Virtualization instead of dual booting means you need to buy twice as much RAM
No it doesn't. There is no reason that the host and client OS both need the same amount of RAM. If the host is doing little else besides hosting, it doesn't need much.
My MacBook has 16 GB of RAM. 2GB of that is in active use, mostly by the browser. If I closed my browser and fired up a VM, the VM could use 80-90% of the RAM.
a developer of an application that uses the GPU...
GPU virtualization sucks, but is an area that is improving rapidly. But if GPU performance is important to your app, you wouldn't want to run it on a Mac. None of them have high performance GPUs.
Yes, eat less carbs, especially sugar, and less saturated fat. Eat more fish, and monounsaturated fat (olive oil, peanut oil). All of these are negatively correlated with dementia.
Lose weight. Exercise more. Get out of the house and do stuff. Vary your routine.
Just in America, dementia costs $277B per year. It is insane how little we spend researching treatments or cures, considering what an enormous return we would get on the investment.
Without new treatments, the number of people in America with dementia is projected to double by 2050 as the population ages.
What do they tell the patient? "Good news! You won't start losing your marbles until six years from now?"
1. There are lifestyle changes that can delay the onset of dementia. Changes in the diet, more exercise, more social activity.
2. There is a lot of promising research, including immunotherapy, and cellular senescence. If potential dementia patients can be detected early, then this research can be directed more efficiently, and cures found sooner.
3. People can make better life plans with more information. They can update their will, set up a trust, spend more time with their grandchildren, take that long planned vacation to Outer Mongolia, or whatever.
Deep Blue is ancient history. You can download and run chess programs on your cell phone that would obliterate Deep Blue 100 times out of 100, and of course, do the same to any human player.
No witnesses, no evidence? Why should the *company* then do something about it?
Because they are working with a very different standard of evidence.
For the police it is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
For the arbitration, it is preponderance of the evidence.
For company administrative action, it is even less than that. If there were no witnesses because his office door was closed, then why was the door closed? One-on-one meetings should be held with the door open. So even if there is no evidence of groping, policy was violated, and behavior was suspicious. That's not enough to go to jail, but it is enough to lose your job, or at least get a written reprimand on a first offence.
Reporting a crime at your nearest police station is free.
The police are very unlikely to get involved in a typical office harassment situation. An intern was groped or propositioned by her boss with no witnesses, and no evidence? The police can do nothing with that.
They aren't, for the most part. It's just that people do not pursue the other options, possibly because they don't know any better.
Yes, people always have a right to sue. But that isn't always the best option for the harassee. Going to court can be very expensive, and it is rare to find a lawyer willing to work on contingency. Corporations know how to grind you down and bleed you dry, with motion after motion, discovery, obfuscation, and delay. Arbitration is far faster and cheaper.
A big problem is that the arbitrator wants repeat business from the corporation, and know they will likely never see the petitioner again. This is a built-in bias.
I don't understand Oracle. Everyone who has ever shared their opinion with me hates them. Nobody here has anything good to say about them. They have a reputation for being unethical slime. Their services division has a long record of over budget fiascos.
Yet despite this, they still get $40B a year in revenue. Who are these customers?
You would think the profits from a single casino would be enough to roll out broadband to half the reserves in the USA.
A few tribes run casinos but most do not. Many reservations are in remote areas with no customer base for gaming. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, which contains the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is the poorest county in America.
The more prosperous tribes have little interest in helping less fortunate tribes. There is little solidarity. One of my co-workers is a Crow Indian, and she was raised on the Crow Reservation near Billings, Montana. According to her, the Crow were on the verge of extermination in a genocidal war with the Sioux and Cheyenne. It was only the arrival of white soldiers that save their tribe. They allied with the American Army, and Crow warriors died fighting with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. She doesn't give a crap about the plight of the Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge.
My parents own a farm. When my mom asked me to fix her tractor, I found a YouTube video that showed exactly how to do it. I put my laptop on a hay bale, and stepped through the video, pausing while I completed each step.
If she didn't have broadband, I would have had to drive into town, about 8 miles each way, and use the Wifi at McDonalds, and just hope I was recording the correct video.
people settling for only DOUBLE data rate (DDR,) we should hold out at least for triple data rate (TDR)
That doesn't make any sense. DDR sends data on both the rising and falling edge of the clock. TDR would have no clock edge to sync the data, so it wouldn't work. If you want more data, then either increase the clock rate, or widen the bus.
It is possible that the TDR comment was a joke, and I have been whooshed, in which case I apologize for being a humor-impaired Aspie.
I suspect it will be possible to analyze video of a person (like a news reader) and determine with a reasonable degree of accuracy whether they actually believe what they're telling you.
If the "tell" can be detected, then it can be eliminated. Just feed it back into a GAN until it looks truthful.
something so horrible that if it ever reached the news, the newsreader might refuse to report it.
