These days Debian Gnome and default Ubuntu are so similar these days the difference is negligible once you installed 1 or 2 plugins that mimic the Ubuntu functionality. Ubuntu's gnome is just plain gnome with a few in-house extensions made by Canonical - hardly worth it in my opinion while Debian is rock solid. Buster (the current stable) is nearly perfect IMO.
Huge ruby ran here. Ruby on Rails has been my day job for a decade, and it pays the bills well enough. Crystal has always been a curiosity to me, but I have never been as productive in any other language or framework as I have been with Rails. I dont' care if you're language is "ruby-like" or "go fast" - if I'm not as productive with it as I am with Ruby, I'm not gonna touch it.
Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or PROHIBITING THE EXERCISE THEREOF; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Founding Fathers would weep of what has become of America.
What about the dependencies of your dependencies? You're gonna get burned when a breaking change gets introduced a few levels deeper than your package.json. Not everyone follows semver perfectly, and sometimes malicious code gets distributed as one of these transitive dependencies.
Why are you _regularly_ clearing lock files? If you're bypassing lock files you're going to have the exact same issue with npm or yarn or any other package manager that downloads from the internet.
I joined a company that had their application on about a dozen environments in Elastic Beanstalk that would fail for no reason during deployments. When everything went find it took about an hour to deploy, when stuff goes wrong - say goodbye to half your day (at a minimum). The general solution to most deployment issues was to just terminate every instance but 1, deploy to 1 instance and let the scaling policies kick in to replace the terminated instances. EB is absolute trash.
The thing about Type 2 virtualization not working is true, but if you hyper-v enabled you already have type-1 virtualization so type 2 is kinda irrelevant.
I've been using Hyper-V for about 5 years and never noticed any performance impact worth mentioning. Type 1 hypervisor VMs are still technically running on the metal.
Not all hospitals and morgues are overrun, a lot of them are actually massively under capacity. The media hysterics about this is complete nonsense for the majority of hospitals. NYC is not the US. Hell, NYC is not New York STATE.
People aren't catching type 1 diabetes because they are sick by coronavirus - they already had it. Comparing it to an immunodeficiency disease is not the same. It makes zero sense to generalize the fatality rate across a healthy population and include those with pre-existing conditions when trying to gauge the response for an entire state/country when the vast majority are healthy and those who are dying are not. When I want to know the risk to me or my family, I don't care that an 81 year old with stage 4 lung cancer died when he got COVID-19 - I want to know what my chances are among healthy people - but the media hysterics cling to the vulnerable people when it has no bearing on healthy ones.
We need detailed demographics of infections and deaths. We need to break down the risks, because a blanket totalitarian response of "SHUT DOWN LITERALLY EVERYTHING" is absolutely ridiculous when the general population is going to be fine. We didn't shut down the world economy for SARS, H1N1, MERS or any particularly bad flu season and we shouldn't shut down for this. We should focus our limited resources on protecting the vulnerable and let everyone else get back to work. More lives will be destroyed from an extended shutdown than this virus ever could.
Paraphrasing Dr. Birx: "There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem, some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. The intent is ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that."
Paraphrasing mostly, but this is Dr. Birx admitting that the government is overreporting by default. So even if you exclude NYC, it doesn't change my point.
The fatality rate of the seasonal flu is around 0.1%. We originally thought that COVID-19 had a fatality rate fo 2-3%, but now that antibody testing is more and more widespread we are finding more and more cases of people testing positive for antibodies - indicating they had and recovered from the virus - without ever having any symptoms.
A study from Santa Clara just recently found that there are probably 50 to 85 times MORE infections than originally thought, just that the vast majority of them were asymptomatic.
Should we be focusing our energy on protecting our elderly and immunocompromised? Yes, absolutely.
Should we be mandating that people stay home, putting millions of perfectly healthy people out of work? It's absolutely insane to me that this was even considered, let alone implemented.