Electric trucks are indeed useless for carrying things.
"This massive 45-ton electric dump truck never uses more energy than it generates on its own --- here's how that works"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.co...
Threads are a program "thread of control", with several possible implementations. Time slicing is just one possible implementation. Explicit transfer of control is another (cooperative multithreading). Another is a separate processor for each thread/process. "Processes" are generally threads with different ownership/privileges, that usually can't be trusted to cooperate.
Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Hyperthreading cores have separate thread-local instances of some processor state (some sort of thread context at a minimum), but share other things (like functional units, load/store buffers, and maybe even renamed registers); the multiple threads per core are essentially time-slicing usage of those shared resources. Multiple cores will have less sharing, and have fewer resource conflicts (though they still usually share some level caches and memory/I/O interfaces). There have also been some fun (but ultimately less successful) computer implementations which time-sliced all resources to hide memory latency from each of many threads.
The Wikipedia pages https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... are pretty informative. Intel's "Hyperthreading" was a rebranding of SMT.
In recent years, hacks like Spectre have taken advantage of the resource sharing across threads in a processor to peek from one privilege domain to another, obtaining secrets they shouldn't have. Getting HT/SMT to work without allowing such hacks usually slows things down.
In Europe the cops are visiting you if you say something bigoted on Twitter.
Whereas in the USA you get elected president for that.
Well, you can always check with a government agency, and if you are suspicious about the agent you're talking to you can go up the hierarchy and check for references. Like an apostile.
Ultimately, of course, trust rests with the president.
I'd like to see a Geeky article/discussion on the curious linguistic practices of The Donald. His speech is more of a "word salad" than any attempt to convey information. Watching his communications is a waste of time w.r.t. the COVID-19 issues, but it might be interesting when viewed as evidence for some scientific study of the underlying communication
Neuroscience: is there some sort of brain disfunction that could lead to such aberrant use of speech?
Linguistics: How do people stand to listen to him? Is grammar, semantics, etc., really not needed in speech? Perhaps they are just overlays on a more primitive sort of speech use that he's utilizing to sway his followers? Perhaps there is some kind of emotional social togetherness expressed by his utterances that the non-geeky are more table to tune into than I am?
Information Security: Is he doing some sort of "fuzzing" attack on the linguistic brain centers of some percentage of the population?
The S3 APIs that Oracle re-implemented:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.cloud.oracle.com%2F...
Seems like Oracle has to decide which side of the argument they are on.
It's pretty clear that what happened is that her account had unusual behavior, so it was blocked as potential fraud. Google provides no clear/rapid recourse to *anyone* who innocently triggers such automatic mechanisms.
Here we just have a big Squeaky Wheel who has trumped up a way to turn it into a court case, while boosting her political fortunes through free publicity.
The real question is: might this lead to improvement in Google's customer service mechanisms?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
This is exactly the reason for the much-cited "Don't be evil" slogan. If you have no morals, then there's a lot you get out of people without them complaining.
I'm no longer there, and it clearly doesn't *always* work, but a few years back Google had lots of engineers who constantly pushed back internally against any attempt to use data in slimy ways. You're going to be served weirdly personalized ads online, but the privacy leak shouldn't extend any further than affecting what is presented to you.
Well, and whoever else shares your browser.
There's a radio ad in Beijing for one of the big phones in which a woman boasts that she hasn't lost any weight but her friends all think she has because her face looks so thin next to her giant new phone.
The phone isn't just for use, it's a fashion statement.
Perhaps that attitude extends to other Asian countries?
The other line moves faster.
