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If people want to play games in anti-cheat environments, the only sensible solution I can see involves the reinvention of the cartridge.

In this case, make the cartridge a bootable SSD which entirely avoids touching any other disk in the system (perhaps with the exception of an SD card or USB storage stick for saves.)

The downsides include:

- the game company now has to ship a complete OS and do hardware support. They nearly have to do that anyway, so whatever.

- you'll need to reboot your computer for each game.

The upsides, I think, are obvious.
Refactored extension/add-on with lots of new sites, bug-fixes, add custom sites and update-notification.

https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-chrome-c... (no google analytics)

https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-firefox-...
What you are describing is much more properly labeled "crime". The idea that terrorism is so much worse, somehow, is exactly the same kind of argument that has lead the USA to having the highest rate of incarceration in the world. That is absolutely nothing to be proud of.
1. Apple's users won't care. The ones who know about "WebP" will explain it away by claiming "Apple rejected it because it doesn't meet their high quality standards. The page looks more beautiful this way; WebP will drain the battery; WebP isn't secure; etc."

2. I'm pretty sure this isn't "irony." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/irony?s=t
This is a fascinating report from Alan Kay about the history of Smalltalk up until the Smalltalk-80 days:

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
That's a bad take: even in the US the CDC built a bunch of knowledge and systems ready to respond to another epidemic like bird flu. Unfortunately it all got thrown away over the last couple of years.

Other countries that were hit by it and by SARS or MERS were ready for it.
What doesn't work well for C-like languages? I've been writing a lot of Rust lately with Smartparens (a paredit like package in Emacs) and haven't had any issues with its support for Rust.
“Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being”

In my experience Facebook offers polarization and information overload on one side, or a barrage of memes and random nostalgia on the other. I’ve given up on trying to manage what is recommended to me there, although for a while I did purge my friends and likes carefully, to some effect.

I don’t go so as far as deleting Facebook but it’s definitely less a resource and more an entertainment / distraction vehicle
And, in the 1990s, .cs for Czechoslovakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs
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Global measurements of "corruption" will often put the United States very far down the list because there is relatively little outright illegal bribery and horse trading. Instead, all our corruption is done legally and with the government's full blessing.
That's not counterargument against Swedish strategy.

Year from now we will see the total number of deaths from different strategies and the thing is settled by then.
>> get rid of the need to flatten the curve.

This. A policy of flattening the curve will probably have to last for one or two years until either a vaccine is found or there is enough herd immunity. This will not only destroy our economy but the isolation will be a psychological challenge for many as well.

We have to take one step back and think why we wanted to flatten the curve in the first place. And that is because our hospitals don't have enough capacity. So why don't we do something about that? IMO that, in combination with some moderate curve flattening, is the only acceptable solution in the long term.
"for certain Intel systems" makes it sound rare. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_GVT-g says, anything Broadwell and up should work, so any device from 2015+ should work for creating vGPUs, and thus be able to use native acceleration at host and vm-guest level!
What are you referring to
"Little known features of iTerm2" https://banga.github.io/blog/2020/03/02/little-known-feature... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22461605)

I don't use most of the features, set the color scheme once after installation. The slow pasting mode, tab duplication, clicking on links, showing timestamps is enough. On my computer it becomes slow after 3GB memory usage (tailing lots of logs in the background or such).
If you had to chose an environment or programming language that you expect to survive, in regards to talent pool + tech availability for 30+ years today, what would you choose?
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There's no need to when there are an infinite amount of decimal places.
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I love Kiwi Browser! If it was able to Save "Webpage, Complete", I'd use it as my mobile daily driver.
I've been using this specifically for its extension support, and I'm just waiting until Firefox Preview can get extension support fully as I use Firefox on the desktop and I'd like for them to sync. I looked at other browsers like Brave but I just cannot trust them.
Were you using a fresh filter cartridge?

And even if you were, was the smoke so severe that the cartridge may have quickly collected so much particulate matter that it was rendered less capable of allowing a high flow of air at a low pressure difference?
>I wonder what happens when the FISA court orders Riot to [...]

FISA? Try the CCP.
Only extracurricularly - summer programs etc. Those were generally good, but not comparable in my mind since all the kids there wanted to be there, as opposed to schools (especially public schools) having a dynamic befitting a jail.

There weren't enough "gifted" people around for the numbers to work out for #1. During my whole time, I was aware of one other student skipping a grade and only a handful taking classes from the next grade up. The closest I got in a school setting was one elective AP class in high school.

