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Despite this article coming from the Guardian, other sources aren't so sure that which fever reducer pill you use matter. Don't give aspirin to kids under 18, that has always been true. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1239015393798299648

Wow, that Friday Bull market, such good memories. https://x.com/markets/status/1239548881551142918

Anyone else thinking about the "Surrogates" movie now that they are WFH?

https://flixlist.co/titles/70113298

I just need 7.5 miles of ethernet cable and then I don't need VPN.

Status: installing elastic search locally because no vpn. Wow, look at how little drive space I got. Windirstat is lecturing me about what a mess this drive is.

VPN has coronavirus. I think I've been connected about 30 minutes today.

Everyone is stress testing home network with

- disney+
- youtube
- spotify
- zoom
- VPN

running at the same time from 4 machines

Take a drink everytime VPN drops you.

What am I doing here? Even my goof-off-blocker broke.

Anyhow, time to activate rescuetime & earn my paycheck.

OK, re: mortgage refi
Probably not going to happen because mortgage re-fi offices are SLAMMED for applications. Mortgage % not expected to drop much more because the mortgage rate is a *long term* rate, i.e. a bet on cost of $ in 30 years. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1239520706112770050

I've read stern warnings that IM traffic would cause the agency's network to fall over so yahoo chat was banned.

VPNs are already falling over.

Move your music & video traffic to your home machine, don't stream anything you can stream from your personal machine.

The mild cases will envy the dead. https://x.com/laurashin/status/1239204214829711366

OPM finally calls it:

"Washington, DC Area
Applies to: Monday, March 16, 2020

STATUS: OPEN WITH MAXIMUM TELEWORK FLEXIBILITIES TO ALL CURRENT TELEWORK ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES, PURSUANT TO DIRECTION FROM AGENCY HEADS"

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-procedures/current-status/

Wow. What a way for a local business to set goodwill on fire. https://x.com/jsidman/status/1239351024462290944

Futures halted on 5% drop...after Fed announced it will be putting the monetary system on a respirator.

Bad news, TP is in short supply. Good news, $ bills may soon be inexpensive enough to be an affordable, albeit too-smooth, alternative.

All this news is drowning out that Microsoft fixed the crippling slow I/O access on WSL (ubuntu on windows 10) and will be rolling it out in the near future with the windows 10 updates.

Aggressive monetary policy in reaction to a supply shock

So my fitbit Ionic has an oxymeter- except it only shows *variation* of oxygen while I sleep, not absolute levels. So if I understand this correctly, it will tell me if I have sleep apnea (nope!) but if I had pneumonia, the chart would look the same for normal & pneumonia https://x.com/mistersql/status/1239287805458755584/photo/1

🎵Once a jolly coderman camped in WFH
Under the light of a color TV,
He sang as he watched and waited as his tea boiled

"You'll come walking pneumonia, with me
walking pneumonia, walking pneumonia...🎵

CSS developers, please stop touching this.

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Do you have a tower computer* & cheap electricity? Donate electrons to Folding @ Home that is doing come corona related compute

* Laptops can't dissipate heat fast enough for serious round the clock compute

https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

URGENT JOB REQUEST. How are you? Need Top Secret Clearance,
- work for White House
- 10 years React
- 12 year of SQL 2014
- $0/hour because that is how much we value your contribution
- Political loyalty tests weekly, no drug tests, we just assume you're high if you apply https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1239149015058522112

Let's mash 1000s of likely carriers together in airports for 4+ hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WrExsyAD4

Kids are getting covid too, it just doesn't bother them as much https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/03/13/how-does-the-coronavirus-affect-kids-what-we-know-so-far-about-covid-19-in-children/#5272d6141f30

And for regular flu, wow: “In the US 20% of kids have flu every year, only 5% of adults, kids are a big reservoir of spreaders,”

French docs say take tylenol instead of ibuprofen if you might have covid-19

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammatory-drugs-may-aggravate-coronavirus-infection

I read this as covid turned to pneumonia 2 weeks ago, so probably the first infections 3 or 4 weeks ago. https://x.com/CMastication/status/1238986798992326656

Don't panic. It isn't classy. Instead, panique.

I know the parent company doesn't have a lot of good will, but I like my Portal. I endorse it. In non-pandemic times, it is hugely popular with the very old and very young people in my social network.

https://portal.facebook.com/

Deer calling dibs on the metro system in a post-human world. https://x.com/JohnMcCullough_/status/1238793789902336001

I went to the "virus exchange zone", previously known as "outside" - The Takoma Parkians are acting like they're from Minnesota, having conversations 10 feet apart.

Reading up on @shanselman blog posts about working from home

ref: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/LoveInATimeOfCoronaVirusTipsTricksAndBestPracticesForWorkingRemotely.aspx

and the pod casts: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast242ThePlightOfTheRemoteWorkerWithPeteBrown.aspx

We are SOOOOOOOO ready for cholera.

(I can't even finish this joke, because the internet has no factoids on how much toilet paper you need for cholera)

Seems like washing hands after returning home/arriving at work would be more useful that to wash hands at no particular time. Washing at just at bathroom time is for stopping the spread of cholera, etc. I'm kind of surprised the official advice is vague on this issue.

<puts on historian hat> "This pandemic is not an existential threat. Not having any particular ability to deal with plague is an existential threat."

ref: Neanderthals, possibly wiped out by human disease - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191107160610.htm
ref: Amerind at contact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Depopulation_from_disease