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The lockdown orders imposed on many beaches and parks were totally counterproductive because people ended up more concentrated in the few recreational areas that remained open. At least they're getting some exercise.
Well enough to pass some policy, but not enough to seize power through popularity. He’d undoubtedly lose significant (I’d wager most) Republican voters, and all semblance of a mandate.

The idea drives a lot of clicks and ad views though, so I’m sure we’ll see many more speculative articles before the election.
Does this include dust mites in the vacuum cleaner or washing machine?
lightweight computing

8GB RAM

...pick one?
I spend a lot of time writing code on my laptop, and while that could display two 100-column terminals side-by-side, I prefer to also be able to see other windows on my screen while having text at a size that doesn't strain my eyes.
I remember bikeshedding with my coworkers about this topic a few years back while coming up with lint settings. We ended up analyzing all current line widths and realized that something like 98% of lines were under 110 characters, so that is what we ended up using.
GPT 3 is obscoleted by order of magnitudes.
SMIM has achieved 4.6 of perplexity vs 20 for GPT 3 with and with a thousand less parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02645
This is the breakthrough of the year and will be silent until the few nerds like me propagate the news to the mainstream
I couldn't agree more. Our company standard for Python line length is at 99 characters because that seems like a nice balance between wide enough to show more information, but narrow enough that it tiles well. I think it's much worse for readability to have narrow, tall blocks of code that you have to scroll around in more.
> It's rather obvious the problem are the people with a $2k credit card who want to profiteer off a crisis

If the store itself is allowed to raise prices then there is no opportunity for profiteering because they'd have to pay the store the market price to begin with. The arbitrage opportunity only exists as a result of the price controls.

> That would just price out anyone without $2k credit.

It would price them out of buying out the whole store, not price them out of buying a few for their own use.
https://i.imgur.com/BlUJxIj.jpg

Was my parent's home. We were south of Fargo, outside of the city dike. Fargo is very, very flat farmland. Our house was 40' above the river. The top of the city dike was around 43'. We melted down the ice, put down a sheet of plastic, and then built a wall of sandbags. Bonus, it was very cold, so you essentially had to bag and place the sandbag before the sand froze. We put around 10k sacks around the house -- and saved it. Nothing like paddling a canoe to my brothers to resupply fuel for the generators powering the sump-pumps that handled the water that seeps in.

We got very, very lucky. The weather froze the ice a few inches thick and it stopped rising. Had water reached that last bag, Fargo would have been a giant swimming pool.
Many programmers are averse to line wrapping plain text files (especially source code), which has never made much sense to me. There's great support for it in like every editor.
The worst part is that all alternatives to cookies are worse privacy wise... Or at least it would have been if every single browser didn't tacitly accept and keep all cookies. It's getting better, but making cookies permanent should really count as an additional privilege (I mean it does for browser extensions, so why on earth not arbitrary webpages?), also session cookies should really just go away when the tab closes, and first party isolation should probably be the default.
In my humble opinion because there is so much money and marketing behind it. If you go attend the OSS summit all the cloud players are sending evangelizers and having the whole conference to be about Kbuernetes.

Then a lot of people drink the koolaid and apply it everywhere / feel they're behind if they aren't in Kubernetes.

We are not in Kubernetes and have multiple datacenters with thousands of VMs/containers. We are doing just fine with the boring consul/systemd/ansible set up we have. We also have somethings running in Containers but not much.

Funnily enough at the OSS summit I had a couple of chats with people in the big companies (AWS, Netflix, etc.) and they themselves have the majority of their workflows in boring VMs. Just like us.
I wonder if anyone in history has managed to seize authoritarian power with only 40% support. I vaguely remember an example in the 1930s in central europe somewhere.
The Patriot Act was set to expire. By voting to reauthorize the Patriot Act without amendments, the Senate was certainly voting to allow the FBI to spy on emails without a warrant, as this is what the Patriot Act would allow if they had reauthorized it.

Facebook tried to play semantics games in claiming this was false info and they were straight up wrong. By censoring the post of a major civil rights advocacy group Facebook may well have contributed to the bill flying under peoples’ radars and passing in the Senate.

Luckily the civil rights groups were able to eke out a win in the House, but this was dangerously close to passing.
In r/law someone said they are using the int'l airport as a border, which is apparently legal.
Isn’t there some merit to the notion that long lines are typically either overly verbose or mentally challenging to understand?
This is a great idea, and I think you should pursue it.

Immutability of transactions is obviously a fundamental necessity and coupling this with GraphQL seems like a great fit.
I think to a large part this is a consequence of the racist policies the country had for a long time creating a permanent underclass. This will probably take some more generations to heal.

