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+1 on social dancing. There are explicit rules about the interaction, which makes it less exhausting than freeform chat.
On the contrary, even taking this report at face value, the pattern is one of extortioner and extorted conspiring, at the behest of the latter, to hide a problem from the people directly affected.
I’m far from expert on this but how long can India be considered a “developing” nation. It’s starting to feel like continuing to call Dropbox a “startup”
It does say "The N64-like software renderer" on the GitHub page.
That's certainly a problem, but that's not why games aren't being ported to Linux, in my opinion, it's that A) the user base isn't large enough to bother in many cases (these same companies often release terrible Windows ports for more or less the same reason) and B) It's a pain in the ass for a multitude of reasons not the least of which is that the Linux community thinks it has a great development environment but it doesn't (at least for Destktop stuff).
Ironically, Meltdown sort of retroactively nullifies the progress we had been thinking of as Moore's Law.
Strange that I've never seen that before. To bad it only toggles between two languages (I have 3 setup)
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Maybe, but who is going to allow you to benefit without paying them (with the profits, that you're not getting)?
Sorry, but is there a better record on this issue?
This article just tries to connect vaguely described events into a story. Very poor journalism, reading this is a waste of time.
Was the vulnerability a dumb mistake or an unexpected exploit? Was it disclosed to the company in advance? How does this case differ from other cases so that there are four lawsuits now and why has everyone been fired? Because they created a bug bounty system that resulted in bug disclosure? Nothing appears to make sense and the journalist doesn't worry at all.
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>smooth, almost pen-like glide

I have a Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B woodcase pencil, which is the only 10B rated pencil I could find. As you said, pencil hardness isn't standardized, but it's a very soft pencil, and it does feel smooth compared to other woodcase pencils. But it does not feel as smooth as a 0.5mm mechanical pencil with Pilot Neox 4B lead, which is the smoothest mechanical pencil lead I could find. The Mitsubishi does however write a little darker.
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>The odds of Russia attacking Germany, even indirectly, are absolutely minimal.

So thought Adolf Hitler, until he found out that Soviet army was 4 times the size his recon told him, bristling with technologically superior weapons in great numbers, and busy preparing its own invasion of Europe 24/7.

>Let's say they occupy Germany after a "clean" campaign. Their economy would be completely shot.

Russian political establishment has said repeatedly that it don't object to Russians having to eating grass. Do you think those guys address those speeches to Russian population? No, they are saying it to you and strategic planners of Western states. They expect them to cowardly concede without a fight.
You have zero basis for that statement. In fact, the main writer says that it wasn’t a cover up or extortion as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/95196148060...
Somewhat related "Using Zeno's Paradox For Progress Bars" [the article is dead, but this is the archived version] https://web.archive.org/web/20140224013525/http://www.atalas...

More in: http://cerealnumber.livejournal.com/27537.html#/27537.html
Subscription incentives only work in the favor of users with viable competition and low switching cost. Neither condition exists right now for businesses or the overwhelming majority of home users.
You did read the bit where I accounted for APFS, right?

And also that the raw, combined difference was 4x, not 3x?
Another reason Windows Vista did so badly was that it really needed a clean install to make it work properly.

This is true of all Windows versions, but was particularly true of Vista, and of course the reality was:

* Very few people carry out a clean install when they get a new computer. This is as true today as it was ten years ago

* Hardware manufacturers loaded the PC's up with terribly written adware before shipping (this situation has improved slightly)

The requirements for Windows 10 aren't that much more than Vista, so, the average person would get their new Vista PC running on a Core 2 Duo/Pentium D and 1-4GB of DDR2 Ram, loaded up with crapware and not do a clean install, and it would run horribly.

By the time Windows 7 came out, the PC manufacturers where writing slightly more efficient crapware, hardware was generally a bit more powerful, and they had fixed a tonne of bugs in the OS itself.
A reminder to have some empathy for ALL people on the road regardless of whether or not they have reproduced is something EVERYONE could benefit from. Empathy should not be so selective. Please drive carefully all the time.
Please avoid using the r word conversationally.
By the way, how secure is GPU programming, when the GPU is accessed by multiple users?
You do not gain sufficient happiness from your startup's financial success?
Crimea voted to join Russia in a referendum, in the same way they did twice in the 1990s when a part of Ukraine. Opinion polling and independent (western) research there has confirmed the results many times, the vote wasn't rigged or anything like that. The reasons are understandable enough - Russia did much better economically than Ukraine since the end of the USSR and so salaries there are in some cases up to 10x higher. And Ukraine had been spending its time mucking about with language laws and other things that aren't so friendly to a place where people mostly speak Russian.

