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This midwit spent the day creating value for my customers instead of spinning in my chair creating value for my cardiologist.

Microsoft could provide adequate system facilities so that customers can purchase products that do the job without having the ability to crash the system this way. They choose not to make those investments. Their customers pay the price by choosing Microsoft. It's a shared responsibility between the parties involved, inclduing the customers that selected this solution.

We all make bad decisions like this, but until customers start standing up for themselves with respect to Microsoft, they are going to continue to have these problems, and society is going to continue to pay the price all around.

We can and should do better as an industry. Making excuses for Microsoft and their customers doesn't get us there.
Sounds like you're pretty close to getting to where you need to be then. Buy something with minor (not foundation issues or something) work needed then do it. Even better if none of the work is urgent, so you can spread it out.

For example, central air is obviously a luxury. I don't even have it, so it's hard to take that as a serious issue. You can get around to installing it some day.

And you probably already know to make sure to search first for houses posted today, to try to do that every day, to immediately call for an appointment the same day, and work with an agent who understands the need for urgency, and to put in an offer same day if you like it.

If you take it as seriously as a job hunt, in such a gentle market as Pittsburgh, you're bound to be happy as a clam pretty soon. I envy your position.
we did indeed use some design patterns from Cerebrus along with a few others. our documentation in fact credits Ted Goas, Nicole Merlin, and Mark Robbins

https://github.com/SendWithSES/Drag-and-Drop-Email-Designer
Probably. I don’t think they care.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/kogan-spam-draws--310-800...
It is not necessarily crowdstrike's responsibility, but it should be someone's.

If I go to Home Depot to buy rope for belaying at my rock climbing center and someone falls, breaks the rope and dies, then I am on the hook for manslaughter.

Not the rope manufacturer, who clearly labeled the packaging with "do not use in situations where safety can be endangered". Not the retailer, who left it in the packaging with the warning, and made no claim that it was suitable for a climbing safety line. But me, who used a product in a situation where it was unsuitable.

If I instead go to Sterling Rope and the same thing happens, fault is much more complicated, but if someone there was sufficiently negligent they could be liable for manslaughter.

In practice, to convict of manslaughter, you would need to show an individual was negligant. However, our entire industry is bad at our job, so no individual involved failed to perform their duties to a "reasonable" standard.

Software engineering is going to follow the path that all other disciplines of meatspace engineering did. We are going to kill a lot of people; and every so often, enough people will die that we add some basic rules for safety critical software, until eventually, this type of failure occuring without gross negligence becomes nearly unthinkable.
Too bad there isn't a GPL for science. You can use my work, but if you incorporate it into a for profit work, you may be required to provide the results of your _continued research_ back to the public.

I mean.. if dissemination of knowledge _truly_ is the end goal here.. and not just giving a free corporate lunch out because the job market is the broken and dysfunctional.
How about articles written by human charlatans? Claiming they are 'doctors' or 'scientists'. Or posters claiming something that didn't happen? Like a... pro bullshtter claiming he was denied apartment renting because of his skin color. He could make a lot of money if that was true. But poster is still taking ads place, payed by poor 'suffering' minority. Another example 'influencers' who pretending, or really being, experts advise you on forums about products. The tell mostly the truth, but avoid some negative details and competing products and solutions. Without disclosing their connections to businesses.

Shorter version: intentional bullshtting never ends, it's in human, and AI, nature. Like it or not. Having several sources used to help, but now with flood of generated content it may be not the case anymore. If used right this has real affect on business. That's how small sellers live and die on Amazon.
If you invest based on fundamentals and company finances, you probably haven't had many chances to buy any positions in the last decade. Stock prices are completely unhinged from company financial reports.
Why is a researcher called a creator in this article?

Are they not a fact discoverer or truth revealer?

It's unclear to me researchers should “own” truths prior research and public patronage enabled them to unearth.

// note: research != invention, i.e., Space X experimenting until systems and machinery can land a rocket on a barge is not “research”, but testing and documenting characteristics of fuels in a vacuum as the environment swings from -100C to 120C is
I just think he knew that I wouldn’t last.
The kernel driver reads the channel files. It choked on this one, and crashed.
I can pretty easily make it so a user on Linux can't download executables and can't even then can't do any damage without a severe vulnerability. That is actually pretty difficult to do in a typical Windows AD deployment. There is a big difference between the two OSes.

In fact, there's a couple billion Linux devices running around locked down hard enough that the most clueless users you can imagine don't get their bank details stolen.
They optimize for small batch development costs. Slapping windows PC when you sell a few hundred to thousand units is actually pretty cheap. Software itself is probably same order of magnitude, cheaper for UI itself...
> Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys?

