So Intel, as a condition of using your patch to fix the broken shit you sold us, you don't want us to use the patch to empirically determine just how broken your shit was, or else you'll sue us?
I've got the message loud and clear: you're crooked dirtbags.
I don't think I'll be sending any money your way in future.
I feel so sorry for the poor boy.
This is pure speculation. You don't know there was a bug. The difference could be explained entirely by tuning.
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You might want to consider that when the 'House of Musk' comes tumbling down within the next year, your name is now forever associated with defending them and their criminal behavior. I hope it was worth it.
If they make it to Slashdot, the fanboys will explain how it's actually a feature and how every other car brand will copy it.
I'm not sure how the fanbois managed to explain away Tesla's recent problem with the software for the braking system on the model 3 as a feature.
Oh yes, now I remember:
They focused on how "brilliant" it was that Tesla could write a patch for the faulty software and apply it 'over the air' in a couple of days.
They ignored the fact that Tesla had managed to release software for a critical subsystem of their cars, the brakes, into production which had bugs which significantly impaired it's performance. Seemingly, a fairly trivial bug as they managed to test and apply the patch in a couple of days.
I suspect that if that happened with any other car maker, the NTSB would have instructed that their cars be removed from the road immediately and not allowed back on the road until the maker (or subcontractor) had demonstrated the safety of their software and it's development.
BCG is hard to find in the US. Vaccination with it will cause a person to have a positive PPD (tuberculosis test), and the rate of TB is low enough that public health policymakers would rather have a very accurate and simple test than vaccinate everyone. The only use for it in the US that I’m aware of is in treatment of bladder cancer.
When I was a kid in the UK in the '60s I was vaccinated with BCG. TB was still common enough then, that even though I lived in a 'well-to-do' town, you'd see these large white vans parked up on occasion which contained an X-ray machine. The idea was to X-ray people's chests and look for TB lesions. I last saw one of those vans in the mid-70s.
TB is still diagnosed over here but mainly in immigrants from 3rd world countries. I've no idea if kids still routinely get BCG (it used to be done at school).
Unfortunately, the whole business of diabetes, it's diagnosis and it's management is a complete shambles. That wouldn't be so bad if it was an uncommon disease.
In the old days, type 1 & 2 were essentially known as 'juvenile onset' and 'age onset' respectively and you were chucked in to one or the other category.
The great & the good decided that those 2 categories didn't quite correlate with the true picture and in their wisdom they decided "Type 1 & 2" was so much better. Of course, it wasn't; it's still just 2 categories and it doesn't represent the true picture much better at all. It's just misleading instead of entirely misleading.
If I had it in my power, I would go completely mad and categorize diabetes into a WHOLE 3 CATEGORIES! 'Dog', 'Cat' and 'Cow'.
By doing that, I would have immediately improved the categorization (and hence treatment) significantly and surely I will be remembered in history and get my well-deserved Nobel as a matter of course.
This sort of idiocy is an ongoing problem and nor is it the only one.
For instance, diabetics who required insulin used to be given animal insulins, namely cow or pig, extracted from the animals' pancreases after slaughter.
The problem with those insulins is that they are not quite as efficacious as human insulin. Why? Other mammalian insulins are not quite the same as human. So IIRC human insulin is a protein consisting of some 40+ amino acids strung together - some of those amino acids being the same. Pig insulin is the same but with 1 or 2 of the amino acids being different, in either position on the protein or chemically. Cow insulin, it's 3 or 4 that are changed because in evolutionary terms, our common ancestor with a cow is further away from us than that of a pig.
Remember your high school biology? What happens if you introduce foreign proteins into a human body? You get an immune response from the body and it attacks the foreign protein. That's why organ transplant patients are given immunosuppresants: so the transplanted organ doesn't get destroyed by the response from the host.
The same thing happens with the animal insulins; being foreign proteins means that they're attacked and the longer you take animal insulin, the more you have to take in order to get your blood glucose down to the same levels that you got when you first started taking it. After decades on it, patients ended up having to take huge doses which comes with it's own associated problems.
