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> Marking the temporary files as FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY could improve things, without having to go into significant Windows kernel changes.

Having used Cygwin and MinGW (and less so WSL) NTFS is probably the main factor here. Especially when using Cygwin program compilation is very slow not just due to process creation but file access, potentially on disk.

I could see checkpointing contributing, but having used backups/file history on Windows server, you will see CPU use irregularities that I think are similar in cause to this but you do not see CPU use irregularities as bad as described in the article.

The pathological behavior of NTFS with many files is easy to prove once you encounter it.[0] This would be exposed to the kernel as well and is likely holding up NtfsCheckpointVolume. At least in my experience the problem goes deeper, and how NTFS structures are handled also contributes; for example, trying to enumerate and copy files in certain ways is extremely slow even if the files are easily enumerable.

You can say that if disabling checkpointing gets rid of noticeable slowdown it is the right thing to do, but there are people who will rightly not want to disable it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/197162/ntfs-performance-...
Awww man...for several years now, maybe a decade now, I've been saying to myself that living in the U.S. sucks...and here's one more reason. </sigh>
> Amazon is responsible for the firms it hires to run its operations, and the rules and standards it requires them to meet.

I don't disagree that Amazon has some responsibility here, but within reason. No evidence has been presented that Amazon has been neglectful. Accidents happen even in the safest of environments, but you also can't expect Amazon (or any other company) hiring a contractor to supervise them 100% of the time. It can't work that way.

> If Amazon contractors are chronically negligent, then Amazon is negligent.

Again, there is no known indicator that Amazon was being negligent in these cases, otherwise that would've been put forth. Whether or not such indicators will turn up during investigation, Amazon is already on that list. That's plain dishonesty.
I disagree. Git is complex solution to a complex problem (collaborative code management), so it's understandable there are complexities in mastering Git. However the UI of Git just doesn't make sense in some area's, especially to a newcomer. For a lot of people it's enough to understand the basic concepts with commands that make sense. But as it is right now the UI turns this in to hard to remember concepts and command arguments that belong more in a trivia quiz than a user guide. Also see: https://gitless.com/#research
Blizzard needs some OG leadership to come in and fix their situation. I hate seeing my childhood get ruined.
Well the two aren't mutually exclusive any more than other personal traits. A guy in a wheelchair can still be an asshole. The big sign for any sort of social ineptness is remorse if they find out they accidentally hurt someone.
Although that definition may also be somewhat values influenced. Asian people are often stereotyped as rude for instance because of different standards. A grocer just silently bagging your goods and only speaking the bare minimum might be considered rude but for them it is the norm.
Aspie/ADD affected people often times accuse others, through technical language, how someone's feelings aren't important.

Yes, it is unscientific. It's my own personal experience that Aspie/ADD people often can't understand how much pain they can cause other people.
Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
Well, you're funneling your traffic through a single entity in almost all cases, right? So I view it more as, who do I distrust more? My ISP or a VPN?

I don't use a VPN provider, but it's tempting as I don't trust my ISP at all.
> One thing that irks me is how much tech thinks the world revolves around tech. It doesn't.

Very true. Sometimes that thought becomes a barrier.
If we're offering recommendations, then I'll go ahead and recommend Mullvad. They've got great clients for most common operating systems, good customer support, good performance, lots of servers to choose from, the ability to open ports, etc.

Something I find pretty neat about them from a technical standpoint is their account creation, user authentication, and payment processes. Sign-up literally takes less than a second, so even if you don't plan on using their service, I recommend you try creating an account.
DNS-over-HTTPS Is the Wrong Partial Solution
"I have the exact same feeling/thoughts. They spend a few decades not sharing any of the oil profits ..."

This is a very simplistic (and incorrect) view of the economic relationship between the United States and S.A.

First, the majority of Saudi oil is sold to Europe and Asia (not the United States) but it has always been denominated in US dollars - regardless of the purchaser. This enormous demand for US dollars in global trade that need not be related to the US at all has been to our great favor.

Second, a tremendous amount of the US dollar surplus that SA generates is immediately recycled back into the hands of US industry - specifically, military industry. SA is a ready buyer of whatever new technologies our military industrial complex produces and we are paid a great sum of money for this military partnership.

You personally may not be sharing in the profits but a tremendous economic benefit is realized by the United States and her technical and military industries.
During the holidays a few years back, I ordered 3 things from amazon in early December. I received all 3 items and a fourth bonus package which was a literally a thick piece of cardboard with a label. To this day have no idea how that happened.
This is troublesome.

I was planning to eke out $85/ annum and go for NordVPN, but now even this is unreliable
Let's build something like Coinbase Charts for climate models. Interactive, select different variables and even studies.

