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> An Isolate-based system runs all of the code in a single process and uses its own mechanisms to ensure safe memory access.

What property of this application allows it to share CPU time and memory more efficiently than the OS can?
this isn't a particularly clear way to frame things -- there is likely some middle ground between "too many" and "too few" that is better than both of those extremes. i suspect human population could decline by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude without getting into "too few" territory, provided it was declining towards a steady state, not crashing uncontrollably
Correct. Goodhart's Law.
This is what I think - I can opt it at any time, and provide my entire medical history, but I can never delete my data.

So I'll opt in when I need to.
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/8xdx7k/are-menthol-ciga...

They are just as bad as regular cigarettes, possibly worse, and yet people perceive them as less bad, causing overconsumption.
What you are saying is not really correct. A good book on this topic is "Tending the Wild" by M. Kat Anderson

https://baynature.org/article/book-review-tending-the-wild/
Yes. Many people leave Oracle’s technology footprint out of frustration with their Salesforce.
> Significands are fixed point, and fixed point adders, multipliers, and dividers on these are needed for arithmetic operations... Hardware multipliers and dividers are usually much more resource-intensive

It's been a number of years since I've implemented low-level arithmetic, but when you use fixed point, don't you usually choose a power of 2? I don't see why you'd need multiplication/division instead of bit shifters.
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Yes, it likely makes cigarettes more addictive and it's also a cough suppressant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720998/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720998/
A fast-cgi implementation is something I've looked into if plain CGI is not fast enough. Initially I want to see what exactly the performance comparison is with plain CGI, and then iterate from there.

As for resource utilization/constraints, it runs on freebsd and uses rctl to limit memory usage and number of processes. One thing I want to find out is how to balance user resource constraints with the total load of the shared server.
It's absolutely health-related. Menthol is a mild anaesthetic (remember menthol sports cream?) and permits the inexperienced smoker to inhale fully. Same with the eugenol in kretek cigarettes.
i think there is a bit of fear of how to stably operate a society that has negative population growth, and/or negative economic growth (not that both of those things are necessarily coupled).

we've had a bit of practise over the past handful of decades since the industrial revolution of trying to figure out how to have a roughly stable society under conditions of economic and population growth, perhaps a lot of those rules of thumb need to be thrown-out and rethought
Would you mind sharing which jacket you got?
Can someone briefly tell me what is the main USP/focus of this OS?
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Similar experience with IBM and RedHat. (And go figure - they merged!)
They were first to get big, and became a standard. Hard to kick out an entrenched standard.
And what do you suppose the end game of this conspiracy is?
That brings back an old memory of the data warehouse being extremely overburdened during peak. Capacity constraints and over utilization kept bringing down clusters. As a last ditch effort, the data warehouse team started randomly disabling queries en masse, under the assumption that if they were actually mission critical, the user would just re-enable them again.

I knew some engineers that worked on a centralized data engineering team that served 100+ software teams, and they managed several thousand scheduled queries. I felt so bad for the guy that had pager duty that first night. He said he got a sev-2 every 12 minutes on average for 24 hours straight.

I certainly hope Amazon has fixed their data warehouse issues since then.
Good catch, thank you. He was 10 years old in the 30s!
The article does specifically say "a person usually has some time," which is why I put it in quotes. There's no value to the article downgrading an urgent medical situation, and the author lists herself only as a journalist. The standard of care is urgent, ERs are equipped to give the shots. This is USA.

"An estimated 40,000 people in the United States who might not be up-to-date on vaccinations," again, I used quotes specifically because that is how it is worded, "people who might not be up-to-date on vaccinations," as it is less usual for someone to be up to date on rabies vaccinations.

The science was badly worded, as if it was copied without understanding the context, and this is a legitimate concern when the press misstates medical advice. The number is probably from the CDC information page,

"Every year, about 40,000 people receive a rabies prevention treatment called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) because they had contact with potentially rabid animal."

CDC also doesn't say dog/cat bite or scratch, just potentially rabid animal, mostly dogs or cats.

I read the article, notices her carelessness, checked sources. There are more errors. It's badly done.
And many 2018 CIOs regret that their 1998 predecessors said the same thing about IBM.
I should specify, it’s basically 100% fatal once you’re symptomatic.
This is one of the reasons why educating girls and women is one of the most potent weapons against poverty.
You increase the value of the things. I had one car 20 years ago; I have one car today. The car I have today is far safer and more capable. It also cost more. It also took fewer humans to manufacture it.
> Really you’re grafting new branches.

Where does the expense come in for grafting? Isn't the only cost basically the parafilm? I'm not a grafter, but my understanding is that you just take some branches from the varietal you want to clone, cut off the tops off your existing root stock, and then connect the root stock with the twig using some grafting tape.