I only skipped two grades, going from older to average to younger. I could see a larger age gap being different for socialization, but not with regards to bullying - there is no gain from beating on someone that's much smaller.
The UK data can be found at ICNARC.

https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

This link opens a PDF download: https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/c9b...

(17th April 2020)

> To date, ICNARC have been notified of 6664 admissions with confirmed COVID-19, either at or after admission to critical care, by critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Of these, early data covering the first 24 hours in the critical care unit have been submitted to ICNARC for 6313 admissions of 5578 patients (Figure 1 and Figure 2). Of the 5578 patients, 2936 have outcomes reported and 2642 patients were last reported as still receiving critical care (Figure 3). The largest number of patients (1924) are being managed by the three London Operational Delivery Networks (Figure 4). Please note that Figure 2 and Figure 3 are affected by a variable lag time for submission of data of about 1-3 days (shaded grey)

[...big snip...]

> Critical care unit outcomes have been received for only 2936 (of 5578) patients, of whom 1499 patients have died and 1437 have been discharged alive from critical care (Figure 8 and Figure 9).

There's probably some more stats about critical care capacity here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
> People will pay for convenience and polish. Also, i would guess that Windows users are not likely to be free software purists and just wants something that works with a minimum of fuss.

I would say "companies" will pay for ....

not sure about "people" undesrtood as individual persons
My company has been working with a hospital in the Bronx for several years. We’ve been working on a system that is designed to tell when intubation is actually needed and when it is not. They already knew, a long time ago, that intubation increased mortality, but no one expected the mortality rate they are seeing with COVID-19.
Depends on your point of reference. If you buy into the ecology you could build a sane career where experience actually meant something instead of being level set every two years by the new shiny tech stack that's going to save the industry.
I have a Linux laptop from work with a small amount of supported hardware configurations. I have had issues with: UI lockups, audio failures, resume from suspend issues.

Windows 10 isn't perfect, but it's a lot better at not getting in the way.
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> The question I ask is why haven't users/user complaints been successful in stopping these irresponsible cowboys.

Most users don't complain, because technology is magic to them and they have no point of reference; they assume things must be the way they are for a reason. From the remaining group that does complain, many do it ineffectively (e.g. complaining to friends or in discussion boards that aren't frequented by relevant devs). And the rest just isn't listened to. It's easy to dismiss few voices as "not experts", especially today, when everyone puts telemetry in their software (see below), and doubly so when user's opinions are in opposition to the business model.

Finally, software market isn't all that competitive (especially on SaaS) end, so users are most often put in a "take it or leave it" situation, where there's no way to "vote with your wallet" because there's no option on the market that you could vote for.

The problem with telemetry is that measuring for correct things and interpreting the results is hard, and it's way too easy to use the data to justify whatever the vendor (in particular, their UX or marketing team) already thinks. A common example is a feature that's been hidden increasingly deeply in the app on each UI update, and finally removed on the grounds that "telemetry says people aren't using it". Another common example is "low use" of features that are critical for end-users, but used only every few sessions.
I forgot, we're actually in the UK too! 266 Wines imports our stuff but I don't know if they sell to any wine shops or just restaurants. We'll probably never be able to do DTC to the UK though :-(
Its a guaranteed 30% profit margin industry with very high patent moat. No incentives to change anything.
With Linux 4.16+ and an Intel Card of age Broadwell or newer (~2015+) you can use this howto: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_GVT-g. Adapt from Arch Linux if you have something else.
Free markets are sustained by governments free of bribery and corruption. Otherwise you get monopolies and oligopolies as in the Gilded Age and arguably now.
He wouldn't have to, he could just use the original one where the ball hits the rim every time :-)
No, they were meant to exist only to avoid hospital overflow. The vast majority of hospitals haven't come close to overflow despite a strong belief by governments that they would even with social distancing, ergo, the predictions justifying the lockdowns are invalidated and it should be ending already.
Maybe bad optics to do it right now but it needed to be released at some point. If they delayed it until we were at the tail end of the curve of Covid-19 infections, this blog could still rely on "we're still recovering from the pandemic" to support the "bad timing" argument.
Next step would be showing price in $, but not USD.
>or dual-boot (less secure).

There shouldn't be any risks to that if your main OS is encrypted and the keys are sealed by a TPM.
Can be lots of things, there's lots of evidence that data quality is extremely poor right now, but not enough to be able to say accurately what all the data should be.

For example, in the Netherlands, in a blood test about 3% of the population was found to have antibodies, while the number of people confirmed to have corona via tests is at 0.15% of the population. We're looking at a 1:20 confirmed/actual rate.

