Re: Blocking funds is only one path
Have a vote for kakistocracy! Not sure how I've been missing that word all these years. Does it translate into Spanish as cacastrocracy?
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The joke goes:
The first English to Russian translating machine was proudly being demonstrated when an impertinent reporter fed it the phrase:
"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"
And the machine responded with computer speed in Russian what is best translated back into English as:
"The Vodka is good, but the meat is poor"
If you are saying no, you don't think the new and improved google that decides what you really want and ignores any attempt to restrict it to searching for exact strings is actually an improvement, I agree with you.
If you are saying no, you don't remember a time when google searched for what you told it you wanted it to search for, my condolences for missing out on the experience.
Agreed. I doubt there is anything mobile about the generators. They will lose their commission for the current purpose and obtain a new commission at the same locale, resetting their temporary status and restarting the twelve-month clock wherein they can be termed temporary and not require NOx emission scrubbers.
Don't the windmills need rare earth metals? Part of China pushing back was to freeze the sale of rare earth metals to the US.
Or maybe Trump is just creating the crisis du jour to distract from his statement that he wasn't sure if he was supposed to uphold the constitution.
I suspect if you aggregated all the coordinated attacks from far-right media on the various targets du jour, you would find trump's targets get treated worse than trump does online. Especially if you take truth into account.
If you want to talk about in real life there is no doubt that trump's targets are getting treated much worse, and his favorite targets seem to be those least able to defend themselves.
There is a solution cheaper than Microsoft's to keep Windows 10 running securely
There is an area west of Los Angeles (west end of simi valley) that houses a lot of industrial machines (with large motors...inductive loads). They also rent to retail businesses. Apparently the local power company has never seen fit to install the proper capacitors on the power lines to balance the inductive loads and the retail shops will suffer with mystery problems on any computers until someone helpfully points out they will likely need an isolating UPS.
In Outlook a group will look like a normal email address, and is configured somewhat like an email user, but when you send something to that group it gets forwarded to others. Usually it will be given a name containing 'list' or named after a function to make it obvious you are sending to a group, but not always.
I imagine all of us are playing doctor using the internet to some degree. I consider it 'homework' to bring a conjecture based on the internet sources available to me to my doctor, BUT I still ask the doctor and accept the professional knows more than I do and can sift through the noise better than I can.
The idea that doctors would use an AI isn't ominous to me. The idea that doctors would rely on an AI is very ominous.
It's been demonstrated that programmers who rely on AI lose some of their ability to think outside the bot. Specifically designing, optimizing, and debugging talents get lost.
Reducing something to a practice that doesn't need to change by writing it down is a good thing. But you have to be willing and able to throw out that procedure when things do change.
Back to doctors, if they use an AI for everything as a first step and the AI is correct 99 times out of 100, will the doctor notice the time the AI got it wrong? Probably if the AI is grossly wrong and recommends amputating the fourth leg, but maybe not if it is something subtle that requires a great deal of talent such as reading an X-ray or MRI.
>> From what I read, Rust is a far cry from a Java-like garbage collector
>Rust is a programming language, not a memory allocation technique.
In the post I was responding to there was a comment about garbage collectors. I was saying Rust isn't that and doesn't do that. The register makes it easy to find the post being replied to with the curly arrow to the upper left of a post; I use that quite often to get a better idea about what is being replied to. My comment would look strange out of context.
>> which essentially allows memory to leak until you run out of memory then makes everything wait while it tidies up
>That's not fair. Modern GC implementations can be used which do a lot of clever stuff in the background. They can't reduce the delay to zero, but you can tune
That's true, and what you're saying is the overhead is less noticeable because it is artfully spread out over time. Depending on what is being done, it's also reasonable to just hope the program is done quickly enough that no GC is needed at all and it just gets handled in process run-down. As a gross description of what a GC does, I think my description explains it. Because of that I don't think a GC belongs in a driver or anywhere that timing is important. And again, Rust isn't that.
