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> AWS regularly performs routine hardware, power, and network maintenance with minimal disruption across all EC2 instance types. To achieve this we employ a combination of tools and methods across the entire AWS Global infrastructure, such as redundant and concurrently maintainable systems, as well as live system updates and migration.

And yet, I keep getting almost every weeks emails like this:

"EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance (instance-ID: i-xxxxxxx) associated with your AWS account (AWS Account ID: NNNNN) in the eu-west-1 region. Due to this degradation your instance could already be unreachable. We will stop your instance after 2022-09-21 16:00:00 UTC"

And we don't have tens of thousands of VMs in that region, just around 1k.
Related talk from cppcon: https://youtu.be/lkgszkPnV8g
Looks cool, but this is exactly what Intercom and a large range of competitors do. Might want to check them out.
My experience on Stadia was that when playing controller the latency is barely noticeable, but keyboard and mouse was really uncomfortable to me.
It is illegal in USA for Meta to pay fines to Iran government.

The government is blocking at network level anyway.

The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI, not proactively block users who aren't using the affected network at all.
Yes, I believe it's a fairly recent change! I would think there were many more actual deniers 10-20 years ago, but today it seems we label people as deniers much easier (as you say "it can't be that bad" would be labelled as a denier today).
A government that beats young women to death could probably intimidate people that grumble that they can't buy the least apple fashion accessory
Then you made an incorrect assumption without enough investigation.
You get garden leave while you apply for jobs internally. After 30 days (assuming you can't find a new position internally), it seems identical to having been laid off
Exactly, 1000x faster CPUs would result in new software filling in the extra speed in no time at all
That was one of the tools used. The attackers got access to the Gmail backing store.
Can't all windows pinch fingers? I don't buy new cars but automatic windows have been a thing since the 70's (maybe late 60's). Even ones with express up/down. Was there a obstruction detection and reversal mechanism mandatory at some point? I have never had a car with such a thing.

My 2006 escalade has no such thing. All power windows that I've ever seen can pinch your fingers. When windows roll up they stop due to physical resistance of the door frame or a stop block for coupes. Thus putting your fingers there hurts but it doesn't cause a reversing action. You just tell yell and push the button the other way.

The force to stop a window going up is pretty small unlikely to break bones until they're very small or very brittle. Maybe some bruising but probably not for most people.
That's what I saw as well. But I talked with some founders and they told me they have some trouble with discord as well. Like there are a lot of noise, it's not designed to handle multiple threads with different users, when you wanna do 1-on-1 chat you need some data on users (how often they use your product, from what country they are etc).
Proof that we are in a simulation, not all details are accurately or correctly simulated.

/sarcasm
There's lots, but I think it comes down to two main things: It has bad defaults, and it can be customized to have really draconian workflow rules.

If you configure it to be reasonable -- keep the workflows very simple with few to no validation rules -- it can be fine to use. The temptation seems to be locking down admin access to managers, and then the admins going crazy building workflows like "these 19 custom fields must be filled out to start" "items must go through a QA step" "QA users are the only people that can approve that step" and "PMs are the only ones that can close a ticket". This quickly gets out of hand and makes it horrible to use.

It also depends on the people using it -- garbage in garbage out, as they say. If people write good tickets (concise titles, format the body, remove irrelevant crap, and properly fill out meta fields like fixVersion) it is much more useful. JQL is awesome, and embedding tickets and JQL queries of tickets into Confluence is awesome (hint: easy way to make release notes) -- but both of these require non-garbage ticket content.
Apple crash reports will measure this (if you compare old reports to new ones), but the data isn't public. I assume some third party SDKs will get updates to fix their bugs (and changelog might reveal it) but otherwise it is hard for normal user to see what issue caused an app to crash.
Elsewhere in this thread people linked to devices that did exactly this

https://usb.brando.com/usb-cassette-mp3-player_p01122c035d15...

https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/4000181019563.html?gatewayAda...

They receive a mp3 (or other format) and output sound through the magnetic stripe (and also to headphones if you don't put it in a walkman)
> Replacing all instances of libFFMoeg.so on a drive is not particularly harder than replacing one.

Instead, ensuring that your applications do not break is extremely hard.
Well last night I played for a few hours with a friend. We met up at a space station and hopped into my 3 person ship, which I had stored a small car in its cargo hold previously. Then we did some mercenary contracts. We attacked some criminals holed up in bunkers on some moons of the planet Crusader. The bunker was guarded at the surface level by a few large automated repeater turrets, so we landed 10 KM away on the other side of some terrain to break line of sight between the turrets and our ship. Then we got the car out of the cargo hold and drove to the bunker and snuck in and attacked our targets, looted, etc.

