Unfortunately biology only does spaghetti code.
well, if we look at in-memory processes or kernel, or on data on HDD disk tracks, it's kinda also awfully resembles spaghetti :)
Readit Newsrandomname93857 commented on CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/ck2
Maybe? But what about training and talent pool? Imagine how many companies would not take off because there’s no one to implement the founder’s idea. Imagine you’re a startup and you have hiring difficulties because all the good ones are over at Oracle or Microsoft (doubting the existence of FAANG).
>> Imagine how many companies would not take off because there’s no one to implement the founder’s idea...
Why should we do imaginary stats with narrated conditions? America striven on startups well before H1B became expanded so much it's barely doesn't include janitor positions...
with smaller H1B pool, startups may need pay more. But also more compensation and demand in IT in US would make more people go to IT - smth-smth middle class, not poor class.
BTW, what's the stats on how many doctors and lawyers come to US on H1B?
randomname93857 commented on What will become of the CIA? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
The CIA does more than counterespionage. For example, Chile would be a much better place if the CIA didn't overthrow its democracy and install a fascist dictator, Pinochet, in its stead.
Yeah, with help of KGB. What could possibly go wrong? It could become as democratic as Cuba. In best case. Or take path of other countries with exported communist revolutions, like North Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. You just don't know about pervasive and perverted level of informants and delation that was installed by these "democratic" countries
randomname93857 commented on DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress reuters.com/world/china/d... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
Are you saying that large-model capabilities would make a substantial difference in a military conflict within the next five years? Because we aren’t seeing any signs of that in, say, the Ukraine war.
We do see the signs and reports, you just have to look. LLMs are being adopted to warfare, with drones or otherwise, there is progress there, but it's not currently at the level of "substantial difference". And 5 years is huge time from progress perspective in this domain - just try to compare LLMs of today with LLMs of 2020.
randomname93857 commented on Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video] yalemedicine.org/news/ket... · Posted by u/ViktorRay
I'm kind of terrified of giving myself botulism (or some other illness), though I do live in NYC, so I don't think it would be too hard to buy fermented pickles if I wanted them...
When fermenting foods, use water from good source (e.g. bottled water), you must boil water with salt (,sugar, spices ) first, let it cool, and then add it to cleaned, well washed vegetables or fruit. Use clean glass container. Fermenting procedure varies for different veggies / fruit.
Maybe first try to buy readily available fermented foods to see if it works for you.
randomname93857 commented on /bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf] tuhs.org/Archive/Document... · Posted by u/vitplister
> Unix was very much made for multi user environments. ... The biggest security concern was making sure that everyone who was logged in was billed correctly.
I don't know about that... It doesn't even support multiple administrators. And you can't even distinguish between actions performed by the system itself and the administrative user.
Yes I know about sudo.
What do you need to do and what do the (even audit) logs say about who performed an activity whenever administrative activity happens?
>> What do you need to do and what do the (even audit) logs say about who performed an activity whenever administrative activity happens?
By activity you mean who run some process? doesn't enabling audit on all execve, execveat and looking at AUID besides EUID and UID fields tell you that? Or am I missing something? you may want to configure ENHANCED format in auditd for convenience.
randomname93857 commented on China is the manufacturing superpower cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ch... · Posted by u/luu
Indeed, we spend more than anyone else but also get less for our money than anyone else. It would likely be an underestimate to say that our gear and labor costs double that of any of our competition.
labor cost contributes to higher prices, but why we always ignore corporate America and middlemen contributions to price gauging?
randomname93857 commented on An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference ramimac.me/aws-iam-tools-... · Posted by u/mariuz
Is there anything like this list but for Azure?
randomname93857 commented on New ways to catch gravitational waves nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
What would a gravitational wave generator look like? A machine to "wiggle" an asteroid, or say a moon? What if you made a huge array of small machines that "wiggle", say, a bowling ball, in perfect sync.
Nah, asteroid is not enough. you'd need to wiggle a couple or more large black holes in super close proximity.
But who knows, may there be alternatives we are not aware of? Is it Higgs boson that gravitational field carrier particle , similar to electrons for EM field? Maybe there is a way to mass-produce those and modulate gravity waves that way, eh ?
I find it really problematic that the "classic first program" in this book includes "import std;" as the very first line, and as far as I know not a single compiler with the possible exception of MSVC supports that out of the box.
Writing this on a debian machine, and trying "g++ --std=c++23 -fmodules-ts" does not work, and from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/23 looks like the "paper" for this is P2465R3, for which clang++ 17 has "partial support". I apt installed clang++17, and it still didn't work, complaining "module 'std' not found"
I understand that "import std;" is a very new feature and not "finalized" or whatever, but this book is supposed to be for beginners to C++; I wonder how the average beginner would react to that?
(I found the same thing a year or two ago when reading "Tour of C++")
would this help with your problem with modules, it's referenced on the book's page:
https://www.stroustrup.com/module_use.html ?