the author's arguments about resolution and odd numbers invalid.
> I am surprised how low tech the USA is.

In the U.S., many important official dealings (e.g. IRS, DMV) are still done over snail mail, and certain payments still require mailed checks. Coupled with the absurd amount of marketing spam received over snail mail (think 1 out of 100 pieces of mail is legit), it’s a terrible bore having to sift through mail regularly, and very easy to accidentally throw away important mail. The inconvenience of having to use fax for a vanishingly small number of tasks pales in comparison.
Thanks! You're right, displace was definitely the wrong word. Unfortunately can't edit now.

If that's all I'm wrong about, I'm happy.
With respect to all the elders for whom all of this computer technology stuff came up pretty late in their lifetime - when and where do we draw the line about basic computer competency?
Cloud infrastructure and costly web services can add up to hundreds of thousands or millions, even for relatively small companies. There will be increasing pressure to minimize these costs, and to replace high-priced services with those that have low total cost of ownership.

I’m usually a cloud true believer and choose to emphasize letting someone else do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” so developers can concentrate on building new features instead of spending extra hours babysitting infrastructure. But, since most software engineers are salaried, this is the time to trade time for money instead of the other way around if your company is struggling.

I’m fortunate to work at a B2B company where our clients are large health systems so for us it’s business as usual. We actually think we will grow.
Tel me its not so.
New York could hire their unemployed software engineers to replace the backend for their unemployment system. It would make something positive from the situation.
Too many of both

edit:

tl;dr: Don't try to argue with conspiracy theorists - they are already immunized against evidence and reason.
Gluten development can happen through two mechanisms (usually both are in play), once water is added to flour: either physical stretching (kneading), or just time. The stretch-and-fold method balances these two. But if you're letting the dough sit for 12-20 hours, that's achieving the same effect.
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I can't point you to any study or data, but I've worked around WiFi enough to know that beamforming is one of the first optimizations performed in multi antenna scenarios, mainly because of how easy it is to do. A 3dB bump in SNR for a 2x1 antenna configuration might allow you to transmit at the next modulation depth (QAM16 vs QPSK for instance). That will increase throughput and reduce the retry rate. At low SNRs it can increase router range.
It is how they count cases. How they refused patients in hospitals at some point.

Other countries are playing games too. France only tests those in hospitals.
Is Covid-19 China’s ‘Chernobyl Moment’?
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I'd encourage people with this mindset to reflect on how unqualified they are to judge the holistic merits of how other people spend their time.
I haven't used ATS, but I don't think it interops strongly. Hows does calling a ATS function with fancy typed arguments from C work?

My idea of strong interop is not having to write any glue code at all and being able to call any function. I assume there are some types that don't interface with C well.

That said, thanks for mentioning it. I should keep it in mind as it does do some of the stuff I want my language to.
It's only marketing. There is no integrated assistant. It's a plain old button that can be used to activate one of these useless voice assistants on your phone because some people like it. If you're like me, you can use it as an extra control to modify noise cancellation.
RFC's are consensus documents. The optional parts address the concerns of stakeholders with existing products. This is an alternative to their veto or non-participation in the standards development process or development of competing standards for business survival.
I wish you could make a video of your commentary over the piece in slow motion. Like an instant replay commentary from a sports show. I just love what you wrote here.
Whatever the confusing data in this epidemic might say, there are unquestionably a hell of a lot of undiagnosed cases. 10x to 100x depending on your country's testing.
Owners of every kind of company want to extract as much value as they can at the lowest possible cost

Other than sports, what other industry than VC-backed startups lures in talented-but-naive young people, promises them riches, then chews up and spits most of them out, having burned them out? OK maybe music and fashion as well.

Meanwhile the owners get richer and richer.
Yeah, two things worry me about Covid: the fact that the percentage is non-negligible even for young people and that the variance between case severities is high, even to the point where people think they don't have it but do.
> Must we blind ourselves to the good in order to recognize the bad?

... or blind ourselves to the bad in order to feel good?
Yeah, you can change the functionality of the button via the Bose app. However, the Bose app is awful.
You are saying that what’s left after tax optimisation is small. Not that the potential revenue if corporate benefits were taxed effectively is small. Do you have an estimate of the revenue that is declared in low-tax jurisdiction?
I've wondered whether people may be blinded by the big sexy conspiracy theories and not looking at simpler more likely options.

The simplest of course is that Oswald did it, but there is at least some evidence for a second shooter from witnesses as well as perhaps acoustics.

The next simplest then is to propose two. What if Oswald had one accomplice who is still unknown because Ruby shot Oswald before he could rat them out.

Why did Ruby shoot Oswald anyway? To stop him from ratting someone else out? Dunno, but these are questions I'd immediately have asked.

What you do in the face of Ockham's razor is gradually dial up the complexity until you encompass all the evidence. You don't leap from simple lone nut to vast conspiracy, but that is what most do.

If there was more than one person involved, the fact that this has remained so mysterious with so many competing theories for so long argues strongly for a very small number of people. The more people are involved the more likely someone would get caught or confess. Death bed confessions are pretty common.
Iceland tested their entire populace and found several people who tested positive but remained asymptotic while infected. Given that testing in most countries is limited to people who can get into their doctor’s office the people who get tested and who test positive have more severe symptoms. There are probably a lot of people who have it and are spreading it unawares.
Hey Mike, nice work with Treendly!

Noah here from https://meetglimpse.com. It looks like we're tackling a similar problem of surfacing trends, just a bit differently. I'd be super curious to hear more about how you're filtering through the noise. Fun challenge for sure!
As an aspiring speculative-fiction author always on the hunt for a new premise, I’d love to know, what would be possible if we could “cheat entropy” in this sense?

