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> As you yourself noted, personal anecdotes are really not an argument.

Then what is? If you're looking for a randomized sampling of programmers with sufficient sample size, you're not going to find it here.

> Programming languages don't exist to make itself easier to parse.

No, but a fine example is that of C++: the difficulty in parsing means that if you make a typo, the error message you get might be bizarre and confusing. A compiler for a language that's easier to parse will have a much better idea of the programmer's intent and can provide a much better error message. I find it astounding how often rustc can figure out exactly what I wanted to do and suggest it as a note after the error message.

I would think that more-useful error messages pass your test of "make it easier for programmers to program".

While we're talking about making it easier to program, "name: Type" make it possible to avoid typing out "Type" at all, and letting the compiler infer it (no, this isn't good and readable to do in all situations, but often it's fine). If you have "Type name" style, and try to add the ability to infer types, you end up with Java's "var" abomination.

Regardless, I'm in agreement: I find "name: Type = blah" much easier to read. I read it as "name is a Type that is equal to blah". This also is an improvement in parameter lists, when they're lined up vertically:

def foo(bar: String,
baz: Int,
quux: Foo)

I find that much easier to mentally parse to determine parameter order than

void foo(String bar,
int baz,
Foo quux)

Worse, imagine that all three parameters were of the same type, requiring a scan to the right to read the names. The important information to me at a glance is the name of the parameter, not its type.

As someone who cut his teeth on C and later Java, much later learning Scala and Rust, I immediately liked the style of the latter two much better. Lately I've been doing a lot of Java and get constantly annoyed at the "backwards" order.

> This is the problem with tech evangelism. It has the same problems as religions, lots of claims, no evidence.

I suppose you could argue that what I've written above is just personal preference, but I see it as a bit stronger than that.
Assuming the same power budget, same cooling, same semiconductor process, both x86, etc. the best single core you could make would lose to just two cores off a desktop chip you can buy today, let alone 8/10/12.
Ride Austin is an example of a non-profit ridesharing platform, it would be great if that idea could be expanded: https://www.rideaustin.com/about-us#overview
If fixing a flat takes a long time, I might suggest that your technique could be improved. Even though it seems like a simple task there really is a "right way" and many "wrong ways". There are great videos/articles online.

It really shouldn't take longer than 3-5 minutes.
Well... they can wake up and smell the 90s by spending the cash to have a website. I'll bet that one month of paying grubdash costs more than getting a website up.

Or just complain, like most of the places around me.
> All that profit margin is ending up in landlords' pockets.

The landlord's costs go up, too.
I don’t think this question came out right. I was not downplaying the severity of the current situation in any way, shape, or form.

I was genuinely asking if there were actual tangible effects post-1918 pandemic.

My cynical view is that no matter how long the current crisis lasts – 6 months or 6 years, or more, civilization has a notoriously bad long term memory and the ruling class has major incentives to help them forget.

My optimistic view of the current situation, is that it shifts some leverage to the working class similar to what happened during and shortly after the plague.
I cannot recommend Costco’s auto program [1] enough for a buyer with your profile. Dealers with whom Costco works have been vetted by the Costco machine. Prices are pre-arranged based on your zip code/location, and they have a live help number if you need to start with, “which car should I get”.

I know three people who have bought a car through that program and they have nothing but praise for the experience.

1. https://www.costcoauto.com/
If I understand what you're getting at changing '==' to 'and' will make it work the way you're expecting. Both have to evaluate to 'True' in the if statement and passing 'False' to expect_odd will always print 'error'.
systemd can restart your container if it crashes. It can also start it if you reboot your system.
U.S. Soccer scores victory in equal pay suit with women's team players
I think you got the name wrong, so I'm not sure what your point is. Do you have a link to the Pennsylvania Dept. of Food?
If there were less car dealerships, there would need to be more independent mechanics to cover servicing and repairs - so at the end of the day I don't think much would change in terms of state and city income.
True. I'll restate it somewhat differently: eating out in Europe more accurately reflects the full cost of everyone involved making close to a living wage.
Then someone comes along and typedefs a pointer to hide the "scary" double pointer syntax.
Landing page feedback: the backend that keeps changing (“like X-powered websites”) could cause the whole page to jump. This is very annoying on narrow viewports (e.g. mobile), especially when I’m reading text, for instance the FAQ.
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Cash-only means no card reader rental, which saves a couple hundred per month and at least 5% of every transaction, and possibly no internet bill, either...

But you can't go cash-only because so few people carry cash, that our would drive out your sales.
And Ceiling Cat help you if you try to declare something like:

Kitten neko(Felis<0xCA7>::catus);

where catus may be either a typename or a variable depending which template instantiation you landed on.

