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> I know I cannot explain it properly; but why is open source such a superior way to develop infrastructure software?

Isn't it just cost? As you say software is immaterial and so the only real cost is in the labor to create it which open source neatly does away with.
> has tech [...] been the primary source of American innovation because it represented the future? Or has it been the future because it was the only space where innovation was possible, because of things like inertia and regulatory capture in the real world?

Here's a third option: Due to Baumol's cost disease, if the wages for Java programmers rise, the wages for CNC milling machine programmers are going to go in the same direction - and if manufacturers can't pay, there will be a "skills shortage"

Why would a graduate who can program and design electronics do the latter, if the former pays 3x as much straight out of college?
Genuine question: Do you not have issues with browsers and other security products and OCSP? At work they blocked all internet access and tools that forced use of CRL and OCSP lost their minds. Digicert and other CAs seem to to use port 80 for this. Firefox requires OCSP option to be disabled for me for GitHub to work with pauses.
One theory is that people are dying but it hasn't been discovered yet because of people staying inside. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi

Having just ridden the Yamanote today though, it's unreal how empty it is.
We have tools to combat an economic collapse. The defense we have against COVID is to shelter in place until we get a huge testing system up and running (which we currently don't have a plan for).
Not an app, but Domino's website has a pizza builder that shows the toppings being added onto a pizza as you select them.
Did you watch Cerny’s presentation, specifically the part on the custom SSD architecture? I took the opposite conclusion: This is the most innovative development from the console market in possibly decades. They’re throwing everything behind optimizing the SSD-to-VRAM pipeline in a way that component-built PCs won’t be able to do until several new industry standards are developed, with potentially profound impacts on the way games are designed.

It’s specifically an interesting contrast with the Playstation 3’s exotic Cell processor architecture, which was probably driven more by a desire to appear innovative than by practical applications. By moving to standard x86 architecture, Sony has counterintuitively allowed its system designers to focus on areas that will actually give game developers some novel possibilities.
Lots of workplaces and any luxury apartment has bike storage with plugs in them. I'm in the midwest U.S.
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Hmmm, perhaps they had a trademark issue in Germany? That explains a rebrand cleanly. Of course they did.
Your notes are incredibly vital for a pandemic historian on the absurdity of bureaucracy. The doctor has nothing to lose by not taking more initiative. From your notes it appears she is just a better-schooled seat-filling administrator, sadly. I am astonished to find the bloat in the FDA and CRDH during this crisis with repeated unresponsiveness.
Lessons for Developers to Prevent Zoombombing and Zoom's Security Blunders
I use qbe, it's great. Here's a mostly feature-complete C11 compiler based on qbe:

https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/cproc
I'd agree with all that. An in the past I'd also tend to like non-profits more until I've realized that these are as vulnerable as a for-profit in terms of ideological contamination.
I bet this will the hottest web-design trend for next two years.
Scrolling the page takes up 100% CPU, and has like 1 FPS.

You should do something about that.
Assuming the ratio of cases with symptoms to cases without symptoms usually remains the same, I must admit I don't immediately understand why it would be important to determine the amount of asymptomatic cases to determine the risk. It seems to me the growth rate of (symptomatic) cases would be the major indicator for that. (Obviously it would be of general interest, but I mean specifically with respect to gauging the risk).

It all seems to hinge on the assumption that with the implemented "strategy A", nobody with pneumonia would be tested for Covid19 unless they have a known connection to a symptomatic case. That of course would be a mistake. But were people really that complacent that it would never occur to them to test for Covid19, even as the rest of the world is talking about nothing else? (Availability of tests is of course a factor here, but should only be a temporary impediment).

I am interested in it, because here in Germany there also is currently a discussion of the virus spreading silently, only to come back in full force in fall if we become complacent. I must admit I don't fully understand the logic behind that, as surely when it spreads silently, it also has a proportion of symptomatic cases in its wake, so that in the end, it doesn't spread silently after all.
The other thing Surface does wrong is no Thunderbolt. I wouldn't buy a laptop without Thunderbolt ever again because being able to attach a new GPU extends its usefulness by years. I can still play games on my 2013 13" MBP using Thunderbolt 2, anything with 6+ cores and TB3 is going to be competent for a very long time.
Being the status quo for technical companies doesn't make it legal, moral, or fair.
Hypothesis: if you have any pre-existing lung conditions, you are more likely to quit smoking. In other words, if you're the sort with pre-existing conditions that make you more likely to be hospitalized if you get Covid-19, then you would be more likely to have quit smoking (or died before now if you didn't).