Has there ever been a government so odious that they were unable to find people to carry out their policies?
The Nazis had little difficulty recruiting people for the totenkopf and einsatzgruppen, so I doubt if the CCP has trouble finding news anchors.
Trump may have difficulty attracting top talent, but that is because of his habit of throwing loyal subordinates under the bus, rather than any moral objection to his policies.
You know, lots of things can occur outside the bounds of decent and proper behavior at a workplace which don't happen to be a crime.
The incident being protested occurred in a hotel room, and it happened between two people that were in a pre-existing consensual relationship. They both worked for Google, but they were not at work, and I am not sure why Google felt any obligation to get involved. I'll bet they are now wishing they hadn't.
2. Credit cards are LESS secure than DCB (direct carrier billing).
Your CC #, exp date, and CVV are all printed on your card, and you give that information to anyone you transact with. They can then use the same information for fraudulent purchases.
With DCB, you enter your phone number, and then you get a confirmation on your phone, and are then prompted for a PIN.
DCB is 2 factor: Something you have (the SIM card in your phone) and something you know (the PIN).
CC is 0 factor: Something you know, but which is also semi-public information.
There are some problems with the way DCB is currently implemented, but implying that CCs are somehow "better" is absurd. They are worse in every way.
I'm all for security, but this is getting almost comically fine grained.
Phone companies collaborating with sleazy online marketers to add charges to their customers' phone bills without their explicit consent, and the solution is to get sporadic and intrusive warnings about impending transactions from an advertising company.
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There is no need for Virtualbox in Federal Prison.
They use FreeBSD Jails instead.
Virtualization instead of dual booting means you need to buy twice as much RAM
No it doesn't. There is no reason that the host and client OS both need the same amount of RAM. If the host is doing little else besides hosting, it doesn't need much.
My MacBook has 16 GB of RAM. 2GB of that is in active use, mostly by the browser. If I closed my browser and fired up a VM, the VM could use 80-90% of the RAM.
a developer of an application that uses the GPU ...
GPU virtualization sucks, but is an area that is improving rapidly. But if GPU performance is important to your app, you wouldn't want to run it on a Mac. None of them have high performance GPUs.
A Mac running X11/Linux is the only (legal) way to develop and test macOS and X11/Linux versions of one application on one machine.
Why can't you just run Linux in a VM?
So no false negatives. But how many false positives? TFA doesn't say.
The false positive rate is 18%.
So if the test says you don't have it, you don't have it. If it says you do have it, there is a 1 in 5 chance that you don't.
Here is the original paper
An obvious next step is to train the NN on a lot more data.
In particular, a low-carb diet.
Yes, eat less carbs, especially sugar, and less saturated fat. Eat more fish, and monounsaturated fat (olive oil, peanut oil). All of these are negatively correlated with dementia.
Lose weight. Exercise more. Get out of the house and do stuff. Vary your routine.
Alzheimer's costs a LOT to deal with.
Just in America, dementia costs $277B per year. It is insane how little we spend researching treatments or cures, considering what an enormous return we would get on the investment.
Without new treatments, the number of people in America with dementia is projected to double by 2050 as the population ages.
What do they tell the patient? "Good news! You won't start losing your marbles until six years from now?"
1. There are lifestyle changes that can delay the onset of dementia. Changes in the diet, more exercise, more social activity.
2. There is a lot of promising research, including immunotherapy, and cellular senescence. If potential dementia patients can be detected early, then this research can be directed more efficiently, and cures found sooner.
3. People can make better life plans with more information. They can update their will, set up a trust, spend more time with their grandchildren, take that long planned vacation to Outer Mongolia, or whatever.
Deep Blue is ancient history. You can download and run chess programs on your cell phone that would obliterate Deep Blue 100 times out of 100, and of course, do the same to any human player.
No witnesses, no evidence? Why should the *company* then do something about it?
Because they are working with a very different standard of evidence.
For the police it is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
For the arbitration, it is preponderance of the evidence.
For company administrative action, it is even less than that. If there were no witnesses because his office door was closed, then why was the door closed? One-on-one meetings should be held with the door open. So even if there is no evidence of groping, policy was violated, and behavior was suspicious. That's not enough to go to jail, but it is enough to lose your job, or at least get a written reprimand on a first offence.
Reporting a crime at your nearest police station is free.
The police are very unlikely to get involved in a typical office harassment situation. An intern was groped or propositioned by her boss with no witnesses, and no evidence? The police can do nothing with that.
They aren't, for the most part. It's just that people do not pursue the other options, possibly because they don't know any better.
Yes, people always have a right to sue. But that isn't always the best option for the harassee. Going to court can be very expensive, and it is rare to find a lawyer willing to work on contingency. Corporations know how to grind you down and bleed you dry, with motion after motion, discovery, obfuscation, and delay. Arbitration is far faster and cheaper.
