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Pressure resealable packaging is becoming more popular. It’s annoying but the technology itself isn’t actually getting worse, so I’m not sure why you’re suddenly having that issue. If you’re consistently seeing it from one store (you mentioned Costco), let them know because there may be an issue with a particular production series.
It's not that crazy when you look at the dependencies themselves:

- 17 of them are just to connect the core dependencies with each other. Having one single tool means you can drop those.

- 12 are "plugins" for different parsers/linters. I believe third-party parsers/linters is something that will keep existing in Rome.

- 11 are plugins, loaders and other tools that provide additional functionality to the core tools, such as loading raw files, loading raw HTML, handling case sensitive paths, inject hot-loading code. They range from trivial to complex (webpack-dev-server). We don't know how much of that functionality Rome will have built-in, so those might not be going away.

- 1 is a wrapper around the core tools, 1 contains polyfill and 7 are "util" packages that do just one thing each (taking a cursory look, most of those are already implemented in Rome).

- 5 are the core tools are Rome intend to replace: Webpack, Babel, ESlint, Terser and Jest. The most complex of the four was built by the Rome author himself.

- There's also Typescript and PostCSS but those are third-party dependencies, and AFAIK Rome doesn't intend to replace those).

When you take into account that the first four are tools built around parsers it makes A LOT of sense to put them all into a single tool, and there's a lot of overlapping functionality.

The hardest part is not really replacing the core four tools, but rather replacing the whole ecosystem that exists around ESLint, Webpack and Babel. But if the AST format is the same, there's a chance that a compatibility layer would be enough to even use ESLint/Babel plugins in Rome!

Sure you might lose a bit of edge cases and features (Webpack has a lot of things), but it will be entirely reasonable to start a new project with Rome when it's ready without losing much.

Replacing those tools in an existing project is probably very hard, though: there's a bunch of Webpack non-standard features that cause vendor lock-in, but as someone who migrated large Webpack projects to use Rollup or Parcel, it's not as hard as it seems IME.

But yeah it's hard.
Yes in that order. Maybe you could say big 4, but I find Intel is only popular in smaller niches.
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My effort matches that of the person I was replying to. But yeah overall a bit out of character for me. Extremely polarizing examples to deter something could be progress is a pet peeve.
> Both on a cultural and social level, there is no event before the COVID-19 outbreak that changed the world more.

Err, you mean this is worse than the world wars? I have my sincere doubts.
> there's nothing to be done, other than have low-risk populations ready to fill these roles.

Or increase wages. Quantity demanded of labor is greater than supply. It's relatively-unskilled work, so drawing new entrants to the labor pool isn't prohibitive. But it isn't happening at prevailing wages.

That wage increase, in turn, might merit price increases for customers. If politicians find that untenable, they may spread the cost to taxpayers instead through public programs.

If you're involved at any of these levels, reading the writing on the wall would be useful.
Nice to learn how others approach this task. Curious, with so many extensions to markdown, why not use something like ascii doc or rst instead?
Not a customer (yet), but I worked at a startup where we had chatted with NanaGram.

From our interactions, Alex seems like one of the kindest people we've ever come across, and I'd highly recommend anyone to give this a try if they're interested.

I have a lot of faith in it being a good service with Alex at the helm; if you're reading this, Alex, kudos to you! :)
>> this has the added bonus of being easy to undo (turning on Bluetooth pairs with my headphones again)

I still seem to miss the "added bonus" compared with disabling the bluetooth completely.
Also airplane mode by default no longer turns off everything. Really annoying.

By the way this is not for ‘Find My’ services because these only work if the device has internet connectivity. The newly announced mesh functionality is not active yet.
You should consider Librem 5 phone.
We are part of nature, not separate from it. We can either choose to live in harmony with nature or try to overcome/dominate it. When we try to dominate, the non-human parts of nature will try to snap back, or we see unintended consequences. For example, cutting down trees for firewood or paper goods leading to environmental problems.
> Well, these store have to stay open, no matter what.

No, they certainly don't. What's necessary is that people get food. How they get it is open to discussion.
Agreed!! Sorry I didn't mean to accuse you of anything.

I share your criticism for poor interview practices. But not that basic knowledge whiteboard questions are asked -- sadly, it's a requirement -- rather that most don't get beyond that. Or dwell on the classic "OMG how could you not know this piece of trivia that we only learned here at our org after 12 years refining the solution".

