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Web development on Windows has been like surfing for those of us doing Java and .NET web development, since like ever.

2006 was for me the turning point where Linux was only used via VMs or some remote box.

WSL2 is just fine, I don't need to mess with VMWare any longer.

And if I am not doing Linux deployments, I can do plain Windows development, like I have done since Windows 3.0.

For the Linux desktop experience I have a surviving ASUS netbook.
Another? There is one already? Can you please provide info about it?
Clinical trials are not the same thing as reasonably effective, proven treatment.

We are seeing an 80% death rate for people on ventilators. This means when the worst happens, most people die, even with heroic measures and the most advanced technology available.

When they have a more reliable means to treat people in serious distress, I think people will be more amenable to easing the lockdown. Until then, it's a big fat fuck you to people in high risk categories.

I am hearing that doctors are comparing it to high altitude sickness and trying to come up with a more accurate mental model that may yield more effective treatment than ventilators. I hope that happens rapidly. A big breakthrough in that area, where we know what the hell to do for you when things get really bad, would make a very big difference in this situation.

Edit in reply to your edit:

I don't think that's at all what is going on.

I think I have some idea of what would help. It's mostly not more serious drugs.

As a former homemaker, no one much cares what I think. But just as one human to another in a stupid online discussion, I'm all for blaming big pharma for a lot of things, but not this time.
> If there's no concept in English for an idea that occurs to me, it may remain muddled or I just might not become fully conscious of it.

You probably won't be. I have observed a similar phenomenon when trying to imagine truly new things.

> If I can't figure out the C++ code necessary to accomplish the task I want, that doesn't mean I can't imagine what that task is.

If you can't figure it out in C++, but you could in (say) assembly (or Perl, or Python or whatever), then I would agree with that and would say I don't think that's an essential limitation of programming languages, and just that C++ is unfamiliar and byzantine.

But if you can't figure out the task in C++, but [believe] you could in [plain] English, I'd say you're just wrong: Whenever someone has told me "the ticket is perfectly clear" it most definitely was not. If your experiences are different, I'd like to hear about them.
there is no deep untruth in what i said, and i said it civilly.

you should read the guidelines because i find your newly created username to be disturbing.
Roadmap v. Plan is an age old argument many PMs have had!

If I draw out a map to Disneyland, even going as far to include which freeway exits to take, or maybe even going further as to plot out a few stops for gas, this still says nothing about when I will actually start the trip, how fast I’m going to drive, how much coffee I’m going to drink beforehand and how many bathroom breaks that will require, how many flat tires I’m going to get, how many times I’ll get rear ended by another driver who is playing with their phone, or how many times I will get pulled over by the cops on the way.

Some of that information is impossible to know, and some of that information has a low ROI in planning further.

> This is a political document

I feel strongly this is the case.
Since you did not specify a laptop, you can plug in any arbitrary USB HID to desktop Mac. (MacBooks too - though I'm sure this isn't what you meant.)

Most people choose their laptops based on the OS, not on the pointing device.
I have separate personal and work Trello accounts. After seeing your report, I checked to make sure they're still separate. They are but each have access to each others' boards.

I have yet to figure out how to deactivate that.. but since they're separate users (vs secondary email), I don't think the same will happen. But who knows? Not me.

Good luck getting this straightened out.
Yup every contact we have made through HomeAdvisor, Porch, etc just leaves us their details and a cheaper rate. Churn+New users is clearly non-zero but seems smaller than the valuations suggest.
Just a few months into this thing, infections still accelerating, and food supply chains are showing signs of widespread stress and deterioration. Everything from harvest to logistics to stocking shelves is being fretted over by the people in charge of them.

I could be wrong, but I'm going to guess you have no idea what you're talking about on this particular topic.
It’s a shame that no one measures productivity by LOC anymore, otherwise with black I would be the most productive engineer ever. :)
A note -- it's sourcehut.org. And all the actual content (repos, bug tracking, even the login page) is at sr.ht.
> "There could be another reason for those symptoms so if we don't gate your access behind an expensive doctors visit you could treat the wrong thing and die"

Like all medical things they're (a) expensive (b) limited in supply (c) you don't have the knowledge, experience or impartiality to self-diagnose (d) you can't tell whether you need the device but buying it anyways removes limited supply from the market (e) you don't know how to calibrate it (f) you might hurt yourself.

Same reason it's insane Americans are allowed to self-refer to specialists: you don't know which specialist you need, you don't know whether you need a specialist at all, there's a limited quantity and you're likely just squandering a valuable resource.

In both cases letting unqualified end users have at it could just as easily increase the price not decrease it.

Glasses, though, no excuse.
None, as I stay away from them as far I can avoid them, Java and .NET are perfectly fine and IDEs have docker support in case I really need to deal with it.
> On a per capita basis sweden isn't really more worse off than many other countries that have shutdown.

