I can't help but wonder if this is being instigated by Russia. We know that Russia has been trying to influence the American right for a while now (see Marina Butina for one example or Russian meetings with the Trump campaign for another, but we also know that they've funded far right groups in a number of other Western countries), so it wouldn't be surprising if they have agents in certain far-right on-line forums who might be suggesting or encouraging certain tactics. They started targeting Ukraine's power grid in early October and rebuilding it is going to require a lot of transformers. Is it a coincidence that not long afterwards there's a wave of American extremists destroying transformers here, thus lessening the global supply and making it less likely that US power companies would be willing to send spares to Ukraine? That could be a coincidence and I don't have any hard evidence, but it seems like there's good reason to be suspicious.

This is spot on. You can speculate on currency, but you cannot invest in it because it does not pay interest or dividends.

As a member of a subreddit which got banned and then later reinstated, I was curious what had happened, and it turns out that part of the reason for the high numbers is that Reddit was banning subreddits which had high rates of users posting content which violated copyright even when the mods were quickly removing any such posts. A post which is "removed" from a subreddit is not publicly listed in that subreddit, but it can still be discoverable by following links from the user's profile or through web searches. Content owners have been finding these removed posts, sending DMCA requests (as is their right), and then the subreddit (to which they were posted and then removed) is getting copyright violation strikes. This has even included posts which were automatically removed as spam.

Here's a post on reddit from a mod about this problem.: We need to talk about how DMCA strikes are affecting NSFW links Warning: although this post is not NSFW, it contain links (appropriately labeled) to posts and subs which are.

You don't. It's like one of those 4-D shows in your own home. The smell of stale bun crumbs and the floor sticky with soda are a big part of the stadium ambiance. You can even dump some beer on yourself if you want to feel completely like you're at the match. Although for the best immersive experience, I do recommend an uncomfortable chair rather than a couch.

As a desktop Linux user and a professor who is right now teaching scheduling to my Operating System class, this sounds really reasonable. The fact of the matter is that the desktop seems to still periodically become unresponsive in situations where it seems like it shouldn't. And part of the blame may fall on trusting CFS too much. Any modern scheduler is making guesses about what to prioritize based on process behavior. But, honestly, in many cases, we know what we want to prioritize for a responsive desktop environment, so why not build something which tells it?

Also, being in a situation where I taught the CFS algorithm in an Operating Systems course, I did a bunch of reading about it. I found that there were a lot of conflicting descriptions of how it works. I wound up having to go read the source code to be sure, and what I found is that a lot of the descriptions of how it works are inaccurate. Usually when we talk about modern desktop and server schedulers, we say that they're trying to prioritize I/O-bound processes and deprioritize CPU-bound processes. And a lot of the descriptions of CFS says that it does this because threads which are using the CPU have a charge against their vruntime, but threads which are waiting do not. But this turns out not to be necessarily true, as threads which enter an I/O wait are actually effectively removed from the queue and then later reinserted. And due to how the math works, if all the other I/O-bound threads on a given core are in an I/O wait state, they'll wind up with the same vruntime as a CPU-bound thread (or worse in some cases). Once you add in process groups and moving between cores, it's complex enough that it's hard to reason about exactly what happens on average without collecting some real data, but there's no clear reason to believe (at least not from looking at the code) that threads which do user interaction will automatically get any priority. So having a process which adjusts the priority numbers instead sounds like a very reasonable idea to me.

Intentionally killing civilians is a war crime. I don't see why this should be treated differently when done via propaganda rather than via bullets or bombs.

There's literally a thin layer of yeast on almost any living thing. If there's none in the stores were you are, cultivate some by making a starter. There's a ton of instructions online about how to do this.

Wikipedia's entry on the Western World gives a good explanation of what it means. Basically, it's the portion of Europe which was in the control of the Roman Catholic Church (as compared to the Eastern Orthodox) following the schism and the areas which they colonized and took over as the dominant culture (as compared to places which they might have colonized, but didn't replace the native culture). By itself, it's not a racist term as it's primarily about cultural similarity rather than racial, but there is certainly some tie there between race and culture. And when someone starts talking about the superiority of Western culture, that's almost always something which goes arm-in-arm with racism.

As written, they're correctly using the negative form of the future progressive tense. See examples here. For a professional writer, this Thurrott guy doesn't seem to know much about grammar.

I walked out of that movie after about thirty or forty minutes. It was just a long series of attempts to be so vulgar that it was funny, but after a few minutes the whole thing just felt predictable. I'd heard good things about how funny it was and kept waiting for the part that was actually funny, but it never came. I'm glad some people enjoy it, but the whole thing just felt unpleasant to me. I don't think you would have been very amused watching my facial expression.

Having used their grammar checking in Google Docs for the last while, I'm unimpressed. It does catch legitimate grammar errors, but the fact that it's just recognizing "normal" based on some corpus of data means that it also repeatedly flags simple completely grammatical things as ungrammatical because it's a mildly less common usage that's similar to a common one. The most obvious example of this was when I wrote "She shut the car door" and it suggested that I meant "She shut the car doors" instead. But it's not only that, it suggests "gotta" frequently in place of the phrase "got to". It suggests that I change things to contractions. It hates having extra descriptive words in verb phrases: it'll suggest changing wording like "The light went right out" to "The light went out".

It hates the phrase "had had" and always suggests just changing it to "had". It frequently suggests other verb tense changes for no obvious reason, usually suggesting changing a more complex tense like future perfect into a simpler one like future, but sometimes just changing tenses from past to present or vice versa for no obviously reason. And it sometimes even suggests ungrammatical things because it's mostly looking at sentence fragments rather than whole sentences, so sometimes when one of your clauses has to be worded with a certain tense because of its place in the larger sentence it'll suggest changing that to a simpler tense even when that simpler tense is ungrammatical. So a sentence like "By the end of the next week, I will have read five books" it might suggest changing to "By the end of next week, I read five books." (That's just an example, of course, and that particular one might work fine. but it's sentence like that that it frequently provides grammatically incorrect suggestions on.)

I've reported all of these sort of problems, of course, but nothing's changed and nothing's likely to as their application of machine learning to this problem precludes any sort of actual active debugging or fixing. The best they can do is change their corpus and try again, but it's likely to still have many of these same problems because it conflates commonness with correctness. So hooray! Crappy AI-based grammar checking everywhere!

Yes, but you could have made the exact same arguments in the bnet.d case and they won that case. So I agree, but that doesn't mean that the courts will.

The "Southern Strategy" is usually used to describe Nixon's strategy in the 1968 and 1972 election cycles. So, yes, it hadn't happened by 1964. In the 1960s the parties had not aligned in their current way on racial issues. This was a process which began in the late 1960s and didn't really complete until the 1980s.

It's more compact, but the control flow seems very much like Rail.

The problem is that 44 bits of entropy isn't enough. 1000 password guesses per second (the rate used in the comic) is not accurate. The right number is around 100 billion password guesses with a good rig with several GPUs doing the hashes. That reduces 53 years to about half an hour. The basic approach is fine, but you need at least five or six words, not only four.