Unless by capital investment you just mean the fact that you're not going to get more apples for another three years or whatever.
Yes, Unity3d developers have been developing in C# on Mac for over a decade. Visual Studio for Mac (aka Xamarin Studio aka MonoDevelop) is better than Xcode in some respects.
By the way, this already happened locally in San Francisco this year:

https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Propositi...
Why is open census so expensive? Using the default ocgrpc views, we've exported the data to stack driver and datadog and have had to turn off both due to cost. Comparing to our hand rolled solution, it's exponentially higher. I believe it's due to how the latency histograms uses individual metric tags to count RPCs in each bucket. This is both expensive and really not usable in datadog.
If you're not limited by bulk unskilled labor you're limited by talented, skilled labor. A bunch of skilled labor is coming from elite families that have had expensive educations and white-collar jobs for generations, but a not inconsiderable portion is coming from skilled immigrants and the second- or third-generation upwardly mobile children of unskilled immigrants.
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Then why don't build your own website and cut costs?
No, it says there won’t be any that are sold unbundled.
I’m the opposite. I had to delete the mobile because of issues. Either way, seems like the times are passing them by.
Well, it depends how you view it.

> Does anyone here use 
ReactOS
 WINE as a productive system?

Yes: a lot. More recently Valve started to ship Windows games on Linux and macOS based on it.

> Does anyone here use 
ReactOS
 Windows_hardware_drivers as a productive system?

Historically, NDISWrapper was a thing. These days alternative OS have support for wireless chips on day 0 because Android exists. Not to the extent of being free software on day zero, but being designed for Linux and then "ported" to Windows.

Beside that a dedicated Windows VM work better if the device is USB/RS232/Ethernet.

> Does anyone here use 
ReactOS
Windows_software_not_on_native_windows as a productive system?

Either in the Cloud or with Virtual machine, sure. With applications moving to the Web, desktop applications is less and less a thing. The legacy will live on, but there is better alternatives to ReactOS to keep them running.

> Does anyone here use ReactOS as a productive system?

I don't think so. When it try it, stability isn't there. Plus if your hardware drivers are proprietary, good luck installing it on real modern hardware.

> Is ReactOS useful

I think it will eventually find its niche in the same way FreeDOS is/was hugely successful "commercially". Some hardware systems rarely change over the decades. Many still ship with floppy parallel cable as the main data storage bus. I have been a consultant for a while and can confirm OS/2, eComStatation, COBOL and obscure/ancient real-time OS are common in the industrial world. Eventually ReactOS will be good enough for those and it will make business sense to use it.

* It support Windows drivers

* Run barely modified win32 applications

* Don't take that much more resource than the original

* There is people to pay when you need a bug fixed

Just as FreeDOS is here is stay on DOS era industrial hardware, WinNT 4-5.1 era industrial hardware is also here to stay.

On the other hand, it's getting a bit late and it may miss it's window (pun intended) of opportunity and all hardware that could use it will die first and all the spare parts the manufacturer has will also run out. In that case the hardware will move to QNX/VxWorks/Embedded_Linux/FreeDOS.
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To be fair, Tuolumne and the Tioga Road are already in their off-season where no overnight parking or camping is allowed and all services are closed. Anyone up there has to be on a day trip, unless they have a wilderness permit and either packed in a long distance or had someone drop them at a trailhead up there. During the summer months, Tioga Road can be clogged like an amusement park too.

Also, while there is an entrance fee that applies per vehicle and gives you access for 7 days, there is also an NPS annual pass which costs about $100 and lets you enter every National Park and National Monument. So, you never have to pay more than approximately three Yosemite entrance fees in a single year, no matter how often you visit.

When I was a kid, we also had a "Golden Eagle" pass which combined the NPS annual pass with similar unlimited access to all California State Parks. I haven't seen that option in a long time though.
An incredible read and an interesting view of things at the time.

I've been traveling to parts of Death Valley (which were former BLM land) for over two decades and know people who have been going to the same areas for four or five decades. The Park Service is not "the best of the US". Instead, at the local level, it is people with an agenda attempting to make a mark/name for themselves. One particular former BLM area has palm trees which the park service wants to remove. Yet, the park itself has more of the same around where they expect tourists to spend money. Hypocracy.

The same National Park System, PG&E and it's subcontractors are surveying and noting places where trees need trimming -- in particular around the park beetle. Said contractors and PG&E itself pointed out to NPS the vast groves of dead pines in the park itself and offered to help thin things. NPS declined due to "wanting to preserve the beauty" of which is large swaths of dead trees.

Edward Abbey was right in being suspicious of how humans would preserve and maintain our parks.
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Why would you be important? More to the point, why does someone have to be important to be invited?

