I don't accept this at face value either. The premise is absurd -- either this is totally faked or it just turns out that the fingerprint scanner can be fooled by crafted patterns 1 in 4 times.

Compact Edition up until WinCE 6.0, then it became "Embedded Compact" with WEC7. Those who actually developed in WinCE/WEC7 should be familiar. Also a nod to those in the know: C:\WINCE600, C:\WINCE700. Platform Builder...

It's easy to pass this off as a nothingburger OS but it's actually a real RTOS with a performance kernel and priority scheduling. You can easily set the priority of a thread low enough (lower is higher priority) to starve critical OS threads like the worker thread for the file system, which is an incredible and useful amount of control in your hands. The device system and interrupt handling architecture are also very different from "big windows". Microsoft gives you most of the source code too and you build the OS image (NK.BIN) from source. WinCE/WEC7 is actually a pretty decent RTOS for doing Widnows-ish development on x86. I am by no means a MS fanboi but this was my favorite version of Windows to develop on and I'm sad to see it go.

It's worth noting that a lot of the hardware these OSs ran on did not get updated drivers for WEC2013 or IoT, so there is no effective migration path forward. If you produced a product with an older generation Intel graphics or NIC chipset then your product is effectively canceled with the suspension of WEC7 licenses.

Final thing I want to say about the WinCE family of OSs is that MS gave us _most_ of the source code but not all. I was able to customize the ATA driver to add ATA secure erase enhancements and also fix a bug in the USB host driver thanks to the open source, but guess where the remaining bugs in the operating system were :) The closed-source bits like the DHCP server and FAT filesystem driver still have outright bugs or performance issues because MS dropped support many years ago but refused to give customers access to enhance the software themselves. I think there's a lesson to be learned from that and I think WinCE could have continued to be a successful player with renewed support from MS and open access to the source code for paying customers. I'm sure it could make money, just not enough for them to care.

Well that's an emotional argument if I ever heard one. Airships are not great for transporting people but the rising cost of operating airplanes combined with increased concern over their environmental impact means that they are looking increasingly attractive for cargo shipment.

It's also important to get the facts straight and not misrepresent a complete fabrication as actual history. CNN had nothing to do with the fairness doctrine.

I think you're missing the point that GoDaddy has never positioned itself as best-in-class or even a halfway decent service, or a responsible company. The fact that they use sex-based marketing despite being a technical company sets the tone for what you can expect from the company, so it's no surprise that they completely fail to meet their legal obligations when screening .us domain customers or that they have zero interest in doing anything to curb crime being committed with their services. We can imagine that the leadership is too busy doing blow and hookers to care. They just want the money to flow.

I'd like to hear more about your hypothesis that a bunch of GPL code was stolen and put into an incompatibly licensed OS. VirtIO is a standard. Don't confuse supporting a standard with porting some code. KVM is Linux-specific and has nothing to do with FreeBSD except a couple failed attempts to port it before the emergence of bhyve, which is also not connected to Linux.

Anyway we were talking here about jails, which FBSD was blessed with over 20 years ago, well before the concept of Linux containers.

I read the actual commit message which says
"We can mergesort the sysinits instead of bubblesorting them, which shaves about 2 ms off the boot time in Firecracker."

So there you go. 2ms. I'm not surprised nobody outside of microvms gave a crap about bubble sort all this time.

It's only a matter of time before Linux rips off the concept and people will come to believe they invented it.

How is fire control going to stop coral bleaching, flooding, droughts, hurricanes, failed crops, etc. If only this were a mere one-dimensional problem but it's not and it doesn't just affect humans. The increased severity and frequency of these events is more than a mere inconvenience to us, it is pushing all of living things across the planet out of a stable equilibrium.

It's not the antenna, it's the fact that lazy engineers don't want to deal with the increased emitted noise of cars. The antenna doesn't have to be large and it can easily be implemented as an almost imperceptible loop around the edge of a window. That ~3ft whip antenna every car has is a 1/4wave for the FM broadcast band, not AM. Don't expect it to get any smaller by deleting AM from the radio.

In the early days of the outbreak they constrained their surveillance to the area around the market. Their data showed spreading through and from the market because they weren't looking anywhere else. The fact that they never found an infected animal could mean that they're chasing a ghost or it could mean it never came from an animal in the first place.

It's a shame that this got politicized so early on. If it hadn't been for Trump calling it "the China virus" maybe people would have been more receptive to the lab leak hypothesis. The best argument for it arising in nature thus far has been "because I said so" whereas there is stronger evidence that the virus likely emerged from the lab. Unlike a natural virus that just crossed species it was immediately well-adapted to humans. Its genetic origins come from far-away bats not local to the region, from a virus collected in 2013. The spike protein is curiously similar to that of a coronavirus collected from sick pangolins. Transplanting the spike protein of coronaviruses is exactly what previous GoF researchers had been doing in 2015, so it's not at all within the realm of fantasy that the spike protein from the pangolin virus was put into the bat virus in the lab in Wuhan where they do that sort of thing.

Or maybe it's just a remarkable coincidence and god created a virus that appears to have been crafted by GoF research and released it right next to a GoF research lab just to test our faith the same way he buried all those fossils that make it appear Earth is more than 6000 years old.

At this point I'll go to my grave convinced it leaked out of the lab. Not because of politics or racism but because of evidence.

I think you have a failure of imagination. Nobody is arguing that ChatGPT 3 or 4 are going to take over the world, this is about what comes next in the near future. Imagine an AI similar to ChatGPT but it has some level of continuous feedback based training enabled and you have directed it to read and respond to Twitter all day long without resetting its memory and session parameters. I think you would get some emergent behaviors that are difficult to distinguish between motive and free will. You can always argue that it is a deterministic system because it is based on deterministic computer technology but you can't even prove that humans have free will so what criterion would you use to prove that Twitter-bot intelligence and free will are different from our own?

I'm not afraid of AI technology and I think that most of the FUD we are reading is just baked into human nature. We're always fearful to some extent of change and new technology. We know very little, however, about human consciousness and free will. When you argue that AI is lacking in intelligence and intent based on how it operates, how do you know that human intelligence doesn't operate on fundamental principles that are nearly identical to the AI?

Likening ecDNA to "bond villains" does absolutely nothing to help explain it. Is this news written for idiots by idiots or what?

Rust seems to have little over modern C++. If you want Rust then just use the equivalent modern C++ idioms for the same benefit. The only way Rust makes sense to me is if you compare it to C or C++98.

That's a fine argument for making the prison phones cheaper but in no way does that apply to contraband cell phones. These phones aren't smuggled in to be used to call loved ones back home and tuck them into bed.