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The big difference between the two camps that I see is that one side recognizes the cost benefit of their position and the other side doesn't.

Price controls on healthcare (socialization) has positive and negative impacts. The positive impact is universality. Everyone gets approximately the same basic level of care. In some countries you might be able to pay for a nicer room, or quicker service, but generally speaking it's all the same. The downside is that price controls stifle innovation. That's just basic mainstream economics and is the case in every industry, not just healthcare. The trick about stifling innovation is you don't feel it immediately. On day 1 of the price controls, the rich are about the same but the poor are better off. On year 50 of the price controls, everyone is worse off because of all of the innovation that never came to fruition.

I never hear advocates of universal healthcare have an adult conversation that they are trading long term benefits for short term gains. I think that's a reasonable position to hold, but if we just pretend that it's all benefits and no cost we're not having an adult discussion. It's not as if one side is right and one side is wrong. Once we accurately discuss the economics, it's easier to understand that this is a very difficult moral decision and not the trivial one that is sometimes portrayed in the political sphere.

My speculation is that the rich people you refer to are more likely to be trained in economics (formally or otherwise) and are more likely to have a long term mindset regarding cost benefit tradeoffs.
>UbuntuDDE is a Remix flavor of Ubuntu system with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) . UbuntuDDE is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu with the most beautiful desktop environment.

So by imitating macOS look they got "the most beautiful desktop environment".

I don't get it. If I want macOS, I would run the real deal, either by buying a Mac or by doing a hackintosh install.

Earlier there were Linux distros trying to imitate Windows XP. That was bad, too.

I think time wasted and effort would be better spent on inventing something new or refining some ideas striving to do something better, trying to solve problems.

I don't get the problem this desktop environment solves. Are they catering to people who love Macs but don't want to use Macs? That's a rather tiny population.

Or maybe the problem they tried to solve was Linux having too few desktop environments.
This is fantastic. Would it be possible to make it cross platform? I like using Logic on my MacBook, but have an AMD 3900x sitting around too which I'm currently not using for audio. I was looking into running vsti's on it as a slave and just routing audio back and forth, but would it be possible to use it for distributed DSP directly?
Select 1 is a really hacky keepalive that relies on several assumptions, I'm not surprised it wasn't expected.
> What about writing more efficient queries, adding indexes, normalizing the DB... ?

Adding indexes seems like the best effort/reward benefits of those.

In any case, I can easily imagine the following workflow:

1. Kick off report after first logging in in the morning

2. Get on with your day

3. Check report after first coffee break
is there any comparison to existing git clients? I am currently happy with git extensions and KDiff (for resolving conflicts)
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Sure, money is a man made belief, Yuval Noah Harari's books are great at explaining this :)

Generally gold confiscation doesn't mean the purchasing power going down, just transfering it to the governments. It's still quite scary though, as I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again :(

The scariest thing is if all the countries in the world try to ban gold and Bitcoin at the same time to preserve the fiat system.

I'm hopeful that as Schnorr signatures will make coinjoins more practical, it will be easier to use as well, thereby making ownership of Bitcoins less visible to governments. Wasabi wallet is great at doing coinjoins, but when I tried it, it was just too slow.
How is it the WHO's business to set rules? They overestimate their power and importance. They have no democratic legitimization.

Rules for ending lockdown will be set by local governments. The WHO might be heard as advisor but not more.
Yeah, "statically linked" is a bizarre thing to say about iOS. I believe the only statically linked code on iOS is dyld itself. It's not possible to make a statically linked app on iOS, and certainly all the number crunching routines (and compression etc.) are dynamically linked. Maybe geekbench doesn't link them and does it in-process? But you would see the same effect on PCs then.
You are speaking from a place of ignorance. The prerequisites needed to take the courses that you mention alone are >1 year, yet alone all of the material needed to become a doctor.
Where I went to Uni, you didn't take biochem until you were a senior. The reason for this is because before you take biochem you need General Chemistry 1 & 2, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, and some smattering of Biology. You have to take these courses sequentially, they build on each other. If you don't know what a nucleophile is then you simply can't pass biochem, and that's how it should be.

Granted, you could theoretically shorten the program by removing all the humanities courses; but shouldn't doctors-to-be take ethics courses?
Seniority is not about how smart you are. And most programmers of any age are neither prodigies nor geniuses.
I have to confess that I have run afl on random code on github.
Great idea ! What languages do you support?
It's already causing an ecological disaster called climate change. We must go net carbon negative now, or ecocide and omnicide will be certain. Spilling oil would be comparatively trivial.
Hope they crash some day too so you can stop tracking people :). How long does it take until this get -votes
Most IRC clients are logging the conversation by default, and everyone knows it. Even if they werent; you're speaking in public.
Debian stable (buster currently) is my daily driver. I'm quite happy that I have stable targets of packages to develop against. I'm curious about the type of work you do that Debian packages are "outdated" and do not enable you to continue your work.