I don't know many people in the city I moved to this year. Everyone I meet who is mildly interesting, I get their email and start inviting them to events and parties. Not many people respond and fewer reciprocate, but I'm planning to live here a while. If it takes me 10 years to make 10 good friends, all that effort will be worthwhile.
Maybe let this decision fall to the states. I also don't like that Marijuana is banned at the federal level.
I agree and disagree. While I find it really cool this is also what is getting kids
This year I got rid of most of my old computers, due to me emigrating to another country and because many were broken. Most were previously owned by my father who later in his life defected to Windows. Included were:

- An Apple II (might still have that one)

- 2 TI-99/4a computers and a Peripheral Expansion Box (learned programming on this machine with my father, expanded memory with 32k at some point)

- Mac Plus

- Mac Classic II

- Mac Color Classic

- Mac Quadra 660av

- My brother's Mac Performa 5210

- My PowerMac G4 and iMac G4 "lamp" - probably still have both of these
It's not just a paper... there's a reference implementation!

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
That's absolutely insane for consumer tech where backups are rare.

Are backups really rare? Apple couldn't have made it easier to plug in a backup disk. Plug one in and you immediately get asked if you want to use it with Time Machine. I can't imagine an easier backup solution.

I agree with the rest of your comment. Any component failure means losing all your data.
I don't see any evidence that people perceive them to be less bad. That article fakes a reference to that claim but it goes to a link that is irrelevant to the claim.

I have known many menthol smokers and have spent most of my life around smokers. I have literally never once heard the opinion menthol was somehow safer. In fact, I have often heard the opposite; with claims that the menthols have "fiber glass" in them.
Why a broad prohibition on flavoured tobacco products instead of mentholated cigarettes and clove cigarettes? As far as the cancer potential and addiction goes, dip and chew are a different league from menthol cigarettes and vapes, especially Juul, with a psychopharmacology comparable to cigarettes.
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What are good countries/societies that have good mental health systems? What does that even look like? Is this a uniquely American problem?
The key ethical question for self-driving cars: are they safe?
You're stretching his claim. He compared censored search to censored search. Nothing about reporting searches to private parties who requested to be forgotten (not happening) or to governments who requested some results be removed (speculated to be what Google would do). His comparison is still wrong for the reasons stated in the article but not as wrong as your comparison.
Where or hiw do you find nice people that can give feedback of your work?
This. I'm trying really harder to connect with people to talk about technologies and how to achieve things. I send emails all days and I'm starting to think that this is impssible. Nobody seems wanting to spend a couple of minutes reviewing code from someone inexpert like me.

What can i do to improve?
Twitter 'gave Saudis information about journalist who ended up dead'
TDP, explained
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.pre... Should normalize the data and raw prices won’t be used and instead the normalized coefficients are effectively a percentage
...until the CFO saw the bill.
MMS is hit or miss on WiFi too. (Yeah I don't have signal in my apartment.)
Atari 800.
Hmm fair point that every “pro” is different, but this hardware is about 6x more powerful and 3x more expensive than necessary for the tasks you mentioned. Pro is short for professional. The author is a professional writer who has gripes with it. He also mentions why a professional photographer might have issues. The hardware seems pro-caliber, even for the most extreme uses, but the OS simply is not.
> You have MySQL & MariaDB and PostgreSQL as the two main SQL platforms

Based on license revenue it's actually Oracle and MS SQL server by miles. They are currently #1 and #3 on DB-Engines.com. (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking) MySQL is #2. PostgreSQL is #4, though it's pretty far back from the first three.
While the heath related differences exist, they exist in several different forms of tobacco consumption. The proposed ban is coming at the same time as the proposal for banning all flavored-except-menthol ecigs. By your logic, menthol flavored ecigs would also encourage more inhalation which is also worse and should be banned with the other flavors, but it's not. Why? Because it's, admittedly, more about the type of consumer and it's a government-mandated step down program. It's more about what's politically acceptable to ban than health related. While it may have benefits (prohibition cut drinking in half), if anything, it's a trial balloon.

I believe the general war on tobacco to be rooted in health concerns, but I believe this action to be a test to confirm the societal acceptance of this approach.
It's ok. You aren't responsible for the go-no-go decision on this dating feature, so you don't need to believe the numbers.
One can hope.
What the article doesn't mention is that other flavored cigarettes (clove, fruit, etc.) have been banned for years. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/clove-flavored-ci...

At the time, people argued not including menthol in the ban was racist.
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Yeah I’ve never heard anyone claim or believe they’re safer. If anything, the folklore is in the opposite direction.
The pot is still right.
Windows compatibility.