Anyway I adore that kind of interview. It lets me know I don't want to work there! I call those interviews successful. Most candidates (or at least most discussion of interviews from the candidate POV) seem to think the entire purpose of an interview is to prostrate yourself to the all powerful company, that they may see you as worthy, oh master. It's the wrong perspective.

So while I share your criticism, I am not dismayed by it.
Once the lockdown is lifted in various countries, regular testing of the population and electronic-assisted contract testing is planned so that the numbers of infected don't begin swelling again. Those kinds of proactive measures did not exist a century ago.
If the chance of a random number collision is low enough, it becomes likelier that a message will be undelivered or double-delivered due to hardware error (a "cosmic ray", though more likely thermal noise or radioactivity). Quantum computing in particular hugely relies on the observation that an infinitesimal chance of error is as good as a zero chance.

And of course, hashes can collide as well.
And Splunk is horrendously slow in my experience.
The story I've heard is that there's a bit of creative accounting involved -- the driver's compensation from the delivery service is reduced in proportion to their tip.
Don't take the wrong message from Joel here though. Make sure it's actually a core business function. Is it something that will actually give you a competitive advantage if you do it better than everyone else?
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+1 on recommending CurrencyFair - I've found that their fees tend to be lower than TransferWise and I've always had great service from them.
Not versus other places, but versus 100 years ago. A lot of the capabilities are logistics and communication. Here is an article I found earlier today talking about some of the specifics of reopening schools in Denmark:
https://www.thelocal.dk/20200413/schools-and-day-care-centre...

The kind of planning and communication necessary to pull that off was not possible 100 years ago, not to mention the scientifically-informed guidelines for preventing transmission.
Interesting to put this on the front page next to the "immutable infrastructure for mutable systems" one.

The thing is, these drives pull in opposite directions. If it's easy to change it's easy to break, and changes drive entropically downwards as it's always easiest to make the quick and dirty change.

Malleable systems are great for expert users, but can easily be turned into a ball of mud by a non-expert. Hence the popularity of Chromebooks.

Security also enters into consideration. Anything that can be programmed can be attacked. Any program that reads external data is an attack surface.

Look at the history of e.g. web browser extensions, and how they have become more and more locked down to prevent abuse by bad actors.
Mark Zuckerberg on How to Monetize Messenger (2014) [pdf]
A bit random, but I'd really like to manage video calls through a browser extension. Am I alone in this? Seems unnecessary to move in between apps, couldnt we be hopping in and out of rooms without leaving the browser?
Qubits are susceptible to all kinds of environmental noise. That's why current designs are cooled to cryogenic temperatures. Certain kinds of Majorana particles solve this problem by making the qubit distributed. In a handwaving way, the 1 state of the qubit is on one end of a wire, and the zero state is on the other; really there is a Majorana particle on each end of the wire, and by manipulating them you can control the state of the qubit. To manipulate the qubit you must interact with both ends of the wire at the same time. That goes for noise as well. And noise typically acts locally, not in two places at the same time, so the qubit is protected.
The decisive absence of this information in the article leads me to assume that it has all the same properties (and reagent demands) as existing PCR tests, just aimed at a simpler sample acquisition process. If there were further advantages they surely would have written about them. Perhaps the RNA signatures the test is looking for are shorter or something like that, to tune the test sensitivity, but I could just as well imagine that it's purely a paperwork difference. Wasting test capacity on samples acquired in a non-approved way would be reckless when done at grassroots level, but if the manufacturer can clear a relaxed sampling process it can be a valuable improvement.

Paperwork-heavy engineering disciplines are full of examples where the exact same hardware got re-rated to higher performance levels once the necessary experience was accumulated. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
When possible, I think it's nice to aim for something better than that. While brusque, I don't think I the comment was in bad faith, so I think it deserved better.
I'm excited about the possibility that the covid experience (and data) will strengthen the arguments and motivations for various ecologically sound cultural shifts, but I'm less sure about the specific issue of bears getting comfortable in close proximity to human campgrounds.
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"We destroyed your business model. For a small fee, we will be happy to un-destroy it."
Yeah, I didn't understand how hard it was to get wildlife population surveys right until I read about some of the work of MacArthur Grant winner Ted Ames (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Ames). Some years, the random sampling wouldn't find any fish. Some years, it would end up sampling a school of fish that happened to be moving through the area (as far as I understand it). That data is used to determine fishing limits, so it's important to figure out how to survey (local limits might be different in different areas, etc.).
The reply from support was that they don't support Haiti - despite the marketing on their website that they do.