There's probably some way to say:

Kitten neko(Felis<is_function_type<typeof neko>::value_of>::catus);
So, this is a refutation of one of the author’s points: either you differentiate, or is is unskilled labor (and the iron law of wages is nipping at your toes).

It’s possible to differentiate purely on marketing and not just food alone, too. But it’s madness to expect to make your money on volume in the restaurant biz and make any significant money without double-digit location counts and significant capital reserves; too many other giants can squeeze you without a thought (eg the McDonalds $1 value menu the author also cites).

Nobody’s “in” to paying >$10 for döner kebap. You have to differentiate a lot more than that; unlike me (and edge case) most people will not pay $25 to scratch the itch of the intense periodic lust for dönerfleisch.
If there is one new iOS API I would like to see in response to COVID-19, it would be direct integration with restaurants. It isn’t just a win for restaurants, it’s a win for users too. Right now I can’t figure out which platform or website I use to reach a particular place. Sometimes I want to search by item, so it would be good to index menus too. Throw in one touch Apple Pay, notifications to know when to leave your house to pickup the food, even a Siri shortcut so I can order my favorite dish easily again.

I don’t want these things to show up in aggregators. I want it built into the OS. With a couple of voice commands or taps I can be on my way.

I do feel like this will come. Apple has started an Apple connect program with some gyms. I feel they will do the same with restaurants. I’ve heard rumors about native applets that will load from QR codes. I can easily see “Apple Connect” certifications on restaurant windows and counter tops that lets you load the restaurant app quickly and easily, discovering it exactly where you use it.

Far fetched maybe! But I can dream.
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I’ve spent a decent amount of time fighting k8s at work. The GCP k8s which abstracts away a bunch of things, but still it can be a bit crazy.

Docker compose is really great but only works on a single machine. Also docker compose makes rolling updates a PITA.

What I really want is something like Cloud Run but locally tunable.

Google Cloud Run is essentially: here is a docker image, when you get a http request, spin up a container, when there are no requests for 10 minutes, spin it down. If there are more than 80 req/s, replicate to handle the spike.

Now I want to say, here’s a bunch of Ubuntu machines with X cores, Y RAM and Y SSD storage. Go run these images on it and auto scale it up and down.

I know k8s was meant to solve this problem but the layers of abstraction on top of abstractions are insane.

I just want to specify my compute/storage pool of machines, my docker images, how they should connect to each other and scale up/down. Boom! It just works.

Is there something that does this?
I wonder how old the greek graffiti in there is?
We’ve been ordering from one of the best fine dining restaurants in our town. Before the pandemic they were dine-in only.

They advertise their regular menu + specials on FB. To order, you send a text in the afternoon with your order + pickup time between 5pm and 8pm, in 15 minute blocks. The restaurant calls you a few minutes later to confirm and take your card.

This is a clunky process, but that’s fine - they’re new at this, and I’d rather them get the max amount of the sale than have fees drained by third-party apps.

But it occurs to me that we’ve missed an opportunity in North America (and maybe elsewhere?) to build a platform that works like WeChat, where you could conduct this simple menu-selections-payment transaction, perhaps with some chat in between, using a ubiquitous interface.

Same scenario with booking a hair appointment, paying for small home services, etc. There is an interaction that includes chat, scheduling, possibly invoicing and payment, but this can involve up to one app per activity.

The channel is the unifying abstraction, it should own the entire interaction, including presenting the few widgets that are required to implement the workflow. I know that most chat apps have some variant of this capability, but the landscape is totally balkanized.

A corollary of this approach is that payment and workflow widgets should be commodified and thus extract a minimal amount from the transaction.

We have many apps per category, each with a special-purpose channel. We should have one channel with many possible simple interactions that can be delivered through it.
For this to be true, you’d want the 3rd party delivery apps to be wildly profitable. Are they?
Getting rid of Mac OS's acceleration isn't simply a matter of clicking "raw input" in a game's options.

Even if you use the command line to actually disable it for some reason the mouse still feels off.

If you google, for example "counterstrike mac os raw input" or something similar, you'll see lots of posts about people having the same issue. The raw input setting doesn't work properly. Granted the posts are from a couple years ago. The last time I tried to play a game on a Mac was probably around 2018. I tried every workaround I could find on the internet and it was still terrible.

What I described has nothing to do with a difference of sensitivity or polling rate/dpi. Although if a person is unfamiliar with those things they could have an issue with them.
Hate to be that person but... does the cannabis plant have similar properties?
Early Nissan CVT had problems. Don't know about more recent. That's probably what the GP post was referring to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pathfinder#2014_model_y...

