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Look at the updates on that post, nothing is so clear cut. The problem with internet sleuthing is that everyone gets very excited and innocent people can be injured in the unnecessary witch-hunt.

>Update, April 21, 6:40 a.m. ET: Mother Jones has published a compelling interview with Mr. Murphy, who says he registered thousands of dollars worth of “reopen” and “liberate” domains to keep them out of the hands of people trying to organize protests. KrebsOnSecurity has not be able to validate this report, but it’s a fascinating twist to this tale: How an ‘Old Hippie’ Got Accused of Astroturfing the Right-Wing Campaign to Reopen the Economy

Update, April 22, 1:52 p.m. ET: Mr. Murphy told Jacksonville.com he did not register reopenmn.com or reopenpa.com, contrary to data in the spreadsheet linked above. I looked up each of the records in that spreadsheet manually, but did have some help from another source in compiling and sorting the information. It is possible the registration data for those domains got transposed with reopenmd.com and reopenva.com, which included Mr. Murphy’s information prior to being redacted by the domain registrar.
As someone who does bake bread every week, this has been super annoying. It is true that more people are taking up baking, but a lot of this is panic buying. My 30-40 year old friends have all admitted that they immediately purchased 2 bags of flour that remain unopened. Bakeries remain open and supermarket bread aisles are full. Most people with young kids have not suddenly started baking bread everyday.
Totally. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

And as you say, managerial involvement is the problem. Managers and execs mostly get paid to appear to be in control, so having the appearance of control is vital to them, even if that makes the results wildly worse.
It is a bit bold that WhatsApp (owned by FB) is throwing accusations about NSO Group even though they allegedly attempted to buy exploits from them.
Where are you? At the big stores in Brooklyn for a while there was no flour. But now going to smaller stores I see it no problem. Seems like less of a shortage issue than just that most folks in my area are all inefficiently picking their grocery store.
Did you consider to replace the AWS' names and technical terms by generic terms and their explanations, so it's easier to understand for people not familiar with AWS' storage offers?
All things directly addressed by the article.
There is nothing I would love more than to respond to Trump's antics with an eyeroll and carry on in the pursuit of my own interests until he's turfed out of office. But his asinine tweets or remarks are frequently followed by policy changes with negative real-world consequences for real people, as well as malign behavior by his supporters.

It's not just messaging, it's backed up with force. You just haven't experienced that first-hand yet.
Not that there aren't serious questions, but it's common for prototypes and early production runs to easily cost 100x vs optimized production runs.

And if it's meeting a need, I would suggest that the immediate cost isn't the primary concern or benefit here.
Really insightful. Thanks for sharing.
I suspect they were selling it for a higher price before the emergency as a souveneir.
Who said it’s not the president’s job to show scientific progress to the public and engender discussion of new ideas? I realise many people are very used to dry, carefully stage-managed government briefings written in ObamaScript, but being spontaneous and discursive has its advantages.

Many medical interventions are dangerous by nature - doesn’t and shouldn’t stop people discussing new possibilities for investigation, which is what happened here.
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Is your friend doing okay? The site seems pretty slammed. Looks like they finally got the ratings updater back online after it went down a few weeks ago.
Controls, maybe not so much? The road-impulse and 16ft lane limits of the auto, apply to a plane not at all.

And so many pod-car designers didn't address controls at all. They just took a Ford chassis and made a new (wood!) frame and skin.

Further, the auto price-point means the fancy materials were a no-go for a production car anyway.

As for traffic control, safety, navigation - different as night and day. Good call.
-5/2 -> -2 (ok, rounds down)

Actually this is rounding up, to zero, as -2.5 < -2 < 0
yes, please keep adding level-headed reasoning to the conversation despite the continuing public panic over the topic.

another major confounding variable that makes those effectiveness claims misleading is the environment in which they're used. ENT surgeons (and their patients) are absolutely positively at heightened risk by literally being in the face of patients for prolonged periods. they should use all sorts of countermeasures, including surgical masks.

the typical person on the street gains no added benefit from wearing a mask, regardless of the effectiveness of a given mask at blocking particles, as the ambient viral concentration is effectively non-existent basically everywhere outside, assuming most folks aren't congregating (closely and face-to-face) regularly. even in most indoor situations, mask effectiveness only comes into play in very specific situations.

if no one shoots the ball, you can't block their shot, no matter how great a shot-blocker you are.

latching onto miraculous prophylactics without skepticism and thought is a danger in itself.
50,000 deaths... out of how many infected?

50% rate AT LEAST based on research out of Iceland. Backed up by research out of Stanford and New York.

Are you going to claim that the massive number of people who show no symptoms is fake? Perhaps conventiently?

50,000 means nothing unless you add the number infect to get fatality rate. REAL rate. which is trending under 1% and approaching the flu fatality rate.

https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows...

