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Isn't that driving against the lesson learned from the past though? 3rd party drivers can not be trusted to behave and hang the kernel when doing so with cooperative multitasking.
Most (99.9pc) Linux users get all their updates via their distro. Not saying you can't get a bad update, but Much less likely if you're a little patient.
My understanding is that you've now moved the monopolized case from 1 to N, where N is the number of cores. N is usually pretty small.

The laptop I'm writing this on has four cores, and the Chrome instance has 17 threads running...
What do you mean by functionally equivalent?

Channels are just queues and passing methods. Rust style futures are closer to continuations. Both are powerful and can accomplish neat taska, but not ABI compatible or even used the same way.
Just for anyone wondering why Radio 4 in particular - it’s the only BBC station we have on Longwave (198? kHz), so you get over-the-horizon service from a single tower. (which is why carries the shipping forecast, and why it’s of particular interest to submarines in the Atlantic too).

So using it as a “sign of civilization” (one of multiple) sounds quaint, but with a perfectly logical reason behind it.
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It’s not illegal under EU law, but illegal in some countries.
EU law has lots of restrictions however, the employer needs to be crystal clear and transparent about the monitoring. The situation OP describes, would not be legal.
I assume this is the issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator-associated_pneumoni...
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> They shouldn't be scraping personal information off screencaps

I agree, but so should the employee not be accessing any personal information on company screens.
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That's interesting. I had not heard that but that raises the question of where did those 40,000 medical professionals practice medicine? Where did China get all their ventilators and PPEs? Did they need them? Once this is all over I hope all the countries get together and compare notes and experiences so we're all better prepared for the next pandemic.
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If it's the same test I saw, it was at least 3 hours in the air; they stopped sampling at that point, as they were mostly measuring different surface persistence.
A happy accident I guess. I'll be sure to keep it that way in updates and upcoming versions, cheers.
Or, maybe because people go from clean to dirty areas.
I am not sure what Phil's overall kernel design is; you're assuming a monolithic kernel, but not every kernel has drivers in kernel space.
The public guidance on “airborne” vs “droplet” transmission is deeply harmful. Public health officials have too-narrowly defined the word “airborne”. In choosing jargon over plain language, they’ve misled the public.
I actually enjoy open office plans despite not liking group work/study.

I prefer being alone. I don't really see people other than my wife outside of work. Work is my only chance to socialize, which makes an open office plan ideal for me. It's very easy to start conversations with the people near me and have them turn into fun group discussions.

Once you give up on the idea of having long unbroken periods of productivity, the open office plan can be a lot of fun.
Given the panic-buy, I'm sure you're right about most people thinking this will keep people productive.

I've wanted something like this before, though, when I got some bad people on my team who weren't worth what they were getting paid and were sometimes a net negative on the team. We couldn't fire them because everything was at least somewhat subjective and HR and my own boss wanted a solid case. Oh they didn't get anything done? That's subjective - maybe the assigned tasks were harder than we thought. We need more evidence. Oh they were on Facebook most of the time when I walked into their office? Maybe it was a coincidence. We need more evidence.

I feel like, "look - here are screenshots from every 30 seconds and they really spent 90% of their day farting around on dumb websites", would have ended that far more efficiently than how we eventually got rid of them. It's less about prevention, and more about a way to fix the problem when people already aren't productive.

This is ripe for abuse by bosses - but at least part of that is because of bad employees too.
Even if that was being done in the USA, that does not make it ok for China to do it and in that case both should be criticised. Otherwise that's just whataboutism and should not be tolerated.
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Does that mean there is a market where if I paid enough, it would bump a cargo flight of medical supplies? That is a bit disturbing IMO.
IANAL, but if the purpose of taking screenshot every 30 minutes is to control the work of the employee you must know that in the EU you have the right to be informed about any measure taken to control you.

If you can convince the judge that taking the screenshot has other purpose then GDPR doesn't apply.

From (2): The WP29 outlines that a DPIA is likely to
be required if «a company systematically monitor(s) its employees’ activities,
including the monitoring of the employees’ work station, internet activity»
since it implies a «systematic monitoring and data concerning vulnerable data
subjects» (23), form GDPR and Personal Data Protection
in the Employment Context CLAUDIA OGRISEG

In (1) at point 8: the employeer has to inform the employee about: (i) whether and when monitoring is applied.
(ii) the purpose of data processing,
(iii) the means used for data processing.

https://legalict.com/factsheets/privacy-monitoring-work-gdpr...

