You'll have to deal with your own SIM card by hiding it or mailing it to yourself.
We are living in strange times when, "Just eat it and rifle through your poop when you land" is reasonable sounding advice for traveling to The Land of the Free.
It's Windows, so, they probably do something nutty like compute epoch time as an offset from 2006. Since 1970 would be a negative number, some deep and dark timestamp code somewhere in the driver model probably (correctly) assumes the timestamp is unsigned so, 1970 is actually far into the future.
32-bit machines may eventually go away but, to argue that the reason for them to go away is "because kernel stuff is irritating" is crazy. Even if there is no reason to continue to produce 32-bit hardware, it will be around for *decades*. The number of 32-bit embedded ARM CPUs out there has got to number in the billions. Changing hardware is much, much harder than changing software so, as a kernel developer, I think you'll find it's a very uphill battle to "put an exclamation mark on that point". The kernel will remain 32-bit compatible for decades because the people who contribute to the kernel have a vested interest in not changing their hardware.
Also, why the hell does it need to reboot to install updates? Ubuntu et al don't unless you update the kernel, which 99% of the time you don't.
Because Windows has an awful filesystem, no sane concept of an init system and a laughable driver model. I'd love to blame the Windows Reboot Insanity on laziness but, architecturally, it's just not possible for it to update like a Linux/Unix machine. And, I mean at the fundamental kernel and filesystem levels.
The UI is one of the few pieces of low hanging fruit on these large projects. Sure, on these big projects there are big glaring bugs that are a decade old, true barriers to usability, missing functionality, etc. But, all those things are genuinely hard. The UI? Easy-peasy. The bug is, "Doesn't look modern to me", and you know it's fixed when, "Now it looks modern to me". All that shit was already wired up for the UI that everyone was already familiar with so, it's just a matter of massaging and stroking it until you reach the pinnacle of UI bliss.
It seems like it would be a pretty easy loophole to close: If you are hiring H1-B workers, the department you are hiring them into cannot be comprised of more than X% of H1-B workers. If you want to pick up 100 H1-B workers for $5.00 an hour, that's fine. But, you might need 900 non-H1-B workers to qualify for that many H1-Bs. And, if you can't find 900 local workers that are willing to work for the wages you are offering, maybe this isn't the right country for your business and you should move it to where your workforce resides.
He should have been shunned from the Linux ecosystem after PulseAudio. It's better than it was 8 years ago but, it's still unreliable garbage that sometimes flakes out while trying to solve a problem that no one actually has. For the vast majority of users, life was much better when bits were directly blasted to ALSA. I'd much rather deal with the limitations of ALSA than the unpredictability of PulseAudio.
The damage is already done. The paradigm has already shifted from, "I'm a Unix guy so I understand what the machine is doing" to, "Nobody understands what the machine is doing". Any time you can take Poettering software out of the loop, your system becomes a lot more sane and understandable. But, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do that and, with the deep pockets of RedHat, they will eventually own the new dystopian Linux userspace. RedHat does a lot of good in the Linux world but, the badness they have unleashed is almost unforgivable.
Duh, "apt purge systemd" and you can enjoy a reliable init. Just like the solution for most sound problems is "apt purge pulseaudio". Or, closing a link-local security hole by "apt purge avahi-daemon". I think you get the pattern.
Purging pulseaudio can sometimes be problematic for the packaging system. I've always been fond of "sudo chmod a-x `which pulseaudio`". The demon (not a mistype) is inert but the packaging system doesn't freak out.
As a side note, it's actually kind of fascinating to see the amount of horrible software coming out of Redhat these days. I think my laptop has actually become less reliable after a resume than it was 5 years ago. It's hit and miss whether I have sound or networking after a suspend/resume whereas, on the exact same laptop, it was always a given in the past. The culprits? PulseAudio and NetworkManager. Which, unsurprisingly, are also sprung from the same poison well as systemd.
Bluetooth is about 20 years old now. I think it's safe to say that it's never going to be "good". It's a great idea that rarely works well in the real world.
TensorFlow is what everyone is using because it works well and it has a nice license to go with it. Besides, willingly becoming reliant on anything Microsoft makes is a devil's bargain.
Logged in to write exactly this. I've worked on a number of projects in the past that could have been simplified by TensorFlow. I have an equal level of disdain for Microsoft and Google but, TensorFlow is pretty darn cool. And the licensing alone makes it better than anything that Microsoft would be willing to release. So, no, Microsoft isn't mainstreaming machine learning. These days, I don't think Microsoft is mainstreaming anything except surveillance and shitty user interfaces.