We made a good deal of cash from this which we can use to purchase new equipment, new ship modules, or new ships.

I also was pleasantly surprised by the mining gameplay. It's a lot more fun than I expected and almost its own mini game.

In the last patch of this year they'll be adding a salvage/scavenging mechanic that let's you extract and recycle raw materials from recently destroyed ships to repair your own ship with or sell for cash.
These are a few of the ways you can play and broadly speaking I enjoy most of them. Does that answer your question?
Russian Sandworm hackers pose as Ukrainian telcos to drop malware
> Takahata is actually extremely sympathetic to their plight.

Yes anyone willing to make a movie about homeless and the more relatable things leading up to it is going to be sympathetic.

I didn't use that word sympathetic, I agree that it does that. Its cautionary for viewers.
MIT researchers advance cooling technology that does not use electricity
I feel the same way about the show's flaws, but i do still find it informative enough that's worthwhile to watch. You really do have to watch out for the bias though. I can't remember offhand if I've ever caught them outright lying about anything, but they are very selective in what they present and how which means they'll often leave out very important information and context.
New tech can make your house a solar microgrid
Number of queries is not the problem, it's the total query time for the frontend that you're ultimately concerned with.

An API is designed to aggregate and format data from various data-sources. The speed of your REST API will ultimately come down to the SQL queries that need to be executed and how your RDBMS executes them. Using a naive ORM (such as Django or GraphQL) typically leads to poor performance as you lack control over query execution.

Have you written your SQL from scratch and benchmarked slow JOINs? Sometimes doing multiple queries is faster than JOINs (when you only need to fetch related data for a small number of entities for example).

Are you using covering indices to accelerate entity lookups? This is probably the main way of speeding up your DB. De-normalizing your schema in certain cases is also a hack to be aware of.

Have you tuned caching in your RDBMS? You don't really need Redis when RDBMS can do caching for you (hint in-memory tables are awesome, RAM is cheaper than dev time).

Have you tried stored procedures? If you have complicated queries this may be helpful.

There's a whole list of things you can do to get great performance out of your RDBMS. Start there instead of introducing another layer of abstraction/tech that will complicate the architecture. I can guarantee that good schema & query design can yield massive improvements.
This is your annual reminder that The Big Bang is just one of many valid cosmological models.
I would assume Microsoft is using teams in house. They should get plenty of feedback - the people writing the software should see most of the issues and have motivation to fix them. The admins are just down the hall and can talk to the developers if there are problems. The executives can talk to the project manager about the priorities they need...

They may not know how it works at my company, but it can't be that different.
Right now there's practically a revolution because they don't want to wear a piece of fabric on heads. I don't think they could.
> If anything, this argument dismisses most work done by distros

> It seems that the author has a solution - containers - and tries to find a problem for said solution.

I don't really follow this. Distro maintainers are working in a problem and some people are happy with the results.

But the fact Nix, Guix flatpack and others exist shows other folks are not and are coming up with their solutions.

It seems you're painting the author as some container weirdo just for not liking your favorite distribution method.
Are you referencing the myriad of scam projects/tokens or ecosystem as a whole, including blockchain?
Caherdaniel, Kerry, Ireland, in a dark sky preserve [1] has a "Walk of the Planets" [2] along the Kerry Way hiking trail where both the planets and distance between them (3.5kms) are to scale. It's a really interesting way to see the relative size of the planets and the distance between them.

[1] - https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/reserves/...
[2] - https://www.caherdanieldarksky.com
Apple Watch Ultra and next-generation AirPods Pro available in stores Friday
Blast from the past for sure, OP was not but I was in Paris in the early 90s, and HP48 hacking was huge. I remember attending class, ignoring the teacher, and just patiently leafing through long print outs of HP48 disassembly, or typing in assembler programs on the calculator itself.

The software on this thing was pretty amazing, but surprisingly hacky in some ways. The RPL language had a system of embeddable objects in memory, but when the interpreter had to skip over an object (i.e all the time), there was no field marking its length, so it had to actually recurse through all the sub-objects to find the end.

