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Exactly, this is why wearing masks and getting vaccinated worked so effectively at curbing the pandemic. People didn't want to change their way of life. Stopping the pandemic would have required an extreme economic shut down in April, far more extreme than what we saw. Sure this economic hit would be much less than the long run impact of pandemic never really going away, but it was too much for people.

So they all agreed that wearing maskings in public and private gathering, plus universal adoption of the vaccine would be the easier, if not ultimately more expensive path.

While the pandemic did stick around for a bit, by spring it was basically gone. Now when I go out I see people in packed clubs, happily drinking and dancing mask free.

Sure by comparison universal mask adoption and vaccination is to climate mitigation like building a lego castle is to building the pyramids by hand, but since we solved that problem so effectively I'm extremely optimistic about how we're going to tackle climate change.

We showed that we can solve pandemic without effecting the economy or our lifestyles, and we can just as easily to the same for climate change.
Are you still not aware that there are serious people who believe that masks are basically irrelevant in a respiratory pandemic? Accusing others of trolling on this issue is not helpful. It was the consensus in Western medicine for 100 years. This consensus was forged after mask mandates were shown to be ineffective for Spanish Flu.

Here's what a Harvard epidemiologist has to say about the Bangladesh study:

"The Bangladesh mask study does not show a statistically significant difference in the efficacy of cloth masks vs surgical masks. Based on the confidence intervals, both could be around 0% or both could be around 20%."

https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/14355739027894640...
Many reasons to not get a mRNA vaccine, natural immunity is one.

Thinking that you need everyone to get a vaccine to live a normal life is a strange bar.
there's a bunch of liberal progressives on HN who flag stuff like this.
Men are the competitive gender. In past, only 40% of men survived to reproduce whereas 80% of women did.

Not in absolute terms, but imagine if more competitive men survive with higher probability in each generation, there's a good chance males will be more competitive and females will be more cooperative in next generations.

Now this theory is fringe. But not as nonsense as "Both genders are same, everything is social conditioning" bullshit we hear every day.
Mirrors don't solve the problem, they move it.
No thanks. Airlines seem to lose enough baggage already, I wouldn't trust them with another major logistics project.
Why is this person’s house 82 degrees?
I watched politicians say they were going to ban teaching CRT, then teachers say that CRT was a conspiracy theory, then said politicians actually ban the teaching of CRT, followed up by teachers publically saying they will continue to teach CRT against the law all in the course of 2ish months in my school district.

If you don't think teachers are trying to actively brainwash kids, you're choosing to ignore the evidence
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You could probably do that with a cheap laptop by cutting down a Linux distro then removing/breaking all network hardware antennas/ports
Right. :) Now I wonder how do they make people float in space inside a ship in sci-fi movies. Must be some real trickery, ...
Overall, yes, I have difficulty believing that number. For a subset of common workloads, it might actually be true, though.

IBM does some crazy stuff with hardware acceleration and specialized units that take load off of the actual CPUs.
That's exactly why it is called "terror-ism".
It looks like they've rediscovered screen real estate.
Step 3, yes, they are.
I've never heard of django-seal before, thanks!
You do government acquisitions.
> No admission of wrongdoing (…) IMO we didn't do anything wrong despite the SEC's opinion

No admission of wrongdoing is always a red flag, implying there was definite wrongdoing. It’s good that your opinion matters less than the SEC’s “opinion”. Atleast your investors got their money back, I guess…
How confluence wins when you have more employees? I find it pretty bloated and outdated. Same for Jira.
Honestly it is! Proud to have contributed to it!
OpenCAPI is the way to go forward for high-throughput and decreased connector count for memory.
>> The real answer is to do away with the fractional reserve lending where a bank gets $100 and then proceeds to loan out $900.

That is simply not true. It's a fiction (of sorts) told by people who feel fucked by the financial system.
> How did you first get into programming?

Late 90's, family bought a computer, spend a lot of time on it, mostly playing video game, making video game/3d stuff & web site. Since running website required linux, switched to linux around ~2000, begining the hosting path, compiled a lot of kernels (drivers stuff were no jokes back then), coding in C, java, php, bash etc.

> Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth? What is it about coding that got you hooked?

A lot of books & forums, lugs, irc communities. But not one thing in particular.

> What is your experience with university? Did you get a degree, was it worth it, do you think it helped you find work, what did you love/hate about uni?

Got a master degree in CS. The studies were very useful, shaped very well the way i think and i keep in touch, work with a lot of people i met there. The paper in itself is useless. The job market was already starved for dev, so if you knew how to boot a computer and were motivated to learn, you would get a job offer signed one year before graduation.

