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>South Korea, whose success and strategies have been ignored.

The WHO published summaries and support for the South Korean approach to the virus on 21 January, particularly highlighting their approach to testing and contact tracing and recommending similar approaches elsewhere. The WHO then started providing technical expertise to help countries set up testing and contact tracing systems, especially in poorer countries without that knowhow.

What was Trump doing, was he setting up a G20 summits to co-ordinate the global response like George Bush did during the financial crisis in 2008? Taking a role of global leadership? Nope, more than 5 weeks later while the WHO was leading efforts to track and contain the virus, Trump was still calling the whole thing a hoax at a mass rally in the US.

Trump can throw blame wherever he likes, you can pick nits in the activities of organisations that have been at the forefront of actually tackling this crisis. Whatever. But de-funding the WHO right now is a disgusting and reprehensible attack on the world's ability to tackle this crisis, from a country that was instrumental is setting up and running the WHO and it's predecessors for more than 100 years.
You're right, British cuisine does take all the good bits from everywhere, but then brings them down to its level ;)

While I've definitely had great food in pubs and I agree that London has spectacular food options, I'd still opine that across England as a whole, "good pub food" is the exception rather than the norm.
If I have an audience that entirely speaks the language I try to take advantage of it. It's very common here for people to use English unconditionally in conversations about technology.
> the amount of light on a given area on the sensor remains unchanged

This isn't the only thing that matters. It also matters that you're amplifying the noise more by enlarging it 4x as much as you would have on the larger sensor. It's analogous to film in that a larger format will exhibit less obtrusive grain than a smaller one despite using the exact same film speed. You're using the same exposure over a larger area, and thus gathering more light to drown out the noise.

You can either think of it in terms of total light gathered compared with the underlying noise of the sensor (signal to noise ratio) or in terms of enlargement of the image. The result is the same, smaller sensors have "more noise" simply because they're gathering less total light and amplifying everything more.

And don't be fooled by the old "higher megapixel = more noise" fallacy. All else being equal, it's the same amount of noise. However each pixel is gathering less light (signal) to offset the noise, so the signal to noise ratio is worse when comparing pixel for pixel. However, if you were to downscale the output of the higher res sensor to match the lower resolution sensor, you'd find roughly the same amount of noise in both images.
PBS did a story on them but couldn't say Fucked Company on their broadcasts so they used the name "The Dot Com Deadpool" instead.
Seven Changes We've Been Waiting on That You Will Not Find in Linux 5.7
OK I'll risk it by saying things I think I know about quantum mechanics that have proved useful in dispelling/illuminating/clarifying popular accounts, that lots of people probably don't get.

Bear in mind that someone quite famous and rather clever once said "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics", and I think he surely wasn't joking!

- There's no such thing as an independent 'observation'. To observe quantum particles you must interact with them. 'You' might be just a particle.

- All the things you've interacted with look different to the things you haven't.

- Noone really understands quantum mechanics
It's not in law, but it was advised by Michael Gove[1]: "I would have thought for most people a walk of up to an hour, a run of 30 minutes or a cycle ride of between that, depending on their level of fitness, is appropriate."

I guess ultimately it's up to the individual - the longer you exercise for and the greater the area you cover, I guess the higher the risk of you spreading the virus if you have it or getting it is. But I think the government are crediting people with some common sense here, e.g. if you are in the middle of nowhere and don't see another person, you can probably justify exercising for longer to yourself more easily than in a crowded city.

FWIW, I've been doing about 30 mins cycling outside most week days in London, around an hour (sometimes 90 minutes) at the weekend. Would love to go further or more times a day, but feels like we have to do our bit to help, while also staying sane, personally I feel comfortable with this level.

[1] random link from Google, https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/news/a31973975/coronavirus-u...
the ones that i know are former engineers. they also have excellent verbal skills and seem to be the smartest people in the room. may or may not be the best coders — i don’t know — but they are very impressive in person.
Rising unemployment from coronavirus threatens China’s poverty targets
Amazon Retools with Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pan
Compared to Android, where it's hard to get anything below 6.2" it's very compact.
Yes over Midway. No they did not prosecute anyone over the codes. The attorney general wished to prosecute the publisher, Robert McCormick, but the Pentagon made it clear that this would confirm to the Japanese that the US did have the codes: letting it ride mean that the Japanese might take the story for idle brag.
That also exists in France (and is currently used extensively) but it's very different from reducing salaries.
> Getting rid of emergency prep makes the most sense from that perspective because you're hedging your bets on not needing it. ...
> We're going to have this problem as long as we demand taxes to be as low as possible

