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This is it, mostly because ctrl+alt+end and ctrl+shift+esc doesn't always work in an RDP session. On my desktop, I just put wound up pinning the task manager directly to the taskbar.

I know you're being facetious, but I did chuckle when he did that in Dread when explaining that the EMMI will kill you after it already killed me like twice.

Because of what I just said. People are emotional. They see COVID is bad in the news and start masking up or taking fewer risks, even if they aren't intentional doing so. Then they stop seeing that in the news and start taking more risks and not wearing masks leading to another spike. Are you arguing that the virus is run by some videogame AI and is designed to come in waves so we, the players, don't exhaust ourselves? What other mechanism other than human behavior and humans en masse lacking any sense of long term planning do you think is driving these waves?

That's exactly what I just said. You want know why it's hard to forecast the pandemic? Because people are irrational and unpredictable. This isn't the weather we're talking about. There's no cloud of COVID-19 floating across the country and just choosing to chill in Mississippi for a spell while flying over California because the air is stale and on fire. People are emotional and irrational and these very same people are the ones spreading the disease. The media was all doom and gloom the last couple of weeks covering hospitals being overrun with COVID patients and then there's a drop in infection rates. If Biden gets on TV tomorrow and starts cheering the drop and how things are looking good, you'll wind up with red swaths of the nation rising infection rates as people start taking COVID less serious out of pure spite. Shocker. It's really hard to predict the behavior of people during a once in a century pandemic. Either way, yeah, it's a moral failing that we aren't in a better place. I don't really care if that makes people feel bad. I just had to sit through a meeting about folks arguing we shouldn't have to be under a vaccine mandate because we aren't the right kind of federal contractor and all I could think is "who the fuck cares, just get vaccinated and it won't matter".

My biggest window 11 complaint is the lack of taskbar shortcuts. Sometimes when I'm being lazy and just mousing around, I could right click on the taskbar to do things like show desktop, stack windows, or open the task manager. Sure, the are also keyboard shortcuts for all of those, I liked the lazy options too. Now right clicking on the task bar does nothing but bring up task bar settings.

It's better with the Pro Controller, but I wish the game mapped actions across more buttons. If it were up to me, l wouldn't have set free aiming to L+left stick. The right analog stick isn't used, nor is ZR. I would have preferred it if ZR was also a blaster button and the right stick just automatically switched you into free aiming mode.

My understanding of the article is that we shouldn't call COVID spikes a moral failing because we don't really understand what causes these spikes and calling it a moral failing doesn't help. What am I missing here? Like I said, if everyone actually cared about others in this country, wore masks, got vaccinated, and practiced some social distancing, would COVID numbers be down? Would those small, personal sacrificing save lives in this country?

I don't think anyone here was ever confused over what happened. Go reread the post I drug up from last year by he who shall not be pulled into this. You're forgetting that she called the police AFTER she pulled her dog away AFTER he pulled out the treats. Then, once she has her dog SHE gets in his face while he's recording the encounter. Did you forget the paart where she tells a black man that she's going to call the police and tell them a black man is trying to kill her? Can you explain to me a situation where telling someone their own ethnicity while threatening to call the police is not a race issue? Like, in what situation is telling an African American man "I'm going to call the police and tell them there's an American American man threatening me." not an implied threat of police violence? Maybe you need to rewatch the original video he took? The author of the article you posted seems very confused, so you might be casting us in the same light. None of us were confused or are now. I've got no problem reading into context of telling a black man that you're going to call the police and tell them there's a black man causing trouble.

Like I said, that combined with everything else. Let's make this simple. If everyone was vaccinated, wore masks more often, and practiced some social distancing, would COVID numbers be up, down, or about the same? If the answer is down, then it's absolutely a moral failing that we aren't there right now. You're basically arguing that we couldn't have done anything better in regards to our reaction to the pandemic. That's categorically false because other countries around the world have managed to handle things better than the US. If you want to argue it's not a moral failing of the people, but of leaders and influencers misleading their followers then sure. I can buy into that hypothesis.

Wait, then what is the point of this article? I guess the point is that we thought he made a threat about giving her dog a treat and that was false so we should be even more upset with her? That seems completely at odds with the intent of the author there. That's also at odds with actual facts. Here's an interview the dude gave NPR last year... An Avid Birder Talks About His Conflict In Central Park That Went Viral WWW.NPR.ORG NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Christian Cooper, an avid birder who asked a woman to leash her dog, which led to a verbal altercation he caught on tape.

