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I wonder if this means domesticated cats can also carry covid? Are we going to have to worry about some sort of super mutant feline covid jumping back into humans later?

It feels like Apple released the lossless Apple Music update prematurely. I'd expect them to do the lossless update at the same time as introducing a refresh of their high end gear that is able to take advantage of the upgrade.

If my speculation is correct, did they do it early to get the jump on another platform? That also does not seem like an Apple style move.

As an aspiring plotter artist (is that a thing?) I find this to be a very good resource, thanks for putting it together.

This so easily could be my primary computing device. I've been an iPad user since the first gen and its my goto for anything that isn't work related and that's only because I can't easily write software on it.

I understand there are more people interested in the use cases apple illustrated in their presentation than software developers who just want to run docker on their ipads so I wont hold my breath.

But I'd love to actually justify the need for an M1 to be in an ipad.

This is super interesting, a topic i have never considered but one I run into all the time while using a pen plotter to render algo art. I am now inspired to see how I can algorithmically incorporate inktraps while generating my plot files.

The town in this article is a small/medium sized town in rural central Minnesota. The majority of people in this area will live in the surrounding country side and the "down town" isn't much more than a few blocks of buildings and side streets straddling a major highway.

So for most people in the area, going anywhere besides a recreational walk, requires getting in a car.

I don't believe this situation is unique to United States with regards to similar towns.

If you'd like to read more, Ars has an well written article about the same diplomat.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/a-maya-ambassadors-g...

Could this be used for bespoke cloud gaming? I was considering setting up a parsec host with paperspace GPU. I want more control over the game client than geforce now or stadia provides and a better GPU and availability than Shadow.tech currently offers.

*edit: I see that only Linux hosts are available at the moment so that kills my use case but I'll keep the question up for grins and giggles

This makes me sad. I _really_ enjoy the drafthouse and I rarely see movies anywhere else because all other major theater chains prioritize squeezing dollars vs the experience.

I see that the founder(s) are still involved but I can't help think that it'll just be a slow decline until the drafthouse is indistinguishable from AMC or other chains and their infinite commercial pre-rolls and dirty theaters.

I hope I am proven wrong OR another theater that respects the art springs up to fill the potential void.

I'll pile on an anecdote. I still have a facebook account but its not something I use very often except the past week given the situation in the USA.

My facebook account is very old, when i was more of an active user I did all the usual posts/photos that a lot of liberal urban types contribute.

Anyway, after posting some anti-insurrection posts I start noticing all sort of "tacti-cool" gear ads or targeted T-shirt s with some very macho-man hyper masculinity phrases on them.

This is very much _not_ me. Now I keep facebook on a tight leash (FB container, privacy settings turned to max) so my guess is that someone out there is spending a lot of money on a huge ad target or somehow facebook thinks anyone who is posting about a US insurrection would like to participate with some neat military cosplay kit.

I'd be curious to know some more details. The article says turnover was a problem at all levels, but why?

I am in this same industry and I'm really interested to learn what a massively well connected and funded startup discovered that made it better to toss in the towel.

I'd be curious to know some more details. The article says turnover was a problem at all levels, but why?

I am in this same industry and I'm really interested to learn what a massively well connected and funded startup discovered that made it better to toss in the towel.

This is real cool!

My hobby is plotting (AxiDraw) generative art. I often want to hand tweak SVGs prior to plotting them. I often get frustrated with the heavy weight tools such as InkScape and Illustrator.

This looks like just the thing I need. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend!

This article resonates with me, time to get nostalgic.

I grew up on the 90s internet, MUDs, MOOs, IRC, etc. Anything where I could have real time text based conversations with people.

I was also privileged with an easy way to travel and parents who did not really monitor what I was up to. I went all over the US meeting people I met online.

I met the person who eventfully became my wife on a MUD. She lived on the east coast and I was in the Midwest. Without this network we'd have never met. We've been together for 24 years now.

28/45 but there are several frustrating ones that I'm pretty sure I know the answer for and either could not summon the name out of the cobwebs or I was unsure of spelling. Either way, was fun!