Here's an iPhone app version:
https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/climate-pathways/
>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.

I mean, what else is there left to kill us?
The best thing NordVPN can do right now is make a statement that clearly and honestly describes how its users are affected. No bullshit marketing language, no trying to hide facts, just a short and simple explanation of what this means for users and what they should do next.
>>>Citations needed

Women in the infantry -- The Effect on the Moral Domain.[1]
Covers a lot of ground, with pro/con data points across multiple nations and several decades.

[2] Is about the Navy's struggle with the costs and effectiveness impacts of pregnancies.

Can gender-integrated work forces produce (whatever the metric is for "productivity" in a particular domain). Yes. Will management/leadership responsibilities be inherently more complicated? Yes. Does gender diversity inherently guarantee an objectively superior output? No. I think that
it is domain/problem-set specific. Human intelligence (HUMINT)[3] and civ-mil ops[4] absolutely benefit from female integration in order to fully access 50% of the population. Especially important in a counter-insurgency context.

[1]https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a262478.pdf

[2]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/12/pregnant-na...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence_(intelligen...

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil-military_operations
My quality of sleep is much better with cell and wifi off. I live rural so there's less external sources too. It's significant enough that I turn it off every night as a habit. My issues with insomnia started back in 2000 when I first brought work into my small apartment.
Maybe, possibly, but does this potential mechanism have any impact on our huge, complex, self-righting bodies, that every hour successfully defend from onslaught of scores of adversarial microorganisms and their chemical warfare targeted at us and each other and environmental factors like background ionizing radiation and completely natural toxins that we breath in and choose to ingest and our bodies own complexity that leads to many. many errors in functioning that are roughly corrected and worked around on the fly to keep us alive not for hours, which would be a feat in itself, but for decades.
This is describing cliffs of ice on land, like the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The worry this paper is investigating is whether those could rapidly collapse ones the sea ice that protects it calves off.
I grew up being taught to view elders as wise and thoughtful people who should be respected above all others. However my experience with most people over, say, 85 has been highly entitled, highly incapable, easily manipulated, and uninterested in doing anything but watching tv. Now of course, I recognize there are many old people who do not fit that mold. I also personally know plenty who are active and engaged.

But I also cannot think of anyone who fits that image of a sagacious, wise elder. Nor, upon reflection, do I think anyone I know, myself included, is likely to be that person when old.

I totally buy that wisdom accumulated in years 0-60. I feel it will on average hold or drop thereonafter
Gas Price and Fee Volatility in Blockchains
> How much time needs to pass before the British aren’t blamed for the Middle East’s problems?

As long the English insist on sticking their noise -- and soldiers and arms and spooks -- in that area's business I would think.
Do some research there are plenty of black fraternities at any major university in the US.
The article you are replying to is an example that you are incorrect.
The chinese market is not dominant and won’t be for quite a long time, if ever. The West (i.e. Five Eyes + EU) collectively has a far larger GDP and much more of it is in the form of consumer disposable income.

What China represents that’s so attractive to multinationals is a virtually untapped market and so enormous opportunity for growth. But if it came down to picking one or the other the smart move would be the west.
I think you're taking this a bit literal. It's a story. I can't imagine an individual medical student actually talking to an attending physician like this. More likely based on observations of his students and residents in general.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722414.Computer_Lib_Drea... by Ted Nelson :)
This is always topical: Don't use VPN Services

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
> However, the key couldn’t possibly have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic of any other server. On the same note, the only possible way to abuse website traffic was by performing a personalized and complicated MiTM attack to intercept a single connection that tried to access nordvpn.com.

However crt.sh shows

> Validity
> Not Before: Oct 6 12:53:38 2015 GMT
> Not After : Oct 6 12:53:38 2018 GMT

What exactly were these keys for if they were only usable in such a manner according to nord?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311475
This paradigm isn't exclusive to tech. You have wage stagnation and asinine promotion/incentive policies to thank for it.
Documentation that bears reading is surprisingly hard to do well, so chances are you'll either find me a skimmer or I won't read it at all.
> The attacker gained access to the server — which had been active for about a month — by exploiting an insecure remote management system left by the datacenter provider, which NordVPN said it was unaware that such a system existed.