It reuses a lot of WINE's core, and so on. The intent is a FOSS OS which can run Windows drivers and applications.
I think that there is a good chance the terminal will be expensive, but the cost hidden or eaten by spacex to gain market share. Building a phased array thing with sufficient gain that can track two LEO satellites can't be cheap. But maybe their terminal hardware engineers have come up with something truly revolutionary, and we will all be surprised. I am hoping but skeptical that it could have similar hardware costs to a viasat small ka-band vsat terminal, in the range of $800-900 for rooftop equipment + modem.
> You can disagree with smoking and even recognize its societal harms that affect you without supporting making it illegal.

Disagree. Smoking products have addictive attributes that suck the user in and make it extremely difficult to quit. I support the banning of smoking in a similar fashion as tightly controlling the supply of opioids.
The difference is that the consequences of no new legislation are known (from experience), while the consequences of new legislation can be estimated, but with complex and far-reaching laws the practical effect is usually very different, with numerous unintended corner cases that can get very nasty. The problem is that politicians (and people in general) usually ignore that, and present it as a choice between how things work today, and how they think things will work once the law passes.

If we took into account the uncertainty properly, I think the balance would look very different, and many laws wouldn't pass simply because no-one would be able to vouch for the actual effects.
It seems Intel is leaning a lot on motherboard manufacturers to violate the on paper TDP to make performance look better, yet still publishing the insanely conservative TDP numbers as official...
The problem, of course, is that the country can have a trusted government today, and one that is very much not trusted tomorrow. Historical examples are many.
FTA:

“Menthol makes it seem less harsh, and also makes the body absorb more nicotine,” she said. “That means it’s easier to start smoking and harder to quit.”

So not more dangerous per se, but it mitigates barriers to its consumption.
Man I would really love it if AWS got on board with this (not holding my breath though). After container orchestration, monitoring and tracing is the next major area that I would love to see a standardized API/toolset supported by all Cloud providers.

AWS also needs to revamp Cloudwatch. The UI/UX and agent integrations are severely lacking. Everything feels like it was built by a different team and like updates stopped as soon as they had something functional.

Google's vision with Stackdriver as a single pane of glass to handle logging, errors, metrics and tracing is awesome and as I write this I am seriously considering testing it out even though all my clients run on AWS. Google is clearly positioning Stackdriver for that use case anyway.
In a surprise to no one, recording devices installed in users’ homes have recordings used in a court of law against the homeowner.

In a surprise to no one, the third party doctrine means a warrant isn’t even required to demand these recordings from the cloud provider.

In a surprise to no one, the NSA can intercept these recordings (and associated speech to text transcripts), load all the associated data into their monster correlation engine, mine the shit out of it, and say they didn’t “collect” anything because they haven’t actually put a bag over your head, driven you to a black site, and waterboarded you. Yet.
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I still don't understand why this is possible.

I've frequently seen the claim that an Echo only records brief snippets, looking for the wake word.

If that's so, there's next to nothing for Amazon to hand over.
You don't need anything to numb your lungs to inhale deeply from a vape. And I think that Juul & similar should be banned because of the addiction potential, the way they deliver nicotine is designed to resemble cigarettes.
Your comment adds nothing to this discussion. Soros was NOT mentioned in this post or thread.
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> And when you grow your own tobacco and flavor it? Criminal.

Source? The FDA only regulates product marketing, not drug legality.
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_2/ii20
And people looked at you like you were an absolute raving loon if you tried to explain the architecture of the ECHELON program, 15 years ago. Now who's laughing...

I encourage everyone who is not familiar with them to read all of James Bamford's books on the NSA. And Robert Baer's books on the CIA.
Wait are you saying that smoking is really cool?
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Unusually salty for you! :)
At the core, they sort of missed the problem. With the advent of ACA, you could no longer use medical history to set rates. You had age, sex, smoker -- and the killer location. What they were actually after is a bit of a rules engine, as one person may have 30k+ offerings, another location none. Think actuarial tables at the zip code level. The data model itself was a bit ... modeled around people and missed the rate part. I think they had about 2 years - and spent much of that time modeling. The cracks were not evident until way too late.

One of my favorites was the way they serialized the POJOs. Data object turned to XML. Send to a process that added more stuff. Send to another process, lose all the non-base stuff. Lots of data corruption. The model being wrong required them to try and tack on all sorts of extra stuff... but the framework really did not support it.

They tried to match a handful of A players with a bunch of C grade developers. Then they pulled all the A players into never ending meetings. I saw little to no code review of what was actually going on. Folks literally copied switch blocks, because the code worked, and left in the old case statements. Exceptions eaten. Text book example after example of what you might expect in the daily wtf type code.
There is an interesting series of 3 videos by vihart on the Fibonacci sequence and plants [1] that is done very well. It may interest you if you found the OP video interesting.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ahXIMUkSXX0
I was surprised to hear there’s been a breach because Nava works on it now and I’ve talked to them and they seem to know what they’re doing.

https://www.navapbc.com/
That’s a great explanation! Thank you.