Point 2) What king of personal data does an employer process, includes: Remote management of all mobile devices, such as phones and laptops;
Fair point, looking forward to following along :)
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No--emphatically no. N95 will protect you from aerosols which is why we desperately need like a billion of them, the key point being protect you. It doesn't matter which side of a wall you are on, if it is concrete you won't be able to see the other side. It makes no difference which side of the N95 wall the virion particles are on--they won't get out or the won't get you. My take on this is that the the government knows everyone needs an N95, however there simply aren't near enough and so the obvious fact that this is a baseline requirement is being downplayed. I will say this clearly: everyone in America needs an N95 now and for the foreseeable future in public. That is the optimal way to proceed--because it is aerosolized, period end of story.
Toy OS, so he has less to worry about. But also maybe just be more careful around kernel modules, if that eventually exists?
is this a realistic hypothetical? most people in abusive situations either don't have another place to go in the first place, or the abuser has leverage (eg, a child) to keep them in that home. wouldn't the threat of calling the cops be only a marginal source of leverage?
Just a minor quibble, but viruses don't breed.
In my area, they're burning through PPE like there's no tomorrow, and complaining about shortages. When the crisis really hits, that's when they'll need to go for amateur-made, reusing, and working naked.

The lack of foresight in this whole situation has been astounding.
Or MacOS up to and including OS9
Cisco happened. They really suck and bought the product to slow adoption.

They prioritized integration with Cisco VoIP and $25k TVs with Cisco stickers and cameras over features that people give a hoot about.

Why? It’s pretty obvious that a well executed solution like Zoom or even Google leads to a conclusion — you don’t need video equipment that costs as much as your car or phones that cost more than an iPad!
It has an excellent toolchain, the best hardware, the best security and has a much better assurance of support for years in a way that no small competitor can offer.
I wonder if Instacart some something similar to Grayball. Wouldn't be too hard to parse names with facebook accounts and group associations.
There were people kayaking the Columbia river through the Grand Canyon for 25 days heading into when everything shutdown. They had the same thoughts as you and thought the people telling them at the end was a joke.
not seeing any value from MIT here other than an opportunity for them to ink a quick patent.

Heres something more feasible if you're looking to endorse or support an effort:

https://opensourceventilator.ie/
Which is a really stupid reason to down-vote. Down-voting should be reserved for comments that do not contribute to the discussion. People need to be aware that there's non-native English speakers on this platform too.
BigQuery has a copy you can run queries against. One of their provided, shared datasets.
You have to secure the loads or they can shift, causing the airplane to crash.
I agree that you take out the seats in the aircraft but I don't know if the cargo "hooks" are certified or even there. Cargo can not be loaded into aircraft if it can not be secured into place.
That sounds like a good work environment.

My company decided that we would likely have to go remote-only about 6 weeks ago and asked people to start planning out how to make it happen. One of the things was to redo all deadlines with the expectation that family would need to come first.
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Personally I'm always more productive and energized when working from home/away from the office. Office noise, low indoor air quality, long walking/public transportation commute, office politics, etc are all very draining for me. Then again, I don't have kids, but know that it'd add stress to both working at home and the office
I wrote an article regarding this topic few days ago: https://medium.com/@mjasinski5/how-companies-failed-a-trust-...

The same its happening in Poland and probably all over the world. Companies do not trust their employees.. and it doesnt end on buying spy software.
I think mental health and productivity is slipping for everyone for reasons unrelated to remote work as well. Namely there is a global pandemic, a good chunk of the economy is shut down, and the flaw of "many out of work and many working overtime" has been exacerbated. Not to mention the denial of many closed non-essential outlets.
Glitches like this are very infrequent if you run well chosen hardware. If you run e.g. an all-Intel setup which is a few months old, it's rare.

If you are afraid of things getting broken, simply use NixOS. All upgrades can be easily rolled back, and you can freeze updates of some packages, or get packages through different channels with different stability compromises. I prefer to get everything through rolling release channels, as then bugs come one by one.

I've been running Linux on a MacBook Air 11 2012 for years, and everything worked out of the box from day 1. For the record, that's a pure Intel machine with the exception of a Broadcom wireless card. Said card works equally bad in Linux and Mac, I don't get why Apple keeps sticking to this brand.

I was hoping to upgrade to one of the new 2020 Airs, which are again providing terrific value, a great screen and keyboard. Sadly, the T2 chip makes things a bit difficult. It's getting support for Linux, but there are still many glitches. My Mac was broken by some stupid inspector in my rental property, and it's sadly not so easy to find a decent replacement with all COVID restrictions.

Another option is the Surface line, which is surprisingly well supported. The Surface Go, for example, works incredibly well as a tablet. All recent Surface machines work quite well in Linux.

