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The initial rules when we went into "Stage 4" lockdown were:

* Essential industries (food, health care, logistics) were working, some, like abbatoirs, with reduced capacity

* Retail food sales (supermarkets/butchers/bakers etc) open. Cafes/restaurants for take-out or delivery only.

* Other retail closed except for online or click&collect contact free.

* Night curfew 8pm - 5am, relaxed later to 9pm.

* Maximum 5km radius from home unless for work/medical care.

* Only 4 reasons to leave home: essential work, medical care, one person shopping once/day, one hour of exercise.

* Masks whenever in public (not just inside).

Over time, some things got slowly relaxed. The curfew was changed when we got to the start of daylight savings. The radius was relaxed from 5km to 25km. A "singles" or "intimate partner" bubble was established, that allowed people to have one other person outside their household. Then two households were allowed to meet outside the home, but still masked.

At the same time, the government support included $150 if you were being tested and had to quarantine until the results (usually 24h). Then if you were positive or were a close contact and had no sick leave, then there were payments of $1500 for the 14 day isolation/quarantine period.

The Federal government introduced Jobkeeper, which was a subsidy of $1500/fortnight for businesses to maintain employment, and Jobseeker was an extended unemployment payment.
I literally qualified my post with "once the views become too extreme". It's exactly what this thread is about. (I agree with your position on non-extreme views enough)
> Also, what do tabs open have to do with IQ?

It's a meme.

> And how are non technical users supposed to know they should not do this?

For the same reason you need a license to legally drive a car. While I'm generally not a fan of the RTFM-attitude, I have absolutely no patience for people who are unwilling to even learn about the very basics of the complex machine they're operating.

Why on earth doesn't "the computer guy" tell them about where to learn the basics instead? Teach a man to fish an all that...

> There is, for instance, a large stack of perfectly fine laptops in my house because some people just bought new ones because the old one ‘was slow’ and they were fed up.

There's several reasons for that to happen - sometimes it starts at the point of simply buying the wrong product. Leaving the whole why-even-a-laptop-in-the-first-place aside, I have been convinced for the past 10 years now that 90% of all laptop users would be better served with a tablet (preferably an iPad).

First of all, non-technical users cannot make an informed purchase decision and way too often buy garbage products (e.g. low-tier CPU with not enough RAM) in order to save maybe 10%.

Secondly, instead of learning about the product they own and its limitations, they pile on crapware on top of bloatware and not once even manage to do basic maintenance (like disk clean-up, which is literally just a button press away).

"The computer guy" shouldn't "fix" their machines but advice them to just get an iPad instead - problem solved for both sides.

It's pretty short-sighted to blame a particular set of software packages for a whole pile of problems that stack upon each other:

• underpowered hardware

• complex operating systems that require knowledge and manual maintenance to keep them running smoothly

• increasingly bloated websites and ads (just test it yourself - HN allocates single-digit MB per tab, while a news site easily causes >200 MB allocations)

• computer illiterate users that are unwilling to learn even the very basics about their machine (Sapere aude!)

• an inability of users to judge their own needs and requirements vs their options in terms of technology (i.e. desktop PC vs laptop vs Chromebook vs tablet vs smartphone)

• the failure of the industry to communicate their target audience (i.e. you don't need a laptop to watch some Netflix, browse the web, do photo editing, etc.)

• not all operating systems are the same - sometimes all it takes is to make the switch (be that Linux or MacOS)

But no! That's way too much thinking and way too differentiated a view point! It's so much easier to just blame Chrome. Or Electron. Or JavaScript. Or Windows.

Anything but daring to actually form a complete picture...

But hey, that's basically today's Zeitgeist in a nutshell anyway I suppose.
If you actually look at the video closely, the Trump supporters' vehicles kept their own lanes. The other vehicles drove into their lanes.
I don't care about you trying to cancel me lol that's why this is a sock account, but it's even more telling that you think basic descriptive (not prescriptive) observations about reality are not moderate.
Watch out, pointing out that "silence is violence" is an oxymoron is also violence.
When one of the parties is run by an open bigot, active financial support of that party says a lot about the donor.
I guess his role in never say never again was already a cameo in a way.
i'll bet there are still a bunch of people who silently oppose interracial marriage in the US. But... they will be dead soon and their ideas will die with them
Meanwhile a convoy of armed Trump supporters literally tried to run the Biden campaign bus off the road [1].

