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Its scary that my company is replacing old Oracle DBs and teams of specialist DBAs with developers running their own PostSQL instances. Sure it saves money but its gonna blow one day soon...

I can't go out of my apartment because of the virus and can't hang out in the forest because of the bacteria in ticks. What century is this?

Agreed I've never heard of a 8 week cap either. Actually I thought it was the opposite, if you have WARN act its a 60 day notice period before the severance, its more like 8 weeks is a minimum. https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...

Thanks, I'm interested too why people think car manufacturers are the best place to make ventilators. What are the difficult/bottleneck parts to build?

Thanks! I feel honored you replied. I'm mostly a backend programmer who tries a bit of front end work so dont have a lot of time to learn everything. I will try again because every beautiful visualization I've seen is d3 based.

D3 is great, but last time I looked at D3 it worked a lot more like jquery than modern frameworks. Is it still worth using or in the decade there are better ways to work with React/Vue/Angular.

I think they mean over the next few years. This virus is in every city in the world, we can't contain it everywhere. Eventually its just another endemic disease, but one we can vaccinate for and treat at a steady rate.

from the article: > The Governor is also requesting FEMA designate four field hospitals with 250 beds each for the state, intended for use in the Javits Center in addition to the temporary hospital to be constructed by the Army Corps.

I think putting 1000 beds in a conference centre sounds a lot less dramatic than 4 new hospitals.

I'd love a Rust job, but there are so few roles out there, nearly everything is Javascript/Python/Java. Is it worth even learning?

Had my first Netflix problem today at 5pm. Has always been solid before today. Other streaming services were good (though YouTube searching etc looked loaded)

Its nice to have some proper opinions and recommendations. Seems the tech world is so full of articles and blogs that show you how to do something, with very little saying don't use this because...

BTW I bought Kobo Forma with a 8in screen and its great for tech books which don't work in a regular sized kindle. Cheaper than Remarkable.

https://rxsaver.retailmenot.com/drugs/chloroquine-phosphate/... has it at 60c/dose in my area.

Its a prescription drug in the US, and pharmacists get paid a bunch. Most developing countries you can buy OTC.

> Staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more often don’t have the option to work from home

Yeah I'm good with that.

Its only been around a few months so hasn't had a chance to significantly mutate- and it hasn't needed to. As such its unlikely you'll get a second time any time soon, however in future years it could mutate.

Here is an article on how they can see the DNA changing in different patients so can track the path of infections. https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/

> South Korea has since reported 67 deaths out of nearly 8,000 confirmed cases, after testing more than 222,000 people. In contrast, Italy has had 1,016 deaths and identified more than 15,000 cases after carrying out more than 73,000 tests on an unspecified number of people.

Surely the testing is a huge factor. Test more people you'll find more people infected, so the fatality rate will get smaller. If you're like the US and test very few you get the huge fatality rates we saw in Washington.

If you could quickly and accurately test everyone in the country today we would know how to isolate and the whole thing would be over very soon. Not having a reliable test makes this whole problem as bad as it is.

Yes if you're vulnerable it would be better to get it today than in a month when hospitals are full. However it would be even better not to get it at all or get in 6 months time when doctors know more about how to treat the disease and could have drugs that are known to work.

It sounds like your family is young enough to not really be badly hurt, its more about how many people you'd pass it on to.

Why 12v though? What requires that much voltage? The chips are running at a few volts. Spinning drives are gone, is it just for fans? Seems silly to provide 12v then shift it down again.

Is Warby Parker doing OK? Last time I bought glasses WP just looked expensive compared to zenni, glassesusa, 39dollar, glassesdirect, framedirect etc etc

Most people work in factories, teach in schools, treat people in hospitals, clean houses, drive cars/buses/trains/planes, cook/serve in restaurants, work in shops or warehouses. Most people can't WFH.

No, this isn't a crash, the main US indices are just back to where they were 6 months ago. That isn't a great buying opportunity, they weren't cheap 6 months ago either.

Surely this is a good thing about the future? Everyone is tracked and when a serious crime happens we can find out who was there. I agree it feels weird now and will need some controls worked out but seems inevitable and not that scary.

Sounds like you dont have children. I'm pretty sure for the whole of human history people were crammed in small houses with babies waking everyone up every few hours.

What resources would the cluster mgmt require? I always thought k8s was perfect cloud platform as the management was minimal and you're actually paying for the pod resources you require.

I think its just a reflection of how much more widely software is used, how complicated our environments are, how many admins/developers there are compared to the old days. Eg the aws command is hugely complicated, but I'm not sure breaking it out into smaller commands easily really would make anything easier, just pollute the command line namespace.

Certificates are such huge a maintenance problem. So many mines waiting to blow up. We really need something better.

I used to think this but I realized I needed glasses. :) Still I couldn't use 13 inch screens all day.

I'd extend this to regular vacations too. I've worked a lot in both Europe and the USA. In Europe everyone had to know other people's knowledge as people were regularly out of the office. In the US it was easier to rely on someone as people rarely were out for a week and if they were they usually were local and on call.

> Consumers don't care about energy

Smart metering should be compulsory in all households with a display showing the current spot price. I should be able to see that right now electricity is expensive or cheap to decide if I should wash my clothes or run the AC.

Its crazy the electrical utility industry ties itself in knots to guarantee supply and meet demand peaks when consumers blindly use electricity when they feel like it. Changing demand behaviour should be a priority if we want wind and solar to become more widely used.