I think we will be very lucky if there's a vaccine for the end of next year. I also expect we will see second waves of infection, and it will be bloody difficult to deal with during the flu seas… (View Post)

AFAICT the virus is racist, sexist, and ageist. If it could speak and use the wrong pronouns that would be a full house. (View Post)

The world runs on codebases like this. Most software, even in quite critical systems, is crap; and a lot of it will not have been touched in many years, maybe even decades. Of course you would hope s… (View Post)

In the case of the NHSX app the app and coronavirus bit (presumably a background service) are effectively the same thing, as they are a single install with bundled requirements and permissions. For G… (View Post)

I think we might actually learn something from this crisis once it's all over, the sooner the better, and we might change the way we do a lot of things. More of a focus on public health and prev… (View Post)