In the '80s with the advance of genetics and being able to engineer and grow yeasts that produced human insulin, everybody became significantly happier.....except the drug companies. "How can we make any money on this human insulin shit? We can't patent it!" they howled....quietly to themselves.
Enter 'insulin analogs'. These are insulins in which the amino acids of human insulin have been fucked around with. Whoopee! Patentable! Let the big bucks roll in!
These 'analog insulins' should remind you of something: animal insulins.
Drug trials don't last decades though, so the problems as evidenced with animal insulins to treat diabetes in humans haven't shown up yet and certainly didn't during the trials.
The drug companies of course have convinced the medical profession on the basis of entirely bogus data, that these analogs are so much better then that God-given human insulin shit. They modeled them to be quicker acting, they say, hence less long-term damage from hyperglycaemia, they say. Horseshit, I say. You've got fuck all worthwhile evidence and what's more, you never will have.
Am I right in thinking that some 25 year ago, before 'folding@home' and such like existed, modeling how a protein, say like a fucked around piece of insulin folded wasn't doable? So if you don't know how it's going to fold, how the hell are you going to have any idea how effective it is going to be at it's job ie. metabolising glucose?
For 20 years I've managed to avoid the analogs but eventually when I was in hospital and I was too ill to object, they put me on it.
Just ask to be put back on human insulin, you say? The problem is, if you go on to a different insulin, you then have to spend months testing several times a day and finding your right insulin regime. I just haven't got the energy for that - especially since I've also got hypothyroidism ATM (that's another total fuck-up by the medics too but a story for another time).
I'll try and identify a few of them.
First up: define what a Type 1 diabetic is.
We had this come up some weeks back, when some Scandinavian doctors came up with the conclusion that the several thousand diabetics they studied did not fall neatly into 2 groups ie. Type 1 & 2. Instead they identified some half a dozen groups.
I angrily posted about this at the time because this was known over 20 years ago. What was worse is that I (a diabetic who needs insulin) wasn't covered in their groupings and neither was somebody with gestational diabetes or
There's also the problem of what an American doctor diagnoses as a "Type 1" might be somewhat different to what a British or Japanese or Ugandan doctor does. It may even subtly vary among the doctors in just one hospital.
Treatment regimens will vary also: human or analog insulin? Which analog? Short acting, long acting, mix? Pump, pen, syringe? Which pump running what software?
The authors of this paper obviously start with the assumption that all the "Type 1 diabetics" they studied were as a result of this mysterious auto-immune disease, a disease whose pathology or very existence is entirely unclear.
They say in the paper that their cohort had all been diagnosed as "Type 1" as if it's a choice between black or white. It's not, because that term is undefined and in clinical practice covers a significant spectrum of people.
The summary includes NO link to any cited article, just links for defining the conference name, school, the professor, etc.
Also, to add insult to injury, TFS includes this nugget:
The method proposed reduces write overhead times from 9% to 1% by incorporating a checksum to the cache memory system.
That makes 0 Ohms sense.
Clue for submitter & editor: the SI unit for time is the second, last time I looked.
What a truly shitty company MS still remain.
For years they poison the namespace for a piece of free software (I wonder why?) and then only relent when they decide they need the developers & users of said software onside....after pissing away $7.5 billion in an effort to coral them.
Their complete lack of clue knows no bounds. Let me have a guess, I'm not the only one to have dumped Github in the past few days & they're getting a bit nervous?
The funniest thing about it is that before git came along, I read that the code monkeys in Redmond had to make do without a versioning system. Apparently, they used a system which largely consisted of xcopy & symlinks tied together with batch scripts!
I can't imagine how they managed to produce such fine quality software like Windows ME
I've got an idea how Elon can keep his by now somewhat disgruntled customers hanging on for their cars made of the very finest unobtainium, namely a 2 for 1 deal:
Get your brand new Tesla for only twice what you bargained for and receive a nice shiney Darwin Award ABSOLUTELY FREE!