IIRC there was the a hack where some memory locations could contain a direct pointer or a pointer to a pointer, and it would work either way because the same bits could be interpreted as a pointer or directly executed... or something of that sort.
That's right, but it doesn't change how the expression is read.
Inflation in UK is 8.6% while interest rate is 2.25%. Interest rate should be higher than inflation. It is really similar economic position. Government trying to print out of debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_rule
I talked with some founders and they don't like they live chat. It designed to talk with only one user at a time. Taku is designed more like community building tool but you can collect data from users as well.
Wikipedia mentioned a guy who ate some 200 grams every day and got medical problems. A fifth of a kilogram every day is arguably a lot.
FYI,

"This site has been reported as unsafe
Hosted by www.decipad.com
Microsoft recommends you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to Microsoft for containing phishing threats which may try to steal personal or financial information."

Using Edge on Windows with SmartScreen turned on.
Jackson Structured Programming
Part no-2
....the entire program is now reflected now in the diagrams, When the process is finished,diagrams allocated operator and conditions.. "Code" is thus needed only to execute the program, not to construct it. However, such errors can be detected in the design unless you can place operations in a natural way the process diagrams. Being forced to start thinking in code and not in user data may be due to the datastreams diagram being incorrectly constructed.
So an early review / record before the first test. These last steps are more routine and helps at the same time, it contributes to good reconcilation opportunities. Example of this is that the operations do not naturally find a home in the process diagrams. It can then be incorrectly constructed data stream diagrams, or something is missing in the program specification.During th.e work, we have now automatically received a complete application documentation.
The method is designed so cleverly that you do not have to think of any "no nos" and concepts such as clean code, coupling, cohesion. Long source code lists are a thing of the past. Instead, you can fully concentrate on and design datastream diagrams, that show the user world that the program should support.
With Teams, my laptop is also my phone. Really, my old DID for my desk phone is now my Teams number.

Same thing with Signal. I routinely take/place calls with friends and family through the desktop client. If I'm on my computer and I've got my computer headset on, I might as well take the call on the computer instead of taking off the headset and using yet another device.

As my computer is a general purpose device, one of its many purposes is also a communications device.
Wikipedia cofounder to put the encyclopedia on the blockchain (2017)
>Significantly enhanced sub-ambient passive cooling enabled by evaporation, radiation, and insulation

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...
Surely there must be at least some flavours which could be compatible with carbonated ice cream. Cola ice cream, perhaps?
Actually, in many ways, what you're asking for in your 2nd paragraph is pretty much what chrome os is.

BTW, chrome os is actually gentoo linux under the hood (with the portage pkg manager stripped out at the end). At one time, there was even a shell script doing the rounds which put portage back on it.

Your larger point re: Google reliance is still a valid one, but one which holds true even if you run chrome on another linux distro. If you really look at it, I'm not sure if a chromebook is less private than that.
Surely 'all asset classes' can only drop relative to some exception, where is everyone taking their money? I know we have significant inflation, are people going into cash despite it?
Sounds more like an inspiration taken from Clarke's 2001, when Bowman travels through the Monolith to space Grand Central in inverted universe
3614 RTEL2 - with a custom serial cable to connect the HP48 to the Minitel !
It depends on your tower. I'm "barely rural" I guess you would say. However my LTE tower had plenty of 4g bandwidth, and just got updated to 5g, where I get 5guc at my house. My phone can pull 500mbit from the tower now.

I haven't quite pulled the trigger on buying a 5g modem, but this blows Starlink away currently. I have v1 Starlink, the round dish, and the upgrade path to this these kind of speeds is $$$.

What's unknown to me is how aggressive the LTE carriers will be with throttling / keeping an eye with data caps.
That's right: the model is definitely capable of creating things that are clearly a derivative work of what they were trained on. But this still leaves two questions:

* Does the model require a copyright license? Personally I think it's very likely a derivative work, but that doesn't necessarily mean you need a license. The standard way this works in the US is the four factors of fair use (https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use.html) where Factor 1 is strongly in favor of the model being unrestricted while 2-4 are somewhat against (and in some cases 4 is strongly against).

* Is all output from the model a derivative work of all of the input? I think this is pretty likely no, but unclear.

* Does the model reliably only emit derivative works of specific inputs when the user is trying to get it to do that? Probably no, which makes using one of these models risky.

(Not a lawyer)
I went to Pacfic Mall in Trawna last weekend :)
The minidisc was for many things right for portable music. The audio quality was great, indistinguishable from CD to me, and any minor detail gets washed out when riding on the train or walking on a street. CDs are great but not a portable media. They scratch, break etc. It can be hard to load a new disc when standing it in crowded places. Portable CD players were awful at skipping. The couple seconds buffer was fine for a small bump but that was it. MDs were bulletproof.
I can't speak for everyone, since my memory is different even from the consensus memory of other people who remember his dying in prison, but I can tell you what I "remember," and why it may not be as absurd as you think.

