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It's inherently impossible to communicate advanced scientific research results in a quick, meaningful way to a layperson.

By definition a layperson doesn't understand any scientific field in depth.

Since they don't, they do not have the tools to truly understand anything in the field's research - you need to understand the field's current state to understand what's going on in the latest research.

Ever tried to explain something highly technical to non-technical management? That's another instance of this problem.

They're both special cases of the general problem that only experts can really understand and appreciate great work in their field, and that a very fortunate person might get to be an expert in four or maybe five fields before they die.
I’d have a chuckle if you weren't assuming that about my venture

No bitcoin involved
The smarter you are the more you understand the risks and choose safer paths.

Getting rich involves doing stupid things.. things that others would look at and think would fail but you do it anyways. So getting rich involves stubborness and fearlessness and the ability to detact from reality.
I use Trello. Being able to link between cards/papers is the selling point for me.
I would say Windows 3.1 -> Windows NT + Windows 95/98 -> Windows 2000.

The transformation from the sausage factory of the indestructible, but inflexible, NT and the fragile set of hacks which was 95 into 2000 environment was the real story in all this.

This combined with to migrating from Netbios and NT Domains to tcp/ip and active directory was really the basis for everything they've done in the 21st century. They did more in those 6 years than they've done in the 20 years since.
I remember last week's episode on Darknet Diaries where NordVPN was offering 3y plans for a hefty discount. My first reaction was "Are they going out of business ?"

This week's news lets me make sense of that ad.
A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases
Blizzard knows their core audience doesn't care anything about this stuff. Just a few angry people on the internet. Sure, they did some pandering to sucker more people into liking them, but they know who's paying the bills, and it's not the outrage mob.
I have not found this to be generally true. A PhD in physics confers zero ability to pick good romantic partners. They are entirely different domains of expertise.

The world is full of brilliant people who can't figure out how to handily resolve their personal issues.
There are a few decent case studies around this move, and I still find it fascinating. They can say they did it for their values, but immediate revenue loss for values doesn't happen all that often. If it were truly for values, I'd expect alcohol to be removed from shelves as well.

In the early 2000's, CVS started treating patients at their MinuteClinics in the pharmacy. It became directly comparable to an actual doctors office, where cigarettes haven't been sold since the 1950's.

Anecdotally, and ironically, most of the people that are aware CVS made this move are inconvenienced smokers. I'd expect a huge continued marketing campaign around this endeavor in the US, but it hasn't been as strong as many other less impressive campaigns.
>although most US hospitals are non-profit business entities. (This doesn't mean they don't make money, of course.)

Where I used to live...

https://www.wpr.org/data-shows-la-crosses-gundersen-hospital...

I always cringed when I heard them asking for donations for capital improvements to build their new hospital wing.
Indeed it is not true that all older engineers will cause this culture clash, but when it happens it’s dramatic and I think that’s what prompts cautiousness when hiring these individuals.

It’s an anecdote so take it with a grain of salt, but I’ve had an experience like this with at least a couple of former colleagues on the higher end of the team’s age distribution — they were great people, but none of the younger team members knew how to relate with them which made day to day interactions a lot more awkward than they would have been otherwise.

Of course, it could be argued that the awkwardness could’ve been avoided had the company started off with a wider age range, but then you run into the issue of attracting older candidates, which can be difficult given the volatility and reduced concrete compensation associated with early stage startups.
Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman's Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by is another classic text
Quite cool :)

I have my trusty old USR Courier and USR Sportster 14400 in a box. But I'm a bit more tempted to try and get pcboard running again using some of this setup. I don't have a landline in my house, only fiber so the asterisk option would be the way to go.

I also have disk images of my ms dos 6.22 floppies and PCBoard 15.22. I also have desqview for multinodes but I remember it was a PITA to get it running.

Now I just need an old 486 that is still running, my oldest running machine has dual pentium pro cpus and it doesn't behave all that nice with ms dos.
Every social change experiences a backlash. MeToo is one example
Also reducing friction in getting products to market. A small team with their own BigCloud account is probably going to deliver a product to market much faster than one that needs to go through the friction of dealing with the various IT departments which invariably exist at large companies.

There is absolutely value to delivering a product to market a year or more sooner than otherwise.
I agree with an event driven supervisor daemon architecture, and that shell scripts are inefficient.

But writing everything in C in non-scriptable way may be a bit of over-reaction to the old ways of having everything scripted in the least efficient way possible.

I also write my init systems in C (not for generic Linux distro, mostly for embedded HW/mobile use), but I'm planning to make it so that I have a program in C that offers some primitives and the core logic will be implemented using an embedded JS engine, so that it's scriptable and fixable without re-compilation.
I'm frankly blown away that the comments I'm seeing here don't suggest to just roll your own.

