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This is a good point.

It's really hard for me to use non i3wm supporting OSes now, even though I have to use Windows from work, and have used Macs for the better part of the last 2 decades personally and in college.

I suspect if WFH becomes the norm, then people will flock to big cities even more, because suddenly you live in a massive suburban house but can go days without ever seeing a new face.

At least when you had a central office there was a place where you would meet some people and be in the middle of some sort of hustle and bustle.

Big cities might become even more attractive in a WFH future .

Once you're working remote why pay someone 80k a year to live in the Midwest.

Why not pay them 40k a year to live in India instead?

That's only true for a small subset of technology companies.

Outside the tech world it's barely true, and even within the tech world, the vast majority of companies still require you to enter management the moment you've been promoted a couple of times.

It's kind of funny to see the disdain for VS based deployment here, while all the current rage right now is declarative deployment systems.

Something VS based development, build and deployment based workflows have been doing for over a decade through the largely Web..config files and .csproj files.

Is the only evidence that this has anything to do with Huawei is that the github account has listed Huawei somewhere on its profile?

Do you have any actual evidence that addicts engage in a disproportionate number of thefts and assaults?

And whether the number of thefts and assaults they engage in is all that significant.

Finally, I'm pretty sure moral compass has little to do with whether addicts engage in theft and assault.

Any high level official recommending it is a bad thing in itself.

The major issue is that there isn't enough evidence there for drug companies to put in money to ramp up supply. Heck, there wasn't enough evidence for Trump, who had just signed a trillion dollar stimulus, to divert a few tens of millions of dollars to ramp up supply.

Yet, you are telling a bunch of people who may never be able to make use of it to go buy the existing supply on the market. This existing supply exists because there are people who have actual proven needs of the drug, and as a result now you've also made the drug unavailable for uses where it's actually been proven to work.

COVID-19 kills anywhere between 0.7-4% of the people it infects. (Some countries like Italy saw a much higher mortality rate, nearing 15% in Italy, I believe, but that was due to the breakdown of the overwhelmed health services).

How would one even tell if any of the chloroquinine derivatives have been effective without a systematic study when 96 out of 100 people (at worst) would have recovered anyways? That's another thing that makes the 20 person French study which kicked off all this so much more ridiculous.

There was a 44% chance that they would have all recovered without any intervention. But it was probably higher for this group since they did have intervention, and they clearly had a high level of medical assistance.

At the same time people who have diseases which actually require medicines that rely on similar component ingredients are unable to get them.

That's one of the biggest issues with talking up miracle cures. Since it's not been proven, no one is gonna actually put their money behind drastically increasing production (pharma companies, etc. are not gonna put tens of millions of dollars on manufacturing a hunch), but the run on the existing supply means that a lot of people who actually benefited from it (for whom that existing supply was intended) now dont have access to it.

It's a complete lose lose. Even the hoarders don't benefit if it turns out to be beneficial because if it does turn out to be beneficial, production will be ramped up extremely quickly (since it's a known product and process with know side effects, etc...)

That's what I was thinking initially.

However, wouldn't the same pressures that apply to someone in a chain of command, also not apply to a contractor?

So, for example, if someone tasked with testing the current military strategy comes up with a wargame tactic that would embarrass the military (i.e. their bosses) they may not want to do that because embarrassing their bosses is probably not good for them.

However, in the same vein, someone reliant on those military bosses awarding them contracts would also not want to embarrass them, because it wouldn't be good for their ability to get contracts in the future.

In the former scenario, you at least have the case of a conscientious individual or team still going forward with what they think is the right thing to do.

In the latter there is no such compulsion either, so if anything, the chain of command argument makes things worse for contractors.

It's almost like microservices make sense when they make sense, and macroservices (or, as I like to call them, services) make sense when they make sense, and it's our job as professionals to make those calls.

Nah...we should just pick one and laugh at everyone who doesnt make the same choice until 3 years later we pick the other and then laugh at everyone who hasnt refactored and switched as well.

One of the first things I learnt in English 101 is that "I think" is redundant.

Your writing something automatically implies that it's what you think.

Unless you explicitly say something is a "fact" or quote a 3rd party.

Time Machine at least used to have a ton of reliability problems.

I'm hoping that it's improved recently which I suspect would happen especially after Apple switched to AppleFS. Time Machine on HFS+ was basically hacks extending hacks extending hacks extending HFS.

Does it work reliably now?

I know whole backups were highly unreliable with TimeMachine, and this was a known problem.

I had to use it twice to setup a new replacement laptop with the same data as my old one. The first time it went smoothly, but the second time it failed badly.

I would simply dig into the backup locations using Finder.

The backups are (or at least used to be) simple files, with deduplication provided by hard links.

Well, the obvious answer is they die.

So even if young people do not die of Coronavirus (which we do not know for sure) they die because they cannot get medical treatment after cutting their finger on a rusty table edge, or get into a car accident and cannot get medical help, etc.

Random HNers though are obviously the best authorities though.

