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It's a good question.

There are some hospitals that proudly make a point of not accepting insurance. They avoid the administrative overhead of negotiating insurance contracts and pricing procedures, and accordingly have a smaller salary footprint.

As a byproduct of not working with insurance, they're allowed to advertise standard prices per procedure, because there actually is a standard price instead of 3-5 different "negotiated" prices. This price transparency is a competitive advantage, and it means they can attract price-sensitive patients for elective procedures.

The competitive advantage of price transparency is just enough to make them competitive with insurance-taking clinics.

The difference is that, in these setups, your clinic lives and dies by its reputation. Being in a big insurance carrier's network will effectively guarantee you a baseline patient volume. Going it "on your own" means you get no such guarantees. It's a riskier proposition.

I work in health insurance tech, but if you're curious to hear it from the horse's mouth, Keith Smith is the head person of an insurance-refusing operation in Oklahoma: https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
No. I'd like him to acknowledge that this will put employees in a genuinely difficult position, rather than just "I'm sorry people will feel bad." I brought up specific difficulties to point out how the non-specific platitudes downplayed them. You can be non-specific, while acknowledging the seriousness of a decision like this one.
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>Luckily, this kind of supply shock isn't possible with produce.

Vegetables have a longer shelf life than meat and grains a longer shelf life still. So you're just wrong.
You should probably read this, then: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/
Will someone please make an external general purpose DSP box (for Max/MSP, etc) similar to an external Thunderbolt GPU?
They're all RISC.
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This is probably intended to be run in a container, but as that's not specified, it's certainly extremely weird.
PPE is a real issue-- I'm not arguing with that. I've been manufacturing a number of things at moderate quantity on my printer farm and cutting lasers.

On the other hand, a whole lot of measures seem to be consuming PPE at a fixed rate-- per personnel-day when COVID is present. That is, PPE usage is not strictly proportional with disease load, because the virus imposes a large fixed load.
People are hacking together some interesting things in this space: https://fridge0.branchable.com
Google Meet now shows up to 16 video feeds at once on your screen.
This doesn't answer parent's question. In "colonial times", most people did physical labor and ate real food.
I play board games using Tabletop Simulator on Steam with my buddies due to the pandemic, one of them uses an Oculus headset and he really likes it. We can't see each other's faces though.
It’s not that their care will get worse, it’s because their care gets worse due to “those people” getting better care. Source: my in-laws.
I was actually going for 'taste' when I wrote the piece, but this is a good word, as it's more generally applicable. Thank you.
Duo is not mobile only.
Eggex gives you a more EBNF-like syntax for regexes. CFGs are basically regular languages with recursion, so there's no reason for them to have a wildly different Perl-like syntax. That's basically a historical accident.

If you've written CFGs, then eggex will be very familiar. See the example: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/12/22.html

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Also, regular languages are straightforward and tractable, and you should use them where possible (aside from bad syntax, which Eggex is fixing).

In contrast, CFGs are useful, but if you start using them a lot, you will see they're not really "one thing" as far as programming/engineering is concerned. They sort of explode into a fractal of complexity -- there are many different subsets of CFGs, some of which can be parsed efficiently with particular algorithms.

And some people reject CFG in favor of PEG, etc.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Parsing-Models-Cheatshe...

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That is, the recursive grammar issue is not "settled". Whereas regular expressions have well known algorithms and are "settled" (except for syntax).

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

So basically regexes have bad syntax but relatively good semantics (libc BRE/ERE doesn't have the Perl backtracking issue). CFGs don't have a consistently bad syntax, but the semantics are much more complex when you're talking recognizing vs. generating. And of course in programming (rather than math), we want to recognize, not generate.

Related:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Why-Lexing-and-Parsing-... (Do the easy thing with the fast algorithm, and the hard thing with the slow algorithm. Don't do the easy thing with the slow algorithm.)
Is it a turnkey solution? Janus seems more like a WebRTC gateway with no directly usable end-user app (eg. video chat).

Jitsi Meet seems to be a turnkey thing where you can just self host an instance and have users create video meetings without too much fuss.
The past is not a useful guide, because until recently, there was relatively little that could be done medically, and costs were commensurably low. The elephant in the room is that medical technology has advanced to the point where any person's needs can potentially greatly exceed their lifetime's ability to produce. When there are relatively few who find themselves in this state, insurance (and what is described in both Alexander's article and tathougies' post are informal forms of it) works, but not when it is a majority.
This is only "sort of" true.

First, mod-r/m addressing on x86 is fairly traditional and can often save considerable calculation over a "simpler" addressing mode (given the opportunities for add-and-scale operations).