I would think the Dell XPS line is probably the nearest competitor to these laptops and the 13 inch comes with 4GB or 8GB of RAM while the 15 inch comes with 8GB or 16GB. So, in this case, I don't really think that Apple has done anything too boneheaded. Though, having said that, my 12.5" ThinkPad from 2011 has had 16GB of RAM since the day it arrived. So, Apple doesn't really deserve any praise for 16GB either.
So, the idea is to replace the working but "ancient" code with stuff that is currently considered alpha quality software? In the next year? For a project the size of Firefox? That certainly doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
You are comparing conscientious design decisions to hardware bugs (with the exception of the mouse). Steve Jobs didn't sit down with engineers and say, "It would be great if the new iPhone was unusable if you hold your thumb in a certain spot". However, someone really did sit down and say, "It would be great if we made our new laptops incompatible with our phones and 99% of all other devices." That's the kind of thing that would get people fired under Jobs.
Why not take a more amusing spin on this idea: Tell all the nodes in the botnet to attack 192.168.0.0/16. Basically, have them attack their own local network.
The only thing "high end" about this machine is the screen. Otherwise it's basically just a decent laptop with an unusual amount of RAM and a super fancy screen. It only has a 270W PSU and the rest of the system reflects that: Mobile GPU instead of a desktop GPU and the CPU is a quad core desktop (or maybe even mobile) CPU instead of 1-2 Xeon CPUs.
Though, I understand your confusion. For the price of this thing, you could build a very high end workstation with four times the RAM, four times the number cores and at least one high end GPU. Unless you need the features the screen offers, this thing is a complete waste for most people who shell out that kind of money for a workstation.
The "original content" is very far from Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Wire. The more it goes, I feel Netflix becomes the Mac Donald's of TV. You go to Mac Donald's to eat something edible, not something great.
You're comparing Netflix original content to the best TV shows that have ever been made. No, they don't compare to Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Wire. Neither does anything else. But, the Netflix shows get closer to it than the *vast* majority of garbage that you'll get from your $100/month cable subscription.
I think Netflix makes some of the best shows out there. Sometimes they buy existing franchises and breath some fresh air into them and other times they come up with properly original stuff. In either case, I think it's frequently aimed at a different demographic than "traditional TV": Netflix is in the unique position to create a 10-12 hour *movie*. And people will watch that movie over the course of a few days so, they can make it a complex and coherent story that spans 10-12 hours.
They don't need to worry about fitting content into a 42 minute block with 18 minutes of ads. They don't need to worry about if some subtle thing from two months ago is going to be lost on their audience. They don't need to worry about meeting some crazy standard of language/nudity. They don't need to worry about the regional licensing burdens that non-original content carries.
Basically, Netflix shows are good because they can make a complete season and release it in a 10-12 hour movie format to the entire world simultaneously. People *want* that. They will pay for it. Contrast that to a cable company: Customers have already paid some ever increasing amount of money to a cable company and they still have to watch 18 minutes of ads for every 42 minutes of television? Bullshit. Gone are the days of a mindless 30 minute or 60 minute TV show that is just a smokescreen for advertising money. In the modern age, people want literature on their TV and ads are completely unacceptable because frankly, I've already paid for the content.
The law is pretty darn complex. I think a computer powerful enough to compute "I see 'this' and I've decided it's against the law" in near realtime would probably kill the battery life of a drone. Or make it too heavy to fly. At some point in the future you could probably compute it on-board but, for the foreseeable future, you'd have to stream the data to a large data center to crunch it.
The funny thing is that you'd probably use a cellphone signal to transmit the data. So, yeah, your worries are justified: https://yro.slashdot.org/story....
If these drones can accurately stun someone, why not make them autonomous, feed their video to an AI familiar with the law and then stun anyone who breaks a law? Oh, wait, because that's pure fucking insanity. But, it's also the direction we are rapidly heading. It will start with drones as backup/expendable less-than-lethal devices and progress pretty quickly to autonomous law enforcement drones. I keep hearing that the average person breaks the law several times a day so, it should make for a really exciting society!
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You'll have to deal with your own SIM card by hiding it or mailing it to yourself.
We are living in strange times when, "Just eat it and rifle through your poop when you land" is reasonable sounding advice for traveling to The Land of the Free.