So to say "not end up like Crimea" is perhaps not the best example.

All that said, I agree with your basic premise that the world has not put war behind it forever and to abandon defence, or be unable to mount defence due to a population that considers it "unsexy", might well one day lead to very problematic military defeat.
Not wanting to use a language because it’s not good for tha problem at hand is different from hate.
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> why aren’t there some humans running around with heads twice as big and twice the neurons?

Because humans don't live in an artificial bubble like ML models do but they always are already entangled in a network (aka society) of similar beings. The ultimate actor isn't the single individual but the group/aggregate/swarm/society. Given the current societal demands, the current brain size is sufficiently large. A single nerd with a double-sized brain would most likely not be able to reproduce in human societies as of today.

We probably shouldn't overrate a single individual's capabilities.
It's called Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
> still has Spectre

I didn't realize that when I made the comment, and I agree my suggestion falls flat now that I know.

> You have to replace at least the whole motherboard on a desktop or probably all of your laptop except the discs and maybe the RAM.

I'm ok with putting that responsibility on Intel to remedy the situation, even if it deeply hurt them financially or put them out of business. If you sell a faulty product that doesn't live up to its description, yes you risk actually going out of business. But with the fact that AMD has Spectre this idea of replacement no longer makes much sense and your original idea of a partial refund makes the most sense.
If you know what you are doing, it is leaps and bounds cheaper to run your own hardware (co-located, rented from soneone else). The only issue is latency on scaling out (hours), but if you are halfway decent with trend lines you can preempt this.
I wouldn't say any obvious way is wrong. Dropping down to the .NET mechanisms should be more of a last resort if performance is really abysmal for some reason, but apart from that, common sense applies. As they said, opening, writing to, and closing a file repeatedly in a loop is a stupid idea. I wouldn't say that's an obvious way to do file I/O in PowerShell.

On that note, what are the obvious ways you've tried?
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> deciding that for 18 years someone else's life is more important than your own

Intrinsically, deep down, I feel in complete agreement that you're right about that statement. And then I stop and think "wait, isn't that the very point I was just trying to make above? That something is wrong with this?"

Why do children have to me more important than parents? Why not 'just as important'? Consider: if we had a friend who had a new boyfriend and constantly put the boyfriend's needs above her own saying 'that's just how relationships work, you put their needs above yours, always', we'd have an intervention for that friend. We'd say that's not healthy, that there has to be give and take, that we all have our own needs that are important too.

But make the other side a child and well, now that's just the right way to do things.

I'm not saying that we're wrong for thinking that- I'm saying we should really look at that deeply and figure out if we're sure that it's right. How far is too far? Are we past that point? Maybe our own happiness should sometimes win out over our children's happiness and that's not a monstrous thing.
> But the constant asking for permission dialogs, while a security improvement

It wasn't a security improvement. For one, it mostly just got in the way and trained users to ignore it, negating the purpose of its existence, but it also never protected the user from anything. Case in point: ransomware needs no elevated permissions.
> If Yoda deceives Luke that saves TLJ from having Yoda actually mirror Kylo Ren, but it doesn't explain the fire and lightning (Sith tools associated with hell imagery) nor does it resolve the underlying problem since deception is also Dark Side behaviour....

It comes down to intent. Fire, lightning, and destruction aren't relegated to the Dark Side of the Force. Jedis have always had their share of destruction and murder. They were a literal army during the time of the Old Republic. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's behavior in the first scenes of TPM show this firsthand. They were sent to the Trade Federation to intimidate—not a very noble thing to do on the surface, but it was in the greater good.

There have been innumerable essays and analyses understanding how the two sides differ, but the one that's always stuck with me is that the Jedi are at their core more of a guiding force, whereas the Sith are a controlling force.

Everything the Sith do is for their own greater good, whereas the Jedi will do things (even kill, or destroy) if it leads to the greater good of others.

And, in this case, the destruction of the temple leads Luke to understand that old books aren't what are important. No one died when that tree was destroyed. And it may very well have been what pushed Luke to self-sacrifice and save the remnants of the Resistance. That seems like a very "Jedi" thing to do (IMO).
It's not even true, is it? From the wiki page:

The aircraft are expected to begin trials flying from Queen Elizabeth in 2018 with a carrier air wing fully operational by 2020

So what it's saying is that the new set of aircraft won't be fully delivered until 2020, but given the very long timescales associated with building an aircraft carrier and designing and building a new carrier air group in this case, is that such a big procurement failure? The HMS QE is still engaged in sea trials throughout 2018 anyway.

