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> How many different batches of blood do they need to keep around to handle a majority of the population

I'm the medical director for the blood bank of the only trauma center in an extremely remote location and a catchment of about 100,000 people. We operate our own donor center and do our own crossmatch (tube testing FTW!). We have 45 units of RBCs, 65 units of FFP, and 1 platelet unit for this evening. We also have 3 freezers full of frozen products and closely monitor our usage.

Obstetrics is probably the biggest user, but trauma may be the biggest in any given month. Our high water mark in recent history is 58 units of various products used for one patient a few months ago. We were nervous but got her through it without breaking quarantine to release product (although the quarantine units* were next on the agenda). We pushed 20 units a few days ago for a post-partum hemorrhage.

Quarantine in this case refers to units that have been produced but the infectious disease screening isn't complete yet, so we should not release them for use.

Please donate blood.
Is it even legal to do so? Tomorrow Intel can ask us not to benchmark the clock speed.
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They also basically sold a defective part, and to fix it you have to agree to something additional post-sale. That is pretty damn questionable.
Or more like a fun summer intern project, really. I'm sure it was a cool learning experience but things like that are rarely ever deployed.
Speeding IMHO is almost never the issue, it’s careless or reckless driving, failure to obey traffic laws, and distracted driving. The idea of taking a single arbitrary driving test as a teen and never again is insane.
there are plenty of people who will do the job.

That can coordinate and tackle the scale of problem of New York waste disposal?

Come off it, you’re going to fall and hurt yourself.
Once you release code, people googling you will find that code - and use it as a measuring stick of your coding skills.

In todays rockstar-obsessed recruiting hell, I would not want any quick-and-dirty hacks published under my name.
Star Trek is interesting to consider. Most see it as a sort of utopia, one that people could only dream of. And it's certainly portrayed as such. Yet "poor" is not really a measure of what you have, but a measure of what you don't have. In our Star Trek society imagine the state of mind and affairs for the hoards of Star Fleet officers unable to find promotion and instead left to meaningless toil while somebody else calls all the shots.

Well actually that's hardly even touching on the issue. Consider those that can't even get into Star Fleet! There'd be entire movements from these "poor" individuals indignant at the inequities in society. Star Trek rarely tackled this issue as it was always intended to be an optimistic, not necessarily realistic, view of the future. However, it did indirectly delve into these issues in one episode - Tapestry. A brief clip of it. [1] A longer cut of the ending scene there. [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHoPLhpw2g4

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvUDvZ7KyU
It’s really hard to feel sorry for Amazon, or you, given your whine is you have to go to a web browser to complete your transaction.

In truth, The App Store is far more than a mere payment processor, though it might be best in the world at that. The costs of hosting, distributing and updating two million apps across hundreds of localized stores, and also vetting every release and update for those millions of apps, is immense.

All their work makes the App Store easy and safe to use anywhere in the world and that helps developers sell more apps.
A couple of years back I was talking to someone who did SEO for a popular education network. The company was spending millions of dollars every month on SEO and advertising.

Their module operandi went like this:

1. Offer money to license or buy a smaller competitor's content

2. If that doesn't work, crawl and clone the site

3. Pump a lot of money into Google Ads, so that the cloned site now appears as an ad above the legitimate site. Google makes such scam easier now by making the ads look like organic results - a non technical user would hardly notice.

4. The legitimate site just dies.

I was asked to build a tool which crawls sites, which I refused. But I learned how professional SEO works.
You're totally right -- and I'm not saying you're advocating that position -- but it's a terrible answer to say to people: Just get rich enough not to have those problems.

For years I almost blew a head gasket trying to convince my mother that there is a whole industry designed to keep people poor. She didn't grow up poor, but she grew up working class in a time before that industry pervaded absolutely everywhere. My mom became very successful later in life (just after I'd left the house). I didn't grow up super poor, but I was aware at a young age of not having things most other folks had, and I could sense my parents' anxiety about finances. Then as a young adult, I hit this industry like a brick wall and spent many years dirt poor, like stealing-spaghetti-from-the-grocery-store poor, with any edge I gained pretty quickly shaved off by some damned nickel-and-dime thing. And I was raised not to ask for (or expect) help or support from anyone. My family was/is a very sink-or-swim kind of family, and incidentally I very much credit that and my own insecurities about money (and service in the infantry) with any and all of my successes in life. But anyway, in a bizarre twist, it wasn't until I had become successful that she actually took me seriously about the industry designed to keep people poor! She just couldn't bring herself to believe that it's in anyone's financial interest to keep people poor. But it's absolutely true and absolutely exists. I lived for years surrounded by it and even today, every time I login to Facebook it's like a news feed of the latest shenanigans of this industry. Lots of friends back home in my black-hole hometown stuck there with zero options. Incidentally, even though it seems like my mom sometimes lives in a completely different universe, the older I get, the more I appreciate her perspective for how much it teaches me about myself and the world.
For example I work with a codebase like this. It is over ten years old, have multiple people working on it, many learning or of differing abilities. Frameworks have been used and over time their limitations come to light. Often people have been band-aided something to save time, because they have been under severe time constraints. Large swathes of it are almost superseded but not quite. The purpose of the software has subtly shifted over the last decade.
The current owner of Symbolics displayed interest in open-sourcing Genera a few years ago but nothing happened since then.