I also think that the US in general celebrates violence much more than other developed countries (on TV nudity->bad, violence->good). I am always horrified when even very liberal people seem to be OK with people being raped in prisons "because they deserve it". And I think a lot of people are totally OK with rough treatment by police.
We are planning on offering a competitive service to this later on this year. The major difference for us is that we’re an actual bank, so we need to run this infra whether you pay for it or not.
Even on very large high resolution screens, it's nice being able to tile that many more files on the screen. I think 'narrow' source code is advantageous no matter your display.
What variables?
Last I checked none of those things are fruits or vegetables. Suggesting they were enough to get all necessary vitamins and minerals was simply inaccurate and bad health advice.

When I Google "mushroom B12" it seems to suggest mushrooms have almost none.

People used to get B12 by eating meat (which I use generally to also include seafood).
I think a lot of terminals just set that as the default window width. No real reason for it, I usually snap to half the screen width immediately anyways. That turns out to about 105-120 characters width. Some people might just not resize it most of the time. Especially on Mac where efficient window management just isn't a thing.
You're forgetting about the increased risks to campus workers, administrators, staff, professors, people with compromised immune systems, people who live or near or with the elderly or people with compromised immune systems, and the workers at local businesses just to name a few.
I hate it when zealot coworkers reformat code to 80 columns. It almost always gets much less readable in the process.
Editors support it fine, but personally I find the result aesthetically unpleasant no matter the editor.
i have an oldish canon printer in the same situation and an rpi right next to it... bookmarked!
This!! At <current_company> people are insisting we use a max of 80 columns for the linter. It's a huge pain compared to 100 or 130 columns and doesn't help readability.

Everytime someone tries to argue for it I want to suggest we swap their Mac for a Commodore 64...
Yes, same problem in k-8. Slightly less risk in the student cohort, equivalent or higher risk in the staff and surrounding cohort.

Speaking as someone building one of those impromptu web solutions- it is a bad situation all around. For many colleges if they do not reopen in the fall they never will again, due to finances. And many are seeing demand from their students to reopen. So it is a matter of survival to do it- in that case it has to be done as safely and with as much consideration for harm reduction as possible. But there is little time and many people are working 24/7 just to get to "impromptu."

In terms of "centralized", the virus is a highly local problem. It spreads and has to be dealt with locally. Nuances unique to each locality dictate the mitigation measures. Hope that helps. Cheers.
> racist policies the country had for a long time

The US still has racist policies, they just usually can't be overtly racist now.

> This will probably take some more generations to heal.

Will it ever heal without affirmative action? Even if racism and racist structures magically disappear tomorrow, there will still be segregation and significant wealth and power gaps that capitalism has no interest in alleviating.
How do you do automated deployments, though? I don't like using K8s for small stuff, but I am also extremely allergic to having to log on to a server to do anything. Dokku hits the sweet spot for me, but at work I would probably use Nomad instead.
Primarily the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act. While there are some ambiguities that need to be resolved there is definitely no scenario in which the sitting President continues.
> Your argument proves too much, unless you think that respirators are useless for doctors and all the complaints about PPE shortages were pointless whining.

I don't think it does. Even the stats you quoted show that respirators will be more effective, on average, for doctors, than they will be for general population. At the same time, protecting a medical worker will give you "more bang for your buck" than protecting a random citizen. You should also count in the probability of actual exposure to the virus, which for general population is low, and for the hospitals (both the workers and the hospitalized) is absurdly high. All of this points towards strongly prioritizing PPE supply for medical facilities.

> The point here is that the evidence we had in February and early March was more than enough to make a sane decision on masks, reducing spread and individual risk while not exacerbating hospital shortages

The evidence I saw directly late February/early March was that hospitals around the world were complaining that they have days' worth of PPE supplies and started to cancel elective procedures to conserve them, while the PPE market pretty much entirely dried up (beyond the price gougers offering their hoards on-line). Why hospitals didn't have stockpiles is another matter (and IMO has a lot to do with optimizing costs, and - in countries with public healthcare - cries for leaner governments, cutting out fat, making things more market-driven). But my point is, there was never enough PPE on the market for everyone; there was barely enough for medical workers and industrial use, both of which had predictable demand around which the whole supply chain stabilized. So some kind of action that prevents general population from buying up all PPE on the market was warranted - though I don't like the one taken, which was lying to people about the effectiveness.
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Typical ill-considered comment from Linus, and surprising for someone getting on his years. Column width is an accessibility issue.

I'm barely in my mid 30s and the average font size has been steadily creeping, maybe 1.5 pts per 5 years.

