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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It's the protesters who are insane.
Someone who disagrees with you is insane? OK. 
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: My extended social circle has four people dead from the virus with another five infected.
I imagine that has a ton to do with your point of view.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Someone who disagrees with you is insane? OK.
No. People who put others at risk through their own selfishness are insane.
ZurdoDev wrote: I imagine that has a ton to do with your point of view.
This and I work a mile and half from the Detroit Medical Center. The pictures of bodies piled up in unused patient rooms and refrigerated trailers because the morgues are overrun is really what hammers the situation home.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: People who put others at risk through their own selfishness are insane.
Ya, I drive a car. I support legalizing alcholol, tobacco, McDonald's, Monsanto, etc. I walk around in public potentially carrying any disease and have done so my whole life. I apologize for my selfish insanity.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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This little virus is 3 times more infectious than the flu. You are 100 times more likely to die from it than the flu.
Your comparison is grossly, and negligently, naive.
Yes, you are insane for nonchalantly spreading it.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Your comparison is grossly, and negligently, naive.
From google, Quote: Nearly 1.25 million people are killed in car accidents each year.
Why not get on board with a more serious crisis?
Your responses indicate that you are an emotionally driven person rather than logic driven. Not necessarily bad, but you need to realize that people that might disagree with you are OK. But since emotion drives you, it appears you cannot grasp that concept. All well.
By the way, please don't murder anyone by driving your car to the store. Please show you care and are not insane and start walking. But with a mask of course.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No, I'm statistically driven.
Cars are not contagious. You choose to drive one or not. You do not "catch one" from one driving by you.
You do not choose to get this virus or not. You choose to do what it takes to minimize your exposure, and other peoples exposure, to it.
I haven't killed anyone in a car in 37 years of driving them.
But with this virus, if I was infected, I could kill 5 people, just by walking past them.
Again, your willful, il-informed nativity is disgusting.
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Isn't this conversation at a stage where someone should have mentioned Hitler? Statistically, I mean.
Oops, I guess I just did.
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The UK government's chief medical officer has said that social restrictions are going to need to last at least for the rest of the year.
One thing that has become more obvious is that scientists are constantly disagreeing with each other, which I think is fine as that is how science works - but the media are not very good at handling this ambiguity that is present in differing scientific advice.
The media want to present a clear consensus on what scientists are saying, the problem is that there are a lot of different views, some of them differing slightly and some of them widely differing amongst scientists with regard to sars-cov-2.
I am content, though not overly joyous, with working from home for the moment (week 7 in my case).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The media want to present a clear consensus on what scientists are saying,
Nope... the media just yell out what can make them get more viewers, listeners, subscribers in that particular moment.
If the media would really care that much about truth, they would handle it very differently... and not only now with the Corona Virus
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The UK government's chief medical officer has said that social restrictions are going to need to last at least for the rest of the year.
Interesting. I hadn't heard that. But does that mean things like restaurants, for example, won't be able to open to dine-in service for the rest of the year?
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Stay-at-home in France is (officially) till 11th May.
No strict stay-at-home requirement in Germany, but my company demanded it and for now it is not planned to go back in the offices in April.
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Rage wrote: but my company demanded it
Interesting. One company I know has refused to let their employees work from home this whole time. 
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I'm in Georgia, USA too. (read your response in the thread before I commented)
Just because the Governor has said businesses can open doesn't require me to frequent them. The types of businesses too are a little nutty. Hair dressers, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys were some of the ones he named. Monday, restaurants, with precautions can open.
But he didn't, as far as I know, lift the stay at home order.
I've been mainly working from home almost a year now. Saves me 3+ hours a day in commute time per day. I would only go to the office for sprint planning and that only because my mind wanders after a while when meeting remotely.
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The company I work with absolutely refuses to do the work-from-home routine, even with a large percentage of the staff being supplied the resources to. Things have been business as usual for the most part.
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Kris Lantz wrote: absolutely refuses to do the work-from-home routine,
I just don't understand that line of thinking.
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I am up here in New York. Our work lock-down has been extended to May 15th. But things are starting to re-open but very slowly. I was surprised to see our county parks open already.
Our governor is under tremendous pressure to start re-opening the state but he is holding tough. which I believe is a good thing since our metro area has been hit so hard.
Problem is, the current lock-down situation, no matter where you are, is not sustainable economically and we have begun having protests around the country as a result.