It's Windows, so, they probably do something nutty like compute epoch time as an offset from 2006. Since 1970 would be a negative number, some deep and dark timestamp code somewhere in the driver model probably (correctly) assumes the timestamp is unsigned so, 1970 is actually far into the future.
"If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, maybe you're the asshole".
I don't know if it counts as a metatroll but, we might finally find out what infinite recursion looks like on an internet forum.
32-bit machines may eventually go away but, to argue that the reason for them to go away is "because kernel stuff is irritating" is crazy. Even if there is no reason to continue to produce 32-bit hardware, it will be around for *decades*. The number of 32-bit embedded ARM CPUs out there has got to number in the billions. Changing hardware is much, much harder than changing software so, as a kernel developer, I think you'll find it's a very uphill battle to "put an exclamation mark on that point". The kernel will remain 32-bit compatible for decades because the people who contribute to the kernel have a vested interest in not changing their hardware.
Also, why the hell does it need to reboot to install updates? Ubuntu et al don't unless you update the kernel, which 99% of the time you don't.
Because Windows has an awful filesystem, no sane concept of an init system and a laughable driver model. I'd love to blame the Windows Reboot Insanity on laziness but, architecturally, it's just not possible for it to update like a Linux/Unix machine. And, I mean at the fundamental kernel and filesystem levels.
The UI is one of the few pieces of low hanging fruit on these large projects. Sure, on these big projects there are big glaring bugs that are a decade old, true barriers to usability, missing functionality, etc. But, all those things are genuinely hard. The UI? Easy-peasy. The bug is, "Doesn't look modern to me", and you know it's fixed when, "Now it looks modern to me". All that shit was already wired up for the UI that everyone was already familiar with so, it's just a matter of massaging and stroking it until you reach the pinnacle of UI bliss.
(Allusions to masturbation intentional...)
It seems like it would be a pretty easy loophole to close: If you are hiring H1-B workers, the department you are hiring them into cannot be comprised of more than X% of H1-B workers. If you want to pick up 100 H1-B workers for $5.00 an hour, that's fine. But, you might need 900 non-H1-B workers to qualify for that many H1-Bs. And, if you can't find 900 local workers that are willing to work for the wages you are offering, maybe this isn't the right country for your business and you should move it to where your workforce resides.
He should have been shunned from the Linux ecosystem after PulseAudio. It's better than it was 8 years ago but, it's still unreliable garbage that sometimes flakes out while trying to solve a problem that no one actually has. For the vast majority of users, life was much better when bits were directly blasted to ALSA. I'd much rather deal with the limitations of ALSA than the unpredictability of PulseAudio.
Shit, just try to copy/paste with that terminal...
The damage is already done. The paradigm has already shifted from, "I'm a Unix guy so I understand what the machine is doing" to, "Nobody understands what the machine is doing". Any time you can take Poettering software out of the loop, your system becomes a lot more sane and understandable. But, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do that and, with the deep pockets of RedHat, they will eventually own the new dystopian Linux userspace. RedHat does a lot of good in the Linux world but, the badness they have unleashed is almost unforgivable.
Duh, "apt purge systemd" and you can enjoy a reliable init. Just like the solution for most sound problems is "apt purge pulseaudio". Or, closing a link-local security hole by "apt purge avahi-daemon". I think you get the pattern.
Purging pulseaudio can sometimes be problematic for the packaging system. I've always been fond of "sudo chmod a-x `which pulseaudio`". The demon (not a mistype) is inert but the packaging system doesn't freak out.
As a side note, it's actually kind of fascinating to see the amount of horrible software coming out of Redhat these days. I think my laptop has actually become less reliable after a resume than it was 5 years ago. It's hit and miss whether I have sound or networking after a suspend/resume whereas, on the exact same laptop, it was always a given in the past. The culprits? PulseAudio and NetworkManager. Which, unsurprisingly, are also sprung from the same poison well as systemd.
Bluetooth is good, but it's not that good yet.
Bluetooth is about 20 years old now. I think it's safe to say that it's never going to be "good". It's a great idea that rarely works well in the real world.
TensorFlow is what everyone is using because it works well and it has a nice license to go with it. Besides, willingly becoming reliant on anything Microsoft makes is a devil's bargain.
Logged in to write exactly this. I've worked on a number of projects in the past that could have been simplified by TensorFlow. I have an equal level of disdain for Microsoft and Google but, TensorFlow is pretty darn cool. And the licensing alone makes it better than anything that Microsoft would be willing to release. So, no, Microsoft isn't mainstreaming machine learning. These days, I don't think Microsoft is mainstreaming anything except surveillance and shitty user interfaces.