I’m curious what the result would have been if you needed to provide your ID to Playboy themselves and not merely the drug store.
Single events just aren't that big against the background of global oil and gas production emissions, let alone overall global methane emissions. Its true that O & G emissions are higher than most governments report but most models take this into account in some fashion.

Its also a big topic of research to account for methane emissions because the measured amount is larger than models are predicting from known inventories. But its not thought to be from events like this.
There are genetic factors, probably epigenetic ones, and environmental too.
Thoroughput vs Latency
>Space X experimenting until they can land a rocket on a barge is not “research

Why? What else could it be if not research?
This is exciting news! Though, there is more than just the math that needs to be done here. Namely, mathematicians not only need to formalize a concise language to bridge the gap with modern conformal field theory, but they will also need a way to understand the computability of models based on this system. And yet, there is also the human factor: namely, there needs to be an effort to sell this paradigm to existing theorists, which will require substantial effort.
Nobody wants a high-end android cameraphone where the camera firmware self-destructs when you unlock the bootloader.

For better or for worse, the android world is reliant on custom roms if you want long-term software support. Wiping the camera firmware is unacceptable given that reality.

Again, the whole custom rom thing is a bandaid patch on a shitty, user-hostile OS model that makes it nearly impossible to perform a vital function of the computing system (updates). The inability to deliver updates effectively is itself a symptom of a product defect here. It would be better if we could require all companies to provide useful first-party support lifecycles for the products they release.

But sony is deliberately gutting the device’s functionality to prevent you from unlocking it and that’s unacceptable even among android devices. If you’re going to do this shitty custom rom model, vendors that decide to kill even the ability to try and use that bandaid are going to suffer poor sales.

I would love a high-end cameraphone, the Xperia lineup was a serious consideration when I bought my last phone. But I could never get over the hump of buying a device that would have less than 2 years of updates by the time I got it, and that would deliberately self-destruct if I attempted to extend it beyond that.

I got an iPhone instead. Much less user-hostile. Forcing me to use a custom rom is already user-hostile, but to then punish me for doing it is unconscionable.

Oddly enough, there’s not nearly as much emphasis on banging the EU’s door down to stop that kind of waste and really honestly intentional/malicious damage, as there is about whatever apple thing people are whining about this week. Oh no the pelican case full of oem phone repair tooling that apple lets you rent (or buy) is too big/heavy… or Sony phones deliberately self-destruct themselves when you unlock the bootloader… somehow the “we can do both!” reply-guys never get around to doing both. Curious.
> Replicating a real file system is not that hard

What personal experience do you have in this area? In particular, how have you handled greater than single-server scale, storage-level corruption, network partitions, and atomicity under concurrent access?
Its on whoever runs the hospitals computer systems - allowing a ring 0 kernel driver to update ad-hoc from the internet is just sheer negligence.

Then again, the management that put this in are probably also the same idiots that insist on a 7 day lead time CAB process to update a typo on a brochure ware website "because risk".
Safest roads have the speed limit 5-10 mph below the road design speed.

see fig 4 on speed variance:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/...

going faster or slower than average traffic speed shows markedly greater accident rate.

note that this can apply not only to speed limits, but things like express lanes going different speeds than other lanes
go ahead and feel free to use it. that is what we intended it for.
> This is good news. Here's hoping for a federal law that makes age verification for pornographic content a requirement across all states.

> It's really quite telling that Pornhub is removing itself from all markets where it's mandated to do this.

I imagine that if it became a federal mandate, Pornhub would add some sort of gate that they felt met the legal requirements.
GP didn't say that 25 years should become the elected leaders. But Sheikh Hasina (the current PM since 2008) was the leader of the opposition in 1986 at 39 years old [1], and then first became PM in 1996 at 49 years old. The ones who were PM from 1986 to today were all born in the 1940s [2].

Same is the case in Pakistan. Every prime minister since 1988 was born in the 40s or early 50s [3]. India's PMs have, on the other hand, been from even an older generation [4].

This post-independence generation captured all the political power in their 40s, and refuse to give it up 40 years later. Is it not reasonable to demand that the PM and Cabinet today are largely in their 40s?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Hasina

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Ban...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Pak...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Ind...
> I don’t understand why everyone wants to replicate AWS APIs for things that are not AWS.

It's mostly just S3, really. You don't see anywhere near as many "clones" of other AWS services like EC2, for instance.

And there's a ton of value on being able to develop against a S3 clone like Garage or Minio and deploy against S3 - or being able to retarget an existing application which expected S3 to one of those clones.
and set speed limit 5-10 mph below design speed for maximum safety.
Some idiot with college degree in office no-where near the place sees that we have these PCs here. And then they go over compliance list and mandate this is needed. Now go install it and the network there...
I’ve had sporadic kernel panics with the macos version.
From the article:

>"We are at a crossroads in the production and dissemination of research knowledge, and in my view the biggest problem with this deal is the reduction of academic research into raw content from which data can be extracted and repackaged as knowledge," Clemens said.

