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It's a nice article, but don't they run against Amdahl's law? I mean they're parsing JSON from some web api?

Most body of knowledge built from working with Linux and Windows can be wholly ignored when building the New Operating System. There is barely anything worth of salvaging in either of the 'operating systems' or their lessons learned (besides not doing what they did).

I guess some of the GUI stuff is worth something, but you can just make a ray traced OS with Unity so.

"500 internal error" and audible laughter sorry

It is a military superpower; one shouldn't expect them to address their security in terms of charity and human rights.

As for security of Europe, the status quo was already changed when they successfully took Crimea, and I think EU leaders like Germans and France have admitted as much in practical terms.

The energy situation in western Europe is comical and mostly a self own. I can't even take seriously when they keep being hostile to Russia and act surprised when they get squeezed by Russia. Also Ukraine and Belarus can coerce countries downstream from them wrt. gas.

It is very tiresome to witness this time and time again in the inflation discussion.

https://github.com/eugene-babichenko/rust-fsm - I think I meant this.

I think one of Jung's comments was that we don't really know the performance benefits of UB in that blog post.

I believe there is a library that can generate type-state machines for you in Rust, ie. you don't have to code it by hand.

Very good podcast (with transcript!) about kernels / lib kernels / unikernels:

https://signalsandthreads.com/what-is-an-operating-system/

> vaccination is less effective individually for the immunocompromised

> People with a compromised immune system are a good setting for evolving new variants of coronavirus

> They stay sick for a long time (meaning more viral replication and more opportunities for mutation) and they apply a weak immune response which while not sufficient to wipe out the disease, provides selective pressure that rewards immune evasion.

If what you say is true about immunocompromised people I fail to see a public health argument against their quarantine and certification via passports. We already restrict a much larger and healthier subpopulation (the unvaccinated) so restricting this smaller and disproportionately more dangerous one does seem quite obvious to me, based on public health. And as you say, these people are most likely already hospitalized so quarantine procedures should be fairly easy to implement and follow.

Immunocompromised subpopulation is so small (at least in my country), especially compared to unvaccinated (abt. 30%), that it should be fairly trivial to quarantine them, don't really see an issue here if we are restricting unvaccinated life based on argument about public health.

> a persistent infection in an imunocompromised individual is one of the most plausible theories

> People with a compromised immune system are a good setting for evolving new variante of coronavirus

If it turns out to be the case, should we have HIV / Cancer Patient Passports? After all, these people can be a general danger to public health as they can demonstrably incubate new dangerous strains of diseases, like Omicron.

The governments who enact the restrictions and the majority who support them are not acting entirely on arguments based on health. For example, origin of COVID is animal reservoir (bats) which makes a bunch of the restrictions illogical (they are predicated on sterilizing immunity / eradicating it entirely - also known as zero covid).

So, it is not cut and dry case that you can present a health policy based on health, like you are making now. You probably need some kind of Girardian scapegoat or a political argument to shock the public out of it. I don't think the latter is coming because majority supports and sees the restrictions as positive.

> To my knowledge no booster is approved for use within 6 months of another shot

Government recommends booster after five to six months in my country. To clarify, they do not yet recommend boosters to the end of time, just a booster after the second.

> 6 months is overkill unless you're extremely high risk

It is a general recommendation here.

I forgot (because I assume the original was a lab leak) that China's entire (believe it or not) story is that it was a bat leak instead.

So .. some government actions do not seem justified if you believe it came from animal reservoir.

One should be able to still look at what South & East Asian states have done, I don't think Vietnam or South Korea have this problem of highly politicized scientific community. Don't know if they have confirmed animal reservoir though.

Vaccine-As-A-Service, every 5-6 months a booster shot.

Ending a virus that we have no sterilizing vaccines for and which might have an animal reservoir; don't merely need vaccine mandates but VaaS mandates.

"but", Zotero is really neat if you use the plugins which make it just one-click-to-save it in your Zotero from browser. Hardly any overhead with that.

I fucking HATE the Instagram algorithm. Literally random order of stupid shit from 3-7 days instead of the newest releases. Whoever was in charge of this should get banned from programming or product design.

I think the original author said that it was harder to make this than his masters thesis.

You have correctly deduced why AI research is just a paper factory.

There is also no specification for "AI".

How do you formally verify your neural networks and the like? Or is formal verification possible? Does this limit the areas where it can be applied?

I like them for modularity, message queues and asynchronous events. But you are correct, esp. last one.

It seems like a web developer position and / but

> "Undergraduate or Master's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative field required"

I think a nation states need to just simply start banning web development / ad tech development, restricted butlerian jihad. The internal brain drain must hurt actual STEM fields at this point. Masters in CS going to write webapps seems just tad bit insane.

I think this OS is intended to run in embedded context where there are significant memory constraints; read its description, no runtime allocations etc.

I linked two speeches where he goes over this in a bit more detail, but I hope the presentation opens it up even more.

So this is what Cantrill has been talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBzSSvT_P0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvp-e4ztC0

About to write "they aren't the same thing" as I remember Nix aliases the language, package manager and OS.

Inevitable after that Space.