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That raises the question of how to identify the sick. SARS-CoV-2 infections can be transmissible before the infected shows any symptoms, if they present at all.
Personally, I don't feel that there are many population centers in the US that are prepared to do the kind of testing that seems like would be needed to properly identify the sick.
My understanding of the extant research is that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to pangolins to humans in wet markets in China that sold "farmed" wildlife.
In short, yes. Wet, wildlife markets in China were the source of this outbreak.
A StarLink style satellite array actually has good latency even when compared to traditional fiber networks[1].
I recall some calculations that showed a decrease in latency over long distances because light travels slightly faster in a vacuum, there are fewer intermediate nodes over that distance, and a more direct path can be used than in our existing wired networks.
The biggest issue with current satellite connections is that the satellites are in geostationary orbits which imposes a minimum theoretical latency of something like half a second. It's physically impossible to send signals any faster[2].
1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/musk-...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Sign...
I've had a similar experience at my job and I think it's actually both things.
On one side you have people that managed to claw their way through the boot camp but didn't actually pick up any of the skills; they memorized enough to get through instead of actually learning stuff. On the other side, you have people that did learn but aren't confident in their skills and so flub the interview when their confidence gives out.
I've watched the latter happen on more than one occasion and I really wish I knew how to handle it as an interviewer.
If only I could be so grossly incandescent.
My mom has a similar saying: "People enter your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime." The idea is the same: you should cherish the relationships you have - while you have them - and let them go when they're over.
NGL, I'm not really sure why this is such a big deal. i understand it being done without the owners' express consent - that would piss me off too - but Yelp is just trying to help. I'd totally understand a "well, thanks, I guess, but what the fuck?" attitude than the vitriol the person at the end seems to be spouting.
Am I just missing something? Why wouldn't these businesses want people to help them out in this? Is it just the lack of notification and consent gathering?
WRT 2FA, my problem is more in using it than managing the available options. As I mentioned, mine is constantly misbehaving and, without any action on my part, hasn't requested any of my configured 2FA options in, now, multiple days. I'm guessing I must have somehow changed the "don't ask me in" dropdown without meaning to.
WRT sharing, I can agree with that. LastPass's sharing isn't as robust, though I don't recall ever using share links. I don't like that Keeper doesn't tell you what record you just received, though. I already have many dozens of records and it can be difficult for me to find new ones that have been shared with me.
I've never had an issue with data replication on LastPass and haven't needed it with Keeper (I only have it on one machine, anyways).
I can't speak to the Admin UI's of either, though. I've never used them in an org setting. The closest I've come to that is the family account I manage via LastPass, which I imagine isn't the same as what you'd get with a full enterprise account.
All that aside, I'm glad that it's been working well for you and your org. I'm sure Keeper is fine (particularly on Windows or Mac) and that my experience is atypical, but it's still my experience with the thing. Unfortunately, I hate it.
You're still centralizing a power. It would probably be better to have some rule that's based on quorum and consensus than specifically elected people. E.g. at least some percentage (say 60%) of active contributors must weigh in and some percentage of those (perhaps a simple majority) must agree that a violation took place.
Granted, that's still open to abuse if the quorum requirements are small enough (how small would depend on the quantity of abusers), but I feel it's more in spirit than centralizing the power into a sub-group.
I will further grant that it's likely that, in any group, only a subset will care enough about these things to police them, so the point may be moot.
I use Keeper at my current job and find it to be a horrendously bad UX.
Off the top of my head:
1) The browser plugin is horribly written and has cause me numerous problems (Linux latop, YMMV), mostly related to performance and memory usage (both very bad).
2) Horrible 2FA management. You can configure Keeper to not ask you for your 2FA on a device for an hour, 30 days, or never again (iirc) and sometimes it'll just stop asking (like it did for me just now) or switch to a different 2FA for no obvious reason (I have both a security key and OTP).
3) Personal Opinion: I hate the layout of the "vault" and the browser extension's windows. I find all of them to be clunky and hard to use.
On the plus side, I do like how the actual records work. Most fields are optional and they have a decent custom field system. So, you can store pretty much anything in a reasonable way (from database credentials to PII, if you're into that).
That may have actually been (slightly?) intentional. When talking about our Sun in the greater context of stars, I've often seen it referred to as "Sol". The best immediate example I have are games like Stellaris or Elite: Dangerous which refer to our home system as the "Sol System" and our star as "Sol", but I recall hearing it in non-sci-fi contexts as well.
I'm not really sure how the etymology works out on all of that, though.
View numbers were the revenue model. Eyeballs make money for advertisers. The more eyeballs, the more money.
