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Наносервисы — как довести распределенные системы до логического конца
Мы рассмотрим новый фреймворк Areg SDK, идея которого, по моему мнению, может задать новый стандарт в распределенных системах. От идеи микросервисов, где компонент общается с другими компонентами мы выходим на уровень выше — структуры бесшовно общаются со структурами на других потоках и хостах в эталонной синхронизации.
Какой подход выбрали коллеги и причем тут бог Солнца? Давайте выясним.
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Практика эмоциональной профилактики в IT: заметить раньше, чем проблема станет очевидной
Разработчик понимает, что не успевает, но молчит до последнего. Сильный специалист не делегирует, потому что другим не доверяет. Тимлид видит, что проблема выходит за пределы команды, но боится сообщить наверх.
Психологический процесс начинает влиять на работу раньше, чем появляется событие, которое мы уже называем проблемой. Разбираю, как замечать такие сценарии раньше — и почему профилактика начинается не только с сотрудника, но и с безопасной среды внутри команды.
Читать далееПограничное расстройство личности. 256 способов почти сойти с ума
У пограничного расстройства личности девять диагностических критериев. Для диагноза достаточно пяти. Если посчитать все возможные сочетания, получится 256 комбинаций. Два человека с одним диагнозом могут совпасть друг с другом всего по одному критерию (Leichsenring et al., 2024).
Один человек годами живёт с ощущением пустоты и неустойчивым представлением о себе, другой переживает тяжёлые кризисы с суицидальными намерениями при разрыве отношений, третий прежде всего рискует, дерётся и употребляет вещества. Все они могут получить один диагноз.
В 2019 году Всемирная организация здравоохранения сделала то, о чём исследователи личности спорили больше сорока лет. В одиннадцатом пересмотре Международной классификации болезней (МКБ-11) она упразднила все классические типы расстройств личности. Вместо них появилась единая дименсиональная шкала тяжести — лёгкая, умеренная, тяжёлая — и пять черт-квалификаторов. Это гораздо ближе к тому, как устроены реальность и сложность человеческой психики (WHO, 2024; Tyrer et al., 2019).
Из всей старой таксономии в особом положении осталось только пограничное расстройство личности. В МКБ-11 для него сохранили специальный квалификатор borderline pattern.
Почему система, устремлённая к непрерывным шкалам, сделала исключение именно для него? Что это за сбой психики, который клиницисты отказались выпускать из поля зрения?
Представьте себе не очень опытного яхтсмена, который управляет своим небольшим судном в достаточно сильный шторм. Он непрерывно мечется по палубе, то поднимает, то убирает парус, меняет галс, периодически выпадает за борт, забирается обратно, требует ром и привязать себя к мачте, потом прячется в трюм и в ужасе молится Посейдону, а затем снова бежит на палубу и пытается удержать судно на плаву. Это не пограничность.
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Woman behind allegation of sexual assault linked to Sydney Swans reportedly says she wants ‘justice’
The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted in a Melbourne hotel told the Herald Sun “all I care about is justice”.
I don’t want money. All I care about is justice. I’m going to stand up for what is right. And I’m never going to let this happen to anyone else. Justice will be served.
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California oil pipeline can continue to operate, judge rules
State sought to stop system off coast of Santa Barbara from resuming operations after Trump ordered its reopening
An oil pipeline can continue to operate off the California coast after a judge gave it the green light this week, despite the opposition of state regulators and environmental groups.
The system off the coast of Santa Barbara resumed operations earlier this year for the first time in more than a decade after Donald Trump ordered Sable Offshore Corporation to reopen it, citing US energy needs during the war in Iran.
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Former ethics tsar calls report that executive assistant to president worked for a year without clearance ‘shocking’
The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance.
Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without the routine clearance, the MS Now network reported on Thursday. She refused to file the relevant forms for unknown reasons, according to two unnamed sources cited by MS Now.
Continue reading...Trump administration faces questions over top aide Natalie Harp’s security clearance
Ex-White House ethics tsar calls it ‘shocking’ that executive assistant to US president didn’t have clearance for a year
The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance.
Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without the routine clearance, the MS Now network reported on Thursday. She refused to file the relevant forms for unknown reasons, according to two unnamed sources cited by MS Now.
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The surprising way that America’s $40 trillion debt costs you
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America’s national debt cleared $40 trillion for the first time ever on Wednesday, a number so comically large as to feel imaginary. Seriously — look at it in all of its comma-strewn glory: $40,203,821,194,241. And because the US racks up tens of thousands of dollars of new debt every second, that number was outdated even as I typed it.
On some level, the steady ballooning of the national debt is basic math, familiar to anyone with a budget of their own. The government’s expenses — particularly the costs of Social Security and Medicare — are growing, while successive rounds of tax cuts have reduced the revenue available to cover them. As the government accumulates more debt, it also has to spend more just to cover the interest.
But national debt also functions very differently from household debt, because a government is very different from an individual or family. For one thing, it doesn’t have a set lifespan or retirement age, which means it can roll its debt over indefinitely. For another, government borrowing can boost the economy’s productivity in the future, which changes some trade-offs. Rising national debt isn’t a big deal if the economy is growing alongside it.