A big problem is that the arbitrator wants repeat business from the corporation, and know they will likely never see the petitioner again. This is a built-in bias.
I don't understand Oracle. Everyone who has ever shared their opinion with me hates them. Nobody here has anything good to say about them. They have a reputation for being unethical slime. Their services division has a long record of over budget fiascos.
Yet despite this, they still get $40B a year in revenue. Who are these customers?
You would think the profits from a single casino would be enough to roll out broadband to half the reserves in the USA.
A few tribes run casinos but most do not. Many reservations are in remote areas with no customer base for gaming. Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, which contains the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is the poorest county in America.
The more prosperous tribes have little interest in helping less fortunate tribes. There is little solidarity. One of my co-workers is a Crow Indian, and she was raised on the Crow Reservation near Billings, Montana. According to her, the Crow were on the verge of extermination in a genocidal war with the Sioux and Cheyenne. It was only the arrival of white soldiers that save their tribe. They allied with the American Army, and Crow warriors died fighting with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. She doesn't give a crap about the plight of the Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge.
being Sovereign nations ... they can tell the FCC and Telco's to take a long walk
The FCC is federal, and has jurisdiction on Indian land.
State laws are subordinate to tribal law, but federal laws are not.
Really? Is that the best troll you can manage?
I was hoping that somebody would post a nice troll about Microsoft using "white spaces" on tribal land.
My parents own a farm. When my mom asked me to fix her tractor, I found a YouTube video that showed exactly how to do it. I put my laptop on a hay bale, and stepped through the video, pausing while I completed each step.
If she didn't have broadband, I would have had to drive into town, about 8 miles each way, and use the Wifi at McDonalds, and just hope I was recording the correct video.
people settling for only DOUBLE data rate (DDR,) we should hold out at least for triple data rate (TDR)
That doesn't make any sense. DDR sends data on both the rising and falling edge of the clock. TDR would have no clock edge to sync the data, so it wouldn't work. If you want more data, then either increase the clock rate, or widen the bus.
It is possible that the TDR comment was a joke, and I have been whooshed, in which case I apologize for being a humor-impaired Aspie.
I suspect it will be possible to analyze video of a person (like a news reader) and determine with a reasonable degree of accuracy whether they actually believe what they're telling you.
If the "tell" can be detected, then it can be eliminated. Just feed it back into a GAN until it looks truthful.
GAN = Generative Adversarial Network
something so horrible that if it ever reached the news, the newsreader might refuse to report it.
Has there ever been a government so odious that they were unable to find people to carry out their policies?
The Nazis had little difficulty recruiting people for the totenkopf and einsatzgruppen, so I doubt if the CCP has trouble finding news anchors.
Trump may have difficulty attracting top talent, but that is because of his habit of throwing loyal subordinates under the bus, rather than any moral objection to his policies.
2 People work in most households so divide that wage by 2
Nope. The average American household has 1.3 earners.
Households in the bottom 20% average 0.5 earners. Households in the top 20% average 2.0 earners.
www.bls.gov
You know, lots of things can occur outside the bounds of decent and proper behavior at a workplace which don't happen to be a crime.
The incident being protested occurred in a hotel room, and it happened between two people that were in a pre-existing consensual relationship. They both worked for Google, but they were not at work, and I am not sure why Google felt any obligation to get involved. I'll bet they are now wishing they hadn't.
3. Houses have become much more expensive
They are also much bigger. New houses today are twice as big as houses built 50 years ago, despite families getting smaller.
Adjusted for inflation, the average cost per square-foot has barely changed.
Actually the 60's -90's you got one job and stayed with it until you died.
This is a myth. Average job tenure is higher today that it was in the past.
Sure, there were some people that had jobs for life (and still are today), but that was not common, especially if you were female or non-white.
The "golden age" of jobs for a lifetime never existed.
Why do you think wage growth has basically been negative for the last 15 years compared to inflation?
It hasn't. Median wages, corrected for inflation, are higher than 15 years ago.
Median household income has gone up less, because of a decline in workforce participation, but even that has not been negative.
Call and enter your credit card number.
1. Not everyone has a credit card.
2. Credit cards are LESS secure than DCB (direct carrier billing).
Your CC #, exp date, and CVV are all printed on your card, and you give that information to anyone you transact with. They can then use the same information for fraudulent purchases.
With DCB, you enter your phone number, and then you get a confirmation on your phone, and are then prompted for a PIN.
DCB is 2 factor: Something you have (the SIM card in your phone) and something you know (the PIN).
CC is 0 factor: Something you know, but which is also semi-public information.
There are some problems with the way DCB is currently implemented, but implying that CCs are somehow "better" is absurd. They are worse in every way.
I'm all for security, but this is getting almost comically fine grained.
Phone companies collaborating with sleazy online marketers to add charges to their customers' phone bills without their explicit consent, and the solution is to get sporadic and intrusive warnings about impending transactions from an advertising company.
What is comical about that?