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The only reason we've had relative peace since WW2 (75 years) is because of the strength of the US military. Prof. Hanson has argued that America's isolationist policy before WW2 actually caused it.

China generally doesn't start foreign wars, because they're too busy waging them on their own people. :)

About the only way the US could lose a war is by total surprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Davis_Hanson

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Social distancing to stop the spread binary version:

Loop:
1) Work monday-friday 6 hours practise strict social distancing. Work remote if you can.
2) Weekend rest from social distancing see friends.

Its like a binary four square wave with on / off.

Reason: If we practice good social distancing the spread time of the Covid is five days.
Simple... for what?

I’d like to setup a service, which depends on another service, and which must always be running, and if it goes down, it needs to have all forked processes killed, must be restarted, and it needs to run as a specific user.

With systemd? 5 lines or so of boilerplate, independent of distro.

I don’t know about you, but I call that simple.
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Some things I find useful:

Don't be scared that your skimming over topics - general knowledge is good - just make sure that occasionally you do a deep dive into something - spend some time looking in detail at a ML topic or language feature etc.

A deep dive doesn't need to be long - committing to 15 minutes learning about python lambda functions is time well spent. Those 15 minutes will add up and if you enjoy the topic will inspire you to do more.

Create structured notes on topics, if you read an ML book chapter make a note of the important bits, watch a youtube video write down any things that stuck out with a link, write some code fragments that demonstrate an API.

No one book can teach you a subject (I found this particularly true with ML), If you find yourself loosing interest reading a book/chapter, don't carry on - your probably not learning anything. Find some other resources on the topic and come back to it later (or not)
Can you expand what you mean by "truth is local"?

I'm asking, because I see it as the complete opposite. The rules of physics apply all over the world and outside of the planet. Yes, some patterns of reality are only found in a specific place on this planet (cultural values, for example), but things like whether COVID-19 is caused by 5G does not.
Vimeo,veoh, metacafe et al need to all merge into one and realize they have failed as individual companies more or less.

Secondly rush’s app will be removed, if he says anything that upsets big bro.

Lastly Facebook video will be just like YouTube in terms of enforcement.
Quoting: "Killing of user process are enabled by default in upstream but disabled by default in every distro that I know."
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Which means if Apple allows them to use non-metal drivers. Historically, there’s little reason to think Apple would waiver (wish they would) and the value for Nvidia to write their drivers using Metal is minimal.

I’m kind of curious though: what value do their web drivers have to them now that they couldn’t just release them as OSS and allow a determined group to rewrite them as Metal.
Turbofolk is more of a Serbian thing.
Typically, by the time I'm at the point where I'm dynamically generating HTML, I'm also at the point where I've got enough tooling around it already that adding Sass/Less to the mix ain't much of a big deal.
Sounds risky, apply for a MS that you don’t want them do a semester trying to transfer to another?
A hobbyist making hiring decisions and maintaining a blacklist of professionals who bitch about a change they had no control over? You're not helping.
> There are large swathes of the population that have been infected asymptomatically: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti....

No, there are tests that have high false-positive rates. The studies in both the US and Europe used similarly flawed tests and didn't correctly account for the false-positive rates of those tests. [0]

There are two ways to think through how these results are flawed: the first is that the false positive rates of the tests is vastly higher than the prior (which we'll assume is approximately the confirmed case rate per capita) is. There were three studies, NYC, Santa Clara, and one in Europe that I know of. All three tests had false positive rates over 2%, and one test had a false positive rate of like 10%. So when a study shows that a large percent of the population have the virus, and that percentage is suspiciously similar to the false-positive rate of the test, you pause.

The second is a much more grokkable one. Let's assume that 2% of people in Santa Clara were infected (per the study), then 40,000 people are infected, and of them around 2000 people were symptomatic enough to get tested and be hospitalized/tested (per available stats). Or 5% of infections are symptomatic enough to get noticed, ish. Then we'd see that NYC would have ~3.5 million people infected now, or something like 40%.

So we'd expect to see 40% (or more actually) of people tested in NY and NYC test positive for covid. But we don't[1]. We see that as NY adds more tests, the positive rate of the more reliable tests is going down, because they can test more people and because NY appears to be over the hump. At peak, 20% of people were testing positive daily, now it's down to closer to 10%.

