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I am genuinely curious as to why you seem to assert that "Orwellian" can only apply to governments. I personally sense that we are entering an age where corporations can wield power and influence on the same level as governments themselves. And, that they are able to utilize many of the same tactics that states used in the past century.

Why, in your view, would it be incorrect to apply the term to the actions of these private/publicly traded companies?
The article is outdated: it is pre-C++11. For example, constexpr would be valuable for kernel and is unavailable in C. Maybe "STL is stable and portable" wasn't entirely true in 2007, but it is true in 2021.
Didn't the Nancy tracker start posting random correlations for susceptible people?

I’m glad it’s gone, that pivot was hard and weird since the Pelosis stopped daytrading
That page says they are working on it and expect to have it ready for use in 100 days including the design and manufacturing but not approval.
> Hospitalization and death numbers are definitely directly connected

There has never been a RCT which showed covid vaccination reduces mortality. I believe they do but this has not been rigorously shown.

Unfortunately, even though we've had gigantic RCTs on covid none of them showed statistically significant covid-mortality in the unvaccinated population (potentially due to prescreening eliminating people who were at risk of dying), so they weren't able to show any improvement.

Numbers from the population have been suggestive, but unfortunately you can get the same graphs -- an initial spike of reduced mortality with a pronounced fall off in effectiveness -- from a simulation where the vaccine has no effect on mortality at all.

The reason for this is that our stats on the public measure time lagged mortality against current vaccination numbers. People reported dead today actually died a week before and got sick two weeks before that. When the increase in new vaccination is high, you will overestimate the size of the population for the people who died and falsely think the vaccine is more effective than it is. And you end up with your 'per month effect' -- the same statistical error will make the cycle nicely repeat with boosters due to the same population size error for the newly boosted population.

This is the sort of bias that is structurally eliminated in RCT design and hard to avoid in population monitoring.
I am in no way surprised, but yet still disappointed. Come on lizard man, you have to do better than this
Doses of BioNTech vaccine distributed by gov'ts in Hongkong and Macao were manufactored by Fosun Pharma. As vaccination rate has dropped dramatically since the initial rush, I don't know if Fosun Pharma is still manufacturing the BioNTech vaccine. Weirdly, I still don't think any foreign made vaccines are approved in mainland China.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosun_Pharma#COVID-19

I cannot find any references via Google that prove Fosun Pharma has exclusive rights for Taiwan. If anyone has any specifics, please reply. Honestly, I doubt it, as Fosun in a mainland Chinese corporation and China was actively blocking Taiwan out of international COVID efforts efforts vis-a-vis WHO (World Health Org).
As much as I've wanted to hate Powershell it's object, properties and methods make it far too easy to work with.

Granted some things are easier done in Linux with a quick bash script. But anything fancy using an sql, api, json and file system I've found ps wins.

But don't get me started with dealing with older versions of PS on production systems.
Such is the life cycle of capitalism.

A newcomer penetrates the market with a superior offer. Once it rises to power, it naturally must defend and fortify its position. No longer must the offer be superior, destroying and suffocating new newcomers is simply more effective and profitable.
I think this really just speaks to the problem of people relying on platforms like this for news.

The system can easily be gamed and there is something about the immediacy of it that tends to inflame people. Which I suspect is why there are so many people trying to game them in the first place.

As a whole I don't think we are really mentally and emotionally prepared for this kind of communication.
This is a hilariously uninformed take - it's clear you don't understand how this works so I will just be direct and not make fun of you.

The hedge fund manager has access to billions in managed capital. If he can advertise positions to the public, and the public takes his advice; he can manipulate his billions of dollars vs the known positions he gives out to hedge his own positions.

This is a 5 years olds description of how this works.
That is what Twitter's vague accusation is supposed to make you believe, yes.
Miners and exchanges were proponents of big blocks, since that would have centralized power in their hands and reduced decentralization. Bitmain, Coinbase, many others.

This makes sense to anyone with a tech background. You don't want to use censorship-resistant, decentralized currency which is used every day to settle billions to buy coffee. That would be an overkill.

Instead, you use LN which allows to trustlessly instantly transfer small amounts of Bitcoin for extremely low fees.
> Rust's big barrier to entry is learning to write code that passes the borrow checker, but that's not a concern when doing code reviews.

Rust code is actually easier to review in that regard because (unless the code contains unsafe blocks) the reviewer can skip thinking about most aspects of memory management.
Definitely for his later books, but Player of Games came out three years before the first Sid Meier's Civ game.