This is so untrue.

Norway and Denmark had initially many more cases then Sweden but since their curves flattened.

As of yesterday

Norway - 26 deaths / milion

Sweden - 102 deaths / million

Denmark - 52 deaths / milion
I've never looked as to whether it shrinks it, but I assume not (that would be hard). OTOH, storage is cheap, so I've never really worried.

I never used WSL1 in anger, but accessing WSL2 over the \\wsl$ is not particularly slow. It's not as fast as native, but I don't notice it. I do almost all of my access of files on the Linux image via a terminal and VSCode-over-WSL-Remote, though.
I have been improving my home office since I started WFH about 4 weeks ago. Got myself a Philips 43 inch monitor today. Initially I thought it was too big but then after coding on it for about 3 hours, I am already used to it.
Other than the dubious French data, there's no evidence in favor of HCQ. Nor does the recent NJEM paper "support" remdesivir (no control!).

Lord knows I hope something pans out, it's not even remotely true that we have a treatment.
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It can make use of Hyper-V and Windows Containers.
For OS I run Manjaro i3wm community edition.
> Saying it didn't work out seems even more misguided.

That may be, but the rest of your comment seems to be unrelated to the matter at hand since you merely listed some advantages of WSL2 instead of addressing the disadvantages that are causing people trouble.
I haven't seen anything about the claims you're making that ventilators don't work. Is this only available in Chinese or is there any reporting/papers available in English?

[Edit] Are you referring to these news reports https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-... ? If yes I think you're overstating what these news reports are saying by claiming "ventilators don't work" (in fact the reports are saying the data may be more complicated but ventilators are still needed).
I'm well familiar with Doppler notching and missile evasion. However in the accounts I was speaking about it was cases where they turned around and departed the area. Follow up conversations with some of these crews (which included Iraqi pilots, Libyan pilots to name a few) said that once they had seen the transition from being hit from search radar to acquisition radar they didn't want to provoke any further and chose to exit the engagement. Remember that during the 1980s the Phoenix AIM-54 had a scary reputation for it's range as well as the later AIM-120.
How's filesystem performance on a directory mounted with "multipass mount"?
Likely low powered computing scenarios. Think set-top boxes, kiosks, cash registers, etc. Anywhere you want to use very cheap hardware basically.
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Last time I used Trello they had a relatively extensive concept of organizations and board ownership, while they might not have an idea about which email is the fictitious canonical owner of the account this still falls on Atlassian.

They created this system that allowed AcmeCorp to change a setting and subsequently lock an ex employee out of non-organisation data. They know which of this accounts content is related to the organisation, they allow using a single identity for both private and corporate use cases at the same time. That's a use case their user facing interface actively encouraged. When I left the last company using Trello that distinction was pretty clear cut when I removed ties to the organisation.

The linked thread reads like deliberate design decisions that turned out to be user hostile in favour of AcmeCorp. You don't have to assign a correct owner. Their data model seems pretty clear cut on which parts of an account are owned by which identity. If they develop a system that allows me to login via a private and a corporate email, have a data model that allows them to determine data ownership for the two, and yet decide to give one of those identities leverage over the other - it's okay to at least blame them partially. There's three parties involved here, none of them did everything correctly but only one had negative impact from this.
This is totally not what the "military-industrial complex" is about. Wow.

The MIC concept is a specific application of the general idea of regulatory capture of policymakers to the vertical of defence contracting. This is nothing like that: the corporation here isn't a defence contractor and they're not bribing the government. It fits 0%.
I've got a DIY desk from Ikea, so its really basic.

I am grateful that my work let me take my office chair home because my old chair at home was horrible for my back. Now that I have my nice work chair, I'm feeling much better.

Also thankful that all I need to do my work (and everything else I enjoy) is just my macbook pro.
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I believe WSL2 was designed to keep your files inside on ext4 instead of outside on NTFS.
On the other hand if you are changing field because you are unhappy with your current situation it is relevant to ascertain that your current field is part/cause of the problem.
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The Indian design with the android phone looks very interesting - I hope that can be shared and mass produced, assuming it does a decent and safe job.
All the "wait no" alternative tool suggestions are silly. There's a best tool.

