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>It is also surprising to me to see how far Intel has fallen from the process lead they had. First with HKMG by several years, first with FinFet by several year, I suppose they are still first to do cobalt interconnect but in terms of process density the foundries have caught them and appear poised to take a substantial lead over the next several years.

>With Intel offering foundry processes and GF, Samung and TSMC all offering leading edge processes the industry now has four viable leading edge process options.

Exciting times.
It's not intended to be a permanent scar. These marks are routinely used to mark out areas of the liver to be worked on, and they should normally heal.

In this case he did it to a patient and the marks didn't heal. (By definition he works on patients who's livers are less likely to heal), but it didn't cause any further harm.
> I wonder how the Phoronix benchmarks compare between an ARM cluster and a single x86 chip.

I don't think the focus here would be performance, but the cluster operations. Also, having slow hardware helps with spotting some performance issues (there are things we get away with Xeons that we simply can't with ARMs) even though fast hardware will help uncover some concurrency bugs that wouldn't happen on ARM.

As for virtualizing a cluster inside a bigger Xeon box, I worked with server provisioning software and the kind of nasty bugs you find with real hardware is pretty surprising. Some nodes refuse to shut down, some refuse to start, some take longer than expected (please see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-committers/maas/trunk/revi... for the smallest commit ever - a single bit flip - that actually solves a bug) and so on.

I'll probably put mine inside an empty HP workstation pizza box I have with a proper power supply, along with a couple Pi's, a PiHAT cluster, a CHIO and an early Pine A64. Having a heterogeneous cluster is a necessity for testing.
I like to remind myself that being poor and being broke are not the same thing.
I wonder if backing up would set off other people's radar detectors.

Reminds me of "Trolling for Taillights"!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hgobioff/public/random_stuff/traffic
Additionally, a self-driving car doesn't even need to care about recognizing children and dogs as members of their respective species. All they need is to notice there is a moving object, and to have some expectation of its maximum velocity. It's enough to compute the envelope that lets it safely avoid collision.
I would usually agree with you but I live in one of the most corrupted countries in Europe where public money is spent with complete disregard and some public services are crumbling as a result.

Over here we pay a lot and don't get nearly enough in return. The effect of this is a growing libertarian political scene.
You can't (easily) alter the jawline bone, but you can alter the surrounding muscles with physical exercise.

https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/jawline-e...

I've personally witnessed a change after six months of crossfit every day.

Maybe it's that all the wrinkly faces you make when you exert yourself. ;-)
Oh, I should probably mention I have a bit of a penchant for hotboxing cooked food in general. So it's more of a crazy good-cook strategy than a specifically crazy rice cooking strategy.
Are they changing their personality or are they changing their behaviors? I would think of the personality as the predisposition to certain behaviors.

You can change your behaviors to differ from those you're predisposed to; but it takes more conscious effort to maintain those behaviors than it does to maintain the ones you are predisposed to.

And changing those behaviors doesn't count as changing your personality, though it may change some people's perception of your personality. Changing behaviors is something we all do at least situationally (even the most cheerful, boisterous person will generally manage to be reasonably subdued at a funeral). That doesn't mean we're changing our personalities every time we walk into a funeral home.
Summary: neural network trained to generate realistic sound for videos.

Paper (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01393

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01393
If your ORM is downloading all of your data and querying client side, then your ORM "is doing it wrong".

Entity Framework and any other Linq to data provider translates the Linq expression to the native language of the source data and does it server side.
YouTube Red isn't going away.
Nothing to do with the trains themselves, everything to do with the tracks and their maintenance. There's a pie chart in that PDF I linked elsewhere which shows that about 50% of the cost is network rail, 30% staff and 20% train leasing. I suspect the UK could maintain it for a lot less if it could pay Malay wages for the track maintenance and train staff.

UK railways have been chronically mismanaged for years. Better comparison would be against other European countries.
> It's also politically expedient as it raises money.

Raises is a very positive sounding word.

Would it be better to couch that sentiment in terms of who's getting shafted (it extracts money from) or who's getting rich (it redirects wealth to)?
That doesn't sound too bad, but I don't think that's representational of most routes and hence most travelers, in that if you stand outside Euston, Glasgow or Edinburgh before 8.30am and ask people what they paid to get to work and if they considered it value for money you would likely get a lot of expletives
That's a poor analogy, because people driving super drunk have the potential to cause very great harm.