What cool is that Paradox's Stellaris, a civ-in-space game, definitely takes pages from Ian's Culture series.
> tends to fall into the "slipper slope" fallacy territory a lot of the time it's rolled out

Yeah, and the "that's a 'slippery slope' fallacy" rebuttal is often addressing something that is an actual slippery slope a lot of the time it's rolled out. Pointing out a slippery slope by itself isn't proof that the thing in question isn't real or isn't bad. Slippery slopes are real, and are quite often bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Dreaming is a limited simulation, not on the level of reality.
These guys are working to get our precious dislikes back: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
Is there a more modern interface like Github / gitlab / gitea?

The one you linked doesn't support the markdown in the post and it's hard to see the changes since it's in like 20 different emails?s.
> From wikipedia

Your wikipedia links references merriam-webster which says:

> propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspeak

Exactly the definition of "artificially amplifying information".
Why would you care? He's not actively harming his coworkers, he's doing what is asked of him work wise, and his colleagues presumably are too - and are themselves getting apparently slack jobs if there is 6hrs per day of easily automated work. Imagine if your coworker told management about an efficiency hack that made you responsible for 4x the output per day. Would you rather work with that person?

Personally, I wouldn't want to work at a company that apparently is not incentivizing creativity. I'd rather work somewhere where I knew if I did something like this I'd get more money or career progression or something, not just more work to do. But I certainly don't blame the employee for this
I had to write a one-off script to convert a bunch of pptx files to pdf. (yeah I know pandoc exists, but it doesn’t always work as well as the real deal)

And to my surprise I found an example and could indeed open the file in the real office powerpoint, export as a pdf file and close it for each one of them with like 8 lines of code. Hell, I could have probably done it in parallel with a single flag (but that didn’t work on my version)
In a way, Windows out-UNIXed linux, because contrary to the latter’s philosophy, you don’t really get communication between components because everything is unstructured.
Bullshit.

Antivaxxers are spreading blatantly wrong information and are building trust among their base far faster. I still see bullshit about ivermectin pop up these days.

And instead, a little nitpicky mistake like 'vaccines work against COVID-19 90% but only vs Delta 60%' is enough to erode your trust?

Delta didn't even exist when the original 95% claims were made. Furthermore, the 95% claim is still true for Alpha and the original strain.

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Misinformation is everywhere, and no one I know has managed to ween themselves off of it. You talk about "breaking trust", except I've got plenty of friends and family who have been on the Hydroxychloroquine / Ivermectin / Vitamin D bullshit train, none-the-wiser to the moving goalposts and faulty logic that has bombarded them.

Misinformation does _NOT_ erode trust. It in facts builds it up. People who eat up the Hydroxycholorquine stuff from last year still don't want to be wrong and have double-downed upon the subject (although they've changed it up to other drugs).
The specific claim was “viable business on its own.”
'Company' and 'government' aren't radically different categories. They overlap.

Company = group of people working together;
Government = entity in charge of something

Twitter is a company that governs people's usage of Twitter's platform. If Orwell's concepts are useful for understanding how it operates, we'll use them, and for that Twitter doesn't need to be a state.
No, you are being fallacious.

There are many thousand ways of "giving people money". Supply-side economics prescribes exactly one way of "giving people money", that's by lowering taxes.

You cannot claim that because supply-side economics supports one way of "giving" people money that every way of giving people money is supply-side economics.

You see that, right?
Fuchsia is a micro kernel. The core kernel bit is written in C + ASM as Rust wasn't ready at the time. The various ancillary pieces that make up the OS (e.g. filesystem, drivers, etc) are written primarily in Rust. C++ I believe had been used but as Rust has matured and evolved that's gone away for the most part.
Yes indeed. These kind of things afflict enterprise IT all the time.

I used to run b2c teams which dealt with big banks. One bank's IT department used to bill internally for data center costs using RAM as a proxy for energy usage. A big spark cluster was purchased for the project I worked on and the minimum RAM for the spec of machine that was "standard" was 128MB, so to "save costs" they had the data center guy take out half the memory in every machine before racking it up. :-(
Being a TPM is one of the Intel ME and PSP’s functionalities. Making a TPM that’d be secure against custom firmware is possible, but isn’t very implemented across the industry.

It’d need measuring the hash of the loaded firmware itself to hardware managed PCRs that affect the hardware crypto engines. Something that’s done on the Secure Enclave for Apple A13 onwards AFAIK.

(also… managing DRM systems, they’ll have to be put on a coprocessor somewhere.)
Nope, there aren't. Even Ethereum is centralized to the point that it's founders were able to revert the blockchain to rescue their friends funds.
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From what I gather, SUSE is more common in Europe. It's the standard distro to be deployed along with SAP which is used there more than Salesforce.
This actually highlights how genius the AWS pivot was. Even though Amazon might lose retail clout, other retailers _are still paying oodles to Amazon_ - but for servers.