I've used many different distros but I keep coming back to rock-solid Debian.
Are you trolling? Are you legitimately asking why you need a doctor to check something that might be, amongst the million other possible complications, Cancer?
Good ideas that are beneficial, yes. However, there are a lot of less optimal solutions for the human race out there, some are even in production, e.g. tracking people, social media
Avoid reading the code, being inpired by it and using the same pattern (or worse, snippets) in your project (which could result in legal actions against you).

I have often heard it in the context of windows operating system developper which should be careful of not accidently introducing open-source code in the kernel if it might have a license that is not compatible with Microsoft's one.
> You cannot tell me this virus has a higher mortality rate than any other major outbrekas like cholera, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc.

Cholera and polio are transmitted by unhygienic food and water supply, you don't catch it by breathing in someone's cough or spit, we try to (and largely successful in developed well) by improving access to clean water and cooking food thoroughly. While they can be deadly, they are not highly transmissible between people.

Transmission method of leprosy was not well understood (even now, and especially when its effect was devastating), and nowadays it can be treated and even cured, plus it's effects are slow and rarely result in death.

TB is the closest in your examples - but it has some key difference, for one, it is not transmissible while it's still latent, so you are not going to think you are in perfect health while actually transmitting it. We also have vaccine for it, that is in wide use in areas where TB is commonplace, we also have treatment for it. It rarely results in death in places with adequate medical facilities.

In short, this virus is different from "any other major outbreaks", at least in recent centuries. And we currently do not have vaccine nor treatment for it.

I'm no economist, so I cannot tell you if "less than 10% of the population" dies or become severely ill would result in bigger economical impact, but I find it highly responsible to basically say "sorry, but these dozen companies' survive is more important than your grandpa's life" to the society at large.
Linux GUIs have a problem understanding the difference between beauty as a visual attribute and beauty as a functional product. They never have one without the other.

No, Elementary and Poppin don't count. I wish they did.
musical notes repeat once every doubling of frequencies, so there are many C#s spread throughout the range of human hearing. The only way someone could be unable to hear c# would be if they were unable to hear at all.
I hope they actually separate the cycle path from the road with a physical barrier and not just a yellow line like the photo in the article.
The New York Times article mentioned has more complete data, including the graphs you want.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
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> 80% of doctor visits and filled prescriptions today are completely unnecessary and unhelpful

Source?
This is a fair point but everything is online and at our finger tips. Having it on your phone just means you’re not sitting at your computer for longer hours, hurting your back, neck and even fingers.
Ubuntu sort of encouraged distributions which were identical in all ways except the default set of installed packages. Think kububtu, xububtu, etc.

I don't think it's a bad thing - non-default packages tend to not get much use, and are hard to brand.
There’s no law against that unless you’re implementing a patented algorithm, which is dumb in any case.
Almost 20 years ago I had a cool Logitech mouse that did this. The mouse had a haptic (Synaptics, I think?) engine in it, and when you moved the cursor over buttons, menus, or other UI elements, it would give a slight “tick” as you crossed each boundary. It was very cool. There was a lot of customization available for it as well.

I had to ditch that mouse when I switched to Linux. I think it didn’t have any standard HID-type driver or something.
I'm not sure fixing broken encryption is like smartphone upgrades.
I'm not sure where you've been employed, but dental plans have always been separate from the actual health plans and generally cover nothing beyond giving a pittance per year that hardly rolls over. Once that's gone, you get to pay the full cost.

I've had to deal with the true cost of dental work and I can guarantee you anyone that's needed to deal with significant dental issues has had the same experience. So why hasn't the free market dropped down prices? Why are we still paying more for basic dental work compared to other countries?
Back in the early-90s, I quit IBM Lab job the same way. I was single but had a mortgage, car payments, and just quit on a whim because I just could not work. Would stare at the screen and just couldn't do it.

I had the idea of creating a service to optimise poorly-running software because I did a bit of that at IBM. So I took 2 weeks vacation, cold-called and got 2-3 appts and quit. Didn't understand business or anything really. Only got one paid gig for $600.

Went into consulting for a few years while building software to sell. My girlfriend at the time got me into real estate and I developed a neat little package which netted me $90,000 first year (not bad back then) plus yearly upgrades. Then somehow got into telecommunications when the deregulation happened. Never really had a typical 'employee' job. Had countless failures, one medium success, and one big success.