> How did you get your first paid work (family & friends, internship, freelance, full-time)?

summer job coding in PHP/running linux boxes for a guy i met on IRC.

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

Senior dev in startups. i find it really amazing the improvement of capabilities and the cost of small MCU; i started working in embedded stuff with 100mhz/64Mo of memory for $200 and now you can buy 10x that for $4, it's crazy. i love the improvement of the ecosystem, better langage, better tooling, more ressources, the cloud etc. The javascript part could be a lot better, these people seems to reinvent the wheel every two years.. Linux on desktop/gnome is crap. And i hate that LTE modem or broadcom wifi/ble firmwares still aren't reliable in 2021; it's a shame that it needs 10 different watchdogs to have a device running 1 years without human intervention.
The TSA was never about Security. It's about lucrative gov't contracts, conditioning people to accept further invasions of privacy, and a jobs program for unemployable dregs of society.

The spamdemic was never about Public Health,
I'm not writing anyone off, I'm only stating the fact that it is virtually impossible to use ships and trains for terrorist purposes.
I already can compile python using "make altinstall", nuitka is more suited to compile a whole python project.

The problem is more, as you said, libc, for compat.
I've been yelled at for taking out things besides a laptop, including a tablet with a keyboard case.

I'm not even clear what the issue was; it was just a general "don't take your tablet out!!" as if it was an obvious rule that anyone with common-sense would understand, and clearly I was a fool the agent had no time for.
> The Howey test doesn't apply here.

No, it doesn't. The Howey test applies to commercial paper, tradability is inherent. In that sense, the Howey test isn't the only test for a definition of a security...it is a test that applies to anything that is a tradable financial instrument.

If the Howey test was the only test used to define a security, your bank account would be considered a security. But your bank account is absolutely and definitively not a security, and it is regulated by the FDIC, which has no authority over securities.

> I suppose if Congress were writing a new law to specifically assign new regulatory authority for cryptocurrency lending accounts there might be an argument along those lines. But this isn't a matter of choice, its a matter of application of existing law, and if it meets the Howey test and no exception in existing law, such as assignment to a different regulator, exists, its an SEC-regulated security.

This is obviously and demonstrably false. Even if this product was a security, which it is not, the classification of something as a security does not mean that the SEC has authority.

Futures - a security, yet the SEC has no jurisdiction and the CFTC has regulatory authority.

Equity Futures - a security of a security, yet the SEC has no jurisdiction and the CFTC has regulatory authority.

Equity Future Options - a security of a security of a security, yet the SEC has no jurisdiction and the CFTC has regulatory authority.
I served in the US Navy and can confirm that people can be that stupid.
> What are we doing this for?

The "Homeland Security" apparatus is hungry and must grow.

It's about jobs, power, and money for these bureaucrats.

The "Homeland Security" apparatus is the most powerful political force in America, and is more dominant than either political party.

Another term for this is the police-military-industrial complex.
You don't know how, your boss wants action, and it will cause you problems now to put up a fuss but not if you just go with it.

You really don’t need corruption, just people under pressure who don’t want to push back.
At 42% humidity, I’m guessing they live in a subtropical climate. Florida’s?
In the 1980s I worked for a Cobol programmer (Tom wrote accounting software for Wang VS systems, I wrote the user manuals). (Just writing that sentence makes me feel old.) I recall that one of our clients was migrating from an even older system that used wire plug cards. Literally no one knew how they worked; if one wire came out of a card, good luck getting it back in the right place. At least Cobol is more comprehensible than that.
Reinforced cockpit doors with strict policies in place for when the pilots can open it, which is what we do now (in the U.S. at least) even with all of the TSA stuff.
In most airports outside the US you go through the security checks without having to take your shoes off.
The answer is usually corruption and kickbacks.
My dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse basin, either.

But, I've found that for heavily soiled loads, if I throw an extra pod into the bottom of the dishwasher before I run it, that helps. (The extra pod will be dissolved in the first rinse, giving a boost.)
People die. My loved ones and I have made peace with that. Life is not about avoiding death.

10 million is frankly a drop in the bucket. We don't shut down society and hand over control of our lives over car accidents, heart failure, or anything else that kills hundreds of millions.

The behaviors that lead to those deaths are absolutely a form of social contagion and in no world are they less important or relevant because they're not caused by a communicable disease. People could choose to stop the world for those, too. It would probably work. That we choose not to, or rather, that we understand there are tradeoffs involved, does not make us callous murderers.

I feel truly sorry for people who believe that "zero Covid" is a possibility. We have documented evidence of animal reservoirs for the disease. You can vaccinate every single person on the planet and it will not eradicate this virus.