This screams for clarification and I'd love for someone more knowledgeable in the area to elaborate on it. Is this common practice for data-center providers? Do I now not only have to worry about my own infrastructure security but also worry that my IaaS provider hasn't installed some backdoor to my servers?
The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms
I work in oil and gas and it’s widely considered that with or without the IPO that Saudi is screwed. Huge unemployed population (higher than official stats, of course),reliance on oil demand that will be diminished in 20-30 years and severely declined in 100, a huge welfare program to keep the unemployed folks happy that keeps their budget balanced at $80 oil prices (prices are at $50-$55 now and will probably stay there for a long time barring any very serious political events or Elizabeth Warren banning fracking). To top it off they literally have a ruling family that decides everything.
I have seen worse, in the escape room industry, some even use the name of the competitor in the title. I'm pretty sure they were able to get them down the few times I saw it happens, but it was certainly not quick nor easy.
If it's not too much to ask, I would add on here that I'd like to see your Hugo setup. I've been learning it recently but the examples I find are all rather simple. Just seeing what you've done gives me some ideas of how you did it, and I'll work on figuring it out - but information on how you organize things before hugo generates the site would be greatly appreciated.
People like to claim this forum is more intelligent than most others. I like to point them to comments like this as counterexample.
This is why you should generally:

1) Review all negative ratings prior to a purchase

2) Refuse to buy anything that's less then 4/5 stars.
I would like to take this chance to mention the excellent https://github.com/rust-console/gba crate, which is a very useful zero-cost Rust abstraction layer you can use instead of the C compiler in the devkitPro GBA toolchain (and would be especially good for programming systems things like emulators, for the GBA.)

If you have some low-level C knowledge, but have never seen bare-metal programming done in Rust, it’s really quite a difference in approach; despite your statements compiling down to banging physical memory pointers and MMIO registers together, it feels quite safe—with a proper library helping you out, it becomes quite hard to put the system into a wedged state, for no runtime cost. You can’t even put bitflag registers into invalid states!
I suppose I get that. However, allowing the established player as an easy fallback when you're the underdog usually helps adoption rather than hurting it.

Look at Mac sales after Intel/BootCamp/Parallels. VirtualPC existed before but it wasn't easy or fast. When it became almost seamless to fall back to Windows when necessary, more people were willing to take the leap.
Microwaves are around 2.4G yet they can pump a lot of energy into water, and that can be an unintended side effect with WiFi.

Of course that's one thing that we know about, we can reason about, and that's why people are not getting boiled.
>You could just as easily say that space colonization is the highest form of humanitarianism.

"Greed" and humanitarianism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they can be mutually compatible, depending on what your definition of "greed" is.

From an economic point of view, humanitarianism can serve the economic "greed" of the rich that's often decried. This is because both of these can be rooted in the realisation that humans have intrinsic economic value, so that the loss of a human life represents a loss of a lifetime of economic value to society.

In the case of Bezos, it's quite clear from the article that his humanitarianism is intrinsically linked to his "greed":

>When Bezos describes these colonies—and presents artists’ renderings of them—he sounds almost rapturous. “This is Maui on its best day, all year long. No rain, no storms, no earthquakes.” Since the colonies would allow the human population to grow without any earthly constraints, the species would flourish like never before: “We can have a trillion humans in the solar system, which means we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. This would be an incredible civilization.”

"We can have a trillion humans [...] This would be an incredible civilization." Sounds familiar? This is essentially the siren song of the Chinese market, magnified a thousandfold.
Im using PIA for 2 years now - pretty happy with the service.
> Because I assume a warehouse doesn't keep a separate shelf spot for each separate delivery of a unique expiration date?

Actually, that's pretty much what we do.

If the goods arrive from the supplier as a whole pallet of a single product, every item on the pallet will have the same expiry date, and you track each pallet separately.

If the goods arrive on a pallet with a variety of products on it, you split it up by product then do exactly the same thing.

The warehouse management system knows where each pallet is, and what its expiry date is. If a pallet has expired, workers picking items are sent to to non-expired pallets instead, and someone working on 'purge' is sent to remove the expired goods for donation/recycling/discarding as appropriate.

You need a system like this if you want any chance of selling things like bread, because gaining or losing one or two days of product life makes the difference between a customer who'll shop again and one who won't.
You are disagreeing, but also agreeing with me. My point is that weird biblical cults believed disaster is 'right around the corner' and when the disaster didn't happen at the appointed time, people kept believing it was 'right around the corner'. Global cooling has been debunked, but at the time it was something people thought was real and had a veneer of sciencism attached to it which enhanced it's credibility.