Second, treating x86 machines as load/store architectures passes up the opportunity to achieve improved code density and increased execution bandwidth from "microfusion" - this is when a operation (e.g. "add") is done with a memory operand. Microfusion, for those not familiar with it, allows two "micro-ops" (aka uops) that originate from the same instruction to be "fused" - that is, issued and retired together (even though they are executed separately).

This can occasionally - in code that has already been militantly tuned to an inch of its life - yield speedups, as Skylake and similar can only issue and retire 4 uops per cycle. However, there are 8 execution ports (of which only 4 do traditional 'computation'). Carefully designed code can take advantage of the fact that issue/retire are in the "fused domain" while execute is "unfused domain" - so you can sometimes get 4 computations and 1 load per cycle even on a 4-issue machine.

I was trained on MIPS and Alpha, so of course old habits die hard, and it's always tempting to go old school and design everything to act as if the underlying machine is a load-store architecture. However, this (a) isn't necessary on x86 and (b) often won't be faster.

The other blow against load-store is that a modern o-o-o architecture can hoist the load and separate it from the use anyway - and it doesn't have to consume a named register to do it (it will use a physical register, of course, but x86 has way more physical registers than it has names for registers). This of course is a bigger deal for the rather impoverished register count of x86 so it is, in the words of a former Intel colleague on a different topic, a "cure for a self-inflicted injury".
61,000 chickens killed -- https://www.startribune.com/egg-demand-shifted-and-61-000-mi...
Has anyone tried pooling the first milk from different cow moms?
As opposed to one where everyone avoids medical care at all costs to avoid extortionate bills?
Because then it’s harder to deal with our own imposter syndromes if we can’t blame it on the youth and hold their heads in the toilet while giving them the professional-development equivalent of a wedgie.

This was discussed at length in last week’s “Grey Beard Weekly” newsletter.
I think total immunity will be a for a limited span-- perhaps long enough to prevent another outbreak for a long time, perhaps only for a moderate time.

But we keep partial immunity to coronaviruses for a long time. Right now it looks like our best estimate of infection fatality rate is 0.3%, and it may very well be a lot less if the disease re-emerges in a few years because past encounters will be protective.

That is, would 229E be pretty damn bad in an immunologically naive population? I think it might.
You don't have to worry about data if you just have a datum.
RISC has never been about reduced number of instructions, but their complexity. A SIMD extension built around load/store architecture is quite compatible with the principles of RISC, despite the fact that such an extension might have very numerous instructions.
> That becomes an exercise in defining essential services. I'd be interested in seeing the web of dependency for the absolute basics like food, and what other seemingly non-essential services are required in the production and distribution of food.

There aren't any. If you grow food, you're essential. If you ship food, you're essential. If you fix the trucks that ship food, you're essential. If you fix the air conditioner in the auto shop that fixes the trucks that ship food, you're essential. If you make screws for the air conditioner that gets installed in that auto shop, you're essential.

Read the shutdown orders. They enumerate essential industries, and the list of them is incredibly broad. In Washington state (Which has one of first, and furthest reaching shutdown orders), if you make literally anything that the military uses... You're essential. The list is incredibly broad.

These disruptions are caused directly by the virus getting people sick, and taking them out of work (And their workplaces, until people can get tested, and their workspace can be sanitized) - not the shutdown.

The shutdown actually serves to keep these facilities open, because it has reduced the virus's spread through the population.
You’re never more than about 100 miles from a Tesla Supercharger station in the US, and while charge times are roughly 20-30 minutes, it hasn’t been an issue for the ~20k miles we’ve driven traveling the US.

Sure, it’s a bit longer than a 5 minute fill up, but between bathroom breaks, food, coffee, it’s not that much longer and we no longer have gas station trips when around town (charging our Teslas at home). Trade offs. Seems like the amount of folks who are waiting for 400 mile range EVs is exceedingly small.
>This sort of cold-hearted calculus is not going to solve anything at all, merely create rifts by polarizing what it means to be 'young', 'old', 'suicide prone', 'depressed' and 'suddenly poor'.

However "cold" the reasoning is, it doesn't change the fact that there are people who'll die decades earlier now than they otherwise would have without the lockdown. I don't see how sixty years of a young person's life is worth any less than 60 years of multiple old people's lives; the only difference is that it's easier to see the direct consequences (old people dying now) than the consequences that take years to materialise. Ignoring and not measuring second-order consequences isn't warm, it's stupid.
Assuming your incredulity is not disingenuous. Is it news to you that companies have insurance and that insurance cost a lot of money. The larger your labor force is, the more likely you are to be sued under those acts. That raises the cost of insurance. Whether you agree with the Acts or not, increased costs is a simple concept.
Like openssl? Rhetorical question; OpenSSL was both open source and broadly used, and it took over two years to identify heartbleed.

Plus. many companies, Microsoft included, open up their source code to partners.