> Over the last two weeks, German virologists tested nearly 80 percent of the population of Gangelt for antibodies that indicate whether they'd been infected by the coronavirus. Around 15 percent had been infected, allowing them to calculate a COVID-19 infection fatality rate of about 0.37 percent. The researchers also concluded that people who recover from the infection are immune to reinfection, at least for a while.

Added to that is more information from New York that puts the fatality rate there at roughly the same rate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...

> It would also mean that the fatality rate from the virus was relatively low, about 0.5 percent, Mr. Cuomo said.
Rubbish.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102134129.h...
> what if you believe that society (if not now due to scientific-technical limitations, then some day) has a moral obligation to address criminal wrongdoing by means of neurobehavioral intervention, to treat criminal predisposition as a disease?

Then you are contradicting yourself, because on the one hand you claim the right to treat certain people (the ones you call "criminals") as not having free will, and "cure" them with "neurobehavioral intervention", but on the other hand you claim this right based on "moral obligation", which assumes that you, the person claiming this right, do have free will, because you are claiming the ability to choose who needs to be "cured".

There have been societies in human history that were organized according to such principles as these. They did not turn out well.
That's true, but there's a reason I chose not to list it - this has never actually saved me from a bug, ever. Of course, as I said, your mileage may vary.
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For the past week or two Google Cloud Console renders incorrectly in Firefox. It ends up with a giant white bar hiding some of the buttons you need to click to create instances, etc. which makes it unusable. I've confirmed this with several coworkers that also use firefox.

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/Jpxnqy8

I've reported it via their feedback tool, but no luck so far on a fix. Chrome doesn't have the issue.
This is nice, but is it the price per month? Per year?
Its not only about restaurants, storefronts were first to hit hard. If lockdown doesnt end soon, a lot of industries will go under who manage to survive so far.
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Thankfully this is in a tiny village in beautiful Dorset, England with a modest local population, and no there is no Walmart... so none of that applies.
I suggested an underlying_cast function that converts a typed-enum to its underlying type. It's quite useful for things like sending typed enums to streams.
Now that `mutable` exists const_cast should indeed be avoided.

But `reinterpret_cast` has quite a bit of use, particularly in FFI scenarios. For example when using JNI there is no void* type in Java, so you are forced to store the pointer in a jlong. But you also need to be super duper sure that no conversion happens, it's _just_ a really tiny 8-byte allocation. So you reinterpret_cast back & forth. My JNI code is littered with variants of reinterpret_cast<jlong>( T* ) & reinterpret_cast< T* >(jlong) - and it is neither useless nor harmful.

reinterpret_cast is also quite useful when writing custom allocators. More niche usage there, of course, but still far from useless or harmful.

> 2. The only meaningful reason to prefer static_cast over C-style casts is easy greppability. If you find you don't benefit from this difference, C-style casts are just fine.

If you do actually think that static_cast is the only useful cast then this is super wrong advice. C-style casts are "compiler guesses if it's static_cast or reinterpret_cast, and const-ness is completely ignored." They are not a shortened alias for static_cast.
So building constructions blindfolded is the norm? Sounds like recipe for entangled messes.

It has always been at systems thinking, design and architecture, in that order. Doing it organically is a magic feat rarely done well.
Think about accidentally dripping room temperature liquid on to the oven window during the process....
No, the first url is a chapter from some guys book. He reviews dog experiments done in the 1940s.

Call me when he's finished a double blind trial with a significant number and cross section of participants. Until then, it's all just people clutching at straws (just like yesterday's smoking study or last week's Chloroquine study).
When people talk about "limited time and/or memory" for a runtime they're almost certainly talking about something constant, or a small polynomial of the input size.

But yes, it should reduce to NP territory. If you actually had a nondeterministic CPU, then for most use cases you could fully evaluate these machines in seconds.
If Evabot.Ai is offering a specific support offering to small businesses please add it! Please note that to be added this needs to be a specific offering with a direct value add - such as free or discounted services.
>USB FDD

Is grossly insufficient, unfortunately. It has minimal functionality.

There's a lot of floppy drive types and custom floppy formats to deal with.
No, in 10 days they have sold 200 bags of flour.

> In its first fully functional 10-day period, they milled a ton of wheat; under normal circumstances, that would've been a year's worth. As a result, it has already been able to deliver 200 three-pound bags of flour to local stores and bakeries.

Assume that the ramp up was bumpy. Maybe they can do half a ton a day (5x), and they have >3x as much product as they've sold... they might be able to do $500 a day until the equipment breaks down. For a tourist trap that could be pretty respectable.
I'm talking fatality rates COVID vs FLU.

Right now, more information continues to come out showing that COVID has a roughly .5% fatality rate when you try to add in the massive number of people with no symptoms. Iceland, California, New York are places that back these numbers up.