Looks like CVT introdueced in 2014 for the Pathfinder. So if you're buying newer than that, you're getting one.

I'd advise you to do research on Nissan reliability before buying. Maybe something as simple as joining cr.org
Yeah it’s funny that she ever mentions booze, where the markups are 200-500%. If you can use your tables and food to sell bottles of wine, you can really improve your bottom line.
Funny thing is, if the website/app is crap, as a someone ordering, you will still want to use the food delivery service infrastructure from the app anyways because their system is likely to be better.
why should consumer over pay for anything?

If another restaurant can make a profit by increasing efficiency and keep prices low, they win over one that doesn't. And restaurants have no real business moat - recipes for most things are known, and it's mighty hard to invent something totally new.

Let's imagine that all restaurants raise their prices like the article claims. Suddenly, the margins at 19%. Let's also assume that consumers are willing to pay, but if they find something of similar quality but cheaper, the will move. Then one self-interested restaurant owner could simply lower their price by a bit, and they will make more money than their competition.

And so all restaurants have to do the same. So the margin of 5-9% is what you end up with.

TBH, as an investor, if you're given a 9% return on investment, i think they would be ok. It's not great, but it's not the worst. 19% margin is too high: most junk bonds are returning something like 8-10% (sure some are like 20%). Is running a restaurant riskier than junk bonds?
Alright so the most absurd leap in reasoning is probably here:

> In one scenario, we have stockpiles of a pan-CoV antiviral drug, enough to treat millions of people. When SARS-CoV-2 is first identified in Wuhan, the drug is immediately given a large phase II efficacy trial....

> It’s easy to blame bats for unwittingly giving humanity SARS-CoV-2. But I also blame both big Pharma and the US government for failing to come up with a pan-CoV antiviral or vaccine.

Why single out the US government in particular with the responsibility to come up with a "pan-CoV antiviral or vaccine" that should have been on hand to treat an outbreak in Wuhan? I'm not saying the NIH shouldn't have worked on it, but there were other countries with the ability and incentive to do so. There was nothing stopping China, Taiwan, or Canada from doing something after SARS, or South Korea from doing something after MERS, so why aren't any of those countries equally to blame?

There's the further speculation that SARS-CoV-2 was originally released due to some lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If that's true, it only further undermines this Monday morning quarterbacking, because it would mean that one of the countries with the most vested interest in preventing this pandemic, and one of the best equipped to do something about it, was actually trying to do that only to be undone by some procedural blunder.

There's also a huge degree of hindsight here. Pandemics tend to occur from time to time, and we're barely on the verge of having the tech level necessary to prevent them. Up to and including 2019, we had a couple of near-misses with coronaviruses, but we also had near-misses with influenza and Ebola among others. If the US or anyone else somehow managed to come up with some "pan-CoV antiviral or vaccine" only to fall victim to an influenza or Ebola pandemic, I'm sure some wise guy would be going around telling us how stupid they were for not being better prepared. In reality, the world has collectively gone to heroic measures to try and snuff out these outbreaks when and where they initially occur before they turn into pandemics.

Speaking of which, there's an elephant in the room. Maybe the US government didn't sufficiently invest in speculative countermeasures against a potential epidemic. But, starting in 2003, they did invest in countermeasures against the actual epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and managed to save over 17 million lives. In fact, Drs. Fauci and Birx have both been personally involved with that program for many years.

I'm not saying the US did everything right, but in some sense the world got a really bad break with COVID-19 if you look at where virology efforts were focused. And our shortcomings in terms of public health policy would have been the same for any pandemic.
You have to kill your perlings
Oh, hi!

Yeah, that was a real head-scratcher.
Then it’s time for restaurants to get apps or websites it’s easy to order on.

Is there a service provider that doesn’t try to be a lead-gen middleman for restaurants? Like a Squarespace or Wix or Shopify but for food stores that do delivery?
Get the graphics support on their desktop platforms/OS to a usable level again?
I barely play on mobile because most of the games I find there are either shallow or don't work as good with touch screens
Yeah, there is an assertion without evidence in the article that there was a golden age of higher margins in the past.
> An ascetic approach will increase the odds of Musk seeing Mars in his lifetime.

I doubt the few millions he would make from selling possessions make a big difference when compared to the billions in Tesla and SpaceX.
Those are not examples of true Veblen goods but rather goods which use price as a signal of quality. True Veblen goods are things like staple foods for the very poor where the increase in price eats so much of their income that they can only buy more staple foods.
This is an example of one bad thing about our convenience culture or expectation of infinite choice, delivered immediately.

