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The 2020 soothsayers [0] could not have been more wrong. This pandemic has questioned the sustainability of many startups that provide no value to society and have resorted to purely being driven by buzzwords and hype to get investors to continuously throw money at them. The red flag was signalled after the poor tech IPO performances of 2019 and right now, the same companies have taken a critical hit from this pandemic.

Maybe when this is all over, we should really go back to looking at companies that are 'financially sustainable' rather than investing in frivolous tech companies that compete in burning up their capital on cloud services owned by some FAAMNG companies. Henceforth, the magnificent FAANMG will sail through this storm unscathed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934955
> unless the rate limiting is hardware controlled

I think this is the case on newer iPhones. But it might be flawed somehow given how Cellebrite were still able to brute-force?
Raph also linked to https://www.figma.com/blog/desperately-seeking-squircles/
The better comparison is China and covid 19. Same type of government and nearly the same reaction. The difference is this one did affect the world in profoundly harmful ways and quickly at that.
Vaccines are not placebo tested
I'm not disagreeing with you... Its horrible but that is the industry standard.

Honestly my biggest problem right now is that I don't even know if there's anything I can buy/upgrade to speed it up. I don't know how to determine what the bottleneck is, so to speak.
IPC on Zen 2 is arguably slightly ahead of Intel, but they don't overclock or boost to 5Ghz.
This is like “Know Your Customer” (KYC) rules required by banks and financial companies. So many online providers ask for it, and it’s so stupidly easy to bypass through stolen documents it’s meaningless. I’ve even seen customers setup booths where they pay people in slums for their documents and go through a “live” KYC in-app process to generate more accounts.

Security Theater, just like everything.
I don't get any ads whatsoever on YouTube with uBO. What I do get is about a 20% chance of something screwing up in the ad blocking process for prerolls and getting the grey "there was an error" screen instead of a video. I just hit reload and the video starts playing.

Slightly annoying, but I don't utilize auto play, so I don't have to worry about it stopping my playlist or passive watching.
You wrote "altavista", and I heard "astalatista" which was a site I followed, for the cracks and reverse-engineering content.

Astalavista and +Fravia's reverse engineering sites were a lot of fun to follow back in the day, when reverse engineering anti-piracy dongles that plugged into your PC's parallel-port.
We are in agreement. Doctors advice should definitely not be unquestionable. In fact, there are a number of studies which show iatrogenesis as being one of the leading causes of death in the US.
I really hate these articles, they're click bait intended to sow discourse among fanbois and drive traffic to the site. People who have recently built systems read them and either feel validation or regret. That just spawns comments from people either trying to justify their loser choice or flaunt their lucky choice of the winner. The loyalists crawl out of wood work to make comments like "I still prefer x because y". These articles draw broad conclusions and influence perception across the board, even if they mention performance tiers, that brand X is always superior to brand Y.

I've been building systems for almost 30 years and in that time Intel has mostly been the performance champion AND has always screwed you over on price. Sometimes they lead by a lot, sometimes by very little or not at all but their platform is always more expensive.

Both Intel and AMD introduce a brand (e.g. Pentium, Ahtlon) as their new flagship and then overtime erode the brand each year with lower spec products. Eventually they stop introducing higher spec products altogether and the brand sinks to the bottom of their product lineup as a new brand takes the top ranks (e.g. i9, Ryzen).

Depending on when you get into building PCs you might have brand loyalty because maybe your first system was a Celeron you unlocked and ran at PIII speeds. Or maybe you picked up a first gen Althon that was the performance king for a few quarters, or the Athlon II when Intel was floundering with Netburst. Maybe you started out with Core and in your view Intel has always dominated AMD. Regardless your perceptions are skewed.

Identify your workload and your budget, buy the best thing that meets your needs regardless of brand. Intel is historically more stable and less problematic. AMD usually offers significantly more performance per $ on the low end. Then again that all takes too much effort, just buy whatever makes you feel good about yourself on the internet according to these click bait articles.
Ha! I thought you had misspelled horde! ;-)
There also is a NixOS derivative OS project "aimed squarely at security" https://spectrum-os.org/
Mine too!

It's crazy that almost a century of human history might have been so fundamentally influenced by this one invisible factor.
One reason that healthcare in the U.S. is so expensive compared with every other country is these adverts.

US TV costs something like $78b a year (based on 36% of $220b [0]), or $600 per household, on top of cable costs.