I misremember his dying in prison in 1993. In my false memory, he never became Prime Minister. His death inspired the movement that finally ended Apartheid, but he didn't do it himself. His death was interpreted as a kind of martyrdom for his cause, and as the deaths of martyrs often does, it evoked sympathy even in the hearts of people who disagreed with him, eventually leading to the end of Apartheid.

I was only 7 in 1993, so I'm more than willing to accept that I'm just misremembering completely. My geopolitical awareness in the 2nd grade was pitiful by the most generous interpretation. Perhaps I'm conflating lots of different pieces of other stories and mistakenly associating them with his name. My memory is generally quite reliable, in my experience, but it's a long way from foolproof. I do remember being genuinely surprised when he actually died, long before I heard of the "Mandela Effect," because I thought I could remember the lesson in 2nd grade when we learned of his death in prison.

I just wanted to mention it's a whole different set of memories, including his position and role in ending Apartheid, that I misremember, not just the circumstances of his death, and I would guess that's true of others as well.

At least in my mismemory, he was still heroic, and his life (and death) inspired the change he's remembered for now. I would hope not to insult anyone just because my memories of my ignorance as a small child don't match what actually happened.
They're not just training a system but publishing the trained system
What's so special about that app? So that we know
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Hardcore zen

Man in search of meaning

Atlas shrugged: too long winded, but popped my progressive reality buble.

Return to religion: made me see how most of our
problems(depression, anxiety, meaninglessness) are caused by our lack of transcendental

Recently the bible, Marc, Genesis. But I saw the Peterson biblical lecture before, without that I would have not appreciated for sure.

I see all around me that the progressives are captured by ideologies, most cannot see clearly because their religious shaped hole almost always get filled with the ideology du jour.
They tend to live meaningless lives, don’t have kids or very few, their couples are brittle, they run after money, travel, pleasures and then find out that it doesn’t give sustainable happiness.

My take is that our mind is religious even if you don’t want it to be, kind of our operating system. Better put something tested and reliable (with a few updates) than rewrite from scratch and fall in the same traps than everyone before.
Tesla is the only car brand where such a minor recall (that can be fixed via an OTA update) results in a news article by a major news distributor.

Meanwhile my 2007 Mercedes C-class literally rusted through its rear subframe and suspension arms were hanging off. It could have failed catastrophically at high speed. Not detected by any MOTs (yearly vehicle inspections). No recall - officially, but unofficially they repaired my vehicle for free because they recognise it's a major liability issue. Recognised as a multi-year manufacturing defect on the model.
Try reader mode. Interestingly, this page worked fine for me, but when I clicked links to other pages on the same site they exhibited the same problem you are experiencing. This is on Firefox on Windows. Reader mode fixes the problem.
While I broadly agree, I don't think you're disagreeing as strongly as I think you think you are with dsr3 — Genesis and the NT are just two of the items on the given Stanford link alongside Plato's Republic, and it recommends several other pre-Christian texts in the subsequent list.
Security, probably. UAF attacks are going to be slightly harder to perform if the data you put there is zeroes now.
Then I want you to explain Norway to me. Or Sweden. Or Denmark.
It all depends on what percentage actually get new job offers internally. If it's "most or all" then it's very different from layoffs. If it's "few to none" than it's very similar to being laid off.

"Pay and benefits for 30 days while you look for a job" this is called "garden leave," a severance package could also cover this. If my position is terminated & I'm paid out two months salary and they continue covering my insurance for 60 days, that's great, but I'm still terminated.

I'm not against this policy, I'm not even against layoffs in all cases. Sometimes you hire a lot, sometimes you cut, that's business. This policy does seem better than direct layoffs, but eliminating people's positions and making them apply for new jobs (with 30 days garden leave) is pretty damn near layoffs. What if no other teams have headcount, what would you call it then?

I was just commenting on the turn of phrase, not laying people off but 'terminating their positions and making them look for a new job.'
JIRA implementations I've seen don't help people see what's ahead; they focus on what's been done to date. If you're on a single, small team that has minimal dependencies on other teams, that can work, but if the project has any significant dependencies on other teams, it becomes very hard for anyone to understand how things are going.
Well the (likely) recession is due to inflation. Raising interest rates can lower inflation so there is sense from that pov. Although the cause of the inflation is well known so I'm not sure raising interest rates will do much except raise the exchange rate.

At the end of the day though, interest rates are low relative to historic norms.
Kreyszig’s Advanced Engineering Mathematics.