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LOL. I agree with you- healthcare should be way more accessible and affordable. But I suspect that if you looked at what it costs to train and deploy a field medic in today's military, you would find that it is a lot. And the many reasons for that very high expense probably echo some of the issues that also exist in healthcare. Hint: the MD isn't getting anywhere near $3000 to do your stitches.
Sometimes I really don't wish that were the reason. Sometimes I feel like the money isn't worth it. But then I get my head out of my ass, because really, what else would I do that pays well? But I reserve the right to gripe about users now and then, keeps me sane. :)
Istio is part of the service. As far as my knowledge goes, the main components of Anthos are:

- Anthos GKE: managed Kubernetes across GCP, AWS, on-prem via VMware vSphere

- Anthos service mesh: Istio + SRE practices (Cloud Operations)

- Cloud Run: Knative serverless

- Anthos Config Mgmt: policy & security automation

- Marketplace: 3rd party applications for Anthos

Disclaimer: work for Google, but nowhere near an expert on Anthos. Just going off of some notes I took last week.
The full quote is:

> Now that the death numbers are greater than the flu, we are still at the "those people were going to die within a year anyway" phase, and the "I am okay and have a BMI less than 30 so therefore people like me are okay" phase.

The user you're criticizing is expressing puzzlement at how many are still at those phases. They're not agreeing with those assessments. So you're picking a fight with the wrong person. Indeed, you're picking a fight with someone who likely agrees with you on the substantive issues.
> Loading my profile on Twitter leads Presto to use more memory than Firefox. (Though really that's a terrible benchmark, probably want to disable in-memory caching.)

That's not surprising as current Firefox has indeed made improvements. Your argument is disingenuous if you aren't comparing Opera presto with the equivalent version of Firefox of the same period. Firefox than couldn't even manage 10-20 tabs, without high RAM consumption, whereas Opera Presto could easily handle around 100+.

> Morale only really collapsed after the move to WebKit, nor had there been lay offs for several years prior.

I didn't claim the layoffs started years before they were sold. Opera was a solid company for some time. But many employees were laid off prior to Opera being sold to their current owners, mostly the marketing and support staffs and some developers. Morale was indeed low in the company. And rumours were already swirling around in Opera forums and popular Opera fan blogs that Presto would be dumped. (And it was dumped ultimately for Blink, a fork of webkit, created in partnership with Google).

Your point about some memory issues with engines, compared to the previous versions, are correct. Despite those issues, Opera Presto was still better than Gecko during the same period.

My point is to compare Apple to Apple - highlighting the weak point of a browser engine, whose development has since been abandoned, by comparing it to Gecko's current modern avatar doesn't make sense, when my argument is that Presto was a better engineered product than other browser engines of its times. Ofcourse I agree that Firefox has come a long way and is far better now. (That's why I shifted to it after Opera died).

> The graph of module dependencies was ... so in many ways it really wasn't modular.

Perhaps so. It is still easier to understand than Firefox's mish-mash of a codebase, because it is smaller and better coded.
I'm thinking Bloom Filters.
X-ray machines are only a problem for undeveloped film. Developed film is much more resilient.
I've only got partial insight into this, so maybe someone else can fill in gaps.

Power consumption in a digital chip traditionally happens many ways: dynamic power is the energy consumed moving charge around to actually flip a signal at a transistor. For the same clock speed, it goes down as feature size goes down, because gate capacitance is smaller so less charge needs to be deposited/removed on the gate to raise/lower its voltage by a given amount (also increases with clock speed for the same feature size, because more charges/discharges per unit time). Static power is current draining through (often, always?, parasitic) resistive paths, and needs to be either be provided all the time, or requires a minimum clock frequency so that the voltage is still detectable when you need to. This actually drives the minimum refresh rate on DRAM.

The big change, what I understood as a surprise when it happened (I was an undergrad EE while this hit the industry), was when insulator structures got thin enough that electrons were actually quantum tunneling "through" them. Now you've got a new parasitic path for charge to drain away, and on top of that it changes the performance of your transistor. At the time, and I want to say this was the 45nm process node, but it could've been 90nm, gates oxides (insulators) were ~5 atoms thick.