Do you know why that petered out? Is there anything in particular that would reignite that conversation?
Sorry if I stress this even one more time, but we badly need 100% open iron, I mean something beefier than SiFive. If there is any effort in this direction, then, say for a year, most donations should be diverted over there. Closed hardware is becoming the unavoidable medium used to push closed firmware into everyone's system, that's a lot more important than benchmarks.
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We may disagree as to whether they are or are not "grass roots" which is subjective in any case. Both Elastic and Redis Labs were formed relatively early on and are the primary contributors to both projects. There's not a great diversity of contributors as there are on other projects.

That said, I never made the argument that their business efforts were a bad thing nor opposed to community efforts, though certainly others have in this context.

Personally, I believe that both commercial entities are entitled to compensation. One of the points that I was attempting to make is that AWS nearly killed their respective businesses by reselling the product of their efforts while making no contribution back to either project.
So business decision makers made the decision to let their lawyers be business decision makers?
> I need some elitist type review system I think ;)

Then you shouldn't "ask" random people you don't even know. That elitist type review system is anything from a newspaper with an established critic, to a Michelin Guide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide
When "Apple" or "Dotan Cohen" are mentioned in the title, I'll understand that no explanation is needed. But when tiny companies and products that are completely unknown are presented, an explanation is proper. The title should have been "KDE developers release stable images for smartphone-powered laptop".

That said, the device seems decent for the price. It looks like a Macbook clone, but with an ISO keyboard layout. The screen resolution is horrendous, and with only 2 GiB of RAM and 16 GiB of storage, the device is too weak for any real use case.
> Another issue is whether the customer should install the fix at all. Many computer users don’t allow outside or unprivileged users to run on their CPUs the way a cloud or hosting company does. For them, these side-channel and timing attacks are mostly irrelevant, and the slowdown incurred by installing the fix is unnecessary.

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The Apple App store isn’t perfect, it just works better and has less malware than any App Store in the history of the world.
In Germany there is no (general) speed limit; accidents are in line with comparable countries with speed limits.

I would argue that driving close to the vehicle in front ("close" being a function of speed) is much more dangerous than speed itself.
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Most (all?) gaming websites also recommend the minimum/best system for each game. With AMD recent bumps in performance and after this bully move, Intel is in serious risk of disappearing from the list of endorsed solutions.
Ok that is fair.

But echo chaiber argument goes both ways. And if there is no discussion and iniciative to solve priblems becose everyone including police is afraid to be perceived as "racist", then sadly violence is unavoidible.
There's a term for it called 'shit life syndrome' - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-20/hutton-blames-shit...
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You could look at a speed limit as a social contract. There are other positive reasons to go slower than avoiding death (gas mileage for one). However, if there is an agreed upon legal limit, then by speeding you are violating that contract directly increasing the difference in speed therefore increasing the chance of an accident.
So happiness and poverty are relative. Isn't that obvious to anyone who has ever traveled, studied other cultures, or even our own culture? I know that's not the norm, but it's a fairly obvious observation. Many of the people in America's ghettos have, in absolute terms, much more wealth than much of the developed and developing world, yet they are much less happy than many of the latter people. Each cohort is comparing themselves with the people around them, not with people in far away countries. In America, poor people are surrounded by hate and cruelty, constantly in fear for their lives and livelihood. This is usually not the case in places where people are happy yet make much less in absolute terms (although sometimes it is even there). There's much more to life than money, especially when money is tight.
I think it's #1 but this legal change has been more than 2 weeks and there's no response from Intel in this problem. I don't understand why Intel is screwing everything lately.
American kids drop out of school at a very high rate. The percentage who make it higher education is so less, the institutions have to look at foreign kids for their income. The kids from India and China who come here for higher education stay back and try to get a job (So that they can pay off their loans)
If they get lucky, they get a H1B and stay back to earn a living.
So yes, Americans don't go to tech as much as other nationalities do. Yes, there are not enough of non asian/Indian Americans who make it to the level demanded by these jobs. Lazy, yes, usually the immigrants are more driven than the resident population.
> Rewrites are very risky, time-consuming and make no money for the company.