The USA has enough nukes to destroy the Planet. We have enough Servers to copy everything transmitted. But we don't enough paper masks even though a Bio Attack is eminently possible (always has been) and certainly much more so in a post 9 11 America. I would submit for your consideration that giving more money to those so blissfully uninterested in protecting those under their watch is not the solution you imply it would be.
Panoramas are one of the things I wish I hadn't left out of that comment. It blows my mind that a phone can do this so much better than a camera unless you invest in special mounts and such.
It's official recognition that makes it easier to justify activities that preserve this heritage. Schoolteachers have an argument for spending time on it. Museums have an argument for including it. At the micro level it might become easier to use a community hall or similar space for a demoscene event.

It's not going to be a day-and-night change. But it can make a lot of small things go better.
Helsinki, Finland has a pub tram that does the rounds occasionally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A5raKoff
I'm not sure the full details have been published yet. It was mentioned in the usual round of news reports last night, so I assume it was announced as part of one of the set pieces yesterday.

It sounds like some sort of investment-matching scheme, where the existing investors have to put more money in to keep the business viable but the government will then make some sort of contribution as well.
I don't think that's fine at all - seems a terribly unethical thing to do and completely indefensible.
I mean your first problem there is having a capitalist healthcare system. It's absolutely insane the way the US funds its medical care. Hopefully you guys will see some improvements there in the next few years, and maybe even universal healthcare like an actual civilized society.
One would think that way, right ? Stuff like this in SF always felt unbelievable to me in the past, especially coming from the technical/IT background. No one would be THAT stupid to have their stuff so wide open for anyone to hack into.

Well, then future came and with all the insanely insecure IoT devices all around I'm no longer so sure. :P
I'd be interested in hearing about tech and innovation policy orgs in the UK. Currently I think I either want to work in the civil service or in such an org. As you say, it would be nice to have a positive impact on the world.
If you don't want the additional learning curve of Emacs and Slime, the author recommends just using sbcl and rlwrap (which makes programming in a terminal nicer).
> So all employees effectively pay for layoffs, which goes against you if you're not the one that gets laid off.

Or you could say that the company needs to save the profit generated by your position until it equals your anticipated severance before paying dividends from that profit. So it’s still a drag on profits, but it has nothing to do with other employees.
How to rotect a planet against a black hole attack
Switch from app to website, languages ( I don't speak German) and false action button ( click here to cancel, that doesn't do anything)

Like I said before...
Hackers Made the Snoo Smart Bassinet Shake and Play Loud Sounds
Isn't the model that you as a publisher get paid based on the bidding of the advertisers and Google takes a percentage? So if they make your ads perform better (read: probably make them more annoying to your visitors), then the advertisers will pay more and both Google and you will get a higher fee.

So this thing is probably good for the short-term AdSense revenue of the publisher, and bad for visitors and thus the long-term use of the site. (Or maybe just good for adblocker install rates)
low density yes. tho would argue each politician is finger-dancing to the beat of their own belly-gurgles. not quite trump/cuomo levels of disfunction, but trendy-curves aside, messaging here definitely lacks some cohesion.
>higher salaries should equal hire savings

as does not having to pay out of pocket for unavoidable medical expenses. why should I be tethered to an employer who pays me less money but gets a better discount on insurance due to their massive size? "somehow" the bigger a corporation gets, more government subsidies get thrown at them, which in turn get used to subsidize the cost of employees and further get used as leverage for insurance pricing?

> If you could make 100% more & forego a severance package, would you

for a company I've never worked for? I would have to be stupid to do so. You have no idea what the culture or ethic of the team looks like, and you're willing to not care for only 100%? I wish I had that kind of free time.
I usually use [2] as my source (where the order of magnitude is fully supported -- 0.04 vs 0.44 deaths per terawatt hour for rooftop solar). I believe [1] is referencing the totality of the solar market, including both rooftop and industrial solar. Rooftop solar is more dangerous due to the risks associated with installing and servicing panels on an incline a couple of stories off the ground.

[1] notably excludes the Bangqiao dam as that would raise the hydro number probably an order of magnitude by itself. Their biomass number also likely excludes air pollution.

Either way, to your point, the results are pretty darn clear no matter how you slice and dice the numbers.
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>I'm talking beyond my expertise here - I've never been involved in a CoC argument, but I have witnessed a lot of trolling

If by "argument" you mean "flame-war", then I suppose I'm right there with you. I've seen many, but participated in zero.

