Docker WSL 2 – The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows

Docker WSL 2 – The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows

It will make the Docker experience for developing with containers even greater, unlock new capabilities, and because WSL 2 works on Windows 10 Home edition, so will Docker Desktop. As an example, a developer at Docker can now work on the Linux Docker daemon on Windows, using the same set of tools and scripts as a developer on a Linux machine:

Also, bind mounts from WSL will support inotify events and have nearly identical I/O performance as on a native Linux machine, which will solve one of the major Docker Desktop pain points with I/O-heavy toolchains. Combined with Visual Studio Code “Remote to WSL”, Docker Desktop Linux workspaces will make it possible to run a full Linux toolchain for building containers on your local machine, from your IDE running on Windows.

Source: engineering.docker.com

Pomegranate compound with anti-aging effects passes human trial

Pomegranate compound with anti-aging effects passes human trial

A recent clinical trial involving two EPFL entities—spin-off Amazentis and the Laboratory of Integrative Systems Physiology (LISP) – showed that urolithin A, a compound derived from biomolecules found in fruits such as pomegranates, could slow down this process by improving the functioning of mitochondria—the cells’ powerhouses. A joint paper presenting the results of the trial, published today in Nature Metabolism, also demonstrates that ingesting the compound poses no risk to human health. The team then assessed the efficacy of UA by looking at cellular and mitochondrial health biomarkers in the participants’ blood and muscle tissue.

Source: medicalxpress.com

Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO’s “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”

Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO’s “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”

A top US medical doctor who treated radiation victims in Chernobyl has criticized HBO’s depiction of the accident and radiation’s health effects as inaccurate and “dangerous.” Gale has been a world-renowned expert on bone marrow transplantation, which is used to treat radiation victims, since before the Chernobyl accident. Gale, who worked for UCLA at the time of the accident, says that the firefighters who suffered from Acute Radiation Syndrome were not contagious, as they are portrayed as by HBO’s “Chernobyl.”

Source: www.forbes.com

Facebook was called a ‘chaos factory’ and maker of ‘data voodoo dolls’

Facebook was called a ‘chaos factory’ and maker of ‘data voodoo dolls’

Last week, both Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee found new and colourful ways to characterize their concerns about the company. Cook compared social networks to “chaos factories,” while McNamee said Facebook is trying to turn users into “data voodoo dolls.” Data voodoo dolls
Just days earlier, an early Facebook investor and former mentor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg took aim at the company for manipulating user behavior during a CNBC interview.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture and FFmpeg Options

Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture and FFmpeg Options

One of the things I enjoyed drawing with Logo was a grid of overlapping circles like this:

Here is the Logo source code for the above output:

The screenshots above were obtained by running IBM Personal Computer Logo Version 1.00 in DOSBox v0.74-2 in macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6. The following output appears in the console output to show where the video file is saved:

Now I wanted to share this video with my contacts who might be on devices that do not support playing AVI files, so I decided to convert this to MP4 format with the following FFmpeg command:

Here is what the output looks like:

Let us briefly discuss the various FFmpeg options we used in the previous section:

This, of course, specifies the input file. This option ensures that the output video file can be run in a wide range of devices and players.

Source: susam.in

New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming

New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming

The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964. The sign came about after Concord Monitor journalist David Brooks noted in a column that the state’s 255 historical markers honored things like bridges and historical figures, but that there was “distressingly little celebration of New Hampshire’s technical and scientific accomplishments.” Already, Brooks notes that he’s thinking of other potential signs — Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, a conference where “Artificial Intelligence” was coined in 1956, and other scientific innovations around the state.

Source: www.theverge.com

FBI agent accidentally reveals own 8chan posts

FBI agent accidentally reveals own 8chan posts

In the accompanying affidavit to the search warrant application, FBI Special Agent Michael J. Rod requests the “IP address and metadata information about Earnest’s original posting and the postings of all of the individuals who responded to the subject posting and/or commented about it. In another series of replies the fed poster follows up on the Blame Russia theme:

At one point, another user accuses the fed of being Mossad:

Now, I don’t think for one second that any 8chan posters were convinced by this FBI agent to be more suspicious of potential Russian black ops. According to the Church Committee, Godfrey was a member of the “right-wing paramilitary” SAO and engaged in numerous acts of violence and sabotage against left-wing targets at the same time he was a paid FBI informant (bolding mine):

Godfrey and the FBI entered into a relationship in 1967 by which Godfrey would provide the Bureau information.

Source: ceinquiry.wordpress.com

Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones

Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones

To get so-called Level 3 autonomous driving—where humans must be in the driver seat but can take their hands off the wheel—self-driving systems “have to exceed the human level of skill at driving,” says Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive at Nvidia Corp. which offers self-driving automation tech to partners including Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Cars are also beginning to incorporate technology developed for fully self-driving cars, such as ultra-detailed, centimeter-accurate maps of much of the U.S. highway system. Photo:

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Waymo CEO John Krafcik told an audience at The Wall Street Journal’s annual tech conference in November that self-driving is “really, really hard” and that such vehicles won’t be ubiquitous for decades.

Source: www.wsj.com

When Everything That Counts Can’t Be Counted

When Everything That Counts Can’t Be Counted

And when the cost of money is lower (or, effectively zero) as it is today, these things become more highly valued by investors than physical assets are because they are weapons that corporations can use to nullify the moats and assets of the incumbent corporations that they are competing with for customers, revenue and market share. And as a result of this popular preference for asset-light, recurring revenue model companies, factor (or smart beta) strategies that weight portfolios by the stocks’ price-to-book value have badly trailed the market. New initial public offerings for companies worth billions of dollars with little or no history of profit-making or tangible book value growth are arriving every month now.

Source: thereformedbroker.com

Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics

Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics

Genius Media Group Inc. depends on Google’s search engine to send music lovers to its website stocked with hard-to-decipher lyrics to hip-hop songs and other pop hits. Now Genius says its traffic is dropping because, for the past several years, Google has been publishing lyrics on its own platform, with some of them lifted directly from the music site. Google…

Source: www.wsj.com