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This is completely unrelated to the announcement, but when will Enterprise Server ship support for GitHub Actions?

I suspect Microsoft wants to capture as much developer mindshare as possible and then cross-sell Azure. Reducing/eliminating entry costs for commercial grade features helps to do that.

My new favorite YouTuber, CuriousMarc, has a whole series of videos about restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).

His AGC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb...

His channel is full of fascinating retro-computing and EE videos.

> Other than BestBuy, no other retailer "gets" ecommerce

Target.com is a pretty solid experience.

Walmart.com is also surprisingly good.

Although I'm sure people can provide horror stories for both retailers.

Buhner’s book is wonderful. Extremely well researched. Anecdotally, (n=3) his evidence-backed protocol worked to treat my family and I after antibiotics did not work.

I have had good success with the document scanning built into iOS. For some reason it's buried within the Notes application.

Spot on.

DDG is my daily driver and I do not miss Google Search in the slightest. I rarely need to !g and its often futile because Google returns nearly the same results.

However, my favorite feature of DDG is it's native dark theme.

> Have you ever tried a complex branching model like gitflow with multiple teams, and hoped for everyone to be on the same page?

My company does exactly this and I am happy to report there have been no issues. I think the key reason we don't have issues is we are strict about maintaining backwards compatibility between services and also try to maintain forwards compatibility where possible.

> “What’s in production” becomes an existential question, if you’re not careful.

We solved this by embedding the SHA's of a build's constituent repos in the build artifact.

Thank god. The first thing I do on a new Windows 10 install is disable all that crap.

I've been leaning towards this hypothesis lately. We haven't been seeing large increases in cases in countries in the more southern latitudes thus far. Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand India, Malaysia, and Australia have not been reporting large increases in cases like we are seeing in China, Italy, Iran, and South Korea.

Of course there is another explanation, these countries could be under-reporting or not detecting new cases...

It was a Benjamin Moore store. I must've been lucky.

1 gallon of water per person per day is recommended. This may seem excessive, but it factors in water for cooking and cleaning.

Should note that it's pretty warm in Singapore and they are definitely dealing with COVID-19.

I went to a paint supply store and they had a good number of N95's in stock.

I think its more likely than not that COVID-19 will progress into a global pandemic. I don't think its a bad or rash idea to begin preparing to self-isolate/quarantine before panic-buying of supplies begins. Having a stock of non-perishable food, medication, masks, and disinfectants will definitely make things easier if COVID-19 can not be contained.

I've been considering trying out a tiling window manager. I'm curious what people feel they gain using a tiling window manager versus something like Windows/Gnome's screen splitting features. Is it being able to arrange more windows on the screen than just side-by-side windows? Is it keyboard shortcut efficiencies? Is it just cool?

I think for defect estimation you are right, but for feature estimation (new code, not fixing bad code) the correlation is positive.

My company has been experimenting with doing our feature estimations in LOC changed instead of points (1, 2, 3, 5). The general idea being that point estimation can vary between engineers based on ability, but LOC changed should be similar among engineers. This is supposed to make it easier to answer management's favorite question of "How long is this gonna take?". The answer is calculated using a team's historical average LOC/hr rate.

It remains to be seen if our estimates are any better.

The madness will hopefully be ending soon with .NET 5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

> There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.

There's also the ongoing Phase 3 Remdesivir trial. [1] Which was used in the treatment of Washington's 2019-nCoV case. The patient appears to have begun recovering soon after the remdesivir was administered and was released shortly after. [2][3]

> Treatment with intravenous remdesivir (a novel nucleotide analogue prodrug in development) was initiated on the evening of day 7, and no adverse events were observed in association with the infusion. Vancomycin was discontinued on the evening of day 7, and cefepime was discontinued on the following day, after serial negative procalcitonin levels and negative nasal PCR testing for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

> On hospital day 8 (illness day 12), the patient’s clinical condition improved. Supplemental oxygen was discontinued, and his oxygen saturation values improved to 94 to 96% while he was breathing ambient air. The previous bilateral lower-lobe rales were no longer present. His appetite improved, and he was asymptomatic aside from intermittent dry cough and rhinorrhea. As of January 30, 2020, the patient remains hospitalized. He is afebrile, and all symptoms have resolved with the exception of his cough, which is decreasing in severity.

This is obviously just a single patient’s outcome and not proof that Remdesevir is effective, but it’s just about the only positive news related to 2019-nCoV. Hopefully the trial yields good results.

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04257656

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191

[3] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/snohomish-c...

If you are more of an interactive learner I would recommend installing rust on your machine and then cloning the rustlings repo https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings.

Rustlings is an interactive collection of rust exercises that are either incorrect or incomplete. The exercises are grouped into key concepts of rust and cross referenced with relevant chapters in the rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

The general flow is to open up the given chapter of the rust book for a set of exercises and hack away at them until they compile. It's a good way to quickly get an introduction to rust and its core features.

Their pricing is indeed extremely overpriced, particularly their self-hosted pricing.

10 targets - free

25 targets - $2300/year

50 targets - $4500/year

100 targets - $8800/year

200 targets - $16800/year

400 targets - $32000/year

500 targets - $39000/year

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5000 targets - $290000/year

inf targets - $420000/year

https://octopus.com/pricing/overview

The actual advisory from Microsoft (CVE-2020-0601):

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

> A successful exploit could also allow the attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks and decrypt confidential information on user connections to the affected software.

It's for Windows Hello (facial recognition login).

Anecdotally, the margins can be fairly large. I am aware of one daycare in the NYC metropolitan area with around 100 students that PROFITS nearly $9000/yr/student.

Their teacher pay scale also tops out at $15/hr, but each teacher represents around a $8000/month revenue stream.

The daycare’s rent is about $40,000 a month.

To add: there’s also a cystic form of Borrelia burgdorferi.

The bacteria is a spirochete, similar to the bacteria responsible for Syphilis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564911/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrelia_burgdorferi

The official election results put it at 86% (46,062) in favor of the regulations (voted 'Yes' for public question #1).

Even more interesting is the number of 'No' votes (7,416) is less than the number of signatures on the petition that forced the ordinance into a public referendum (~20,000 with ~9,000 certified).

https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Hudson/98893/Web...

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/08/referendum-on-airbnb-regul...

There's also the PATH which is a subway that goes straight into Manhattan from Jersey City.

I believe the new ordinance restricts short-term rentals to owner-occupied units. So you would have to own the apartment.