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This is not a criticism, nobody knows until they are taught, just trying to help you improve your use of English (which is otherwise excellent).

The phrase "much more easier" is incorrect. The word "easier" loosely means "more easy" so "more easier" would loosely mean "more more easy" which sounds wrong :-)

Correct usages are "easy", "much easier", and "even easier".

In your case above you can lose the "more" and just use "much easier". If you were to add another suggestion that you thought was easier than cucumber or zucchini then you would describe that third set of options as "even easier".

(Yes, I am stuck home alone; and yes, I do have too much time on my hands lol)
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with the food-industry people cannot afford healthcare for themselves and made to work, to get the means to live, I'm very scared to order anything from any prepared-food establishments. the chances of getting contaminated food are incredibly high, esp if you order smth not thermally processed.
Not giving you it to young people prevents them from giving it to vulnerable people further down the road.

If 1 person infects 10 prevention of one transmission can save a 1000.

Everyone ought to do curbside pick up or delivery for everything.
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Have you ever considered that "China lied on numbers" might also be part of the narrative the western press pushed?
A screenshot posted on Twitter is far from being a smoking gun. I mean anyone can fake a screenshot of, say, Trump confessing he is a pretty little ballerina who adores Obama.

Is there any other source that corroborates this conspiracy theory?
Creating a beta list for your product shouldn't be hard, get notified for launch
Are you otherwise healthy? If so and if you find almost every food delivery slot taken then I would say yes, you should be doing your grocery shopping in person. It's not a huge burden to change your behaviours for other people's benefit especially if others also do the same.
In 2013, instead of solving real actual problems, the EU were upset that danish cinnamon rolls might have too much cinnamon in them. The ban was avoided by a reclassification of the product.

Stories like this happen with disturbing regularity.

Source (da):

https://www.mm.dk/tjekdet/artikel/hvad-blev-der-af-eus-forbu...

Translated:

https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=da&to=en&dl=en&a=https...
False dichotomy. No one should be using shitty byte code interpreters like (c)python for real production work. Or at least stop whining about global warming. The real alternative is AOT.

Also in many cases having it's much better to trade off average performance for lower variance.
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It could me more specific: “the host opens another door because he knows there is a goat behind it”.
It's a nonprofit organization. I'm not that educated on the topic but I think that means it's possible to find a breakdown of their expenses somewhere.
Not television but the 1936-46 Universal Pictures one was especially pleasing and impressive to me.

https://youtu.be/nLx4ucZ8v4Y

Recreated in 1972 for "The Sting" which at the time was a film made as a bit of a nostalgia trip.
https://youtu.be/AsMEneC7F4o
It wont change. There is too much inertia. But its not all bad.

Maybe in future the West will play to its real strengths - provide entertainment/content, reality tv, sports, celebs and of course porn for those 5G, 6G, 7G...networks.

While tech and science moves elsewhere.

The best and brightest in science and tech will just move to where ever its happening.
JS is also frequently a compiled language these days. What makes you qualify the question this way?
Weird, because afaik commercial and especially combat pilots train a lot in specialized simulators. Plenty of companies around make those simulators since the 80s if not earlier, and they seemed to me to be more widely used than professional racing sims—if just for the price factor. I even know one company that makes ship bridge sims, employing fluid dynamics programmers.
Whether the host opens a door with a goat or a car determines whether the game can still be played at all. How that door is selected does not factor into whether the contestant should switch or not in any way.

I think the source of the paradox lies somewhere in the biases (the Endowment effect or Status Quo bias) as discussed in the Wikipedia article about the problem - not with how the question was stated and especially not with the part about how the host selects a door.
Actually, good design recognizes that people can't be trusted to follow instructions. Seems even Navy doesn't have enough discipline.

One thing of note: seems the whole system is designed for peace. While I can understand armchair designer (it is likely it will never see something like WWII action) this should be designed as a machine of war in case all hell breaks lose. I guess the backup plan is to have buckets and a bucket brigade...
> I doubt that the birth of the precariat was consciously and intentionally master planned by anyone.

It was consciously and intentionally create, but the planning is usually obscured behind euphemisms. Nobody directly says they are trying to make employment more precarious; they say they are making a new type of business that is "more efficient".

> unintended consequences

The consequences may not be intended, but pretending they weren't obvious results of a new design is gross negligence. The long term economic impact and its secondary/tertiary effects on society of a "gig-economy" business "disrupting" a traditional employer are hard to predict. The fact that it would make a lot of people's employment far more precarious is not only obvious, it's the core feature that differentiates the new type of business.
Khan Academy isn't just composed of only youtube lectures, but a sophisticated platform for doing math problems, computer programming education, and so forth.
> What does bother me is that we caught other countries several times, sometimes using terribly bad tactics (where the defense was bad for various reasons that are usually also bad) and sometimes using relatively novel stuff that we'd never see before.