Also it can carry US planes and will do so sometimes.
Same in SF, you see Ferraris driving along Market St. while homeless people shoot up or defecate on the sidewalk.
If you want to change something then run an OS that's built with the expectation that you change things (Alpine, Gentoo etc.)
> That would be the best you could do, right?

No, the best I can do is continue living and convince as many people as possible to not have children. If I kill myself now, many more people might be created than if I die later. Natural reduction in population without resorting to violence is entirely possible. Open your mind to ideas that don't involve killing anyone.
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I have accounts with several banks and other financial services, and I have received various updates to terms in connection with PSD2 over the past few months. However, I don't recall any of them saying it was now OK to share things like passwords or PINs.

Are we talking at cross-purposes here? Encouraging non-experts to share security credentials that give unrestricted access to their accounts with third parties is so obviously dangerous that I find it hard to believe that (a) the financial providers are now required by law to do it, and (b) not a single one of the updates I received from mine drew attention to this in any way that I noticed and recall now.

Surely the entire point of the new access paths under PSD2 is that the financial providers don't have to endorse the dangerous practice, and can instead provide an alternative way to achieve similar results but with much better control and regulation to protect all involved?
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I find it really unhelpful that these 'threads' are being hyped with little reference to any sort of thread model, reasonable attack vector or probability. I do not want the kernel on my Arch laptop patched and slowed down to mitigate against issues that does not reasonably exist in the context of a laptop user.

By all means patch my browser that runs random js. I'm not in the habit of downloading and running untrusted binaries - those that do have far greater problems than Meltdown or spectre already.

Of course I want it patched on AWS, and my bank's backend machines, but you are now forcing me to continually pay, hour after hour, for insurance against a thread that I'm happy to not worry about.

Do not steal my cycles to pay for 'security' I do not require.
I'm pretty sure it's referred to later in the article:

>All that distraction adds up to a loss of raw brain power. Workers at a British company who multitasked on electronic media – a decent proxy for frequent smartphone use – were found in a 2014 study to lose about the same quantity of IQ as people who had smoked cannabis or lost a night's sleep.

Still not a reference, but you could probably find the study given that information if you wanted to. Or I'm sure the author would respond if you tweeted and asked him or something. If you really want to find out I'm sure it's possible.
That's not the only issue; there's also a lot of compliance issues that having a hosting company can take care of. There's whole sections of PCI and HIPPA compliance that you can just write off as "not our problem, talk to AWS".
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Over a 15 year time scale, there is no way AWS will remain competitive with GCP.
I haven't seen a Marquee/Ticker on a website for quite a few years.

The "Background to Open Banking" page made the fans start running on my (fairly good) laptop.

If this is a sign of the technology behind it, it's not a good sign.
Are there any legal issues with using people's photos on the paper money? Especially the baby-meme on the $500 bill...

I also would love if you went more into your playtesting process.
You forget the terrible issue with the inefficient windows management code, compared to the cleaned up Windows 7.

And the problems in UI. And...

In short, it was really good version to avoid, especially as an upgrade. On a new computer it could have been somewhat acceptable. But amazing... no.
I've always assumed "BABY" referred to the driver -- a warning to expect immature behavior.
Looks interesting, but why Kickstarter?
Not really. I'm somewhat less of a twit (I think) than I was ten or twenty or thirty years ago, I've learned more, and a lot of my opinions have changed, but I can go back and reread old high school essays and not find them particularly embarrassing - not up to the standard I require of myself now, to be sure, but not so poor as to be unrecognizable, especially after 10th grade honors English under a teacher who regarded errors of grammar and usage the way a Puritan parson regards sin, and who used not wholly dissimilar methods in their extirpation.
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I'd think more likely tired and stressed out. but YMMV
It was designed to carry only an aircraft that existed on the drawing board and no others. It is a bit like it being designed for Donald Trumps F52 fighters[0].

Remember the audacious class that could fly an array of aircraft, as well as being inter-operable with our NATO allies (our aircraft could land on their ships)[1]. I suppose that is true in a way with the QE2, as only our NATO partners aircraft will fly off it for some years...because we don't have any.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/11...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09)#Aircraft_a...
Just as a reference point, I didn't see any measurable slowdown on mkfile (New-Item) throughput on Windows 10 after applying the patch. I suspect this may be more of a filesystem issue.

