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Comment Re:Oversimplification (Score 1) 104

The claim "better than Linux" is nonsense as they are comparing two different things.

Also, TFA states:

The first iteration of DBOS runs on Amazon Web Services and uses the Firecracker microVM service, itself a stripped down KVM hypervisor running on a stripped down Linux microkernel, to create the user space for FoundationDB to run within. So technically, there is still Linux underneath DBOS . But nothing like the full blown Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that companies deploy or the homegrown, full-blown Linuxes that the hyperscalers and cloud builders have created for their own use.

Comment Re:The 80s? (Score 3, Informative) 203

To be fair, in the late 80s my kids started to want to stay indoors and play video games or watch the VCR, rather than go outside and play. The mother next door forbid her kids to be indoors during the day in decent weather, which helped.
When I was growing up in the 60s we didn't have video games and I was forbidden from watching more than an hour of TV a day. Weather permitting, I was outside playing more or less unsupervised, depending on my age at the time, with the only requirement that I let my mom know if I went far and that I come back home when the street lights went on.
Nowadays I see a lot parents using ipads and the like as babysitters and pacifiers for toddlers, which I doubt is very good for their social development.

Comment Re: Radio is to blame for youth discomfort (Score 2) 203

"Haidt's main scientific contributions come from the psychological field of moral foundations theory,[2] which attempts to explain the evolutionary origins of human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, gut feelings rather than logic and reason." Sounds like he's taken a gut stance to something to cash in.

Sounds like you've misinterpreted that sentence, which is saying that he has proposed that human moral reasoning comes from the evolution of innate, gut feelings rather than from logic and reason, not that he based that theory on a "gut stance".
For an older take on the subject, check out the book that made Adam smith famous, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 76

The polio vaccine was not rushed out in six months, and people didn't suffer vaccine injuries like an inflamed heart like they did with the covid vaccine.

There was a race between a live polio vaccine and a dead virus vaccine. The killed vaccine was the first to market and one early batch caused polio in about 260 cases and killed 11. The live oral vaccine was (and in some places is still) used extensively, and it is known to cause about 3 cases of polio for each million doses.

Comment Re:Who it was does not matter. (Score 2) 114

I read something like that. The door plug was logged as "opened", instead of removed, but to get it open you need to remove the bolts that prevent it from riding up and out of the hinge. But if things are happening like overwriting security footage, we may never know the whole story.

Comment Re:no records??? (Score 1) 114

I'm curious if it is a normal part of production to remove and reinstall the door plug.

My understanding is that the supplier, Spirit, delivers the fuselage to Boeing with the the door plug installed. Then it is sometimes opened or removed when installing finishes & furnishings. Also, that the supplier does not use the official production log system that Boeing has, but uses a separate, less formal one. And opening a door plug is not the same as just opening a door.

Comment Re:Is it? (Score 1) 94

Fluorocarbons are legal, and the specific fluorocarbons he imported are also legal.

He not only imported HFCs, he also imported HCFCs (R22 according to TFAs). IRRC, you can only legally use recycled HCFCs. TFAs were not specific on whether that was virgin R22 or used.

Comment Re:The Reality is Stronger. (Score 1) 110

A woman is an adult human with XX chromosomes. A man is an adult human with XY chromosomes.

So what about people with XY chromosomes that have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome? People with that condition develop as female and often don't realize that they have that condition until they try to have children.

Comment Re:If the AI is useful... (Score 1) 102

I think there will have to be some big shift in the overall thought behind current-gen AI systems before we see any real progress . . .

I believe that to get over the hump there needs to be a way to marry the neural net machine learning models with logic-based expert systems. How to do that is an exercise left to the reader.

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