If we're sticking to car analogies he wrote his name in the dirt on the back of a truck, but the dirt was abrasive and so he also scratched his initials into the paint.
> Lastly, there is actually a legal minimum number of deer that hunters need to shoot a year.

(excuse the German links please, I don't have any references in English for the following)

Not only a minimum number, but an exact number:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abschussplan

In some jurisdictions, hunters are required by law to keep trophies as proof.

Going over or under is a misdemeanour, and can result in severe fines in some cases:
http://www.jagdrecht-bayern.de/jagd-4/abschussregelung/absch...
http://www.jawina.de/abschussplan-nicht-erfuellt-19-000-euro...
What are the complex numbers, really?
Historically the promo artwork has usually differed in different countries for example, often a lot. So I am not sure the "single vision" is really the case.
This is entirely to lacking an optimized version for the new aarch64 instruction set. Similar problem noted in Go benchmarks awhile back, see 100x speed up here: https://blog.minio.io/accelerating-sha256-by-100x-in-golang-...
I think they come with different problems and can help add redundancy to data input. I would be scared to sit in a self-driving car that depends only on visibility of lines at the edge of the road. However, if there are enough data points available to the car at all points in time, then it makes the probability of failure low enough.

Imagine a system that munches visual clues + RADAR/LIDAR data + Microwave or RF transmitters embedded in the road + GPS/SATNAV + data from other cars via local mesh network. Now, that I'd think about trusting a little bit. Also, I'd definitely be watching 007 movies while my car drives me :-)
Oh God.

Given the quality of this gig description, at least we know that whitepapers written by that person will be immediately recognizable as scams.
May I forward some advice that was given to me and worked quite well?

Firstly, don't worry about impostor syndrome. Given you're trying to be someone you're currently not, it's entirely normal.

Secondly, and teaching a class is perfect for this, set up a situation where you can plan what you want to say. Not word for word, but the key points you wish to get across. Make sure you're clear, to yourself, what are the key points and what are asides. When you present, it's fine to use words like "generally" and "usually" while you explain key points but stop yourself from describing or explaining asides.

The first few times are uncomfortable but it should get easier. Over time it'll start to feel wrong when you're about to talk about an aside and you should find you need less planning to keep to the main line. You may also find that this will carry over into social conversations too.

BTW if it helps you for a class context, you can always caveat the lecture up front. Something like "although what I'm about to go over is generally true there are a few corner cases that I won't cover. If you have any questions please ask".

Something else that can work is asking people to give you honest feedback about your communication style. Ask them to be completely honest and don't lead them. The key to making this work is to accept what they say at face value i.e. don't argue it, question it or offer mitigations. Just use it as feedback.

However, for this to work you do need to be able to ask for feedback without leading and accept criticism. If you're not completely sure you can do that then it's best not to try.
Anecdotal: I've found that personality is a choice, to an extent.

If you've ever known somebody who served in the military, you know that they often come back a changed person. I'm not talking about PTSD in combat vets, I'm just talking about simple personality traits like neatness.

On a more self-driven note, I became a less patient person in some specific ways after I lost a parent some years ago. (Because it become painfully obvious how limited our time is...)
My 0.02 BTC on the matter:

Object-oriented programming 101 assumes that all your objects are in memory, in a graph, so you can do things like person.getFriends()get(0).getName() [assuming the person in question has >0 friends]. Each step in the graph is essentially a pointer dereference, costing a constant effort.

(If your data is small enough to fit in memory, that's what you should generally be doing. People who use hadoop for half a GB of data are usually doing it wrong.)

A relational database assumes that all your data fits on disk, but only a subset of it will be in RAM at any one time (and you generally have a network round trip every time you change that subset). This means you need a completely different way of thinking; this difference is sometimes called the "object-relational impedance mismatch". This is not to do with SQL and OOP just being different APIs for the same thing, they are designed for very different use cases.

ORM tries to pretend that this difference doesn't matter, and works quite well in simple cases when it really doesn't matter.

My standard example why it sometimes does matter: PersonDAO.fetchAll().size() is silly because it forces the database to fetch all Person objects, send them over the network, your application creates the necessary objects for them - and then you throw it all away again because all you needed was the number of people. PersonDAO.count() is much better, even if you have to implement it yourself.

If you don't like the syntax of SQL, sure - use a query builder. In C# or Java you can even get some kind of type safety that way. But you need to understand the difference between an object graph and a relational database to use either of them efficiently, long before you get to advanced ideas such as window functions.
Not in my experience though our DBA was very good (oh my first boss was Dijkstra he mentioned down the pub one lunch time)

And would you not have your IDE on one monitor and your SQL IDE in another so you could look at both sets of code.
I think there is a market for selling hand-mined bitcoins as a novelty item, but selling individual hashes might be a pretty small niche.
Considering that the US election spending reached a billion $ I'm not convinced.

