Well, from the description I gathered the service was going to “TURN (existing) scripts INTO internal tools”. Not “provide a front-end to a framework where you write brand new code to integrate with your business logic”… The first mode seems to add a relatively large amount of value for relatively low effort given the management scripts that already exist. The second seems more like a framework only useful for processes you spend the effort to migrate. Was hoping to see a Rundeck competitor but got an Internal competitor instead?
Every country understands the concept of Quarantine. There would not have been even a blink of an eye within diplomatic channels. At least I don't think so. It also doesn't jibe with the tight lipped behavior of the Chinese Government, and the iron fist they dropped on their academic establishment that under no circumstances were virological materials to be widely published without Party approval.
The clamp down on information exchange does not strike me as the actions of a group with everyone else's best interests in mind. And given that we have hitherto been pretty chill with China on the whole, I really think if they had gone "screw it, international travel lockdown"; you'd have seen materials and humanitarian relief being flown in in order to help out with citizens stranded overseas. We may not even be having this conversation, because to be frank, how China did decide to react just doesn't make any sense except in the context of someone with something to hide.
See if you can determine that for yourself by e.g. reading the second paper as far as the first sentence of the second paragraph and then looking at the publication date.
I'm not interested in reading those papers, especially as what's relevant are the dates, which means the burden is on the person presenting them to get the dates right, no one else. More importantly, they were missing the point, which was my point.
Your point? I'm not sure if you had one. Next time, just post the date up instead of some snarky RTFM that doesn't even fit the thread.
That seems like a ridiculous thing to say. That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production. Anyone have an educated guess? I’m really curious even though I don’t believe it should sway opinion on whether to do it or not. The value is spread across employee morale and however many millions of users have their day brightened a little.
That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production.
Who's to say it's not an internal training exercise? Someone(s) is learning to heard the kittens on a low-stakes project, someone else is learning to get the right sign-offs from the right teams/people, and the new test manager can spin her team up on this little project while they try the new workflow. And the intern gets to see their CSS tricks go into production to amuse millions.
Did I misread something or is this just a well known existing protocol combined with yet another DIY centrifuge?
It seems to me that the cheap spinny thing part of this is long solved (Paperfuge). What we need is to make the chemistry reliably foolproof. This fool (me) doesn’t even recognize all of the units they use in the paper.