I'm sorry, what? The problem researchers have is their research being used as a resource for general knowledge? Do they only want their research to be helpful for other research and never have applicability outside academia?
The EU is getting ready to impose a carbon border price which will be in proportion to estimates of carbon emissions. So, there will be a price on carelessness if it can be measured by satellites.
That's what I thought. So saying "it's not a kernel mode driver" is technically true, but I don't need to explain why it's a bunch of nonsense to try to damage control their incompetence.
Truly, how the extent the damage was so widespread is my main question at this point.

Everyone has a buggy release at some point, but impacting global customers at this level is damn near unforgivable.

Heads need to roll for this oversight.
> All the environmental damage.

Environmental damage is the argument against traffic calming measures. Vehicles are most efficient traveling at a consistent, relatively high speed. The reason the national speed limit was historically set at 55MPH was that was the approximate speed at which aerodynamic losses overcome mechanical losses from low gearing at low speeds, i.e. it was the speed that vehicles of the time were most fuel efficient. Modern vehicles have even better aerodynamics. Moreover, fuel efficiency for electric vehicles is essentially moot, because they have built-in storage that can be charged from intermittent renewable sources during times of oversupply when the power is "free".

Conversely, traffic calming generally results in vehicle speed changes as motorists slow down and then speed back up again in response to obstructions or areas with intentionally low visibility, which not only wastes fuel by operating vehicles below their optimal speed, it results in braking and acceleration that increases brake dust and tire wear.

Environmentally, the optimal road is flat and straight with no traffic control devices or other reasons for vehicles to change speed, i.e. a highway.
The books themselves aren’t free, though scholars might get free access through a library.
It doesn't read to me as trying to dodge anything. They aren't saying "they're not kernel drivers, so everything is OK", they're saying "seeing the .sys on the filenames, you might think they're kernel drivers, but as it happens they're something else".

(Maybe there's some subtext that I'm missing, but I don't see how saying "these aren't kernel drivers" makes them look any better, and I do see why they might say it to be informative, so it looks like to me like they're doing the latter.)
We're cooked
Thanks for the cool project.

And just remember: never fear pushing back (even against seniors) and never confuse criticism about your work with an attack on you as a person. I mean all our code is shit. If a year from now you don't look back at your code and think "this is shit" then it probably means you are no longer improving (conversely if you are feeling discouraged and like you're getting nowhere, go back and look at your old code because it makes the improvements rather obvious lol).

Good luck. Keep it up and you'll do great. So don't stress and don't forget to have fun (very common mistake, especially by adults)
It truly is.
Doesn’t surprise me. Visiting California right now, it feels like Norway around 2015. You see a few fast chargers here and there all over the place. But far from the amount of gas station pumps of course.

The transition in Norway from 2015 to 2023 was staggering. I would say 2020-2024 is when we’ve started seeing gas station replace half or more of their pumps with fast chargers. Leaving as little as two pumps for gas.

Now keep in mind that there’s been huge improvements in fast charging technologies. The US has it way easier. Fast chargers charges faster, are more efficient, easier to install and cheaper. Power electronics is cheaper. Using batteries as buffers for fast chargers was unheard of in 2015. Now it’s completely viable, and drastically reduces the demand for a powerful grid connection.

In terms of standardisation I think the US is a bit ahead of where Norway was in 2015. Most car makers seem to be transitioning to NACS by 2025? NACS is also simpler and probably cheaper than CCS Type 2? You don’t get 3 phase fast AC charging at home. But that’s overkill for most people.

The US might be a bit behind on good solutions for street side charging poles. But there are some companies with good solutions. There’s reason to be optimistic. Just gotta get everyone used to the bring-your-own-cable solution (but what cable? has that been standardised?)
Yeah, this PR statement is pretty much devoid of information other than it is not a cyber attack.
Oddly, I agree-- that section was just kind of an obvious hurried joke about the great food. I really did learn a lot of culinary ideas due to eating a lot of food I could have afforded in Manhattan, but normally would never have bought due to my frugality.
Wish I knew how to write command line tools like this. Until then, there's always Emacs.
So how does a doctor issue a discharge order via e-prescription to the patients pharmacy for them to pick up when they leave? How do you update the badge readers on the drug vaults when an employee leaves and you need to deactivate their badge? How do you update the EMR's from the hospital stay so the GP practice they use can see them after discharge? How do you order more supplies and pharmacy goods when you run out? How do you contact the DEA to get approval for using certain scheduled meds? I'm afraid that external networks are absolutely a requirement for modern hospitals.