I also tried this:

$f = new-object System.IO.FileStream c:\temp\test.dat Create, ReadWrite
$f.SetLength(8GB)
$f.Close()

with no speed difference on a patched and unpached system
I wish this was interactive; I'd love to follow the dots and watch the keys be depressed.
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> We could get a >50% performance boost by ignoring security.

Perhaps by making it unnecessary, rather than ignoring it - SPIN is now over 20 years old:

http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/

There are other single-address-space safe-language systems that are even older; Genera is from the early '80s.
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The synth cutting off and glitching are so irritating! Seems like a lot of work to put into something to leave really jarring artifacts all over. If you ever create or edit audio, all tracks and samples should start and end on the zero crossing. Otherwise the jump "back" to zero introduces lots of noise. Sticks out like a sore thumb on a spectograph
The network connection side panel also seems to never open when you want it to, only to open 2 minutes later when you are watching a fullscreen video.
It's very easy for a single admin with a single machine to provide 4 nines to a small group with a small load. But this usually scales exponentially.
They made it from 1989 to 2001 so it must have been okay for the embedded market that it targeted.
In the US*. In Europe, cooking is still by far how most people eat. It's one of those things where our cultures drifted apart over the years.
> Eating out is the best example. In West eating out is the default choice, even those who can't afford it will choose to eat out.

What? Not at all. Maybe in your country, it is.
How does it happen India has Gini coefficient close to that of Canada (and better tan that of the USA, UK and even Australia) then?
Those are some pretty noble ventures, but how can something with a name like scuttlebutt ever hope to become mainstream? There's a p2p torrent video service called bitchute, which is equally noble as the services you mentioned, but it too is just so not-sexy - it'll never make it to the mainstream. I think these services could eventually take off, but the marketing and branding are going to be parts that need the most work.
It's probably a trivial modification to disable KPTI for root owned processes.
You are comparing the maximum write data rate of HFS+ and APFS with the write rate of mkfile with small blocks. I do not think you can assume that the write rate in the filesystem stays the same if you decrease the block size. The expensive operation might be the block allocation that is easy for larger blocks, but for small blocks it might try to squeeze them in somewhere to avoid fragmentation.

Yes, syscalls are expensive and most likely became very expensive with the Meltdown patch. Even more so on OS X, where filesystem drivers are running in their own process.

I am not arguing against performance drops due to both Meltdown path or APFS, but I do not think your data shows the conclusion you are using in the headline.
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Thanks for the tip! I am currently using my nearsighted glases with tint to block the screen's UV rays, and yes it DOES help.
I think "eating out is the default" was hyperbole? If it's meant literally, it seems simply untrue in the US as well. I can believe that we eat out more, but most people I know eat breakfast and dinner at home and take leftovers to work for lunch. Are there statistics about this?
If performance is better, why would they charge less instead of more? Why apply the discount to the more desirable product?
Wonderful tip, I am doing some of these, will add more to the routine. I am quite sure of a positive result. Thanks!
All good questions:

1. Typically a single IP address represents a single connection. Yes there are providers who NAT multiple subscribers onto one IP but they are rare (because if they do that then they have to maintain NAT logs in order to identify criminal subscribers to law enforcement -- easier to just have 1:1 IP to subscriber).

2. Residential addresses are in fact not really dynamic. Yes they can change from time to time but for the most part they don't (see #1).

3. Cellular traffic can be identified because the cell carriers use specific identifiable netblocks.

4. It doesn't matter if not everyone uses the sampling service because that's the point of sampling.
They aren't any better because they still use all the same software and follow all the same broken paradigms.
One important skill you will need is feature engineering. Formal methods for it aren’t typically in ML ciriculums, but it’s worth understanding if you’re interested in applications if ML.

Deep learning addresses it to some extent, but isn’t always the best choice if you don’t have image / text data (eg tabular datasets from databases, log files) or a lot of training examples.

I’m the developer of a library called Featuretools (https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools) which is a good tool to know for automated feature engineering. Our demos are also a useful resource to learn using some interesting datasets and problems: https://www.featuretools.com/demos
I don't think so - it falls under parody/fair use and those are derivative sketches. If someone's going to really complain then I'll change it for production.
I'll go a step further,

small businesses with money

small businesses with NO money
Yes thank you, it was the economist not the nytimes.
Well, it's not cheap to produce and I can't see it being a huge seller in a bigbox store.