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> It's pretty much unknown in the rest of Europe.

Maybe you meant the EU (genuinely, not a dig), in which case you could be right.
In Europe however we in the UK have a big fondness for peanut butter too.
Or Downton Abbey, or ST:TNG, or...

Lots of great shows out there to just enjoy.
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Don't know how people are STILL concerned about egg intake. The science has been out for over a decade at this point.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-3010...
> AI does not know how to upgrade an EC2 instance when the application starts hitting memory limits

That's exactly the kind of thing "serverless" hosting has done for a while now.
There's three ways of looking at this, one in which he's wrong, and two in which he's saying something much less interesting than it sounds like he's saying.

As this P0 post says repeatedly: KVM has a relatively small attack surface. It's audited pretty carefully relative to the rest of the kernel. The idea behind KVM-based workload isolation is that it trades a very large attack surface (the entire kernel) for one that is by definition much smaller (a subsystem of the kernel that handles virtualization). The rest of the kernel runs behind that subsystem, as far as isolated applications are concerned. This is a very good trade in practice. The Linux kernel (really, all Unix kernels) are much less trustworthy than kernel VMM drivers.

So if de Raadt means to be saying that virtualization is by design less secure than shared-kernel isolation, he's wrong, just sort of plainly.

On the other hand, there are at least two valid points he can be making with this line.

First: virtualization systems consist of more than just the kernel virtualization driver. If you include QEMU in the mix, for instance, it's debatable whether you've gained much over a single exposed Linux kernel. Especially at the time de Raadt wrote this, it would be totally fair game to say that virtualization was a security shitshow compared to jailing processes or whatever. Of course, the future belongs to memory-safe VMMs that use an smaller and smaller subset of memory-unsafe kernel code.

Second, it's just hard to write anything without security holes, so if "it's not bug free" is the dunk here, well, let him cast the first stone, &c.
> Government is funded by taxes from the people who live in the municipality. Even if they offer it for "free", everyone in the area gets the benefit of it.

But if I wish to purchase internet from a different provider, I still have to subsidize other people's internet. I'm forced to pay for something whether I use it or not.
I believe that the person above was using a common english expression to put emphasis on the fact you received a complete medical check up that probably included your doctor's undivided attention for over an hour as well as blood tests and a follow up by your doctor as part of your $400USD annual healthcare costs.

They are contrasting that with their brief online sessions with their doctor that cost them $1000.

The emphasis on whole is to distinguish being the partial check up that they received for more money.
AND you are no longer willing to finance it (inject your own or other people's capital).
Or the fair play might have meant Microsoft would never have surpassed Intel so we would have no big corporation making hardware decoupled OS.
In the last 20-30 years, American parents and adults have put an enormous amount of focus and pressure on students for educational achievements as indicators for future successes. It's likely because of inequalities in the quality of education between schools, and inequalities of opportunities from schools. Get to a good school -> get good job because went to good school-> get good life. Otherwise, you're a failure. Education is seen as the lynchpin in social mobility.

The lack of social safety net, and a desire for their children to become successful, creates an all or nothing focus on educational achievement.
Russian hackers had months-long access to Denmark's central bank
Someone aptly mentioned in the Ars thread, Ohio runs an ISP--OARnet and it's pretty successful
We can vilify Walmart for a number of things even if this one is not one of them. They need to pull a lot of nice things to get to neutral.
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Stories like your intern skiing for 9 years or the GP ‘5 years snowboarding’ usually omit describing rich parents in the background picking all sort of tabs.
Why not join a slow enterprise F500 and recharge, focus on hobbies and coast through the 9-5? Start ups in contrast over work you and leads to burn out.
Lens looks interesting feature-wise, but it appears to use the same sham "open-source" branding where the main downloadable product includes features you can't find in the open source version.

Does anyone know of a clear description of what Lens has that OpenLens doesn't?
A unit test isn't going to spot a bug like this, nor would a pre-written integration test. The kernel is extensively fuzzed.
Like the other commenter said, start with your health insurer's website. Read Google Reviews and such, with a skeptical eye for crazy people leaving bad reviews for dumb reasons, and then check them out. During that first meeting, you're evaluating them as much as they're evaluating you.

Them suggesting medication is not necessarily a red flag. But if it's important to you to try other techniques first, then tell them that. If you don't want to start with the medicine route, consider seeing a psychologist instead of a psychiatrist.

