Comment Why the drummers kept drumming furiously (Score 1) 105
Wake me up after the bass solo.
Wake me up after the bass solo.
Epic should charge more for their wares to reflect the commission if they aren't making money on Apple devices. I don't mind paying more for Apple products or for sw on top of them - and I certainly don't mind not having to give my CC info to more untrusted 3rd parties.
You bet. I had many $35k - $75k (in ~1990 dollars) workstations on my desk way back when. Today a $5 RPi Zero runs rings around them. People complaining about $100 just don't get it - it's the value of the work getting done, not the cost of the tools.
What something useful like banging on a wall or creaking bed springs from teenagers making love upstairs?
Standards for indenting, variable names, where documentation goes etc don't affect if code is good or bad, just if other people can quickly understand what's going on based on experience with other parts of the same code base. Coding standards are crucial for any work that is produced by a large team or will be maintained by another organization.
The first step of writing good code is to get your ego out of the way. Once you realize that you suck, your ideas suck, the implementation isn't very good, and the documentation needs improvement, you're on the right path. Maintaining that attitude is the hard part.
From what I've read this was needed because the old railings had so much resistance the bridge became unsafe when the wind reach ~68mph. The new railings are thinner allowing more airflow which raises the safety margin up to 100mph. The new design necessary because they've observed over the past decade that storms have been getting stronger which is attributed to changing climate.
This is great news - it's not a world changer, just an expected signpost on the road of progress.
I don't need one today, but they will come down in price and eventually I'll put together a 4-stick desktop NVMe array. 16-32TB in something the size of a deck of cards will be a huge upgrade, both capacity and reliability.
I am so sorry I misplaced my moderator points.
So a factory reset doesn't get it back to the state it was in from the factory. "I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya
After doctors in Wuhan began treating clusters of patients stricken with a mysterious pneumonia in December, the reporting was supposed to have been automatic. Instead, hospitals deferred to local health officials who, over a political aversion to sharing bad news, withheld information about cases from the national reporting system — keeping Beijing in the dark and delaying the response.
The central health authorities first learned about the outbreak not from the reporting system but after unknown whistle-blowers leaked two internal documents online.
Even after Beijing got involved, local officials set narrow criteria for confirming cases, leaving out information that could have provided clues that the virus was spreading among humans.
Resistance to sending bad news up the chain is typical of any authoritarian regime.
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On Thursday the FDA updated is guidance for serological (blood) tests that detect COVID-19 antigens, allowing more than two dozen for diagnostic use. Though none of the tests have been fully tested and do not have "FDA approval". This is a big change and great progress.
The allowed tests and guidelines (under 'what serology tests') are listed at:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/faqs-diagnostic-testing-sars-cov-2
Between RNA molecular tests like this that detect active virus and progress in blood tests that detect antibodies in people that have acquired immunity we will be able to get a handle on infection rates and progress towards herd immunity. This is a more likely outcome than waiting for a possible vaccine in the summer/fall of 2021.
On Thursday the FDA allowed use of more than two dozen blood tests - that aren't all fully tested and there are many caveats, but they should become inexpensive and universal. The tests that work well will come to the fore and will quickly dominate the market.
The FDA list (under 'serology tests') is at:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/faqs-diagnostic-testing-sars-cov-2
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