> I've no idea what this means, but Rust enforces bounds checking at compile time
Agreed. Enforcement at compile time is all good. Rust also labels code as unsafe that does not perform bound checking at run time as Phil Lord points out. Naturally someone who doesn't understand all the implications will declare there will be no unsafe code in a given project and it will become enforced. This is a hidden performance cost. I've been wondering how we are somehow getting something for nothing in terms of memory safety, and now I know the answer. As expected, there is no free lunch.
> Rust doesn't "call a subroutine" (since when was calling subroutines a problem ?). The memory allocation stuff is done at compile time.
Taken a little out of context. Calling a function at an assembly language level is calling a subroutine. Boundary checking, if performed at several layers of nesting, would compound the costs of boundary checking. As for since when is calling subroutines a problem, there is quite a bit of overhead involved in setting up stack frames. I've measured it and it is much worse than is apparent.
Thanks for getting me to look into the reality of Rust. I tend to tune out when things degrade into snark, and the comment you pointed out certainly qualifies.
From what I read, Rust is a far cry from a Java-like garbage collector (which essentially allows memory to leak until you run out of memory then makes everything wait while it tidies up). A lot of what Rust does is enforce better practices through the compiler.
On the other hand, Rust fans seem to sweep bounds checking (that is also an aspect of Rust) under the rug or insist that everyone else does it and you should just get with the program. Bounds checking does have an effect on performance as you say, and this would be compounded if the checking is happening in multiple layers.
I will say that multiple layers shouldn't exist in a driver that is written for performance. Calling a subroutine imposes a huge performance penalty.
And now having looked into Rust, I'm of the opinion that it is a tool that is best used where appropriate. If blistering speed isn't required (the DMA routines do seem like a good example), the tradeoffs might well be worth it. It also seems there is a hype aspect that seems to infer you can let an AI or an intern write your device drivers and the magic tool will make it all work out, which isn't a beneficial ethos. It is a tool to use and not a god to worship.
Technician thought he had broken the test rig because there were no signs of power. Unplugged the board being tested and checked: nope, the test rig was fine. Connected everything back up, and still seems like no power.
After sitting back and thoughtfully stroking his chin the top of the line driver that was plugged in backwards audibly ricocheted off the 30 foot (9 meter) ceiling. Then the lights all came back on the test rig.
He said he hadn't missed getting an electronic caste mark by more than a couple of seconds.
This article from wired: Wired article on opting out describes places you can opt out.
Here are similar opt out instructions and links from redact.dev
USB is a vector that carries an embedded driver that is automatically downloaded to your computer and then runs with privileges. As far as vectors go, it is more equal than many others that require the user to participate (at least since Microsoft mostly stopped blindly executing autorun on all removable devices by default).
The driver needs to be signed by a trusted source, which means the attacker needs to somehow insinuate themselves into a chain of trust, which does happen.
Convenience is the root of all rootkits.
"name probably was chosen with the specific intent to shame/blame the victim into not reporting the scam."
Maybe. My guess is that it is easier to victimize someone if you dehumanize them first. The job is a lot harder if you relate to the person as a fellow human being (for the majority of non-sociopaths)
I've long been curious if these phishing attacks are good enough to extract your Office 365 credentials if you stored them in your browser. Ominious in that the victim might assume a broken link and not realize their credentials had been harvested.
I think we know more or less how to do a round trip to Mars.
I read something recently about the amount of radiation one is likely to encounter on a trip between planets and got the impression a round-trip to Mars could render one a bit crispy. That would be an ethical issue for some.
Like all good road trips, you want to plan things so you spend more time visiting than traveling, and that involves the planets lining up properly. Such things don't always align with the priorities of men. If he doesn't go with the planetary alignments, things could get ugly. Most likely given history, any Mars round trip will be delayed until such time as the heavens had long ago degreed.
But as long as you've paid for the air fare, why not visit the other inner planets? I hear a small sliver of Mercury is liveable this time of year. The Aurora there must be to die for.
Is there already a gofundme setup to send Elmo to Mercury?