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Near-term planning for secondary impacts of coronavirus lockdowns [assuming things don't blow up]

In this document, I attempt to discuss the impact of the coronavirus lockdown and how to prepare for it. This is not focused on the direct impact of coronavirus, but rather on the secondary impact of precautions that people are taking, including the lockdowns and the new normal of staying home and working from home. The document is written in an imperative tone, focused on what to do. However, please don't read into this tone the idea that I am confident of these suggestions and authoritatively pushing them. They are just ideas! Many of these ideas are self-justifying, but I have not tried to justify their relative importance to other ideas that I have omitted. Subject to time constraints, I'll be happy to answer specific questions challenging the ideas, or comparing them to other ideas I didn't list. If you have a question of that sort, there's a good chance I'll just agree that the idea I didn't list was more important. My initial draft of this post included some discussion of potential future timelines, but I decided to omit that in order to make the post focus on ideas for dealing with the situation. I may separately write about possible futures. General ideas * Expect a three-month timeline for the lockdown (i.e., lockdown continuing till the end of June), with the possibility of a six-month, twelve-month, or even eighteen-month lockdown. Even if a strict lockdown lasts much less, health advice may still recommend that you shelter in place for additional time. * Brace for impact! Prepare psychologically. Plan for three months of lockdown; it could be shorter, but it could also be much longer. If you overprepare a little bit because the lockdown lasts just one month, you'll need to write off the effort, but that'll be less painful than forming expectations that this will end in a few weeks and then constantly being disappointed at how much it's dragging out. * It's ideal if all your concrete actions are "no-regret" -- so that if the lockdown lasts long

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What do people colloquially mean by deep breathing? Slow, large, or diaphragmatic?

Some version of the idea of "relax, take a deep breath" is common across cultures. But what does the "deep" in "deep breath" mean to people? I've come across three plausible interpretations, and I'm curious what people colloquially mean (I suspect it's a mix or conflation of the meanings). Deep...

Jan 17, 202413

ChatGPT 4 solved all the gotcha problems I posed that tripped ChatGPT 3.5

In December 2022, I shared logs of my interactions with the then-nascent ChatGPT 3.5 (December 15, 2022 version). In April 2023, at my request (and with financial compensation by me) my friend Issa Rice reran those prompts against ChatGPT 4 (using a paid subscription that he had at the time)....

Nov 29, 202333

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 2 (security)

This is a continuation of my previous post. See the introduction at the top of the previous post to get more information on what this series of posts is about. This post focuses on devops practices I adopted to secure my web server. Recommendations for others (transferable learnings) * If...

Aug 6, 20236

Why have exposure notification apps been (mostly) discontinued?

I recently noticed that exposure notifications for COVID-19 in the app that I had been using, called CA Notify, had stopped working (I had attended an event a few days prior, and was feeling ever-so-slightly unwell, so I thought to check to see if there were any exposure notifications from...

Jul 9, 202310

To err is neural: select logs with ChatGPT

This post includes some portions of my logs with ChatGPT, where I asked it basic arithmetic questions and it made several mistakes. I have used bold for cases where it made incorrect statements, and italics for cases where it made correct statements that directly contradicted nearby incorrect statements. The actual...

Dec 23, 202222

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 1 (backups)

UPDATE: Part 2 is now published here. I have a web server that serves a double-digit number of different domains and subdomains, such as contractwork.vipulnaik.com and groupprops.subwiki.org. I originally set it up in 2013, and more recently upgraded it a few years ago. Back when I did the original setup,...

Nov 27, 202217

Preventing, reversing, and addressing data leakage: some thoughts

In the last few months, I've been thinking about the problem of accidental leakage of data and how to prevent it, reverse it, and address its aftermath. This post includes various thoughts, some of them including tool-specific guidance, and some of them more general. Examples of data leakage are as...

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Near-term planning for secondary impacts of coronavirus lockdowns [assuming things don't blow up]

Moving on from Cognito Mentoring

Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review

Coronavirus: the four levels of social distancing, and when and why we might transition between them

VipulNaik

What do people colloquially mean by deep breathing? Slow, large, or diaphragmatic?

ChatGPT 4 solved all the gotcha problems I posed that tripped ChatGPT 3.5

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 2 (security)

Why have exposure notification apps been (mostly) discontinued?

To err is neural: select logs with ChatGPT

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 1 (backups)

Preventing, reversing, and addressing data leakage: some thoughts

Near-term planning for secondary impacts of coronavirus lockdowns [assuming things don't blow up]

Moving on from Cognito Mentoring

Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review

Coronavirus: the four levels of social distancing, and when and why we might transition between them

What do people colloquially mean by deep breathing? Slow, large, or diaphragmatic?

ChatGPT 4 solved all the gotcha problems I posed that tripped ChatGPT 3.5

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 2 (security)

Why have exposure notification apps been (mostly) discontinued?

To err is neural: select logs with ChatGPT

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 1 (backups)

Preventing, reversing, and addressing data leakage: some thoughts