Either way, you want to see someone with a conservative outlook. If they put you on medication, they should start with low doses and be obsessed about whether you are having side-effects. If they're talk therapists, you don't want some Freudian or similar bullshit. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is just modern talk therapy that focuses on identifying your dysfunctional thought patterns and fixing them, is probably what you want on that end of things.
To rephrase an old saying: "When BTC sneezes, the crypto market catches a cold"
More people is actually an asset to protocols like IPFS because everyone who downloads the data also serves it to others, so actually the more popular something is, the easier it is to get.

Likewise with ENS, all the data is stored locally on your local copy of the chain, so it doesn't matter how many users are making queries because each one is only querying their own node.

Also users are serving files to each other in an offline-first ecosystem. From that perspective it could be faster and more reliable as well.
What if it copies only a few lines, but not an entire function? Or the function name is different, but the code inside is the same?
Watchdog urged to probe solid gold can prize claim
Were you in Guangzhou by any chance? They weird connections for foreigners that bypass the firewall, things that don’t exist in Beijing or Shanghai.
I read the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky after Remembrance of Earth's Past and really enjoyed both.
Psilocybin results in profound sadness for me, that lasts for days. Microdoses, macrodoses - it just varies the intensity/duration of the dysphoria.

NMDA antagonists were an amazing find. A ketamine prescription allowed me to function at all for the last few years, until I started to develop bladder pain and had to discontinue it. I've recently experimented with nitrous oxide, but hasn't turned out to be feasible.

LSD, I can't source. Given my experiences with Psilocybin, I haven't tried very hard.

The further out stuff, such as salvia divinorum, is so under examined as to be utterly speculative. Can't say it had much of an effect, either.

I've also used induced hyperthermia, which has a minor effect on my mood. The effect is also of very short duration.
Thanks, I will.

To be clear, my wishful thinking would include an editor for images and video that's like a great text editor.
> It's not even close, for women age 20-29 the risk of fatal thrombosis is 1:250k

I have yet to find a source that gives the risk for that cohort.

> ...while Covid is somewhere around 1:25k

Even if it's an order of magnitude higher, the risk of a actually getting a PCR-confirmed infection is an order of magnitude lower.

Again, Germany: 28 deaths of women in that age group over the course of the pandemic[1], including all potential co-morbidities that may tilt the risk in favor of vaccination.

> The risk/benefit ratio of AZ vaccine is only poor when the risk of exposure is very low.

This is comparing "ICU admissions" against "Serious harms due to the vaccine". Utter nonsense. Why not compare mortality? Probably because it wouldn't look too good...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105512/coronavirus-covi...
Science and “may” ???
Am I out of a job yet? (I am a programmer)
That's a false dichotomy. The US should obviously do both.
Yes! The Open Insulin foundation not only has volunteers with a biomedical background, we have volunteers from many other backgrounds including lawyers that help us try and challenge existing patents. Again, others have said that manpower might be better invested in openly challenging the monopoly that U.S. companies have on some of these patents in court or by appealing to our congressmen. However, I believe that there’s no reason not to do both in parallel. My scientific training can only take me so far and i’ll happily help a project like this if it can open up a new source of affordable insulin in this country, but believe me, I know that at the root this is a legislative issue.
Uber is the latest tech company to rethink its return-to-office plans
Just quoting Gates as model is swallowing gallons of the "Koolaid" in my opinion. Other have gone into that in more detail here.

When asked the secret of his success, An insider who leveraged a monopoly position to get more of a monopoly position, said "hard work, relentless hard work, nothing but hard work!"
Really well written, thanks. It's interesting to read how others have faced and are facing the same problems. I've found it's a question of comfort and social environment that pushes you regularly to do things you'd not normally do and forcing you to set aside the whatever programming or other "self-improvement" you were planning to do.

It's not necessarily a bad thing if you can diversify your targets of learning to multiple areas that are not as solitaire as programming. Music, anything with performing and socializing is great. Gym or a physical sport - very important. It doesn't have to be just programming. And I at least am more happy after having practiced music than having just played video games.

But I grant that even with multiple hobbies one still sits well inside their own bubble and it isn't really a life-altering experience to practice music instead of coding some npm library. What one needs is social connection to satisfy the basic primal desire for one's own tribe. It's weird how we are hard-wired like that, but if one stays alone inside programming something "useful" it does not really tick the boxes our biology craves.

In any way, my point is - do I have a point? Well, the problem is basically how to rewire our brains to react to certain input in a way we find the most pleasing. We all can't be rich, beautiful and famous so one should do with what they got. If chatting with friends makes you more happy than programming inside maybe you should focus on nurturing that. Not being content is a good start for development. I think some people really try to fool themselves to believe their current reality is 'ok' while in fact they are not happy. I guess taking responsibility for changing things is too much and they rather just forget they even had a chance.
Great job Walmart!
I disagree there is a revolution. But maybe I'm just old. Nobody I know over 30 buys those things. Heard plenty of stories about people being served ads showing what they talked about 1 hour ago.
I'd imagine that over time, depending on browser makers focus, either virtual doms or non virtual doms will be faster than the other.