And note that most of the tests are going to people who have some symptoms of something, which is why it's that high. 40% of NY residents were infected, we'd expect to see more than 40% of the tests positive, but we don't.

If you do the same calculation but with death rate, you find that there are more people in NYC with Covid than live in NYC. In conclusion: those studies are bad because the tests they use are unreliable.

[0]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...

[1]: https://health.data.ny.gov/d/xdss-u53e/visualization
I would love operating a small ship for my groceries store rather than sitting in front of my computer all day.
> I don't see Intel becoming a contract manufacturer soon but I'm sure they've discussed it internally.

My company just abandoned an ASIC project with Intel. Should have been a turnkey FPGA conversion but they couldn't deliver.
You will then be expected to work at thst mid level and evaluated against actual mid level engineers.
Yes, they did. It they didn't break it was because those inits were compatible with sysvinit scripts. You lose that once you start porting your init scripts over to rc or whatever it is you replaced your init with, and now your system will break if you try to switch to something else.
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Not sure what this means?

The point of analysis pieces often isn't to share new information, but instead is to share that fact that information is now very important.

Also I for one didn't realise that most of Saudi support in Congress had eroded enough in favor of the US industry to the point where is was now (to quote) "a sharp increase in hostility from members of the U.S. Congress who in the past appeared to appreciate the multifaceted relationship between Riyadh and Washington"
The problem is that not all device drivers take advantage of IOMMU, to run device drivers as user level programs.
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Legally admissible digital signatures do exist, and you can infinitely photocopy a digitally signed document, though. Not so with fax, where a photocopy would count as a different document.
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That may be - club penguin was part of the list of children browser games at the time providing real time player interaction. I listed it because I imagine that's the one most people in tech know because it got a lot of media attention but I admit I know the least about it.

Club penguin limited chat as opposed to habbo hotel and moviestarplanet which had, surprisingly, free style chatting (at least in the non-US versions).

These were both from scandinavian companies which had a more liberal attitude. As a result, the player connections were deeper.
Some people are making good money because they are in a business that is considered unattractive, for example waste disposal. On the other hand, in an industry that is considered "cool" (like gaming or fashion) some people have a tendency for self exploitation, because they are willing to do just about everything to be in that industry. In those industries you will find quite a few people (especially self-employed) with big dreams and very little income.
> Face it: the linux userspace has always sucked. Linus punted on it way-back-when (to be fair, he was a solo dev working on a kernel, he had his hands full) and opted for the gnu tools, but those (other than the compiler and libc and a few other spots like grep) have never been best-in-class.

Which userspace are you claiming is better then? Linux used to offer the best userland experience in the world, because you had control over every part of it, and since things were loosely coupled you could mix and match at will (e.g. prefer BSD grep or Solaris tar? No problem, install them).

> Somehow, this ended in a holy war and corresponding schism. It makes no sense to me. Are linux users upset that someone dared question their decades of suffering under a poorly-designed userspace? Agree or disagree with systemd's decisions, it's hard to fault someone for making and releasing software and offering it as an alternative, even if it sucks.

They didn't build a better alternative and let users choose to adopt it organically. They made a wilfully incompatible, tightly coupled thing, and then pressured other projects to hard-depend on it (e.g. Gnome).

This is quite literally the antithesis of everything that Linux and Unix stands for. The whole reason people were able to use the GNU tools with the Linux kernel is because they are loosely coupled and communicate through standardised interfaces. Systemd by contrast doesn't run anywhere but linux, and you need closely matched versions of everything: your linux has to match your udev has to match your systemd has to match your dbus has to match your gnome has to match your...

If systemd had been around when GNU and Linux were starting out, the whole project would have been literally impossible. It's a betrayal of everything those projects stand for.
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I love slack.

There's something extremely beautiful in launching htop and seeing less than 10 processes (including those of root).
It's true that a supermarket or a shop is about 30 min drive for most places, but those rural areas are typically poorer, and populated with the elderly, so driving is not an option.
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Monopolies are hard to break if the product is free for consumers.
Your init scripts would have to be replaced, that's to be expected, and when multiple ordinary init systems are popular, packages could easily support more than one since an init script is generally only a few lines.