I could tolerate 132 column files today, but by the time I'm 50 there is no way this will work, regardless of screen size
I wonder how Linus feels about tabs vs. spaces (I didn't read the entire post, so maybe he addressed it?)
I remember seeing reviews of camp cooking stoves that had USB chargers. https://www.bioliteenergy.com/ They didn't seem to be too good at charging but, as the article says, if you are already using a fire why not make a little electricity as well?

I grew up in a house partially heated by a wood fireplace. After hauling wood my childhood I'm never using a wood fireplace again!
In APL, sure (at least for me). In most common languages today, using meaningful variable names, it's pretty easy to have wide but readable lines.
If you close all colleges for a year, without substantial liquidity support that is not going to be forthcoming, many (25%) will never reopen.
thank you fellas for your comments, they are definitely helpful. for now, i'm finding a way to extract bios (biographies) from twitter, instagram and FB for research purposes; later I plan to scale that up to include other social media platforms (Youtube, LinkedIn, ...)

I am thinking it as use APIs for it (if they exist) or build a crawler to scrape the data.

is it something that can be done without violating any law?
Clickbait. It's not a 'secret'. Atlanta has 56 Marietta Street...same windowless tower. They're in every major communications hub.
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I find as I get older that I need to use bigger fonts in order to easily read code. Based on my terminal font, I can fit two windows side by side with 90 character line lengths, but if I have 3 windows, it would go down to 60 characters (though that's not something I commonly do).

I also find diffs that involve changes to shorter lines easier to read compared to ones with longer lines.

I wonder what he now thinks about line length in email and git commit messages (excluding things like logs, error messages, etc)?
I support vaccination because on aggregate they're best bang for buck in medicine that we have.

The most compelling argument I heard from detractors is that a) Vaccines have been tested/developed on people in Africa who were not told of the dangers of experimental treatments

b)Some vaccines contain trace amounts of metals like mercury.

Both a and b are True. In what way is the person that holds such views unscientific.

When I was child, I was literally vaccinated with a re-used needle. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

I don't understand why you can act like vaccines have never hurt anyone ever, and claim it as the scientific view. To me this seems equally as absurd.
linewrap is aesthetically and logically jarring when you're debugging code 'by shape'.

peaks and valleys between functions and such are a huge aid visually -- line wrapping makes visualization of source code harder for myself, personally.
Anyone can ssh into a server and apt-get haproxy and tweak the configuration and get it "working" where the definition of working is accepting and routing traffic. But that's just a hobby setup. When people say setting up a load balancer is complex they are talking about professional setups, not a one off software install on a single server.
> And yes, we do use wide tabs, because that makes indentation something you can visually see in the structure at a glance and on a whole-function basis, rather than something you have to try to visually "line up" things for or count spaces.

That is what he says
Pathogens aren't animals, so the mosquito is the one counted.

They don't count humans the same as other animals, instead, they count homicide/war (intentional killing), and you can just consider it a point of reference. Are you going to count accidents? Suicide? Anything that can be traced to human decisions? Anything that can be traced to human biology?

Any way you count humans, it just isn't going to be equivalent.
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Exactly. University presidents easily pay for their salary many times over just through their fundraising activities. Presidents aren't chosen for their administrative prowess, but instead for their professional network and informal connections. Further, most people that could serve as president could easily draw a much larger salary in the private sector and many were formally C-level executives at larger companies where were paid such a salary. For them, becoming a university president is more about prestigious and service to an institute they value than it is about maximizing compensation.

I think the problem to focus on is the large and ever growing number of administrators and staffers throughout universities. One stat that always makes my eyes bulge is that while student enrollment and professors have both grown by about 50% between 1970 and 2010, yet the number of administrators have grown by 85% and administrative staffers grew by 240%! [0] If anything, administrators and staff should've decreased due to productivity improvements from technology.

There is so much fat to be cut from administrative ranks.

[0] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septoct-2011/administ...
A note on your last sentence. Once I used my Win10 laptop at an interview at Apple. The interviewer saw me drag one window the the side, snap it, and then select another window to fill in the space.

He said, wow, Windows is really nice! :)
The kernel uses 8-space tabs.
A strange decision given that the schools had nothing to do with these infections.
> Private planes and industrial planes still have an awful safety record.

I don't know about industrial, but I assume "private" is a combination of 1) private pilots suck and 2) too much catering to client.

Kobe Bryant would be my unfortunate shining example of 2). The pilot either wanted to cater to Kobe or would get fired if he didn't, and so went up in weather that it was stupid to go up in.