If 25% of adverts are for prescription drugs, then $150 a year of health spending is what you pay for the 6 minutes an hour of tedious healthcare adverts. (There's another $450 extra you pay when buying mattresses or whatever else is advertised on TV)

[0] https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Total-US-Ad-Spending-See-L...
Even if the government has the best intentions in this instance, it doesn’t matter. They have already created a set of laws that clearly dictate that this app and this data can be used how ever intelligence communities desire.

They have burned all goodwill and trust with the public. It doesn’t matter what they say today unless they repeal AABill etc. Otherwise they’re just saying empty words.
I think the end game for pharmaceutical companies is something like this. They show this ad to 1 million people. Of those 1 million people, 3000 are HIV positive. Of the 3000, 1% ask their doctor about the new drug. Now 30 physicians research the drug and find that it might be more effective in patients that present with x or have y comorbidities. They start prescribing it in those cases. Rarely do physicians care about what it is going to cost the patient.
Ad revenue has also dropped with DVR use. It's amusing to think about adding 20% of ads to compensate for 20% of viewers skipping over the ads, since it's a race to 100% ads that nobody watches.
It also assumes that this important single threaded process's dev team isn't actively working on parallelizing it. And that the primary purpose of the computer will be running this process until its end of life. Both pretty bad assumptions given the minimal benefit and high cost.
Wow big props to you though. I'm 19 right now, if I had a kid now, I'd have no idea what to do. Would probs turn out very badly.
The most complex thing you'll need to do is learn is whatever something like this (taken from my laptop's config, enables acpid, openssh, tlp, sddm, and make plasma5 and E available as sessions):

services = {
acpid.enable = true;
openssh.enable = true;
tlp.enable = true;
xserver = {
enable = true;
layout = "us";
libinput.enable = true;
displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
desktopManager.enlightenment.enable = true;
};
};

and then after the OS is install firefox to your local user profile:

nix-env -iA nixos.firefox-bin

You will also need to partition your harddrive, but the install/live USB includes the KDE partition manager, so you don't even need to use the commnd-line for that.
There isn't any way to accurately track how many people in a high school are having sex. We used to talk about sex a lot when I was in high school too, but I really have no idea how much actual sex was going on.
The species is becoming more and more domesticated.
meanwhile I can regularly override even major release versions of dependencies in elixir with out breaking changes. dependency fickleness has always been a huge issue for me when working with node.
Has anyone sold stuff on Bonanza? Is it worth investing the time?
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Thomas Sowell is far from an objective observer here. If this is a true claim, then I'd like to see a stat thrown out.

If we're just comparing anecdotes, as someone who attended one of these "elite" universities, this didn't seem to be the case at all.
Not really an answer, but possibly food for thought. I suspect there are a handful of funded projects that are retreading old ground in seemingly disparate disciplines, for example by applying fairly simple computational techniques to areas that have seen very little prior activity from anyone with an interest in CS (arts subjects perhaps).

Also worth noting that if you're in the UK (possibly other non-US countries too) you wouldn't have to go through the whole qualifying exam ringer which cuts down the effort slightly and the expected number of years until thesis submission to 3-4.
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I've been running COVIDSafe on Android for most of today, Samsung's Battery monitor is showing 3% battery use by COVIDSafe after 6 hours. I guess that's about a 10-12% battery hit over a full day, but at least it's using less battery than Spotify or TuneIn or Pocket Casts when they were in use with the screen off. So we're not talking Pokemon Go levels of battery drain here.

It works fine in the background on Android. Much like the Pebble smartwatch app does for its Bluetooth connection, you get a permanent notification, and you have to disable battery saver to stop the app sleeping. But you can still use your phone for other things. Battery monitor regards the app as in "Active" use the whole time, not in "background" use.
The impression I got after reading "Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" was not that Feynman was sexist (though I did raise my eyebrows a few times), but that he laundered his vanity via manufactured anecdotes about himself. When I say manufactured, I don't mean "false", I mean he subtly (but actively) manipulated the (otherwise ordinary) situations he found himself in such that they would turn into interesting or even unbelievable anecdotes starring... well him!

I still enjoyed the book immensely, mind you, and I have no doubt some of the anecdotes were genuine, but that was the general impression I had by the end.
People have no business complaining about misinformation while accepting religion. Religions are of course far more dangerous than "5G causes coronavirus". But somehow it's now taboo to criticize religions and feels like we're heading back to the bad old days of blasphemy being a crime.
datatables.net is a good modular javascript library that handles pagination and child tables and export to csv/excel. you will still need to write some code for formatting the api calls into a useable format.
aka a debugging nightmare. good luck figuring anything out if something goes wrong.
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That is my frustration too. The government, for good reason, massively encroaches on our liberties and even our right to personal safety - exercise, mental health, family ties, access to non-emergency health care. This warrants a good explanation and clear expectations of future plans, not just “duh, science”.

