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This is supposed to be funny, right?

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f

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Another Covid tracker

This one has information such as the positivity rate, and more concerningly, the ICU utilization percentage. As of the day I’m posting this, Montana and Oklahoma have no available ICU beds. That’s pretty scary. https://covidactnow.org/?s=1330330

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Did the Sturgis motorcycle get together spread Covid?

I’m saving this mostly as it’s an interesting item, and it has come up in discussions with my friends before. While it seems like it has ‘been too long’ for Sturgis to be at fault for this explosion in cases in the Midwest, it can just be an instance of “and they tell two friends, […]

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Is Covid getting less dangerous?

<shakes Magic 8 Ball>Signs Point to Yes. As we learn how to treat the infections, overall lethality and impact appears to be going down. That’s great news. Now let’s get a vaccine going and get back to normal…. does anyone remember what normal is?

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Putting a halt to dining out

Indoor dining has a lot of risk right now, and with Florida opening back up to full capacity, we have decided to eliminate dining at places that don’t provide well spaced outdoor seating. https://elemental.medium.com/read-this-before-you-even-consider-dining-indoors-be8ef1d24d8c We are still ordering for delivery a bunch, with ‘touchless’ delivery, but that is getting very expensive so we will be […]

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Covid-19 spreading through aerosols?

This article lays out a pretty strong case for it.

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Virtual Apple Macintosh Running System 8

Running this on an iMac Pro is very conflicting… Scroll down for one click installers. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

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Superspreaders

It sounds like it’s possible that only a small group of Covid-19 infected people are responsible for the big spreading events. Get rid of the big events where this spreading happens, and you end up with much smaller clusters of spreading. Read it here.

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EU Graphs of Excess Deaths Over Time

To me, this is one of the most interesting sets of visualizations out there. This shows, over time, the rate of deaths by age group in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In all cases, except for the 14 and under age group, you can see a rather large spike when Covid-19 began making its way around […]

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Quick one liners describing Amazon’s cloud services

Since I’m mostly in the Microsoft and Azure world, the names of the Amazon services tend to be a mystery to me. Here is a simple decoder : https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html

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