I think this study https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/ASPLOS2012.pdf (full disclosure: authors were my labmates) supports your observations, and supports the notion that cosmic rays are not the leading cause of random bit-flips in RAM.
Could you use a term like "conspiracy theorist" instead of "schizo" here? There are probably plenty of people who have schizophrenia and don't subscribe to conspiracy theories.
There must be a better term for this than "conspiracy theorist". If you believe the official 9/11 Commission report, as I generally do, that qualifies you as believing a conspiracy theory in any intellectually honest meaning of the term (a theory about a conspiracy.)
The term seems to have entered the general public's lexicon in the aftermath of the Warren Commission report, which was decidedly not a theory about a conspiracy (it asserted that Oswald was a lone wolf, who didn't conspire with anybody.) Disagreeing with that meant you had a theory about Oswald or others conspiring; a literal conspiracy theory. But since then, the term "conspiracy theory" seems to be leveled against anybody who disputes an 'official' narrative, regardless of which side (if either) is putting forth a theory that involves conspiring. All theories about 9/11 are conspiracy theories (unless you can find anybody who seriously believes that all four plane incidents were perpetrated by lone wolves who, by pure coincidence, all chose the same date and methods.) As the term is commonly [mis]used today, it may as well mean "unpopular theory."
"Crash-consistent applications", not "Crashing applications". This is a great paper which illustrates how a developer's mental model of what a file system does may differ from the reality.
The submitted title was "File Systems Are Not Created Equal: Complexity of Crafting Crashing Applications [pdf]", which was a valiant attempt at squeezing the whole thing into 80 chars, but I don't think that's doable.
She messaged him on Facebook after finding him through a Facebook group dedicated to entrepreneurship. If we grant that facebook is a more casual environment, for the sake of argument, his line of questioning should have ended at "are you single"! I don't see how her intent could have been more clear.
Furthermore the Facebook platform (lets include Instagram, Whatsapp, etc) has become an "everything" platform for many individuals both young and old. Family, news, everything is on there. In the absence of clear intent the expected behavior should be not to make such drastic assumptions as sexual interest...
I think part of the "tough problem" is that some people don't feel that being unprofessional in this particular manner isn't at least slightly morally wrong. She asked for advice, he's free to negotiate ROI, promotion, and validation, but in a conversation about business, "are you single" is already crossing a line, nevermind "do men turn you on?". There's a time and a place for that!
I'm not saying it was appropriate... but what exactly is the "time and a place for that"?
I only mean to say that typically people meet potential mates/partners in school and at work. Now, taking a text based conversation to that level is definitely wrong. But I would propose that actually testing for interest in the workplace isn't inherently wrong, only in so much that it's a matter of intent, extent and explicitness that isn't always easy to judge.
Personally, I'm of the mind that a soft ask about dinner/drinks/coffee sometime, and if a decline, then one more ask a few weeks later is probably okay, as long as it ends on a second ask. The reason I say this is only because sometimes a person doesn't feel comfortable if they don't know the person well enough yet, so best not to close the door right away.
On the flip side, this was very explicit without any of the contextual cues you get in person, especially with a soft rejection, is definitely over the top. Never be overtly sexual or dominating over someone in the workplace.
Yeah, the time and place for "are you single" is when the conversation has already moved to more personal matters - or like you say, related to the "soft ask" about dinner/drinks/coffee sometime!
The paper is much more conservative than the article about it. They're saying that the close relationship between the signal and the human-made second, plus the fact that most of these signals were observed at one particular telescope, suggests strongly that it's a local, human source.
"Paper doesn't rule out aliens" isn't a particularly strong statement. I've read many papers that don't rule out aliens, dragons OR unicorns.
The paper starts with: "Eleven FRBs have been detected so far, nine with the Parkes and one at the Arecibo telescope." That arithmetic is wrong. Tongue-in-the-cheek - April's fool?
edit: it actually seems more like a genuine typo in a pre-print. The list further in the article contains 10 FRBs from Parkes.
edit 2: linked to the abstract.
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc.
This is not (specifically) for the OS. This is for non-volatile memory that is directly attached to the memory bus. The OS can then directly map NVRAM into the address space of a user-space process; the application could use these instructions to efficiently ensure the crash consistency of its persistent data.
One of the big problems right now is that they have a very long oil pipeline, and people keep blowing it up. It's hard to get political stability when the resources are so constrained, and hard to deal with the resource problems when there's so much political instability.
I was in Sana'a around this time last year, the article paints a strikingly accurate picture of the experience. Yemenis as a whole are the friendliest group of people I've had the pleasure to meet. On the other hand, the problems of the nation seem to be incurable, unless someone has a recipe for turning sand into water and oil.
