Ghost_MH

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.

Yes, that's a valid, albeit horrifically energy intensive, way to track ownership of little bits of data. These NFT artwork sales are a whole different type of problem that just doesn't make sense.

We're talking about the sale of the NFT art scene here. NFTs are just a use of the Ethereum blockchain to work as a non-centralized database that can be used to store any data you'd like. Tracking the ownership of things is one very common use. However, none of the NFT artwork sales I've seen so far actually track the ownership of the digital item being "sold". Instead, they're tracking ownership of the link to the digital item. Can the buyer rehost the image elsewhere? No. What happens if the seller just takes the image offline? Oops. Oh well. If the seller did that, can the buyer then bring it back online some other way? No. How do we know that's the case? The entire reason we're even talking about this again is because Evil Ape sold a bunch of NFT artwork for millions and then just took their website offline, leaving all these buyers with 404 NFTs that lead nowhere.

You're skipping the part where NFTs don't represent ownership of a digital thing. They represent ownership of a link to a thing while the seller maintains the right to move the thing, rendering the link you own a 404.

Well, this too. At least you're getting a cool thing to commemorate your money laundering, though.

It's almost like Canada has been handling the pandemic better than the US. At least in your area 1/3 of students can elect to go remote. My Republican governor squashed that saying it was of utmost importance that 100% of students are in person this school year.

COVID is killing kids because half this nation is wildly endangering them. My oldest is in school, in person. He's less at risk not because of his health but because his school takes actual precautions to prevent the spread of COVID. That includes, but is not limited to, a mask mandate; testing everyone, including the vaccinated, for COVID on a weekly basis; and vaccine mandates for all the teachers and staff. Again, the reason why there's an uptick of children dying of COVID is because adults that don't take the disease seriously are willingly exposing these children because it has a "low mortality rate".

Oh, art sales in general are all a scam, but at least they're imparting actual ownership of a thing. The scam is from the curators who collude to elevate certain artists over others to manipulate the arbitrary value of the artwork being sold. However, again, at least there is a thing that is being sold. The actual ownership of the thing is actually being transferred. If artists were actually selling their digital goods with NFTs it would be far less of a stupid scam and I'd be less gobsmacked about the whole thing. However, even high profile sales like Beeple's aren't actually selling the rights to anything.

There's a serious case of "COVID is only killing people that were going to die anyway" going around the Internet to justify the thousands of people dying everyday. Any excuse imaginable comes up to explain why someone died of COVID instead of just blaming the shitty response to the pandemic from half the population.

I think we should differentiate here that NFT's aren't granting ownership to the thing, they're granting ownership to a link to the thing. This isn't like owning the Picasso. Instead the artist is selling directions to their house where the painting is stored with the caveat being that they're allowed to move whenever they want rendering the address they sold you a 404. NFT's are less like buying art and more like buying plots on the moon.

Yeah, but they're dumb and don't realize that 230 protects them.

I'm in the middle of Neo: The World Ends with You, but I'll put it aside for Metroid Dread. I've been waiting long enough for this game.