Still, I think I've observed some regularities. One such regularity is that flame-wars and CoC-trolling almost always take place in communities that treat their CoCs as some sort of constitution, and believe these conflicts should be resolved in a simili-court-of-law.

This is why I continue to oppose CoCs on the grounds that they're ideological tools, in practice. In my estimation, the whole point of pushing CoCs on open source projects is to get them to think in terms of legal process, at which point they can be harassed into behaving a certain way. This is all done on the false premise that internet communities should be run like first-world democracies.

>Even I have seen the "you handled this one way last month, why are you treating this guy differently today?" arguments.

>I imagine if you're willing to discuss your decisions at all, you're going to be forced to argue technicalities.

That's the brilliant thing - you're not forced to argue technicalities. In fact, you're not forced to give any explanation (though that's rarely the best policy, in practice). This isn't a court of law.

Anyway this is just ... like ... my opinion, man. Others can
disagree with me and still be reasonable. As I said in another comment, I don't run any popular OSS communities, but if I do, I don't think I'll use a CoC. And I don't think that will prevent me from enforcing good behavior.

(P.S.: I've just reread this comment and it struck me as a bit abrasive and argumentative. I've made a few changes, but please be assured of my courteous intent!)
http://emacsrocks.com/

https://emacs.sexy/

https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
> why are there so many people hating on Bill Gates when he talks about this virus and any prospects etc.?

Because Gates was what Zuckerburg is today. The real question is why are there so many Gates' supporters?

> I mean he's in philanthropy etc

Yes, following in Rockefeller's footsteps. "Philanthropy" is a PR move. Gates probably has the world's best PR team.

> Just boggles my mind

Probably because you don't come from a CS/tech background.

In 20 or 30 years, zuckerburg is going to set up a family "charity" and the masses will worship him as a saint. Setting up "family controlled charities" is probably the most effective PR move amongst the uber-wealthy. Building hospitals is another one. Donating to schools is another. These people didn't grow a conscious when they retired, they just bought a world class PR team.
Interesting, as I surely thought they will be one of the companies benefiting the lockdown.
There's sure to be people who are now aware of this as an important area and are learning about it, who will now go into this for their entire careers.

"Glasgow's first Intensive Therapy Unit was developed, consequent to a large outbreak of poliomyelitis in Denmark, with many of the patients there requiring artificial respiration."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pathology-Human-Infections-Associat...
This led to a pathology department, and my grandfather working in that his whole life (specialising in infectious diseases), and then writing a 3 volume encyclopedia on the subject: "The Pathology of Human Viral Infections and Associated Conditions"
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How protected is this kind of direct action? If it's ok to disrupt the company's services is it also ok to disclose or destroy customer data? Where does the law draw the line?

I've heard about workers in France literally kidnapping and stripping the clothes from their bosses and it being tolerated. I think that kind of thing is never tolerable under any civil circumstance. If a co-worker tried to kidnap me I'd see that as a threat to my life and I'd be fighting for survival.
Indeed. Larger businesses in the UK do have additional obligations when it comes to redundancies, but the system isn't perfect, for sure.
Fucked Company published an excellent documentary on the Digital Entertainment Network.

(It's from "Fucked Company", so obviously it's NOT SAFE FOR WORK, but who's at work any more these days?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaRTZpJgPA

>Dot Com Boom & Bust - Digital Entertainment Network

>A parody of the founders of Digital Entertainment Network. DEN was "a quintessential example of the excesses and lack of control of the dot-com craze."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network

>I rescued this from Web Archive, and it was originally posted on the Fuckedcompany.com website, which went defunct in 2007.

Yes, THAT guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg&t=19m42s

>Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

Oh no :(, the Internet Archive fucked them:

https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://www.fuckedcompany.com/

>Sorry.

>This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

Alternative archive of the front page, at least:

https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060603194832/http://www...

Then they went from sorta fucked:

https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20091016001955/http://www...

To fucked:

https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20130104195206/http://www...
If you're running a package registry, you'd be painfully unaware of your own requirements if you're using a host/cloud that you need to pay for the amount of bandwidth.

Hosting a package registry on AWS for example, unless you figure out a way of seriously reducing the amount of traffic (which seems to be against working towards making a popular registry), is suicidal because of the bandwidth costs.
The run of the mill food-serving court is way better in Napoli or in other Mediterranean countries compared to the similar locations in London (or in other Northern big cities) for the simple reason that those Mediterranean locations have easier and cheaper access to fresher (and better) food.

