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Of course, it already has. Layoffs are contagious across industries and within industries. The logic driving this, which doesn’t sound like very sensible logic because it’s not, is people say, “Everybody else is doing it, why aren’t we?”
Retailers are pre-emptively laying off staff, even as final demand remains uncertain. Apparently, many organizations will trade off a worse customer experience for reduced staffing costs, not taking into account the well-established finding that is typically much more expensive to attract new customers than it is to keep existing ones happy.
The concept of radical novelties is of contemporary significance because, while we are ill-prepared to cope with them, science and technology have now shown themselves expert at inflicting them upon us. Earlier scientific examples are the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics; later technological examples are the atom bomb and the pill. For decades, the former two gave rise to a torrent of religious, philosophical, or otherwise quasi-scientific tracts. We can daily observe the profound inadequacy with which the latter two are approached, be it by our statesmen and religious leaders or by the public at large. So much for the damage done to our peace of mind by radical novelties.
I raised all this because of my contention that automatic computers represent a radical novelty and that only by identifying them as such can we identify all the nonsense, the misconceptions and the mythology that surround them. Closer inspection will reveal that it is even worse, viz. that automatic computers embody not only one radical novelty but two of them.
Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time
Als viele Leute Mitte der 1990er Jahre über Unis E-Mailadressen bekamen, haben sie dieses Medium für sich erschlossen. Daher finde ich es natürlich auch wertvoll, wenn die Unis auf diesem Umweg einen Beitrag zur allgemeinen Etablierung von nicht-kommerziellen dezentralen sozialen Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen leisten könnten. Dieser Beitrag würde in zweierlei Hinsicht bestehen: einerseits im Betreiben von Instanzen, aber andererseits auch im Mitbringen von Menschen. Das ist ja gerade für das Funktionieren von dezentralen und allgemein von sozialen Netzwerken das Entscheidende: Wie kriege ich die Leute, wie komme ich auf eine kritische Masse?
Damit würden die Unis auch einen Beitrag leisten, von dem wir als Gesellschaft ganz allgemein etwas hätten. Das ist auch der Sinn von öffentlich finanzierten Hochschulen: dass sie ganz allgemein Wissen produzieren für die Gesellschaft. Dass sie in dem Maße, in dem es sinnvoll und möglich ist, auch zum Beispiel Kommunikationsinfrastruktur liefern. Ich glaube, das würde gut passen zu dem Auftrag einer Hochschule als wissensbasierte Institution in einer arbeitsteiligen Gesellschaft.
'uppercase' and 'lowercase' are remnants of the moveable type practice of keeping capital letters on a separate case, above the miniscule letters.
What turns weakness into catastrophe is monoculture. All software has flaws, all systems have weaknesses, and you design around that by having multiple different systems with different weaknesses. If the world's banana crop is a single strain, then a single pathogen can take out the lot.
You're not going to harden your IT infrastructure by rewriting Active Directory in FORTH under VMS, much as such an exercise may appeal to the more perversely creative. But the more experience you have of seeing things done differently, of analyzing and understanding systems that don't make the current industry standard assumptions, the better you'll be at assessing and working with different contemporary options.
The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.
An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.
It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
On 14 January 2023, we celebrate World Logic Day. In the city of Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle, mathematical logic and its application to the sciences have a long and rich tradition. This January, we welcome Dov Gabbay (King’s College London and University of Luxembourg) as speaker at the Vienna World Logic Day Lecture.
The third edition of the lecture series is welcoming Prof. Dav Gabbay who will talk about “Logic and Argumentation for the 21st Century”.
Personally, I didn't come to any particular harm by the quarantines.
I had good fortune, they weren't traumatic times for me. What were
those times like? They were "like nothing else," but also they were
remarkably like "nothing." They felt somewhat like a general strike
or a hurricane evacuation, but they also had this novel sci-fi
vacuity to the textture of the days. Huge, surreal absences. The
lack of transport nose and any sky-contrails was a big aspect. The
people were in hiding from one another, but also the big machines
were absent and silent.
In Österreich würde ich so eine Studie ja gerne mal für Accenture sehen ...
Smart cities
This was a hopeful slogan to unite a scattered series of approaches
to urbanism. There's no unifying "smartness" there. Google being
ignominously chased out of Toronto with pitchforks was probably the
Waterloo for this.
Web3, NFTs
It seems pretty clear now that this impressive craze was not so much
"blockchain art" as "lockdown art." It's what art people do
culturally when they're not allowed out of the house. One of the
most entertaining cultural freakouts I ever personally witnessed,
but it was convulsive and in many ways quite sad.
In 02023, people are becoming poorer, their lifespans are shorter;
food costs more, and housing is worse. You'd think there would be
more focussed, radical indignation about such an obvious bad scene
-- a culture in visible decline -- but the temper of the times seems
to welcome it, somehow.
...
I don't like begin a year with gloomy, elaborate whining; that like
a privileged luxury that people have when Mom's not chased in exile
and Dad's not under arms in a trench. And yet, I do realize that
my customary futurist speculative habits have become old-fashioned.
I'm from a tech-obsessed subculture, so it's my habit to look for
scientific and industrial innovations and assume they're gonna alter
the world's situation.
That's not what happens in this decade. I'm aware that I need
better methods.
There's something very Twenty-Twenties about attempting and failing
to "turn the page" on inconvenient truths that can't and don't go
away. That's why each year tends to repeat the last. I wouldn't
call that "moral cowardice," because people do not, and cannot,
really ignore the pervasive problems -- they do see them, and tend
to complain quite consistently about the same issues, year after
year. But, without ever getting much done about them. It's rare to
see any public problem that's analyzed, agreed-upon, confronted,
dealt with and dismissed. All the "crises" tend to thrive, and to
mutate into long-term shambolic debacles. It's a decade that feels
the need to marinate in its own distresses -- doomscrolling as a
way-of-life.
"When you can't imagine how things are going to change, things
change in ways that are unimaginable."
In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.
This is why many people in IT drink heavily.
Caching and prefetching were used in mainframe computers dating back to the 1960s. For instance, the IBM System/360 Model 91 (1966) had a cache with prefetching. Minicomputers such as the VAX 11/780 (1977) later used caching and prefetching. However, these features took a while to trickle down to microprocessors. The Motorola 68000 (1980) had a 4-byte prefetch queue. As far as I can tell, the 8086 was the first microprocessor with a prefetch queue.
We can view the 8086 as a stepping-stone towards the large caches first used externally in the 80386 and internally in the 486. The 80186 and 80286 kept the 6-byte prefetch buffer size of the 8086. The 80386 has a 16-byte prefetch buffer, although apparently due to a bug it was shrunk to 12 bytes in later revisions. As well as the prefetch queue, the 80386 supported an external cache.
I was looking for a small, lightweigt, affordable but powerful battery for portable ham radio use and decided to buy a Miady 12,8V 7,2Ah LiFePO4 battery.
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Attendees will tour VMware Tanzu Application Platform and learn how it streamlines application delivery at modern enterprises. You will see how application teams use the developer experience platform to iteratively code for multi-cloud without deep knowledge of Kubernetes. Watch how the operations team is able to design a dynamic, secure software supply chain that automatically enforces governance and compliance across all applications. Discover how the platform leverages GitOps (configuration as code) to manage the application promotion process for a fleet of servers, all the way to production.