LordHumungous

How do you load balance across replicas? How do you shard across replicas?

K but what if you your service needs to scale.

I would prefer Python or Node over JVM for a light weight microservice.

I would choose a NoSQL store for something that needs to scale.

You are describing my life

Seems like the claim that this pandemic response team would have made a difference is the assertion that needs to be proven. I'm not terribly convinced that a bit more beurocracy would have made any difference at all.

Many problems with your comment. First SARS occurred in 2003 before Obama. It was stopped primarily because it does not spread asymptomatically. SARS-COV-2 does. That is the difference.

Great I can't wait for Biden to stop it.

This is basically the liberal version of "he won't condemn Islamic terrorism." Guilt by association.

Total nonsense. Europe has just as many if not more cases. The idea that another president would have made any difference is pure wishful thinking.

At least there were actual catastrophes caused by Bush. Under Trump it was conspiracy theories about Russian collusion.

Oh I see it's time for this blog post again.

How can I get infected with one of those other Coronaviruses?

Sure, I guess that's one way to look at it.

It beats a gigantic Malthusian trap.

I had a physics professor who liked to point out that Feynman (who we all idolized as college students studying physics) used to solve hundreds and hundreds of classical mechanics problems for fun, in his spare time. These were the same homework problems that we hated doing and always complained about.

The professor's point was, being great at something isn't just a matter of having a big powerful brain, it's also a result of putting in the work, and that work is not glamorous. A lot of people want to go straight to the big, fun, "important" problems, the big job titles and pay checks, while skipping all the toil that gets you to that level.

Yeaaaah, if you could rename your ethnic group to something more inclusive, that would be greaaat. Thanks.

I felt that "master"/"slave" was imprecise and just kind of weird terminology long ago before it was flagged as problematic. "leader"/"replica" describes the behavior better.

He had a gargantuan ego... and gargantuan accomplishments to back it up. The Michael Jordan of late 20th century physics, in more ways than one.

If you are concerned about the business that your corporate employer engages in, there is a simple solution: quit your job and become an activist.

Is appget dead yet? Is the windows solution that much better?

Yeah. There's a lot of relief in letting go, accepting that other people are outside of your power to control, and just practicing acceptance no matter how wrong or annoying or stupid you think people are being.

> Facebook policy chief Joel Kaplan, who played a central role in vetting proposed changes, argued at the time that efforts to make conversations on the platform more civil were “paternalistic,” said people familiar with his comments.

I think Joel was right.

Yeah, but the best of the best? Most of those people relocate.

Yeah it reminds me of a project at my company that was an attempt to automate certain development processes so that people could ship features without developer involvement. Cool idea! So they built this wonderful system and now there's a team of 6 devs solely dedicated to maintaining it lol.

SWE's have been the ones pushing for remote work for years, now here come dozens of blog posts claiming that it's our undoing. Ok sure. Trading some TC for lower housing costs, lower COL, less traffic, and a better quality of life outside of Silicon Valley seems like a decent trade.

Sounds hard

Huh? Have you been on Blind? SWE's know how the game works.

Does it show the success of their approach? Given that new cases hit the hospitals 2 weeks after exposure it seems like it is far too soon to know that.

Also, over what timeline are we talking? South Korea has fewer deaths now, will that be the case in two years time?

I've seen a lot of articles lately drawing conclusions from the state of the world as it exists now. But this is a highly dynamic situation. Today's assumptions are next month's fallacies. We need more humility.

Will COVID-19 become another cold? Were the 4 other coronaviruses that cause colds just as deadly when they first appeared? Interesting to ponder.

And parts of the US