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> there are many many laws against discriminating based on medical status

There are laws requiring discrimination based on vaccination status and have been for your entire life.

>religious exemptions

Please. There is a tiny, tiny minority of people who actually object to vaccinations on religious grounds. This is an excuse.

>It is a shame that many sites didn't behaved like this when Threadripper was launched and basically said that the architecture was inefficient at using so many cores or the software simply was not ready yet. Phoronix was one of the few which did it right.

I found it jaw-dropping how badly Microsoft handled that release. In some cases, the best way to improve multithreaded performance under Windows was to disable three quarters of the cores. Meanwhile any decent Linux distro scaled to the full core count out of the box.

I wonder to what extent this is holding back computer architecture. Certainly the Wintel cartel has historically back competition from other architectures, but even within x86-land we can see the monopoly power and technical inadequacy of Windows holding back innovation.

Linux supports every architecture known to man. Microsoft pretty much only supports x86. They have no excuse.

This is a person whose retirement plan includes NFTs but not mutual funds. I am not surprised.

A daemon that writes the contents of the clipboard to a log file would be a reasonable utility. It does not need to be pauseable; just kill the process when you don't need it. It doesn't need to only record URLs; just use grep to filter the log file. This is how I would write the thing for my own use.

The professor gave the students incomplete information. What they said is perfectly reasonable. This is a project they will be doing on their own time, so the scope of it is entirely up to them.

>Can't be hired unless they have an irreversible medical procedure

How can something be extreme if it has been the status quo everywhere on the planet for 50 years? Something extreme is, by definition, unusual.

You can think compulsory vaccinations are wrong, but there were compulsory vaccinations ten years ago. It has always been difficult for antivaxxers to find work, particularly in healthcare or education.

Stop trying to spin it Apple's illegal behavior. The change was clearly unnecessary because once they rolled it back the phones kept on functioning just fine.

Modern hardware can and should last ten years. Accept no excuses.

You don't really need compression. Rows only need to persist for about an hour. The table can't be more than a few MiB.

We can debate the Correct Implementation all day long. The fact of the matter is that adding any index to the original table, even the wrong index, would lead to a massive speedup. We can debate 2x or 5x speedups from compression or from choosing a different schema or a different index, but we get 10,000x from adding any index at all.

Sure would! I think it would be marginally better, in fact, because you would just need to look at the index rather than five tables. Access would be more local.