It allows the middleman (who legitimately did some service by making so many restaurant choices available) to insert himself into every transaction, turn themselves the one you have a relationship with, and extract margins from the actual provider of the main service who becomes a commodity.

Ordinarily I would buy the theoretical point that certainly a service is being performed. But given the evidence and tactics about how much service is being performed versus being charged for -- that places like Grubhub/other platforms extract 20% commissions and put out their own phone numbers to masquerade as the restaurant's -- I would be glad to see them die a painful death as a result of this crisis.

Order directly from the restaurant, and be sure that's actually what's happening.
China notified the WHO on the same day, December 31.

The WHO did not deny person-to-person transmission. They said there was no direct evidence yet.

After China locked down on January 23, some countries took months before acting.
It's too time consuming and risky for a company.
An instant downvote. Wow. Another comment here talks about WeChat like platform. Similar thing here. Not sure why it’s inappropriate.
Sorry, I mixed up with a different comment indeed. On electric bikes with the motor in the wheel hub, the transmission sustains little effort.
At least in Jakarta, this is the opposite of the case. The big banks (and investors) have found out that its easier/safer to lend money to these delivery platforms who then pass on deals to people who buy from all the little shops (and big chains) on their platforms, than to all these little mom and pop shops, while still paying full price for the orders at pick up.

Before corona, me and my wife would be at the mall and order thru grab or gojek for the store 10 feet away because it was cheaper lol
Support for Nazism is the only use of IQ. It's magic bs pixiedust nonsense that needs to be called out loudly as such.

It's not only that it is used by Nazis. It's that it is used for literally nothing else of positive value to anyone. It's a disgrace.

Sorry for dancing around it not not starting it as plainly as possible.

"Anyone quoting IQ scores as justification for anything at all is talking bullshit. The end."

And they are using a technique of bullshit argument support favoured by goddamn Nazis.

The jury is back. IQ is guilty. Put it right there next to lobotomy as a gift from psychology to the world. Stamp it out. NOW!
For mobile users:

The web sucks. It is a mighty dismal kludge built out of a thousand tiny dismal kludges all band-aided together, and now these bottom-line clueless pinheads who never heard of "TCP handshake" want to run commerce over the damn thing. Ye godz. Welcome to TV of the next century -- six million channels of worthless shit to choose from, and about as much security as today's cable industry!

Having grown mightily tired of pain in the ass browsers, I decided to build the minimalist client. It doesn't handle POST, just GETs, but the majority of cgi forms handlers apparently ignore the method anyway.

A distinct advantage is that it doesn't pass on any other information to the server, like Referer: or info about your local machine such as Netscum tries to!

Since the first version, this has become the almost-minimalist client, but it saves a lot of typing now. And with netcat as its backend, it's totally the balls. Don't have netcat? Get it here in /src/hacks!

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I would bet otherwise. Most gamers are casual and casual games usually run on integrated GPUs.

Only top-end MBPs are half decent for gaming anyway.
How do we reach out to a mod to fix the link?
History shows that having a politician in your back pocket basically ensures survival.
> I’m old enough to remember when 3D TVs and monitors were going to change the face of both TV and video games

but 3D TV and movies were pretty bad... It was always a gimmick. The experience you get in VR is nothing like that.
Amazing work! More power to you and others involved in this. I can imagine this is a huge blessing to the people involved. Thank you for doing this.
How so? Different in what sense?
I don’t think this opportunity is missed it’ll just come late. I believe the major platforms Google and Apple will do this by leveraging their payment solutions and app platforms. It’s just a matter of tying together the pieces like messaging into this. It’s mostly there. They have lots of products to surface this as well (maps, os, etc)
I don't think "Compact fluorescents" belongs in that list.

They first hit the market in the '80s, and I remember my parents installing them in the mid '90s.

As a product, they got a good 20-30 years of life before LED bulbs got good enough to replace them.
> I wonder how that works in Europe for inner city locations

I don't have any specific insight into the EU, but in the other global markets I'm familiar with (mostly China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan) locations are either owned by McDonald's directly or franchised by large corporations that have significant bargaining power with (and sometimes are) landlords.

The China/HK franchise, for example, is operated by CITIC (a Chinese SOE) and Carlyle.
Although I think this is wonderful, I wonder is there a non-public outreach reason for not just showing pre-recorded videos of people?

I’m also curious about how well these eels can perceive screens. Some animals seem to be able to process things on a screen while others seem to totally ignore it. Is there some biological difference here, maybe the frequencies of light emitted by a TV/monitor being designed for human eyes?
There’s also lower barriers to entry which makes the landscape more competitive