Vaccine and mask mandates work. Who'd a thunk it? Hospitals across the country in the news warning folks their hospitals are full helped? Cool. So, yeah. A moral success, but really now of a failure of convictions for so these anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who don't really want to be out of work in spite of their Facebook ramblings.

Windows 11 feel pretty snappy to me. However, that night be because during the prep I noticed I hadn't updated my BIOS this year and the updated XMP profile is actually letting me run my RAM at the full 4400Mhz it's rated to.

What was the point of this article written in October of 2021, six months after the vaccines were widely available? It's whole crutch is that many are treating these COVID waves as a moral failure on the part millions of Americans when the spread of COVID and how waves come and go is more complicated than that. Sure, but also, where would we be if everyone just masked, socially distanced, or more importantly, just got vaccinated? The only answer is that we wouldn't be dealing with thousands of deaths everyday, so yeah, it's a moral failure on the part of millions of Americans that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but chose not to because it was inconvenient

My assumption, anytime I see an article that says something like this... ...is that yes, you missed them because your didn't read the articles.

Articles like this make no sense because they seem to ignore that there are other countries around the world that have managed their spread of the virus mostly fine with things like masking and social distancing before vaccines. Nothing is 100%, but this isn't some mystery. Some people just never help out. It's a real mystery why cases and deaths rise, we freak and put some restrictions in place, then cases and deaths lower, we ease restrictions and then see the beginning of a new wave. I have no idea how that happens. We also know why some outdoor events and in school classes aren't always super spreaders. For outdoor events, you have to imagine how wind effects things, how much people are standing still, how much they're yelling and whatnot. For schools, well, we already got cool graphs to explain that last year and it largely depends on who is contagious and whether it's an unmasked teacher shedding at the front of the room. Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air | Society | EL PAÍS in English ELPAIS.COM The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced by applying all available measures to combat infection via aerosols. Here is an overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday...

I just went over the article and this really is the angle here. This is dumb. I very specifically remember this story for exactly this. He threatened to feed her dog if she wouldn't leash it. I don't understand how this is news to anyone. It was reported when the story first came out. It was reported along with the dude's exact words. I can probably find the posts where we talk about this very specific thing with his very specific "threat" in this thread. I don't understand how any of this is new information. I'll do you all a favor. I went back in time in this very thread to see if we ever spoke about him threatening to feed her dog...

You're not the only one. I also actually enjoyed Other M. I would have vastly preferred it if it had instead been designed for analog control. I think there would have been some interesting controls schemes with a third person Metroid with mouse-like sum accuracy. Either way, I have to say that the EMMI are terrifying. Dread really wants to drill that into your head very early on.

Well, the next few games I'll be playing are all Switch games so now seems like a good time to give Windows 11 a go. Fresh install here I come.

The problem here isn't that there was a misconfiguration that lead to data being exposed. The real problem is that all of that data was taken and Twitch didn't realize it until it was all released to the public. Like, even a CEO shouldn't be able to pull that much data from servers without raising red flags.

Like I said before, the industry is moving closer to commodity hardware. Stuff that's cheap to buy, easy to setup, and has low operational overhead. Managing massive databases suck. The hardware behind keeping them running and fast is also a pain. Failover clusters are currently the cheapest solution, but it requires dupes of the high powered servers and a lot of up front costs. Just dropping failover clusters into the cloud can also work, but for large databases that are compute intensive you're trading low capital expenses for high operational expenses. If there was an idea out there that existed and was designed to be a sort of decentralized databases thing that could run on commodity hardware because it only needed to handle local connections and could be distributed across a company's multiple sites...hell, maybe you don't even need the server nodes and just have like 90% of the thing run on local desktops and laptops. None of this stuff exists today and I'm also not talking about blockchain as it refers to all the craziness of NFTs using Ethereum. I am, however, talking about a future built on the same ideas. It'll borrow from current ideas where it makes sense and make up some new ideas, also where it makes sense. It'll all still be called blockchain. Either way, anything that requires proof of work like Bitcoin and Ethereum should be shot into the sun. I can nearly power my house for a day with the energy required to make one NFT. That's such wild bullshit it's almost impossible to describe it. Fucking Nike wasting electricity the electricity needed to charge a Model Y just to generate a digital receipt for some sneakers makes me want to punch my dog. We as a species is being very stupid with all the blockchain foolishness going around. Don't get me wrong here. I'm just saying that the future of everything will be more decentralized than it is today and whatever databases look like twenty years from now will likely be closer to current blockchains than current databases like PostgreSQL.

