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I love it. God speed.

The idea of a multi-user time-sharing virtual memory operating system is seriously outdated.

Today, the server OS could be based on a one user, multi computer abstraction, with multiple gigs of memory, solid state storage, and reliable gigE+ network as assumed essentials.

Entire sub-systems of the current linux kernel can be omitted.

Most of the VFS layer, with so many optimizations for spinning rust. Right out.

Paging, swapping, shared objects, address randomization and PIC. Right out.

User access controls, file access controls, network access controls / firewalls. Right out.

Of the 50,000 device drivers in the linux kernel, probably 50 deserve to be supported.

For a workstation with graphics / GPU and console support, and every pluggable external device support, maybe some sort of legacy emulation layer would work. Basically run a linux VM for backwards compatibility with those 50,000 devices. Would be less work than implementing those drivers...

Remember, Linus was once a 19 year old with a dream, and a small repo of prototype kernel demo code, 25 years ago.

Not a "legitimate" descendant, whatever that means after 60 generations.

However, he was an aristocrat, and a soldier, in a time when birth control was rarely practiced. I imagine he's got plenty of his DNA in the modern pool.

Many fields are small enough, with infrequent enough papers, that experts will be able to tell the author from style and content alone...

Both of my kids are called by a nickname derived from their middle names! Awesome way to distinguish fake association attacks.

I applaud your optimism!

Most places just enforce byzantine password requirements, 13 digits, must have ~, uppercase and a palindrome prime integer in it.

Obligatory password XKCD, think of the children. https://xkcd.com/936/

Sure, HSBC gets security right. They just deal with criminals directly rather than indirectly :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=hsbc+criminal+investigation

Sex differences in the genetic sense exist, and are founded on physics, chemistry and biology. Let's not hide from them either, veiled behind ideological double-speak.

Balance.

There isn't a windows compile available yet 8( -- yes, i don't have a choice at work.

And yet it's more than 90.1% of the population posesses...

Interestingly, some estimates of (formal) Polish aristocracy in the 17th century place it around 10% of the population. Maybe this is just some natural distribution of socio-econo-political status of human groups.

Math teaching until upper years of undergrad is "The Technical History of Mathematics", which really could be taught very well by teachers yoinked by a time machine from the 1800s...

My favorite math teacher was a linguist by training, but had a knack for getting across the intuition behind Linear Algebra. Some of my mathematics researcher acquaintances mentioned that in teaching their own children mathematics, they focus on clarity of thinking and language...

Here's a relevant RPF quote: "Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning." ― Richard Feynman

SOAP-XML request handling in C on a 100mhz embedded microLinux MMUless processor with plenty of processor and shitty kernel arch bugs ruined my life for a year once.

I mean it's the obvious choice for a simple control UI implementation on a slow embedded system...

You may resume your javascript framework discussion now.

Excellent visualization, however you have to use the units of measurement appropriate for a space faring people who have visited the moon.

So your 500 sq ft apartment is filled to a height of 3 feet with salt. That is 400 billion grains of salt.

I believe the key word is: "scaling"

Great tutors are great. Irreplaceable. There are approximately 900 of them in the world. Good luck hiring one of them for your child.

For an example of what kids can do in highschool, when well tutored - by excellent private tutors, look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin

AYLIP could be the major contribution of the recent boom in AI. Not just in enriching a few scummy FANGs, but actually providing real value to society.

who is the manufacturer? what country is it manufactured in? basic information that no one provides, and you have to go to the store to look at the back of the box to see...

Thanks for the direct link! hacker news is the best.

Also, I was very partial to Gorsuch's dissenting opinion, even though I believe patents in general to be a problem.

Damn, I thought another post in https://typesetinthefuture.com/ was being linked.

Genius, that guy.

I think I'm going to start a 21st app that implements a new protocol that unifies the other protocols...

https://xkcd.com/927/

When you say "field", do you mean algebraic field, or professional "field".

But then you get the great quip that 'freedom isn't free'...

Google+Alphabet yearly revenues are in the same ballpark as South Africa's GDP.

Google/Alphabet is already a country in its own right, and libertarians would already be sceptical of Google's role in society.

This is just another step down a long road of Technocracy...

Also, wasn't "Don't be evil" dropped as a motto? I thought I read that.

Well.... I'm pretty sure the field interpretation of EM also applies across the universe. So you could, on a dark night, with the electrons in the atoms of your body, feel the movement of electrons in a star, millions of light years away in space and time...

Article written by Russian banker living in Germany. Can't possibly be biased.

Seeing the rates of "single vehicle accidents" in small aircraft piloted by amateurs, I'm happier with the autonomy.

Also, autonomy in the sky seems easier than autonomy on the ground.

If Thrun is involved, chances are it will work pretty well...

I'm pretty sure this is a literal "Not In My Back Yard" comment.

I'm okay with it. Yes it will be for the 1% for a long time, but so were trains and cars and airlines...

If you pass triage, and wait your turn... And outside of hospital emergency visits, if you can find a family physician. Free has a large time cost associated with it.

I wonder if any tech companies are for or against this "surprising" turn of events...

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-china-xi-zuckerberg-cook-beiji...

I wonder if this is expressing the culture inherited from the Japanese historical experience? An island culture, homogenous, inward-centered, idolizing the emperor, crushed in WW2, and then relying on the post war rise of the corporate welfare state. This "lost" and dystopian corporate communication from Japanese companies seems typical. Certainly the one I worked for tended to be this way.

CCC.DE is slow for me, here's a youtube link to same video. Worth watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqof77pKBc

You can iodize mined / farmed salt. There's plenty in the supermarket for your organic local artisanal salt needs...

yup, notebookcheck is the only place I read for good reviews.