What are you trying to say, that sometimes they are reading a "how to hack a computer" guide and try admin/admin and sometimes Huawei is supplying 0days to them?

As for NSA or similar US agencies: why would they hack US companies? They just send a friendly letter, attach a check for the inconvenience and have the companies build them a surveillance room.

Outside the US, TAO is a thing. And when they get caught, you better have definite proof before you say that you believe it's them, because that might have severe consequences for you personally, your company and the international relations of your country.
Python is also bytecode compiled first.
I like what manager.io does. It's saas and desktop. Basically everything is stored in an sqlite file, although the format not really accessible. If you want to move the their hosted version, just upload the file and you're done.
I think everyone agrees that when they want to do some data analysis they pip install numpy and get to work. It's only the navel gazers who are concerned about cpythons performance instead of treating python as a 'race to C' wherever performance is concerned.

Get used to this approach since it crops up everywhere. If you target a gpu, you try to keep the work in the gpu. When we move to use bpf and io_uring things will be a race to the next kernel program. If you target the CPU then your code is a race to C or a race to the function that calls the relevant cpu instruction that will make your code fly.
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If the product is free then somehow I’m being monetized...

How is this free?
I don't doubt that - but have you seen the energy being generated around the ZX Next? It's pretty significant - and the fact it can load other cores is key, I think, to what's going to happen around this scene in the next 6 months.

I definitely agree that Amiga users have kept the machines alive. ZX Next is like that, for Speccie fans and other 8-bit aficionados.
That's still not an OS issue. No amount of clever programming will help if people are that determined to do something dumb.

And yet, a malicious iOS cannot typically take over the OS, other applications, or exfiltrate data from other applications. Sure, someone's bank account can be fished. But systems like iOS show that it is possible to protect users against a large numbers of attacks.

One of the goals of an OS is to provide meaningful isolation boundaries. This is why we have a separation between ring 0 and 3, isolation of process address spaces, a separation between UID 0 and UID > 0. There is no reason why we should not introduce new forms of isolation invented after the 70ies.
Depends on the JVM implementation. Eg with Graal you can have faster startup in Clojure, Java or other JVM language vs Node.
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I'm not saying the east is bad. Don't change my words, jees!

If you haven't noticed. The protests in Hong Kong are related to the extradiction law from China that was forced on to them. And yes, people already disappeared.

And finally, if you want a statement, it's that democracy leads to a fairer society and communism leads to abuse of power.
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I don't think it's true that most people will agree. The problem is that intuitively it's easy to think that the chance of guessing the car is 1:3. That chance doesn't change just because you later know that another door has a goat. So you think that your choice was originally 1:3, the door that never gets revealed is 1:3 which are both equal. So when the other door is revealed, both chances move to 1:2. It's wrong, of course, but it's very easy to think that way (of course, I never thought that... ever... really... ha ha...)
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I completely agree, it's possible to do some tracing of what the V8 JIT does, but the workflow is awful.

Microbenchmarks don't represent the real world. Instead of running a single microbenchmark, I suggest running a host of them, but all of them "at the same time" (not serially). They'll get in each others ways and total performance will be far worse.

This happens with AOT code as well of course, because caches are being trampled no matter what, but JIT code only exarcerbates the issue because it is larger.
I've been using this time to help my loved ones learn new skills, such as photo editing, design, language skills. Everyone I know has seen improvements in their general computer skills. If Netflix could branch into tutorials the world could become a beautiful place.
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You can find their 2018 IRS filing here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261...

I've never read one before, but it looks like their IT spend was $5m of $49m total expenses on page 10.

I think it's very plausible that a sudden unanticipated increase in IT costs could cause a cash crunch.
You can't, but apparently Find My Phone uses Bluetooth to find nearby phones and thats the same technology that Bluetooth contact tracing for coronavirus would use.
Not sure if I'd say that the internet is destroying society but uncritical consumption of information on the internet combined with excess use that goes against what's good for the body biologically is bad for humanity.
>Because dead bodies tend to behave characteristically, are inconvenient both directly and via surviving relations, and present a smaller testing target (about 1% of total cases) as well as representing a full course-of-illness endpoint, these data should be generally more reliable and cross-regionally consistent than confirmed cases.

Are you accounting for healthcare system overload? The case fatality rate in northern Italy is probably going to be very different than in Japan for example.
Why no mention of firejail or similar tools?