Else, your best bet is a ThinkPad or an XPS. Unfortunately, Chromebooks are no longer so easy to reflash.
There has to be a policy. Either you deal with Taiwan though China and on China's terms, which is a political position, or you deal with Taiwan on its own terms, which is a political position, or you ignore Taiwan altogether because of the controversy around its status, which is a political position. Choosing to ignore bureacuracies and the press is a political decision. Choosing which data to post and what sources to trust is a political decision.

There's no such thing as an organization which operates internationally and is also apolitical.
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There is an expectation of privacy when using the bathroom though. There isn't when using a company issued computer, your employeer controls all the software on it, controls the network traffic - why would anyone have an expectation that what they use it for remains private? It's like there's no expectation of privacy when using an industrial lathe - it's meant for a specific purpose, if you use it for private purposes while at work, you shouldn't be expecting that to remain hidden from your employeer.
There's an expectation of privacy on company owned hardware?
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> That's been the general vibe the popular tech press has been spouting for awhile

This is such a vague generalisation, I cant do anything with it, except maybe how about "nullius in verba", on the word of noone, or "think for yourself"
As a former pm I can't think of a single colleague who loved open plan. We at best tolerated but I think every one of us would have been a happy recipient of an office!
The boss of my girlfriend did this even when they were on-site.

I think such people should be forbidden from founding/leading a company. Nationalise that thing and be done with it.
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I'm married with two children and I can assure you that not only has my mental state slipped because of the stresses of home life, but I also lost an enormous amount of social activity that I intentionally maintained in order to keep my brain and health at optimal levels.

I am OK, but my productivity is toast.
it will be all too obvious soon who is going to get cut now that productivity is going to be much more clearly measured.
It makes sense, but it's "wrong" if you're a prescriptivist ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_... is pretty thorough on the topic I'd say.
If you look at their tutorial video, you can see what's going on. The tutorial has a lot of commands like

ip link add wg0 type wrieguard
ip addr add 10.1.20.1/24 dev wg0
wg set wg0 listen-port 5100 private-key /etc/path/to/key
ip link set wg0 up
wg set wg0 peer........

If you look at the wg-quick script, it basically reads an /etc/wireguard/<adapter>.conf and runs the same commands based on your settings.

It's great when you're just trying to test things out. You can do a lot of stuff by hand, make sure it's working, try the conf file, enable the systemd or runit service, reboot and make sure it comes up.
Aww, that's so cute, a humans making around x500 to x1000 more money as a median humans in their companies are crying about "unfaaair". Cry some more, @#$%^&*.

PS: somehow my 1000+ ppl international company manages to work from home and deliver results without authoritarian tools.
i dont know...
ive been eating a roll a week and let me tell you, i can definitely taste a difference in the lead-free solder.
came here to say this
The function would simply be a chain of multiplications and (typically) non-linear transformations.

For classification problems, there is often a final non-linear transformation, like a softmax.

Example with ReLu activation:

Output_i = max((input_i * weight_i),0)
> It's not hard, just more expensive. I imagine not having 200-some people paying, let's say $150, would mean air cargo would have to cover the $30,000-ish difference.

I think you are drastically underestimating the typical revenue of a long haul or international flight.

A good starting point is RASM, or average revenue per available seat mile. For the airline industry a reasonable benchmark for that is about 15 cents, or so.

So multiply the number of seats on the plane by the number of miles and you'll get something that's at least in the same order of magnitude for passenger revenue on a flight.

Since we know air freight only really makes sense for long distances or over water -- you're going to be using a truck to get medical supplies from Dallas to NYC, and it will take less than 24 hours -- let's pick a good example route:

HKG > LAX on a 767, a standard wide-body

7,243 miles x 375 seats x $0.15 = $406,912.50
I was in basic training when hurricane Katrina hit. I remember the drill instructors asking if anyone was from the Louisiana or surrounding states and they got to make a special call home. Not having any connnections there myself I didn’t realize it was way worse than a typical hurricane until over a month after it happened.

Not active actively learning about the tragedy as it unfolded made learning about it later feel very disconnected. Sort of like hearing about a destructive event from history rather than a current event. I’m sure, though, this experience was very different for those who had some connections to the region and were more personally impacted by the aftermath.
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All of China's public numbers are fiction, all information is suppressed and censored, numbers created at the local and regional level are fabricated, credible accounting principles do not exist, Chinese companies cannot withstand any reasonable external audit.

There are many entities, specifically in the world of finance that perform their own measurements of Chinese economic numbers and they don't jibe with the official figures.

With respect to Coronavirus, China lied and suppressed information early on, including sanctioning and suppressing anyone who talked about it.

As far as Japan, why assume others are not suspicious?

Japan's numbers look 'off' there's been a lot of talk about that.

