Never have I been so happy to hear my son has the full list of migraine symptoms.
(because that tips the probabilities away from covid) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1244686348327346180
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This is not a good day for someone in my family to be reporting waking up with a migraine.
Ah! Here is the difference. Now if you go outside without cause you risk a year in jail and $5K fine. https://x.com/EricTataw/status/1244652171330813953
META: anyone that has followed me in the last two months will be so surprised when I return to tweeting programming & dad jokes.
Citizen Science project:
Self report your covid/likely-covid status every day to help Harvard & Boston Children's Hospital track Covid across the country
https://www.covidnearyou.org/
What is your favorite online "covid self diagnosis" website?
Real world scenario- some people need to report to employers if they have covid, but there aren't many tests. So to capture likely cases, folk will have to self diagnose.
Like the one at https://www.apple.com/covid19/
I've containerized my app & I'm ready to hand it off.
(Actually this is sort of how most app hand offs go, containerized or not) https://x.com/HackingButLegal/status/1243891907115257857
"The future is already here, it just isn't distributed evenly" (W. Gibson)
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-posts-free-plans-online-for-an-emergency-ventilator-that-can-be-built-for-100/
Donut status:
-Take out store had only 4 (last week)
-Coop-reopened for pickup but coop out of flour, oil, yeast
-Considering doing yeast the old fashion way (wild from raisins!)
-Not enough oil for deep frying
tired: "Quarantine day 17"
wired: "14 rolls remaining"
Mixed advice on running - virus hangs in the air for 1/2 hour(!)
nyt: "go running, it is good for you!"
nyt: "the parks are so densely packed it is a mosh pit!"
fwiw, I ran 1 mile yesterday with the kids *inside* a 3BR condo. 12m30s
ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/well/move/the-new-rules-of-running-now.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=697314419&imp_id=9222336&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage
YUM brand restaurants, (Taco Bell, KFC) pushed for laws to make sure that they never have to give anyone sick leave and those laws passed in most Republican states. Remember that when you order your carry out. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1244314401722818560
Except in a handful of states like Maryland, there is no required sick leave, so most delivery workers are going to work while sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMusotiUAs
K-Pop cardio workout for shut ins-- it's not just for programming anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAo6bXB8XU
Stephen Hahn, the FDA guy who held up Covid tests, was a Trump appointee. "Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, was supposed to help build national testing capacity by approving diagnostic tests developed by the private sector. ...
Yet he enforced regulations that paradoxically made it tougher for hospitals and laboratories to deploy such tests in an emergency." ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/world/coronavirus-news.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-markets&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storyline_menu?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-markets&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storyline_menu
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Never had I had to read so much news that I had to immediately react to in my personal life. I sort of liked news better when it was abstract esoterica.
13 years go Fed gov't tried to buy a crap ton of ventilators. They hired not the market leader, but a tiny firm & tried to pay only $3K per device instead of market-rate $10K per device.
0 devices delivered.
The contract went south for many reasons. https://twitter.com/AcqAlchemist/status/1244229658188681217
I got 2 adults in my household & we both have insurance, **if** we both get covid & it cost what the newspapers are reporting, that is $10,000 each.
If I'm rational, I should stop spending $ on just about everything. Probably good for the economy that I'll instead go into debt.
The unlucky folk w/o insurance that would be 2 people 35K each, or 70K of debt & that'd probably wipe out their net worth, force 'em into bankruptcy.
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Don't push the buttons! https://x.com/AngelaKnightCBC/status/1243936841038008320
Things I've bought only because of coronavirus
- shoes to wear only indoors
- instant coffee
- canned fruit/etc
- fitbit HR for the wife
- oxymeter https://x.com/tedstein/status/1244008849268506625
Status: Shopping for indoor running shoes. Doing a workout in bare feet is hurting my feet already.
Lenovo is BSODing. Maybe I should type with gloves.
I thought the prez wanted to reopen the economy (prematurely). Mandating uncrossable borders around states and cities with tank intra-state commerce, ending stuff like mailorder goods, shutting down businesses with staff that live across borders.
*edit intra-country, interstate.
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So Escape New York (classic sci-fi movie & sci-fi novel by Ben Bova, my childhood favorite novelist) was actually Future History, which I thought was really Heinlein's thing. https://x.com/BBCBreaking/status/1243942709070618624
Ok, so much for going to faraway hospitals when you get pneumonia and you know your county (like say MoCo, MD) has, like, 100, rounded. https://x.com/ndiakopoulos/status/1243931687018541057
Which huge famous landmark will they use for DC makeshift covid hospitals?
2 Months ago was my 1st tweet on Coronavirus. This was 6 days after the 1st case in WA, USA
Epidemics, they grow up so fast. Blink and they're already all grown up. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1221064240204865536
Contagion(2011) thought we'd have masks! That mask would be so common that rioters could wear masks when looting grocery stores! And that people would be encouraged to wear them!
Oh, sweet summer child, that scriptwriter was so naive. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1243756436213153794
Just saw Contagion
- Scientist w/o dialog making serious expressions because the science would be dull!
- Everything is dead-on right
- Except for the Katrina hurricane-like breakdown of civil order
Rent for free w/Amazon Prime
Its is like the 2011 script was based on 2019
Apple put out a cool Q&A test for covid
https://www.apple.com/covid19/
This is like the 3rd or 4th self-test I've seen like this. Pretty cool.
#python
some_string[-5:] vs some_string.last(5)
The first is bull$#!+ showoffery, the second is immediately obvious.
The first is for interview questions.
The second would actually be readable. And doesn't look like there is any way to fix it with monkey-patching.
1st second-order person in my social network to pass away from coronavirus (family member of a team member)
These are the times that calls for the x-to-the-exponent-of-10 software developer.
Everyone forgets the negative levels of maturity models (e.g. CMMI, certified level -4)
-4 licking toilets
-3 returning to work
-2 helping grandma by visiting
-1 denial
0 - handwashing
1 - mask at stores
2 - grocery delivery
3 - shut-in as a lifestyle
4 - hazmat cosplay https://x.com/danphilpott/status/1243535909515034626
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Walmart curbside pickup (parking lot pickup really) was a good experience, per my wife.
- you don't have to go in +1
- they put groceries in the trunk for you +1
-They are using 1 plastic bag per item (meh!)
- You sign with your finger on a touch pad (ugh!)
Anyone know what the rules are on going to a hospital that is far away from where you live?
*167* ventilators. https://x.com/KevinLewisNomad/status/1243321786864893952
Every localize outbreak is an outbreak in the entire country in the US. Every state that thinks they don't have a problem locally so they are ok, is wrong. https://x.com/MikaelThalen/status/1243281598037913600
Okay, maybe this is too harsh. I sure hope Liberia will take care of these companies. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1243326762429435904