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> The article is literally about a huge increase in demand for more flour

Demand for flour from grocery stores not overall demand for flour. From the article:

> Grocery sales of flour were up 92%…

> Alex Waugh, director general of Nabim, says the issue isn't being able to mill enough flour - but the lack of capacity to pack it into small bags for retailers.

> Only around 4% of UK flour is sold through shops and supermarkets…

If you multiply that out, the bump in demand would only account for a 4% increase in total flour consumption… but I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that flour consumption through some other channels (bakeries, restaurants) is down, and you would need to account for that.
College degree is not really a factor in making it or not.
Eagerly awaiting the 20H1 release of Windows 10 for wsl2. Hopefully it will resurrect my interest in relearning rails.

If this preview is only now in the fast ring, I don't hold much hope of general release very soon.
In addition to peek, I found ffscreencast works well for simple use cases (full desktop + multi monitor).

asciinema works very well for recording / capturing terminal session (Linux + macOS).

https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
I don't believe anyone has ever gotten botulism poisoning from sous vide cooking and people cook garlic/onions that way all the time. I'm sure it doesn't kill the spores but perhaps the heat still kills enough?
Why do you have to fully understand a very complex system to work with it?
Isn't it enough to understand a part that enables you to do your job?
Finding a job in the middle of a recession is financially incredible
"Eggs dehydrate easily, and most online sources suggest keeping the eggs at 135° F to 145° F for about 10 hours. However this temperature is not sufficient to keep salmonella from forming during the dehydration process, because this leaves eggs in the food safety danger zone for too long."

Umm, no. The food wouldn't be in the danger zone very long, and even if it were the following 9 hours would be more than enough to kill them.
Hahahahahahaha this ain't it
Of course you will. Some jobs are more prone to periodic layoffs than others. STEM jobs are pretty safe compared to the people who work 9-5 in retail (the people who are actually suffering right now).
Photos allows you to upload in original quality. You can always pay for services.
It definitely is, an OS is as secure as consumers get to use it, not a some experimental lab in Mountain View.

So if Google doesn't care what the OEMs do with Android, it definitely shows that Google doesn't care about security on Android as a whole, as long as it can write blogs about how perfect the security in Pixel devices looks like, which by the way are on sale just in a couple of selected tier 1 countries.

That isn't caring about security, what Apple does, it is caring about it.
Try Cobol, it's pretty much finished.
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I have heard anecdotally that some grocery stores are starting to carry 25lb bags. Another grocery store apparently started having their bakery rebag flour into smaller bags and sell it.

I made the mistake of buying a 25lb bag of flour a couple years ago. It's a complete pain to store, even as someone with a relatively large american suburban house.
Indeed. My point is that we are far away from outpacing demand.
Please apply the same standards to other companies. How many big tech sell off killed products. There are numerous IP issues etc.. Not to mention how ingrained these products are to internal infra. Google is pretty good about open sourcing internal libraries as a counter point.
Coincidental timing - a bunch of people online just did a weekend game jam using HyperCard (the same product used to create Myst and other Cyan games): https://cancel.fm/hyperjam/

I didn't get a chance to participate myself, but you can see all the stacks everyone made at https://itch.io/jam/merveilles-hyperjam
It is one way of measuring, naturally when one is on the losing end doesn't seem fair.
First, they can use the sandbox without going through the Mac App Store. Sandboxing is a good idea regardless of distribution method. That would improve security for everybody, without needing to 'let Apple get in between them and their customers'.

Second, Zoom already runs sandboxed for the other two ways you can run their client on Apple operating systems: the (iOS) App Store and the web. The Mac sandbox is the least strict of the three. So whatever they do, it doesn't seem to be hindered by 'severe limitations'.

I have yet to hear any feature that a legitimate videoconferencing application would need that would be disallowed by the macOS sandbox. Lots of other video chat apps are on the Mac App Store, like Facebook Messenger. Is the issue simply that Zoom is being sketchy and wants to continue to be sketchy, and sandboxing would not allow them to? That's not because the MAS is 'a trap'. That's its main feature.
I tried to contribute to the discussion and actually didn't find it to be super productive. We had thousands of comments just around syntax - from people who had never been involved in any async/await design or usage before. It was super hard for everyone involved to just keep up with the comments.

And while the syntax discussion saw a ton of comments, the more important underlying semantic aspects of async/await got a lot less attention - even though they also had and still have a few issues to resolve (e.g. around cancellation, thread safety, extensibility).
I guess you'd need to find companies that care about spending money on this during a tough economic climate. And "making your employees happy" by having them take breaks might be a tough sell (even though I know yes breaks are a good thing for productivity!).

What about this product could motivate someone to buy it?