That tells you testing is way off, about 20x so. The total tests performed is roughly similar to the US by the way, about 1 in 100.

Then there's death rates. The Netherlands currently saw 2 in 10.000 confirmed deaths from corona. This is about double the rate in the US. However if we look at excess deaths compared to a 3-year average for the same period (2017-2019) we see about triple the amount. Apparently 2 in 3 die of corona without it being tested or confirmed. (likely in nursing homes where mortality rates are often around 30% per year, and it's not uncommon for staff to find a patient died in their sleep for example).

And the Netherlands is a small country with high-quality public infrastructure. It's quite likely that it is among the countries with the best record-keeping system, and is among the countries with the highest tests per population, and even here we see massive undercounting of infections and deaths.

It's good to keep looking at the numbers, but only with a huge caveat. I'm actually completely flabbergasted that the media report on infection numbers without ANY mention of a confidence interval, standard deviation or some kind of uncertainty measurement, as well as some basic stats around testing methodologies, in particular when reporting cross-country comparisons. This should be the norm, but instead we just get country comparisons, world maps and graphs displaying wildly inaccurate and limited data (which is absolutely useful, but criminal to report without caveats). Apart from a mention about 'Chinese data isn't reliable' or 'India isn't testing much, so the problem may be far greater', there's really no consistent discussion about this. There's lots of standard statistical tools to express uncertainty which have been used in science for decades, but they're completely absent in our reporting or discussions at the moment.
"The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%"
Fatality rate is meaningless. Even if you don't die, you can't work when you're sick for 2 to 5 weeks. Sickness duration is relevant.
Hospital bed occupancy rate and impact on hospital treating other pathologies and injuries is relevant.

> "At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available"

It's just pure speculation at the moment. You don't take life or death decision based on such optimistic speculation. This is just irresponsible.
It may not make sense to retain jobs across deployments. What if the contract of the job is changed by the code being deployed? Might be easier to keep it all in-process, letting queues drain in a graceful shutdown.
Thanks.

I was assuming the 80% death rate was intubated ventilation.
Thanks! I had no idea what I was searching for to try and find professional alternatives, so this is helpful :)
Sweden already has 1 death per 10,000 population (0.01% per capita, not per case) and rate is increasing. Spain is 1 per 2,500 (0.04%). NY state is 1 per 1,200, soon to be 1 per 1,000 (0.1% per capita). This is with lockdown [0]

[0] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
If I'm following their logic correctly, you cannot justify looking at someone's Twitter DMs to stop a nuclear attack on a city
No, not anymore.

9/11 was a self-correcting bug, it became completely irrelevant to security starting on 9/12
Yes, but is that also the case for mobile Intel CPUs? I was unsure so I said "some" rather than "most."
C + Linux. That seems to be the most promising tech with regards to longevity that exists today.
Wow, it used to be closed source before. I am surprised that it eventually went open source.
>As in: The CDC is a huge government bureaucracy that employs (and cannot swiftly fire) enormous numbers of people from diverse backgrounds. If RCTs aren't the standard, well then why not also wear crystals to ward off the virus? They're inexpensive, and they couldn't hurt-- you can probably find a poorly controlled study to support it too.

Alexander's discussion of parachutes gave some good heuristics for when you should trust common sense vs require an RCT, which explains why his advice doesn't generalize to advocating crystals.

The heuristic was basically that you should trust common sense when

a) there's a solid scientific model of the key dynamics,

b) the purported remedy is cheap, and

c) the costs of not stopping the threat are disproportionately high.

Crystals meet b)[1] and c) but fail a) -- we don't have a validated model of crytal/virus interactions. In contrast, we know that (some) viruses (including this one) spread through unimpeded airflow, and masks impede said airflow. We know that high-speed impacts between your body and the ground are deadly, and parachutes demonstrably slow the falling speed of objects.

Thus, you should go with common sense in the absence of an RCT for parachutes and masks but not crystals.

[1] They might fail b) depending on the particular charlatan!
I agree it was a weird focus of the article based on the title.

There are also problems associated with proning, including but not limited to: body habitus, loss of airway, hypotension, loss of venous access. I imagine that proning isn't always an option for some patients, and was basically told as much by an ICU attending last week.

I guess I'm trying to say that proning isn't a magic bullet, it's just one of many tools in a doctor's toolbox to try and save lives.
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I think this is just an IBM PR piece. It ticks all the boxes: quotes from IBM customers, quotes from IBM staff, mentions the "Master the Mainframe" contest. You can tell because when it says "mainframe" it doesn't mean "any large computer", it means "Something descended from the IBM 360".
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Co-founder here. We’ve been working on Datagran for the last 2 years and day and night for the last 3 months. We’ve waited to show the product to this community until we thought we had something at least we feel proud of. So after many iterations, months of ups and downs, tears and joys, here it goes...

