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At a high level, at least, anything in categories like "Groceries", "Health Care", "Personal Hygiene".

>Part to fix my cloths washing machine?

Appliances are apparently "non-essential", according to several governmental orders. Local news here in Denver made a big deal about the city putting a padlock on the doors of an appliance retailer.

> While Google and Microsoft both offer a product that "just works" with only a browser.

But those products don't always "just work", at least not in my recent experience. I have had repeated problems with Google meetings while working with an external entity, and most of my employer is a Microsoft shop, so I've had deal with issues with both Teams and Skype, both via browser and OS X app.

Note that at the news release link, they have bolded payment. So, you still have to file by April 15, but if you owe, the payment is not due until July 15.

Edit: and now I see that the tweet re: filing was just this morning, so website change may be later today. But, do they want to do a production deploy on Friday? :)

> The upper half will just eat into their savings some but won’t suffer like those living paycheck to paycheck.

What makes you think the upper half does not also contain people living paycheck to paycheck?

> who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus.

And by that time, most of the student body (with who knows how many asymptomatic carriers) will have been widely dispersed.

That probably happened, too, but nobody will admit to it. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3500437/auscert-2017-you-a...

Perhaps the United Kingdom will sue University of Kentucky for using "UK"; let the university know what it feels like to be the little guy.

About two years after my company was bought by a larger one, I was the first person at the office one morning, only to find someone waiting outside the doors. Before I could ask, he introduced himself as an employee from an out-of-town office, and produced a company ID, so I let him in with me.

We had been told to expect some visitors from that office, but I was almost hoping he was not legit, since most of us at my location still do not have a company ID, so I couldn't really say if his was real or not.

...most of them.

> content lenses I'm guessing that's a typo, but it works just as well as "contact lenses".

> but they don't actually have a reason why. I once heard an interview with a recruiter (don't recall what industry) who said something along the lines of companies don't want to hire currently-unemployed people "because of the risk." My reaction (having been laid-off over 6 months earlier) was "Risk? What risk? The risk that they'll take a lowball offer because they need a job?"

> 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws The problem with that statistic is that most of that 64% probably have no idea what the laws _actually_ are. As stated in another reply, full auto has been strictly regulated for _decades_. Anyone who thinks full-auto is a problem is either ignorant or lying, and that applies to many of the statements I hear from gun control supporters.

Breaking ranks on those issues means you get no support from the party.

This isn't unique to right-leaning sites. Expressing support in the wrong (right?) place will get posts deleted and accounts locked.

Was it difficult to hire engineers proficient in Elixir, or was it difficult to hire engineers who could _learn_ Elixir?

When my employer decided to use Elixir for a new product, we had maybe 2-3 people experienced in Erlang/Elixir; for the rest of us, it was "'Programming Elixir' is on the bookshelf; start working through that." That and pairing with the more experienced devs got most of us up to speed enough that we were fairly productive in a couple weeks. Since we were basically a Rails shop at that point, the similarity to Ruby didn't hurt, and as I've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the docs for Elixir and major libraries are really good.

> and value a lot of the same things Rubyists do: good documentation

In my opinion, the Elixir community (at least for the core language and major libraries) does documentation better than any other environment I've used. Almost every question I've ever had about using Elixir, Phoenix, or any of a dozen other libraries has been answered by using hexdocs.pm. The few things that aren't clear from those docs can generally be resolved by reading the source.

After that, elixirforum.com or the elixir slack give me higher level discussions on less immediate issues. I don't recall ever needing Stack Overflow for any elixir question.

This is one of the reasons I'm not in favor of much of the deplatforming that has been going on. It's not just that the mainstream sources are supposed to be compromised, but they are actively trying to silence the speaker. When YouTube, Facebook, etc. _actually do_ silence people (at least on their respective platforms), they now have proof of at least that claim.

In my experience, the double standard usually goes the other way.

Many of the liberal arts electives I could choose from (as a physics major) were foundational requirements in that major. For example, in a literature class I took, the instructor was surprised many of us had not also taken Literary Criticism 101.

On the other hand, an English major friend of mine was able to take a physics course nicknamed "Physics for Poets", where rounding g to 10m/s/s was acceptable.

Although it wouldn't be surprising to have two (or more) laws contradict each other.

> As soon as the announcement goes out that the boarding process will begin shortly, a dozen people from Groups 4 and 5 will rush to their lines.

If you're boarding in a late group, overhead space will likely be at a premium, so you want the best chance to claim that space and not have to gate check.

> ordinary people can be heard You mean _unions_ can be heard; the ordinary people who make up the unions may not agree with the stance of the union.

On the other hand, I know of a couple bootcamps that recommend his website and books as prep and supplementary material.

> Since only the rich are employed by employers who offer the benefits of these accounts

So, being an employee of a company that offers a 401k is the new definition of "rich"?

And apparently no punishment for those who lied.

> the US, with the most guns per head in the world, has the highest rate of deaths from firearms, while Japan, which has the lowest rate of gun ownership, has the least.

Well, duh. I bet more people die from falling down stairs in multi-level houses than in single level.

Similar for me with an Oculus Quest. Maybe if I left the adjustment at one or the other extreme for an extended session, I'd notice something, but for my usual 30 minutes or so, I haven't seen any difference between settings.

And now that women can serve in the military, it's time to update the Select Service law so it requires both men _and_ women to register on their 18th birthday.

> As someone coming from the hiring side, I don't understand how these companies are finding enough candidates that they can afford to put up all these arbitrary requirements.

Well, they're not; that's one reason why there are so many stories of "not enough qualified developers".

If I give in to my conspiratorial side, I'd say having these arbitrary requirements is entirely intentional, so a company can either: a. not have to hire anyone at all b. lobby for H1B or c. resort to offshoring, outsourcing, etc.