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X-ray lightsources are improving too, not just multiplying. They are an important tool for many areas of science, not just physics but chemistry, biology and pharmaceutics to name a few. Whether there's any "new physics" left to discover there I guess depends on your point of view, but there's still plenty to learn about how matter works.
Of course if there was enough dust in interstellar space to reflect a laser beam (as happens when we see the traces of glowing beams shone through carbon dioxide gas) we could just prove the heavens with laser beams until suddenly we saw a beam bend. Unfortunately that isn’t the case so we have to fling stuff at it and see if they veer off track.
But then you must provide additional economic support to those impacted accordingly, as you regulate public behavior through updates to public health orders.
> Isn't a lockdown in a free market system inherently unfair?

Sure, but then again, to be pendantic, we never lived in a 100% free market and there a always regulations that prevent that whether you agree with them or not (I personally beleive some are better than others).

Marxism is not taking money generated from a capitalist system and then redistributing it while keeping the system in place. It's difficult to reduce marxism to a simple definition because a lot of it is really about his various analyses on society. The best way is probably to read his works, or a relatively unbiased analysis of it.

Any paranoid ramblings about a Marxist takeover of the US are comical at best. The US has a strong anti-communist history that survives today. In the past, association with leftist groups could end up with you being persecuted and I imagine even today overt interaction with far-left groups could get you on a list. There is basically no one arguing for te "temporary Marxism" (which really isn't able thing anyway) and basically no one in america would support it. Despite what some, even in their own party would like to tell you, even majority of democrats are far from such leftist idealogies.
They're all just winging it. The software model being used is garbage:

https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

The "Ferguson Model" is described here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6
Oh, to address your question about chain replication, normally acks travel backward along the chain, from the tail to the head, so the head acks to the client when it's received an ack from its successor. So the usual client interface is still request/response, but of course the latency is considerably higher than a quorum-based protocol, since the messages have to travel the full length of the chain before being made durable on all nodes, and then acks have to travel all the way backward. There are various optimizations to try to reduce this latency, and also reduce the load on the tail in read-heavy workloads (probably the best-known is CRAQ: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/craq.pdf).
PHP was pushed by the LAMP platform and that was pretty much the only language to make dynamic web sites in the 1990s and onto the 2000s. (The alternative would be CGI scripts if I remember well?)

Ruby only has some popularity in the silicon valley. Never heard of companies really adopting Ruby outside of there. It's open to debate whether it can qualify as one of the popular languages.
> And if you have no faith in humanity, buy a survivalist bunker.

What’s the rent on a bunker these days? If it’s cheaper than an apartment in SF I might go in on it
Complete physics moron here, is there no way to use particle/anti-particle annihilation to drive collision energy up?

Also, i think if we invested the money for a new collider into an effort to develop what we've learned so far into a useful technology that inspires the general public, the funding for the next collider would take care of itself.
Text translation in Chrome doesn't send anything to Google servers unless you actually translate a page.

It detects what language the page is written in with an entirely client side model (which is why it's accuracy is poor).
Friedersdorf has a number of quotes concerning the impact of a long term shutdown (and/or recession). That doesn’t seem like the same thing as being a shutdown skeptic.

Part of the point of the safer at home orders is to buy time, not only to avoid oversubscription of hospitals but also for government to ramp up testing, protocols, contact tracing, and so on. Look at South Korea for how that can work.

Unfortunately the federal government has squandered the opportunity to plan, prepare, and implement at every step along the way. At the same time, the bulk of the push to open comes not from reasoned argument, but special interests. The protesters seen at state capitols are victims of fake news, astroturfing organizers, and disinformation campaigns.

That Friedersdorf doesn’t discuss those dynamics—at all—makes me lose a lot of respect for him. It’s just lazy both-sides journalism, where a contrarian viewpoint is taken up with very little justification, examination of the facts, or assignment of responsibility to important actors. Very disappointing to read this in The Atlantic considering so much of its coverage -has- been so good.
This entire discussion seems to miss the point that it is not black-and-white.

Every year, tens of thousands of people in the US die from influenza. But the economy is not shutdown to prevent this. We recognise that the cost of tens of millions of dollars per life saved is not worth it.

People seem to think it's morally bankrupt to put a cost on saving lives. But that is what we (as a society) do every day. Every healthcare system puts a price on each treatment. In the US the patient (or insurance) pays for it. In the UK an ethics council will determine if that is a good use of the finite money the system has.

But in order to have a proper discussion about this, we need to have some numbers. How many lives will be saved, how much will it cost? Is "lives saved" even the right metric? Any article that hand-waves away the numbers is worthless.

