I saw someone ask why we’re closing events right now when we know the virus will be around for a long while. This article might help answer that question. (It’s about health care)

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/15/21180342/coronavirus-covid-19-us-social-distancing

All over America, the coronavirus is revealing, or at least reminding us, just how much of contemporary American life is bullshit, with power structures built on punishment and fear as opposed to our best interest. Whenever the government or a corporation benevolently withdraws some punitive threat because of the coronavirus, it’s a signal that there was never any good reason for that threat to exist in the first place.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/coronavirus-tsa-liquid-purell-paid-leave-rules.html

I have definitely been thinking about this a lot lately.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-you-clean-your-phone-to-combat-coronavirus-definitely-maybe-11584018237

I feel like Apple is in a much worse state than when they did the PowerPC to Intel transition, so I predict this Intel to ARM one will be a long, sloppy mess.

https://mondaynote.com/arm-ed-mac-not-again-or-for-real-this-time-a3548eece86

Okay, my (very) limited understanding of quantum computing is that it could be exponentially more powerful than classical computing, but right now there are some problems like total running time (milliseconds? nanoseconds?) and very noisy data (considering that’s just quantum mechanics work). This project is machine learning (the thing people have been calling AI for a while) ON quantum computers to help with noisy data, and a bridge between quantum data and classical data.

I can’t tell if this is the beginning of the end of the human race OR just the only way we’ll ever get useful data out of quantum computing at all.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-tensorflow-quantum-open.html

Spread these memes instead of the virus. Stay safe out there!

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/9/21162031/wash-your-hands-coronavirus-memes

I was really into the first episode. Especially the music/sounds. I’m really liking viewing the Bay Area as a weird, creepy place instead of a tech utopia.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/devs-review-alex-garland-hulu-series.html

I played Final Fantasy 7 when it first came out and put a lot of hours into it. I got all the way to the last fight, but then figured I would go back and level up first. But then I thought it would be a good idea to find all the good weapons before the fight. I did side quests for months after that but never actually went back to the boss and beat the game.

I’m gonna actually do it this time.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/2/21160767/final-fantasy-7-remake-hands-on-impressions-ps4

NYC Weed Truck Parking

I can’t see how Apple gets through all this without a lot of pain.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/report-offers-a-closer-look-at-apples-relationship-with-china-during-a-crisis/

In trying to imagine how much Robinhood employees were/are panicking through all this. smh.

What a way to destroy your company’s reputation and any trust your users had.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robinhood-down-outage-markets-rebound-coronavirus-backlash-2020-3

Agreed.

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/engineering-beliefs

St. James Park, San Jose, CA

Forest Hills, NYC

https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-malware-can-steal-google-authenticator-2fa-codes/

I recommend using a password manager and doing 2FA through that. I’ve been using 1Password for a while and recently switched to using it instead of Authy for all my 2FA accounts. I think most of the popular password managers should support this.

Some password managers to consider:

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-password-managers

My RSS feed looks exactly like the news ticker in Plague Inc right now.

San Jose, CA

Also feelin this.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0MdMnqkulXGOkYFexs9y9g?si=1BCDvYz_RNCTP10f7r1TZA