Maybe target this to "Indie Hackers" rather than companies? They have they own spend decision and might be happy to pay for A. not being lonely and B. the opportunities chatting to a cohort once in a while might give - so there is an opportunity benefit.
VR already has a killer app: Beat Saber. As for Half-Life: Alyx, it's very well done, but dear god is it intense. I'm playing through it a few minutes at a time because that's all I can handle. VR is incredibly immersive, but as it turns out, there are worlds I just don't enjoy being immersed in, and the oozy, drippy, terrifying world of Half-Life (much as I love the previous games), is one of them. The new gravity gloves are a delight, however.
Imagineering is incredibly competitive, and furlough allows employees to pull unemployment benefits temporarily. My guess would be that if Disney can bring them back and get them to work within 2 months, they'll lose very few of the employees.

(this really isn't far from how Denmark is handling the crisis nationally -- freeze employment, have the government pay salaries, and do their best to have companies pick back up where they left off w/ the same workforce).
A. If you are a military retiree or military dependent (spouse or child), medical coverage is free and works differently from the rest of the system. This may be ten percent or more of the population, as a hand wavy wild guess. (If that sounds high, a foreign friend used to tell me Americans are rabidly militaristic nutcases with an insanely high percentage of people here who have spent time in the military.)

B. You can also be covered under your spouse's work plan. So losing your job doesn't necessarily cut you out completely.

C. A few years ago, we changed the law to make it possible to remain covered by your parents' healthcare up to age 26, even if you are married.

D. If you are old enough, there's Medicare. If you are poor enough, there's Medicaid.

If none of those situations apply, yup, it sucks big time. The high cost of COBRA makes that option an ugly joke for a lot of unemployed people who simply can't afford it.

The US should join the rest of the developed world and provide universal coverage.

Edit: For context, my father, ex husband, father-in-law and assorted other relatives were career military. I'm not anti military. I'm just trying to say "That's totes a good faith wild guess!"
Is this related to the thing where the bill they passed is paying out more as unemployment than people would be making if they kept their jobs?

It's possible they know exactly what they're doing, are doing everybody a favor, and will just hire them again when everything opens back up.
>No, I don't want a conversation to spring up anywhere in the middle of a document.
I actually loved Wave specifically because I could do this.

We'd start off an IM conversation, where we'd discuss basic points. Then we'd start editing prior bubbles and turn them into tables of content as well as chapters of our design document.
It was a seamless flow from basic brainstorming into full-blown design documentation. So much mental overhead which would normally be involved - stuff like needing to separate in order to write the actual documents, then come back to combine it all - was removed entirely thanks to Wave.
It's been mentioned from time to time that Go is a successor of C. As I recently had a look into the Pascal/Oberon family. It looks that Go is no less influenced by Oberon than C. The CSP paradigm likely comes from Rob Pike's previous works. And the syntactical elements, such as the operators and punctuations, also follow the C tradition. But the overall program structure (including the approach to OOP and probably the 'evolving-by-reduction-rather-than-addition' philosophy) makes it seem closer to the Oberon linage.
This brings back so many memories. I graduated with a Comp Sci degree from a well-regarded university. I had friends who graduated a year earlier return to school for a different degree because there was just nothing available with a degree in CS. So demoralizing.

I graduated a year later and took a job making a little over minimum wage. At that time, the most influential executives at my workplaces said software engineering in America was dead, to be replaced by cheaper outsourced Indians, and then other countries once they became too expensive. It set the course of my career. I am in tech but not a Software Engineer. Had I graduated a year later, I am sure I would be a Software Engineer today.

The fear and feeling of instability in this industry never left me.
In California you can get 52 weeks of short term disability if you are not able to work due to illness.
it's not like the app couldn't do those shenanigans when it's first started...
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On the other hand, you could argue that the r# gives you "more prominence" which is exactly the stated goal of using that macro.
For anyone looking for flour, I suggest looking for stores that supply local small businesses and restaurants with supplies. I stopped by my local "Smart Food Service" (formerly Cash & Carry) for something else and noticed that they appeared to have decent stock of all their flour. Although the sizes were larger than you'd find at the grocery store, the overall price per pound was cheaper.
Large employers typically self-insure, including a large majority of companies with over 500 employees [1]. You might see, say, Blue Cross on your card, but they’re just administering - the actual payments to doctors, etc. are in fact coming from your company. Sometimes the company will still show a percentage of “premium” that they are covering; it’s not a real premium in that case, just a percentage of the average care covered per employee.

This means there could be a strictly financial incentive to dismiss a sick employee. This is of course entirely illegal if that were the purpose.
[1] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...
They're furloughed, not laid off. I doubt they'll lose anyone who wasn't intending to leave.