I want these sort of devices in my life but I don't want them connected to some unknowable blackbox.

I remember growing up and reading all of these breathless futuristic magazine articles, books or interviews that featured what technology might be like in the future (the future is now). Those dreamed of devices do a lot of what today's actual devices do. The difference is that the hypothetical devices were built and sold to service the consumer and not act as a vehicle to gather data for whatever unknown purposes the manufacture is really interested in.

I think about the movie "Her" where the AI is purchased and installed onto an owned device and seemingly works only on behalf of the person that installed it and not who built it. Until we get to that sort of mind set (if ever) i will sadly have to opt-out of using these cool inventions.

Looks like a swimming pool, I assume crew and guests use it for exercise and recreation.

I had a similar experience and I really would love to know if I had COVID-19 or not.

I did some work traveling in the US Minnesota <-> North Carolina late January into February and came down with a flu-like thing.

I say flu-like because I had some symptoms you'd just say was seasonal flu except I had a few other things going on that were unusual. Shortness of breath and dry cough with low fever.

The condition was persistent but mild, it lasted about two weeks except I _STILL_ suffer shortness of breath.

After I came home I'm pretty sure I passed this along to several people despite usual "I'm sick, stay away" considerations (pre social distancing days), several coworkers and my wife got sick.

Antibody tests can't come fast enough. I'm sure this thing is/was far wider spread than thought.

I work for a large US based corp that focuses on technology and data services for the healthcare field. We have massive amounts of PHI for the majority of people who have visited a provider within the country.

We apply all sorts of stuff to this data, ML, AI or whatever other buzzy tech you can think of.

Most of this work happens within our own data centers but there is significant work done within public clouds.

We have BAAs (business associate agreement) with every cloud vendor we work with. We also have gone to extreme lengths to be confident that our cloud deployments are as secure (or more) than our on premises stuff.

However, none of that is unique. We're no industry trail blazers with adopting public clouds. Just about every other major player is doing this in a way fairly similar to ours

So, what I _really_ don't understand with this story is, did Ascension just simply give up their data to google without boundaries? Their BAA should be very clear that Ascension intends to use google's cloud services but not giving rights to their data to google.

It would not be unusual to engage a vendor or form some other partnership with another firm to work on problems or generate new products. I assumed that this is what Ascension and google were doing but this whistleblower and other stories make it seem like google just has free and clear access to this data outside of their relationship with Ascension.

Is that true? If so, that's crazy! Otherwise, business as usual?

To me this sounds like their product is a pile of boilerplate / templates that can be combined to build an app.

If I were take a guess of the flow: As a customer creates a "new app" they go through some wizard type of process that will start to narrow down which templates are needed and what information to prompt the customer to fill in.

Once they have all of that they take that bundle of templates and "content" and hand it off to some developer to glue it all together and then perhaps add some other automation to handle small changes by the customer later automatically.

Could be a clever way to speed up app development if you can narrow the scope down but "AI" it is not.

Just some speculation, arm-chair-quarter backing

I think I understand the reasoning for closing down most store but I simply don't get the "buy it maybe return it" thing.

I recently was shopping for a new car, Tesla Model S was on my list of potential vehicles. I test drove one and knew within a few minutes it was not the car for me.

If I had bought the car without a quick shakedown I would have certainly returned it but then I'd be stuck without a car for several days or even weeks since my credit/funds would have been tied up.

Why didn't they instead offer the 7 day try out but hold the car on some sort of deposit? This way if I returned it I'd only be out that deposit for the time being and would be free to immediately buy the car I wanted. If I chose to keep the car they would follow up with purchase.

Or for areas that are more dense with available cars to rent. Offer a rental Tesla for a day for some discounted rate to be refunded if you bought a car.

I don't think they thought this through very well.

My corp sends me out to conferences or remote offices several times a year, sometimes internationally. I can book business class if total in-air time is greater than six hours.