I'm talking about all the things that now break not related to the normal function of init at all.
Sounds like a corollary to the Dunning-Kruger Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
It's really funny the things you can believe if you're really convinced of something. He really is looking at dirt roads criss-crossed by more dirt, and claiming they are ancient roads criss-crossed by ancient railroads. Or looking at artifacts of how Google maps are built (being stitched together from photographs from different days, different cameras, and a combination of satellite and airplane imagery as you zoom in and out etc) and getting convinced that they represent both doctored images AND signs of artificial construction on a massive scale).
To the people who talk about devices becoming bricks: why do you pay more than a small fee if you effectively only rent them?

if you "buy" something you are not root on or cannot change the bootloader (and everything) on, you must expect it to stop working from day 1. To me, it would not make sense to pay for that.

lack of knowledge doesn't save you, after all.
For non-system users, there's no good reason to use python outside a virtual environment now, and IMO the devs shouldn't encourage it.

Perhaps python should issue a warning if used outside a virtual environment, unless that warning is deliberately suppressed by a flag? That would be worth a point release on all older versions.
You've got 100 Terabytes of storage in the cloud (capability) but only a 100 Mbps connection (capacity).
It should be a single backlog for the whole company (obv divided up by product or component of whatever for ease of managing) but a single list of features in order.

This will of course mean that the decision makers will need to sort out their politics and divisions to agree an order. This is usually hidden by giving vague and conflicting directions to the rest of the business and hoping it will all sort out.

By solving the politics at the top the organisation will benefit greatly from clarity and resource allocation.

Chances are high that even asking for this will reveal enough problems that you can decide if staying is worth it.
> This argument does not pass smell test. In countries where masks were mandated, there was simultaneously lock on medical masks. People used homemade ones at first and then later you could buy non-medical cloth masks.

Right, and there are no studies that I'm aware of showing that cloth face masks are effective at stopping the spread of covid-19. They're good at stopping large particles (which afaik you only really have if you're coughing), but not small/aerosolized ones.

Again, if you're being careful with your mask and making sure to clean it regularly and treat it like a dangerous object and washing hands after using it etc. It might help. If you aren't, it might hurt. Hence the WHO's guidance.

To be clear, I'm not saying "masks are bad", or even "masks aren't good". I'm saying "the evidence that masks are helpful is not strong enough to decry an organization that doesn't recommend them."
This is the kind of false argument being thrown around often in OSS discourse that ignores the structural power differential.

Don't like it? Write your own/Leave.

The fact is you can't go back to it as an individual, because the system has changed and as an individual you're powerless to change the situation at all, especially against an army of developers paid full-time. The latest news from Debian is sysvinit support is no longer guaranteed.
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This has been a big fear for me - its why in my scripts, I obsessively check whether I am where I should be after a cd before I try any changes. Has saved my back many times.
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Any chance of macOS support?
It's better than that. Intel was an ARM licensee for a brief period after they acquired StrongARM from DEC and developed Xscale. If they had any vision that could have been leveraged into a best in class low power mobile platform.
I'm about 2 months and a couple of dozen loaves into sourdough starter. Excellent results.
In the current economic climate, in the tech sector, the idea doesn't matter. It's almost all about execution and social networks.

Does your business model leverage network effects? Did you get funding from the right investors? Does your business model reward customers for helping you recruit other customers? If so, then your odds are very good regardless of what you do.

If you don't have a network growth strategy, then nobody will know about your startup. You can have the best idea in the history of the universe, it's not going to work because no one has an incentive to use and recommend your product or service but they have an incentive to maintain the status quo.

Investors and users need to stand to gain more from your project than from upholding the status quo. And these days many investors are shareholders or employees of the status quo so this is a difficult thing to pull off.
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But closing the office pads the CEO's pocketbook! So some will choose to close offices but others will keep it open. It will probably be divided between companies whose CEO is motivated primarily by money or by motivated by power.
This is my biggest struggle right now. I am very similar in "nature" to you and the OP you replied to. I just cannot get myself to do hard things ONLY because they are hard. I am young and struggling to find my way. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I have always thought something is wrong with me. But maybe I am just wired that way. I can still immerse myself in really hard things but only if I enjoy it.
Same stuff that makes a good leader.

IMO; They will engage you, make you curious, inspire you to become a better version of yourself and help you work towards your goals and objectives.

