America’s loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations

America’s loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations

Mayo Clinic’s belief in the importance of connection goes beyond attitudes and language to practical steps taken to see that connection is infused in the culture. Our current epidemic of social disconnection has arisen from multiple avenues including loneliness, social isolation and the busyness and increased screen time of modern life crowding out time for face-to-face human connection. Michael Lee Stallard, president and cofounder of Connection Culture Group, is a thought leader and speaker on how effective leaders boost human connection in team and organizational cultures to improve the health and performance of individuals and organizations.

Source: www.smartbrief.com

Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode

Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode

There are two types of containers that inherit state overlays: containers that use the “Surface” color and the “Primary” color. Surface containers that use the color called “Surface” should apply an overlay that matches the color of their icon or text label (if no icon is present). For surface containers that use the “Primary” color, their state overlay is white.

Source: material.io

Doctors and decision fatigue

Doctors and decision fatigue

As doctors got more fatigued, they defaulted to the easy thing: just writing an antibiotic prescription rather than taking the time to explain to patients why it is not necessary. As the day went on, doctors’ fears of disappointed, dissatisfied, angry or confrontational patients may have loomed larger and larger. If doctors were paid based on the quality of care we delivered instead of face-to-face visits, clinics and health systems might make sure that doctors and patients at the end of the day have more effective reminders about follow-ups, more support staff or even longer visits.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Sentry 9.1 and Upcoming Changes

Sentry 9.1 and Upcoming Changes

As Sentry progressed, maintenance of these often rarely-used abstractions became a burden by hindering our ability to innovate on certain kinds of features and adding an enormous amount of complexity to shipping new versions of open source. Going forward, in the next major release of Sentry — which we’re still determining a timeline around — we will no longer support any database other than Postgres, and we’ll be dropping support for any unused production service within Sentry’s core codebase (for example, Cassandra as a key/value store). With Sentry’s single tenant offering, we can deliver the same great value you get from our cloud service like continuous security, high availability, first-class support, and the latest and great features as soon as they become available.

Source: blog.sentry.io

Parallel streaming of progressive images

Parallel streaming of progressive images

Progressive JPEG images contain exactly the same data as baseline images, merely reshuffled in a more useful order, so progressive rendering doesn’t add any cost to the file size. When the server sends image files naïvely, one after another, the progressive rendering doesn’t help that much, because overall the images still load sequentially:

Having complete data for half of the images (and no data for the other half) doesn’t look as good as having half of the data for all images. The priority changes within each file, and dynamic re-prioritization gives us the behavior we want:

Knowing the exact amount of data to send in each phase requires understanding the structure of image files, but it seemed weird to us to make our web server parse image responses and have a format-specific behavior hardcoded at a protocol level.

Source: blog.cloudflare.com

Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root

Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root

A vulnerability in the SSH key management for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by opening an SSH connection via IPv6 to a targeted device using the extracted key materials. A vulnerability in the SSH key management for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user.

Source: nvd.nist.gov

Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

Weeks after the first fatal crash of the 737 Max, pilots from American Airlines pressed Boeing executives to work urgently on a fix. In a closed-door meeting, they even argued that Boeing should push authorities to take an emergency measure that would likely result in the grounding of the Max. Mike Sinnett, a vice president at Boeing, acknowledged that the manufacturer was assessing potential design flaws with the plane, including new anti-stall software.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon

Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon

As doctors got more fatigued, they defaulted to the easy thing: just writing an antibiotic prescription rather than taking the time to explain to patients why it is not necessary. As the day went on, doctors’ fears of disappointed, dissatisfied, angry or confrontational patients may have loomed larger and larger. If doctors were paid based on the quality of care we delivered instead of face-to-face visits, clinics and health systems might make sure that doctors and patients at the end of the day have more effective reminders about follow-ups, more support staff or even longer visits.

Source: www.nytimes.com