They do mention bubblewrap in the sandbox-app-launcher section.
Is there a good reason, that I am not seeing, why the total population is not relevant?
If you want to do anything with GPS modules, some fine and talented people have done the hard work of interfacing with, and parsing the output of a lot of different receivers, and called it `gpsd`.

https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/index.html
Parts of Tokyo resemble a ghost town as people stay home
So anything short of concentration camps is fine? This reads as if COINTELPRO hasn't happened.
It is still a major improvement being able to be on Java 11.

Poor Android Java developers are now faced with being stuck with a pseudo Android Java subset of Java 8, or migrate to Kotlin.

While any Java library author that wants to share their work with the Android community is faced with the dilemma of keeping two parallel versions of their library, forget about Android, or also convert themselves to Kotlin as well, even if that isn't their thing.
what about “number of people hospitalised with flu-like symptoms” possibly adding “not provably unrelated to coronavirus” (i.e. untested people get included, even those with flu get tested included unless it's proved they don't have both)

not every country has comparable death handling, but you can't hide a person on a respirator.

(alas, i guess it's not widely reported)
... but is probably smart enough to buy other 10% of our lives. look at this and tell me this man got no 20/20 forward vision https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401875
...the China National Health Commission reported the details of the first 17 deaths up to 24 pm 22 Jan 2020. A study of these cases found that the median days from first symptom to death were 14 (range 6-41) days, and tended to be shorter among people of 70 year old or above (11.5 [range 6-19] days) than those with ages below 70 year old (20 [range 10-41] days.[6]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
Monetary and fiscal policy won't solve the viruses exponentially deleterious impacts. They will mitigate them at best. Your scenario is in fantasy land.

You're welcome to lose money by betting on the stock market going up in 6 to 12 months though!
You can make your own "vegetable" even in big cities. Tomatoes and peppers are really easy to grow on window or balcony. You can seed them yourself but much easier is to buy young plants.

I am also using sprouting jar [1]. Just buy any bio quality seeds and you have you own sprouts grown in 4-7 days, Bio quality is important as normal seed are often chemically treated.

I also like garden cress which you can easily plant on paper tissues or cotton wool. It is really delicious with bread and fresh cheese.

It is far from 100% vegetable replacement but it is tasty source of vitamins. Especially home grown tomatoes are way more tasty than those sold in normal groceries because they are picked too early to last longer.

[1] Something like this https://boulderlocavore.com/sprouting-101-homemade-sprouting...
Why is distributed logging hard? Genuinely curious.
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I finally understood it!

I always wondered why it's not 50/50 if I enter the room late. How can a past event that now seems irrelevant change the odds.

Basically you watch Monte jump around and see which doors he avoids because they have prices. Now you can't make that observation about your own door because he'd never touch it anyways and he jumps just once but sometimes skipping a door if his random hits the price. The fact that it's just 3 doors so just one is left makes it even more quirky, but doesn't change much.

So you know the other door is a door monty pontentialy avoided not to reveal the price.You don't have that information about your door.
> notice that there are benchmarks implemented in "fast" languages that are outperformed by better optimized code written in "slow" languages.

I haven't observed that, at least not where one can't write a "better optimized" code in the "fast" language too. Can you give any specific examples?
I like that madaidan is thinking deeply about these issues, and I think this is a great intro to the subject, along with some very interesting comments on the page. madaidan is also behind obscurix which is a hardened arch variant [1]. I tend to think the containerization of apps is the lowest hanging fruit approach, but I also think that there is a larger underlying issue touched upon which is the monolithic style of the current linux kernel, which is why I have also hoped HURD would rise some day, and continue to find minix 3 very interesting.

All that said, I see one glaring omission: hids. One thing I like to emphasis with people is that especially in an age of APT, if someone sophisticated enough is targeting you, you will probably suffer a compromise. One of the most vital parts of a security model therefor is reducing the amount of time it takes to discover a compromise. This is highly undervalued in modern orgs imho.

There are a few different ways to do this, and none are perfect but I tend to prefer a good HIDS like ossec, sometimes custom scripts checking file hashes, etc. There is one large weakness here though, which is how often I see a hids deployed but 1) not configured well, and 2) the logs never get monitored/ingested/alerted on! If you can combine a good hids and actually monitor the log outputs, you can discover most compromises fairly quickly with telltale system actions.

Lastyly, this is also why versioned backup is so important. Because you need to be able to trust old data pre-compromise. The longer you go without knowing you are comped, the more likely you have data being restored that is comped also.

[1] https://github.com/Obscurix/Obscurix
> but I get the feeling that they are managing the outbreak and the economy far more effectively than their western counterparts.

If they weren't, how would anyone know? The Chinese are vigorous in suppressing that sort of bad news.
> In JavaScript, it's a black box.