My point is that I have yet to see an academic model of climate change that under predicted the actual warming (or sea rise) that has subsequently been measured. You can interpret that in lots of ways, but what you can't deny is that if every model is over estimating, there is a clear systemic bias.
The studies that look at calcium voltage channel activation in cells are easily replicated and point to biological effects.
When it comes to Buttigieg, though, I don't see how anyone can win the Democratic nomination without African-American support, and Buttigieg basically has none (IMO a result of the racial issues in his hometown, and the fact that African-Americans at large have shown much more reticence to supporting gay candidates and issues): https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/can-mayor-petes-cash-pil...
they can induce currents in the DNA

By what mechanism (and it's likely not limited to DNA then)?
The comment you are responding to is highlighting the ridiculousness of the comment above it.

However, everything you wrote does apply to the level-up comment.
Speaking of misleading on purpose, you're using that a very small portion of his argument is probably inaccurate as strong evidence that the entire argument is wholly incorrect.

It's as though someone just finished explaining why vaccines are believed not to cause autism, and you respond "actually, this particular study you cited surveyed 924 people, not a thousand like you said. Looks like the pro-vax cult can't seem to stop lying!"
and also wrapping widgets in custom elements when that's appropriate. https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/custom_elements.html
Hardly a unique thing. Last WG fest got 200k attendees, for example.

https://eng.belta.by/society/view/wargaming-fest-tanker-day-...
Sounds like an iDRAC exploit (assuming Dell servers).

But, yes, remote management is pretty common in datacenters. The fact that NordVPN wasn't aware of them just shows incompetence.
Or at least assume they know something you don't.
Should be ok, after all they dont keep any logs right ?
Sure, but even now the analogy is not great because the melting part has nothing to do with it.

In other words, if you drop an ice cube into a cup of water, it will either immediately overflow or it will never overflow. The melting part has nothing to do with whether it will overflow. If the snow on the roof melts -> the cup overflows

I think a better analogy is a cup sitting at the drain pipe of a rain gutter and the roof is covered with snow.
> Don't the icebergs already displace as much water as they would contribute?

Yes, this is Archimedes' principle. However, large icebergs have a gravitational influence on nearby water. Effectively, large icebergs attract water meaning the local sea level rises and elsewhere on the planet the sea level becomes lower. When the iceberg melts, this gravitational pull disappears and the melt water is spread more evenly across the surface of the Earth. The sea level across the rest of the world thus slightly increases.

Modeling this effect is quite complex, but the above is a summary of the effect of melting (large) icebergs.
They mean IPMI. All servers have IPMI and there’s remote root exploits against many versions of them.
That's it in a nutshell.
The arrangement where they sell goods on the open market and we buy them?
Do you remember this from about a decade ago?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Louis_Vuitton
Recently I found out Balsa (https://github.com/balsa-team/balsa) - which looks promising since it has a WYSIWYG editor with comments, plus can be deployed on premises.
Have they ever, ever made a prediction that didn't over estimate the subsequent measured values of temperature or sea level rise?
Maybe. Hearthstone has been on a downward trend for the last 1.75 years as evident by their quarterly reports over that time period which state the game has had a decline of active users and revenue. They’ve even started to monetize previously non-monetized product offerings but it didn’t result in the game out-earning previous expansions released in the same time of the year. I doubt the current scandal has helped the numbers recover.
Except this isn't their fault because their infrastructure provider messed up and didn't even disclose this possible backdoor. If anyone the provider should be named and shamed, not NVPN.
Once a provider in a non-US country targeted with these wiretaps is identified by the country not told about them, then likely they will be subject to criminal penalties based on the non-US countries' legal system. Imagine a US court demanding a wiretap in China.
I agree that there are all kinds of people that act this way. But in my experience, aspies seem to have less ability to self reflect or alter behavior. Or more fundamentally admit they have anything to reflect on or alter. The very starting point of conflict resolution therefore is muted.
If they're going with a bottom-dollar host, it's possible that the out-of-band server management tools were exposed. It's less likely to be a software backdoor, and more likely to be Supermicro IPMI or other baseboard management controller.
Yes. Dedicated servers generally have IPMI / ILO / IDRAC / whatever. It's the only way to scale out management of hosts and provisioning.
After reading their blog post about it [ https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach... ], I'm not as concerned.

A compromise is a compromise, don't get me wrong, but it can happen to absolutely anyone. If you're paying ~$5/month for anonymous browsing with unlimited bandwidth, then you're probably not getting top tier security researchers running your servers.
>Funneling all your Internet access through a single entity no matter where you connect from just seems like a fundamentally bad idea to me,

You're already doing that with DNS servers. At least VPN providers make the claim that they'll protect you.
When I saw the headline I thought that this might have to do with digital security, and I was both interested, and confused as to how 5G had anything to do with digital security. I'm disappointed to see that in reality it's just this tired old debate again. Low-power non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation is not dangerous to biological beings.