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I really enjoy SlipWays, a PICO-8 game. [1]

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If you're going to be so disparaging of someone with such great contributions and intellect, it'd be nice if you could at least get the facts straight and not muddy everything in your response. It's pretty impossible to comprehend what you're talking about and what's been so "misleading" about Tao's image, especially considering the "herd immunity" strategy (UK) is in many ways the diametric opposite of the "flattening the curve" approach (that of much of the rest of the world).
Huh, interesting. I wonder if ADHD amphetamine users get sick less often than others.

It's just a personal anecodte, but whenever I get sick, I take amphetamine salts. It absolutely lets me power through the day and relieves symptoms (mostly stuffy nose), but I don't know if it's sustainable for something as long lasting as c19.
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As a web developer I reject that change :P
GOL can be made into a turing machine so this shouldnt come as a surprise https://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/teaching/271fall09/Turing-M...
> isn't it better that rich people are encouraged to hoard when supply is plentiful?

The market signal that would make rich people hoard masks in the good times would be ... an expectation that if an unexpected crisis arose then prices would rise to extreme values. Nothing else is going to make that happen. Not even most governments manage to resist economising and running down their medical supplies after the last health scare they faced.

I'm not going to hoard in good times because I'm not crazy; I know I can't be ready for everything. I'm just going to try and preempt everyone else at the start of a crisis. It won't work every time but that is the strategy that makes sense if the crisis response is includes 'stopping price-gouging'.

If we allowed price gouging, I might seriously keep a few extra boxes of masks ready for selling to others the next time this happened. I like money. I have some shelf space. The only question is will prices go high enough to justify using it.
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> A lot of this is a direct result of feeling that one always needs to be on the bleeding edge, which is both unnecessary and also a recipe for wasting time on fads.

The problem with this is that everyone jumps on new fads so quickly that, if you don't, you're likely to endup with a bug-ridden, half-baked, vulnerability-riddled, unmaintained/abandoned, slowly collapsing, termite-infested framework as the basis of your entire SAAS business, or whatever it is you're trying to run on something that even the creators abandoned for the next fad.

> What happens to me, personally, is I start on some new project or company using a pretty recent stack at the time. Over the course of the next few years, that stack becomes "outdated" as new things are released. However, it also matures as its documentation improves and its community grows.

You have to be very, very lucky to accidentally end up with a "pretty recent stack" that will still be maintained in five years. On the other hand, the next part shows that you don't actually go with the 5+ year old "stood the test of time" tools:

> Eventually, after 2-5 years, I move on to another project, and just take that time to catch up on the latest.

Having to learn a whole new sub-ecosystem in as little as two years is exactly the kind of mind-destroying grind everyone's complaining about. I don't think anyone's just jumping on the newest thing that appears every six months; they're all just having to move to some new toolset every two to five years and burning out ten years into a career because otherwise they'll end up having to be the new maintainers of whatever tools they're using due to the fact nobody else is using them (and thus no one else is maintaining them) any longer.
I think the most famous example of this is Prince not wanting Al to parody his work. A pity.
That's why we're talking about deaths, not mortality. Mortality requires you to know the number of people who are infected which as stated above can be inaccurate because many people are not getting tested. However, it's less likely that a person who dies of pneumonia in hospital won't be tested. Also, there is likely to be a smaller proportion of deaths happening outside of hospitals than there are infections so you should consider the number of deaths to be more accurate than the number of cases.
You are right, I misremembered https://twitter.com/skooks/status/1248072346801442817, edited my post above to reflect that.
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Some great work here - I am surprised I haven't seen this one before.
That sounds rough.

Thanks for sharing.
I can't remember where it was I read (saw this years ago), but the way to actually get help online isn't to ask a question 'cos nobody responds ... you have to propose an incorrect solution where suddenly everyone jumps up to correct you with the answer you're looking for.
I'm also confused about the notion of John Conway's COVID-19 case being a UK case. Although Conway was originally from the UK, the press and Wikipedia reports refer to his getting sick and dying in New Jersey, where he was a professor at Princeton.
And all of us with similar stories are all suffering now because everything we’ve worked up to control our panic is exactly the thing that triggers it. Fuck me.
> Food is largely a free market in the US.

No country in which there are corn subsidies is there a "free market."
In High School, I went to a summer chemistry program. One professor had 23 degrees, for real, ranging from chemistry to religion. I don't know if he had more than one Ph.D.

