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I'm using ESET Nod32 and it's still on by default but it can be easily deactivated in the settings panel.

Unfortunately, Defender is still the worse in system performance impact (1) and I can't bear it especially when you do `npm ci` or the like. Or if you are into gaming, launching Steam with/without Defender enabled and you see 10-20 secs launch time difference.

I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't focus on that. They reached good detection rate but the slowdown induced by Defender still make other AVs worth it (same good detection rate but with less performance impact).

[1] https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-april...
If corporations are 'just people', then we should be fine getting rid of all of the legal fictions that protect these individual people from the consequences of their actions.
I very much want to see a sci-fi where combat begins with the captain (aka the token human) saying, "Ship, you are weapons-free. Lethal force is authorized." Then their acceleration pod seals, and fills up with perfluorodecalin. The rest of the action is the ship AI trying to save itself, its crew, and the cargo.

If you have a FTL spaceship, the modal weapon will likely be FTL torpedoes, armed with thermonuclear warheads or better, and guided by kamikaze AI. Engagement distance will not be in visual range. Unguided weapons will miss, unless the targeting system can predict where the target will be when the weapon reaches it.

So at some level, it will be combat computers trying to "Iocaine Powder" each other, by predicting the other's offensive and defensive strategy. The AI that can be more unpredictable, while better predicting what the other AI will do, will win.
My comment was tongue and cheek. I agree with you. Even if the trickle rate were to increase it's a joke. It's horse and sparrow theory, "If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows."
Unions are like companies and other organizations of humans. Some are fantastic, some are terrible, with most in between. It's unfortunate so many push to brand them all with one description for ideological reasons.
Being a landscaper pays a living wage.
Maybe but on a per effort basis, submissions come out on top.
Running Apache Spark applications written in C#
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
That's a dangerous game to play when you were counting money! I seriously admire your hacker courage.

I'm scared to try an unauthorized card in my Nintendo Switch because I could lose my Zelda save file.
Not sure where the author is from, but I'm not aware of any states that still allow paper PCRs. ePCRs are just a fact of life.

I pretty much never bother opening the laptop until I'm at the hospital. There are a lot of reasons for that, but a laggy UX isn't really one of them (despite the fact that the UX is indeed super laggy on any ePCR I've ever used). Instead I use a pen and paper (or a pen and a strip of white medical tape on my thigh, for a more critical patient).

The reason I don't bother is because the whole UI is just too much of a hassle. Not the application frontend, the whole thing. The laptop, the keyboard, etc. With a pen and paper I don't have to keep taking my gloves off and putting new ones on each time I need to switch from documenting something to caring for the patient (a pen is trivial to wipe down, or just toss if needed). With a pen and paper I can jot simple notes in a shorthand I'm familiar with, rather than having to navigate to the right page to enter the information I want to record at the moment.

I know very few providers that bother touching the laptop prior to arrival at the hospital. Generally we write notes on paper, then bring the laptop into the ER and start typing while we we're waiting for a bed for our patient (it's not uncommon that this takes long enough to get the whole chart written). At my agency we have two hours from when we transfer care to when the chart has to be signed off and locked.

I also chuckled at the suggestion that "0.1% of PCRs have errors that waste an hour of a doctor's time". In my experience 0.1% is pretty much how frequently the PCR gets reviewed at all in the ER, and anything important enough to spend an _hour_ on would have been mentioned up front during the transfer of care (nevermind the fact that an hour is an absurd amount of time for a doctor to be spending on a single patient).
That's more interesting than the title implies.
This might be a naive union question:

Competition is good, and we always want a choice of where to shop. I imagine the same goes for unions. Is there anti-monopoly and antitrust law around unions? E.g. protecting consumers against there being only one union for widget makers. I would guess that unions would be less controversial with a healthy ecosystem of competition on both the employer and labor sides, but I don't know much about unions.
Makes me think that the way to encourage unions is to figure out how to regulate away the bad ones.
Masquerade (Book)
I use a Progressive Web App on a Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone (1GB RAM) on a regular basis. If the phone just got a fresh ROM, rebooted within the last hour and the app is a fresh installation, I have no performance issues what-so-ever (~60 FPS animations, etc.).

But over time things degrade. I don't know why, but every year or so I have to format the internal SD card to keep the OS in shape. If I install too many apps which run in the background the RAM gets crowded and everything starts lagging.

And finally, the app itself is not as optimized as it should be, so that when I use it with the data I enter during a year or so, there are some steps which take a few seconds (rendering a list with >300 items/DOM nodes). By the way, a 'couple of seconds' is unacceptable from a UX perspective.