A good leader will also be there for you to guide you when you need extra attention and most importantly let you have room to fail.

To the good teachers and managers I've had, and I am currently having. Thank you.
The other component here is "where you came from." When I joined Sun there were two very distinct programmer/hacker cultures; the PC and its spawn and "real" computers (mini and mainframe computers) and their OSes.

The cultures were very different, I straddled them with my hobby working being CP/M->PC->Amiga, and my professional work being RSX-11M->TENEX->TOPS20->UNIX.

Linux (and Minix) started out very much being a PC version of UNIX and PC-BSD jumped in there too. But Linus ceded userland to the community and as the community's membership has grown the people who wanted Linux to be the perfect UNIX lost out to the people who wanted Linux to be an open source version of Microsoft Windows.

It appeared to me that the folks who liked UNIX semantics fled to MacOS, although the complaints on that front are getting louder as well. So here we are.
> Since the kernel's idea of "a login session" is wrong (it only includes text-terminals), and it can't easily be changed for compatibility reasons

This is a CADT attitude. Improving existing interfaces while maintaining compatibility is hard; it's also what makes the difference between a serious software professional and an incompetent vandal.
Every industry is going to face / implement a degree of cost cutting, that's unavoidable. However the control and scalability of cloud within an ethos of cost cutting is attractive for this exact reason. A business can enter that market and know they have a very flexible amount of control over their expenditure. You need to keep in mind its only a minatory of companies who have migrated to cloud, the majority have plans, but had never made the crossover as yet. With necessity being the mother of all invention, this adoption will only accelerate now
The radar and thermals are still electronic. It might have registered a glitch, that appeared to look like an unknown object on the displays.
Gimme a break. The "problems" you mention in "other comments" come from someone talking about a fiction: War of the Worlds.

But if you're going to discuss the hypotheticals, like why they might visit or reveal themselves or not, I think it's interesting.

Why assume they would just show themselves openly?

Sure, people use the lack of "public open mass contact" to dispute that ETs exist. But that's only 1 theory that fits that data point (but doesn't fit the centuries of accounts, and now video evidence of sky vehicles).

I think it's interesting to consider many other reasons why we have not had "mass open contact":

- humans are idiots and we're not worth the effort. Has a representative of any country ever gone to an ant hill and done an official representation species-to-species? But actually ants are pretty clever, so it does not do them justice.

- maybe they're private and sensitive, and scared of our germs.

- maybe they're just not very sociable. They prefer to stick with their own kind.

- maybe they don't care that it would be a "big thing" for Earth/humanity. To them, using portals to travel the universe is not a big thing.

- maybe they are doing "secret surveillance" to observe the Earth lifeforms and they don't want to distort the data by interacting

- It would mess us up to much. Prime directive.

- Our world government thinks it would mess us up/ mess up the status quo too much, and they negotiated a "stay" on open contact.

- The ETs have no interest in suppressing nor promoting us, they just use Earth/Moon/Solar system as some sort of transit point, and openly revealing themselves would complicate their goals.

- There has been mass contact, in small stages, but it's been so muddied by disinfo and shaming that people think there hasn't been.

You can spend all day thinking about reasons for and against. It's fun, but it doesn't address the video evidence and "contact" accounts. Why not a #"Me Too" moment for UFO contactees? Doesn't everyone have a right to be heard and believed before being subjected to further scrutiny and investigation in order to establish believability?
It seems to me that the ideal there would involve retiring off of a cushy waste-disposal salary, and then working on gaming or fashion as an independently-wealthy hobbyist.
Is anything 'recession proof', 'crash proof'?

I dislike articles like this because nothing is "proof/immune" if the hurt/pain is strong enough.

I 100% believe that many cloud companies are recession resistant, but it really depends what market forces that recession is driven by.

If this was 2008 crash again, we'd say all real estate cloud companies were not recession proof.
Isn’t this just another example of how businesses start?

Hauling a trailer vs trucking in, storing, and managing stock. Seems like a smart move to keep overhead low.
The food was already sealed and safe for travel. Can't recall clearly, but I think it was some dried fish or sausage dish. So it was just a manner of getting it delivered. She ordered a lot and didn't want the hassle of us lugging it with us during the remainder of our day.

Still, impressive nonetheless.