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A statement on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/a-statement-on-the-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/?utm_source=Twitter
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From keratx https://twitter.com/keratx on Twitter: COVID-19 Live Updates: UT-Austin Will Test 5,000 People A Week & Cover Student Out-Of-Pocket Costs https://www.keranews.org/post/covid-19-live-updates-dallas-county-reports-lowest-daily-case-count-june?_ga=2.150659953.676335042.1596459279-1780229390.1596459279 https://twitter.com/keratx/status/1291527986076934149/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/66935
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Let me upgrade that quote for you: America has been binge-feasting on a steady diet of nonsense for decades - foregoing critical thinking for the cold comfort of emotional satisfaction- and the feast itself is at pandemic levels. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1291343513729339398
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Teachers returned to a Georgia school district last week. 260 employees have already gone home to quarantine. The point isnt that they all got sick on day 1. The point is that only testing on day 1 caught this before it spread in school. MUST. TEST. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/04/school-outbreaks-reopening-georgia/
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Custodians, housekeepers and other support staff brace for college reopenings Staff are the real heroes at university. The keep the academic machine running in every possible way. They deserve consideration and respect. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/04/kids-will-forget-custodians-housekeepers-other-support-staff-brace-college-reopenings/
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Some people feel restricted by masks. They let me do what I love. The author reflects on how face coverings, even N95 masks, have helped to manage her asthma. https://www.thelily.com/some-people-feel-restricted-by-masks-as-a-child-growing-up-with-asthma-they-let-me-do-what-i-love/
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From ZJAyres https://twitter.com/ZJAyres on Twitter: Mental health through the various stages of Academia, from undergrad PhD Postdoc faculty, illustrated through posters. (Finally completed the set)! We need to talk more about #mentalhealth at universities. #itsokaynottobeokay #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat https://twitter.com/ZJAyres/status/1273934753264263169/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/66912
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I started my term as department chair on August 1. I made sure to communicate my values, goals, and first steps into this insane academic year to my faculty colleagues, and yesterday to the graduate students. Today we had our first teaching hack-a-thon to share expertise.
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From edyong209 https://twitter.com/edyong209 on Twitter: Heres the big piece Ive been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the USs catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. Its a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness
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How the pandemic left America behind An excellent look at the depth of the U.S. failure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/how-the-pandemic-left-america-behind/?tid=aud_rsslink
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From chronicle https://twitter.com/chronicle on Twitter: Our interactive map shows your colleges reopening plan along with the Covid-19-case count in its surrounding county. https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-a-list-of-colleges-plans-for-reopening-in-the-fall/
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Here is a university president who seems to get it as regards COVID-19 and teaching. Emergency remote teaching Teaching in a pandemic reinforces our commitment to education. | President's Letter | Yale Alumni Magazine https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/5150-emergency-remote-teaching
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SMU AD Rick Hart discusses numerous topics on 2020 season, attendance and sports amid COVID-19 https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/smu-mustangs/2020/07/31/smu-ad-rick-hart-breaks-down-numerous-topics-on-2020-season-tickets-and-sports-amid-covid-19/
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In 1950, my family suffered a different outbreak in our town: A polio epidemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/in-1950-my-family-suffered-a-different-outbreak-in-our-town-a-polio-epidemic/2020/07/31/cbbd1ab2-cdbd-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html
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Im sorry, but its a fantasy: Superintendent faces agonizing decision on reopening schools https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/01/schools-reopening-coronavirus-arizona-superintendent/?arc404=true
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From NASA https://twitter.com/NASA on Twitter: "Dragon departing." The @SpaceX Dragon Endeavour undocked and separated from @Space_Station. @AstroBehnken & @Astro_Doug are on their way home to planet Earth. https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1289707708946489346/video/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/66879
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College Fails The pandemic is transforming college from a can't-miss into a can't-attend experience. Can colleges survive? https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897983620/college-fails
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From stevengoldfarb https://twitter.com/stevengoldfarb on Twitter: Mmmmm. Delicious talk this morning by @PhysicsCakes (Katharine Leney) during the #ICHEP2020 Outreach session. #darkmattercake https://twitter.com/stevengoldfarb/status/1289098626287964161/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/66867
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Let me fix that for you: Watch a child with a hammer beat back the ocean. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1289220551752310784
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Students can safely return to college if tested for coronavirus every two days, study says (A joint study of multiple public health institutes) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/students-can-safely-return-to-college-if-tested-for-coronavirus-every-two-days-study-says/2020/07/31/a4316db0-d27f-11ea-af07-1d058ca137ae_story.html
Popular notices
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@chimo@sn.chromic.org has closed most of his services. He wrote that he was tired and weary. Hopefully, he'll find a way to regenerate and be able to rejoin us in the future.
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TFW you know there was a repeated word in sequence in something you wrote, but you just cannot find it. So you dump it to text, put one word per line using "tr", and diff the raw list and the list obtained from "uniq" to find the one darn repeated word. NOW I HAVE IT.
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well, "enterprise" is largely a bad word in the startup space, to be equated with slow and/or complicated.
I am having a related argument about Java. Maybe it is true that the Java ecosystem is too complicated. I was just yesterday unable to get something to work in IntelliJ and I have no idea why. It works in #Eclipse. In any case, I think the Java-naysayers probably don't know about things like https://quarkus.io/
I think there is a good argument about not using C or C++ for a startup, unless you are doing something that requires realtime, but I don't see the argument with Java.
I think Java had years of uncertainty after the Sun acquisition, and #Java 8 certainly has issues with modern practices, but Java 8 came out before K8s.
Considering #K8s came out the same year as Java 8 and #Mesos had been presented first 5 years earlier, it's easy to say that Java 8 was a missed opportunity. That said, a lot of things you would have liked to see in Java 8 came in Java 9.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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I would be a lot more open to undoing a lot of the lockdowns if the people promoting it were willing to do what is required:
1--personal responsibility: the things we're told every day ... wash hands frequently, mask up if we go out, avoid getting closer than 6 feet / 2 meters from other people;
2--corporate: restructure workplace and processes to reduce the spread of disease, allow workers that suspect themselves to be sick or COVID-exposed to take time off without penalty;
3--government: financial support for people who are off work due to #COVID-19, enforceable right to pursue class-action lawsuits against companies that violate (2) above.
4--political: get the slimy #pollies' dirty hands off of the nation's disease response and prevention process
But it seems that every #anti-lockdown person I see or hear is also an #anti-masker who wants company managers to be able to force sick workers to come in anyway.
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well, if you want to fiddle on a walking app, I can create a repo at https://github.com/Names-Are-Hard-Training-Apps
I don't know when I will have a chance to work on it more.
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Thought about it, but just cannot engage the dumb.
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