It boggles my mind how short sighted the move to the cloud is. The outages are almost quarterly at this point, too!
The other commenter already pointed out that the 1.27% isn't really a meaningful data point around reinfection risk (beyond the time issue, it's also a proportion of positives, which doesn't get at what we're really interested in: incidence among those with prior infection). But, more broadly, I wasn't referring to a particular study, but rather the general public health surveillance that's happening in South Africa.

There's an incredible rise in both cases and hospitalizations in South Africa, in the face of a relatively low vaccination rate (~30%, although this is 10x higher than most of the rest of Africa) with a relatively high estimated prior infection rate (vaccination + prior infection totaling ~90%). One hypothesis that would explain that is that prior infection offers minimal protection from omicron. That's the hunch that epidemiologists and others start exploring from with studies that will provide stronger evidence in favor or against.

There's no answers right now, just data points that need to be taken in the context of uncertainty :-/
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Renault Zoe 2013 model: 5 stars

https://www.euroncap.com/de/results/renault/zoe/8889
This post is doing a great job at smoking out the narcs.
I get this. If you tell people, and it gets released into the official tool chain, you will also probably then be its "owner". More work for you with no extra money.
ACPI is to blame because it specifically enabled laptop manufacturers to hide platform hardware details behind a shitty firmware interface instead of providing OS drivers/hardware details to driver developers, and it was around that time that SMI became a thing on Intel CPUs and platform firmware started to use that for fan control, instead of depending on the OS to do that.
No minority or civil rights movement will profit from restrictions to speech, even if you remove all insults. Please stop arguing in the name of minorities.

> The policy meant to tackle doxxing on the platform has left many anti-fascist activists locked out of their accounts

You were warned against this and labeled critics of more content moderation as far right. The only case you would have profited is if you own Twitter or any other larger platform. Consider it a valuable lesson.

> Activists swiftly warned that the policy as it was published would backfire

for over 20 years people warned against corporate censorship. Modern journalists were just a bit slow...

Also internet nazis weren't a problem 10 years ago. You made them one because you were so repellent that it drove people into their arms. Previously they couldn't even convince anime fans.
So, free upgrades in a couple years when this inevitably gets broken in to?
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Isn't there a population shift, though? The users who will install an extension for this have different tastes than the users who won't, so you can't assume the like-dislike ratio for the population who will matches the population who won't.
Hmm, neat.
Wait, why don't you want to help your colleagues? That seems pretty shitty.
I know. That is one of the major issues: lack of hype. Most Rust enthusiasts have not even heard of the language, or they did and they have misconceptions about it. If they truly care about safety, they should definitely check Ada/SPARK out.
That's an unbelievably poorly designed study, for many reasons.

It basically says unvaccinated people who are already or recently sick (with any "covid-like" symptoms) are more likely to go to the hospital once they catch covid (vs vaccinated). (Duh.)

Worse, it presumes any of those sick people with respiratory symptoms had natural immunity to covid without any confirmation.

So it's not comparing natural immunity to vaccinated immunity, but vaccinated individuals vs anybody-unvaccinated-thats-been-sick-with-anything-in-the-last-6-months.

Put another way, it presumes any "covid-like" symptoms results in natural immunity to covid, then puts that assumption to the test.

And instead of admitting it's a bad assumption and that most of this group didn't previously have covid, they attribute it to natural immunity not being effective.
Why do people keep complaining about PowerShell verbosity? There are default aliases for common commands, tab completion of everything, and user-defined aliases. PowerShell is only idiomatically verbose so people can actually read it, unlike your average unix shell command.
I think that while the claim is true, the tawdry implication is less clear.

Organizations which feel it a great risk have alternatives and can move to alternative solutions if MS drags its feet. Moreover, this isn’t just MS, it’s most of the software industry in general who benefit from the skittishness by promoting and proving “cloud alternatives” and other solutions as well as the solutions riding these coattails (from indemnification, forensics, to threat detection, etc.
You're implying sysadmins aren't smart enough to use C#.

You shouldnt speak down to a whole group of very intelligent people like that.
> It's the tyranny of selectively enforcing the rules and hiding behind it.

Well I can't disagree with that. It is endemic of Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Apple etc.

When these companies deal with the sheer volume of users they have they hide behind rules that are judged via algorithm and are not able to be evaluated or appealed unless you get enough attention on social media.

It is yet another argument for the elimination of them. If they can't manage themselves then they shouldn't be running.
> "Fosun Pharma has been licensed by BioNTech to exclusively develop and commercialize COVID-19 vaccines based on its mRNA technology platform in Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan region."

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det... (2020)
Cores that are permanently disabled from the factory help improve yields. Features that can be turned back on later don't, because they still need to pass QA.
TL;DR it's a sales pitch for Proofpoint. Absolutely no interesting content whatsoever.
I suppose a type-only language might be technically feasible as a research project but it wouldn't have much practical use. How would it handle events, signals, or interrupts?
Yeah, and if I steer into a brick wall my phone doesn't tell me anything either.