That's the reality Trump supporters are using fascist tactics (and I'm not exaggerating here, these acts are rightbout of a fascist playbook) while complaining that liberals say mean things to them.

[1] https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

BTW there are reports that police refused to do anything, if that is true we are really right in 1930s territory.
They have added them, it's just they're in bitmanip, which isn't finalized, nor is the extension mandatory.
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I don't know WordPerfect so I can't make a comparison.
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Unless somebody is naive it should be clear that trump and biden or any other government official agree on the importance of having upper hand in information and data collection.

Ask yourself why would you reward edward snowden type of action on your own government.

I mean look out the competition, china, russia, israel iran... Etc.

Ask yourself again would you do it? For what? What would you gain if you were trump or harris or biden. What is in it for you?

It really disappoints me to see people who can't see the stage drama and ground facts separately.

Any US government should not and would not pardon snowden in the coming ten years.
America seems to be an interesting country

"interesting" in the sense of the Chinese curse phrase "may you live in interesting times", perhaps.
I think anybody wanting to implement POWER nowadays means the PowerPC ISA, as implemented in modern POWER CPUs, not the original POWER ISA from 1990.
You should be civil because it's a representation of your own character. To do otherwise is literally you being the problem.
I saw that video. It's not actually clear cut to me who was at fault. The truck was in the right lane, the bus and SUV right behind in the left lane. Bus merged right (into truck's lane immediately in front) SUV could not occupy the space already occupied by the truck as SUV tried following bus. Truck did not yield, SUV tried to wedge in and straddled both lanes. There was subsequent contact but I'm not sure who initiated it. Never the less, you should not drive in two lanes --you should wait till it's safe to merge, it's basic traffic safety to not change lanes till it's safe to do so.
> The way you've phrased it means that it's perfectly reasonable to be uncivil (violent) towards others.

It is, given the right situation. It is not as if the civil rights movement of the 60s got the very real improvements it did get by accepting being treated as crap. Rather, it got rather violent at times. What you suggest would make certain no real improvement could ever happen. Which make sense if you belong to the people that has a good situation in the current status quo, but it absolutely sucks for the people that doesn't. Quite often to change the status quo to the better you first need to make it unpalatable enough to the people that is favored by it.
That's not what ostracizing means, and you know it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
> I never downvote, so not me

Appreciate it (and your reply!)

I think the issue was that most of the decisions made, over-reliance on intubation, withholding steroids, etc where made in the beginning, in places were the hospitals were overloaded and there was this sense of urgency and panic. Then some random study is showing a 18% fatality rate in severe cases with steroids Vs 14% without, giving the impression that this virus works like no other
You could get an equivalent of price signals by another means - rejection of products that were unfit for use. The Soviet military was able to do this, and so got equipment that was both of good quality and was of the correct mix of products. Civilian enterprises did not have this avenue available, and so ended up getting products of the minimum quality that would still skate by under the Plan's rules.
PDFs act more like images than text. I made a tool for diffing PDFs at the visual level a little while ago (http://parepdf.com) because I needed a way to see the explicit differences between PDFs.

Diffing PDFs at the textual level is a much harder problem though since lines of text need to be reordered and concatenated with each other. Unfortunately there is nothing built into the format that allows you to know what line belongs with what other line beyond guesswork.
Reminds me of that Monty Python sketch where moderates were the enemy's of everyone.
Another factor, I would argue, is that the cultural and political changes have occurred very quickly, and that's always going to cause conflict.
This makes no sense. In order to land on such a planet you need to accelerate to its speed anyway.

The planet doesn't offer much to help the travel, yet you need to get out of its gravity well when you arrive.
Yes, there were deaths as a result of the lockdown. There was definitely increases in mental health problems and associated effects like domestic violence and addictive behaviors. There are scars that will take time to heal. There are likely to be ongoing effects that will need to be addressed.

However, the effect of these needs to be balanced against the effect of not controlling the spread of COVID. There were also other benefits, for example, much lower influenza and other winter diseases due to lack of contact and masks and social distancing.

By controlling and reducing the number of cases, we had lower rates and now almost eliminated hospitalizations. There were interruptions in "elective" surgeries, but required surgery and hospitalization for other disease suffered much less than it could have.
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A couple of points to consider:

Firm opposition does not imply that civility has to be dropped. In some cases it may even be counter productive since it ends up entrenching attitudes and positions.

We also need to be aware of how our own attitudes contribute to our own perceptions. It is not much of a leap to believe that we will be fired for our political views if we think that others should be fired for their political views, even if those beliefs and thoughts do not reflect reality.