A thought experiment for both sides: at some point your opinion would change, for/against the lockdown. How much more or how much less deadly would COVID-19 have to be for you to change your mind?
Firstly 50MB isn't ".5G", it's 0.05GB (you're out by an order of magnitude).

You're point about not tracking current is relevant though....or at least it is for some domains. When it comes to multimedia authoring you do expect people to running at least current systems because multimedia authoring is hardware heavy processes thus professionals will invest in the hardware to support them. Even weirder is the expectation that you'd want to be running a hardware heavy web-browser while running your hardware heavy authoring tools on those modest systems. That feels like you're making some unfair demands tbh.

As for KDE5, that runs fine on older hardware. I have a 7 year old laptop and KDE flies.
What region are you referencing with your anecdote? Where I live, mask usage isn't even close to 50% unless the store requires it, and that's including bandit scarves, masks not covering noses, homemade masks of dubious quality, ad infinitum. Social distancing is not well observed at the grocery store when I have to shop.
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Yes, I've settled on Manjaro KDE since the demise of Antergos. Do vanilla Arch once for the experience and then find better things to do with your time after that...
No. I’m not arguing anything. I’m cautioning the making of assumptions-even (maybe: ‘especially’?) in the face of cultural normatives.

Edit: Expanding some, since brevity gives too much room for ambiguity: cultural norms for some can be a point of pain for others because of forces we as observers to the experiences of others may never have to contend with; assumptions in the face of these norms can sometimes box a person into the same feelings of anxiety and distress because of said norms and how they have affected such individual in ways unique to them that we could be completely blind to. Familial relations are sometimes an especially sore area in this specific regard.

It’s was a cautionary remark, not an assertive one. Looking back on the post, maybe I should have said “Herein lies the basic problem with assuming of such intimate matters”.
Current price = future price. Principle of economics and pricing. Meaning an asset is priced according to what someone thinks it'll be worth in the future. Let's also not forget the massive sell off in the markets not too long ago. And as someone else said, there's also nowhere else to put money. All these are reasons why people would buy into the market right now. Or hey, it also could just be a dead cat bounce...
Wouldn’t the significance of that depend on the time window? If you had an end of first term senator right now, the S&P is up 37.8% over 5 years, while BRK.B is only up 22.3%. Even over a longer period, some proportion will do better than Buffett just randomly.

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SM/beyond SM is the only field in fundamental physics though. Everything else is either a consequence of those models or applied physics.
The UK government (or rather Public Health England) has basically lost control.

From tomorrow the devolved parliaments (certainly the Scottish government) will be diverging from tonight's confused "Stay Alert" messaging as announced by Boris. For at least the next three weeks the message in Scotland is still "Stay at Home".
From https://ubuntustudio.org/about-ubuntustudio/ :

> Ubuntu Studio is the most widely used multimedia-orientated operating system in the world.

Is it the fact or the goal?
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Megacaps don't just print money out of thin air. If you have a faltering middle class, who's gonna be there to spend money? Unless you institute some kind of universal basic income, I don't see people's buying power staying the same. Remember, 70% of the economy is driven by people buying shit.
Your current desktop hardware.
I have mixed feelings. I prefer “if (condition)”, but I dislike “if (!cond)”, since the exclamation looks sneaky, especially when the condition is a method call or a long variable. But I dislike the dis-symmetry of using != but not == . Programming syntax taste is hard!!
Testing capacity has gone up but in many places the percentage of positive cases - which accounts for the increase in testing - have stayed constant or even increased. For example in the DC/VA/MD area there has been a plateau of approximately 20% of tests positive for several weeks now which is a true indication that the infection rate is constant, not increasing or decreasing and accounts for the increased number of tests being done. NYC has definitely decreased its percentage positive in the last month, as have others, but plenty of other places in the US have seen increases or a plateau. You can find plenty of covid trackers that had the listing of total tests and total positive to determine this percent (e.g. https://covidtracking.com/data ). Generally epidemiologists, infectious disease control and other experts are saying under 10% positive is considered one good indicator that the infection rate is manageable and under control.

Hospital beds, like percent positive tests, are only one metric for determining health care capacity and how close we are to having an outbreak that overwhelms the all resources needed by the health care system to properly function. Globally there is a shortage of the medication used for sedating which is used when doing intubation or another medical procedure that requires sedation. Globally there is a shortage of PPE. PPE is at an extreme shortage globally still, and without PPE you have a shortage of medical workers (who then get sick or potentially spread it to other patients who aren't covid patients) - without health care workers those hospital beds become pretty useless. A lot of the initial cases in Wuhan came from cross exposure of non covid patients to covid patients at the hospital so canceling elective surgeries And mandating PPE made sense to prevent hospitals from becoming infection hotspots.