So this is just one example where you can have a 100% good experience but also a very degraded experience with the same hardware and software, due to different factors (from OS degradation to awful O(n) optimization).
> What country didn't gain their land through conquest and occupation?

That's interesting. I guess it depends on the definition of country which is a relatively modern concept, and the meaning of "gain". If I take it loosely, then your question could be defined as which first peoples have managed to retain the land that they were the first to populate. Is that a fair interpretation? For example, it was interesting for me to realize that Vietnamese, Thais, Malays, Indonesians, Phillipinos, actually extinguished (meaning genetic/cultural extinguishment through assimilation or genocide) the aboriginal people of those lands (Papuan-like peoples) and the Australians, New Zealanders are quite far along in that process as well.

The Sentinelese of India have managed to hold on to their island, albeit it is a fragile hold, and credit to Indian establishment for holding steadfast to that policy of allowing them to completely self-determine their lives. Although I do fear that period may come to an end if CNFC (China) explorations and fishing vessels continue to pursue that region.

I'm realizing I'm ill equipped to answer your question. It is definitely interesting.
What can Ada Lovelace’s mistake from 1843 tell us about modern-day biases
A Russian B-Boy Dreams of Gold
If I had a dollar for every time I swore at NEMSIS, I could quit my day job...
I think the year is off by 1 in the blog post, or the title needs a 2018 tag.
My comment was not suggesting you were in favor of child labour. It was merely enumerating a couple examples of labour regulations that, in general, society has been in favor of enforcing, just as some are in favor of enforcing certain immigration policies. I was asking which, if any, you were in favor of; I was asking because, unlike you, I was not bold enough to presume I knew where you stand.

I can tell this discussion is very personal to you but it doesn't help discourse to jump to such conclusions.

The staunchly libertarian stance ironically seems to have some of the same shortfalls as those holding the communist perspective that you railed against. Namely, they only seem to work well in theory rather than practice. There appears to be some pushback in countries where constituents feel they have too loose of an immigration policy. In those cases, many have not felt liberated by the influx of immigration like your comment predicted. So I was curious if you had a nuanced perspective on where the appropriate balance lies.

For those without a nuanced vantage point (to quote HL Mecken), "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." Unfortunately, it seems like there are people on both sides of the debate lacking that understanding.
Does anyone remember when "wafer-scale integration" was big - in the 1980s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration
Ah, ok - sorry. I seem to have said something unpopular, so I wasn't sure if people were actually defending trickle down or not.
We surely can.

Many European countries have unions for the whole company, and there are several factors as part of the wage.

Collective agreement is just one of the pieces.

Nothing prevents the existence of bonus tied to performance.
I had an Epson scanner that had a progress bar while scanning. You could HEAR the scanner progress, and it wasn't close to even - sometimes it would stop for a while, or even back up. It didn't matter though, the progress bar kept an even pace and always finished at the exact instant the scan was done.

That has always stood out as one of the more impressive engineering feats I've seen.
They're incomplete in that all of the statements lack any falsifiable content. They're vapid, nonspecific, and obvious. This is clearly a PR exercise, possibly with the hope of publicly allying with one of the Democratic primary contenders, or a strong potential Trump challenger.

Statements about planned obsolescence, disposable plastic packaging, repairability or specific forms of rent seeking are examples of the kinds of statements that would be serious.
Having a cat also signals that you will take on caring for another being even though it is not in your financial best interest. But when you live in a condo with no backyard, or some other city dwelling like that, a cat makes far more sense, and doesn't require the ridiculous amount of maintenance that a dog does.

Why childless American women who explicitly don't want children aren't attracted to men who like cats, I have no idea. It's not like this in other countries; this is mostly an American phenomenon.
China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank
Given the clueless remarks I see that are invariably followed by, "I work on embedded systems," I suspect there's more bad engineering to blame than deficient hardware.
The Virgin Galactic spaceport sending the mega rich into space
> But it doesn't seem like top pro athletes and olympians procrastinate.

I don't think you can become a top pro athlete or olympian if you're not the fraction of a fraction of the world's population with immense intrinsic motivation, passion, ambition, and drive -- so this seems like survivorship bias.
Paranoid and Madcap, the Manchurian Candidate Is Our Timeliest Novel
> Skill levels are widely varied at the higher levels. Collective bargaining means, valuing them about the same (a common agreement means the same outcome for all?)

The middle-ground could be guilds like SAG/ACTRA: base requirements for working conditions and benefits, but clauses for independent compensation (but perhaps with a floor).

Tom Cruise and the guy playing Taxi Driver #2 are both card carrying members, but it doesn't stop Cruise from making more given that he's less replaceable than John Smith.
"This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits."