$5/mo is the typical price nowadays for a 1 GB VPS with 1TB upload. Cancel at any time. Save image, redeploy monthly/weekly/daily to protect from longer term IP address tracking. Use scheme of your choice (e.g., SOCKS proxy, VPN, standard HTTP port for everything, etc.)
Poettering used alloca() as a poor man's garbage collector. Proper manual memory management is just "too hard". Other lingering code quality issues surely remain when the primary author is taking these sort of shortcuts and not considering how to write robust C.
Why macOS Catalina is not Apple's finest moment
Who you are is a result of genetics and environment which can be referred to as "luck" since presumably you didn't choose to be born to your parents.

So, while I think that personal responsibility is a valuable perspective, I do think that ultimately what you describe boils down to "luck".
>If you're in the US,

not just US location or even US services .. it's hard to be secure when we know that the US gov is reading and storing everythign they can.

In comparison -- the EU is not. The EU has the opposite approach and takes data privacy very seriously. This is backed up with effective legislation.
>"don't talk about divisive things using our tournaments and communication channels."

Turn off the mic and switch cameras.

They responded with one year suspension and clawback of winnings.
Two days ago I deleted my old Digital Ocean VPN (built using the OpenVPN tutorial I found somewhere), then opted for a discounted 3-year NordVPN plan. Looks like I'm going to have to ask for a refund. facepalm.
You can’t choose your luck, but your originating genes aka parents did...more reason why there should be a checklist for responsible procreation.

Having children without a plan puts ones own copies of genes at risk. As is not having the resource to raise them well. It’s self sabotage..as it were..by two people who decided to combine their genetic material and their immediate circle of friends, family and acquaintances who enable their sub optimal decision. Society and media should be ignored anyways while making important decisions.
So far it seems a less problematic release than Mojave.
I’m suggesting it’s stupid to think you’ve learned nothing but false truths from advice.

Edit: but for what it’s worth even in this stupid example. To learn from experience that you must look both ways does imply you suffered the consequence of not knowing it beforehand. Be that being hit or coming close. Pedantic w/e
Well-said. Hopefully this gets upvoted further.

I'm a sysadmin and not a programmer

SystemD is amazing on my laptop, I am really happy with it. But for my servers I am very unhappy with it

I think this is what it comes down to. The end-user experience is pretty good, just like the end-user experience for MacOS and even Windows nowadays is pretty good. But that also means you could replace Systemd with a similar system built on similar concepts, and the end-user experience would still be pretty good.
I think it's often underestimated just how many people don't care and are just focused on doing their job and feeding their kids. They might passively agree or disagree with something but acting on it is a whole different matter. Walmart's still bustling.
At this rate Blizzard will move Blizzcon to China
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
Your ability to get back on track is hugely determined by your circumstances. If you're the child of a wealthy white family, you probably have the connections to get a decent job even with some gaps on your resume and a couple of drug convictions. If you're a poor black kid? Forget about it. Recovering from a mental health crisis is vastly easier if you have the financial resources and the family support to avoid homelessness and access prompt and effective treatment.

Wealth and privilege buy you (and your children) a lot of safety nets and a lot of second chances. People without those advantages are often in an incredibly precarious situation, just one tough break or one bad decision away from total ruin.
> Florian Bruhin (aka The Compiler)

Hi! :)
In my opinion, a company can save money on a cloud if it has these things:

- Access to cheap real estate

- Access to enough human capital, especially a team of 80+ to operate all aspects of a cloud: hardware, switches, openstack / kubernetes

- Requires scale of 20k+ servers = 320k+ VMs and a strong inclination to not host on AWS/Azure/Others.

- Lease to servers costing about $250 / server / mo. With AMD, you could go half of that, with VMs costing $10 a month. Add network costs of $15 / 2 ports / server / month.
No, that's a different web. I live in the "google bullying" web between my combination of using Firefox + uMatrix on desktop, Brave on Android, and DuckDuckGo as my search engine. Google gets very little of my desktop info and fragmentary mobile use only. I do a few extra CAPTCHAs but it's not too bad.

The "I think you're a bad actor" web is much worse. Ask Tor users.
Yes, I agree. But when the situation is at abuse acceptance level, then we are beyond that. I brought entitlement because absent that, it is possible to directly say to aspie that this or that crosses the line. We are not talking about making him not awkward, just not abusive.

At that point not just aspie failed to listen, but also neurotypical people around failed to protect whoever is victim of that abuse and set proper boundaries.

At the abuse level, improvement should not be dependent at the self reflection of the one doing the abuse.
"And I thought you would be dead by now. How have you survived for so long?"
Dude, sincerely, thank you. I feel like this is the sane answer I was waiting for. Cheers! (and for your other comment in re: what all Instagram does. I appreciate it.)