That isn’t the case right now, though…and it hasn’t been for a couple of years. America’s debt is outpacing its economic growth, with increasingly tangible consequences for your personal finances.
How the national debt makes your life more expensive
The mechanisms here are a little wonky, but — in short — when the federal government borrows more money, it tends to push up borrowing costs for businesses and consumers. Government deficit spending can increase competition for loans — because the government is now borrowing more in addition to individuals and businesses — as well as prompt investors to demand higher rates on long-term loans and contribute to inflation, which can lead the Fed to nudge rates higher.
As a result, mortgages, car loans, credit cards, and business loans all become more expensive. The Yale Budget Lab estimates that the increase in federal debt over the past decade has added roughly $2,500 a year to the cost of a mortgage on a typical home.
That’s not a trivial amount of money. And over the life of a 30-year loan, it adds up to roughly $76,000, which — if HGTV does not deceive me — is enough for a down payment on a modest lakefront home.
Unfortunately, the solutions for slowing the growth of the national debt are not terribly popular. You could hike taxes, for instance. Or you could overhaul Social Security, which runs $1.38 trillion a year. But few politicians have historically had the stomach for the combination of spending cuts and tax increases that righting this ship requires.
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- Did you know…that, as late as 2007, American cellphone users still placed more calls each year than they sent text messages?
- Today’s trivia: Which competitor from the reality TV show Survivor holds the record for most appearances in the long-running franchise — though she’s never actually won? (You can find this and other brain puzzles in Vox’s daily crossword. Look for the answer in tomorrow’s edition.)
- Yesterday’s trivia: Yesterday we asked you for Jackie Robinson and Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s shared alma mater. Both trailblazing athletes attended UCLA, albeit 40 years apart.
Psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible in killing of her 3 children
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Woman charged with planning IS-inspired attack on New York state capitol building
Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, allegedly planned to deploy explosive before fleeing to IS-controlled territory in Syria
US authorities arrested and charged a New York woman with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on the state’s capitol building in Albany, the justice department said on Thursday.
Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, was charged with planning to deploy an explosive device at the state capitol with the intention of killing public officials and destroying “as much of the building as possible” before fleeing to IS-controlled territory in Syria, according to John A Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for national security.
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California oil pipeline can continue to operate, judge rules
State sought to stop system off coast of Santa Barbara from resuming operations after Trump ordered its reopening
An oil pipeline can continue to operate off the California coast after a judge gave it the green light this week, despite the opposition of state regulators and environmental groups.
The system off the coast of Santa Barbara resumed operations earlier this year for the first time in more than a decade after Donald Trump ordered Sable Offshore Corporation to reopen it, citing US energy needs during the war in Iran.
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Record cyclosporiasis outbreak tests the response of a 'weakened' health system
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Корпоративный мозг на одной видеокарте: что на самом деле умеет локальная модель
Есть компании, где вопрос «какую модель выбрать» отходит на второй план, а первым встаёт другой: выйдут ли данные за периметр. Банк, госкорпорация, оборонный подрядчик, медицинский холдинг. И если ответ «выйдут, но мы всё обезличим» — начинается тяжёлый разговор. Обезличивание не даёт технической гарантии: достаточно одного не вычищенного поля в выгрузке или сочетания признаков, по которому человек восстанавливается. А отвечать за это решение будет конкретный человек — и чем выше цена ошибки, тем охотнее он выбирает вариант, где данные просто никуда не уходят.
Крупные игроки эту задачу решают. Сбер сделал GigaChat, у Яндекса своя линейка, ряд банков строит внутренние платформы; другие компании разрешают облачные модели, но под контролем — DLP, договоры, фильтрация персональных данных на выходе. Оба пути рабочие. Только первый — это программа на сотни человек и бюджет соответствующего порядка, а второй упирается в политику безопасности, которая не везде это позволяет.
А между «построить свою модель, как Сбер» и «отправлять всё в облако» лежит широкая полоса: компании, которым первое не по карману, а второе не разрешает служба безопасности. Вот им обычно и говорят: тогда ничего серьёзного не получится. Аргумент — открытая модель среднего размера проигрывает облачным гигантам почти по всем строкам бенчмарков, так что максимум, на что можно рассчитывать, — умный автодополнитель.
Вот это утверждение я и взялся проверить на практике: собрать не чат‑бота, а полноценный корпоративный оркестратор — систему, которая понимает задачу, сама выбирает исполнителей, ходит в корпоративные системы, делает многошаговую работу и отвечает файлом, письмом или отчётом. И запустить его не на кластере ускорителей, а на одной потребительской видеокарте.
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Lindsay Clancy murder trial draws some 300 US supporters, many of them women: ‘nobody takes us seriously’
The attorney for Clancy, who strangled her three children, says she suffered from postpartum psychosis
Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe”, “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay”, gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children.
Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy’s story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy’s lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill.
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Women rally in support of Lindsay Clancy: ‘Nobody takes us seriously’
Hundreds of supporters, many wearing pink clothing, gather outside court in Massachusetts as trial continues
Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe”, “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay”, gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children.
Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy’s story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy’s lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill.
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