You know, the back button works in Google Maps and does exactly what you might think it does: take you back to the state you were just in.
After you accidentally lost your route, you could have just used a built in feature of your browser to get yourself back to where you were.
EDIT: The rest of your post was entirely accurate. Google Maps is a slow, stuttery mess on literally every platform I've ever used it on recently. At least the back button works...
In all 25 years I've used computers, I can't recall having a PC that took more than a minute to POST. Ever. My current PC's fast boot is fast enough that it looks like the computer turns on and goes straight to Windows.
Maybe I've just gotten really lucky...
Personally, I think the idea of completely cutting off from social media isn't something that most people can (or even should) do. Rather, it's important to moderate your interaction with it.
For example, while I've excised most social media from my life, I find Reddit to be generally positive so I keep it. Facebook, Twitter, etc. not so much, so I hardly go there. Now, am I missing out on things? Of course, but I've decided that, for me, those things aren't important enough to deal with the rest of what comes with them (privacy concerns wrt Facebook, for example).
I also forbid social media on my phone - which can go a long way to breaking cycle of swiping/scrolling. I generally forbid myself from going on Reddit while at work, restricting myself to only Hacker News.
For you, that calculus may be different. Maybe most of your friend group interacts via Facebook and that's what they're most comfortable with. In your case, it may be best to stick with Facebook to keep your social circle intact. You just have to moderate your usage. For example, maybe all you really need is Facebook Messenger, so you never actually have to go on Facebook proper. Avoid the parts that drag you down while keeping the parts that maintain your sanity. Maybe only have messenger on your phone so you're not tempted to go to the Facebook site.
It's not easy, which is why a lot of people (myself included) choose to simply throw them away; it's not worth the trouble for us, but it may be for you.
This. 100% this. Any product of real complexity _must_ have a single person or very small group of people overseeing it. This is doubly true if you're product is using micro-services.
The product my current employer is working on suffers immensely from a lack of central leadership to the point where each of the pieces of the application have different (and sometimes contradictory!) ideas of what the world looks like.
It's absolutely maddening.
I use the terminal version of Emacs. I've used a number of terminals and currently use Kitty[1]. It had some keybindings that conflicted with Emacs, but the config file has a really handy "unset everything" command. So, I only have keybindings for things I actually use.
The ability to be friendly in adverse situations is absolutely a social skill. I have a couple of coworkers that have the ability to remain friendly even in intense situations. I find it really helps deescalate situations (or keep them from escalating in the first place) without derailing the conversation.
If a word accurately conveys meaning to another person, does it matter that it's made up? If you hadn't mentioned it (and I hadn't looked it up as a result), I would have had no idea it wasn't a "real" word.
Interesting that the + operator doesn't work but the - operator still works just fine.
I don't know how many times I've had to add -nodejs to things I'm trying to search to eliminate irrelevant garbage from some of my searches.
GP is referring to US policies on jury selection which, as far as I'm aware, _do_ include the stated provisions.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "browser-friendly"?
I would assume you actually meant "accessible and mobile-friendly", in which case the answer to that is generally "nothing does that". You need frameworks or libraries (not languages or compilers) if you want something that just does it for you.
Why? Webpack has gotten significantly easier to get up and running with since Webpack 4 (iirc).
Sure, it starts getting complicated if you want to add language features that haven't made it into browsers yet (i.e. Babel) or use something that transpiles to JavaScript (e.g. TypeScript), but the really popular ones have plenty of good documentation on how to set them up and what each piece is doing.
I've only had to set up Webpack a couple times and I've already internalized most of the important stuff.
Source Maps are still black magic to me though...
The internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).
People have to charge their phones eventually. The easy way to do this is to store the recordings locally and only transmit when the phone is already charging.
If we're already considering government intervention, why wouldn't they just require that internet providers of all kinds _not_ meter data sent to them?
Unless our hypothetical government agency _really_ needs real-time data, there are plenty of ways they can mask their activity in a way that users won't ever notice.
The rules surrounding financial institutions (in the US, at least) are weird and some of their information "security" rules are laughably out of date/ineffectual.
I'm not particularly familiar with those security rules (even less with the rules of other countries) so I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't a rule in one of the countries PayPal operates in that they just decided to use everywhere to make it easier.
Same! Until I found the "Unselect All" box and was happy again.
The copyright symbol at the bottom left is followed by "lose". Very insidious.
I only got through on the "bow" one, since it was very obvious that everything there was a "bow" of some kind.
You and I must have very different ideas about what "privacy theater" means. To me, privacy theater is the _illusion_ of privacy not real privacy.
So, removing "privacy theater" does nothing to your actual privacy and only shows you how exposed you really are.