You're totally right.
China probably didn't force them directly. That's the thing about authoritarianism. You learn what you think the government wants, and you enforce it on yourself, potentially going above and beyond what they'd ever even think of demanding upon you. You stop being willing to say things that are critical of the central government out loud, and eventually you even stop THINKING things that are critical of the central government through practice.
It’s not current speed that matters but acceleration and max speed
Of course they are. And if everyone wants to protest them because of that, so be it.

This is the thing about the whole "free speech" or "private platform, private rules" debate. You can absolutely do whatever you want, and the entire rest of the world is able to react in whatever way they want. You're allowed to think they're entitled to have a platform they moderate. Other people are allowed to freak the fuck out about the moderation or the behaviors that lead to moderation, or whatever.

This is just a pet peeve discussion point of mine as it feels less about the topic and is often used to just dismiss the discussion outright. "They're allowed to do whatever they want, so please be quiet and sit down" type of thing (not saying you're doing that here).

TL;dr- everything is political to someone, so and common sense is almost always cultural.
Yes and no.

Disabling javascript is like wearing a ski mask in a crowded mall.

It makes you much more obvious and easier to track, but harder to identify on the outset.
Why would the public sector do better?
Sort of like the HomeKit pairing requirements...
Ok let's see. Please can you convert this Vue code into Elm code?

https://pastebin.com/trFAuJ7T

Good luck!
> fintech

I had to look up what this brand new slang term meant.

fintech = "financial technology".

Linguistic evolution -- be it wanted, needed, or not.
The Substrate to Bind Datacenter Switching and Routing
I think in this context it relates to the overheads of provisioning new services.

Traditional virtualized hosting environments typically also come with varying levels of technical overheads when setting up new boxes.

What bofa have is a virtually self-service (some business approvals needed) user interface with the ability for devs to set up new virtual servers with little/no knowledge of the underlying hosting infrastructure.
RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
Because of the capital and talent required to build a competitive offering. Even large companies like IBM and Oracle have failed to keep up.

The big 3 clouds have built a nice moat and can charge whatever they want. They still compete on prices but it's clear they're colluding on network fees at least.
> I wanted to delete my SC2 account then realize that boycotting a free to play game makes little sense.

I think it does make sense to boycott a F2P game: I'm sure active players is a metric they track closely.

Do they have any way to file support tickets? Maybe you could submit one (or several) expressing your dissatisfaction with their actions. Escalate it as high as you can. If enough people do that, I bet it'll get on their executives' radar due to the noise.

> Instead I changed my name for "FreedomForHK". I saw another player with a similar name on Asian servers (FreeHongKong). Received several praises for the name, even got someone give me a free victory because of it. Did not receive a single criticism.

This might feel good, but it's a win for Blizzard. They want you to play and you keep playing.

If you feel the way that you report, the only good reason I can think of for keeping an account around is to actively use it to encourage other players to take action, not just pat each other on the back. Say something like: "I'm going to delete my account in a week because of Blizzard's pro-authoritarian stance, but in the meantime I wanted to spread a message encouraging more players to do so."
I'm not really sure why this should be a surprise. Just as big companies use a mixture of owned and rented real estate for various reasons, the same is true of other large expenses. If you have a large, predictable, core workload it makes sense to bring it in house, and use the elastic (rented) resources for unpredictable stuff (e.g. new efforts).

It's not like Amazon doesn't know this too (e.g. they try to make the transition harder by offering lots of proprietary services that help you ramp up faster, but can't be used elsewhere)
Boycotts do nothing. Ranting at companies trying to do business in the world's biggest market does nothing.

A multilateral embargo and military action against China would do something useful. If you destroy the world's biggest market, foreign companies won't be tempted to do business there.
It's sometimes hard to gauge idiomaticity from poetry, though, because poets do so many unusual things for the sake of the meter.
This is quite interesting (I'm a biochemist and programmer as well), but I don't see any evidence that non-ionizing radiation could affect DNA repair pathways - that seems like a killer experiment that could (and should) be run to support or disprove this hypothesis. Induce some double strand breaks or DNA nicks, and look at how non-ionizing radiation affects repair rates
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Libertarians who talk about how the state just gets in the way of innovators like Gates forget how hard it is to start a business when the central government fails and people start hacking away at each other with machetes instead of programming computers.
> You don't choose your genes or where you are born. Those factors, which are blind luck, determine all of the other lucks for your whole life.

if you workout and are in the best shape your genes can provide, you will be more lucky when meeting people and more interesting people will be interested on you. That would be 3, not 1. And if you have a good conversation and go out every day, you will also have more chance of meeting interesting people. That would be 2.
Kinda. The usual rate is apparently 5 failed attempts before a successful one.