Support was responsive.
And I can't count the hours I spent converting from org-mode or markdown to WYSIWYG, only to be stripped of my beloved editing tool at the point I need to share a doc.
Pre-emptive, client-side rate limiting
It's Pareto principle for me. >80% of our code should be off the shelf. The special sauce is 10% of the code. What should we spend that on? What will make us stand out?

If you can answer that, it's all the justification you need for building it. Anything you build that doesn't differentiate you can be bought by a competitor.
Does Gumroad count? We raised VC but most of that was bought back or written off. I run it by myself now.

Gumroad helps creators sell digital products directly to their audiences. We're expanding to Memberships this year.

I wrote about most of the story here: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...

And COVID-19 has been a boon, as we help folks earn a living from home. We'll see if it sticks!
You're ignoring one of the largest problems with renewables: they're not actually replacing fossil fuels, they're replacing nuclear power which was almost carbon neutral to begin with. The intermittency of wind and solar means the profitability of nuclear plants goes down (because the capital costs are enormous, they should be run close to max capacity 24/7).

Baseload power is still needed, just as before, but the new source replacing nuclear seems to be gas. This means, unfortunately, that the current trend prioritizing wind and solar power will mean a larger net carbon footprint when we need to reduce it. This is really bad for the future.
I believe the concept of risk as a justification for profit is a moral justification, yes; a faulty, unbalanced one, one that, if widely believed, enables the perpetuation of structural inequalities. A lot of people are incentivized to encourage other people to believe it.
If you are tired of constant lies from Google Android, consider Librem 5 phone by Purism. It has hardware kill switches and is based on GNU/Linux, not Android.

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> Good grief that's a dramatic article. The economic decline may be stark but that's what happens when you effectively freeze economic activity. I'm not really sure why exactly things are never supposed to be the same given that people still have their training, factories are still around and those can be reopened once sufficient safety is guaranteed.

> There's disruption in supply chains and business formation and whatnot, but I think it would be better to think about the economy in terms of actual resources and human capital rather than stock market figures, the former isn't vanishing into thin air.

> There's this tendency to dramatically overrate the impact of contemporary events. People said the same thing after 9/11 when it came to other aspects of life, and apart from increased airport security and a few costly wars there indeed was nothing new under the sun.

> The CDC estimated that the swine flu in 2009 may have killed up to half a million people globally. We'll see what the death toll of this is at the end but this isn't humanity's first pandemic and it isn't its worst, not by a significant margin.

The issue is not the available resources, but the government activities. The government initiated the crash, they are sustaining and making the crash deeper, the length of the crash will be based on their actions, and the recovery will be based on what they decide.

In previous recent events, people were free to operate their businesses largely the same as before the crash.
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Isn't it Android 6 too much handicaping?
You can work around this in the event that your commercial software provides a consistent interface for the license key stuff; e.g. via the CLI, a key file (ideally plain text) on-disk, or some scriptable interface.

Then you can store this info in separate key management software (e.g. Unix pass for your local machine) at which point bootstrapping your system could be done relatively automatically.

EDIT: I should add that this is my view of how things should work in the-world-as-it-ought-to-be, which isn’t necessarily the same as the-world-that-we-live-in.
Truism is a truism is a truism.

I dare you to top this.
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nix + home-manager will get you pretty good coverage for non-commercial software. The learning curve is steep but once you get there it's amazing.
What do you think “non pharmaceutical intervention” are? It’s quarantines. It’s masks. And yes, there were quarantines as dramatic as today’s. Case in point: St Louis.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-pandemic-response-c...
Considering the callousness of the average consumer, a pandemic would be the bale that breaks the camel's back. It's hard enough to deal with them already. Knowing how filthy the average human is even before the pandemic, the idea that they can now give me a lethal disease would be the dealbreaker.
It's true that retailers get hurt in a recession. That's a headwind. The tailwind is that even more people will be shopping online via Amazon going forward. I'm betting it'll be the brick and mortars hurting more. Some of their market share will be cut due to a recession, but some of it will be going to Amazon.