I am not going to claim that civility must be maintained at any cost, there are certainly historical instances when it could not be. On the other hand, being proactive and civil will likely reap more positive change than the alternative.
The main reason to use Kotlin is that it looks like Swift and most Android engineers already use it. As an Objective-C and Swift developer I can read C and C++ and dibble a bit in it but to write serious code from scratch: forget it. Kotlin itself feels quite natural, though the Java and Android libraries especially can be a bit weird at times.
Not saying anything about not trying to find perfection. I'm only saying it's unlikely that anything you consume is free of contamination in 2020.
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Sorry for the downvotes, but your opinion is pretty much spot on. People dont like hearing truth about the situation.
Yes. With Ethereum’s PoS system, you get penalized for voting in multiple forks.

See https://eth.wiki/en/concepts/proof-of-stake-faqs (I can’t link to the paragraph).
If your car is undrivable they can charge you to repair anything you damaged, such as the Jersey barrier. If you can drive your car a few hundred feet after the accident (cracked radiator) they can't get that money from you and don't care.
Yeah, but why not stuff like immigration, stances on environmental regulation, income tax rates on high earners, gun rights...

You've gotta agree that those fall under the moderate umbrella a bit more right? I've lived/worked in some very conservative environments and I don't think anyone would've walked along with the race IQ path.
When one sides is burning down entire cities, it’s hard to be civil.
Yes including that issue. One person extreme view is just another person normal view, its subjective.
Ah and there it is. PHP is fundamentally a templating system with a programming language built-in. Imagine using Handlebars.js to write your business logic.

I do think code organization is one of the primary jobs of a programming language/ecosystem. I want my tools to help me be better about that, not worse. Oh and given that most projects use a bunch of library code, I would very much prefer a system that has a consistent code organization pattern so I don’t have to guess how it all works. Take a look at the source code for something like WordPress or WooCommerce. These are mature projects. And yet it’s hard to shake the feeling that it’s all spaghetti inclusions.

But also there are many other issues with PHP that I mentioned in a prior comment. Here, if you’d like for a better read on the subject than I can produce: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
> It has been working since then and introducing a new compiler would change the binary generated

Surely making a code change and recompiling would also change the binary?
Yes, you are correct the left is full of fascists that are power hungry sour losers.
The truck is at fault by being there at all. This is not acceptable behavior. They created the situation with the intent to provoke. It’s classic bullying.
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Why wouldn't the insurance companies just offer to deal with arranging a tow truck for you? If they're getting scammed so much wouldn't it make sense to have someone answering the phone and calling a preferred towing provider?

The service itself would have some value because knowing you can call your insurance provider after an accident and having them deal with everything would really help to reduce the stress of the incident.

My hunch is the insurance companies are a bunch of babies that would rather whine than solve problems. My sister got in an accident in AB last year and it took her insurance company forever to have her vehicle re-towed from a small garage in a little town to Edmonton. IIRC it took more than 6 weeks for her to deal with insurance.

Contrast that with SK where between the city police and SGI you don't have to do anything. They just deal with it and the rates we pay are probably the best in the country. It's ~1500 CAD per year for insurance and as long as you have a decent driving record you don't get penalized for getting in an accident. You can even cause an accident and pay $0 if you don't make a claim on your own vehicle. Plus they typically get everything dealt with very quickly.

If the police are calling corrupt tow truck companies that's it's own problem. That kind of corruption shouldn't be tolerated and if the police are calling a tow truck for you after an accident it should be a regulated process.
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C# is really great I've used it for cross-platform desktop applications but there are a lot of mobile developers that don't know it. .net has the nicest libraries in my opinion. If I look at the fights I need to have with Gradle every time.....so many things have already been solved by Microsoft decades ago (WPF with MVVM was really a joy to work with) only to be reinvented later in a bad way by Google.
> The right is often threatening violence while the left is trying to get you fired from your job.

Wait till you see the "guillotine for the landlords" crowd :-(

I've noticed what you mentioned too - people claiming that if you don't fight for their idea, you're against the whole left/right/whatever. I wonder if that's an inevitable result of presenting views as left/right and having two parties in the first place. Most European countries have many flavours of left/right and parties having to form various coalitions instead.
You are in way over your head if you really think junior devs (or others without much experience) are the only ones who can take something away from Dieter Rams' design principles.
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> "Do we have to show tolerance to the intolerant?" is not the newest question in the book

Lately it seems to be the most misrepresented part of Popper's "paradox of intolerance", where he defines intolerance as those who resort to violence instead of speech, and the would be censors of this age who bring up the paradox - without seeming to have read it - tell us that the intolerant are those we disagree with. "we" being those the would be censors disagree with.

