Just think—if we hadn't switched to semiconductor RAM, memory management could have been done by a core daemon, as opposed to the demon core. Gives new meaning to a process's storage requirements blowing up…
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I use Nikon gear, not Leica (way out of my price range—Nikon is bad enough, given the lens I need for bird photography), but this linked-to article, about Leica's efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to help protect Jews from Hitler, was fascinating:
). There were two program co-chairs and *four* PC members… This year, Usenix Security has >400 people on its PC. ( @npub1lq68...nf7e, I see that you were at that conference, too.)
Some years ago in January, I had a morning meeting in the White House complex. Walking from my hotel to the gate, I, too, was disturbed by the homeless people I saw. Why? It had snowed lightly overnight, and from the snow on their blankets it was clear that these people had spent the night outside.
*That's* what disturbed me—that in a country as rich as this one, people had to sleep outside in the snow, within blocks of the White House. (I don't remember for sure which park it was, but it was either Farragut Square, McPherson Square, or Lafayette Park—and the latter is literally across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.) The solution is *not* to deport them to West Hellhole, to avoid bruising 47's (or his enablers in the Cabinet or Congress) delicate eyes.