Some are saying these protests are being supported by right-winged groups but who really knows. It could just be that it is a reflection that the populace has inched closer to a breaking point...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Personally, I hoping to never go back to the office. I've got better technology and faster internet access from home than I do in the office, and even before this started almost all of my work related interactions were via Skype and Teams anyway; there are only 2 others on my team in the local office, and their jobs are entirely different than mine.
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Your impression about US lockdown vs. going back to work is both correct and incorrect.
A number of states are opening things up - these states either barely or never really locked down to begin with. Mindless cretins saying that they'd rather die than be "oppressed" into some sort of social responsibility.
Others, like NY, have within the last couple of weeks, had their governor mandate face coverings (masks, etc.) if you are going to be out of your home in any situation where social distancing would be compromised - and you cannot enter any store (or work in one) without said covering.
NY's case rate and mortalities have been going down - roughly half the mortalities/day they were at the peak. Occasionally, groups of nitwits, for various reasons didn't think it included them. Uniformly, they're paying the price for that. NJ is also now experiencing a downturn.
As for places Georgia, N/S Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa - I guess as long as Tyson can make some money, the locals are basically expendable. Well - the mayors of the affected towns don't think so, but their governors do.
Thus - as there are 50 essentially independent states in such matters - you can say nearly anything and find an example of it.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: and you cannot enter any store (or work in one) with said covering.
I suppose you wanted to say "without said covering", didn't you?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Pick one:
[ ] How dare you pay attention to what you're reading ?
[x] Thanks - I fixed it.
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Got an email from CEO that we're allowed to go back in May 4th if we like, but masks mandatory, temperature checks at the door, that sort of thing.
Of course, I can remote to my desktop* from anywhere, so I'm not going back in.
*DT crashed this AM. Reconnected, and afterward VS thought almost everything I'd ever checked out was an add to the repository. Solutions I haven't been in for months. Strange.
Fortunately, I was only working in a couple places in the code, so it wasn't too bad to undo the other projects, get latest, and be back to square one. Spent a few hours getting it straight, pretty sure I'm o.k. now.
Can't explain what I might've done to make TFS think everything's an add, or what a crash might've done. Puzzled, but past it.
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I usually work from my Home office, until She Who Must be Obeyed starts getting on my nerves.
Lately I have had to just grin and bear her. 
Don't tell her...
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In Germany, we're still working from home. Although experts say, the Corona wave is "over the top" already, government is still increasing instead of decreasing coercive measures.
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I've been running Ubuntu exclusively on my home computer for at least 6 months now.
I have dual boot but I never boot into Win10 any more.
During the Stay-At-Home order I've been WFH (work from home) for over 5 weeks now.
I use Remmina[^] to remote into my work computers (Win10) from my Linux machine -- Remmina actually works better than mstsc (RDP).
Dot Net Core
Anyways, I have had .NET Core on the machine for a while and Visual Studio Code, but yesterday I started testing out functionality by writing little command-line programs.
Visual Studio Code allows you to step through code (with the proper plugin).
You can amazing things on Linux that is totally based upon your C# skills. Really cool!
Feels Like K&R C
Also, if you ever got a chance to do some old C programming and go thru the K&R C book I believe you will find this Dot Net Core programming world really cool.
Yes, it's console-based and you have to learn dotnet commands for building and running but it is just so much fun and you can really learn about the OS by writing these little programs.
Coverage
Let me give you some examples:
The Generic collections System.Collections.Generic are all there.
You can do Linq (System.Linq)
You can do crypto and hashing (like SHA-256) using System.Security.Cryptography.
You can do all the IO (files, folders, etc) stuff with System.IO.
System.Diagnostics to get Process info is there.
And the System.Environment stuff is all there (ie How long has OS been running, what is machine name, and so much more).
These are just the ones I've tried there is much more.
Of course, System.Windows.Forms does not work at this time, but think of this as K&R C and you'll be happy. I'm happy.
Linux Quite Different From Windows, But Same Under C#
Think about that. The two environments (windows & linux) are quite different but all of these things work via C#. It is amazing. I'm so infatuated with this right now.
Visual Studio Code and Dot Net Core are so cool.
EDIT - More libraries tested
Just came back to say that I've now tried:
System.Net - HTTP web communication, retrieve web pages, etc works great.
System.Threading - Thread stuff works over here on Linux. Maybe we all expect this but it is quite amazing I'm writing C# on Linux and running it. Maybe more amazing to those of us who dreamed of Mono being a real thing for a long time.
Also System.Timers - implemented a system timer and it works great. I'm still infatuated, people. 
It's so cool to pull code from my LINQPad scripts, paste them over to Linux and run them. Yippee-ki-yeah!
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