(This doesn’t have to be possible in our universe; posit a universe where it is possible—maybe one inside a Matrix-like simulation inside our own universe, if you like.)
It seems that the NHS is being pulled in two opposite directions at once. Something has to give; the service had already been cut to the bone and struggled every year with flu cases, plus the perennial tales of patients placed in beds in the corridors of overcrowded hospitals.
You’re right, my mistake. Doesn’t this still assume even distribution across all ages? With current testing (at least in the US) people >=70 are more likely to have other conditions which complicate infection and therefore more likely to be tested.
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Also ambient temperature and dough temperature!

My dough was a full 10 degrees F warmer than normal after mixing recently, and it finished rising 1/6 faster (about 2 hours). Temperature strongly impacts the fermentation stage (warmer means the yeast works faster).
Well you pretty much have to be 50 to have had the same programming job for 25 years, it's not so much the age as the tenure. But I will take out the age.
The test has a high false-negative rate as well, it seems it's around 30% (also depends on how the test was done and where the sample was collected)
DP excludes the extreme elderly and sick. Remember, people in nursing care don’t go on cruse ships. Further, it’s expected to see additional deaths. So, such simplistic estimates are completely worthless from their data.

What it does do is provide estimates of the rate of infection vs obvious and extreme symptoms. China’s CFR is over 4% and rising, but it’s known that they missed a huge portion of the total case load.

PS: Further to estimate for the US population you need further adjustments. China has a younger population than the US with only 10.8% of the population being 65 and older, but they also have more air pollution etc.
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As a technologist whose built for both private and public, I'm always amazed at how little a contact can be for the public sector to purchase, only to realize that the price tag did not reflect the true cost. Government usually will go with the lowest bidder, but that project always will balloon way beyond expectations. They could've easily built in house, but that would've cost too much up front... It's easier to get a yes on a cheap, long tail expensive project then a yes on an extensive short term project...
Where did you obtain the figure of 21% outcomes being death?

I only ask because this does not coincide with any statistics I've read personally.
What makes one a good programmer for a startup? Wouldn't it make sense to have them as experienced as possible (i.e. worked at xyz)?
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FYI COVID-19 Cases by Age Grouping for Oklahoma State:

https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/
Pro Tip: keep the deceased's phone active as long as possible so that, even if you have all their passwords, you might still need it for 2FA.

My father was murdered last year, and his iPhone X will be kept forever in evidence.

It has made dealing w/ all of his affairs very challenging as Verizon gave away his number as soon as we informed them about the situation.
I bought the QC35-IIs through my works tech budget and was very disappointed to find out how they worked wrt. there being two different voice profiles, where one profile uses this selfvoice thing and has no ANC. This is particularly shite when trying to use it to play games while talking to friends on discord.

Am I understanding you correctly that it's possible to somehow disable this feature or something? If so, can you share?
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Yes and I'm saying there's no contradiction. :)

My calculation above simply does not answer the question regarding IFR for each age group. It is based on overall statistics from Diamond Princess.

The sample size from DP might be too small to answer the question, esp for younger age groups with lower IFR. We might need to look at data from South Korea and Germany, for example, to estimate those. It would require a more complicated model since testing in any country is not universal.
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> For a country with ~10% over 70 years old, and assuming infection fatality rate of ~6% among those, then IFR would already be 0.6%

That's assuming equal or greater rate of infection for people over 70.

That is, given 1000 people, 100 would be over 70. If 10% of them get infected (10 people), but 50% of younger people get infected (500 people), your IFR could be much lower.

We have some data on the age distribution of severe cases, but asymptomatic cases are virtually untested at this point, and are probably (? may be?) going to shift the distribution toward younger people (right now, we see more cases for older people, as well as more severe cases, because severe cases are more likely to be tested).
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I also has experience in using PHP or Golang to develop a backend system
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It's not just about bugs. Static typing is crucial for productivity whenever the codebase overflows your brain's working memory.

Navigating through code, refactoring, or simply figuring out what to pass as function input can become a challenge in the absence of types.
Did we go to the same site? I didn’t get ads and the material I’ve been clicking through is pretty good.
Let's presume this death rate is accurate to within an order of 2- 1.33% to 0.33%. We can use that to do some interesting estimates on the true infection rate.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (trust it if you like) says that the USA has (as of 2020-04-05T15:13:00Z) had 9,119 deaths- and I was going to say 8,486 but I refreshed the page and it jumped to 9,119 because of course it did.

9,119 / 0.33% = 2,763,333 infections.

9,119 / 1.33% = 685,639 infections.

But, we also have to consider that death isn't instant- so add in everyone who became infected in the last 5-10 days. That'll be a bigger number. The reported number of infections because of limited testing is 320,828.

I think it's not unreasonable to say that probably 1m Americans have now been infected by this virus. And the longer ago this comment was made, the more likely that estimate is correct.

Edit to add: I trust the number of deaths more than the number of infections because it's easy to say "don't come to the hospital to get tested if you don't need to" but it's hard to say "let's pretend that dead body died of something else".
Thanks!

Yeah I've definitely been tempted with adding more ideas like these. The one question I've struggled with, and would be super keen for your thoughts on, is whether it'd look okay to have them on the virtualmuseums.io domain, or whether you think it's worth starting again and trying to capture all the best 'virtual attractions' on a single map?
Do you mean 2-3 weeks behind in testing capability?

Santa Clara County was the first in the nation to go under SIP protocols officially.