I get that John is down, and I definitely don't have whatever insight led him to say "even if I'm lucky enough to return someday, other people won't be". From my understanding though, a huge portion of corporate around the stores and parks was furloughed because there's not much for them to do at home. Their healthcare is covered and kindness aside it doesn't make much sense for Disney to bleed money. But this wasn't a covert layoff — when things get back to speed Disney wants people back.

Edit: And furloughing the employees allows them to claim unemployment, so that the US government can absorb the impact rather than Disney. Not pretty, but rational in a time of stimulus.
That's awful hard. People have to learn an entire new feature each year? :D

I don't get why people complain. C# is pumping features at a much higher rate and most people are glad.
Those features do solve some issues or make it easier to solve them. If you don't have an use case for them, then you don't need to learn them.
With advances in deepfake technology, it would seem possible that in the near future, this sort of thing could be automated.

If I ruled the world, I'd run all popular music through a deeepfake AI that corrects the grammar.
Maybe Disney too got overrun by MBAs, and their optimization horizon shortened to "until next quarter"?
Installers aren’t really the preferred way to distribute software on a Mac, unless you need special access to the system for some reason. Most Mac software is distributed as an application bundle that’s dragged wherever you want on the file system and then run by double-clicking.
I don't think you understand the issue here.
He's not dodging the question. On the contrary, he's answering on the most fundamental level.
Different models of Roku use different technology for the remote. Since some of them use WiFi, they can suffer from connectivity problems like WiFi does in general. This will depend on the location and RF environment.

Maybe you got IR remotes? Maybe you live in a location with low levels of interference? Maybe your model doesn’t suffer from the design flaws that mine does?
Best practice is the "best" practice, not the "most common" practice. The thing that sets "best practice" apart from "common practice" is that most people haven't actually done best practice; if they had, they'd just do it again, because it's much quicker and more likely to succeed if you've done it before. And money has nothing to do with implementing things the right way.
I thought you were talking about Unix, hence my Lyon's comment.
Even if you do believe that it's for "no practical benefit", the value of _x_ in Rust's case is ~156. (I.e. roughly once every three years, when a new "edition" is stabilized.) And the transition is mostly automated.

Speaking as somebody who has maintained several medium sized Rust code bases over the years, I can comfortably say that it's not a big deal.

What _has_ been a big deal, on the other hand, is getting excited about what I can do with extremely unstable libraries, and then spending a lot of time keeping up with their breaking changes. But I'd be a bit silly to complain about this; in each case, I opted in to an immature ecosystem very early on because I was excited about being part of its early growth. I don't expect to have my cake and eat it, too.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. 135F will kill salmonella in under an hour.

From how it's worded in the article, I assume they're just ignorant of how pasteurization works at different temperatures so they're going by the over-simplified recommendation from FDA. I see this same misunderstanding happen periodically on the sous vide forums.
it might be that the biking app is not calling MediaScanner after taking the picture.
Almost. It gives a botness score to the server, and it's up to the website to decide what to do with that score. They can pick a threshold to approve, reject, or apply stricter verification to.
or right click on Windows and open with 7zip for example
Your argument is the one that's a strawman. You're assuming that the kind of mistakes that I make while coding are the exact kind that Typescript prevents. Which is not the case.

There's more ways than type hints to fail fast. I'm not saying me and all the other JS devs don't make mistakes. I'm saying the mistakes we make are ones that we catch in 5 seconds because the modern web dev environment is set up to facilitate that. Typescript devs make additional mistakes on top of that beacuse they have tools that catch those mistakes quickly too. We don't, so we get conditioned to program in a way to prioritise not making those mistakes (possibly at the expense of other mistakes becoming more common).

The point is that someone with years of JS experience is going to be more productive with JS, and someone with years of TS experience is going to be more productive with TS. I'm not saying Typescript sucks, just that the cost side of it's cost/benefit equation isn't the same for every dev, whereas your shit argument assumes that it is because you only base it on your own experience.
I think ArgoCD is close.
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I recommend that this guy switch to javascript to truly understand himself.
Wow, that's so crazy and wonderful. And yet very okay, since it wasn't like there would be any other application running. :)

If I recall correctly, (original) XBOX games would often go the the next level of whatever game by just loading a new EXE and start over from scratch, rather than bothering with some kind of "level loading and init" code.
> It's assumed that we're all legally kids until 18 now

Not really. There is more nuisances when it comes to the law. e.g. In many places you cannot drink until you are 21, in other the age of being able to consent to sex is lower than that. Under eighteen can even be judged as adults in some extreme cases. Out of Hollywood movies things are not so clear cut.