I know first class still exists but every time I fly biz class, that cabin is the ultimate premium cabin for the flight. There might be premium economy or whatever but biz class is functionally first class for the airlines and routes I typically fly (Delta, Air France)

As an aside, the new Delta One suites are _amazing_ and have totally ruined even "regular" business class lay-flat seats for me.

Another friend of mine found this article: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/widespread-wells-far...

Looks like a DC in Shoreview MN

A friend of mine who works at WF told me they lost an entire datacenter to a fire. I can't find any 3rd party evidence to back that up, but I have no reason to not believe my friend.

I guess their catastrophic recovery plan didn't survive a real incident.

edit I guess fire suppression systems were activated in a datacenter and some series of events knocked the entire building offline and automated DR failed. So if that's true, at least the risk of data loss is probably less than if the entire thing burned down.

Long ago I sent away for some information from Intel, they sent me back a lot of brochures and a few manuals but the biggest treasure was a bare 486 die complete with a little magnifying glass. I'd look at this thing constantly. It sounds sort of like what you had for a keychain.

I'd love to having something like that again. Do you know if it is possible to acquire these? I tried googling but I'm coming up short, I can't find the right search terms.

Ok, then this text in the "general" channel settings is very confusing:

Anyone on Spectrum can join this channel, post threads and messages, and will be able to see other members. If you want to create private channels, get in touch.

Also, it would be helpful if i could tell at a glance which communities I was in were private vs public. I can't even tell from the communities setting page if I selected private or not on creation (I did, but i'd still like to see that noted)

Thanks, looking forward to seeing how this gets integrated

*I'd love to see documents/media added to threads added to the repos (optionally perhaps)

I have a project within my corp where we need to collaborate with other companies on a shared project. We want to do this privately and right now run our own rocketchat stuff to do this. However we are open to hosted solutions.

I was unaware of this product until now, I figured I'd give it a spin to see what was available now and hope for some cool github integration in the future.

However the public-by-default stuff is a bummer. I know there are ways to make things private and perhaps its just me not spending enough time with the product but even if I make a private community it always has a _public_ general thread that I can't delete.

The public general thread is the default for any new thread or conversation so I can see that it will be easy to unintentionally create a thread that was intended to be private as public.

I understand why you want public-by-default, to increase engagement and community building but there are many businesses using Github and could use this tool if they were sure that they could keep stuff buttoned down.

So perhaps you guys could add a "business" or "private first" context that could be used for folks like me to ensure that while operating in that context I am operating as private-by-default.

Also, can you give any hints to what integrations might come?

I totally agree!

Large tech focused corps usually have a career path for individual contributors to rise up the ranks without becoming people managers. This career path is almost meaningless unless there is a corporate culture of collaboration between ICs and directors/VPs.

A senior IC should not be navel gazing all the time and just building whatever or getting into peoples business while VPs should not be so protective of their thing to dismiss or wall off outside contributions.

"Assume positive intent" and "It's all the same stock price" is heard around here a lot.

Its a mega corp in terms that it is comprised of several large enterprises. If the "arm" I worked in was spun off as its own corporation it would be Fortune 30 by revenue. Worldwide I think we have about 40k of the 270+k total employees in the corp group. The group as a whole is in the Fortune 10 and serves the health care industry.

My part of the corp is all software. Product development both "commercial enterprise" grade to individual consumer facing. This involves plain old software development, data science, infrastructure as well as R&D (some basic, mostly emerging tech)

I had similar concerns before I joined up. I didn’t want to get swallowed up in some massive project or shuffled around in reorganization after reorganization.

The guy who was recruiting me made all the assurances that would not happen. I respected this guy, it’s the only reason why I even entertained being “recruited” for this role. Even with that though his word was not good enough.

What put me over the edge was meeting with his boss and then his bosses boss. I got the impression that these people had great skills in running an organization. They both were ex engineers who made the leap to senior management prior to joint the mega Corp (VP and Exec VP). I felt like I could trust them to a degree. It has proven out for me.

So, I suggest trying to get information to gauge how much you can “trust” your senior leadership beyond whomever will be your supervisor since those are the people who will really have the most control over your agency and future at that company.