Why is everyone so hyper focused on hospital beds? They also literally canceled all elective surgeries as part of these stay at home orders which freed up something like 70% of beds that were being used. Additionally there aren’t as many trauma victims because car accidents, tourism, etc is down.

They know severity of cases and poor outcome when contracting the disease comes from initial viral load - being in close, confined places with someone who has it for a substantial period of time increases the severity of the disease. This is true for this virus and has mountains of evidence behind it in the study of virology to be true in general with viruses. It’s increasingly important here because the virus has no treatments in terms of medications, severe cases seem to be complex and the progression of the disease from this virus is not well understood. These guidelines and requirements for wearing a mask in public and need for health care worker PPE is a large part of the effort to help people have a less severe case of the disease if and when they do get exposed.

How myopic and superficial to not think about something more than hospital beds as a metric when evaluating these shutdown policies.
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Is this completely impossible to track in practice? I would imagine so.
You're repeating the article with some grandiose hand-waving to compare it to the flu, when it's already killed 5x any flu season in just 4 months :/
You can safely ignore "new cases" as that is (and always was) a measure of testing capacity.

Look at: recorded deaths, excess deaths, hospital admissions, ICU admissions, serological studies.

Together they can give a good picture of what's happening.
Sources please. Or it did not happen:

> Also, internally leaked government documents a few weeks ago showed that there is an explicit strategy of the government, to generate fear in the population in order to make people comply.
Absolutely agree with your last two sentences. WSL is a nice stop-gap but I'd much prefer the real thing.
Yes, I will excuse you. You are the one again with the ad-hominems and have no reason to act so arrogant.

The ASIC is needed for channel sounding and beamforming in realtime. The power stage can be separate. This is exactly what a wakefield accelerator needs, although the tech is being developed for another purpose.
This is why ASICs and beamforming are important; because they have the potential to provide the missing orders of magnitude of gain.

You can see how this can make up the technology gap in the case of wakefield.

I have no idea why some charged particles could be accelerated with electromagnetic fields but not others. The idea seems preposterous.

Gamma-ray lasers is an old idea but it still represents the pinnacle of what we can consider building. That the idea is old doesn't mean it has been tried and and found inadequate. As usual it is a matter of material science. In the past few years materials which can bend gamma-rays have been developed. Progress is slow, but not halted.

It does seem I have been mistaken about one thing; apparently once dismissed theories WIMPs and super-partners have been dusted off. I suppose that is what is required to justify building a new accelerator, but I seriously doubt it has any purpose but job security.
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There are more or less no limits on the stimulus money, so corporations that have issued debt to buy back shares can use it to retire that debt and then issue even more debt in the current hyper-low rate environment. It's essentially a way for companies to transfer the money into the hands of their executive management.
I don't think you read my comment at all.
It’s a combination of politics and the way that DEs step on each other on Debian-derived distros (more than other package managers, for some reason). For the most part, these specialty distributions are just for newer users who have specific goals and aren’t willing to troubleshoot on their own. Linux is such a vast community that there’s a lot of software that doesn’t play well together. Many people see the value in providing an integrated experience for a particular use.
How much of the TINA phenomenon could be due to lack of capital formation throughout the economy? e.g. if 90% of America is too capital poor to form businesses or dream up new economic needs, then wouldn't it follow that printing money into existing asset classes would simply raise their price with no viable places to invest the money?
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Input to computers used to be treated as commands. You would command computers to do things and they did them. Now, our input is treated either as unreliable ("Are you sure?" dialogs), treated more like a suggestion ("close app" vs "force close"), misinterpreted (oh you didn't want to run update when you issued a shutdown command?) or ignored entirely. It's gotten me irrationally angry.

I remember getting angry when I first had to ask the computer "pretty please, could you shut down," and having that possibly fail, rather than just throwing the power switch.

I remember getting angry when I first had to ask the computer "pretty please, could you eject the disk," with a non-zero chance that no, the computer is busy and you can't have your disk back.

I remember when undelete was an option, and delete was delete.

Now everything is a request. Everything second-guesses the user. Every button and switch is soft button that puts "software with lots of excuses" between you and what you want to command the computer to do. Every software iteration puts the user further and further into the backseat as a passenger rather than where they should be as the driver.
We know from recent viral claims about senate stock trades that people creating and spreading online conspiracy theories don't care about details like whether the senators actually had any involvement in the trades, nor do most mainstream media outlets, and I suspect they're likely to be the main user base of a tool like this unfortunately.
KDE neon?
There's a gap between those folks, though, and the median household which earns $63,000 a year but has almost no savings or stock holdings. The median household wealth is $100,000 and that's almost all housing.
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Is there any intention to optimize work done, rather than just the calling interface?