Particularly now that we are aware that 1) our vaccines are not sterilizing and 2) we have evidence of a vaccine resistant mutation on the horizon.

If you want to play whack a mole with restrictions and injections your entire life please do so of your own accord and stop trying to force the rest of us to live in this dystopia with you. I have a short life to live.

Humanity has lost its tragic sense. That there are things outside of our control. This reality does however tend to catch up with each and every one of us.
>For example, I didn't have the money to buy after college so I rented.

I think that's the main issue. One of the reasons housing is so expensive is because it's an avenue for investment/infinite growth. Maybe if you didn't have to outbid people that think houses are invesment you could have bought a house/afforded a mortage.

Land scarcity/livable land is the thing that makes housing expensive. Allowing people to use that to make profit is unethical.
We did everything manually so it got very time consuming. The next step is build out a scalable version which we haven't yet.
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To be fair, you have to be pretty damned stupid to actually believe this device would work. So it's hard to believe that the "victims" weren't in on this somehow.
Writing your own random number generator can be a lot of fun. Lots of sources of entropy out there. Inspired by lavarand[0], I wrote an RNG in Python based on the output of the Global Conscousness Dot[1] (which is a ridiculous project in its own right). There's a lot of ways to visualize and ascertain how "random" your numbers are as well, whether plotting Pearson's with matplotlib or using a command line tool like ent[2] to calculate the degree of entropy.

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

[1] https://gcpdot.com/

[2] https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/ent.1.html
Ummm, there is a big difference between raging and trying to blow up an aircraft.

If the 911 bombers started fist fights in the airport lobby instead of hijacking airplanes, I'm sure we wouldn't be living with the heighten security apparatus we have today. Can you list the race or religion of all the terrorists who tried to bring down an aircraft 911 to present day, just curious? I think you're the apologist in this case.
Not enough resources.
> It’s costly to have government employees because you have to pay benefits and they are unionized.

Sometimes people say the quiet parts out loud.
The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade
How does that even happen? I have pre-check, and it's always been an entirely separate line. They'd have to do a fair amount of work to redirect you over to the 'regular' line.
Another, perhaps more notable example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet
Have you considered using a DES display or Sharp Memory LCD? I know the first is definitely cheaper than a branded E-Ink display, and the latter has much faster refresh rate and may be more suited to being a terminal (and may also be cheaper than E-Ink, I just haven't looked into it).
The entire scenario outlined is for a production deployment of Websphere backed by Oracle. IBM specifically calls out 1:1 memory for production workloads (which oracle very much is) in their performance documentation:

Slide 17:

http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/presentations/syslimit.pdf

>Synchronous interrupt locking is also a solved problem.

No, it really isn't. I have not seen a production implementation of virtualization with > 4:1 CPU oversubscription that doesn't eventually or immediately have significant performance issues with database workloads.
This is an old study, and a biased poorly written review.
Which is a shame.

It also should not focus on HUGE cloud providers like
Amazon, Google, Microsoft.

Estimating licensing, maintenance costs for running at that scale would need access to their internal documents (as far as I know, none of them have published all the numbers).

Hardware costs are hard to pin down.
These companies have special specs for what they want.
Having custom computers produced should put the price
higher than off the rack, but given how mnany servers
they buy that probably changess.

In today's world, cloud can run high volume transaction loads and most recent IBM z15 and IBM LinuxOne can run
normal cloud tasks.

I believe that a proper comparison in 2021 would be a lot closer than what most x64 people would expect.

As long as we ignore AWS,Azure,Googe scale and think of smaller "in house" cloud like datacenters it should be part
of the estimation.

In my opinion DB2 running on a z15/zOS is hard to beat on uptime, reliability, and throughput. There would also be less need for sharding and clustering headaches.

A z15 can also be loaded up with Specialty Engine Support
like IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), or IBM zEnterprise® Application Assist Processor (zAAP)

Which means added a bunch of cpus that are dedicated to oen thing, in those mentioned above one is for running Linux and the second for running Java. All offloading the main system

One big problem in comparing is that the terminology and smenatics are quite different. Reading specs does not
make it easy to compare 1 - 1.

I have hoped i would end up at a place that did use modern mainframes for "modern conventional" workloads.
I havent had that chance yet.
Unless it's for charity, I don't know who'd hire someone like this over another remote worker in a less precarious and unstable situation. If it's for charity, there are more efficient ways to help people.

Like the other commenter said, I like the spirit. But I don't see it happening, I'm afraid.
So, um, are you hiring? And where are you located?
And ten years in prison.
> The case is well-ventilated, and my only complaint is the natural convection causes very-slightly-warmed air from the WeMos D1 and CO2 sensor to pass over the temperature and humidity sensor on the top, meaning those readings are always a bit higher than ambient—at least in my office.