It'd be handy to have it as a flippable switch
That’s a pretty simplistic cost analysis. All forms of energy production have externalities that affect future generations. For example, carbon based energy generation causes mass extinction of species. The reduction in species diversity will affect humans for thousands of generations.
If VCs knew what made companies great, they wouldn’t fail 9 out of 10 times. More than any profession I can think of, VC is almost pure luck + how much wealth you already have, which attracts deal flow, which increases your odds to get lucky. PG blogs because he thinks it increases his deal flow (or he wants attention). Just because he’s saying it, it doesn’t make it true, even if he believes his own story.
My guess is because the exploit requires zeroing out an ACL bitmap that the host uses to control MSR access, and init_on_alloc zeroes out memory as it's allocated, which is the state you want as an attacker here.
I recently experienced this firsthand, in a company which owned no computers beyond employee laptops. The product was entirely built of AWS services created by a pile of Terraform spaghetti. It was only really understood by someone whose superpower was the ability to keep an apparently unlimited number of levels of indirection in his head.

I hear they might need to move it all to Azure soon!
I tell myself that, but in truth the main value in taking notes is it forces me to pay attention. When I'm not daydreaming about how I would make the last point in a different way (thus missing the current one), or thinking about whatever project I'm doing at home I get a lot more out of the talk.

I sometimes pretend I'm translating to Spanish (I don't know near enough Spanish to do this, but in my mind it is okay to make the English words with a Spanish ending and not worry if anyone else would understand). this doesn't work as well, but it still keeps my mind on listening and so I get more out of it.
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How does a physical menu improve the taste?
Don't gamble more than you're willing or able to lose though!
Your question is not without merit, as these lottery tickets end up feeling a bit like "checks" (the paper kind you give someone as an IOU against your bank account), which makes it subject to the same general "kiting" attack of writing multiple checks that would all have to pay off at the same time in order to not overdraw your account.

In case this isn't obvious how it applies to this case--as the probabilities might be obfuscating things somewhat, and I have now seen multiple replies to you make it sound like your question is invalid, despite being the key question for how to use this technology (as someone who works with it daily and has for years)--imagine if you send four people 50% tickets for your entire balance.

In this scenario, you would expect two of them would win; let's just assume this is the actual concrete result. Even if you decide that people who receive a winning ticket will commit their ticket before accepting it, two of these people got losing tickets and a third will succeed in claiming their winner... you just managed to get 1.5x the value of your account, by handing out more (probabilistic) checks than you can (probabilistically) pay.

The only protection from it not being a true 2x overdraft was that two of the participants had a naive way to verify they got paid... but really, participants in this system usually accept money from low-probability losing tickets; this then becomes a form of off-chain settlement that is subject to scenarios where people can "double-spend" some of their money if you aren't paying attention, in a way that is actually very analogous to blockchains (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum) that experience routine chain reorganization: you need to have some kind of scheme in place to not only decide a single valid result but also a scheme to feel comfortable with the "finality" of that result (the whole "wait for six confirmations" jazz).

The usual solution to this is to have the spender put money down into an on-chain contractual "escrow" that gets "burned" (destroyed) as part of any overdraft, to make it so you hopefully lose more money than you are capable of overspending in any reasonable period of time (which I would argue has at least some parallels to mechanisms in proof of stake blockchains, with the understanding that every single lottery payment account is effectively its own blockchain at this point).

Honestly, I find much more inspiration in this much later paper, which extends this scheme to zero-knowledge coins and does some of the math required to understand the bounds on the escrow required to manage this risk.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1033.pdf
Sure, some gaming could be a healthy bit of fun in a social context, but it tends not to be, doesn’t it? It tends to become a massive time sink, the accumulation of which over many years, usually of your youth (notice that older people just lose interest in games, like they suddenly don’t see value in them anymore), will not leave you well-read or physically fit or able to entertain others or even good memories - just precious time committed to the void.
This was such madness for them to do. Love that freedom.
No, I was in Beijing, Kunming, and Shanghai. But I honestly don't recall the specifics of the firewall bypass - I was using Outline (another Google sponsored project, funnily enough) to skip it most of the time anyways.
I feel you.

I think I was lucky in a way. I had my first experience with vertigo while working 80+ hour weeks for several years. In my dizziness I couldn't see my computer or cell phone screen to email or text my boss to let him know.