E.g., running an rsync if a 10m files hierarchy usually requires 10m synchronous stat calls. Using io-uring would make them asynchronous, but they could potentially be done more efficiently (e.g. convert file names to inodes in blocks of 20k, and then stat those 20k inodes in a batch).

That would require e.g. the VFS layer to support batch operations. But the io-uring would actually allow that without a user space interface change.
> deaths in major cities are declining because the lockdowns are working

I'm guessing it's because mitigations together with an increasing immunity is lowering the reproduction under 1.

In many large cities as many as 10 or 20% are now immune and that's a huge number if the theoretical herd immunity is somewhere around 60, and the practical one is somewhere even lower.
Some people want or need a tailored experience that they don't have to configure much if at all. e.g. making Linux suitable for near-real time audio work, restricting Linux to a set of well-tested stable packages for high uptime, making it as close to a standards desktop experience where the expectations are set by Windows and MacOS, making it sandbox absolutely everything by default because you have reasons to be extremely security-conscious, etc

Many of these goals are incompatible or at least unfriendly to each other, so you need tailored experiences. And that's fine.

Some of us don't. I use Arch btw.
> I don't know why Gnome didn't adopt the Unity menu bar integration, instead you get to waste space on the taskbar on the bottom AND that useless status bar on the top.

Are you referring to the Window List extension? Why not use Dash to Dock instead, or even Dash to Panel (not sure if it’s current state, I don’t use it) which will also replace the main top status panel.

I’m a GNOME user on a single display (X because NVIDIA and 3D industry apps) and it works well for me. I do like the other DE’s though, I’m pretty agnostic in that sense.
It would be cool if it was 100% live... Ie. with every keystroke the website is updated. Does the Google Docs API have some kind of event based notification of new keystrokes you could hook into?
Even in the unlikely scenario where resistance/immunity/vaccines for corona never develop and it never goes away, there will come a point where people consider the death toll acceptable losses and the lockdowns will be lifted. E.g. the current attitude towards car accidents and influenza deaths. (And yes, I know corona is worse than either. Eventually, should corona truly become the 'new normal', that won't matter.)
Gotcha, in that case I think the point got lost in the mix. Would love to engage with it more though, seems like you're passionate and knowledgable about this.
Yes, quite so, how would one characterize psychosis in terms of atoms and quarks? Schizophrenia is a uniquely human and philosophical disorder.

I recently finished Hidden Valley Road and one of the interesting things mentioned was the use of nicotine/anabaseine to improve attentional gating. Apparently due to the acetylcholine release in the PFC. Similar effect to modafinil for attentional switching and alertness.

Philosophically, I think it is true that noone can save someone from the torments of a wayward mind. The trick is to overcome this "powerful elephant" with the intelligent use of the mind in the first place, and tranquilize it by studying scripture, satsanga, and renouncing desire/hope. We must identify not with the mind or thoughts, but with what Kant called the noumenal world, the solar existence, pure consciousness.
I switched to Ubuntu about 6 months ago and have been shocked at how well it works. It's actually good, not just barely-workable-if-you-are-a-zealot.

I keep a Mac around for when I need to run Xcode or Photoshop but that's about it. And I boot into Windows when I want to play games.
I bet you can build your own luxury bunker somewhere in midwest for way less than a dinky studio condo would cost ya in SF. The real issue is the cost of land and zoning laws, not the actual entity built on that land (obvious exceptions apply, e.g., we are talking about buildings that fit a few families tops, obviously not something like a highrise with over a hundred of units).
I use Linux as my daily driver, and I would agree that unlike the late 90's, it's a fully viable option, for sure. Absolute default for everyone, though? Doesn't seem like it. Not sure if that's what you were saying or not, but Windows is definitely still the frontrunner by pure usage.

Windows: 47.5%
Mac OS: 26.8%
Linux-based: 25.6%
BSD: 0.1%

From the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
For work I've got an Arch-based desktop and a MacBook Pro 15". I'm almost exclusively on my desktop (lots of CPU horsepower and tons of RAM) and I use Zoom about 5-6 hours per day. I used the Zoom 4.x binary as well as now the 5.x binary versions that they offer. The experience has been solid for calls, sharing my desktop, etc. I'm curious what kind of issue you experienced.

I also agree about not going back to Windows. If anything, I'm really close to dumping my MBP and getting an XPS 13" 9300 and going full Linux.
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