Of course they would.

I won't even claim that severe lockdowns (which is not what anyone in the US or UK is facing) is the best solution.

However, in the absence of almost any reliable knowledge, it's probably the ONLY rational plan based on the fact that the one thing we do know is the method of spreading, and locking down will prevent that spread.

Except those people followed strict lockdown policies that are even greater than this.

You're talking about rationality and completely ignoring the fact that your numbers are based on areas where people have already taken the policies that you're saying are irrational.

If a company lets go of you you're theoretically supposed to leave immediately (the company is actually supposed to buy your ticket) and any additional time you spend beyond the final date is considered illegal.

In the past USCIS offered an unofficial grace period of about a month to find another job, but this is unofficial, and considering the current environment where the SC just approved a government request that allows the government to use the fact that you apply for a green card as a negative during your green card application, people should be extremely worried about the transition time.

Further, the USCIS has been ridiculously slow for the past couple of years in approving stuff, and has been holding up requests for trivial reasons, but now specifically, they will be hitting the March time period when new visas take priority and the odds of a transfer approval happening in a reasonable amount of time is really low.

The author is conflating discoverability of features, with discoverability of different ways to activate certain features.

So, for example, everyone knew how to view a PDF. It's just that the author disallowed the most discoverable method.

They all knew how to right click, in the most discoverable way (trackpad), it's just that the author insisted they use the magic mouse instead, or know about ctrl+click which no one ever uses. That the magic mouse is a usability disaster is a whole other issue, but that's unrelated to OS X.

I havent used OSX in a bit, but the default app thing should be something that you can do through settings (at least Windows 10 makes it very easily discoverable that way). Apple, however, has always done a terrible job with default apps (for example, requiring users to change their default Browser, Mail app, etc through Safari, Mail.app and so on).

The Do Not disturb thing is ironically an iOS UI pattern that Apple has completely unnecessarily brought to the mac.

So are the invisible scroll bars. Mac OS X's scroll bars used to be easily visible (and more functional, because it immediately gave you an idea of the size of the view as well as allowed you to click anywhere on the bar and jump there directly).

Fundamentally, OS X has well described, discoverable and recommended UI patterns that cover all these cases. iOS and iPad OS don't. It's unfortunate that Apple has decided the HIG isn't needed anymore, but that's more of an Apple thing, than an OS X capability thing.

The article doesn't suggest that.

The article suggests having a single lead per project. But each project is led by a different engineer.

You still have 1 leader per project, but everyone on the team gets the leadership opportunity and experience.

Listing vi in there shows that the OP, even if they may have good points in general, is limiting what good UX is to certain specific attributes, whereas developers want to optimize for additional attributes.

And this isn't just me saying that because I like vim. It's because of the objective fact that nearly every developer tool that is created will include a vim mode. And if included as an extension it will often be one of the most popular extensions. What that objectively indicates is that there is a large contingent of developers who genuinely find the vim modal editing UX excellent, to the point they seek it in other tools as well (including browsers, mail clients, RSS readers, etc).

The article mentions the Stratix 10.

The fact that Airbus are fly by wire doesn't mean they are "unstable".

They might be, but fly by wire does not imply that.

For the record, I don't believe Airbus plans are unstable in the way the MAX is, whose instability, from what I understand, came about because they were trying to fit larger engines on the original 737 frame (to prevent pilot retraining), and so had to move the wings higher.

You've taken that phrase completely out of context.

The author is clarifying that their friends were only able to access it because the author gave them the email/password, because the author wants to illustrate what someone who did have your email/password could see.

What's relevant are the sentences that come immediately after:

>, but Amazon-owned home security company Ring is not doing enough to stop hackers breaking into customer accounts, and in turn, their cameras, according to multiple cybersecurity experts, people who write tools to break into accounts, and Motherboard's own analysis with a Ring camera it bought to test the company's security protections.

Then the author goes through some instances and tools built to hack Ring passwords.

IOW, the author isn't claiming that Ring is insecure because someone who he gave the email/password to is able to login. The author is showing the kind of information a person who has your email/password can access, and then is showing how easily it is for someone nefarious to get that information.

Except if you look at the actual political discussion, that's not the idea you will get.

The vast majority of American political discussion is centered around the idea that "real Americans" are those living in rural areas, when in fact a few years ago the majority of Americans live in urban zones.

But further, there is a pervasive belief that it's those rural areas that are keeping the US economy going, and pretty much all political economic discussion is based on the idea of catering to rural areas economic needs, when in reality, as this article shows, the overwhelming majority of the US's economic output comes from urban areas.

I wonder if that's true for people who end up spending more time on Instagram than elsewhere, and start finding the IG Face to be more "natural" and get weirded out when they see people with wrinkles and stuff.

I'm assuming here that "natural" is a result of what you (and I, since I feel similarly) are just used to.

There likely appears to be only 1 way the Max can be redeemed, and that is for Boeing to accept it's a different enough plane that 737 pilots need new training for it.