Still an interesting result, but not, needless to say, a reason to start smoking.
Now it's called monoculture? Rather strange. But anyway: in your terms you're just replacing LLVM monoculture by Rust monoculture, isn't it?
Is that even legal? In my mind, if you want to dictate what I do in my non-work time, you pay me for the time.
In the early 1990s I was sharing a flat in Edinburgh with a guy who's dad was working in Nigeria. The delay was routinely 4-5 seconds, which almost always took us a frustrating 30 seconds or so to sort out while we went backwards and forwards, both saying "no, you start" at the same time, leading to 10 seconds of silence, then both starting again...
You can run in a debugger that steps through and shows variable values, has a pointer, etc..
80% of cases, you don't need a framework.
Searching "plain shirts" does in fact yield results for shirts without patterns. And "paisley shirts" works too.

So it's not such a big deal that negation doesn't work.

Also, "shirts -stripes" does seem to work in both Amazon and Google. Or at least, I see no striped shirts.
Paying double my rent is not worth being able to walk more places, sorry bud.
But Netlify also has cloud functions, no?
The audio subsystem changes definitely could have been done better. Ideally /dev/dsp should have been extended like has been done on the BSDs instead of inventing completely new interfaces. That said, doesn't libasound still work with pulse?

gstreamer on the other hand is something you can just as easily ship yourself. I wouldn't consider that a Linux userland API as much as a random library that is present on many Linux system just like some crap you'd find in system32.

I'm less familiar about the API/ABI changes in the libudev transition - is there anything there that broke API compatibility.

The "lower level" userland libraries (glibc, libGL, libX11) tend to be pretty good at maintaining backwards compat. Well, except for Mesa pulling in the C++ standard library which can be a real problem when older games also dynamically link (incompatible) versions.
Interesting, because that would correlate with the high death rate. Sedation, intubation, respirator, is a low success path. Staving it off has value. And it feels like there is a path there.
I dont feel like helping a developer who's employer doesnt respect its customers or its employees.... It sounds like this is the trade off he gets for working there?

I wish it werent like this, people should be able to work on whatever they feel like in their own personal time.
A Coronavirus Challenge Trial Is an Ethical Imperative
I think the assumption that jurors are invariably reasonable, as opposed to on average reasonable is a pretty heroic assumption not well supported by the history of trial by jury though.
Most importantly: Dithering by hand.
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery accidental coal delivery, but still.
While not employed at Apple, I too have a clause in my employment contract (UK) that states I "assign copyright and IP rights produced by me in the course of my employment, whether during normal hours of business or otherwise, or at the premises or using company facilities or otherwise". I was told by my manager that I need to notify them if I plan to contribute/create an open source project, and even had one open source project I created get claimed by the company since I used it for one of my work tasks even though I created it for personal use initially, in my personal time, because "I could not prove that I developed it independently of my company work needs" and was told "if you don't like this then why are you still working here".

What I want to know is how exactly do you go about getting that part of you contract removed so you own copyright and IP for work you do on your free time without the need to justify it to your employer?

I tried speaking with my company's legal department and they slightly re-worded the contract to say the same thing (basically lied to me as later my project's ownership was claimed), all my managers so far did not take me seriously and basically ignored my request to change/remove this clause, or told me they would approve anything and it would be open source anyway (another lie as my project was taken) to the point I gave up, reduced my OSS contributions greatly and only worked on things I confirmed previously were OK for me to do, which added a lot of useless bureaucracy and got me demotivated.

The only thing I can come up with was quitting my job after I negotiate with another employer to not have such a clause in my contract. But I have not done any interviewing yet, so I don't know if that is even possible.

Any ideas/hints/help would be greatly appreciated!
Yes, but do you have any thoughts about the topic we were talking about before your rant?
I am not from US, but isn't that kind of standard practice in US? While working at any company they can hold right to everything you do in the field.

While outrageous at the first glance it does make a lot of sense for me. If you wan't to work on your side project you should quit your job. Otherwise there is a big risk you might quickly burn out, be less effective at your main work.

People seem to critique overtime and time pressure on software engineers. At they same time they want to be able to code their startups after hours effectively working 15 hour per day.

Working on open source projects instead of side gigs doesn't differ much in that regard. You might hook up on your project and spend tons of mental energy on it, making your main job suffer.
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There must be other people in the line of succession willing to continue the status quo.
CLUI is a collection of JavaScript libs for building CLIs with context-aware
Are you serious? Of course the question comes with the reasonable assumption that the proper declaration has been made especially since it’s a well known standard function. Additionally memset() is not a variadic function.