It can also put you in an awkward position -- especially if the prior developer has a grudge against their code being rewritten -- as any bugs that come up can then be blamed on the rewrite effort, whether or not that was actually the cause.

Spaghetti code eventually collapses on its own, as every change starts taking longer and longer than expected, as well as introduces more and more bugs (and fixes for those introduce more, and so on). Once this starts happening, that can be the impetus to actually do a real rewrite effort, but one with a business case, management and hopefully the other developer(s) behind it.

Until then, a rewrite is a lot of effort that, at best, if you do a great job, is basically invisible (beyond the code level), and at worst either becomes a scapegoat for or the cause of many other problems.
IMO a better analogy would be him making a binary, throwing away the source code. Self-documenting code is always the most up-to-date documentation, and a valuable source of insight. Additional documentation would also be required, of course.
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The person you're replying to is offering a counter-point to the perspective of the person he's replying to - that despite contentment with a modest income, the things that bug him are in fact a symptom of that income. The person you're replying to is not suggesting that changing income is easy.
These existed?
Here's the corresponding single-threaded benchmark:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cinebench_r15_si...

You have to scroll down quite a bit to find AMD, but it's nice to see that they've comfortably passed my i7-4770.
Payment processing is the smallest part of what the Google and Apple App stores provide, your comparison is ludicrous.
This is a mix-up of cause and effect. Union membership is down mainly because the jobs are gone. We lowered our tariffs and most of the union jobs got offshored. Automation didn't help.

Strikes are not required for higher wages. What is required is a labor shortage. That is all the incentive needed: wages will be exactly as high as required, no more and no less. We got a surplus of workers for many reasons: the demand was cut by offshoring and automation, while the supply was increased by women entering the workforce.

Demand is picking up now, and with it wages are starting to move.
Don't wait it out. If you don't like your job, do something about it. Either change the work, or change jobs.

To change the work I suggest communicating with the people around you:

Talk to the previous developer, explain him/her what anti patterns are, why testing is important and perhaps venture into things like solid design or design patterns. Is he/she willing to listen/learn? Then he/she might also assist you in communication towards management. If not, then I personally wouldn't go to too much length to save his/her ass.

Communicate to management and talk their language as much as needed. Talk about what the cost of maintenance is and why finding bugs in production is so much more costly then while writing unit tests. Talk about the cost of change in this versus a well designed and tested system.

Then decide with management and hopefully the other dev what to do.
What could make code reviews more effective? Doing them all the time! /s
> You want to make it illegal for someone to make a piece of hardware that can only run binaries signed by the manufacturer?

I'm not sure why this is supposed to be controversial. It's not a prohibition on checking signatures, it's just a requirement to give the user the option of doing something else.

Once you sell something it's not yours anymore. Companies shouldn't be allowed to stick up everyone in an ancillary market just because they have more market power.

> I can’t understand this at all. If I go through the trouble to create a product and I want to control the user experience for that product, that’s my right and privilege. The market will decide if they want to purchase my product or not.

That's assuming that markets are perfect. What you're saying would be true if there were two versions of the iPhone, one that could only run signed apps and one that was exactly the same but can also run unsigned apps and the customer chose the first one. But that isn't the case, and because that isn't the case you end up forcing someone who wants an iPhone for a reason other than mandatory signing to accept mandatory signing (and the consequent app store monopoly) even though they don't want it. That isn't the market deciding, it's the manufacturer deciding for the market.

> Consumers have spoken, and spoken extremely loudly, that they like Apple’s approach.

This is not really supported by the evidence. The large majority of phone customers chose Android and even among iPhone customers there are multiple other reasons (hardware, UI, status signaling) to choose an iPhone even if you don't want or don't care about app gatekeeping.

The fact that customers don't want it is the whole issue. The first time most users are given a choice between installing an app they want that isn't approved or not having the app, they're going to install it. And given a choice between a distribution method that restricts apps and then charges 30% more and one that doesn't and has lower prices, they're going to pick the lower prices. Otherwise Apple wouldn't have to lock all the doors and windows from the outside -- you could just choose to never install anything outside Apple's store, even if you had the option to do otherwise.
Speeding goes against the legal and socially agreed upon limit. That, in and of itself, is reckless as it increases the difference in speed between someone operating "legally" and yourself.