The openness of source code has little correlation to its security.
Aside from the 3% discount, aren't most carrier plans no-interest payment plans?
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Short term, on this case means 6 months to 2 years. The GP is talking about something 4 to 7 months away.
JavaScriptCore has probably the best answer for this question, and it's the hilariously-named "Shadow Chicken" mechanism.

JSC's call stack is the C stack, and this stack has real TCO. There is a separate, heap-allocated "shadow" stack which records calls (but not returns). A single recycled C-stack frame may correspond to multiple shadow-stack calls, but between the two, a debugger can recover many tail calls.

It's best effort. The GC may collect frames if it chooses to. Highly optimized code won't touch the shadow stack. etc. But it's good enough for a debugger.

It's named "Shadow Chicken" because it's a shadow stack inspired by CHICKEN scheme, which uses the legendary Cheney-on-the-MTA strategy.

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/199076/webkit
For what purpose would they not ban it?
Impossible Foods is expanding its grocery store presence right now, and says that its production plant is less susceptible than meatpacking plants due to increased amounts of automation....

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/amp/Impossible-Burger-comes...
Here's an article from a microbiologist here in NZ who's been one of the public faces of decoding the current scientific understanding of COVID for the general population: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/23-04-2020/siouxsie-wiles-w...
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Can anybody find any pricing? I would love to find a managed on prem Kubernetes management thingy that won’t break the bank.
It's what happened to the original SE. I lose like 20% battery on my original SE from 2 years use on iOS 13 just from web browsing for 30 minutes.

Apple has been making some just flat out awful design decisions in terms of their hardware for the past, what feels like a decade at this point but it's much shorter than that. While form can be greater than functionality, why would I ever want a phone that blatantly has printed on it "Planned Obsolescence?" The things I care about on an iphone are not "the best processor" out there. I want efficient ram usage and long battery life. Ram was never an issue with iOS so they just needed a great battery. What did they give us? A better processor...that's going to drain the battery in a year with the next iOS update because they keep pushing software updates that demand more of the system. I won't be shocked if malware get's into iphones any time soon showing how lazy they've been with MacOS in the last few years.
The article doesn't say what to do if you only have gnu chmod.

find dirname \! -type l -exec chmod a+r {} \;

Could do what you want. Maybe there should be more exclusions? Are symlimks the only dangerous thing?
Yes. How many novels nowadays riff off of history and paint it as fiction?
How do we know whether a person is good or bad, other than by seeing what the person does? In truth, the idea of a good or bad person is a trope of fiction intended for children. In real life everyone does good and bad things.
I kind of think it is conventional wisdom that you can't have major, albeit temporary pay cuts. But my immediate reaction is, sure, that is strictly better than laying people off in a crisis, and my only caveat morale-wise would be that any top level people paid in stock ought to entirely forgo cash salary instead of saying "look, we're taking a 30% pay cut".
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Surely there's a CPU/disk trade off at some point. Static pages are much larger (less likely in memory) and would cause disk reads much sooner than the same files being generated dynamically. Of course wordpress isn't known for it's efficiency so the static page preference is probably quite high.
>. I mean, switching products from B2B to B2C (toilet paper, milk, flour, etc) is obviously something that can't happen instantly, but must be taking place as fast as humanly possible, right?

No, because half the business world thinks that we're going to all re-open in two weeks, and isn't willing to spend money on any kind of retooling/restructuring for such a short period of time.
I meant "F", damn dyslexia
Yeah, there’s an old saying, “nothing good happens after midnight”.
“hospitalization is 0.1 percent per 100,000“: did the doctor write this crap, or did he just put his name on something ghost written? Why do we think doctors are good at science?

“It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship”: Nope, 50% were presymptomatic, eventually only 18% were asymptomatic.

The biggest flaw is just looking at deaths. We also need to care about the number of people with complications (lung damage, stroke, brain damage from lack of oxygen etc).

And suggesting that we can get the healthy infected to achieve herd immunity, while still protecting our elderly and infirm, is magic wishful thinking.

What I don’t understand is why the “conservatives” are so hell bent on denying that lockdown helps - the twisted lengths right wing articles go to to “prove” their case is horrific. Why?
Super cool!

I wonder how/if it handles latency compensation when used with other plugins.
I think the term you're looking for is conventional wisdom vs common sense.

Agreed that conventional wisdom is often wrong.
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The biggest administrative costs in health care are the insurance companies' costs. [0] To the tune of more than $200 billion dollars/year.

[0] https://time.com/5759972/health-care-administrative-costs/
Counterpoint: Santa Clara county locked down 3 days earlier than Los Angeles, but a week later on the epidemic curve. LA right now has had nearly twice the death rate per capita, and unlike Santa Clara which is almost at the end of the curve, may not even have peaked.