You said the types were corrected, you didn’t say you were reminding about the declaration types. The types were correct from the start.
I cant say for sure, but I'd imagine so. As long as what you are doing isn't protected by some law, I imagine a company can discipline / fire you for whatever they please.
Infrastructure Is Code and with Pulumi 2.0, So Is Architecture and Policy
Come on. I know it's not allowed here to suggest that someone didn't read the article, but Krebs (and the Reddit "researcher") presents pretty compelling evidence that this is not, in fact, a bunch of rando people spontaneously deciding to protest all at once. If Facebook provided the same kind of transparency you can dig up from the DNS registration system, you'd likely find a similar pattern around who's behind all the "organization" that suddenly popped up seemingly out of nowhere.
the game isn't considered finished yet (current stable version is 0.17.79). they have been gradually raising the price as they get closer to "finishing".
Covid-19: also a systemic endotheliitis
Their secret police will still come after you, even if you change jobs.
I’ve ridden a Van Moof extensively and it’s a very nice bike. Unfortunately, in San Francisco I have yet to find an elegant “normal looking” e-bike that can boost you up the hills without a significant struggle. Yes they help compared to foot power alone, but you still need to be pretty fit.

I understand the fitness requirement is also a feature, depending on your perspective. But for a lot of folks who are older or have health limitations, a nice-looking, easy to ride e-bike that could truly “flatten” San Francisco would be game changing. We’re inching closer to that, and I’m excited to see it when it gets here.
Dimond Princess had 14 deaths out of ~700 infected or a 2% fatality rate though that number has slowly climbed over time. As they tested everyone initially finding a large number of asymptotic cases that’s likely extremely accurate.

The difference is the population was more heathy than the general population, and while older on average, it had a lower percentage of people 95+ years old.
Public asset manager talks about why they bought Bitcoin
It is intentionally cumbersome, at first, but as you master the technology tree you get access to ever faster robots, blueprints, automation via the circuit network, self-maintaining defenses etc. You can construct and dismantle distant parts of the factory from the map view etc. Basically, you journey from insignificance to near-omnipotence.
This is awesome. It doesn’t even seem that long ago when Boa was started! Man, time flies and people do great things. Kudos to the author and co-contributors for what Boa has become.
Last thing we needed was a simple unsubscribe service for a database hosted on AirTable, a few lines of code. It totally makes sense to me to host such glue on Now.
Maybe because the virus and Olympics are both sensitive topics of national pride in a country that has turned increasingly nationalistic.

Japan has a conviction rate of over 99%. If a prosecutor decides you're guilty of something, it's basically a done deal. You don't want to get on the wrong side of authorities in a country like that.
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Is "mild" vs. "severe" dichotomous? I feel like I've usually seen the trichotomy of "mild" => not needing hospitalization, "moderate" => needing hospitalization, "severe" => needing ICU treatment.
As anecdotes...

I know a sole proprietorship locally that re-dates grocery goods when they expire so they can continue to resell until they look 'unappealing'. It's also common knowledge they do this. The health dept has been called multiple times, with no real punishment.

I also worked at Starbucks for 5 years. I worked (made drinks, got foodstuffs prepped, and handed stuff to/from customers) while sick with the flu. I know I gave it to customers and fellow employees. I was threatened that I'd either be fired or "get a 4 hour shift for the week" if I dared call in. The store manager also demanded that shift managers tell employees who call in sick to do the work of managers and call for their replacements.

I also worked at walmart. I was a 3rd shift stocker... The pallet jacks they had were in various states of disrepair. Many had sharpies written on them "BROKE". 1 malfunctioned and cut into my foot. I was later fired for 'reasons' that included on my paperwork "got injured and cost the company money"... Literally.

I also worked at Subway... And their chicken is some of the weirdest stuff Ive ever seen (as in, chicken in name only). And recent DNA analysis with a NPR expose showed that their "chicken" was 50% chicken and 50% soy. If I were to do that, I'd be charged with fraud and stuff. But it's cool a big co can do this.. Its "just business". https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680...
Will antibody tests for the coronavirus change everything?
You trade known deployment problems for unknown infra management problems. You reduce the complexity of contribution significantly.

If you’re at a company that wants to manage K8s, and you’ve chosen to invest in that direction, then serverless doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If your customers aren’t buying compute, then you should be wary of large investments that are outside your core focus.

Sure, there are quite a few problems with lambdas. But the abstraction you’re working at is much more atomic. And you don’t need FTEs to manage K8s and introduce a completely new set of problems.

Less is more (is the argument).
You'll be happy to know that Damon Krukowski actually covered this on his podcast ways of hearing, episode 3, entitled love, it goes very in depth on how "terrible" even today's cell phones sound vs a land line. https://www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/ways-of-hearing
> That seems very... bold.

It's just traditional server-side sessions. Just done more complicatedly to work around React's architecture.
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Well, it's three months and 40,000 deaths late but it's a start.

But there needs to be anonymous antibody testing at home like a pregnancy test.

