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I just want to throw this out there, just in case you haven't deeply considered it. I'm sure others will answer your question more properly.

Have you considered that maybe you don't want to be doing software engineering and with this precious remaining time would rather prepare for something entirely different? Not sure what your financial situation will be or if you live somewhere with sufficient social support, but if you're going to be blind for life (and you're very young), optimizing for employment (ie. "I'm already a software engineer, may as well commit to that") might not be the best way to live a full and fulfilling life.
You should try out a lisp. They have the simplest syntax and the code is quite concise.

> This code turned out to be a lot more complicated than I anticipated. The patch ended up adding a hundred lines of Arc. A hundred lines of Arc! Do you have any idea how many lines of Arc that is? I just looked through the history and the last commit that added that many lines of code was over two years ago when we got Arc to compile to JS. [1]

Clojure is quite well documented, and you can do full stack development with it (clojurescript). Intellij has good support for it, and it stores the state of code as an ast. I think there are addons for dealing with ast (search/replace) as well.

Also, you might want to "settle down" wrt your dev setup (tech, tools), since jumping from project to project, tool to tool won't be that easy. Maybe pick a self contained environment you can learn inside out (smalltalk, tools.deps).

Emacs seems to check all these points, but it's still visual oriented. Maybe build one yourself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767204
Democracy definitely depends on citizens being informed enough to collectively make intelligent choices, but whether infotainment is serving that right now is debatable.

In real life that happens through peer networks as much as the news.
> He had to stop working on languages like Python where a screen reader is of little help.

i find this interesting. is it due to the space significance thingy?
I briefly studied mathematical biology, and remember there being some debate about whether tumor growth was more accurately modeled by logistic growth or Gompertz growth [1]. I'd be curious to know whether your fits get better or worse if you replace your logistic-based model with a Gompertz-based model.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function
Los Angeles has mandated you have to wear a face covering when going into essential businesses.
If you are in the USA then I think the best profession for the blind is the legal trade. Do you have it in you to change careers?

Courts in the USA are by and large accommodating thanks to the ADA.

Your technical background, with the loss of vision, with a legal degree, and I think you’d have a very long, lucrative, and fulfilling career.
> how something like this could ever make him money.

It's really simple, less death from preventable diseases reduces poverty, and increasing the sustainable prices for Microsoft products and services. More revenue for Microsoft lifts stock price and billg's net worth.

Of course, the math doesn't add up if billg has to spend all his money to do it, and not just Microsoft reaps the benefits, which is why he's trying to get lots of other wealthy people to spend their money similarly --- then everyone who benefits can share the cost.

(Mostly toungue in cheek)
Please don't feel bad about yourself. Very very very few people can have high standards in life and continue living up to those standards where no one will ever criticize them (heck, even Mother Teresa got a lot of criticism[1]).

> All of life is moral compromise

So true. I wonder what sort of life critics of FANG/big-tech live.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
Does anyone care to provide a synopsis? I'm not comfortable with registering with an anti-Semitic newspaper.

https://youtu.be/asQ8KFrZY84?t=1067
Thanks for sharing. I'll have a look
Actually the other way round: how to get an url out of the address bar. It used to be that a double click was enough since the X Window system copies selections automatically to the clipboard.
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Is this an admission that some wealthy have knowingly made irresponsible economic decisions?
Double down on your company. That success will be your credentials and how to make you’re living.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
> I'm just saying, if you implant an RFID digital certificate, you're effectively a walking uuid beacon.

We already carry beacons in our pockets all the time, and the government is already a subpoena away from getting that data. What do injected beacons buy Bill Gates exactly? Whatever it is, it feels like a ton of effort for not a ton of gain, tracking-wise, given that the beacons we have already broadcast their location over a much larger area.
You guys are pieces of shit for participating in any aspect of this contact tracing thing. They are doing RSSI logging with timestamp data that can be used for precise localization of each observed BLE stack - opt in or not - and with zero requirements for a cryptographic PRNG for rolling identifiers which will result in the ability to unroll everything back to the original source. This is a garbage project that will do nothing but create a massive surveillance network that needs no connectivity to the MTSO. Not surprising from the YT homo programmer crowd. Bet you have a Dallas Mavericks mask on while you push Swift.
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There was a boy in this test. He always experienced grown-ups lying to him. So he thought: Better have that one cookie now because when that guy returns he might take it away.
> Bill Gates doesn’t need a crazy plan to sway elections — he can just buy tons of ads! He can fund others’ campaigns!