But when I got to college, one of my professors had been this first guy's student, and one of my other professors had been the second professor's student.

fwiw...
The other interesting admission is that the first case was Jan 3 and the ward was flooded with patients by mid-January, well before the CCP finally took action and locked down Wuhan on Jan 23rd.
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The coding tests in many places no longer test coding. They test algorithms, dynamic programming, or how to deal with ambiguity for an incredibly under specified problem. They are useful in weeding out 80% of the candidates who are clueless, but they don’t provide much reliable distinguishing signal for the 20% that remain. The coding interview isn’t going to tell you the difference between a junior or senior dev. Heck, given that universities prep kids these days for google style leetcode interviews while a senior dev lacks the time for full time prep, junior devs are likely to do better on it.
> Customize your environment to what makes you the most efficient.

This is a valid advice, but on a fundamental level, how is it better or worse than "Learn to be the most efficient for your environment" ?

IMO it comes down to which is harder/expensive, changing yourself or your environment, and on this site in particular, I don't think there is a clear consensus on one or another.
The last good version of Outlook was 2010. Ever since they re-wrote the UI form 2013 onward, it's got more progressively worse.
I break all those down in my video on The Terminator and its code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U It's all from Nibble Magazine.
UI issues aside, I think this is quite fabulous. Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it. Although I do wonder how easy it will be for the whole nation to switch from one alphabet to another when they're so drastically different. I don't suppose any Mongolians are here to give their input?
I do not follow American popular music, but enjoy Al a great deal (and have also seen him live).
A consequence of this it that I have heard a great many songs for the first time after I have become habituated to ‘Weird’ Al’s (usually superior) version, which can be a little odd at times.
If you look at test results you probably won’t learn much. There will be far fewer tests than cases and most cases will never be tested. It seems more likely that you’ll just be measuring some other effect of how testing is done, for example if the number of tests per day ramps up slowly (and non exponentially) then it seems likely that you will observe Rt to be decreasing (as the number of confirmed cases isn’t shooting up), especially if people are mostly only tested when they turn up in hospital and are expected to be positive. I don’t know how much the author’s model accounts for that but I find the confidence intervals very unconvincing. I would expect them to be much larger.

This study tries to estimate Rt in several European countries from the death rates though there are issues with those statistics too: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19estimates/
> You're right though if Rome has a formatter that looks nice I suppose I wouldn't care

Well, then I guess it wouldn't be an "uphill battle" :)
I don't really have anything meaningful to add here, but thanks for sharing. I'm certain your story will be helpful to others here.
Amazing! Meanwhile, Inkscape still uses gtk2 on Linux, so won't support things like scaling on Wayland. :(
That's only true because nobody can make a profit off extra capacity. If there was a way to make it profitable then the factories would have slack capacity built into them.
> sysadmin thinks this is a good idea putting in the default /etc/profile

Well that, I agree, would be dumb.
They don't need to enable it, it's enabled. Yes, you can put mutable data in the DHT used by all libtorrent programs (qBittorrent for instance).
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I'm halfway through rediscovering the joy of programming by only coding stuff that I'm actually interested in.

That is one of the main reasons I moved into a devops engineer role at a company that doesn't quite understand that devops is not a role, so while frustrating at times, it's actually quite handy, no more developing on a daily basis on stuff I'm barely interested in.

So far I've done a bit of developing at work for things that I've volunteered and doing some embedded programming in C because why not?
I've been learning to use this just recently, as part of considering purchasing this pen plotter from the Evil Mad Scientist, https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846

I had no idea it is also actively maintained and reaching stable, I hope vector graphics make a big comeback in many more construction-art kind of ways than just mobile apps or webverts.
It does, technically speaking, and if it's the whole article I don't think fair use applies, BUT the website is protected by the DMCA so the onus is on Nat Geo to issue a takedown request. Second, legality aside, it's morally unjustifiable to have so much cruft and trackers on a webpage. I mean it's loading 1 MB of Javascript for what looks like a fairly straightforward, static website. Even if it's loaded async / after the main content, it's still an unreasonable amount for a website like this; if anything they should use a proper bundler so it only loads what is necessary.

(I've had great results for a site like this using Gatsby + Netlify)
> Android programming.