American numbers are transparent, created by different agencies, the issues are likely testing, the varying types of tests.

Edit: I would say that most nations are otherwise the same, the only reason Japan stands out in this round is because their numbers just look odd.

Edit: This is not a new phenomenon. During the Soviet era, we saw the same thing happening from the USSR et. al. Public numbers are politicized and an essential part of the propaganda effort. It's not even a controversial position. Consider that even right now, during the Huawei political crisis, nobody can discern who actually controls this major international conglomerate, as officially they are ostensibly 99% owned by employees, which is an obvious fallacy.
Thanks for your input. Adding explaining gifs and 'try demo' CTA is a nice touch. Also, I added importing PPT to the roadmap, makes total sense! :)
Won't be for long. Indexes are hitting major resistance rn. S&p likely to drop to 1800-2100 area soon.
Yes. Unlike the USA.
If this was 90s then as I remember there were not yet standards to deal with this kind of problem.

Actually, thinking about this now, I don't even remember they existed this type of software in 90s but I might be mistaken.
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I've been poor most of my life. I don't need to read a book to know that it sucks. I would say that wealth enhances life, not that poverty necessarily diminishes it.

The OP's point stands: most people who choose to stay with their abuser are not starving and sleep-deprived to the point of being unable to even have a choice, eh? There's something else going on. (Are there no wealthy people who fail to leave abusers?)

Anyhow, the question you raise in a sib comment is more important: how can we help victims of abuse choose (and succeed) to leave their abusers?
Right, but both of these examples are about using personal data(facial recognition data and then fingerprints) for purposes where it's not needed. Again, I would see the issue if the employeer was taking pictures with the webcam every 30 seconds - that is definitely a privacy problem because you neither expect your employeer to be photographing you every 30 seconds, nor is it necessary for your job. But pictures of the screen? Screen that's meant to be used for work and where no reasonable expectation of privacy should exist?
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GP is not wrong, then: with this implementation, async/await still amounts to the good old cooperative multitasking and does not (yet?) take advantage of threads. (In C#, for example, async/await is indeed different from this, being based on TAP - Task-based Asynchronous Pattern, where tasks are executed "asynchronously on a thread pool thread rather than synchronously on the main application thread.")
Makes sense, but how would that be labelled.
Any documentation or written/printed representation would need a label (preferably a consistent one).

Taiwan, China or just Taiwan?

What happens if you need to display a map of a contested area? any represenation you show will raise the hackles of some nation state or other.

"Which country it is shouldn't matter much." is an admirable goal, but at the risk of being pessimistic, it just isn't how nation states work.
I'm considering start reading TBP. So my question to you is why did you progress through the trilogy if you find it kind of substandard? Meaning, once you are done with first or even the second book what made you consider reading the next books in the trilogy?

This is an honest question as someone who is seriously considering reading TBP in near future.
I'm afraid that is absolutely NOT what we can expect. It is unfortunately much more statistical: The more time couples spend together when there is abuse, the more likely abuse will occur. There may be outlying scenarios like the ones you put forward, but in general, the risk of harm simply, increases.
There are alternatives to locking the whole population down: For example the Imperial College study predicts less deaths if only the 70+ population is locked down.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Also look at page 10: If you lockdown for only 5 months, the virus just comes back and still kills 1 in 500 people.

If you want to minimize the deaths, the study suggests that you need 400+ days of lockdowns over a 2 year period.
Do you believe Zhejiang was as widely tested as Iceland? Their fatality rates are lower than the widely tested Iceland (or literally anywhere in the world), which still has a pandemic ongoing. In fact none of the province numbers are believable (https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/12/tracking-coronavirus-c...), with only Beijing and Henan barely in the "unlikely but possible" category.

Wuhan's medical system was in complete crisis between lockdown and when the first field hospital opened 1.5w after: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047613/chin.... There's reports of entire families dying at home (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/coronavirus-ki...) -- I am quite doubtful Lombardy has been hit harder than Wuhan.

I will admit I'm wrong if China runs serological tests on Wuhan to determine the percent that were infected. I'll be extremely surprised if they do because the data will prove the point above (my guess? it would show 1M+ were infected, meaning only 2500 deaths was impossible).
University libraries are silent. Focus is the first-class activity; groups that want to work together must book a conference room or go to a dedicated collaboration floor. You might go with your friends for company, but you’re only going to speak on e.g. trips down from the workspace to the attached coffee shop.

A “library rules” open office would be just fine. That’s not what happens, though. The point of an open office is that everyone is talking all the time. If you don’t want to hear every conversation everyone in your company is having, it’s your own responsibility to jam those signals, or leave.