Buying tons of ads seemed to work pretty well for Bloomberg.
I use compressed tape archives recorded on DVDs.
Sure, but keeping up testing, contact tracing and other South Korea-style suppression measures is no big deal compared to the severe restrictions most other countries have had to implement. It's very troubling to shut down the economy for a whole year, but it's certainly plausible to sustain those measures until a vaccine is ready.
VAT+UBI is still regressive, you're just subtracting a constant factor. So instead of hitting the poor the hardest, you're hitting the middle class the hardest and creating a valley around where the break-even point is.

In addition, since VAT taxes don't apply to capital transactions (as there's nothing added when you buy or sell a stock), the vast majority of transactions conducted by the upper class won't be hit by this.
If you're looking to create a macOS VM (w/ GPU Passthrough), I've made a detailed guide here: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

I believe my guide is better at avoiding GPU driver initialization problems than others. I'll need to update it to support OpenCore however.
You can also simulate these kind of experiments using EM solvers.
I would recommend trying to study up on Section 508 compliance https://www.hhs.gov/web/section-508/index.html. It's a set of rules that all government orgs in the US must follow for making sure their content is accessible. If you do end up becoming visually impaired you'll end up with a unique perspective on building accessible websites.
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I believe all across internet, there is a paid army of trolls who just want to spew vitriol about a company, paid directly/indirectly by the detractors of the said company. Granted, there are a few true believers but these days in general, I find only negative news / comments about more and more companies.
Completely in agreement with you here. Replace marketing with marketing himself in my above comment.
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I think grandparent comment was referring to the CPU part not whole SoC. Arm has never sold entire SoC beyond a limited number of test chips. Juno is a test/evaluation chip only.
OrbitDB is one of the key dependencies in 3box, an awesome tool for building decentralized apps where the user controls their own data. https://3box.io/
The whole point of UBI is that it has lower disincentives against work than other kinds of social insurance. When you say that UBI discourages working, that's perhaps true compared w/ no social insurance at all but it's not a very meaningful comparison.
The big problem with all radio based contact tracing solutions is the receiver. Receivers use at a minimum several mW of power. A typical Bluetooth low energy receiver will use about 50mW so will drain a coin cell battery in a day. Bluetooth low energy saves energy by transmitting for very short periods of time so transmit power is low but receiver power can be high. Even asking most consumers to leave their phone's Bluetooth recovery on all day is a big ask because of the impact on battery life.

Schemes could be designed to better synchronise receivers and transmitters so the receiver can be switched off most of the time but this currently can't be done with Bluetooth.
edbrowse(1) is developed by seeing-impaired person - it's a webbrowser with ed(1)-like interface which also does JS. I've heard it's awesome for scripting! Though it requires som ed(1)ucation.
Both of these are wrong, and the exponential one becomes more wrong faster, while being a better match for the beginning of the curve.

Exponential processes don't exist in nature, they always break into some other curve at some point.
I just learned how to make my website accessible to screen readers (using aria labels, tabindex, etc). You should definitely check it out now to learn how it works. I only did part of my website and it seems like a full-time job. I'm not blind, so I am sure I could have done much better if I was more familiar with tools like Mac's VoiceOver. I am sure there's a market for these skills, especially in any company that has a decent amount of users. Best of luck!
The problem is divide-and-conquered mentality of tribalism, mob rule, dog-piling, conspiracy theories and scapegoating out of weakness, ignorance, and/or cowardice. The main global root cause is the weakness of the people to not come together through solidarity and rational, constructive purpose to push back the tides of the rich neoliberal inverted totalitarian establishment who is destroying the planet and impoverishing/exploiting billions of people through corruption and force.

Also, it will get better. The virus will evolve to be weaker, antibody and/or surface antigen vaccines will come online, IgG/IgM ELISA tests will eventually be $10, and habits and behaviors will adapt. This isn't the end of the world, climate change is a much larger existential threat. To that end, it's worth ending meat agriculture because of the following reasons that I've been shouting pointlessly into a hurricane about for years:

- climate change

- pandemic evolution

- antibiotic resistance

- resource inefficiency / nutritional availability and distribution

- peak phosphorus (which may be deferred)

- animal welfare
Traditionally, amateur radio license exams in the US are performed in-person with a three examiner requirement. Due to COVID-19, most test sessions were cancelled, bringing amateur radio examinations to a halt. Adapting to video conferencing and online exam administration tools isn't the be-all end-all to amateur radio testing, but it has been able to keep the flow of exams going.
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I think it was all things iCloud, and your explanation for the issue does ring a bell.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/business-owners-say-their-perso...
Very much so. Would be hard to breathe at any accident site with a leak.
Can you share the original source / how you found the document? Thanks!
I've not heard this. Can you explain how? And are you also suggesting that UBI proponents support abolition of other kinds of social insurance, replacing them with (not augmenting them with) UBI?
Imagine having your own restaurant and someone pass by and places a sign outside that reads “ come in and eat all you want for free “
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These kids that drink and smoke pot are paying in personal debt, the taxpayer is not really subsidizing this (at least based on what I was reading). For most career paths outside a small portion of the technology, college is the only way.