Android Studio and Gradle can both die in a fire - how anyone manages to actually write a decent app with those two, is completely beyond me.
> Chinese script is a bad fit for any non-Sinitic language. The languages that did adopt the script (mostly Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese)

What does "adopt the script" mean? From what I understand, Korean is an alphabet language designed to look a bit like Chinese if you squint hard, and Vietnamese is straight up a latin alphabet language.
No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-...
Couldn't agree more with this. After 15 years of OO with Java/Ruby/Javascript I switched to Elixir and Elm and have really enjoyed not just the freshness of something new but the elegance of the more mathematical approach that functional programming leans on. 3 years on and I'm enjoying coding more now than I ever have.
Maybe it fits under fair use as critique. It's a critique showing the bloatedness of the original article. And it's only using 0.6% (0.006) of the original to make its point.
Policies on for-profit healthcare vary widely. if anything the consensus among the developed world is socialized or non-profit systems with private markets playing a supplemental rather than primary role. Housing is more mixed, but some of the most liveable places like Vienna or Singapore have heavily regulated or socialised housing sectors.

So I think there is more variance on essential goods than you imply.

The general advantage of markets is rational distribution of goods through the mechanism of the price signal. in emergency situations, there isn't really a lot of price finding we need to do. We know where markets need to go (hospitals) and we need to produce significantly more than we realistically even can right now.
And if you want to be a firefighter, you have to pass fitness tests and climb ladders and stuff. If you want to be an actor or musician, you have to audition. The employer wants to know what you know. I guess maybe some people think of these these tests as pass/fail where if you forget a semicolon you "failed" the whiteboard interview. Any job where you don't have a degree or professional certification guaranteeing a bare minimum of knowledge will ask you to demonstrate your abilities and what you know. The fact that you don't do that in some professions is more of an indication of how hard it is to test without a comprehensive knowledge-based examination. Software development is not unique. If you say you're qualified for the job, you have to demonstrate it somehow.
Personally I agree with idea. Software development and IT nowadays is complex. Do you really think that whiteboard interview can truly check anything? It will check if you can memorize definitions and patterns for solving tricky questions and that's it.
That might work for some type of people, however I work poorly under such stress, my mind goes blank and I can't remember simplest definitions. I don't want to work for FAANG, I'm not math genius, I don't specialize in theoretical CS.
I want to collect requirements, look for solution (often with help of the internet) and provide good enough solution that solves problem at hand.
Currently I work in DevOps. I can easily answer most questions from my team and help troubleshoot issues at different areas. Should I never work in IT, because on some interview, my mind goes blank and I struggle with question that can be easily answered by CS student?
I don’t feel like fizzbuz is beneath me, but Alien Dictionary is annoying the 10th time you are given it. Thankfully I got an offer from Google a couple of weeks ago, but I did spend way too much time doing interview prep.
> My hyperbole aside, real people do behave like this. Look at the guys buying up all the hand sanitizer. Look at all the hoarding and panic buying that went on.

But then they're not price-insensitive billionaires, so if the price goes up it deters them from hoarding (and gives them a financial motive to unload their existing hoard), which is exactly what you want.

> It's 18 months or so before we get a vaccine. There's plenty of incentive to hoard PPE.

It's 18 months or so before we get a vaccine, but not before anybody can start manufacturing more PPE, which is already starting to happen and will only increase if demand doesn't subside. And if demand does subside, same result.

> If rich clinics outbid poor clinics for a limited supply, we'll see rich places stocking up and poor places going without.

What allocation process are you proposing that would avoid things like that happening? The same one we use to allocate tax dollars to bailouts doesn't feel like a strong candidate.
I think (and hope) that as translation tech gets better, we'll see a renewed interest in local languages and dialects.
I think it's commonly accepted that it's the NHS IT infrastructure that's b0rked, and not Windows per se.
The point, as per the article mentioned in the parent comment, is to talk about merging patches rather than snapshots. This allows you to force certain nice properties of merges like associativity.

Sometimes you need information about deleted things in your patch to be able to merge correctly though I don’t have an example from the top of my head
Interesting you mention Firefox because, when you think about it, a web browser (just like an operating system) is a massive pluggable system. They changed the plugin system, but they haven't (as far as I know) broken web standards, so that 20 year old websites still work today.

In that regard, browsers aren't that bad.
You're spot on. Kevin's idea and graphs are nice but they rely on a flawed hypothesis, namely that all states test the same way, taste the same amount per capita etc. They don't. So our graphs can only be as good as the numbers we put in and testing is still very insufficient.
As bruce511 has already said, why would a company hire you instead of a cheaper provider?