Maybe some high-end London locations have the same easy access to fresh and better food (via dedicated airplane rides), but that does not make London one of "the food capitals of Europe".
Would seem so on the face of it, but measuring performance is not trivial, and some people can be essential for reasons unrelated to performance (or their real performance isn't accurately measured, however you want to see it).
Apologies ...

I mean the attitude that Python is "good enough" because it has type hinting and therefore it is not worth bothering with exploring other languages, especially ones that have wholly more powerful type systems. I have found (personal experience only here) that it can be tremendously hard to get Python programmers to learn and embrace other languages and approaches to software.
> Most Americans (richest country in the world btw) don't know how they will pay their rent next month or buy food. No one's signing up for a new subscription now lmao.

Precisely what part of anything in the preceding paragraph is meant to be modified or somehow accentuated by the "lmao?"
I think they meant manager and peer evaluation, not standardized aptitude testing. Though on that note, I know someone who creates those standardized employment apptitude tests and checking the test for minority group biases is part of their validation, I believe so the company has something to point to if they need to defend the test later. It's apparently easy to start measuing things other than apptitude and veer into cultural or economic influences.
Wow, that looks so practical ! And no server cost/setup/maintenance, I guess.

The thing I'm concerned about that doesn't seem addressed on your home page is security : by installing your agent on my machine, I'm basically giving you access to my machine non-stop, no ? What guarantees do I have that your agent can't be used as a backdoor ?
What if most developed nations had mandatory severance and these other nice things?

Hint: they do.
This phone has been rumored for years.
Zoom Boosts Security with Pick-Your-Route Feature
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I'm a recent purchaser of a slightly used old iPhone SE and it's great really. Headphone socket, does all I want, fast and snappy in practice, only cost like £100/$130.
Heard from 2 recently so they're certainly still hiring and hiring fast
Wow, it's also so cold to just read a script emotionlessly when communicating something so sensitive, rather than at least trying to be in the moment with these people.
Batching vs. Latency, and Jobqueue Models
It might get iOS 14.
They're just optimised for different jobs. Vim for line-based editing, emacs for nested. It just so happens that editing config files on remote hosts tends to be line-based, while editing code locally involves editing nested structures. I'll happily use both on the same machine though.
> So all employees effectively pay for layoffs, which goes against you if you're not the one that gets laid off.

Sounds like a very acceptable compromise. I'm happy to chip in. I'm also happy that I pay taxes for universal healthcare so that I can take advantage of that when I'm in a disadvantaged position, but that's me.
yes, great resource. Still,

I know there exists and official network of radiation detection in Europe yet data is not accessible (except maybe here [0])

and we would need historical data to see fluctuations over natural threshold (more than 24H)

[0] https://era.org.mt/en/Pages/Ionising-Radiation-Monitoring-St...
You can tell employees this stuff over and over, some are just not ready to hear it.
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I have a friend who takes it for lupus, and has taken it for years. Clearly, he hasn't died, in part because it is a prescription drug and requires a doctor's script. He understands the risks and the benefits. He has taken it for years, as I mentioned, so your "people have said" is clearly not inclusive of a large number of people. The medicine is made by several manufacturers, and if there wasn't a market, that wouldn't happen.

I call shenanigans.
>shells, repls, notebooks, filesystem browser, internet browser, rss, and a slew of other utilities tiled, something akin to a Bloomberg terminal, even spotify if I need music

Could you describe each of the specific packages you use to accomplish all this? I'd love to add more tools.
It’s actually “iPhone SE (2nd generation)”.
Since it's very much based on Commodore's design the copyright situation seems very uncertain. The author himself seems to doubt that he can claim copyright.
> I am not sure how anyone can claim the court system of a nation is not part of "the government"

Different countries have different words for things. It’s as simple as that.

What we call “soccer” in the US is called “football” in the UK. It doesn’t mean they’re two different things.
I don't know about other sides of IT, but as a data engineer in London I'm getting daily messages from recruiters offering contract/permanent positions. All the big companies are also hiring. So if you have a certain level of seniority I can imagine it's easier to land a new job now.
I followed some of the discussions of the porting to guile3. I have been amazed at what kind of code guile1.8 allowed, with _no_ separation of macro expansion and runtime.:

(defmacro (foo bar)
(define (baz n) (bar 4 n))
baz)
((foo +) 4)

would work just fine. No separation between runtime and compile time. this hasn't been the case since 2.0, but 1.8 is still used places. Hopefully their port to guile 3 works so that they can reap the benefits of the work out in there over the last 10 years.
If you have an Amiga (or any other old electronic device), then you should remove any old batteries inside. Batteries leak and destroy electronics.