mrmuagi

>> I interpret the loose analogy as: if controlled advertising is like normal cell growth, then out-of-control resource-consuming advertising is like cancerous cell growth.

> That analogy applies to literally anything that can grow. Great. Startups are a cancer. Technology is a cancer.

Not a logical flow in that analogy from my perspective. There is legitimately bad advertising out there that is blatantly malicious -- malware, popups, click jackers, spyware, non-consensual tracking, etc. -- that could be described by that to a tee. But the original article goes further and calls all advertising cancerous which is just plain dogmatic and frankly, extremist. Its extremely easy to put down advertising, but the truth is everything in life is advertising, since advertising is just a game of attention -- predating the internet and printed paper. I think an average internet denizen has a viewpoint somewhere between.

Then we have people who work in marketing, and might see the article and be opposed to the article. But I don't think that matters. Advertisement is not going to stop because of some article putting it in a undefended spotlight, it's a fulfilling prophecy from a game theory perspective precisely because you can't not advertise -- as the article notes.

> Think of a bored computer (one that is not used to its maximum capacity). It's like a computer that uses swap memory v.s. one that has a few GBs of free RAM. Which one would you rather use?

A bored computer would just be one that idles more than it schedules work. Memory is not a good anthropomorphism to boredom. Why? Because swap memory can be beneficial to systems even if RAM is un-exhausted, and a system that has a few GBs of free RAM is a newly booted, or a poorly cached system, the extra ram is just unused extra resources -- untouched. Maybe, the system can be bored waiting for IO, but again this is stalled CPU cycles. The glass analogy would fit better to annotate the memory system architecture itself as the glass, a rigid and crafted system, and the water as the actual physical pages, the actual dynamic data that flows through.

If I was in your boots, I would be quite upset. I can deal with some minor hiccups here and there, but the R key is quite crucial. I would weigh trying to do a repair anyway just to guard against against a probable future occurrence...

I use a synology NAS myself, but I am down to setup something with Pi 4 + OSMC as it was well recommended.

> Figure 4. A mobile phone (Samsung Note II) is placed 30 cm from a target laptop.

Less impressive than 6 feet, but still impressive.

This is a weird line to argue from... What guarantees any platform you use (yes, even including wordpress) won't delete you data or terminate your service agreement? Even more laughable, if it was unfairly terminated, how can you argue when you are dead?

If you want longevity -- and want a VPS, just load up your vps (in the case of DO) wallet, pre-purchase out your domain name for a few years in advance and sit back. That's the best you are going to get, without paying somebody specifically. If you are popular enough, your stuff will be archived anyway.

But for heavens sake, if you actually have a need for post-life longevity for your content, put it in a will. Plan for death.

I looked through the linux source net code and their usage is actually ubiquitous, but they are paired with hashes and trees. Storing your entire data in a linked list, I agree is horrible, but using linked lists within a hash bucket for keeping entries was acceptable, but because of collision attack causing DDOS susceptibilities, trees were preferred moving forward.

When we talk about drivers, from my little exposure (mainly fixing kernel panics), DMA, and cyclical arrays for buffers, I don't recall seeing any linked lists in performant codepaths (it's common to use linked lists for an object pool, like descriptors, but these are O(1) because of tail operations (doubly linked)). But I did see descriptors being put onto cyclical buffers and deferenced, which is the same cost of a pointer deference in a linked list step traversal.

What forums do you peruse? The ones I run through are generally okay, but mechanisms of voting, liking, and rewarding post count of users, seem to increase low effort posting.

I tried getting sublime to work with a 60k file code base, I got the indexer down to 20k but the CPU usage of the indexing process was always at 100% when building (diagnostics showed it wasn't doing any index db changes) even though I filtered out most of the build cruft, third party code, and useless sub directories.

Vim with cscope/ctags is the best of both worlds. Index your project once -- no penalty when building. Symbolic searching is a must have on any large code base (declaration, usage, etc).

Mind sharing what the solution you referenced?

From a hard theory network perspective, having higher bandwidth, lower latency, lower error rate on transmission path combined with closer geographical proximity to servers seem to help mitigate increases in latency.

However, if you argue the problem is solved by your empirical evidence gained by playing Witcher 3 of all games, I disagree with your point. Play a real time strategy game, a MOBA, or a first person shooter. 70ms~ (a report for Stadia reported 70ms-130ms, may be stale data) of lag is noticeable to people. On the other hand, I don't mind streaming a turn based game.

Quite an interesting read, however "Deep Crack" is a horrible name.

Not needed work is kind of already dis-incentivezed -- if its not needed, generally there is less market demand for it, but it behoves me to ignore all the exceptions propped up by cultural events and/or clever and insidious marketing like MLM.