Here's one with 32 gigs of RAM
I'm not sure how I missed that, thanks.
I would think the Dell XPS line is probably the nearest competitor to these laptops and the 13 inch comes with 4GB or 8GB of RAM while the 15 inch comes with 8GB or 16GB. So, in this case, I don't really think that Apple has done anything too boneheaded. Though, having said that, my 12.5" ThinkPad from 2011 has had 16GB of RAM since the day it arrived. So, Apple doesn't really deserve any praise for 16GB either.
Servo is written in Rust so, it will have no memory leaks, no security problems and is so fast that even bubble sort can be implemented in O(N).
So, the idea is to replace the working but "ancient" code with stuff that is currently considered alpha quality software? In the next year? For a project the size of Firefox? That certainly doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
You are comparing conscientious design decisions to hardware bugs (with the exception of the mouse). Steve Jobs didn't sit down with engineers and say, "It would be great if the new iPhone was unusable if you hold your thumb in a certain spot". However, someone really did sit down and say, "It would be great if we made our new laptops incompatible with our phones and 99% of all other devices." That's the kind of thing that would get people fired under Jobs.
Why not take a more amusing spin on this idea: Tell all the nodes in the botnet to attack 192.168.0.0/16. Basically, have them attack their own local network.
Then change the telnet password.
The only thing "high end" about this machine is the screen. Otherwise it's basically just a decent laptop with an unusual amount of RAM and a super fancy screen. It only has a 270W PSU and the rest of the system reflects that: Mobile GPU instead of a desktop GPU and the CPU is a quad core desktop (or maybe even mobile) CPU instead of 1-2 Xeon CPUs.
Though, I understand your confusion. For the price of this thing, you could build a very high end workstation with four times the RAM, four times the number cores and at least one high end GPU. Unless you need the features the screen offers, this thing is a complete waste for most people who shell out that kind of money for a workstation.
The "original content" is very far from Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Wire. The more it goes, I feel Netflix becomes the Mac Donald's of TV. You go to Mac Donald's to eat something edible, not something great.
You're comparing Netflix original content to the best TV shows that have ever been made. No, they don't compare to Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Wire. Neither does anything else. But, the Netflix shows get closer to it than the *vast* majority of garbage that you'll get from your $100/month cable subscription.
I think Netflix makes some of the best shows out there. Sometimes they buy existing franchises and breath some fresh air into them and other times they come up with properly original stuff. In either case, I think it's frequently aimed at a different demographic than "traditional TV": Netflix is in the unique position to create a 10-12 hour *movie*. And people will watch that movie over the course of a few days so, they can make it a complex and coherent story that spans 10-12 hours.
They don't need to worry about fitting content into a 42 minute block with 18 minutes of ads. They don't need to worry about if some subtle thing from two months ago is going to be lost on their audience. They don't need to worry about meeting some crazy standard of language/nudity. They don't need to worry about the regional licensing burdens that non-original content carries.
Basically, Netflix shows are good because they can make a complete season and release it in a 10-12 hour movie format to the entire world simultaneously. People *want* that. They will pay for it. Contrast that to a cable company: Customers have already paid some ever increasing amount of money to a cable company and they still have to watch 18 minutes of ads for every 42 minutes of television? Bullshit. Gone are the days of a mindless 30 minute or 60 minute TV show that is just a smokescreen for advertising money. In the modern age, people want literature on their TV and ads are completely unacceptable because frankly, I've already paid for the content.
The law is pretty darn complex. I think a computer powerful enough to compute "I see 'this' and I've decided it's against the law" in near realtime would probably kill the battery life of a drone. Or make it too heavy to fly. At some point in the future you could probably compute it on-board but, for the foreseeable future, you'd have to stream the data to a large data center to crunch it.
The funny thing is that you'd probably use a cellphone signal to transmit the data. So, yeah, your worries are justified: https://yro.slashdot.org/story....
If these drones can accurately stun someone, why not make them autonomous, feed their video to an AI familiar with the law and then stun anyone who breaks a law? Oh, wait, because that's pure fucking insanity. But, it's also the direction we are rapidly heading. It will start with drones as backup/expendable less-than-lethal devices and progress pretty quickly to autonomous law enforcement drones. I keep hearing that the average person breaks the law several times a day so, it should make for a really exciting society!