"keep in mind CDC is assigning everything COVID" exactly.
Nvidia has been working on this a lot lately. Check out CUDA Graphs. It's not there yet, but they're working on reducing kernel launch times. You still have the overhead of moving data to/from the GPU, but if you can come up with a complicated workflow that can run on the GPU it may be worth it.
Thank you for your points!

> You need to be cut out for it. You need to be self sufficient

Instead of saying "People are not cut to it" why cannot we say "People have not enough experience with it"?

Even working in a classic office space requires some experience, trial and error.

> and be OK with working alone.

well, there are co-working spaces, working hubs etc
Buy lots of options on securities. Other than that, probably nothing.
It's monthly, but yes they should add this information.
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Agreed. But triggered by a thing written there: a pointer in a jlong? Is there any guarantee these things are the same size? Works on one platform, cool, maybe that's enough. But doesn't sound portable.
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The article did investigate the assembly.
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Does anyone know why it is such a problem for our supply chain to shift from commercial buyers to consumers?

I imagine there are people out there willing to buy in commercial sizes, if packaging is the problem...
It can also be a mark of quality. Kirkland goes around, finds good products, and whitelabels them. You can trust Costco to stand by things they put their name over. Target is the same. Their own brands are a mark of exceeding a minimum quality threshold.
How do you differentiate from other products like Key Values (https://www.keyvalues.com/)?
You could also argue that this was a use of an analogy to explain a complex topic to the average joe that might be watching the press conference.

When I was teaching 1st graders about programming, I had to simplify many concepts and using physical objects to explain abstract ideas.
I know the B&H execs too. All Hasidic Jews, super nice, smart people. They had a big contract with some software I wrote ages ago.
But notice that Trump didn’t suggest that anyone bathe in reactor pools, instead he asked the scientist if it would be possible to harness UV radiation for some kind of treatment.
This reminds me of an episode of the old Clerks cartoon show. They were playing an arcade game about pushing blocks around to build a pyramid, which turned out to be a Last Starfighter type qualification exam. Except, of course, what winning qualified you to do was be enslaved and forced to push actual stone blocks to build a pyramid.

But you’ve sort of just rediscovered the business model of all advertising? All kinds of media are in the business of attracting attention. Then, if you want, you can sell that attention to someone else in the form of advertising. The trick with candy crush etc is that the content attracting attention doesn’t actually have to be “good” in the way that honest creators intend, just addictive.
This assumes conditions don't change. With enough time, a treatment or cure can be found.
In the future, hindsight will be 20/20 but right now the wisest is to buy time to understand the spread and disease better.
It can be useful when used for interface-style pure virtual inheritance.
I think Mumble.com hosts instances of Mumble.info's software (although they aren't related a la WordPress.com), so they aren't competing per se. Definitely an unfortunate situation, though.
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Counterpoint… it’s a bit verbose when you need to cast for bitwise operations.

uint32_t packed = ((uint32_t)x << 16)
| ((uint32_t)y & 0xffff);
uint32_t packed = (static_cast<uint32_t>(x) << 16)
| (static_cast<uint32_t>(y) & 0xffff);

The verbosity of static_cast can get out of hand, and make it harder to read.
Supposedly a problem in Canada was bags.

Dunno why it took them so long to start shipping them in plainer bags though.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/robin-hood-flour-baking-yel...

Would prefer to pay a few cents less for all my goods instead of advertising for the product I just bought in my own home.
NSO Group is an Israeli operation, i.e. working with Mossad, so there is a slim chance of the US treating them as an "enemy combatant".
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A looong time ago I went through Army basic training. As a BS degree holder I was given the job of "book man". This meant I carried around the platoon training book and carried placards to put in signs at various training locations that told what battalion, company, and platoon we were so if anyone driving by a gun range, motor pool, or classroom could look and see oh that's 1st platoon, C company, 1st training battalion.

I've come to believe that that main driver for Agile adoption has come to be something similar. Making visible to outsiders what software development teams are doing, and making progress (or it's lack) visible to management. I thinks that's a completely reasonable expectation. Businesses are paying exorbitant salaries and providing ping pong tables, why shouldn't they have visibility into what's being done?

Where it becomes toxic is in areas this posts parent indicates; posturing, one upsmanship, pressure to perform. Effective teams need "safe spaces" to learn, discover, try and fail. Agile isn't that anymore. Hasn't been for a long time.
I think it's more a public service that happens to provide some publicity rather than the other way around. People want/need flour right now with various supply chain issues, and this mill can help produce some locally. Of course it makes no business sense (which is probably why the mill shut down 50 years ago)... that's not the immediate issue.
That's just static_cast<std::underlying_type_t<EnumType>>(value), right?
I would assume autocorrect is to blam'e
The "no comment" is really "everybody who worked on that has long since retired and nobody is in the office to check the paper records, if they even wanted to and were allowed to."