Unfortunately, I didn't really stick with this part of EE, so I'm not sure what to say about the thinner channels.
>Ideas are easy to find

Regis McKenna, the marketer who introduced first Apple, first microprocessor Intel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z13NI0SuyA at 4:30

"The span of my existence in the valley is going to collapse to about a third, maybe less in your lifetime and the challenges that you are going to have in the office and the opportunities is going to be very very significant but it's going to require a lot of you much more than of me or of anybody in the past because the technology moved actually fairly slowly"
My orthodontist's name was Dr. Link. Nice, but Dr. Hurt would have been more appropriate.
After seeing a vet work on a horse that had its leg stripped of all of its skin, I would agree.
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> the draw to elite signalling

I don't feel like that's why we all sometimes do this (though that might be an inside view and I might really be signalling along with everyone else.)

I feel like the internal thought-process that motivates this kinds of inside-baseball writing is twofold (depending on the stage of the project):

- early on: "the only people who could possibly care about something this new are people with the exact problem it solves, who stumbled onto it when jamming google full of enough keywords that there are zero other results; they already know what this does before reading; and they just want to confirm that it isn't fatally flawed. They're deploying this project in anger. (Of course they are; if they didn't desperately need it, they'd never rely on something so early in development!)"

- later on: "We're selling this to customers. We've picked a specific target market that has specific use-cases and needs, and we try to think about things the way they think about things 100% of the time, because talking to those people is what gets us money. We don't do any inbound marketing—we aren't trying to passively educate anyone outside our target market to get them interested. We're having enough trouble capturing the pre-qualified part of our funnel with in-person conversations. Converting people who haven't even fallen into the funnel yet? Who cares! They might get converted by accident if someone who already uses us takes the time to explain our product to them; but otherwise, the only time they'll hear about us is when we reach out to slowly warm them up for a million-dollar enterprise deal."
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Currently the cameras are low fidelity, but perhaps that will improve enough in the future.
That is management's job, not Marketing. For one, there is no trust relationship that can support that sort of act, but what's the point of project management if the marketing people get to decide the roadmap not only by themselves but individually?
Install Windows? Simple enough solution
“0.1 percent per 100,000” is not a sensible thing to say. Either write “0.1 percent” or “100 per 100,000“. Making such a mistake is either sloppy or ignorant (either of which does not reflect well on the writer/editor/publication).
They aren't selling to individual programmers, they're selling to CTOs and other executives, the people who have the power to make spending decisions on which cloud solution to use.

"Whoever it is sure ain't a good marketer. They really don't know who they're marketing to"

Or maybe they are a good marketer, and you're the one who doesn't know who they're marketing to? I am not in marketing, but products with ad copy that doesn't entice me at all make billions of dollars.
I found it interesting to compare the four chown manuals (POSIX, GNU, FreeBSD and OpenBSD) and can see why the author may have been confused about the -h switch.

The POSIX manual is the only one that explicitly states that -h applies to each file operand (as opposed to files encountered during the traversal from -R). The SYNOPSIS section also makes it clear how it differs.

FreeBSD kind of gets it right, but without the word "operand" it could easily be misinterpreted.

GNU uses the word "referenced" which could also be open to misinterpretation.

The OpenBSD manual doesn't really make it clear at all, but kind of implies it with the comment about -h and -R options being mutually exclusive.
This is one of those cases where a single day in the media cycle makes for a very big difference:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/04/22/sweden-he...
In large part you're not looking at TLS application-data with this stuff; you're monitoring internal networks and all the protocols they run, in part so you can retroactively see if exploits, once revealed, have been run. For that kind of stuff you often care a lot more about, say, SMB dissection than you do about what stupid websites people are looking at.

The longstanding existence of tools like these --- and there are "better" ones that aren't open source, and have been for decades --- is one reason that "vulnerability equities processes" don't make sense; if the DoD uses an exploit against a foreign target, it can't just reveal it a few months later without compromising sources and methods.

(That doesn't mean you should care about that problem; I'm just reporting).
Person doesn't have insurance and injured themselves doing a risky activity, and can't afford treatment. If it's really bad, why not use bankruptcy, I can't imagine this person has anything valuable given the history you described.

Or use physical therapy, it's cheap.
>How exactly does residual current start to dominate?

I guess sum total of leakage current in all the OFF transistor coming up more than the sum total of all the ON transistor current. Assuming at any point of time, more than 50% transistors are OFF, there are so many OP codes in x86/64, only few of them could be active at a time.
Same thing happened with Microsoft. Theirs got killed supposedly because it didn't run Windows (which of course is a bad idea for a handheld device).
What would Java's be? Is there an interface besides Thread.getStackTrace()?
Australia is talking about being to reduce the lockdown in 4 weeks.

The Australian lockdown isn't complete - shops are still open, can go to offices if required, schools will open next term except in one state (it's holidays at the moment).

The economic cost is high, but unclear how much more than Sweden. Unemployment in Sweden hit 8% in the most recent quarter[1], while Australia's is forecast to reach 10%.