You can actually look at the assembly generated by V8 and you can trace de-opts. The workflow is just so awful, you're not going to want to do it.
Not yet. I fully believe that if China had as much power as USA, I (a canadian) would already have been kidnapped and put into a concentration camp for criticising China/Xi.
It is interesting that Fedora Silverblue wasn't mentioned in the discussion at all. It aims for having an immutable root filesystem with transactional updates. Like Fedora, it uses SELinux to isolate processes with security policies. It aims to be a minimal base system, where users install applications through (ideally) sandboxed Flatpaks and do development in containers [1]. Fedora has also been historically more proactive than upstreams to enable hardening features.

Another good example (as mentioned by a sibling) is ChromeOS. It, of course, has privacy problems, but ChromiumOS is available in source form AFAIK.

[1] I know, containers != security.
Are you talking about the same China that understood the risk of disease so well it allowed wet markets to flourish in the most abject hygiene conditions possible? I suppose they perhaps lack virologists or similar in their 'STEM graduate', technocratic government. Or perhaps they just didn't care. This meme of China being ultra competent needs to die; they have 1.4 billion people, there's enough latent talent there that'll shine through despite the best attempts by the CCP to kill a lot of it.
This story was reported by reputable Chinese media first: http://photos.caixin.com/2020-03-26/101534542_6.html?NOJP#pi...

Bloomberg is just aggregating and translating here.
Doesn’t load for me on iOS.
> You won't be able to control elevated applications though

Which doesn't matter to an attacker if their target is the user's data and that data is all stored in non-elevated applications.
An unreliable optimisation can be worse than no optimisation, because if you understand your performance you can take steps to prepare appropriately (e.g. maybe you scale horizontally, or put some time into manual optimisation). If your code suddenly gets 10x slower in production for no clear reason, that's a lot worse than your code having been running 10x slower from day 1.
It can be a good investment if you look at your programming career in economic terms. But the Java culture is pretty uncreative and rife with overengineered enterprise stuff. If you can stay with Clojure, Scala, etc, then it's better.

(I'm not convinced it's long term profitable to work on boring platforms either, but of course looking for fun things is more risky)
I've done the same thing in The Netherlands, as I'm doing the shopping for my grandparents. I noticed that I don't need it yet, but I did see that I might need it in the future since I need to stay awake until 23:59 at night, so I can snatch a slot at 00:00 at the most famous supermarket here.

My script isn't fully ready, but it's 75% complete and I'll complete the final 25% when I really do need it.

Also, these things are quite easy to make, so I expect a lot of techies to eventually do this.
On the server side, the alternative is an AOT compiled language.
But that's the thing ... either he did or did not.

Either way is cause to ponder.
It is hard to understand how they still enjoy safe harbour and similar protections after they clearly keep editorialising what is posted on their platform.
I am curious why it wasn't. Did Obama just drop the ball? I'm sure he knew how much of a serious threat Huawei was.
Here's the video of Sal Khan talking about the donations [0]. Not much additional information, aside that he said they were already running on deficit before this crisis.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjGERWYvzqk
And store it where? Dry volume is at a premium, just look at the compactness of living quarters to get an idea how little room there is to spare.
That would be a false positive, if I am understanding things correctly. The warning is about code that is correct, yet it warns, hence false positive. If the warning was missing for incorrect code that would be a false negative. At least that is the terminilogy used for static analysis.
Yes. Buffet has cash. Buffet has lots of Cash for the last 10 years or so, and has said that there has been a distinct lack of opportunity to deploy that cash in significant chunks to buy good companies at reasonable valuations.

What I'd really like to know is the breakdown of their exposure to life insurance (re?) vs other insurance products (auto) that might not be as badly affected by the pandemic. He's said that they've been on a good insurance run for a while, but that it will end at some point with a really bad event. I don't know if this is that bad event.
As the author of the Cuckoo Cycle PoW https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo I don't recall any such dependence. I don't see how the operations described in the paper would benefit a Cuckoo Cycle solver, which in essense looks like https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/doc/simplesolve
It was actually linked on the donation page: https://khanacademyannualreport.org/financial-information/
Peertube is distributing the video streams P2P. Would be interesting to see whether KA could adapt that technology into their platform.
The DMCA safe harbor does not prohibit implementing control controls, in fact, it was adopted very explicitly to stop the risk of assuming liability from being a discouragement to platforms adopting content controls.
Insurance doesn't normally cover pandemics.
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For more audiovisual fun you could also try IBNIZ.
Here is a list of osint tools I compiled after a fairly recent review for those who don't like maltego:

https://www.spiderfoot.net/
https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint
https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester
https://github.com/aancw/Belati
https://github.com/intrigueio/intrigue-core
https://osintframework.com/
https://github.com/s0md3v/Photon
https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng
https://github.com/kpcyrd/sn0int