I'd love to one day see a US presidential candidate hand out flyers on Times Square.
Yep, that's my strategy and that's why I don't understand the complexity people talk about. I only cook long grain rice though. I throw it in a pan with a lot of water, boil until it's done, strain. Like you said - just like pasta.
This is because the private key to en/decrypt messages never leaves your phone. So the 'browser based' version still routes messages to your phone first (to presumably re-encrypt them with a different key that you got from scanning that QR code).

You can argue semantics if that counts as browser based or not, but I think that's actually a pretty sane way to to things, security wise.
Why not just annihilate us now then? That would minimize risk, since there is always a non-zero probability that we might suddenly make some powerful discovery or other circumstances might change.
On the part of actually changing those traits, one could attempt to use a very precise radiotherapy machine combined with FMRI to find and kill the parts of your brain that bother you.

I'm not really sure I'd want to try to literally hack my brain this way. I have a lot of traits I don't like (hey, I'm posting this here while I should be working... Look! Shiny!) I understand they are what makes me the person my family loves (although some may say it's an acquired taste)
Go to a speech therapist. Very rewarding.
How naive could you possibly be to think that Spotify or Netflix wouldn't have had this sort of data?

I don't see anything wrong with the ads, not because it isn't fucking creepy, but because you'd have to be an idiot to think that they don't have that much data and because there was no personal information shared.

By using these types of services you're implicitly (explicitly? Wouldn't be surprised if it was in ToS) agreeing to have pretty much everything you ever do on their platform collected, and if you're lucky anonymised.
When everyone is jumping on the band wagon its probably time to run away and passively investing in guilts is dangerous when bank rates return to normal - there will be a massive loss of capital.
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We're also assuming Snowden was not an intentional leak. Spy games get weird and complicated. They don't call it the "puzzle palace" for nothing.
Really? Was something wrong with the WSDL?
It takes a lot of billions of hashes per bitcoin - I think your hand mined one would work out a bit too expensive for anyone to buy.
On the other hand, we really did invent the eugenic concept, as implemented for example by the Nazi regime, and even that example wasn't enough to stop some states, such as California, forcibly sterilizing their own citizens for explicitly eugenic purposes until at least a couple of decades after.

You're not quite wrong about American exceptionalism in its negative application here. (You're far from wholly right, though - people question the Constitution, for example, all the time.) But the Progressive Era in the US really does have a hell of a lot to answer for. That's whence came the modern concept of engineering a society en bloc, and treating its members however harshly seemed necessary to fit them into the overarching structure of some notional greater good. That's what Huxley was satirizing in Brave New World. Where did you think he got the idea?
The key difference is that the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, which ordinary rice/multi-cookers are not, they just heat the pot to boil water until the temperature reaches a cutoff point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_cooker#/media/File:Electr...
Which are on the "REQUIRED" part of the curriculum in German high schools.
Its not fraking "income" for gods sake if you don't know the difference between income and capital gain you probably should learn it before commenting on this issue.
I failed my company
I don't think personality can change. What can change is the situation and the people you interact with, and depending on them, discover aspects of your personality you weren't aware of before. Maybe that counts as a change, but it's just better self knowledge and world knowledge.

I also think personality is not unique - we have a whole range of "personalities" we employ depending on who we talk with and what the situation is. Thus, personality is a function of self-values and external situation - we have many masks, one for each occasion.
It is an assumption that going to A to B with little risk will be slower. With the sensors available and lower reaction times the opposite could well happen. A computer can look every way at once at a stop sign, doesn't have to waste time making a judgement call because it already knows the answer, and doesn't have to wait for its foot to hit the break or accelerator.
When I read your story, something jumped out to me: willingness to take on risk. Whoever was building all those lines was willing to take on a lot of financial and other risk to themselves, right? Why they were willing to do so, I'm not sure, but in the US we are facing the problem of having fewer and fewer people like that. There was a report recently that entrepreneurship has been falling for some time here, and I think it's due to risk.

Where I live, there is a single Internet provider (besides dial up of course!), and I have dreamed of starting up an alternative (funny as my grandfather was Lithuanian :). The risk involved though makes it not worth it, my desk job is too comfortable.
As far I understand it, it's half finished and progress has been super-slow:

2016 - https://weblogs.asp.net/ricardoperes/missing-features-in-ent...