The IMF is forecasting -6.8% growth in Sweden[3], vs -6.7 in Australia[4]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/20/world/europe/20re...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-13/coronavirus-unemploym...

[3] https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/SWE

[4] https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/AUS
~20% is residential—still significant. Plus ~30% transportation, which as we transition to EVs become more and more relevant to residential energy use.

But even commercial and industrial could be optimized in the same manner. I've been thinking: If electricity is much cheaper during certain periods, would factories be built to only run during those times?

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/
I never really felt a need to use a GUI client for Git. I think they all hinder understanding of Git instead of helping. However I use Tig (console client) extensively for read-only Git operations. For everything else, there is Magit (Emacs Git client).
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Absolutely correct, CS != Software Engineering.

CS != Code, as a previous poster suggested.

CS != Business aspects of software development.

CS != Guarantee that you'll get a job you'll like as a programmer, or even a job as a programmer.

CS != Guarantee that you will be able to fix systemic problems in systems, understanding, culture or process in corporations or other organizations, by fixing code.

CS != Guarantee that you'll launch a successful website, or start a successful startup.

CS != Guarantee that you'll be able to raise venture capital, or be able to sell enough to gain your first customers to become "ramen profitable".

CS != Guarantee of success, or that you'll get what you want in life...

I am 99.44% self-taught -- my opinion is that CS degrees are overvalued and overpriced, but that being said, they're not wrong for everybody...
> I think it's pretty clear that many states are opening too fast too early

Not at all.. I think it's clear we locked down way too fast (and I was supportive of the initial lockdowns). At the time, we thought that -- even with the lockdown -- we would overwhelm the hospital systems in many parts of the country. Guess what... that didn't really happen. We didn't run out of ventilators at all. That means we over reacted. Now it's time to lower the restrictions with the new constants in mind, so that any subsequent peak more completely uses excess capacity, and more people can get back to work.
CTOs and CIOs of non-technology companies with IT departments, departments which have a bunch of legacy stuff they're just getting around to deciding how to deprecate/replace.

That's the target customer for a lot of the stuff the major cloud providers do, actually. It's the whole focus of IBM's cloud hosting (Softlayer.) It's a majority of what Azure does. Even on AWS, look at any services that aren't pure automagic-IT-for-devs services, but are instead e.g. data-science services (Redshift), or pure ops services (AWS Storage Gateway), or even "IT for non-developers" services (AWS WorkSpaces!), and you'll see the same "CTO-ese."

Any IT service that isn't grown through groundswell support by devs, is grown by top-down partner-choice by a CTO.
I use Hugo to run a site for a small news organization. It’s flexible enough. I’ve never run into something I couldn’t make it do with some creative thinking. It doesn’t have any plugins because why would it need a plugin? I guess there is a basic build and an extended build for including image resizing, but they would only have one build if they didn’t need to use C for the image stuff. Plugins mean the system doesn’t solve the problems of its users…

It does have themes, but I just write my own.
Would $USL be a better investment? I've noticed it tracks with the price of oil much more closely and only has to renew 1/12 of its contracts every month. I thought it would better bet for something to hold onto for a year or two and then sell when oil goes back up.
Science generalizes into engineering etc, so not everything needs to be peer reviewed.

Without the germ model of disease aka science, we would be thinking about Coronavirus very differently. Thousands of years of human history and massive epidemics show how bad following common wisdom based on incorrect models can be.
All NZers get treated for cancer or pre-existing conditions, within the funding limits of the health system.

Severe health problems don’t bankrupt NZers, and you are not locked into a job just to (a) keep your insurance, or (b) keep your insurance benefits.

How many recently unemployed in the US have lost cover for their pre-existing conditions?

I expect you can find the benefits list document for Southern Cross, if you wished to check out the details of cover for cancer or pre-existing conditions.
No, I'm thinking more in the context that research professorships are not what they once were. They have effectively become a kind of sweatshop labor to the academic research institutions for which the reward is a PhD and then the delightful prospect of becoming an adjunct professor.

Such tremendous effort for little reward tends to dissuade many of the brightest minds from research careers and towards other careers like finance or consulting.
Yeah, it's definitely not the insurance companies that extort everyone for outrageous fees under threat of death thus creating most profitable industry in the world, yet producing nothing of value whatsoever who are the problem, it's all the doctors fault.
What do you believe that you do not know? Focus on learning that thing first; it will lead to other areas of things you don't know, which will lead to others...

Socrates said it best, "The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing".