Survivorship bias is looking at only the successes and not the failures. All those self-help books about "the 25 things all successful entrepreneurs do" without acknowledging that thousands of unsuccessful entrepreneurs also do the exact same 25 things.

It's standing up on stage and saying "I worked really hard to get here, I deserve this", without acknowledging that other people are working just as hard but didn't get the same result.

Survivorship bias is not acknowledging that there is luck involved in success. That "meritocratic" blindness that divides the world into "winners" and "losers" and blames people for not being successful.
Cheers! Thank you.
I think you're right that you shouldn't learn from the "fundamental" books but there definitely are such a thing as fundamental books.

They are usually hugely influential in their times but have been refined or made easier to digest since. If you care deeply about your field you should read them at some point to see how ideas evolved historically.

English: Shakespeare

Biology: Darwin's Origin of Species

Math: Euclid's Elements

For OP's topic, I'd say Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is up there for computer science.
It's not just capital or talent. I have seen first hand non-tech executive decision makers pick a specific cloud provider because of the old adage "No one got fired for buying IBM". That momentum is incredibly hard to compete against. Google Cloud is fairly solid from a technology perspective, not to mention Google's deep pockets, and still has an uphill climb against MS and AWS.
...but they are also acumulating know how which they might be able to sell in decades to come. Even more if the scenario of mainframes, IBM software, Oracle databases,... will happen and sooner or later I believe it will. Currently cloud providers are operating on absolute minimum, to get as much customers as possible into their trap. And for sure, it is highly beneficial for startups that cant afford to buy on premise hardware, but this wont last forever. History has shown that immediately when you are vendor locked, you will be charged for your dependance. Even more if people beeing able to build on premise infrastructure are becoming rare beasts. I would be glad to see I am wrong but history proves it is best teacher.
If you are going to choose Socrates for philosophy and bible for Christianity, its inline for "The Art of Computer Programming" for Computer Science

There are much better resources for philosophy and Christianity, fundamental \neq best
Sorry I always forget UVB is not technically in the ionizing range, but "near ionizing" with enough energy to cause non thermal DNA damage.
Analogy: "Don't eat at restaurants if you want to control your food."

"If you for some reason cannot do that, here is a way to set up a food truck"
Anyone remember the global cooling scare?

Nope, and neither do you. It was mentioned a few times, found to be based on nothing (well, weak data, anyway), and all forgotten as quickly as it was brought up.

Or the nuclear war scare?

Umm, that was a real thing. In fact, thanks to declassification and determined digging, we find out years later that we were a lot closer than we were told.

Or the acid rain scare?

Another real thing, made suitable for history books by government regulation.

What's next? The "Y2K scare"? Go ahead, this crowd will especially love that one. Hmm, "heretic" you say? Not quite the word I'm looking for, frankly.

EDIT: Hey, wait a minute...</old man knowingly shaking finger>...you're one of those "youngsters", aren't you? All that shit happened 40 years ago before you were born, and you're just reading about it, aren't you? Well, you're reading from some sketchy sources, and you should cut it out.

Just a theory I cooked up trying to figure out how the fuck someone would think acid rain was a "scare". Hardy apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
We use teamemo(teamemo.com), a german based wiki-software at work.
this is what happens when you sue a company for something that was an acceptable risk. it now becomes unacceptable and this is the consequence.
Blizzard is not censoring based on an SJW framework.

Blizzard is trying to satisfy an authoritarian regime that they have gotten financially DEPENDENT on. These are not related.
x86/Split_lock: Request to Intel
Because a lot of paywalled content just merely creates the semblance of quality, which leads to less critical thinking amongst its readers. I think there should be exceptions, but paying for clickbait, in my opinion, is rewarding those who create it and incentivizes a lower quality of journalistic integrity.
Hmm, still it might make a good foundation for the sort of thing you're talking about, eh?

Cheers.
Not OP, but...the advent of cars over horse-drawn carriages involved a _lot_ of deaths before both pedestrians and drivers learned. There was also a lot of propaganda put out by car companies to change the popular conception of roadways from being a place where people walk and children play to being a place for cars. [1] So...it's actually pretty close to people needing to be told to look both ways.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
“We failed by contracting an unreliable server provider...”

They are casting blame on the provider. Providing remote access tools is not a fault. Failure by NordVPN to disable said access is the issue, yet they passed the blame on.
Success in life shouldn't be measured solely by someone's wealth. Not if you value happiness. Beyond a certain point wealth doesn't increase a person's happiness.

It is pathological to even consider sacrificing your happiness and compromising your life to chase higher and higher paying jobs.

Knowing when to settle and how to be content in life with what you have is a form of intelligence rarely praised.
> "Now, it's pared that down to 70,000 servers, of which 8,000 of those are handling the bulk of the load."

I wonder what the other 62000 servers are doing.
What issues do you run into?