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by ekidd 6y ago
The NYC studies actually look halfway decent. The big problem with serological tests is that even good ones may have, say, a 2% false positive rate. So if you test a population where nobody is infected, the test will say that 2% have been
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by ekidd 6y ago
> About six weeks ago the media decided blanket lockdowns were the only reasonable solution. I think the big psychological driver was the situation in Italy and Spain: The overwhelmed hospitals, the localized rationing of certain medic
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by ekidd 7y ago
I've been writing Rust since before 1.0, and I maintain at least once piece of 5-year-old production Rust code. In general, old Rust code continues to work almost completely unchanged. There have been 3 or 4 cases where I couldn't
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by ekidd 7y ago
I spent today updating some production Rust code from 2016. This was a partly automated process thanks to 'cargo fix'. Some thoughts: 1. Most of the superficial changes, like 'dyn' and Rust 2018, are easily handled using
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by ekidd 7y ago
> I said that due to recent policy decisions, the government has incentivized workers not to work. On some level, isn't that almost the goal? If the coronavirus hits us at full speed, the estimates I've seen suggest that the
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by ekidd 7y ago
You're right, I was misreading the column header. If we assume 50% asymptomatic, then that would get me down to, say, a 2.5% chance of needing a hospital. Which means, in the absence of drastic curve flattening measures, a 2.5% chance
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by ekidd 7y ago
> You are not taking into account the asymptomatic rate I'm using the Imperial College of London hospitalization numbers, from the table quoted in the article. These give a hospitalization rate that's about half that of earli
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by ekidd 7y ago
> This suggests that COVID-19 very roughly contributes a year’s worth of risk. Yes. If I get all the medical care I need, then I have only an 0.15% chance of dying. (Well, more than that, because I'm male, and our numbers are twic
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by ekidd 7y ago
They have a good point about missing data, but they're glossing over the fact the fatality rate goes up drastically if the medical system fails. I 100% agree that we should be running antibody tests to see how many people have caught C
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by ekidd 7y ago
> fatality was highest in persons aged ≥85, ranging from 10% to 27%, followed by 3% to 11% among persons aged 65–84 years, 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, <1% among persons aged 20–54 years, and no fatalities among persons a
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by ekidd 7y ago
What makes you say that this isn't the Spanish flu? If we look at the mortality rate in places that are doing heavy testing, such the Diamond Princess and South Korea, it looks like we have slightly below a 1% fatality rate among peopl
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by ekidd 7y ago
> Engineering taught me one very important lesson. We can never get something for nothing. There is always a trade off. If the government is handing out money, it has to come from somewhere. Its either taxes, which means that tax money
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by ekidd 7y ago
Here's how China claims to be handling day-to-day life: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM Basically, masks in public, no-contact thermometers everywhere, and QR codes that you scan to enter a subway or a buildi
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by ekidd 7y ago
This is a really interesting video. I'm not sure how accurately it represents the situation on the ground in China, of course. But the video shows a society with temperature checks at every place of business, a location-tracking system
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by ekidd 7y ago
> it's a slightly worse flu There are two key differences here: 1. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus currently appears to have a death rate 7 to 20 times higher than typical seasonal flus, and the death rate gets worse without medical care
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by ekidd 7y ago
> this article touches on maybe 1/10 of the usecases of logging...and than pretends that the opinion is applicable everywhere. It's definitely a weird article. I maintain an open source tool called dbcrossbar that automates d
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by ekidd 7y ago
This is actually a good point. The mortality rate for the coronavirus is lower if ventilators or supplemental oxygen are available. But we have limited numbers of ventilators. So if we can blunt the peak infection rate, more people will sur
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by ekidd 7y ago
> Adding features and settings is fun and often done without much second thought. In the end, it results in a bloated beast that causes a lot of confusion and frustration, especially among the type of users most open-source projects are
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by ekidd 7y ago
Yeah, some of the nice things about Rust aren't immediately obvious. Professionally, I use Rust for a few specific things: 1. Rust is surprisingly great for making cross-platform CLI tools and shipping static Linux binaries. Everybody
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by ekidd 7y ago
> without relying on any third-party servers being available and without pulling in dependencies that might have changed. There are two different issues here: 1. Not pulling in changed dependencies. This is what "lock files"
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by ekidd 7y ago
> Are you saying that you’re ready to put your name on an app you’ve shipped but never tested yourself? At work, I do this for in-house command-line tools. I have automated unit tests and integration tests, and all the compilation is
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by ekidd 7y ago
> My hunch is that because of the way memory works there is no benefit for non GC languages when implementing threads and concurrent memory over many cores. I've been pretty happy with Rust on multi-core servers, probably because
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by ekidd 7y ago
> The first feature is dynamic secrets: this generates an ephemeral, leased set of credentials that are unique per client. Yes, thank you. This is one of those features that once you've lived with it, you can't imagine going
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by ekidd 7y ago
> To be honest, everything in Rust looks a bit ugly to me. I write a lot of Rust code at work, and I admit that it can sometimes be pretty noisy. There are several major contributors to this: 1. Rust offers fine-grained control over pass
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by ekidd 7y ago
Anything by burntsushi, but especially xsv and ripgrep: xsv: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep His code typically has extensive tests, helpful commen
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by ekidd 7y ago
I have a bunch of smart bulbs, and actually, I really like them. For starters, the Hue bulbs are fairly high quality LEDs. They don't flicker excessively, they distort colors less than cheaper bulbs, and I haven't had one burn out
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by ekidd 8y ago
A good lifting coach is much better than DIY Starting Strength , because they'll help you develop good form before you start lifting really heavy weights. Agreed. However, there are a lot of unqualified lifting coaches out there, an
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by ekidd 8y ago
>>I much prefer Rust's approach of "mutable references never alias" >This rules out a vast majority of fundamental algorithms. To be more precise, in Rust: - '&mut T' (a mutable reference to T) can neve
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by ekidd 8y ago
Nice! I'd been busy with another project and missed a couple of those announcements. The DaemonSet equivalent will allow me to rip up some particularly annoying cruft the next time I need to touch it. Thank you. I've looked at var
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by ekidd 8y ago
[Update: See below, many of these features have been added to ECS since the last time I touched this portion of our infrastructure.] > Could you elaborate a little on this part? Our team is looking at ECS/Fargate as a possible cont

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