Funny you mention study, because that's what people do in university and college, but in America they get a fat student loan when they graduate...

But how does that relate to a 440,000€/job/year subsidy? On paper it seems wasteful but I'm no expert in the economics of propping up the aluminium industry in Germany. Maybe it's a strategic move for national defence.

You basically need to de-bloat your computer from Lenovo's software and also window services (compatibility telemetry was a prime example of an offender). To help with the fan, try undervolting the CPU, my T470p got around -10 to -15mv iirc that helped with throttling and fan/heat a ton.

I see, you make the distinction based on public vs. private. The weird thing is, isn't this just giving private companies the ability to have a more lax set of standards then one we would place on a public good? This seems to just incentives public->private good conversion more, for they don't have to play by the public good playbook.

Sorry to sound like I'm trying to gotcha you, but how on earth isn't Facebook a large subset of the Internet?

It looks like a V with bullhorns to me, which is weird -- what does the V symbolise in this project?

I really agree with you. Specifically, "20. Genes can be hacked." reads ridiculously to me.

>Scientists have discovered how to store data and even animated GIFs in DNA, and even believe malware could be placed in DNA to compromise the security of computers holding databases. Still trust them?

This is nonsense of the highest order. People can print the binary of malware on a reams of laser printed paper. Do I still trust paper? The generalisation of the arguments made in this article is egregiously fallacious.

The notion of gifting socks just seems to bring in Christmas-like warmth and appeal to the readers past experiences (who hasn't been gifted cloths...). All in all, you are right, the sock gifting doesn't fit, even if it is an admittedly better idea.

To chime in on TrueCrypt, and perhaps someone can help elaborate, I understood that it went offline and the maintainer called quits suspiciously? VeraCrypt was the successor iirc.

> it's still running Unix underneath, because no one ever came up with anything better.

That gave a good chuckle. I'm delighted to give that book a go.

Tourism is the opposite of sucking money from the local populace? It's a cultural landmark that, iirc, draws in a million tourists per year.

I kind am torn about your reasoning, but I understand it myself. If science and technology was paraded XYZ years earlier, wouldn't things be so much better? Except it's not that easy. Dumping a ton of gold in a pre-medieval economy is worthless. Dumping the right ideas instead (renaissance, medicine, industrialisation) would have been priceless. Though, I wonder, what could have happened if instead people were taxed 10% they invested that in other means -- wouldn't it be nice if it had compounded over all those years...

Having the 'owner' of the e-mail address have the only access is a better extreme than having everyone have access, but I don't think that's feasible. People within Microsoft will always have the ability to access e-mail accounts, the question is if they are the right people and how big that group of people should ever be.

If you are talking about secure e-mail cryptography philosophy along the lines of PGP, ProtonMail, et cetera, sure you can achieve that through those means. Otherwise it's a pipe dream with a product like Outlook that's built for businesses and having AD style control.

Perhaps you got a better deal, but the settlement itself was pennies (/u/nostrademons) reported in this thread it was ~1K for him/her but the wage inflation the next year was around 100k).

> I still think this is a better argument than people arguing on behalf of hypothetical others they don't know anything about. One data point is better than zero.

Harh, harh. I must admit, I know nothing about a lot of things. Thanks for sharing your viewpoint however, it grows my knowledge by at least one :)

My main point I'll make is simple -- you were victim of wage depression, it was found out and 'fixed' because it was illegal, and you benefited -- precisely because you were an identifiable victim. Now, imagine if you 'benefited' X to (X+Y) years earlier. Wouldn't you have retired earlier -- if that's your desirable outcome?

The critical point is that, potentially, you were a candidate of having your wages colluded to be depressed illegally. Ponder about this fact for a moment. Now, how could you straightforwardly make an argument that you are okay because they "treated me very well" or that it's a good thing because it helps the housing market (less income on your end)?

These are not in any way, shape or form arguments or defences for these practices.

I use ebooks and physical books, but I am regretful of some physical books mainly because:

1) They take a lot of space. I have bookshelf's full of them.

2) They can get damaged by humidity and mold.

3) I am prospecting travelling/moving/migrating, and I will likely sell/donate my books in this case.

That being said I want to support the authors I read, and wish I could buy the digital book directly from the author (100% of the money goes to him/her), and get an electronic copy.

The common advice and wisdom from what I've been hearing is that it's perfectly acceptable (especially if you are underpaid the market rate), but not to do it frequently or too fast. There was some evidence of within company promotions being poorer than just switching jobs.

What specific managed services do you use, if I may inquire?

Future of server is serverless? :P

What do you use for your taxes? I used SimpleTax and it was pretty easy this year.

What's your definition of respect?

Couldn't you just generate new keys each session and keep forward security?