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The first half of the statement is a load of crap because forest fires will accelerate glacial melt and climate instability. Heck, Thunderf00t just debunked the recent Somalia virtue-signaling as completely futile. What needs to happen is net zero carbon emissions with large-scale permanent carbon sequestration. Tens of trillions of USD to get back to pre-industrial levels of GHGs is affordable and vital.

- Curtail use of fossil-fuels and animal agriculture

- Switch from carbon-polluting Portland cement manufacturing to carbon neutral or negative cement production

- Iron seed the oceans to spur seaweed blooms

- Seaweed: Salvage, closed-system burn and bury carbon emissions deep

- Also, separate CO2 from air and bury it

- Reintroduce large managed herds of grazing animals at the interface of desertification to restore grassland soil health

- Resurrect wooly mammoth hybrids in large herds to deforest arboreal tundra back to grassland tundra to stop carbon and land loss

I remember scramjets in Popular Mechanics 30 years ago, but nothing seemed to materialize.

Off-topic to scramjets but potentially military-related: Making a big stretch by assuming the "white Tic-Tac" isn't an elaborate hoax to get adversaries to overspend on propulsion technologies and/or troll the public, what type of propulsion could allow it to accelerate so quickly? Casimir effect thruster?

Any reasonable HIDS/HWIDS, beyond physical PCB auditing, x-ray verification and supply-chain chain-of-custody documentation, needs to include continuous monitoring firmware using end-to-end public key-verifiable signatures.

Also, open-source hardware, including the firmware, would alleviate some of the downsides of closed blobs.

Seems like a public service IMHO. ;)

Much peace and love <3, because there's not enough humanity between people these days it seems.

How a society treats its most vulnerable, "undesirable" and powerless individuals (prisoners, homeless and other minority groups) reflects the true nature of its constituents.

It's truly a shame most modern people have no idea what it's like to be homeless and/or didn't learn the golden rule or empathy in their upbringing.

Thank them for treating you like dirt? Get off your high horse of self-righteousness. Until you've been homeless, maybe you shouldn't comment.

Most homeless services here follow the "beggars can't be choosers" egotism of not attending to people's actual needs but rather looking down their noses on them, treating homeless people like criminals or make them jump through hoops like show animals.

For example, most of the doctor specialist services here have a "full" waiting list just to schedule an appointment and force people to call at a certain time in the morning for a few spots on said list, like animals jockeying to win the lottery.

Oh and the amount of food and cash aid is abysmal, not enough to feed or clothe anyone.

Most services demand either employment or only apply to certain groups, leaving many people to fall between the cracks.

The "social workers" are arrogant, obnoxious bureaucrats who don't listen to their clients but instead hold their aid over their heads and order them around without offering any solutions, strategies, resources or actual help... just judgement and control.

And it takes years to get disability status reviewed and longer to get housing. There are at least 1500 people living rough and 500 people living in vehicles in the area.

Nice empathy you have there. I bet you would sing a different song if you were homeless.

Yeap. Copying tech is a common pattern developing countries use to grow faster. Pot, meet kettle.

Louis Rossmann - "Apple users have no one to blame but themselves." https://youtu.be/gi9en4I-tjA

^ Actual title of a recently posted video

Silicon Valley area is the perfect example. Terrible public transport apart from a very few, select areas and it's inconvenient and expensive. (BART, Caltrain, Lightrail, Amtrak)

It won't work in LA because the layout is structurally geared to maximizing distance between necessities, rather than being walkable or having effective public transport.

There's several situations that need to be addressed in every VMM:

Cold pages - not being used

Warm/normal pages - average use pages

Hot pages - being used a lot

1. LRU/histogramming cold RO-code/RO-data pages to be paged out (dropped) or compressed when other pages are hotter and there's memory pressure.

2. Compressing or paging out to disk volatile RW-data when cold and other pages are hotter and there's memory pressure.

3. Pinning in memory (compressed and/or uncompressed) pages that are hot for performance reasons, unlocking them when they become less hot or others become hotter.

4. Having the ability (like on macOS) to signal applications that the system is under severe memory pressure (say "SIGMEM", "SIGLOWMEM" or "SIGOOM"), and to drop volatile data that can regenerated or is ephemeral.

Linux resource scheduling and prioritization and is pretty awful compared to its popularity.

TBH, there are very few OSes that get high-pressure resource scheduling and prioritization right under nearly all normal circumstances.

The hackaround for decades on Linux is always adding a tiny swap device, say 64-256 MiB on a fast device in order to 0) detect average high memory pressure with monitoring tools 1) prevent oddities under load without swap (as in OP example).

BINC, MsgPack, ...

Remember Al Jazeera's 2010 report on critical defective and substandard structural parts from subcontractor Ducommun? The full scope of potential risk is ALL aircraft Boeing has designed, built, reengineered or maintained in the past 30 years. It's unknown what's hidden, poorly-designed, fragile or likely to fail because of lax self-certification up-and-down the full breadth and depth of equipment and subsystems. There's no way to prove a particular new/recently maintained Boeing plane is safe because the whole regulatory system is broken due to regulatory capture stemming from cozy, military-industrial complex corruption.

I do hope Ralph Nader sues the pants off Boeing for killing his goddaughter due to their cheapness and shoddy products.

Assholes are bad for morale, drive good people away and generally suck the life out of people like vampires. Those you mentioned are the survivor bias anecdotal exceptions who only managed to succeed in spite of being assholes, not because of it. Everyone's replaceable, including the assholes.

See also: Robert Sutton's book, The No Asshole Rule (Stanford prof)

PS: I really do think corp culture falls in one of two main camps: those that defend civility/fairness like a family and those where employees have already mentally/emotionally disembarked, pining for warmer shores elsewhere.

The key problem with unfair, inequitable ownership is that a few jerks get rich while everyone else suffers. First employees should balk at anything less than having a say and having significant ownership. Co-op or bust.

Feminism has infected California's education system too. :/

How much energy does this use compared to RO?

Retail is a dirty business.

As a teenager, I had one those humongous Pioneer radio/amps from the early 80's, a pair of heavy 14"'s and high-end Discman that I blasted "Master of Puppets." No mountain lions could be found.

I recommend "Overkill."

Kissinger arguably gave rise to Pol Pot, causing a genocide larger than the illegal bombings of Vietnam.

Use Signal. The. End.

Yeap. If you cede the doing to consultants, they will extract more money. Especially when you cede the management of the doing entirely.

Robert Reich's latest video shows what's wrong... too much spending on whiz-bang military toys while cutting Social Security and Medicare. https://youtu.be/BGIJxNPFpAQ

Unlikely. Resellers don't do their own specialized electronics manufacturing. They likely do like other resellers and have them contract manufactured or slap their brand on some generic parts.

What you feel doesn't matter to what is. Many were developed and made in China, but that doesn't mean they have the IP rights secured to sell in any or all markets where other patent holders registered the idea first.

It's a different situation. Samsung is a big company, whereas the lightbulb vendors are fly-by-night resellers/contract manufacturers that don't care about patents. The patent holder goes after the biggest fish because Target is less likely to disappear than JKLM Filament Light Bulb Importing Ltd.