As for 1), I've seen far too many sleep-deprived, hungover, drunk, or stoned private airplane pilots. And this is on top of the fact that they probably aren't the most experienced pilots to begin with. What is it about piloting that seems to attract frat boys who never grew up?
The problem here is that our editors aren't smart enough to wrap code appropriately. Word processors know to wrap lines on word boundaries; a smart code editor should be able to wrap lines and indent parameters in a human-pleasing way as you drag a window wide or narrow.
Re: downvote- as a factual matter Trump and cohort are saying that chaos and violence are their goals and have been for a long time. Stop being in denial.
I'm 62 and don't normally wear glasses, but reading glasses have become a big part of my life. I use 1.0 to look at my big screen, 1.75 to look at my phone and always misplace them somewhere.
There are too many private colleges so that seems fine.
They weren't even asking why. They were asking _how_.
This is interesting! I heard a lot of complaints about the Xero API, it has low rate-limits and you need some workarounds to push data in at a fast enough pace. Definitely not the system to be used at scale.

One thing that is in the roadmap is to bring data from Xero so that you can interact with it in Decimals. It should give you a much better API, and we make sure it's going to get synced in the background. Let me know if this is something you might be interested in getting early access.
Can't you enable line wrapping in your editor?
Splitting one line into many because of character limits can also make an action overly verbose or mentally challenging.

In some cases, unreasonable gymnastics needs to be done to get 80 character lines, turning good variable and function names into shorter worse ones or adding functions just to hide characters.
Optimal reading width is like 40-90 characters, and if I end up with an excessively long line, often times, I’ll try to rewrite a bit, not just line-break my first thought, but use it as a creative spur to write better.

Personally, I like 80 character lines. If I need more than 80 characters in a line, I treat it as a code smell.
This is an interesting thought. However, the risk of spread to the communities that house said colleges is greatly increased. I got to school in Boston and can only imagine the spread via off campus activities, public transport, and use of community spaces. We could be sparing our parents and endangering a whole other population. But college students could be far enough removed from their communities for this to make sense, don’t know of anything to back that up though.
Stores can and have limited the quantity one can purchase during this pandemic which is arguably a better method for preventing hoarding.

Many of the supplies issues aren’t due to actual limited supply but due to behavior patterns that stem from either fearing that something would run out or people taking advantage of the situation buy all the toilet paper in town and set your own price on the black/grey market.

The problem isn’t people having the foresight to spend resources it’s people creating artificial shortages. This isn’t the type of behavior you want to encourage.

This is also not a free market, the free market doesn’t work at short time frames and emergency situations.
The MQ-9 Reaper is a larger counterpart to the MQ-1 Predator. They are both designed for military use, both capable of carrying weapons, and both appropriately named given their original intended purpose.

They're also both airplanes. Neither of them resemble a helicopter in any way.
In order for trump to make a military coup and disband elections, he need more than the title of office. Even for something like sending in the military in order to push demonstrators, you need the direct support of the military. Is there any evidence that he as that kind of support?

Without such support, all the can do is push peoples buttons. He can ask the national guard to go to the location, which the national guard will likely accept in order to look helpful and useful. He might be able to impose a curfew, through the courts will fight him there. He might even be able to impose rules against large gatherings, which again the courts would fight him over. But I don't see how officers and generals would accept an order to start shooting civilians. Even if we disregard the moral question, just the liability risk from "just following orders" makes me question how much control a president have over the military to do acts which the law and common understanding of the law says are illegal. Intentionally killing your own civilians is a pretty major step for any nations military.

Sending in the national guard is naturally still a terrible idea as someone is likely to get shot accidentally. There was a good reason why the 9/11 military posted at airports wielded guns with empty magazines. Trump has likely the ability to cause accidentally shooting when the looting starts by placing the wrong people at the wrong location with the wrong training and wrong gear. He has a much harder time to accidentally cause a military coup and disband elections.
Yes, and human eyes are bad at tracking lines beyond a certain length.
You can get a k8s cluster on DO for around $15 p/m. And that itself can host all your apps.
I'm a big fan of softwrapping. Not because it's inherently prettier or something, but because the results are consistently better on more platforms because they can softwrap at what you've set the column width to be and not some arbitrary number someone thought was a good idea. (I have a similar argument for using tabs, but I digress.)
In my experience, line wrapping makes line numbering uglier and less intuitively useful. This impacts line operations.

I agree with Linus in some ways, but I think he's also repping a broad-front executive-style decision rather than a really nuanced one. And the details can really impact the preference in a case like this.
Yeah given the delayed and soon upcoming actual human scheduled flight, this would have been maybe nicer to put off a couple days... just optics but still...