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Comment · 5 years ago
Common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, only a small subset of which is coronaviruses. Look it up.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have worked for several years with WordPress. Everything you say is true if the devs are incompetent. Then yes, the variety of ways one can shoot themselves in the foot and completely dead with the system is astounding. I have seen horrible wp installations galore myself.

However that is not fault of the tool itself. There is nothing preventing a competent dev or small team to set up staging and qa environments, a ci pipeline if they are so inclined, write proper tests, be discriminating in the plugins they install and the quality of code they write. And the start threshold for the system is incredibly low, the fact that so much boilerplate functionality is _already there_ saves a lot on development costs and allows you to focus on functionality that really matters.

TL;DR if your wp installation is bad, it's not wordpress, it's you.

Comment · 5 years ago
As someone who has interviewed maybe 30-40 sw and devops engineers over the last year, I wish more interviewees would ask things like this. It shows engagement and ability to speak up, as well as a healthy level of self care. Keep it up.
Comment · 5 years ago
This baffles me as well. The technology to solve so many problems hard to approach with other tools is right there, why not use it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Can you quickly explain how this meshes with existing data formats such as gpx or fit? Will there be converters? Can traindown express time series or is it more of a high level log (I did x of y at parameters w and z) thing?
Comment · 5 years ago
It is already all but illegal to use Starlink in Russia, and given modern surveillance technologies, setting up an access point against the will of authorities might be practically impossible.
Comment · 5 years ago
Just Sweden does not eat an unreasonable amount of fish (see https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt...). According to press release by Arla (the largest Swedish milk products company by far) some years ago (see https://www.arla.se/om-arla/nyheter-press/2015/pressrelease/..., in Swedish), there was a national study done by the government organization that controls foodstuffs which identified a large risk for vitamin D deficiency in general population, perhaps despite fish eating and law was passed making enrichment mandatory. So they are enriching.

Edit: removed sidenote about cooperation between government and private companies, since it seems that there is an actual law governing this stuff. Almost all milk, milk-like and fatty products (such as margarine), except cheese, must be enriched (see https://kontrollwiki.livsmedelsverket.se/artikel/448/livsmed..., in Swedish).

Edit++: Apparently data from the national study about food habits is available via an API which I think is super cute, see https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/psidata/apimatvanor (also in Swedish, but hey, Google Translate is your friend)

Comment · 5 years ago
I am lazy and did not read the study, sorry. But nowhere in the comments I see discussion related to whether it somehow accounts for dietary variance in vitamin D intake via fortified products. In Sweden, for example, because we are so far north, milk is routinely fortified with vitamin D. So even if a person has a genetic variance for low vitamin D, they will still be supplemented without actively doing anything, as long as they drink milk. On the other hand it stands to reason that if foodstuff fortification had a significant effect on vitD levels in population AND vitD had significant effect on immunity / severity of covid-19 then Sweden would have statistically significantly lower covid-19 infection and mortality rates than countries where food fortification with vitD is not practiced. Afaik that is not the case, otoh there is an insane amount of confounding variables so it might not be possible to assess such an effect in any scientifically valid manner.
Comment · 5 years ago
> No parent no matter how poor wants their child to work unless they cannot afford to feed them. As anyone who has grown up in a country where child labor was normal will tell you, this is patently false. If it is the norm in the country in question, everyone does it and it is expected. Children who do not work and their families are in many cases ostracized. Then of course there are jobs and jobs, and a certain type of parent might vie for a job for their child that is less backbreaking than the average. But not working at all is frowned upon. Source: lived experience in Soviet Union.
Comment · 5 years ago
I find it curious and vaguely racist that the word 'clan' is almost exclusively used in reference to immigrant and poc families and with an allusion to inherent criminality. This despite the fact that many Western countries have a handful of large, old families which own an inadequate proportion of the companies, resources, have outsized political influence and so on, and those families are almost exclusively in many generations from the country in question. They are as clan-ish as a 'clan' gets, but since they do not match the 'criminal immigrant' stereotype, nobody ever calls them a 'clan'. It irks me.
Comment · 6 years ago
We have unofficial office rules that work just like that. We do not have a sea of 50 people in the same space however, instead we have sort of isolated spaces that contain about 15-20 people each. All phone calls, chats longer than a minute or two ('I need to whiteboard this with you') and such are always done in small dedicated phone / meeting rooms on the sides of the open space. There is an adjacent coffee and food eating space shared by 3 such shared spaces, so about 40 people. It works well enough, almost everyone is mindful of sticking to the rules, since it benefits everybody to keep it that way.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives" by Nick Rozanski, Eóin Woods. Found this book really useful due to its methodical approach on views and perspectives. It really helped me to structure and clarify my thinking around complex software systems and communicate with stakeholders in a better way.
Comment · 6 years ago
How cute. I tried your suggestion once. What I got was an overengineered, poorly documented delivery that matched the spec about 50%. Oh, it was also a year late. Sorry, but processes are there for a reason, and the reason is, broadly, that getting an average team of engineers to deliver on time, according to spec and without diving all the way down every overoptimization / navelgazing / random interest / flamewar / framework flavor of the day rabbithole there is is otherwise impossible. With process it becomes at least a tiny bit more akin to herding cats instead of just watching them run amok every which way.
Comment · 6 years ago
Veoneer, but on other carmakers' products.

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