I now understand what you meant by your Halo comparison here. Yes, I get that a lot of this stuff existed before Bitcoin or the term blockchain was ever popularized. However, the entire set of ideas popularized by cryptocurrencies and private blockchains are from here on out going to be called blockchains whether it grinds your gears or not. Demon Souls didn't invent anything, but we still call them Souls-like because of the way it brought a lot of ideas together and was widely popularized with that one title.

The reason you can't trust even your own nodes at offices you control is that you're no longer in real control of things one they leave your building. Also, you can't even fully trust yourself against breeches. The point of modern security isn't to stop breeches, but to mitigate damage. There was nothing Twitch could do to stop someone from breaking in, but there are a million things Twitch could have done to stop someone from stealing everything after the breech. MPLS did resolve some timing issues to an extent since offices in that setup aren't actually connected to the internet, but it's prohibitably expensive, not very fast, and very much not mobile. It was a great solution at the time, but SD-WAN is eating its lunch while also bringing in problems when it comes to time sensitive applications...like a database that needs to be strictly kept in sync down to accurate timestamps. The solution right now is to just throw everything into AWS or Azure with it's "infinite" resources. The problem there is that if you've ever accessed large databases over the Internet, it kind of sucks, even when you have a great connection. This is doubly so if you have applications running on a VM in your local MDF or IDF that relies on this cloud-based database. It's even worse if that local VM is interacting with local hardware. The issue here is that there is no drop in place, local solution for this need and the only thing on the horizon is something based on blockchain tech. What I'm talking about will NOT work the same way Bitcoin or Ethereum operates. It'll be it's own thing that borrows heavily from current blockchains in use at like Bank of America. I should reiterate. None of this exists today. All I'm pretty sure of is that it'll look closer to current commerical, non-cryptocurrency blockchains than current widly used databases like NoSQL. Everything is moving toward mobile, commoditized solutions that cheap to put in place and inexpensive to move. MPLS installations often have setup times measured in months. SD-WAN installations can often be just a box you plug in between a router and a switch. Decentralized databases that build themselves without any human intervention and error check against themselves and others regardless of timezones or even servers who, for whatever reason, has an internal clock that isn't exactly in sync with GMT or may have been compromised. Yeah, I'll take all of that directly into my veins.

The lack of trust is to lower management costs since you can lose nodes and error check against faulty ones when you're trying to maintain a database cluster that spans the globe. It's pointless for small businesses, but a large business could and do easily benefit from a wide area database-like blockchain that is self-correcting and built to run in sync across multiple nodes. Right now, if you're a large company, you host multiple database clusters at larger data centers. Smaller offices then have to connect over the Internet to those databases located, possibly, on the other side of the US. (I meant to say Internet there because nobody uses MPLS anymore and if you work for company that does, ask them why they like pissing away money.) What blockchain does here is decentralized the entire thing. Now, instead of stuffing it all in the cloud or some self-managed data center in like Colorado, you can set up small decentralized nodes in each individual office. That lessens the need to reach out over the Internet for database queries and allows sites to continue working, even if in read only mode, in the event of some outage elsewhere. Now you can be someone with hundreds of thousands of employees and the database with millions and billions of entries can go from using tons of AWS compute or an entire cabinet of clustered servers to a bunch of commodity servers that can be replaced by anyone that knows how to plug a TV in.

Blockchains are the future of databases. Massive Oracle or SQL-deriviative databases will all likely be replaced by blockchains in the future. They're infinitely scalable, faster, require less management, and are self correcting. They're everything you want in a massive database. The way these cryptocurrencies use them, however, is ridiculous. The way many banks are currently using blockchains to track internal transfers makes all the sense in the world. When the blockchain in question is a proof of stake blockchain that only extends to server and computer nodes connected over a limited intranet, it's not just fine, it's a great solution.

That's likely part of it, but there's also some of it that's being treated like Monopoly money. That is, nueveau riche on crypto like bitcoin that bought into things like ethereum or lite coin early on when they were with fractions of a cent and have zero value for the money because it's all made up funny money, anyway.