$ units
You have: 21 degC
You want: degF
69.8
Good grief, looks like I am!
Apparently, Facebook are now saying that the message is clearly a bug. It was meant to say:
"Do you want to continue to be anally raped by a multi-billion spying operation run by a dwarf with no moral compass?{Y/n]"
For those with a room temperature IQ (in celsius) you want to hit "Yes". Everybody else wants to hit "No".
OPNsense, a fork of pfSense, which is a fork of m0n0wall. It is based on Hardended BSD, with a ton of additional security extensions not available in normal FreeBSD or pfSense.
I'd concur with that. Go with a pf based solution if you can. You can search on Amazon or Ebay for "pfsense" and any number of cheap mini boxes will turn up.
What sort of CPU/RAM etc. you want is dependent on how many packets you are pushing in and out. You might want to buy with an eye to any possible increases in the number of those packets that you see coming in the not too distant future.
If you're on ADSL you might want to employ this nice little hack in order to improve things. For those who use vanilla FreeBSD, you need to rebuild your kernel with the altq(4) knobs turned on. OpenBSD it's not necessary.
You obviously want to set the speed to whatever you've got and you'll want to replace "any" in those rules with something like "! 192.168.1.0/24" or internal traffic on your LAN could end up running like molasses. Been there, done that.
I have to ask this, though I fear you won't tell me.
Of course, you're wrong on that count AC like you are on everything else.
When people say things that stupid, is it just an act or are they truly that retarded? It's so weird, because you're able to put complete sentences together, you figured out how to login to a website, you probably know how to tie your shoes, and you might even be able to name 2 or 3 presidents who served more than 14 years ago.
2 or 3 presidents? Of Uganda? Or do you mean the office in your shithole country? As currently occupied by a large, orange sack of shit who currently holds the world 'holding your breath whilst underwater' record....according to my mate, Vladimir. I can tell by your tone, that you must be enormously proud of him and his charming wife with her, somewhat interesting, former "professional" life in Eastern Europe.
The pair of them only increase the high regard that us dodgy, clearly inferior, foreigners hold your nation in.
Let me fill you in on a few facts AC. There are some folks in this world, quite unlike you, who are known as "grown-ups". They can be recognised because they are quite prepared to go head-to-head with anyone and they don't need to abuse the cloak of anonymity that
Unfortunately for you, you are quite obviously doomed to never grow a pair or even have sex with anything other than your own right hand.
Slashdot Editors: You need to fix this shit. I regularly get marked "troll" when I post logged-in with opinions and facts, just because people don't like my opinions. Mods who do that, need to be kicked into touch. Ditto, merkins like the one I've just replied to. I'm pretty sure he's got an account, so just close it and firewall the muppet off.
Otherwise, I'm just going to be another one who can't be bothered posting at all. I don't need you but you need me, at the end of the day. Whatever you may think of my opinions, they're a fucksight more substantial than the thin gruel provided by a bunch of ACs lacking gonads.
The basic premise is sound, though. Humans have only inferences for temperature data going back through Earth's history with ever-greater margins of error the further back one goes, and only roughly 200 years of somewhat-accurate temperature data measurements.
200 years of somewhat-accurate data but where from? Of course, we have somewhat-accurate data from the middle of a large continent like Africa, don't we? Oh shit, we don't, so let's use some kind of analogue instead and massage those figures into shape. Rinse & repeat for huge areas of the planet.
Then tell me, from your absurdly inadequate models, that you know what the climate is going to be like in a 100 years time because 95% of "climate scientists" (whatever the hell one of those is) agree on it.
95% of computer users think that Windows is a good OS. That doesn't make that true either.
Such "climate heresy" doesn't fly in universities though just through pure social pressure; your academic career will be toast if you don't go with the orthodoxy and you will also be a social pariah, for good measure. Every reason to go with the flow, even though that impulse may likely be subconscious.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
