Others have already pointed that mortality rates do not reveal the full picture. There are various factors that affect the mortality rates in different countries – masks being only one of those factors. There are more critical factors at play such as age, obesity, co-morbidities, access to affordable health care, etc.
While masks are shown to slow the spread of infection, ultimately the larger problem with handling the COVID-19 pandemic was the lockdowns and isolation. Lockdowns and isolating individuals definitely helped reduce the spread of the infection and probably saved a lot of lives but prolonged isolation actually reduced the overall immunity in our population. Human immune systems require constant exposure to all sorts of germs to keep it humming along. Isolation does the exact opposite and while it is useful in the short term, prolonged 'clean room' type conditions created due to isolation and lockdowns are harmful.
This is good and bad. This showcases the importance of CrowdStrike. This is a short term blip but in the long run they will learn from this and prevent this type of an issue in the future. On the flip side, they have a huge target on their back for the U.S. government to try and control them. They are also a huge target for malicious actors since they can clearly see that CS is part of critical US and western infra. Taking them down can cripple essential services.
On a related note, this also demonstrates the danger of centralized cloud services. I wish there were more players in this space and the governments would try their very best to prevent consolidation in this space. Alternatively, I really wish the CS did not have this centralized architecture that allows for such failure modes. Software industry should learn from great & age old engineering design principles. For example, a large ships have watertight doors that prevent compartments from flooding in case of a breach. It appears that CS didn't think the current scenario was not possible therefore didn't invest in anything meaningful to prevent this nightmare scenario.
I'm not that confident that they're going to be around to recover from after their stock price falls into the toilet and they get sued out the yin-yang. I don't think 'read the EULA terms lol' is gonna cut it here.
Or, and that maybe a radical idea, YOU DON'T INSTALL THIS FUCKING SNAKE OIL IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The idea of antivirus software is laughable when Adobe cannot implement a safe and secure PDF parser then how can Crowdstrike while simultaneously supporting the parsing of a million other protocols?
Everyone involved: Vendor, operator, and auditors who mandate this shit are responsible and should be punished.
YOU HAVE TO MINIMIZE THE ATTACK SURFACE, NOT INCREASE IT.
I have suffered migraines for a long time before I knew what migraines were and also a long time after. I was ignorant. But over the years I learned about my triggers. Some may find this helpful so posting them here. Your specific triggers may vary. The ones I have learned over the years are Refined Sugar, Electrolyte Imbalance, Stress, Sleep debt, Acid Reflux, Excessive Hunger, Dehydration (even mild), Excessive Heat, Sun Exposure. This list is not exhaustive but it can help identify triggers that usually go unnoticed for years.
You're comparing a 600W system (450W TDP GPU + 150W TDP Intel Core i9-13900KS) with a 90W chip (CPU, GPU & NPU combined). You don't see anything remotely problematic with that comparison?
No problem with the comparison. I was not comparing power efficiency. We all know that Apple prioritize efficiency.
Since power consumption vs performance is non-linear it's possible that the Intel+Nvidia combo would have roughly similar efficiency as M2 at lower wattage, although it certainly won't beat the M2 at 90 watts.
yeah, basically I think perspective is important to point out, when people are promoting the narrative "AMD has caught up to M1" but ignoring the fact it's not an Apples to Apples comparison. I'm sure 4090 can play cyberpunk with more FPS. And sure, I think the M series CPUs can eke out more single core performance if they devoted all 140 m2 of the die to CPU. But that's not what the M series chips are.
Per capita income doesn't reveal the actual income disparity. SF wasn't always expensive city to live. It was in fact quite the opposite. Last several decades have made the city inhospitable for the economically vulnerable population. Instead of looking at the per capita GDP, you should see the income distribution in the city. The median household income is $126,000 which is not a livable wage in the city for a family. The recent poverty rate is ~10%.
My perception is that, people were partying & were drunk. The Waymo vehicle likely was just passing through and probably got stuck. People simply took out their pent up frustration on it. It's nothing more than that.
Nothing fades into oblivion. The company is obligated to liquidate its assets which includes IP. This gives a big opportunity to build new products that may be more economically viable. This would not be possible if the company would be acquired by the incumbent who will just acquire the company’s IP and sit on it.
How often does acquired IP rights just end up in a lawyers filing cabinet somewhere, with nobody in the acquiring company sufficiently incentivized to do something with most of it?
A lot of the time - especially with failing companies where the sale might happen at rock bottom prices, but otherwise too - the acquirer and seller may have very different ideas about which part of the transaction matters.
E.g. one company I co-founded sold off a business unit after we pivoted, and where to me at least the technology was the most worthwhile part - far better than the platform the buyer had. But to them the 6% of the userbase they were able to convert to paying users of their own service was what justified the sale price. And as much as I think the tech we sold them with the userbase was better, I get that to them - even if they agreed with my assessment, and maybe they didn't - it wasn't sufficiently better to them to justify replacing what they had and knew how to develop and knew how to operate (we sold the system, not the company, so none of our staff went with them).
Acquired IP gets used when it is the focus of the purchase, and the acquirer knows exactly what they want or need that IP for, but even then more so if it's e.g. patents rather than software. A lot of software acquirers thought they needed still end up languishing and eventually dying.
But I've seen so much IP "fade into oblivion" over the years. I'd say, I don't even know who currently owns the rights to the majority of the software I've personally developed in my career. Some would be easy to track down. Others near impossible.
> The company is obligated to liquidate its assets which includes IP
"We have no idea who owns this IP in order to ask for permission, because the company went bankrupt" comes up fairly often in discussions about copyright duration and video games.
What the actual f*ck is wrong with Boeing's management? After the MAX fiasco that left several hundreds dead, I would have expected the new management to be more cautious about safety issues. As a consumer, I feel the need to vote with my wallet and feet. I feel it is time to boycott flying on Boeing's unsafe planes. Unfortunately, due to consolidation and lack of competition there are very few choices left for us.
While masks are shown to slow the spread of infection, ultimately the larger problem with handling the COVID-19 pandemic was the lockdowns and isolation. Lockdowns and isolating individuals definitely helped reduce the spread of the infection and probably saved a lot of lives but prolonged isolation actually reduced the overall immunity in our population. Human immune systems require constant exposure to all sorts of germs to keep it humming along. Isolation does the exact opposite and while it is useful in the short term, prolonged 'clean room' type conditions created due to isolation and lockdowns are harmful.