2018 - https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/wiki/Roadmap

Basic functionality like group by, lazy loading, etc. is missing. By the look of it you can't even load custom types from hand-crafted queries, which is pretty ridiculous.

Haven't really been keeping that up-to-date with it. I personally feel the whole Core thing has been a massive cluster-fuck for their existing customers.
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your primary property isn't normaly counted in this case
Plus, for any given large organizational customer HTTP/HTTPS are allowed through their firewall/other network security apparatus, wheras other ports require a bunch of special exceptions from the security people to use. Said people often refuse to give exceptions no matter how reasonable the request might be, so everybody ends up doing everything on port 80 or 443.
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Not long after I moved to Kansas in 2012, I received a postcard supporting some tea party idiot for the legislature. Was a four color printing on thick glossy paper. Paid for by the Koch's PAC Americans for Prosperity. I kept getting these cards every other day until the primary. By comparison, the campaign materials for the other candidates were clearly run off of someone's photocopy machine.

The cards, and bigger publications, started up again before the general. This is in a small rural district. This entire process was repeated across the state and was accompanied by constant television advertising. Led to Brownback getting enough support so he could get his infamous, and disastrous, tax cuts through the previously hostile legislature. Tax cuts strongly supported by the Kochs.

2014 and 2016 saw a repeat of this advertising blitz.

When the Democrats get angry at the Kochs, it's for good reasons. When I saw AFP interfering in something as small as my tiny district, I thought it was quite creepy. Soros's funding hasn't been even remotely as large nor as pervasive.
Talk of thinking in black and white! So when you say "after WW2", do you mean the shattered, occupied Germany of early 1945, or the revitalized Germany of later years, after Europe and the US - and, to a lesser but still real extent, the Soviet Union - rebuilt it?

Yes, Hitler and his mad, failed quest for power ruined Germany. I don't know if maybe you've never seen them, but the Bundesarchiv has some pictures which seem pretty starkly clear on that score. And then more or less everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere provided the resources and a lot of the labor to unruin Germany, because everyone still remembered what happened the last time they'd had to deal with a ruined postwar Germany, and after what had come out of it that time, no one wanted to find out what would come out of it this one.
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I recommend taking a look at .Net/C#'s concurrency machinery. It makes it terribly easy to use its thread-pool, and its async/await stuff is very cool. Think TBB tasks, but with very nice sugar.

My understanding is that Java's current concurrency offerings are much like C#'s, but... worse.
I'd argue that's just how stews are. It's quite rare that they have an interesting mouthfeel or look particularly appetizing. I can understand making a stew out of tough beef but I'd rather rather spend money on a nice cut of meat or just eat chicken.

This is of course 100% subjective, sautéing is to me a much more interesting way to cook food (boiling things that needs to be boiled beforehand), I'll probably get cancer before the stew-heads though.
I suspect I would be much less happy with the service if it wasn't for the fact that I am far enough out from Edinburgh so that the train is relatively empty so I can pretty much always get a seat (and a window seat on the side with the best views).

Two stops in from where I get on the train fills up dramatically and there are often people standing.
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Nothing the US hasn't done to our own territories' aborigines.
Public contracts can't regulate USD trading though.
I don't think that the parent comment was actually suggesting implementing these things, quite the opposite.
> Do people really believe that infrastructure is not the purview of the government?

Well, the people behind these Koch-funded groups do. They believe that nothing is the purview of government, or at least nothing that can be monopolised and exploited for profit.

I think the purview of government is primarily to protect the people against this kind of monopolisation and exploitation. Privatised infrastructure is fine with me as long as it doesn't hurt people's access to it. But in this case, the government is clearly responding to a lack of access.
You won't have Erlang-style reliability (predictable recovery after localized
errors) without links, monitors, and supervisors, which themselves are built
with links and monitors.
> There was also a case of a kid who posted on Facebook (to friends only)

I was confused about the "to friend only" part, and it turns out he wasn't posting to friends only. He was posting to the general public, in threads that were tributes to soldiers that had died.

Note that his offence is normally so severe a custodial sentence of six weeks is the usual sentence, and he got much less than that.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Document...

> On your own evidence, you knew the posting would reach between 600 to 700 people. In reality it may well have been significantly more
Unless it's a bird. Or an unusually large leaf. Or a plastic shopping bag in the wind.

This stuff is harder than it looks at first glance. Hence the article.