That genre is teaching me new words all the time.

I keep hearing that the 32 hour week is just as productive (Iceland) (https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2019/05/24/company-strategy-32-hour-work-week-increases-employee-productivity-collaboration/) or more productive (Microsoft Japan) (https://xponent21.com/insights/productivity-and-working-32-hours-a-week/) than the 40 hour week.

So why then would it be necessary to add workers?

These were small studies relative to the entire United States, but they mustn't be ignored.

atomic means the ability to update a value and not have any other observers able to see you in the middle of changing the value.

Suppose you were laying Domino's out on a table and someone else's job was to read the number you're giving them by adding up everything that's visible.

Imagine that as you were removing or laying down new Domino's to make your next number the person incorrectly assumed it was time to take the count even though you are not done making your changes.

If the updates were atomic, then the viewer would be unable to see you in the middle of changing and would instead see the original set of blocks up until some point where they see the entire new set all at once.

Locking is keeping them from looking while you are there. Atomic means you both are there but updates are either wholly done or not done but impossible to observe "in the middle".

Hope that helps

I just wish half as much effort had been put into fighting cancer as has been put into fighting AIDS over the last three decades. But then, cancer doesn't have every actor in Hollywood raising money for it, or treating it like the ultimate cause celeb because they have some gay friends. Even now that AIDS is completely survivable with drugs, every arrogant Hollywood asshole is still supporting AIDS charities at the expense of much more deadly diseases.

Knee-jerk reaction detected! Didn't RTFA to boot! No wonder slashdot's moderators love you!

That's not what he's saying at all, but the poorly worded ./ summary and article set up so people, like yourself, can flame him easily without actually understanding what he's saying. He's not talking about his kid sucking at chemistry, nor is he blaming anyone for it, or even saying his kid should be good at it. What he's saying is that a distinct lack of variation in public education will only harm students in the long run. Perhaps high-school is a long time ago for you, but looking at the current American curriculum shows a very distinct lack of variability. For a personal example, the only time I actually got to choose a class I wanted to take in high-school was around senior year, every other class was part of some 2, 3, or 4, year plan that every student had to go through in order to graduate. 3 years of science, 4 years of English classes, 3 of a foreign language, 3 for history/civic involvement, etc. There was barely any time to do what I wanted to do.

a.k.a. the Republican and Democratic parties. They will never allow a third party to debate; if they happen to meet the criteria, they'll simply increase the threshold(s).

This is one of the major issues preventing any real change from happening in the US federal government, simply because new ideas are being suppressed by the incumbents.

Evil incarnate. More evil than Oracle and MS combined.

The local cable broadcaster here lost approx 10 channels after the test, including CNN, FOX, and DISCOVERY. They all switched to the NAT GEO channel without audio for upwards of an hour after the test ran.

In addition, the test video was jumpy, kept blacking out, audio kept dropping out, etc.

All in all, if it had been a real emergency, losing the 2 major news channels would have been real motivation to start loading ammo and supplies and gassing up the bug out mobile. ;)

Earthquakes, hurricanes. It is abundantly clear god has chosen sides in the New York gay marriage debate.

Lesson: if there is more than one thing wrong with the camera, do NOT mention anything else wrong. Gives you more leverage when they try to send it back saying that repair is not covered, and you can say, "What about this here thing wrong? Did you cause this?"

Maddening.