Part of the problem is that the US is not spending enough taxpayer money into education. If the US spends a portion of it military budget 570B$ to enhance education spending 70B$ problem could be massively reduced. To compare Germany
military spending 50B€ and education 130B€.
Nope.

You can look at the ARM example I included to see how one implementation defines it. It that correct or incorrect? It's implementation defined and supported by compiler vendors. Maybe not yours.

If you can't find out if it's supported for your environment, you shouldn't do it. I agree. But to claim you can't do this with C in general is silly. You clearly can.
If you have two cards that are going to talk to each other one needs to be listening when the other is transmitting, if they're off 95% of the time (like the stuff I design) then 95% of the time someone transmits no one will be listening.

You can try and do something smart around synchonising wakeup times nationwide, but that is genuinely hard (and requires a xtal clock to be awake at all times, also burning power)
Some reduction is better than no reduction.
I'm skeptical whenever I see a teardown like this which fails to mention that the offical case counts have all the same problems. Maybe we should dismiss this paper - but that means committing ourselves to radical skepticism about the prevalence, not going back and believing the numbers printed in the news.
Kind of - it closed the borders for Europeans traveling to the US, but did little to manage Americans returning from abroad. Given March is winter in the US (thus less tourism), I would imagine the majority of Europe -> US traffic at the time is Americans returning home, that's a rather weak closure.
The key thing to understand about Hobsbawm is not just that he was a Marxist, but what particular version of Marxism he prescribed to.

Marxism was introduced in the middle of the 19th century, but toward the end of that century there were two enormous changes. The first was vanguardism. Marx thought the working class would soon spontaneously rise up and overthrow capitalism. But when that failed to happen, Lenin decided that the working class had been tricked into false consciousness, and instead they needed to be lead by a highly disciplined elite.

Secondly, Marx predicted the overthrow of capitalism and its replacing with socialism would take place in the advanced industrial countries. When that failed to happen, the idea arose that it could instead take place in pre-industrial countries, something the original Marxism considered impossible.

These two ideas were combined in the Russian Revolution and lead, not to the free, anarchistic socialism of Marx, but Stalin's brutal totalitarianism. And the same thing happened in every other pre-industrial country where vanguardist Marxists came to power, and also in the Eastern European industrialized countries where it was imposed from the outside.

Hobsbawn, from what I understand, continued to believe til the end of his life in vanguardist, pre-industrial Marxism.
Exactly - I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I'm highly highly skeptical
edbrowse(1) is developed by seeing-impaired person (Karl Dahlke) - it's a webbrowser with ed(1)-like interface which also does JS. I've heard it's awesome for scripting! Though it requires som ed(1)ucation.

http://edbrowse.org/
https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...
> Good designers don't work for free.

Is there any company employing them ? Because i find the user interfaces from the 80-90 even 00 much more usable that the today's crap. Remember help buton ? Remember buttons ? Why does windows 10 looks the same and behaves worse than windows 1.0 ?
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This is for XFCE, which has one of the simplest tools for setting the font rendering right, with instant visual feedback. At least when i used it. Even in multimonitor setups with different resolutions/orientations.
Scarcity meaning that if person A owns it, person B/C/D etc. cannot, because (in this example) there is only one. Most digital files are infinitely copyable, and there aren't good DRM solutions for managing this conundrum that actually give real ownership rights to the owner... until blockchain.

Why is this a problem? Ask a creative content creator.

How is blockchain solving this in practice? One example: https://www.niftygateway.com/
last time I tested it needed to fetch the whole db to do even the most basic reads, so even simple but long running applications had a very long, network intensive initialization time. is that still the case?
I would disagree. If you were accepted, but then had significant changes to your application you should reapply.

It makes sense that an acceptance is good for 3 months, and then you’ll need to reapply after that. If you went to a new school, the reapplication process is different.
Imagine having your own restaurant and someone comes and places a sign outside that reads “ come in and eat all you want for free “
No, because that’s a fraction of the kids.
At least in the US, this all has exposed a lot of the problems with various systems, some of which are still not getting very much attention. And there are structural problems this will lay bare, such as the injustice as well as economic stupidity of not having public single payer healthcare. There is unacceptable inequity.

So shouldn't anger and resentment be justifiable?

I guess I'm not sure what the author is looking for. For everyone to pretend the problems laid bare by the epidemic don't exist?