Not questioning the need for severe restrictions as such, but the form in which they arrive.
>forests or similar safe areas

Unfortunately walking trails were not built for social distancing.
The other thing I will add is that the miniseries drew
heavily from Svetlana Alexievich’s master work ‘Voices of
Chernobyl’, which I cannot recommend enough.

I think the book's title is "Chernobyl Prayer" and may be "Voices of Chernobyl" is the subtile. The edition (from Penguin) I am reading currently just has the title "Chernobyl Prayer". I haven't watched the series, but can't recommend the book enough, especially in these testing times where it is hard to get a good grasp of the situation unfolding. Sadly (as the book narrates) most of the people on the ground who were first deputed (forced) to carry out cleanup activities in the aftermath of Chernobyl were ill equipped, and many got exposed to high levels of radiation resulting in devastating consequences. This is not very different from the risks that many frontline workers fighting the current pandemic have to bear with.
Advogato was a great site! I had a couple of accounts as my first was lost in a disk/server crash.

There was even an XSS-based worm that hit the site at one point, but the bookmarked link I have for it is gone. I know I reported a couple of similar issues later:

https://steve.fi/security/xss/advogato

https://steve.fi/security/xss/advogato2
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Are you purposely modeling this on how ASCAP works?
gold has had threading support since its release in 2008. Likewise for lld, which is an order of magnitude faster than gold.

From anecdotal experience of the code I am on right now, relinking a few hundred megabytes of .o's takes less than 2 seconds with lld on my 6900k.
A similar thing happened after the Fukushima disaster. People are remarkably altruistic and cooperative in these scenarios. Often times when society is under stress social order doesn't breakdown but instead becomes more rigid.

>> People were carrying pieces of undeveloped film to determine cumulative level of radiation after trips there.

This is still a standard dosimetry measurement in the West (film has a very long integrating time so cumulative exposure over a week or two can be reliably tracked).
Yah that is indeed a super important optimization for avoiding round trips. CRIU does this and calls it "pre-paging", their wiki also mentions that they adapt their page streaming to try to pre-stream pages around pages that have been faulted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_migration#Post-copy_memor...

edit: lol I didn't realized that isn't CRIU's wiki since they just linked to a Wikipedia page and both use WikiMedia software. This is the actual CRIU wiki page, and it's way harder to tell if they do this, although I suspect they do and it's in the "copy images" step of the diagram https://criu.org/Userfaultfd
Carnegie-Mellon is second tier? I always pictured my oldest going there and learning with some real radical change-the-world scientists and professors. I was under the impression these people were the leaders in forward thinking technological progression.

You have IBM, Package Bell labs, Microsoft, Google - doing tech in general.

And then way out there researching neurolink fungi-based mesh materials: Carnegie-Mellon.
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Freshmeat is another site that I recall with fondness, seeing new programs/projects on a daily-basis was pretty awesome as a new Linux user in the mid nineties.

I'm surprised that hasn't been mentioned by anybody else yet!
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You're right, it's shocking, although I think it's mainly during sports (which sports nerds already pay a fortune for to subscribe to sky sports / bt sport).

The vast majority of TV viewing in the UK is on BBC, amazon prime, netflix or disney plus, and thus doesn't contain commercials, just adverts for other shows from the same provider. The rest of the stuff is mainly aimed at old people sat at home - visited my nan today, who had some terrible channel on (channel 65 or something). Adverts were almost entirely for stairlifts and to leave money to charities in wills.
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Shh, do you need some BDD for your project?
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This kills considerably more people than the flu, please stop making the comparison.
Wapp is a great piece of software. The entire "framework" (including the HTTP server) is just under 1000 lines of code (and that's including comments).
The odds of being able to buy another house are far higher if I had the money to pay off the first mortgage. The government literally and figuratively prints money. In trying to avoid as deep a global recession as we are headed into, it seems the government could use this ability in some fashion to help those who's houses have been destroyed, to buy another house.
Interesting historical research stuff here. The original article https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13469 is much better and quite readable if you have access.