Likely because of this.
The same people who will run a clustered database on VMs.
You can be mad because I proposed a solution to an easily solved problem that doesn't need to exist if you want to. I don't mind.

When you see "buy one get one free" do you really believe the second one is free? Think before you toss what you think are gotchas out at people. Roll it into the cost of tuition. It's really not that hard to get, yet I'm saying it a second time.

It does solve lots of problems. Material cost, outlandish distribution, marketing and production cost, and it means the prices aren't externalized and the students know what they're paying for a course up front. Those are basically all the problems with the textbook market. It solves a couple of other problems too, digital documents can't be resold, doubly so if their cost is counted in tuition, so no need to stupidly re edit the document every year just to make sure last year's edition is worthless, only edit when there is an update in the field.

Speaking of which, the fact that they do that, edit books needlessly to prevent the previous year's book from being resellable at any value, is proof positive that textbooks are a racket. Professional textbooks are a different kind of hustle, it's like law dictionaries, they know the books are valuable to professionals so they charge large prices, this fact is not proof that the college textbook racket is not a racket run by a publishing cartel. Your reasoning is as weak as a limp dishrag on this one.
Generally speaking, that is true until it isn't.

People experiencing hard times is one catalyst.

Another is loneliness.

There are others.
It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again. It's like Youtube flagging that chess channel for hate speech[0] (perhaps because words like "black", "white" and "attack" were used a lot). It will annoy people who're accidentally caught by the filter, and people who want to get past it will figure out a way anyway (by look-alike character substitution or whatever). I think it's the wrong approach to that problem.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914261
A modern "pseudo random number" is simply a sequence of numbers that visits the state-space in an order that's difficult to detect with modern statistical tests. (Chi-squared, among others). See PractRand or TestU01 as two packages for testing these sequences. That is to say: instead of the sequence "0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 4294967296... 0", your RNG will do some other sequence.

Yes, "0, 3, 6, 9... 4294967295, 2, 5, 8... 4294967294, 1, 4, 7... 4294967293, 0, 3..." is a RNG of sorts, but an example of a really, really bad one that would instantly fail most statistical tests. :-) But conceptually, the Mersenne Twister, LCGRNG, and LSFR all accomplish this. Its a "reordering" of the sequence. That's it.

A "cryptographic random number" just adds a few additional tests to the pool of statistical tests. In particular: differential cryptography gets into the nitty gritty about which bits can predict the results of other bits. You have to assume that the "opponent" is willing to use extraordinary amounts of computing power to detect patterns.

If bit#25 has a 51% correlation with bit#30, you fail cryptographic random numbers. You need to be within 2^128 (at least) worth of security or more. That means a near 50% correlation (maybe 50.00000000001% is fine) between bits and future bits.

For example: the sequence: {AES(0, key), AES(1, key), AES(2, key)... AES(2^128, key), AES(0, key)...} is a cryptographically secure random number generator. The sequence will loop after its 128 bits of state are exhausted. If the "opponent" doesn't know the key, the bitwise correlations are cryptographically sound (thanks to the hard work of the engineers behind AES).

A true random number generator is just a cryptographic number generator applied to a truly random seed. White noise generators are a well known electronic-engineer trick: resistor noise is everywhere but is rather small (but you can build a white-noise generator from Johnson Nyquist noise if you really wanted). More likely, you use shot-noise from a transistor junction, at least at the hobbyist level.

Intel / AMD have true random number generators from some kind of electrical noise generator on every CPU, which feeds into cryptographic random number generators.

There are other sources of noise: radiation is a well known one but I'm not sure if they're practical.

There's a "speed limit" to white noise generators. You only can extract so much entropy from them in a given time (ex: Remember: CPUs operate at 4GHz, or 0.25 nanoseconds per clock tick). Cryptographic random number generators "stretch" the true seed of randomness, while the white-noise generator continues to grab more entropy.
By February 2020 the virus had already spread worldwide and it was simply too late to prevent widespread mutation opportunities. The developing countries where many of the mutations appeared usually lacked the capacity for a really effective pandemic response even if they had wanted to do more. You can't worry too much about mutations when you're struggling just to keep people fed.
Blaming the victim isn't necessarily always wrong.
Why does it have to be specifically for refugees and asylum seekers? Wouldn't any job board that pays in crypto work for this use case? Being less targeted has the advantage that you already have the biggest list of possible jobs available.

From a quick look https://cryptojobslist.com has a "pays in crypto" label on each job.