This is the thing to consider. You could play on the fact that you have some reputable clients you've worked with in the geography already.

This can be seen as you being a trusted source within Europe perhaps?
There must be a philosophical term for it but imho "potentially existing" (or having the potentiality of being constructed) is not the same thing as actually "existing" (in the reality that surrounds us).

Leaving aside the fact that we're not even sure numbers "exist", for better or worse, their "existence" is just us abstracting away some quantitates for different stuff (we've passed from counting cows or sheep on clay tablets 5000 years ago to believing that there could actually be an infinite number for us to count to).

And yes, I do believe there's a huge impedance mismatch between the world as we experience it around us and the different theoretical constructs that we now call physics or maths. I'm a Hume-ian, a guy who didn't take mathematical induction for granted (presumably not the Fibonacci series either).
> changing yourself or your environment

After more than 25 years of using software, IMHO it's a losing battle to try to change the environment around you. It's also a losing battle to try to change yourself. You'll never keep up in the long run. After a while the pace of change becomes so rapid, and change comes from every corner at every level. Eventually what you once knew becomes useless and outdated. You can keep up to some extent, but be prepared for a lifetime of unpleasant surprises.

What works, IMO, is instead to build an environment around yourself that works for you, that protects you from the things changing that you can't control. An internal abstraction layer, a bubble. Then when the bubble breaks in little pinpricks and starts crumbling, you can repair the internal environment to be pretty much what it was before. So by all means, make your own little commands and scripts and stuff. Get cozy, but try to pick your battles wisely on what you will depend.
Several times in my career I have worked with people in software developer roles who could not write basic code. This was not a situation of mistaken title, they were in a position where they were expected to write code and could not. In several cases, they struggled to operate Visual Studio in spite of claiming to be a proficient .NET developer. Non-technical management could not tell the difference or nepotism was involved. In each case, it took months to weed them out while other developers had to shoulder their work.

I am now in a position where I lead an organization that hires hundreds of software engineers every year. We start our interview process with take at home coding tests as a first line screening. These tests are not hard (I am no longer a day to day developer, they are not hard even for me) and of course you can always go to Stack Overflow. ~20% of our candidates fail them routinely. I am glad we are not wasting time interviewing them.

Those are facts. There are no facts in the article. Until this industry deals with its fraud problem and certifies engineers like other fields, technical testing is here to stay.
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Just saw him for the first time at the Greek theatre in LA last summer :-).
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> The author does not mention his experience interviewing or hiring people

"Most recently I was the CTO of RateIt where I probably interviewed over 100 developers."
Surprisingly more than 200 people upvoted this link
It is also interesting how morality scales. Presumably, when things get back to normal it will still be moral to exploit one family's crisis for profit (or 100, or 1000). But now we've hit a certain number of families the same activity becomes morally wrong.
In my other post, I got the readline method down to one control code. You type "mv name" and hit the assigned control character, which produces a second copy of the name that you can edit in place. It works with any command: mv, cp, ln, git mv ... The editing is in the same command line, resulting in a proper argument that is in the command line. It gets saved into your history, and can be pasted into a script.
That's interesting -- although I agree that it's important to distinguish programming languages from spoken languages and that they do very different things, I could imagine that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis applies better to programming languages than to natural languages!

After all, we hear all the time that programmers in a particular environment analyze problems differently, or think of different solutions, or do or don't write certain kinds of bugs, compared to programmers in a different environment. Since strong forms of Sapir-Whorf have come in for so much criticism among linguists as applied to natural language, I'm not sure my intuition about this points in the same direction as the author's!
Another alternative for bare metal Go is TamaGo, developed by F-Secure for their USB armory pen.

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/
I've been working from home for years now, so not noticing much of a change.

My biggest change is going grocery shopping, which has gotten a lot harder..

Also it's very "interesting" to see how so many people on Linkedin and the likes making these massive statements of "how to work from home" and trying to profit off "tools and discoveries" they've made to help you wfh more easily.

I mean, it's not that hard. Just wfh. done.
Don't know what exactly he means, but I have a similar feeling. My area is a performance-oriented close-to-metal backend, but when I have to do something in the UI I find it extremely opinionated and 90% of the code you read is to make angular work while 10% is for your actual task.