But that being said, there are a ton of interesting areas with respect to computers and programming. Pick one or pick several, keep an open mind, try to learn from whatever source you can (Books, classes, articles on the web, self-experimentation, etc.).

It doesn't matter where you start... just start! <g>

Also, if one book/class/teacher/article is too difficult -- find a simpler one, or one that simplifies the topic, and learn from that one first!

Then, Lather, Rinse, Repeat, and eventually you'll have 12 PhD.'s, like most normal people who are computer/programming enthusiasts(!), ...or you'll become a reclusive crackpot like myself! <g>

(Shakespeare: "Much learning doth make thee mad!"... well, that's what happened to me! <g>)

Anyway, wishing you well in your quest!
> and worth noting that Johnson and his advisor Dominic Cummings who was hugely influential in pushing for it both went on to contract the illness

Not really worth noting. It's an interesting anecdote, and I'm sure those who take the pro-lockdown position revel in the schadenfreude… but it has no relevance to the debate.
Yup. While I do enjoy Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, anything I like that I can afford to buy a physical copy of, I do.
Little off topic but do you reckon that IB offers high compensation and better job stability on aggregate vs tech? Especially longevity wise. I'm sure not every associate becomes a MD but neither does every L3 a L8.
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Maybe but I really dont think AWS comes off this way. To me, AWS seems like this massive complex system with a million overlapping services that engineers like. What if cloud adoption is bottom up and not top down?
Where can you see storage level?
I’d love to find out otherwise, but I don’t think so. Macro economics is social science, not mathematics.
It's the school holidays in many states (I'm Australian).

All schools will open for term 2, with Victoria and the ACT saying parents should prefer to keep children at home when possible while the other states are advising there will be more face-to-face[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/13/are-s...
Santa Clara has less population density and air pollution.
Of course singular - or linear, say, from bad projection device - defects in that are rather final, and this format has a host of inconveniences like fire hazard, inability to get transferred over networks, comparatively huge costs of copying, large physical size demands etc.

We can perhaps use a convenient digital format for images and add to it, ahem, anti-corruption measures. Single file is still going to be vulnerable - even though to a less extent - if you, say, add some Reed-Solomon protection; but now you can use distributed networks the size of a planet, or even more. Organization of such a storage could be an interesting problem - at least partially solved already.
For anyone criticizing COBOL for inducing alleged brain damage: yes, it is an old language, but it's a domain-specific language.

The use case was processing of record-based inputs in an administrative context, based on a technology millions of times less powerful than current hardware, yet still able to sustain a massive administration (old-school banking, anyone?)

No, you will not write a compiler or a kernel module in COBOL, just like you won't write it in SQL, APL or Matlab. But for the purpose it was built for, you'll be a lot more comfortable than in most alternatives.
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Or they don't care about what you (the engineer) thinks as long as your non-engineer manager is impressed and convinced your team needs it to grow.
It's Google's managed kubernetes. But AWS, Azure, and your on-prem hardware appear as availability zones and workloads can shift between them.
> I'll be honest, I didn't think AOL did anything...interesting...

Well, there is also https://github.com/aol/ExtJS4-Fart
A parable I recall sometimes.

In Europe the grandfather has worked all his life to build a house, which will last for generations. The father has worked all his life to buy a car, which will last for generations. And the son is working with the aim to buy a yacht.

But in Japan each generation is working all life to re-build a house, which lasts only one generation.
So you think it's fair for someone to spend 2.5% of their income on a flu test when they have good reason to believe they may have COVID-19?
Thanks... It was near impossible to find a summary like this even on their product page.
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The China Study, one of the largest ever undertaken has been vetted and reviewed by 100s and thousands of scientists.

The case studies presented in the documentary are accurate and credible, with numerous historical facts.

As for bioavailability, the difference isn't very huge and you'll get more then enough amino acids from plant based sources without all the carcinogens that come from animal based sources.

Animals do Not make their own protein. They all get it from plants. Plants make the protein. Then the animals eat it. When you eat an animal, your just eating recycled protein. So, why not just cut out the middle man.

Meat has many problems. Dr. Milton Mills a stanford doctor, explains it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nti7JrBOQAk

Also, the people who live in the blue zones (the 100yr+ zones) typically eat very little or no meat/dairy.
Remember that, while available, it isn't legally so.

My advice is to avoid getting tainted. Do not read the code.

Of course, archivists, please do archive it. Even if Valve does never open source this, it should be possible to preserve somewhat adequately, and it should be legal to publish, at some point in the future, in some country or another.
Original C was portable to -platforms- and not to -users-.