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I cringe when I read things like social distancing. (not picking on anybody specific) Shouldn't it be temporary social distancing? What would be next? hikikimori? Sorry, rant over.. covid-19 informational virus does my head in..
for real though, being shut away without contact from other people does your head in. voice or video chats apparently help.
It does!
I've been working in that mode for some months, and can attest that my head is thoroughly done in. As for the video chats - it depends! If they're just progress chasing, it adds to the feeling of being besieged.
Seriously thinking of acquiring a dog (in spite of my allergy) so that I'm forced to get out of the house and meet "real" people.
Yes, the absence of those really becomes a problem!
Some aspects are great, but I need to be vigilant about withdrawing from society. I looked into BorrowMyDoggy - could be a solution!
As King Rollo so wisely observed "the best kind of dog is someone else's".
Leopard geckos love the heat, but they're not exactly sociable. Mostly they just hide or chew locusts.
My other half has kept 4 of them from being recent hatchlings. All named after characters from Round the Horne, so we have Rambling Syd Rumpo, Dame Celia Molestrangler, Buttercup Gruntfuttock and Daphne Whitethigh. :face_with_rolling_eyes:
The later series are probably the best. Hugely politically incorrect, on the whole. The sort of stuff which causes one to wonder "how did they get away with that?".
Morning. Hope the following (see thread) is helpful to circulate inside your company if you are in the unfortunate situation to be told to commute to the office when you’re able to work from home. Luckily, my company applied a full work from home policy while I was drafting this, so I don’t need it anymore.
Subject: Coronavirus Response
<To whom it might concern>
The number of corona-positives (in UK or elsewhere) is going exponentially up every day and the reason it's not because of people self-isolating or the virus driving around in a car. By going to work every day we contribute to increasing the risk of spreading the virus, even if we don't catch it directly (for example by making a train busy). We might even catch it and being asymptomatic and by moving around we are spreading the virus to people who are less healthy and more vulnerable. Remember that is this is not a flu (there is no vaccine to start with, and we have no definitive data on the mortality rate).
Why are we waiting for other companies, people or authorities to start restricting freedom in one way or another? Why are we looking outside in streets to see if there are less people around? What has this anything to do with thinking what is the best action to take.
I'm worried about the role that commuters have in spreading the virus by moving around every day. We have to ask ourselves: is our movement essential to our company or to the economy in general? If you struggle to come up with an answer that justifies working from the office, then you have to work from home.
As a software company we have the luxury of being able to work from home (or at least most of us do). At the same time, nothing prevents us to come to the office to attend an urgent meeting, but what is not essential should be avoided. It's irresponsible on our part not to take action if we can, it doesn't matter how our size compare to others. It's responsible for us to give an example to other companies who are waiting (like we do) to see what everyone else does.Our stance, and this is driven by HQ, is for people to report to work as normal, until told otherwise. Of course, we, being the software arm of our company, is treated a bit differently, and we all have VPN access to do our job
I've passed on the helpful spreadsheet from @mccraigmccraig yesterday, so maybe that may influence things here.
we've also closed our office from today @reborg... it seems the only sensible thing to do
We got the full doc with a revised policy that needed signed off. So until further notice, no meetups, conferences, client meetings or travel for the company until further notice.
Say you have a function that should return true (or nil/false). But you want to log something before returning - and that log returns nil, I have this
I sometimes end up defining an “identity + side-effects” function that looks something like
(defn log-and-return [f x] ((f x) x))
;; Which would make your example:
(->> something-something
(log-and-return (constantly (log/info "Blah Blah")))If it doesn’t have to return true you can just return something-something and use the truethy falsey aspect of it
Actually - couldn’t you just use?
(some->> something-something (constantly (log/info "Blah Blah")))which feels a bit forced. Would there be a better approach, that doesn't necessitate an explicit true?
@dharrigan I think that's probably it.
Morning. Ironically enough, the Clojure Virtual Meetup group organiser just stepped down and the group will shut down if no-one takes up the mantle https://www.meetup.com/Virtual-Clojure-Meetup/
I can take care of it if needed. I have started Barcelona Meetup group years ago. :)
M_orning._
Just had a job interview changed from on-site to remote, owing to the virus risk. 😐
It might do - I think that depends upon how events unfold!
It would be interesting to see how they handle a 3-week introductory boot camp on a remote basis.
@rhinocratic Right now, probably like the hunger games... 😉
@danieleneal do i recall correctly that you guys load EDN resources from files with shadow ?
We use Json I think
I’m off work at the min so hazy
np, it was more about the mechanism for loading / inlining them - but i found the answer : https://clojureverse.org/t/using-none-code-resources-in-cljs-builds/3745
ooh lala I see civ 6 is on special offer https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12218/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI__Platinum_Edition/
its not the money I resent
its the the hours of my life that I would lose
must resist
might see one through the next few weeks though
so basically (trivia) historically Poland could not be ruled by a queen, only by a king
later they got her to marry the pagan prince of Lithuania who was a badass in his own right, which is where Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth came from
anyway, she's not well known in the west I think, so it's awesome they put her into the game
I somehow never quite got on with 6. I logged stupid amounts of wasted hours into 4 and 5, but 6 somehow just didn't grab me as much.
Oddly enough, I seem to prefer watching other people play it in streams. I guess I went full on millennial.
Easier to walk away when you are watching someone else play
And I need to avoid setting a bad example to the kids Alpha centauri?
Beyond earth was, I think, Civ 5 with space theme. At least more or less, some additional gameplay elements.
A piece of trivia I didn't know before: Civilization started off as a board game
Civilization (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/71)
I meant to play an expanded version later in the month
Advanced Civilization (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/177)