The communication protocols used by that old bird are probably still classified.
I don't understand how the conversion from FLOPs to dollars is done. A footnote says that "These $ figures come with substantial error bars, but we believe they are in the right ballpark." Where are the estimates themselves coming from? Cost of cloud computing? Cooling and power consumption estimates? I feel the article would benefit from adding a sentence fragment in the abstract or introduction that specifies this as I have no idea what I'm looking at right now.
You might check out the gnu ddrescue; it can use logs and allow repeated attempts with resuming.
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The best use of the pipe operator, in my opinion, is when every pipe followed by an end line, like this:

data %>%
filter(thing > 4) %>%
mutate(new = fun(old)) %>%
group_by(var) %>%
summarize(new_mean = mean(new))

Then you are reading the code top-to-bottom, just like any other R script but without all of the temporary variables.
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jlong is always 64 bits.

I would be interested in knowing more details about platforms where your pointers are wider than 64 bits. Not impossible, but certainly pathological.
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You can blame US law for that. Why not treat them like a prosecutor once they've reached a certain expertise or status? It keeps them from any absurd liability because it's guarded by the state. I'd like to ask why doctor is going to intentionally put someones life at risk cause they're lazy? Sure you'll find some in government work, but if it's government, they'll easily have oversight.
If I were hoarding food, flour would be just about the last thing that I would devote freezer space to...
But it's a completely worthless compiler error. The fix is always to replace static_cast with reinterpret_cast. In 15 years of C++ I can't think of a single time that this error has actually caught a legitimate mistake.
Your numbers are way off - dangerously so. First, nobody is getting a sub-3% fixed 30 year mortgage right now - so your minimum for principal+interest on your 800k loan is already $3656 (assuming you can get 3% - every half% is going to cost you roughly another $350 per month)

Next, your estimate for property taxes is similarly low. I don’t live in CA but where I live taxes are roughly 1% of the assessed value. Let’s say the county assesses your 1m home for 900k - and not to mention the assessment will probably increase over time - so you’re looking at about $750/mo there.

You totally forgot about homeowners insurance - required for that loan plus it’s included in the front end dti ratio. That will set you back another ~$150 per month.

That adds up to a total of $4556, almost 14% higher than your estimate and representing one trip to Disney world’s worth of extra spending over the year.

Often overlooked is the savings you should make for maintenance, repairs, and improvements. Only after buying and selling a few houses do I finally appreciate exactly how expensive they are and how “only” a $100 per month difference adds up - quickly.
They've all moved on to newer grifts, and don't need competition from legacy grifts.
But it's not producing for the first time in 50 years - it's just producing full time, whereas previously it was milling on a demonstration basis.
> all they had was the Source engine

GoldSrc actually - the HL1 engine. Which was built off a heavily modified Quake engine.

> Back when it first came out, everyone I know _hated_ Steam

That was 16 years ago and 90 million users ago. Yes it was shaky and had issues back then (I was a very early account signup), but again a long time ago.

> You want to play Half-Life Alyx with the all new Source engine built for VR? You gotta buy our headsets and use Steam VR home for the best experience!

No. You don't need their hardware. I'm using HP WMR without issue and have completed HL: Alyx. Yes, Valve's controllers are top notch, but you don't have to use them. And SteamVR is just part of Steam, and if you want to play any Valve game, you have to use Steam.

Speaking of HP. HP and Valve have been apparently working on some new things together, so I would imagine there are going to be more/better VR options down the line.
Anti price gouging likely won't come into play here.
Cale (this one) wrote a song about the confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2Fp0Y0oCc#t=15. That was at the decadent end of his menacing phase.
They are about to have complete elimination of the virus.
Price gouging laws won't generally prevent them from continuing to sell at the price they've been selling at.
It's fancy artisanal flour with a story, so they charge twice that for a bag. [1]

[1]: https://sturminsternewton-museum.co.uk/theme-content/uploads...
You are spreading deliberate falsehoods. That is literally the definition of "mischaracterizing." As for "scaremongering," or "right wing spin," do you have a better word for amplifying the "you're going to lose your freedom of choice" meme by saying private insurance and private hospitals would be banned?

And, as for the conversation, you were supposed to be out already. It would be better if you stayed out rather than amplifying false statements. If you want to critique M4A, then quote the actual policies put out, not the rhetoric.
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That's not agile, that's waterfall. With my team, I usually have just 2 or 3 "stories" that are taken up during a sprint. The rest is up to the development team. Works quite well. No one's asking to create dozens of tasks. A rough outline of what we're trying achieve combined with a high-level overview of what we think would need to be done is usually enough to get started in a sprint. If we fail, we fail, no one gets mad. That's agile if you ask me.
Would be nice to see other cloud providers for comparison