Having more than one data point for “reliably provable death by meteor” will significantly improve the estimated odds of dying this way (for all the actuarial types out there) and also helps refine statistical models of broader meteor related risks (albeit on the low end) behind the logic of maintaining efforts in planetary defence.
An audio processing chain is necessarily single-threaded. e.g. if you want to simulate a guitar rack you have to first simulate the distortion pedal before the amp, the amp before the cab, the cab before the delay / reverb / whatever 200 other effects you're chaining. And you have to do all that in tight deadlines, e.g. <= 2 milliseconds.
CP stands for "College Placement" and is the baseline, AP is regulated by the College Board and considered the most prestigious, and Honors is somewhere in between.
Exploit details were released a few days ago[1]. Some essential bits were removed, so not any script kiddie can use it, but it's only a matter of time before a full exploit available publicly.

As for how it relates to the app, I don't think it matters much. I'd imagine most people already have bluetooth enabled, so using this app or not won't change their vulnerability status.

[1] https://insinuator.net/2020/04/cve-2020-0022-an-android-8-0-...
If you're the kind of person that gets that keyboard, you don't really care about power consumption on your CPU. Handling it as it's streamed in really isn't that big of a deal.

It's not even like sound where you'd be doing a bunch of DSP on it right after.
turn your snippets into exported functions. then your IDE will autocomplete them.
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Really cool idea! Thanks for providing so much detail in the post. I enjoyed it.

A somewhat related project is the PIOS operating system written 10 years ago but still used today to teach the operating systems class there. The OS has different goals than your project but it does support forking processes to different machines and then deterministically merging their results back into the parent process. Your post remind me of it. There's a handful of papers that talks about the different things they did with the OS, as well as their best paper award at OSDI 2010.

https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/
> I do know that 7bit encodings can break a whole lot of parsers in unexpected ways.

That would be interesting. Would you please share some unit test cases and I will run them past @ronomon/mime?
Based on what I heard from other folks (I am an immigrant and have no first hand experience) your experience seems pretty typical in early 90s. There were of course different setups, but I do not think it is primarily based on class or income. They were schools that pushed kids, but they were statistically rare. In 1990, being up until 2AM several times a week doing school projects would be considered insane. Now, while not universal, it is not unheard of.

But I think you hit the nail on the head mentioning the current "your life is on file, no mistakes allowed" setup. To me, it is critical to let kids try things, including stupid things, and learn from their mistakes without having those mistakes affect every job search 20 years later.

I think the pendulum will eventually swing back, but the generation growing up in the current setup will have to try the same stupidities and learn similar things as adults, at a much higher cost. My 2c.
What is an example of something that provides no value?
The government shouldn't lean on a company to throw barriers in the way of speech. I really don't care what people want to pay to say, even if it is the horrible "fake news" which some seem to think is a new invention.

Why does anyone need to know who paid for all advertising?
depends on the value of your time.
The best summary of how "science" and an epidemiologic modeling is not governance and the tradeoffs of most governmental actions are seemingly not even recognized let alone balanced.
Ah, the Plan 9 bits I was remembering are actually in Inferno... http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/4/grid-cpu.html
They can thank the US for footing the bill for all those war toys.
I have written a book - on music technology, specifically using Cubase, but giving a good all-round basis to start understanding and creating music using Cubase. It took me a long time to write (years of prep work, and then a full year of spare time to actually properly write, typeset and proof and self-publish), and then it languished as I'd never thought about publicity; it was used by students of mine who found it immensely useful, but that was pretty much that.

Only a fluke meeting of the book with someone from the software house who create the book led to some increased popularity and sales, along with incremental improvements in sales from my youtube channel [1].

The book is only available in print form, as I've never trusted any DRM to be worthwhile, and nearly everyone I know who makes music does so with software they haven't paid for. I know this is entirely counter to the article and also everyone's experience on here, but I'm wondering if this is a little different as there aren't consultancies etc in the music tech segment. The most you'll get from someone who has read your book is a few hours' work (at normal rates) either classroom teaching, or one-to-one online.

At the current time (as nearly everything I normally do is face-to-face), the sales from the book are the only income I have; it's not a lot, but last month's sales were about half the baseline I need to pay my bills, so I can't complain. I know I could be completely wrong about this, but I can't imagine that giving it away would do anything other than decimate this income.

[0] - http://tinyurl.com/cubasebookamazon

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/musictechtuition
I think your comment has good intentions by trying to let parent comment know their hiring prospects may not being as daunting as it currently seems, but the immediate social and parental pressures are going to make it hard to see the forest through the trees... I feel for these kids.
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