If the system has to be networked with the outside world, who is responsible for physically updating all of these machines, so they don't get ransomware'd? Who has to go out and visit each individual machine and update it each month so the MRI machine doesn't get bricked by some teen ransomware gang? Remember that was the main threat hospitals faced 3-4 years ago, which is why Crowdstrike ended up on everyone's computer: because the ransomware insurance people forced them too.

There is a reason that I am a software engineer and not an IT person. I prefer solving more tractable problems, and I think proving p!=np would be easier than effectively protecting a large IT network for people who are not computing professionals.

One of my favorite examples: in October 2013 casino/media magnate and right wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson gave a speech about how the US and Israel should use nuclear weapons to stop Iran nuclear program. In February 2014 a 150 line VB macro was installed on the Sands casino network that replicated and deleted all HDDs, causing 150 million dollars of damage. That was to a casino, which spends a lot of money on computer security, and even employs some guys named Vito with tire irons. And it wasn't nearly enough.
> And lastly, choose boring technology. Only use software that you're sure will be supported in 10 years. Only use software, which has very few "unknown unknowns". Only use software, where the development pace has slowed down to a reasonable degree.

Perl has been stable for a couple of decades.
It sounds like Channel files are just basically definition updates in normal antivirus software; it's not actually code, just some stuff on what the software should "look out for".

And it sounds like they shipped some malformed channel file and the software that interprets it can't handle malformed inputs and ate shit. That software happened to be kernel mode, and also marked as boot-critical, so it if falls over, it causes a BSOD and inability to boot.

and it's kind of understandable that channel files might seem safe to update constantly without oversight, but that's just assuming that the file that interprets the channel file isn't a bunch of dogshit code.
Humility and let them choose what they want. We don't need to come down hard, form an opinion, and coerce everyone into doing what we want.

Sometimes it's fine to sit back and let people make their own decisions and even mistakes, as long as they don't adversely impact you.
The Muck: Rail Helping WSOP Champ Between Hands Bad for the Game?
Just FYI - in London, IPA is a very traditional beer. Just not the hop-bomb american styles.

Go for cask real-ales on the big pumps rather than craft beers off the keg taps, and you're drinking old-school British beers brewed in the way they have been brewed for hundreds of years. Some of them will be IPAs. Most of them will be in the range of 3-6% alcohol.

They don't tend to be as massively hopped and flavoured as the newer 'craft' styles, they are less fizzy (natural carbonation only, rather than forced keg carbonation) and might be kinder to your head as a result.
>I think both of those cover a vast majority of grants funded in academia

In the US. Also even in the US, is NASA included in one of those? Looks like it costs around 20B yearly. There may be more from the US, and then there's, you know, the rest of the world combined too.
The money today for classically-trained composers is also mostly in film music. The next biggest market is video game music. After that, symphonic works (eg openers and large works for full symphony orchestras) are a distant third.

The money has always been in commissioned music,* it's just about what is getting commissioned. Counterpoint rarely gets commissioned, let alone enough counterpoint to become Bach.

* Mozart's catalog is a great example: Salzburg Mozart wrote masses and organ fugues, while Vienna Mozart wrote operas and secular pieces. It's what he was paid to write.
And you would know that this didn't happened ... how?

Between the museum, the prospector, and the government, this is a stacked prisoner dilemma game; not worth playing.
He sold several of them to physicists and linguists. The application to studying sound and speech was pretty obvious. But, eh, I have a background in linguistics and you can squint at waveforms of speech all you want; you don't get too much out of it. Fundamental frequencies for vowels are revealed with some experience at interpretation, but that had been worked out already, by the late 18th century. I suppose it would have helped confirm it.
Sonic Outlaws (1995)
You lost me at iPadOS.
Yeah it's cool. Lately just feels like they're doing work, not all home runs, but they're out there swinging.
I wonder what happens to the engineer who deployed this patch.
Trade wars are more likely than shooting wars, but I suppose its not impossible for the former to provoke the latter.
Because if release immediately, velocity go up
Is there a legal way to bypass those collectors. It should be, right. After all most research is done on public money.
The person in the video, presumably. Lu Wilson / Luke Wilson. (They said in the video that either name is fine.)
Venusian. Venetian is entirely different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian
it's because many other cloud services offer sending to S3, that's pretty much it
got it. that is an implementation you will have to do when you embed it in app. it's basically exporting the HTML, giving it a name and storing it a database. this functionality is beyond the scope of the demo. but we have it at https://sendune.com/
standard user: why can't I open this pdf? It says Permission Denied

dumb admin: let me try .... boom game over man