BTW also needs the post office properly funded and saved from bankruptcy. WTF are we bailing out cruise ships and not the post office?
I think throttle-only would make them illegal in most EU countries (or, more specifically, they wouldn't be in the same category as bikes anymore); but also, is there really anything implicit in a mid-drive engine that prevents throttle-only?

Interesting point about the chain. What causes more strain, specifically? Essentially, if a certain power is required to go at a certain speed, what makes it different if it's muscle only, or mixed muscle/engine?
Do you trust that, say, Amazon or Domino's would really have your best interests for your computer in mind? Websites win for commerce and for reading because of trust; the sandboxing browsers have may not be good, but they provide some reasonable assurance that McDonald's won't be checking your active programs and sending a list of them to somewhere they shouldn't be.
It changed a bunch when I was there (2013-2016). You were allowed to when I joined, but you had to get permission and the process was a complete pain in the arse and took forever to navigate. By the time I left, you still had to get permission but the process was extremely quick and simple, as long as it wasn't on competing technology.

The one hard exception was game dev which remained a firm no-go, for reasons that never really made sense (Claim at the time was because Amazon had its own game studio?!)
I like textbooks for this. I can’t find them anymore for new things I’m interested in. For instance, there is no decent textbook on modern machine learning. Prior to 2014 they were great. Programming books in general seem way too narrow and quickly become obsolete.
They already have in several of the things you listed.

Online Education? Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsight, Kahn Academy, Youtube for crying out loud.

Healthcare? - Healthtech is becoming a big thing, I had the opportunity to interview at a company that is currently working on a private health cloud where they aggregate all of the info about you, your smart watch, your phone, etc. (Note: That you choose and opt into) to make it available to determine the best outcomes for you personally and help the Dr. working with you practice individualized medicine.

You list other things, but hospitals are being changed by technology at an amazing pace, the fact that now during a pandemic I don't have to leave my home to see my PCP, you think that was the burdened bloated Hospital beracuracy that came up with that?

You then list roads and bridges, but the point is that yes, VCs and entrepenuers could figure out how to solve those too given time and a enough freedom, even we can't see it right now, it may be because our vision is just too limited to see what could be, that's what makes entrepreneurs, real entrepreneurs, different they are visionary.
The asymptomatic cases can also spread the disease, and a single individual is enough to trigger another outbreak if they slip through the cracks, so for contact tracing and everything you need to know how many asymptomatic cases there might be and where they might be. And the wake might not be spread evenly throughout the population, you could end up with younger individuals being asymptomatic and creating a breeding ground for the virus to spread and mutate in a college town before, even though it seems to be under control, it spreads back to vulnerable populations where everyone is symptomatic. That's one extreme of this but we don't know without random testing how bad it is towards that end
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There's evidence that for Covid-19 it's not necessary to go as far back as people have been going. There's also evidence that self-collection works well. The FDA has acknowledged this before and allowed self-collection with physician oversight before they allowed this test.
I don't assume that paper is correct. It's the first example I found of people estimating 0.5% since you apparently hadn't noticed that number being bandied around for the last month. It's a number I've been seeing since early March, along with 40-70% of the population ultimately being infected. I saw one guy suggesting up to 80%. If NYC is already at 80% and rising, that's pretty surprising.

I would like to get an idea of what the IFR really is, not which extreme end of the range of uncertainty looks the best or worst. If it's a little less than 0.5%, great. But when some paper comes out of left field and suggests it's closer to 0.05%, sure, I'm skeptical, especially when mortality is already above that fraction of the entire population in several places.
It depends. As I could charge it both at home and at work, I would prefer to have something integrated and less prone to problems due to water/snow/ice. As I live in a cold country I really appreciate the internal hub with the protected chain which are rare to find on electric bikes under 2000 € (excluding low-quality bikes from unknown producers that have no specs nor website).

There are many companies producing electric bikes right now: I prefer to see a company that tries to do something different targeting a smaller market segments than seeing the same kind of one-size-fits-all model across multiple brands.
Google Fi gets iPhone eSIM support
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The whole (hydroxy)Cloroquine thing is interesting to me because it seems to depend a lot on Zinc. And the existing data doesn't seem to track it. So we are left with little to contemplate.
Almost every company tries to force non-competition clauses in agreements. Even if they let one do side gigs, one can't work for competitor. This does sound reasonable and yet is a limitation on what you can do in your spare time.
Same in Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/0zcCqD6.png
Prompting to 'go deeper' could potentially be done over a video call. I hope LabCorp does some sort of beta testing to know how well people do with instructions.
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Yeah they had Go support and yanked it. I don't use go but was surprised. Seems like at times they are hoping to be all things to everyone and at times trying to be really focused (although we might disagree with where they are focusing).
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