So 51% of corporate profits are reserved for the employee bonus pool? And all employees are eligible for said bonuses?

It's not hard to come up with examples of where this fails. Don't give me aspirational pie in the sky. Give me operational policy.
My point is that it's about shaming people for things that are harmless, but socially frowned upon. The specific category of thing doesn't matter. If you love Magic: The Gathering, you're a nerd; if you love pumpkin spice lattes, you're basic. You shouldn't take either one seriously, or listen to people who use them as unironic insults.
Primarily any language that can produce executable binaries. Preferably statically linked binaries so that you can ship a unit that will not depend on the state of the system you try to run things on.

(With disk and memory sizes, dynamically linked binaries aren't really as relevant anymore since the often trivial cost of size more than makes up for the nontrivial cost of having to fiddle around to make things actually work)
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The first two links are what happens when we decide to spread false news and give voice to conspiracy theories:

Accused is different from charged. Even if the person saying it is the head of the fireman fighting the fire. It is not the police job (nor the fireman) to determine who is responsible for a crime. We have courts for that. In Portugal people get preemptively arrested when there is risk of escape among other things. This might have been the case. No mention is made on said person being charged with anything.

As can be read on one of the articles:
“The suspect’s actions put people’s lives, houses and the forest at risk,” the police said, without explicitly saying that the detained man was responsible for the ongoing wildfire.

I am not saying that there are no bad agents at play. I am just pointing out that the public uproar against "fire mafias" and fire starters is so big that it reaches fire chiefs and police officers. It then gets out on the news which propagates it further, just like an avalanche ball.

That said:

Now is my time for a conspiracy theory.

The recent past (cambrige analytica et al) has taught us that most of our rage reactions are being manipulated and abused by higher interests. In this case who might be the big player influencing public opinion through news and propaganda that focus on supposed fire-starters and "fire mafias" ? (cof E cof D cof P)

:)
If it's anything like non-critical software, then I'd say the middle layer between developers and users. That is, the sales and management teams on both customer and producer sides. There are many reasons this middle layer might appear and cause problems - lack of trust in developers, need to "protect" company "secrets", software's main utility is checking some boxes on some contract and not actually being useful, etc. But almost everywhere I look this happens.
Depending on the bird this is often the recommended practice.
There is always the risk that they won't like each other.

Or that they will like each other too much, and thereby no longer have any need for the human interaction.
If you have Pocket, you can add the article and then immediately read it in Pocket.
Both of these interview questions sound awful though. Are we supposed to think company 2 sounds like a good, high profile ‘product engineer’ job, rather than an indication that you will be expected to fulfill about five radically different different job roles (engineer, interviewer, project manager, mentor, customer manager, etc)?
...it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Public corporations are not going to stop being paperclip maximizers until we legally and economically force them to stop. This is absolutely nothing but an attempt to divert public anger away from any new regulation that would force companies to deliver more value to society and less to shareholders. Sadly, no different than greenwashing.
Let's hope it doesn't preempt real reform: giving employees and other stakeholders board seats.
Public transport, the London "bubble" which people get trapped in, drinking culture which I don't like, high income / high expenditure lifestyle.
That's what I get for publishing late at night. Fixed, thanks!
If someone is sick enough that a "quarter second" matters, there's zero chance the tablet is out in the first place. In reality if a quarter second is enough to kill someone, they're gonna die anyway...
Regarding your note on people in rural areas:

Many of our ground-based missile silos are "in rural areas" - a good portion of the midwest would be reduced to a no-go zone for a long time.
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I agree. A few years ago, I powered up some old 166 MHz Windows 95 PC and was surprised how fast it was (certainly not on all tasks, but in general).
These sorts of statements always scare me a bit. First, businesses are still required to give maximum benefit to shareholders.

Second, even if this was the goal of a business, it then leaves it up to businesses(boards?, CEOs?) to define things like "ethically", "important benefits", "diversity" etc. These aren't things you could get all people to agree on in the first place- hence the whole democracy thing we do. A lot easier to make these statements then turn them into policies.

Let businesses do what they do best - give them a set of constraints (laws) and let them maximize value. If they do "good" things as well, great, if not, fine. If we don't like the outcomes (environmental damage, inequality) change the rules to change the value equation.
Interesting enough I actually agree in principle with arsenico and ken. The debug button example is a weird corner case. On pretty much every smart phone you click a green call button to make a call and click a red disconnect button to disconnect. The debug button is consistent with other toggle buttons while being the reverse of a common convention. It may have been less confusing if it was a grayed out phone when off and green when connected.