> free societies stay free if they draw a clear line what is unaccepted behaviour

> if you give bad actors freedom in the name of tolerance they will use it to reduce the freedom of weaker actors within society

I agree. There is a clear line, which is crossed the moment someone resorts to violence instead of speech, and it has been drawn clearly in law. The bad actors would be those looking to reduce freedoms such as speech, based on nothing more than disagreement, which as it happens is something fascists (among others) have done when they've had the chance.
> Opening Windows Media Player prompted me with some privacy options such as obtaining licensing info and sending diagnostics back to Microsoft, each of which were clearly explained and had to be toggled on/off in the setup. It was so clearly out of the norm at the time that they went out of their way to make it visible. I feel like today it would not even warrant a mention, bar locales where that's required by law.

Windows 10 will ask you questions about many privacy/diagnostics/tracking-related options during setup. Here’s a YouTube video of someone picking the wrong answers for all the questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgL2NI22Ks
I wouldn't help the Biden campaign either if I was police, after they stocked the flames of a movement that literally chanted about wrapping cops up and setting them on fire.
There was more than "token" support for small businesses. There was Federal government support for maintaining employment and there were bank and commercial lease supports. In addition, the state government provided loans and direct funding to various industries.

Remember that Australia has not had a financial recession for 25+ years. Recession for any reason causes bankruptcies which leads to those personal impacts.

But the lockdown has meant that our economy will be closer back to "normal" earlier than it would have been. Our primary markets in Asia (in particular China) are all recovering rapidly.

So not sure what your argument is here. Yes, all of the effects you state are correct. However, what was the alternative?
Gen Z prob have Gen X parents. washes hands

I think the real issue with political polarization is that the stakes at the individual level are very very low when you are in an offensive position. People that think that people should get fired over donations have no risk of getting fired for that opinion themselves.

Generally there is a problem of escalation and individual responsibility, and its all being concentrated in the political sphere because of it.

There is another major trend which is that governments are directing themselves on polling more than ever: they are constantly making stances and policies on the latest hot-tweet, which makes the political sphere way too relevant to people's daily lives.
I like the idea for a low-tech, no-distraction solution for writing but man, this AlphaSmart device looks really crap. I hate chiclet keyboards, but I know that not everybody agrees. On the other hand, I can't imagine that anybody finds these 1990's style low-contrast LCD matrix displays pleasant to read. I'd sooner use an actual old-school typewriter.

There appear to be some e-paper solutions but they're expensive.

Honestly I think I'd rather go the George R R Martin route: take an old laptop with decent screen and keyboard then install a barebones environment. It could be as simple as booting straight to a full-screen vim/nano with no distraction installed.

I wish I could do something like that for coding, unfortunately when I program I usually need a browser and internet access to browse docs so I can't remove that. Maybe I should see if I can survive with only elinks or some low-featured web browser.
These topics have been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Hence, the US constitution was created. It’s been working pretty well so far. And, I don’t think it’ll be changing anytime soon.
A clarification:

> Instead of writing proofs, it works using the simple method of running all possible executions of a program.

TLA+ is a formal mathematical language designed to describe digital (and hybrid digital-analog) systems. By itself it "does" nothing other than allow writing a formal description of a system, various propositions about it, and their proofs.

There are tools, however, for mechanically writing and checking TLA+ proofs with a proof assistant (TLAPS), as well as model-checking them (TLC). The author refers to the latter, but it should be noted that model checkers, including an explicit-state model checker like TLC, don't only not run all possible executions of a program, they don't even run it once. They are "static." Indeed, TLC could, in some situations, check whether an uncountably infinite number of program executions, each of which of infinite length, satisfy some proposition within seconds.

Also, the author chose to specify their algorithm in PlusCal, rather than in TLA+, which is pseudocode-like a language that compiles to TLA+ in a straightforward manner and is sometimes more convenient than TLA+ to specify low-level concurrent algorithms (TLA+ is more convenient to specify a higher level view of an entire system).

TLA+ is, however, exceptionally pragmatic due to an availability of a model checker for it (in fact, there are now two model checkers for TLA+, TLC and Apalache, using very different algorithm), but mostly because it is exceptionally easy to learn compared to other formal mathematical languages.