Lockdowns aren't everything..
Not only is this great software, but the fact that it did not ask for overreaching permissions and did not try to connect to 5 different websites on the first run made it an instant win for me.
> lockdown followed by extensive testing shouldn't work, and indeed it _has_ worked in countries such as Korea and Taiwan

Korea and Taiwan had no "lockdown", they had contact tracing and targeted quarantine. They never closed non-essential businesses, and Korea didn't even ban flights.
Yes absolutely and nobody is arguing that. What is an issue with the US is that we're a motor vehicle country and there is virtually no public transportation. Hell even cabs or ubers are non-existant in a large portion of the rural areas. So DUI's are kinda you're only option.

I actually live in Wisconsin where I probably can't count how many times I've seen on the news someone getting pulled over for their n'th DUI. It doesn't even phase me and the funny part is they never get jail time, major fines, or felonies.
Does that work with AU/VST plugins or just the native reaper effects?
I have no first hand knowledge of Lambda and maybe they're the worst thing ever, but whenever I see a comment dripping with venom that doesn't even make any sense to me, I think what on earth do these people think of conventional rip-off for-profit schools that you pay up front?
These have existed for a long time. They used to be called sound cards and maybe still are, I've been calling them audio interfaces for the last decade, and getting what you need in this space is an exercise in defining your actual requirements, because there is no standard for what's important and what's not. A good one can do wonders for latency when doing a lot of DSP.
Two points:
- Your numbers don't indicate the number of lives saved by shutting down. It could well have been more than 600.
- It seems likely that it is possible to reduce the number of suicides in such an event with better planning and support for vulnerable people.
The last time I checked it was at minimum $10,000 per month.
I'm curious how exactly are people leveraging Istio for multicloud at the moment? Is this via an advanced Istio feature or some other Kubernetes-related project?
Most people don't want to give a thought to whitelists or blacklists, they just want to find the files relevant to them. Most people are using grep or another command piped from find, and doing 'sudo find /' (sudo to get rid of all the errors from /proc) is the easiest way to search everything.

99% of the time sys and proc and run and all that stuff won't even show up in the filtered results, and if something does, its an easy 'grep -v ^/sys' to exclude.
Which is why shutting down non-essential services is a good half-measure.

Meat-packing plants are an essential service, so they are allowed to remain open, but they are temporarily shut down once it becomes evident that a few workers have been infected and the risk of infection for the other workers rises to... as you put it "unacceptable".

Sadly, in at-will employment states, only the rich get to decide what is an acceptable level of risk.
That rejected energy ...
Non-urban areas are almost by definition automobile-centered in a country like the US. They don't have the density required to support a lifestyle that doesn't depend on automobiles.
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Just a video game? Imagine someone plays this game inside a corporate network, gets compromised, and the data for millions of people is stolen and leaked into the wild.

The function of the actual program that gets exploited is irrelevant to security risk.
I don't think there is any system like that in first world countries. The US isn't like that if that's what you're insinuating
Fastai data bunch objects, along with all it's other data wrapper objects are incredibly simple. You can basically take any iterable and use it within them.
> What’s surprising to me is that no file system (even ZFS) or database utilize error correction controls.

Maybe I misunderstand your statement, but ZFS has had error correction from the very first versions.
Take a German, but make his road from the bar to his house 20-25 KM away. Multiply it by 100,000 people in the same scenario. Now eliminate their public transport.

How many Germans do you think will take the risk of a DUI to drive home as opposed to walking? Granted not everybody is driving over the limit here, but a large majority of them are teetering at it. I mean I've done it, but I knew I had to drive so I held off and waited for some of the affects to subside. Still, I gotta get home, and a cab is not an option often times.

It's a cultural thing that we'd gladly get rid of, if we could afford the alternative of a robust public transport system. But we don't, so it's a risk people often take.
Parsec from an actual gaming system works very well.
Seriously.

I'm on a debate with a teammate who is advocating for tensorflow. It doesn't even feel fair.
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No, it does no such thing. Because there isn't one single "Medicare for All" proposal. There are a variety of plans proposed under that title, and only some would do away with private insurance. Many are some flavor of opt-in, granting access to the ability to buy into Medicare in the same way current Medicare recipients choose their level of coverage and pay accordingly, while leaving private insurance intact.
It's both much less wasteful and much more useful to add an error correction (FEC) block instead. With random errors spread across two copies, how do you know which chunks of each are correct? Sure, you could use a Merkle tree or similar, but FEC is a better solution. For size penalties of order 10% in practical use, FEC blocks can detect and correct errors not just in the data but in the FEC blocks themselves too.

Their biggest downside is that their computational complexity can be high. This is only a problem during creation and decoding on error; if the data is checksummed, you only need to take the slow path and touch the FEC block if an error is encountered. This is a great tradeoff for archival uses, and good for many other uses.