For packaging a Python project, that tool is Poetry. Pipenv, virtualenv, setup.py, venv, setup.cfg, are all outmoded.
Back to Cygwin?
A lot of liquidity and money in the market. Anything that has a breath of possibility will be funded.
New York City's population is around 8.5 M, and more then 10,000 people there have died from from the virus so far (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...). That puts the toll over 0.1 %.
The grandparent's label of "central planning" seems to encompass almost any possible policy that deviates from a completely free market. I don't think any mainstream economics, other than caricatures, supports the idea that any possible economic policy that isn't a completely free market doesn't work.
There are about 5000 of us who did choose a laptop for its keyboard and pointer: it's the ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Edition. I have an SK-8855 already and also ordered the new TEX Shinobi so my unwavering stance on my laptop needing a proper keyboard+pointer might change but for now my choice of weapon is the TP25.
> I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with the way people are talking about this whole thing still being out of control

A week ago, I remember reading how the Bay Area was bracing for a bracing for a surge and it was the calm before the storm. The Santa Clara county covid-19 dashboard told a different story: day-over-day, new cases were roughly the same for the past two weeks. 2+ weeks into the lockdown, there was obviously no surge coming.

https://i.imgur.com/LrFZj3S.png

Looking at that chart on the April 7th, nothing pointed to a surge.
> Where as Ritesh dude is still an Indian hero as per local media.

He is not . The 'English media' is not the local media in India.
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I completely agree. Who cares if black is ugly? It's a standard which is easy to automate. Want a better standard? Make it. Until then black works.
> They complain about the non-pep8 compliance, show what pep8 would look like and then argue that there's a better way..

It did not suggest a "better" way, just the PEP-8 way.

It first complains about the non-PEP-8-compliance formatting, then shows a simpler PEP-8 example, and finally shows what will the initial code look like according to PEP-8.
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are you asking deaths per capita or death rate? i don't know what death rate per capita quantifies.

in either case, that's easy: south korea, germany, denmark.
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Sound and bluetooth , like , works now? That wasn't my experience back then. Both of them were entire stacks of spaghetti.
How much of an effect would linking shared / static libraries have on binary size?

Would someone writing assembly tend to avoid using external libraries unlike with HLL?
Turns out "nix" is hard to search due to engines matching "*nix" to it.

Nix is probably not supported on MSYS, but YMMW. I'd love to have something like it on Windows.
To me, calling it "Trash-talk" seems to have a smug tone. It seems to imply the designers were insulting Amazon rather than having some sort of constructive criticism.

"In general, criticizing one's employer in public is usually inversely proportional to the longevity of one's employment with said employer." reads a lot more balanced to me.
> Was https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=19 better than nothing?

It was certainly better than Trump calling the disease a hoax concocted by the his political opponents including the media, so whatever problems WHO may have on COVID-19 response, Donald Trump is in no position to criticize.
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GitHub dropped the word “open source” from its free tier
Yes, Poetry is best-in-class package manager. I liked the idea of Pipenv, but in practice it just didn't work well. FYI, Poetry is just a fancy tool for managing your virtualenvs
Not qualified to comment on the depth of physics in there, but the theory sounds very intriguing and fascinating. It's important to push our collective thinking - and the authors definitely have the expertise to do that.
Python runs the gamut. You can make small scripts that automate simple tasks and you can make huge websites that service millions of people a day. As projects get bigger, they can adopt tools to help them manage the complexity of the project.

These tools make complex projects simpler without complicating simple things. Personally, I wouldn't want to use Python on a large project without these tools.
Technological progress often evolves as a Scale Free Network[1] where the nodes with most present activities are likely to see the highest investment.

It is less of a problem for mature ecosystem and tools, but being in the "not winner" position will likely induce negative effects in the long term technological progress. (I am sure there are many counterexamples)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network
What are the chances of a third world war? (from Taleb) [pdf]
Honestly speaking, isn't the whole VC industry dependent on luck?
Thanks! we are working hard on the best protection+landing, searching for the lightest solution and it will be all around the propellers. We use since 2 years its bigger brother (220g) in a swarm system for choreographies with medium acceleration/speed autonomous navigation, during all the intense flying sessions we had quite some crashes but the harm on the board has been very low.
One day all OSes will be z/OS it seems, that alongside JIT/AOT runtimes, mainstream computing is finally catching up with 60's mainframes.
I don’t love black’s formatting, but this article is just wrong.

1. Black’s formatting of function arguments does not break PEP8, because the closing parenthesis is one level of indentation back, breaking the continuation. (I don’t even need to check linked threads. Dude is wrong and must have been told so. He doesn’t want to listen, fine. Fork as he wishes, but it’s not like I’m gonna use his fork over Łukasz Langa’s just because he’s tired arguing.)

2. “Piles and piles of red tape”: half are generic project or generic GitHub project stuff, optional of course (oh and black is there so that you don’t need editorconfig).

The Python specific stuff?

- mypy? If you drank the koolaid and now dogmatically type check all your code whether warranted or not. Me? Still enjoying dynamic typing. (Don’t get me wrong, I use mypy judiciously.)

- nose, pytest, unittest, etc.? Sorry you have a choice!

- Finally, I haven’t even heard of bumpversion and setuptools_scm and I’ve been scraping by pushing out releases after releases. I guess you’ll always find a way to pile on the red tapes if you’re enamored with stupid tooling to begin with.