My guess is the next wave of this is when the lockdowns are lifted because the economic costs become too much to bear, and then the deaths and illness still increase — when people realize you can have a lockdown and still afterwards have a growth in cases because there's no vaccine or herd immunity. I suspect things will return to normal and become better in many ways, but become very unfamiliar and worse in others.
I don't know if this is helpful to you, but recently I stumbled across this[1] post by a blind developer. He's touching briefly on his setup of choice and what tools he chose and why.

[1]https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...

I wish you the best of luck.
Consider getting a job at a fortune 100 company or with the federal government, or with a company that does contracting for the federal government.
It's about CPM's. More user information attracts higher valued ads. One such use case is advert frequency capping; only showing a particular user an ad a certain number of times over a certain time period. You can't do that without being able to identify a user (by IP, cookie, IFA, whatever), which needs GDPR consent.
That’s an interesting idea. Could you point me at any papers on the subject?
javascript? No thanks.
How did you come up with 0.3% number of bodies / maximum possible infections, aka total population? I'm trying to wrap my head around this whole mess...

Take Lombardy, hardest hit region in Europe. 1130 deaths / million, or about 0.1% death rate. All German states are under 100 deaths per million, which is less than 0.01% death rate. Sanity check: Bayern, 1.2k deaths/13M people ~ 0.01%.

Of course, this is a lower bound estimate assuming all people in a given region have got through the disease. Which is definitely not true. To figure out how bad is going to get we need the total number of infected people. Hopefully the random testing strategy will shed some light on that number. But at least we start [much] lower than 0.3%.

https://covid19.quersive.com/chart?c=M&e=IT-Lombardy&e=DE-BW...
What policies are you saying were misguided and should not have been taken based on the predicted elevated death toll?

How does one evaluate the OpenTable data and feed it into the model they were using to estimate the amount of social distancing?
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Two years ago i took my very old 2009 gaming pc bought fastest processor for the socket (LGA1156) on ebay for giggles (20usd) and put hackintosh on it.

Took a weekend to figure out but after that became pretty solid. So solid in fact that it became my main machine. I don't know what am i missing but i cut videos, make screencasts, work in blender... it all seems just fine.

I am doing this professionally not as hobby its my main workstation.

Now i was probably pretty lucky and for soundcard i need to use external one (i would anyway). But i am pretty sure if you buy right components you will get as stable mac as original and you will be done in two hours not days like me.
Option 2 is totally unrealistic, to be honest. I commend you if you find a way to keep people locked up for 24 months, without economic, social and mental health repercussions. I'm going insane for "just" close to 50 days.

I vote for option 3: drug development and usage. The first wave of results (many, I expect, won't be stellar, but that's what often happens) on repurposed drugs will arrive in a couple months. Afterwards, there will be the new agents in study (more targeted to SARS-CoV-2 or the adverse clinical effects).

Biocentury lists more than 200 molecules among vaccines and therapeutics in study at this point. If we have to bet short term, instead of locking down, it's the drugs we need to place our bet on.
This is a great idea. I think I might do the same. Thanks!
The calm before the storm happens in countries that are not testing people adequately. The numbers seem to explode when they really start testing.

South Korea is still testing aggressively. Recently they even started re-testing recovered patients. Those who tested positive had their contacts traced and tested too. As long as they remain vigilant, they will not see another big explosion. They seem to have the right attitude.

I’m waiting to see if there will be a little outbreak as a result of the elections they held recently.
The US could have ramped up production, but politics and regulation prevented it. The CDC and FDA prevented any private companies from producing their own tests and in the meantime the CDC made their own small batch of tests that weren’t even accurate. If the president had taken the outbreak seriously we could have begun test production immediately, which is what South Korea did the moment they heard about the outbreak. This is largely due to systems put in place during and after the SARS and MERS outbreaks.
I'm genuinely curious: is "wifi-enabled"/"smart" (on devices that are historically non-tech) an actual selling point for some group of consumers? Do people actually ask for it, or are they just getting sold on it or accepting it because there isn't really a choice?
I took a similar path to you. I did 2 years at CC and 1.5 years at UC.

And oh man, IGETC is bringing back some memories.

The resource I found useful for CC students in California was the https://assist.org tool to 1:1 map out your CC units against your CSU/UC credits so you are in and out of there efficiently (or better yet, are able to sign a guaranteed transfer agreement which can relieve some long-term stress about the admissions process).

Bonus points -- at least when I was at CC, I recall SATs were not required (although I had done them during high school), nor were the foreign language requirements quite as stringent!
There are quite a few blind engineers at my company.

Most of the folks I've worked with are either backend engineers or working on frontend accessibility-related features. (Frontend engineering doesn't just include design for sighted users!)

While I don't have any experience myself, I'd recommend looking at braille displays in addition to screen readers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
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