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…
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
AP News Fact Check Financial Times – Global Coronavirus Death Toll could be much higher…
These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measure of how fast the virus is growing. It’s the average number of people who become infected by an infectious person. If Rt is above 1.0, the virus will spread quickly. When Rt is below 1.0, the virus will stop spreading: https://rt.live/. As of today (4/20/2020), Florida…
This post by Jared Nelson is a look into the modern hiring practices of large technology companies. I have to say that his summary items at the end are especially damning – organizations are hammering people on algorithms that they know not only that they will never use, but aren’t even remotely close to relevant….
Very interesting article. The impact of tariff’s is affecting both American businesses, but also hammering manufacturers in China. The NY Times article : China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping
Something I need to do every now and then. Open a terminal, paste the command below and hit enter. You’ll need to enter your administrator password. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; sleep 2; Once control returns, you’re all set.
Here’s hoping this all comes off as planned. It was sad seeing Riverwalk be mostly closed businesses the last time we were down there… https://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/how-tampa-turned-around/
Everyone should read this. No matter how good you are, there are people out there who’s “job” it is, is to rip you off. They are very good at it. Be careful, and be suspicious. Never give out anything to an unexpected caller, no matter how well informed they seem. When in doubt, you can always…
https://github.com/enochtangg/quick-SQL-cheatsheet Keeping it handy to refer people to!