3. Don’t see any “My experience with forking black”, only saw a few talking points, including useless ones like “Remove the ‘for humans’ garbage”. Guess it’s not written yet.

Btw, if a “massive” 3000 line module (lol) chokes up your editor, maybe it’s time to get a better one.
Canada. Ontario has a per-capita death rate of <2 per 100000. New York State is at 32 (~17x higher) with Ontario having ~75% of the population of New York State. I'm sure this changes when you start looking at urban areas but I suspect the stats hold up pretty well.

[1] USA breakdown https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
[2] Google summarizes the Wikipedia data for the Canadian rates
Trello sent me this email today:

> Using a work email address with Trello

> At least one of the email addresses linked to your account belongs to an organization:

> <redacted>.com

> This usually means it's a work email. If this organization begins using Atlassian products while this email address is linked, your account could become managed by that organization, which means you could potentially lose access. If you don't use Trello for work, just select a non-organizational email.

In my case the "organization" is my personal domain. I'm guessing they classify any email address that isn't with a common free email provider to be a work email address.
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Web development with node and ruby it seems.

Java and .NET Web development has been perfectly fine the last decades.
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Many of the things currently shut down are part of supply lines and critical infrastructure in the long term. Eventually we're gonna have to print books and build cars.
My git status/add/commit/push cycle has gone from seconds to minutes in length. It's unbearable and I'm going to abandon wsl as a result.

Shame, it was really good.
I have felt like it is way to complicated to do certain things in python... primarily relating to building and packaging large scale code. But, for what I use it for (mostly scripting) it is wonderful. I use it locally, right from the IDE mostly. I almost never call things I make with it from the command line because they are usually single use or low use scripts. Things that I like enough to build into more usually get re-written in c++.
Interesting, thanks for the summary. I had no idea they did direct investment, though that seems like the only way to improve health in some parts of the world.
> and is so close to feature parity

That was not my experience with WSL1; I was regularly running into unimplemented features. Some examples: the Z3 solver used clock_gettime for timeouts, and their specific usage was broken in WSL1 so you'd get random failures depending on how long the solve took. And don't get me started on running Chromium.

It felt like WSL1 would be running into the long tail of compatibility issues for years.

But I'll admit that I don't try to use it the way you do, I run WSL precisely so I'll never have to launch cmd.exe.
If the kernel sees 32 GB of RAM at boot time, you do need special measures to make sure the kernel doesn't utilize all of the visible RAM.
Well, the ability to communicate with others. Transferring and receiving the state of our mind and emotions to others. It's fundamentally deeper and hairier than the things we program.

I suppose you can learn a language without ever interacting with others. I thought I could learn Spanish that way, the same way I learned to program.

Eventually I could read in Spanish yet was hard pressed to utter a sentence. And when I interacted with people who could speak Spanish, it was just depressing and shameful. Learning a language just to be able to read some more books and watch some movies turns out to be pretty dull.

As an introvert, this was part of the journey that made me truly appreciate human interaction and question how much time we spend caring about programming and tech. Kind of like how I cared about things when I was younger and have started caring about people as I get older.

Of course, my whole top level comment is a complete derailing of the discussion around the article and just an unsolicited meandering on my part. I don't think there's much analysis to be had in my post. I just immediately though of my younger self and anyone I've ever heard trying to compare programming to communicating with other humans in their native tongue.
You can convert WSL2 to WSL1! There's an argument to wsl.exe you can use to go back.

Do it, free yourself (and your kernel)
So we are replacing the efficiency of the compiler with humans ?
Surely the sensible option would be for Atlassian to allow you to keep all your personal boards and only show the work-email boards if you sign in, or allow you to 'disconnect' from those?

And if this is technically difficult to do (because boards are not obviously linked to email addresses, or whatever), then that's still on them, but also solvable: allow you to remove BigCo email and just not give you access to any BigCo boards.

If you happened to have created a board yourself for BigCo, then that's still available to you. And if that's not acceptable for Atlassian, they should make boards more obviously connected to email addresses. Or something similar.

The equivalent to the current situation would be to allow you to add BigCo email to your personal Drobox account (for ease of logging in), and then remove you from the entire account when BigCo revokes your access. That's extremely unexpected!
Well, C still doesn't offer the same macro capabilities as 90's macro assemblers were capable of.

Thankfully in C++ we have constexpr for that.
That’s an interesting claim to make, considering how many people love the Mac’s trackpad and non-butterfly keyboard.
We build something similar(UI is not polished) for the India's BSE Stock Market.

It sends buy/sell emails to users every morning(see below for links to screenshots)

Is there a need for something like in the US/elsewhere ?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pc2eu4dQJh4b6UegsVmR...