UI is hard indeed.
Unions are no more or less corrupt than any organization of humans (the businesses they work inside of especially).
But this is why we lean towards a lot of freedom in society.
Fringe academic theory is being generous. This is more someone watched that ten minute cartoon YouTube video on "how centralized banks really work" and now think they're economic experts.
What's to stop a question?

That depends on how you write your contract.

FOB or CIF? CFR perhaps. And what plates? Trade finance? Company finance? LOC? Volume of plates, consistency, mass, packing material, details on delivery?

Trade shipping contracts do go into 50 pages for a reason.
Former, or that's some impressive time travel knowledge.
The book is REALLY for a certain kind of person who has a deep seated fear of success that they don't really understand.

If you have ever written 3/4's of a novel that you all of a sudden couldn't finish, or always abandon projects just as you are about to be able to reap the rewards, the book is for you.

I'm hoping the book wasn't for you, because fear of success isn't really a problem for in your life.
The point here is not to optimize prematurely, the point is to make responsiveness a design requirement, because it is. You haven't even built it in the first place if it takes more that 100ms to provide any visible feedback to a user input, and you can't even start optimizing until you're already meeting requirements. Once you meet requirements, then by all means pick and choose your optimization battles carefully.

To me it seems like Knuth's comment is taken out of context more often than not. He wasn't trying to give people a free pass to make things as slow as possible and ignore system performance. He was assuming that you're making reasonable choices, and not doing overtly stupid things like running the inner loop of your screen drawing in Python, just because it's easy. People always seem to forget the 2nd sentence of the premature optimization quote too: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
Why does a product engineer go toward dinosaur tech? Moreover, what does that have to do with anything?
My plan would be to teach all the parrots to converse in English, just like Alex [1]. Then people would arrive lost at the island and the parrots could give them directions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_%28parrot%29
Excellent article, have one question, besides economics, the main reason a country can produce cheaply is dependent on highly productive labour, non union structure and friendly labor laws for industries. This is one of the reason besides Japan, Korea, Germany and China other countries did not fair that well. How do economist put value to this intangible forms?

Every country manipulate currency to some extent including USA. So why not revamp the system completely.
"Literally every". I don't think it's fair to tar every business owner and executive with this brush. Yes, there's unethical people, and it's way too common in this business environment. But there's also plenty of businesses that do their very best to treat customers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders with respect and fairness.
The one and only comment on that article says a lot:

> Top accounting and other professional services doing business in Hong Kong cannot operate, bid and win any business employing people that have criminal records for perpetrating violent rioting and committing terrorism.

> Besides, why would top professional services companies even want to hire an employee that is easily brainwashed to be a Useful Idiot ?

For the time being, the big 4 are free to do what they like. The same does not apply to globaltimes.cn and their moderators.
I'm talking the disparities between 'senior workers'. Putting them all in one hat is exactly the issue. I negotiate my own rate now, and its pretty good.
Tesla considers having a single Supercharger stations as comprehensive? My city has one. A city of 300K + people. We have over 100 gas stations. Superchargers are a nice premium during the early adoption period but as the number of owners rise, its utility drops. Unless Tesla plans on increasing the number of stations by a magnitude, it won't be more than PR.
There’s always next time!
> other servers e.g. caddy and apache were worse or even impossible to configure to the same point.

Hm? What about TLS is difficult with Caddy?
>The meaning of a lot of human languages or alphabets is completely lost even if they were conceived by humans almost identical to us biologically. Hoping to understand alien languages without the aliens helping us is a pipe dream.

There has been limited success with parts of Voynich Manuscript (some plants names?) and some interesting developments with rongorongo, but overall, yes, super hard. Hopeflly, Natural Language Processing might help, some promising results were reported for Linear B.
(https://neurohive.io/en/news/researchers-use-machine-learnin...)
> My only question with unions is: what checks and balances will be in place this time around to prevent unions from:

What checks and balances are in place to stop corporate entities that happen to not be unions from screwing their workers, screwing their employees, and screwing their community?

In a world of regulatory capture, pretty much the only weapon anybody else has is "we'll turn off your money spigot," yeah?
A company that held ALL its cash in a back account would be failing its share holders.

I think maybe you misunderstand what "fiduciary duty" means here.
Something the article doesn't mention is that there are older SD readers with firmware limitations that drop their size limit even below the 2GB SD standard. An example of this is the reader built into the TC1100 tablet pc, which is limited to cards 1GB in size or less.
>I can ask you in turn: What checks and balanges are in place to prevent businesses from:

A business is trying to make money. The first 2 out of the 4 points directly harm their profit motive, the 3rd and 4th are what companies should be doing (it's not great, but it fits their profit motive).
It's free , just takes time. People value their time at different rates.