I was down for several days, literally only able to lie in bed and breathe. It was then that it dawned on me that if I died right then, I sure would miss a few things I'd been neglecting or putting off in life.

Vertigo has not returned yet (may it never!). It was a catalyst to a lot of meaningful change in my life.

Hobbies can be a very useful endeavor. So can volunteer work. I've been intrigued to learn more about the Civilian Air Patrol (US based, CAP) and how they help during disasters. Also fun to go up in planes and take pictures, either for training or in consequence of supporting disasters. They have more they do as well, but these things are fascinating to me. There are thousands of organizations with these kinds of opportunities.

You're not alone. Good luck in your hunt for meaning beyond output!
Most houses last basically forever with "proper care", the question is how difficult/likely is 'proper care'

Regular reminder that stainless steel reinforcement exists, is used bridges and it's use outside is growing, and it will last a thousand years.

Also there is Basalt, carbon fiber and even reinforcement out of used wind turbine blades, which is used in Britain for HS2, and other non-steel reinforcements, which can give you a structure nearly impervious to weathering.

On wood: In Europe we've been using Mass Timber for decides, and it's really good from Carbon perspective and outperforms RCC for small to medium residential and office buildings. Probably not going to replace RCC in infrastructure and industry, but what do I know
For many goods and services, they are actually quite reasonable requirements. Internet access, however, is a form of public infrastructure, regardless of whether it is administered by a for-profit corporation or a government.

> - Municipal broadband expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.

It requires physical infrastructure, and that physical infrastructure needs to reach people's houses. That, in turn requires the use of public resources (streets) and/or eminent domain. In short, government is already involved.

> - Municipal broadband is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices.

The level of infrastructure investment required makes it hard to justify new for-profit investment, especially if the area is already being served or isn't populated enough for the company to make a profit. As a result, internet access providers naturally tend towards being a monopoly, which in turn artificially increases prices.

> - Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from broadband access.

I can see where this point is coming from, and it's not wrong. At this point, however, even those who don't directly benefit from internet access seem like they benefit indirectly. It's also worth noting that a lot of locales (mine included) already pump money into corporate broadband providers to entice them to build and maintain the infrastructure. In other words, the tax gets applied, regardless of whether it's a for-profit corporation reaping the benefits or not.

> - Municipal broadband is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.

Companies already can't compete with a service that requires enormous infrastructure investments and the use of government property.

Internet access (and most large-scale infrastructure) is different due to the heavy infrastructure investment required.

- It's hard to convince a for-profit organization to build out that sort of infrastructure in an area that isn't populated enough to allow the organization to make a profit.

- It's hard to convince a for-profit organization to build out a second set of infrastructure in an area that already has it, as increasing competition will lower prices and make it harder to make a profit on the investment.

- Building out multiple redundant infrastructures can also be a hassle for normal citizens. More closures due to maintenance/construction work, more use of eminent domain, more unsightly telephone poles, etc...

In short, Internet access tends towards being a monopoly. With that in mind...

- Artificially lowering prices is a good thing if it counters the natural tendency of a monopoly to push prices up.
- Expanding the role of government is a bit of a non-argument, since
> Why would they promote hard work if hard work didn't matter? And if it does matter, then what exactly is your problem with what pg is saying?

Hard work doesn’t matter (at least to the extent pg posits) and they promote it because (surprise!) they’re not all knowing entities but humans with flaws (yes even successful people can hold views that are not correct).
OK, the salary example was a bit simplified; in my case it was about giving financial help to someone. That help is based on a monthly allowance and then split in the number of allocated days in the month, that's for the 16/31.

Now for your example, I see that float and decimal just give the same result. Provided I'm doing financial computations of a final number, I'm ok with 2 decimals. And both your computations work fine.

Th decimal module in python gives you number of significant digits, not number of decimals. You'll end up using .quantize() to get to two decimals which is rounding (so, no advantage over floats).

As I said, as soon as you have division/multiplication you'll have to take care of rounding manually. But for addition/subtraction, then decimal doesn't need rounding (which is better).

The fact is that everybody say "floats are bad" because rounding is tricky. But rounding is always possible. And my point is that rounding is tricky even with the decimal module.

And about bragging, I can tell you one more thing : rounding errors were absolutely not the worse of our problems. The worse problem is to be able to explain to the accountant that your computation is right. That's the hard part 'cos some computations imply hundreds of business decisions. When you end up on a rounding error, you're actually happy 'cos it's easy to understand, explain and fix. And don't start me on how laws (yes, the texts) sometimes explain how rounding rules should work.
Not sure how this is handled in US, but in Germany a few lines of code have in general not enough uniqueness to be licensed.