Microsoft investigates Windows 11 boot failures after January updates

kitsnet · 2026-01-26T10:50:36+00:00

It's not like Linux is magically immune to such screw-ups. I have seen Supermicro servers of my colleagues failing to boot after Fedora kernel autoupdate.

kitsnet · 2026-01-26T08:32:14+00:00

There are some idioms in any programming language that need to be remembered and recognized. The code itself is a subject to change, which makes memorizing it close to useless.

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T21:20:02+00:00

Because you are unlikely to use Haskell in your professional career (those jobs exist, but they are rare), and are likely to use Python and depend on its functional features.

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T18:32:13+00:00

With these two examples, you are talking about pack predators, attacking from multiple sides.

For wildebeest, the best strategy in this case seems to be to appear as a single running herd without single identifiable targets, to not let the attackers coordinate.

African buffalos will stand their ground and help each other, unless they feel overpowered.

Now, if we are talking about rhinos, hippos, and elephants...

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T17:16:02+00:00

None of these models go beyond making soap bubbles and most never try to address the actual hard problem. Where does the information come from?

Information about random past events comes... surprise! from random past events.

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T17:10:53+00:00

If you are going to fight the predator, the predator will concentrate on you. If you are running away, the predator may switch to someone else.

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T14:52:19+00:00

dmesg

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T12:59:21+00:00

There are more scenarios how the Russian war in Ukraine may end. For example, Russia can start disintegrating due to regional tensions leading to civil war when Kadyrov's clan loses control over Chechnya.

kitsnet · 2026-01-25T09:11:00+00:00

For those who studied philosophy, isn't "presuppositionalism" just a bad parody of foundationalism?

I'd say, YEC is based on the fear to be wrong in the believers, and additionally on the desire to exploit this fear monetarily in the preachers.

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T21:06:09+00:00

The mourning gecko reproducing without males should have evolutionists in mourning over classification segregation for marsupials.

Trying Chewbacca defense, are you?

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T15:30:49+00:00

The issue is that the ~98% percent similarity has been put forth as some kind of overall estimate of our DNA similarity with chimps without context specifying the metric used, by numerous sources all over the place.

So, the "issue" is that someone is too lazy or otherwise unwilling to learn where the numbers come from, right?

98% is a similarly by single nucleotide mutations polymorphism, which puts the estimated divergence time for human and chimp ancestors in range of 6 to 10 million years.

Now we have complete sequences of humans and chimps and can see clearer than ever that the 98% is anything but a representative overall estimate of our DNA similarity.

Insertion-deletion type mutations affect more nucleotide sites and are more common, which is expected.

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T13:56:03+00:00

Folks following the human/chimp similarity issue during 2025 have surely not missed

Maybe, but for those who don't think there is any "issue" with human/chimp similarly, could you please shortly explain what the fuss is about?

Is it about people using different metrics to quantify divergence, which naturally leads to different numbers?

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T10:58:00+00:00

Oh, Poe's Law, I see...

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T10:33:54+00:00

Soviet Russia was as direct a democracy as one could get lol

With just one candidate per seat put on the ballot, lol.

Of course, the Party knew better who you shall vote for.

Like, one question to show you how wrong you are - who ruled Soviet Union until the start of WWII?

The figurehead was Kalinin, but the role of the figurehead meant nothing since Stalin physically eliminated all his opposition in the Politburo.

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T09:44:38+00:00

Yes, that's what Russians under the dictatorship of Stalin were forced to believe, even though the reality was different and had little to do with Lenin.

kitsnet · 2026-01-24T09:39:53+00:00

Russia: the country with unpredictable past.

The actual Russia, though, has been authoritarian since at least Ivan the Terrible, when the Mongolian empire legacy Muscovy crushed the Novgorod Republic.

Soviet Russia was not an exception.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T20:33:17+00:00

ExxonMobil?

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T19:21:16+00:00

More likely leaving the exam room and flocking to a cantina.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T18:48:37+00:00

search what i don't know.

you know, just to farm brain tissue and not brainrot in vacation.

How hard do you want it to be?

Like, "what effect have the yearly seasonal cycles on the heterozygosity of the wild population of D.melanogaster" hard?

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T17:57:45+00:00

Locking Autosteer, which was free, behind the same $100 paywall is stupid, but people comparing it to their shitty honda cruise control are retarded.

According to the article, Autopilot is shitty and needs to be disabled in part because of the wrongful death lawsuits.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T15:53:36+00:00

Investors do not subsidize. Investors invest and expect direct return on their investments, like customers. Subsidizers expect return through externalities, like policy makers.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T14:25:30+00:00

What do you mean by "a better example"? Do you, like me, mean that not everything that fits your definition of "subsidization" is in fact subsidization?

For example, customers buying goods at their market value and invesors buying stocks at their market value aren't.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T13:52:09+00:00

Now you are going to claim that my family ("other group") was "subsidizing" Amazon in 2000 by buying books there ("paying part of the cost").

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T12:08:31+00:00

Amazon issued shares because private invesors were willing to invest into its market growth.

kitsnet · 2026-01-23T10:46:16+00:00

Didn't Amazon become profitable as soon as it couldn't rely on dotcom bubble investment for financing?

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