During my first endeavor it was time to set up our data ecosystem. We started integrating Segment, Stripe, Google Cloud, DataStudio, Heap and ClearBrain. It took us about 2 months to set up everything, and it never worked the way we expected. Data was never accurate, every data iteration was an eternal process and everytime we needed to run a prediction we had to download and upload data with the added difficulty of figuring out how to send the output to a business application.

We thought then if it wouldn’t it be nice to have one place where we could just connect our customer and behavioral data, aggregate and dedup it, run custom SQLs, run a couple of ML algorithms when needed and just send the result to a business application like Google Sheets, or a Chatbot. All in the same environment without having to worry about setup, stichting everything up, uploading and downloading data, among many others.

What we did then was to build an all-in-one data workspace, 5 tools in 1, that help companies integrate data, visualize, run ML pipelines and take action all in one place. Think of Datagran as like Zapier for ML. Making it so instead of companies needing both ML expertise and product expertise to ship an ML pipeline, they need neither.
With a simple editor any person can now connect sources, select an operator (can be a Custom SQL or an algorithm) and then an action to send the results to a business application that is embedded in our system.

Now if you need to predict churn for example and send the output to let’s say your chatbot, you can just connect Datagran’s SDK, connect to Stripe, join your data, run a ML algorithm and send your output to Twilio or wherever you want.

In this link https://app.datagran.io/bda/coreOS/workspaces/create you can find a playground of our Beta. Just log in and select the Take a Tour option. It will load a bunch of data and examples for you.
The idea in a couple of months is to build more than 20 different Spark algorithms and more actions.
We are also building lots of templates with our team of data scientists (just like Webflow does it) for the non technical folks. We will have templates for Business, Marketing, Sales, among others and the idea is to sell those Templates and give data scientists a percentage of the sale.

Hope you like it and would love your feedback.
Both C++ and Java are pretty obvious choices aren't they? Both have probably billion lines of code or more investments into them and are the backbone of a huge number of very successful companies.
Java, with a lot of apache commons libraries and postgrees databases.
They've both been around 25,34 years respectively and will survive probably about the same into the future as long as java stays sensible and slows the rate at which is has spawned features like c++
This would be a correct comment in other contexts but you seem to be unaware of the architecture of X. You can run an X server under cygwin and X clients under WSL.
I'm working on improving search in https://histre.com/ (Effortless Knowledge Base)
I'm using this simply because it still has the address bar at the bottom.
For people accustomed to Fahrenheit, that's 140 to 212.
My Norse isn't what it used to be but you're still looking at an 8x difference per capita with the Norwegian number following from a mathematical model and the Dutch number coming from inference based on blood measurements. I don't know what's true, but 40% with 816 deaths seems low. That's a mortality <0.1%.
How would you prevent against a deepfake program presenting itself as a camera? From your applications perspective, it's raw data directly from the camera but there's no guarantee the camera is just a camera.
That argument could be used for Qt, GNOME, macOS, or Windows. And besides, React Native is a thing.
We need to be way clearer about what qualifies as national security. Because "Threatens American Lives" could include a million things like McDonald's, Cigarettes, Booze, Driving, etc.
Shouldn't their 5-year warranty drives still be good?

My favorite idiom comes from China: Pay a lot, cry once.
This is a minor plot point in Vernor Vinge's excellent SF novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

One of the premises of the novel's universe is that computational power is generally absurdly plentiful, but communications bandwidth over interstellar distances is not. Most communications are in plain text (modeled after USENET) but in some cases, "evocations" are used to extrapolate video and audio from an ultra-compressed data stream.

The trouble, of course, is that it's not very obvious what aspects of the image you're seeing are real, and what aspects were dreamed up by the system doing the extrapolating.
not a read but a youtube channel

Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA

especially all the videos with professor Brailsford are great with many references to history of computing
and there are some with Brian Kernighan too
Datapoint's ARCnet (token bus) similarly also had to make place for Ethernet [0], while initially less expensive. An interesting networking technology still used in industrial fieldbus applications (wind turbines & robots for example), its deterministic nature making it well-suited for realtime requirements. Flexible wiring topologies and good signal resilience too.

It was used as a basis for Datapoint's minicomputer clustering technology (called ARCNET too, programmed using DATABUS), and later VAXcluster [1] as I just found out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_clusters
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