I read the article, and I agree VMS could likely be better, but the map apps on your phone are not examples of navigation systems that have fixed VMS' problems.
You know that the Rust hype squad will do everything they can to get the Linux maintainers to shove Rust into the Linux kernel even if it the excuse is: "You'll get used to it" or "It will take time to learn." or "It's not that hard at first but it will be worth it!"

I'm sure the Rust hype squad are now coming out of the woodwork to prepare the coronation of the Linux kernel project using Rust.
I usually use the "nested" view: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211206140313.5653-1-ojeda@ker...
They might be more efficient, but by working 1/4 as much they're equally productive!
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The main issue with older machines is that the resolution isn't great for writing. I like reasonable letter shapes, and you kind of need 640x480 for that at least.
This is like saying "Ford is contributing to car accidents and monetizing the safety hardware"

Irresponsible reporting
Yeah cool I'll pass that along to the 3 people I personally know who died from it.

1 in 100 odds isn't super great, and that's ignoring the unknown impact of long-COVID. The risk of bad vaccine side-effects is lower than the chance of death.
In this case, yes. Though it doesn't include replies (since this is just the staging ground the rust-for-linux devs are using)

https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust-next
Testing video

https://youtu.be/HiOs1mCMH4Q
Exactly. Case numbers are not meaningless. They are a leading indicator. People unexpectedly showing up to hospitals is a lagging indicator of disease prevalence.
They have a lot of shorthands for common commands, and the verboseness is on purpose, so you can guess commands and by correct 9/10.

- They have a list of standard verbs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/develo...

- Every command is verb-noun. So get-[whatever], remove-[whatever], set-[whatever] etc.

Therefore, you can guess get-process would be a command as is stop-process or start-process.
There's also the bit where breakfast cereal is an obsolete 19th-century anti-masturbatory product, slathered in sugar in the early 20th to make it palatable, and people are increasingly aware it's a bad way to start your day.

The idea that breakfast sandwiches are outcompeting cereal by being cheaper or faster is wild. They are obviously neither.
My experience is complete opposite to yours.

I've built at least hundred of little tools here and there to improve my productivity to the point where single keypress is what only needed in every other context to run specific scenario.

I've tried to give it to my fellow devs around to make their lives easier.

No-one seems to care enough even to try.
There are certainly some weaknesses here, but from the commentary and initial skim of the results it seems odd to call this a 0-star safety rating. I'd be curious to see what a 1-, 2-, or 3-star safety rating looks like in comparison.

Update: Looking at the Euro NCAP star rating criterea[0], the primary reason this car was capped at 0 stars was its minimal safety assist features (14%, minimum for 1-star is 30%. While this balancing may make sense in other cases it seems odd in the case of active safety features. Is it really fair to call an otherwise perfect (though not in this case) car a 0-star death trap because it doesn't include driver monitoring (?) and radar?

[0] https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/67266/euro-ncap-assessment-pr...
"Lie" is the wrong term. "Mislead" or "misrepresent" would be the more appropriate way to phrase it. On a topic as politicized as this with as little scientific literacy as the general public has you don't think they'd have anything to gain by fudging things a bit in their favor (ignoring a confounding variable here, drawing a misleading conclusion there) to distribute more shots? And you think it would just be clear cut that the general public would be able to discern such mistakes over the long term and hold them accountable? And you don't think companies often take measures just to boost their short term earnings/stock price even if it has obvious long-term deleterious effects? I'd say these viewpoints would be naive in the extreme.

Not to say they did commit any such errors here. Perhaps all such studies conducted by Pfizer are truly earnest and valid/replicable, I certainly hope they are. But it's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical of an organization publishing new science when that organization stands to profit greatly from the results. You may call that libertarian (though I'm frankly not sure how), I'd call it just due diligence.
So them shutting down an anonymous Twitter account is the same as the Nazis pulling people out of their homes and either killing them or putting them in concentration camps?
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Suppose for a moment that you and the people talking to you in this thread are talking past each other. What do you imagine the other people are trying to communicate to you, in their own terms?
> The core kernel bit is written in C

This is untrue. Where did you get it? Have a look at kernel scheduler written in C++ here: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/main/z.... constexpr! namespace!
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This seems well timed given the actively raging fans in /r/halo that are upset over the monetization scheme, lack of Playlist customization, already rampant online cheating, and the myriad of other technical issues.

I think they managed to avoid cyberpunk levels of disaster.. but it's a bit early to call victory.
On a tangent, does Linus have a user here?
Here's a 1-star electric vehicle for comparison:

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/66949/euroncap-2021-dacia-spr...