Moral: Never wait until things are 'ready' before quitting. It's like deciding to have a kid; there is no good time. It's amazing what hard work and the threat of failure will do to one's motivation.
If you read the code and work in the same field, you may inadvertently implement some feature in a very similar way. That might lead to lawsuits.
> EBS sticking in the same AZ has nothing to do with distance and everything to do with keeping failures within an AZ

But they could be synced and if one AZ goes down another is elected as the primary copy. Most storage solutions handle that.
I discovered Peer Calls last night and think it’s an awesome project! It worked flawlessly from both my phone and desktop; it’s one of the (surprisingly few) fully featured WebRTC chat apps!

My one hope: Could it be possible to select from different audio bitrates when on a direct connection? High bandwidth audio seems like one of the huge selling points of P2P chat applications. My naive assumption is that it’s the sampleRate constraint on the audio stream, but I’m not sure how the compression works...
Anthos is just managed Kubernetes.

And I thought I was being tinfoil-hat-y about Google's true motives in pushing Kubernetes so hard and the benefits of it being so popular. It enabled the first true cross-cloud experience, that Google just happens to be the creator of and have control over (no matter how much you hear that it's "community driven", the only project I've seen that is actually lives up to that is Rust). Yeah, Kubernetes is massively useful and I'm grateful, but that doesn't stop me from being very cynical about it -- the complexity and learning curve is a consultant's dream (disclaimer: I'm a consultant) and at this point it looks like a 5d chess move to improve their cloud offering by basically backdooring themselves into every single other cloud and the headspace of millions of developers.

Condolences to Crossplane[1]. Hyperbole yes, but I do not envy any companies that have to try and compete with Google in the current regulatory (captured) marketplace. If they didn't buy you but entered your space it's gotta be bad news on some level.

Luckily, the fact the kubernetes is open source and at least in some part community driven (i.e. the wide ecosystem of plugins) means that companies like Crossplane can still exist if they work hard to out-sell and out-market google, and there is a slim possibility that the barrier to creating a "cloud platform" being lowered so much might mean that all the little mom & pop shop VPS providers and bare metal providers will get in on it, and force the bigger guys to compete on price somewhat (we all know big enterprise is going to go straight to AWS/GCP/Azure anyway).

[EDIT] - I just realized that while I was harsh on Crossplane, they arguably just became an extremely valuable acquisition target for every other large cloud provider that wants to buy their way in. Probably not Amazon but Azure/IBM/Orcale/etc probably.

[1]: https://crossplane.io/
I've lived in California over 40 years. There are many storms every season. And your unicorn "big one" would likely be on-shore and produce no tsunami. I think you need a new nickname because your arrogant ignorance doesn't add anything of value here.
I don't personally have experience with this approach
That's one way of looking at it. But the one that decides seems quite sure of the opposite of what is considered common sense.

https://tegnellcitat.se/

He's not a humble man.
As someone who plays CSGO, I agree with you. I wish valve did something like this. I'm tired of matches getting ruined by cheaters, which happens very often.
Yeah when I got my 2015 MBP that track pad was mind blowing. I remember turning it on and off and comparing the feeling of trying to click it. It's an incredible innovation. Small, but amazing from an engineering/UX perspective.
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Isn't the efficiency the concern of r/UsabilityPorn instead?
The way maths is taught in Australia, for a long time the term function was synonymous with the concept "2D plot that passes the vertical line test" in my mind. I was completely unaware of how much broader and more interesting a concept functions are. There are probably many people whose understanding never progresses beyond this, which I think this is extremely unfortunate.
"If a lawyer comes claiming ..."
This doesn't happen in Europe. GDPR will not be used for individual claims from lawyers. Especially independant developers have nothing to worry about if they act in good faith. The enforcers of GDPR in each country don't have enough resources to act on everything which means only the biggest companies have to worry about claims.
Also, it's not the responsibility of the web developer to make a website/platform comply to a law. The client who pays you to make the website is responsible and can hire a jurist to tell the developer what the requirements of the product are.
I think there's room for growth.

There's still a big part of the growing world population who doesn't have internet access.

Internet connects not only people but also devices.

However, the growth of online businesses will mean shrinking elsewhere which I am not sure it is good. Amazon and the like will replace brick and mortar stores, Netflix will replace TV, food ordering will replace restaurants and so on.

There will be less time spent outside, less social interaction and the jobs created in IT industry might be less than the jobs lost elsewhere.
The problem is that all abstractions are leaky in some way or another. If you're going to use an abstraction, you should at least learn enough about it to know where to put the buckets.
there's a difference between adapting to every screen, and being mobile first.