> Many of our ancestors were working jobs at 13 and some were having kids of their own.

And you can find many examples of kids being traded as slaves or for sex work. I think that the purpose of society regulating how we tread minors is to not replicate past customs but to improve the well being of newer generations. The past was a world of scarcity and lack of knowledge, in the present we know better.

> often being seen as a time to have fun, relax, and enjoy yourself without serious responsibility

Some of the XXI century most tough decision are taken by teenagers as they decide what to study or not and shape their professional future. I hardly see how the self sacrifice and high level of discipline required to study are easier than a low skilled job. Children spending so much time studying instead of earning money is an investment in their future and our future far away from enjoy themselves.

> Kidz Bop is teaching gender role conformity and race identification

To break the cycle of inequality inherited from a past of segregation and xenophobia kids need to be able to learn with open possibilities about their own future.

We can do better than previous generations, and I think that we owe that to future ones.
Bored and brainless topic.

why not remove this kind of topic. Hacker news should be technical related !!!
If the team had just written Haskell for a year they would have picked the obviously superior "fold" name for this operation. (I think you can actually use fold here if you really wanted it, since Option implements IntoIter?):

Some(0).iter().fold("some", |_, _| "none")
I feel you, A few months ago I hated my job and was looking to move somewhere else but now I feel ok about it. I'm still working and I get to work from home now. Things are ok.
Not for a job like this. Unemployment has limits. It’s only more pay for people at or close to minimum wage.
Ahh, gotchya.
We're not using Kafka or any tools for code gen / boilerplating code.
Maybe it's just me, but every time I look at Rust I'm either turned off by the community or by this constantly shifting idea of what is best practice.

A lot of comments have talked about the idea of writing Rust like it is X year, which seems weird to me as I would imagine that a language with a strong ecosystem would not create a situation where five-year old code that was considered ok then is now looked back as bad code and a reason for derision. Besides the obvious learning better ways to do things as time goes on, shouldn't code written five years ago still be good if it works? Is code being a few years old the only excuse we need to rebuild it?

Maybe I'm wrong here, but what I want is to not have to think to myself a year after I build something "well, that was built in last years standard, time to rebuild in this years standard."
> Fun bonus fact, employer based insurance was first offered as a workaround for world war 2 era wage controls.

Plus, its tax incentivized in three different ways.

- The employer can deduct it as a business expense, reducing corporate profits on which they have to pay income tax. In fairness, wages work the same way...

- ...but! The employer doesn't have to pay payroll tax on the amount it adds to their payroll.

- And while the employer puts it on the employee's W2, it doesn't contribute to their taxable income.

Dodging two kinds of income tax and payroll tax means that it works out to be way cheaper for a company to buy health insurance for their employees than it would be to raise their employees pay enough that they could buy the same insurance themselves, and that's before the company leverages its purchasing power to get good deals from insurance companies. It's an absurdly strongly incentivized system.
yes imports work but only with absolute urls
This lead me down a rabbit hole of researching to try and understand what it is, if I have it, and really understand what it is not. At first, yes, it matches me, I see nothing but my eyelids when I close my eyes, because that is the stimulation my eyes are receiving, no different from waking up at night and it's pitch ass black in my room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFqJ42oGOM8
This video gave me a context to what it is not and answered that no, I do not have it. I can mentally visualize my cat, in full vivid description though I see (visually with my eyes) nothing but my eyelids.

So to actually see something, to hallucinate vision which does not exist, is not what people normally experience. People can learn to hallucinate and see actual vision when their only visual stimulation is their eyelids, to project what they think visually to the actual sensory input of vision.

So as I understand from the few hours of research, if you are unable to describe an object without visually seeing it with your (open) eyes, then you would actually be aphantasiac.
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It highly depends on the definition of the good guys. If you live in US, that might be true. If you live in the rest of the world that might be false.
I don’t like the idea of creating an account or signing in to Zapier for such a tool. It should be optional. Those who want to use it with Zapier could login, and others can just use it as a standalone tool.
I didn't graduate at all, and still made it. You can too!
That is usually the outcome of not using platform languages, semantic mismatch with the platform, not able to use the libraries without some kind of FFI or wrapping code, needing extra tooling for debugging.

TypeScript gets away with it, because it follows the C++ Trojan route, without the type annotations it is just JavaScript.
Sorry, I could have stated this clearer. The point is that it basically gives law enforcement an extremely broad hammer for forcing service providers to design their systems however they want to help law enforcement, over their users. It would in practice make end-to-end encryption impossible to implement, not just difficult.
Must be nice to be an upstart. You have a throng of tech savvy people to defend you at best and forgive you at worst.

If this was a Microsoft/Google product it would be pilloried to death.
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