Now I must decide whether I care more about my life or the law. It's not a great position to be placed in because you need to arrive at your destination 30 seconds faster.
On ESXi, yes. On the other ones: supposedly only if the host is a Mac.
Yes, that’s exactly it.

In hindsight, “sod” wasn’t the right term to use (that’s what you get for posting at midnight) but the point I wanted to make was the removal of meaning, autonomy and human interaction when not only are you doing a repetitive job, but how you’re doing it is dictated by a machine. The movie Brazil came to mind, although I’m sure there are better parallels to make.
The wording sounds like it bans any and all benchmarks. How would groups like Linus or Dave2D even operate? It honestly doesn't seem remotely enforceable.
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Unfortunately, the First Amendment does not protect against private action, only government restraints on speech. Other mechanisms like anti-SLAPP laws might help with that, but either way that's a lot of legal effort to publish some benchmarks. Intel also operates all over the world, so they could eg. sue a Britain-based branch of some media outlet that also publishes the numbers if the laws there are more in their favor.
I'd jot down what you hope to get out of the experience now while it's fresh in your mind, and remind yourself every now and then. I did a stint in Berlin, it's a great city. Best part of living in a large city is the variety of people and the interesting things they're doing. It's great to scope out the city and see what's happening, try new things but the sooner you find your people and get going on what exactly you wanted to do to further yourself professionally the better! It's definitely very easy to get distracted in Berlin :-)
Before Zen, we all kind of assumed they were so far ahead that AMD were more likely to be out of business before they would ever be a credible threat again.

I actually thought Intel must have had some tricks up their sleeves in terms of performance gains that we hadn't seen yet, simply because there was no market need to roll them out and they had so many years of coasting on marginal gains.

Seeing them taking this stance looks a lot like the microcode hit is that bad, and that the emperor has no clothes.

Clearly, they don't have an answer to AMD at all. If this is true, their shareholders should be asking serious questions about why they've nothing significant to show for all that time and money spent when they were raking it in without a serious competitor.
The first problem with this claim is that no users exercised any right to trade access to their data for free compression. This was a trojan horse. That's malware.
Prices have gone up faster.

We consume junk, continuosly.

"robbed" because voters accepted capital concentration by accepting that it would trickle down, which is a lie.
SENTRI = expedited land crossing at US/Mexico border.

NEXUS is the best value IMO. It’s half the price of Global Entry, and _includes_ Global Entry (effectively), PreCheck and SENTRI. The interviews are straight forward and conducted back to back at the same physical location. Scheduling might be the only challenge — there are fewer locations than Global Entry.
The idea that an air-breathing animal can free dive to 4000 m is astounding. How long would it take a whale to even get down that far? How do they handle the enormous pressure, and change thereof?
That's why I qualified my statement.
Inflation adjusted per capita median income was about the same in 2016 as it was in 2000. The last significant increase was in the 90s. Income shares of the top 1% and top 0.1% have doubled and tripled respectively since 1980. Maybe calling it robbery is hyperbole, but it certainly doesn't seem fair.
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Many companies do this. I used to work at Apple, where they exploited the hell out of H1-B workers "instead of hiring US citizens". This happens in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, and San Francisco (and probably many other parts of the country). Much of this takes place in their IT org: "IS&T" as well as the org that contains iTunes: "Apple Media Products" aka "AMP". They prefer to have foreign workers who can be removed and replaced on a whim. It helps create an environment where people are constantly doing "extra" work to show that they should be converted from contractor to employee (which is many contractors dream, bc if they become and H1-B directly at Apple, they'll be free from the tax that the consulting agencies take from their salary, and it also provides mobility if they aren't as beholden to the consulting agency). It also helps keep salaries low.

The IS&T org alone is above 10,000 employees, and there are more contractors than employees by roughly 2.5:1. I would estimate the number of H1B workers in the IS&T org alone would be greater than the total number of H1B workers at Cisco.

Apple uses shell contracting agencies, like Tata, Wipro, Infosys, Accenture, etc, so that they don't have to report the number of H1-B's that they have.

Also, many of these engineers skill level is an insult to the engineering industry. If you couple that with severe communication/ESL problems, it's a wonder why any American engineer would work for Apple in these orgs. It's not that there isn't local talent available. It's that the companies are just too cheap. Nobody working there speaks up to hold them accountable, because they believe they're just lucky to have a job at Apple in the first place.
An indicator that you are using a VPN does not fit the above requirement in any way.
Worked wonders for Nvidia.