AWS spend will go down in a recession too, but there are numerous other companies I'll bet against before AWS (ie martech, advertising, HR tech, etc). Infrastructure is one of the most critical parts of a company.
have you ever done shrooms/lsd?
That's neat. Do you have a project or a demonstration showing how this can be done, or is this all just hypothetical?
I don’t want to post a spoiler, so I will just abstractly say that I like the concept that children will remember this completely differently than adults do. For my little children, it’s interesting and different to be sheltering in place. It’s annoying they can’t go to the local park, but they don’t have anything near the stress and worry that adults do.
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Deel (letsdeel.com): They are an amazing option for paying and hiring freelancers/remote employees. They have a great feature where you can sign up as an individual contractor. They shine on their simplicity of onboarding and scheduling. They also offer a free consultation if you have tax questions etc.

Transferwise: They are great. If you are making individual payments you cannot go wrong. I wouldn't want to operate my payroll off of them, but they are great for one-off payments. (I used them to send payments to Italy for my wedding)

Pilot (pilot.co): Pilot makes it ridiculously easy to pay your international team members. They handle payroll, benefits, and compliance for international employees and contractors. They have some great tech behind their products, utilizing integrations like Plaid to get you up and running fast, they also beat TW in currency pricing all day.

Rippling (rippling.com) They have a great HR product and domestic payroll solution. They have recently launched an international payroll solution and it is just a great as their domestic.

Payoneer: Payoneer has been the industry standard for quite some time. I think the only downside is they are expensive (exchange rates are not competitive). Still would be a great option, but would not be my first option.

If you have any questions about moving money internationally, I would love to chat with you and answer them. Whether is helps Routefusion or not, more than happy to spread knowledge! :)

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Actually zfs mount -u / works just fine.
Probably true, but better to push hard first on ways to lower the risk to workers.
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It is not, "Look, opioids!". It is: "Look, wrong incentives in the health-care system in the United States".

The parallel seems interesting to me, as just like with opioid epidemic, some doctors were resisting in providing the painkiller therapy. While the mainstream was to use the opioid therapy.

The structure of the health-care system in the United States also contributed to the over-prescription of opioids. Because many doctors are in private practice, they can benefit financially by increasing the volume of patients that they see, as well as by ensuring patient satisfaction, which can incentivize the over-prescription of pain medication. Prescription opioids are also cheap in the short term. Patients’ health-insurance plans often covered pain medication but not pain-management approaches such as physical therapy. “The incentives were there for people to prescribe more and more, particularly when they had already been convinced it was the right thing to do — the compassionate thing to do,” Humphreys says.

This might help to explain why Canada is also experiencing an opioid crisis, with 10,337 opioid-related deaths between January 2016 and September 2018.

Most European countries, however, have so far been insulated from the epidemic. Doctors in Europe are not motivated financially to make prescriptions. - from this article in Nature -.

And by the way, yours "nothing compared" - this is just plain wrong. The level of the prescription-induced crisis, in numbers, was about the same as the current level. And users funneled to non-prescription since the prescription channel is now blocked.

As to the current decision-making. I'm not sure what is a right and efficient solution. Probably it is in the area of developing antivirals as fast as possible. And actively fighting the coefficient in the exponent. Like people wearing masks in Walmart. And allowing doctors to wear masks in hospitals, instead of hospital management making statements like: "THERES NO MORE WUHAN VIRUS IN THE HALLS AT THE HOSPITAL THAN WALMART". See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/hospitals-coronavi...

But, putting people on ventilators seems like inefficient use of efforts. Yes, if you don't put late-stage patients on ventilators, they'd die. But it looks like, there is 80% chance they'd die, if you'd put on ventilators. And fewer people may die overall, if efforts were not spend on the whole ventilators affair. And instead something else was done.
Well, with X11 out of the way at least it won’t take two minutes just to launch (hopefully).
Here's another list of them: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/living.txt
> Extreme poverty has halved or so in the last 30 years.

People love to bring this up, but always fail to mention the change is almost entirely in China and India. The US has completely stagnated and done pretty much nothing new in the past 30 years.

Rent-collection is the only imperative now.