The point is: no matter what you do, to have an app that works on both mobile and desktop, you'll need two UIs (otherwise, you'll get a crappy UI on both platforms). So, if I use UWP on desktop, it should "bend" to desktop (all the controls should be desktop-friendly). If I use UWP on mobile, it should "bend" to mobile.
def and defp are probably the least magical of those. def is for public functions (can be called from other modules) and defp is for private functions (cannot be called from other modules).
> You are speaking from a place of ignorance

You're right, I hold my hands up. I don't have any medical training.

> Where I went to Uni, you didn't take biochem until you were a senior. The reason for this is because before you take biochem you need General Chemistry 1 & 2, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, and some smattering of Biology. You have to take these courses sequentially, they build on each other.

You obviously know what you're talking about and I won't debate you on how this works. But again, does a prospective doctor need to spend 4 years on this? How does every country other than the US and Canada manage to train their doctors without making them get a Bachelor's along the way in something non-medical? Why can't doctors study 5 or 6 years and graduate with a medical degree, ready to become a general practitioner? That's how they do it in the UK. Are you saying their docs didn't pass biochem or don't know what a nucleophile is?

> shouldn't doctors-to-be take ethics courses?

Pretty sure med students have time to take ethics courses if they do a 5/6 year medical degree.
> It's cool that Apple made a cheap phone, but what I actually wanted was a small phone and price wasn't that relevant

Smaller phones have smaller batteries, and less space for components like cameras, etc. So they look worse on paper, because on paper you can't feel how big it is. Thinness has been fetishized. Please make overall smallness or "hand feel" a top selling point!
Also, building and learning taxonomies allows for discovery of new knowledge. This is especially obvious in mathematics, where you start with rigorously-defined symbols and operations and very little knowledge, and then manipulate the symbols to gain more knowledge. Indeed, it could be argued that taxonomies are necessary for understanding.
A valiant though experiment. But the value in CCTV exists IN the latent information asymmetry between watcher and watched. No operator is going to voluntarily subjugate that.
I think calculations are it's weak point, but for the typical message passing application like Twitter it's fast and incredibly scalable.
But that is precisely the point the parent is trying to make, no? The tech was in no way ready and able to do these things, so Google Glass had to appeal in a broader, non-focused way which is one of the issues that broke its neck.
FWIW back in the days where Ubuntu used Unity, I tried to change my DE and fucked up my system, Idk, maybe I wasn't enough skilled to do thag1, but that was what make me switch to Fedora.
ever looked into Kapybara? i wonder if theyre still making product. it was a big ol bank of DSPs controlled by mac.

ah,here's the current model, Pacarana: http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/Products/Pacar...
> There's a lot of devs that think database design is the same as starting a new ORM class and generating a migration file.

Yes, this. Add to the list those who have drunk the DDD koolaid and the database is "merely an implementation detail".
Ironically, as technology and business become better and better at monetizing new ideas, this makes things more expensive for individuals to bring ideas to market.

First, large competitors (whether businesses or investors) fastest way to wealth is to jump into markets validated by someone small, with overwhelming advantages in terms of customer relationships, being able to fill out solutions spaces, funds for deep optimization, etc.

Second, even if the small inventors expected mean return has gone up, so has the standard deviation, so risk has gone up.

Anything that discourages or inhibits individuals and small teams from following through on new ideas will have a big impact. Because most good ideas are by individuals and small teams, and few of us have the ear of CEO's or other efficient fund decision makers.
I really don't care if TikTok or Zoom are associated with a particular country actually or if people assume it for racist, ideological, or nationalist reasons. It's the celebrities, novelty-seekers, and other influencers who community spread half-baked apps of unknown provenance like the corona that are the problem.
Well probably not by just giving them their salary anyway. I guess there are many other options so I imagine it would be one of those!
Why not just have a VR, with a pair of cameras on it?

Ensure that the frame rate is capable of 120 frames/second, or whatever value will make it comfortable for humans to see in real time.

Then, overlay the digital artifacts on top of it. And skip frames, if you can’t compute the objects fast enough to match the frame rate.

This way, you can put on the VR goggles, and still be able to walk around in the real world, without tripping and falling down.

The AR stuff seemed way too complicated.
> like Cinnamon, Plasma, Ubuntu, Unity, Wayland...

Wayland is not a DE though.
There is not enough testing capacity, so tests are being done where they can do the most good such as testing at hospitals, to determine treatment, or whether a person needs to isolate to keep from spreading the virus.

The U.S. will eventually need to go to random testing(maybe 10% of the population) to get a handle on the pandemic but it's a hard test to administer, it also needs to be done regularly, and it costs over $50 per test, so widespread testing will be hard.
I suppose you could patch in PAR encoding for data, would that be significantly different than specifying copies=N for data and/or making multiple pools single disk and raiding them?
I have Signal desktop installed. Maybe you should research what you say before spreading false FUD around?
Does that mean, the game is safe to play now?
This is already a thing in Australia