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  1. Re:You're trying way too hard on Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    So returning -1 can be used to indicate an error?
    Also time_t is already defined as a long in the linux kernel so its 64 bits on a 64 bit arch kernel and 32 for a 32 bit arch.
    I think this set of syscalls is mainly for 32 bit architectures to be able to be explicit about 64 time_t values
    Meaning that the implicit time_t is now the same as the explicit time64_t on 64 bit architectures while (if you care) about portability and correctness across 32/64 architectures you would start using time64_t.

    Here are the 2 explicit sized time_t typedefs:

    typedef __s64 time64_t;
    typedef __u64 timeu64_t;

    So the humorous OP was actually just wrong anyway :P

    Also note that with GCC on Linux and most UNIX platforms, a long is 64 bits on a 64 bit arch, on Windows the long type is 32 bits on a 64 bit arch (LLP64).

  2. And the Wikipedia article:

    The Real Academia Española traces its origin to mulo in the sense of hybridity; originally used to refer to any mixed race person

    Real Academia Española

    The Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish: Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.

    So the 'mule' origin seems a bit of made-up-after-the-fact-bs to me (I will take the language's official authority as the ... well ... authority on the language).

    Wikipedia also notes that the term may also have come from the arabic 'Muwallad'.

    Finally there also appears to be quite a bit if disagreement as to if/when it become a derogatory and where in the world you see/hear it seems to tell a different story.

    In short I had heard it used before (from someone who identified themselves as that) and I had no clue it was considered offensive so I am glad to not be in the habit of describing people by their skin tone.

  3. Mosquitoes are *not* a required part of the food web. If all mosquitoes went extinct today there would be no impact at all on the food web.

  4. I read it thus:

    He Jiankui used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to delete a single gene, called CCR5, from human embryos, some of which were later used to create pregnancies. The virus that causes AIDS requires the CCR5 gene to enter human blood cells

    and

    a gene called CCR5, not only makes mice smarter, but also improves human brain recovery after stroke

    So the end result is no CCR5 == no HIV == not smarter.
    If you can't get HIV because you don't have CCR5 you also don't have the 'smart' gene ...

  5. SPARC (the Sun/Oracle version) hasn't been clock-for-clock competitive for 20 years. I don't have experience with the Fujitsu line.
    POWER still has an edge on floating point over the Intel/AMD ... however the cost to deploy makes it pretty hard for non IBM shops to justify.

  6. And AMD sells AMD chips produced from manufactures that were contracted to manufacture those chips.

    ARM sells 0 chips.
    There are 0 'motherboards' ready to be populated by various vendors that make CPUs and Micro-controllers based on ARM reference designs.

    Selling an ARM processor is a lot closer to rolling a (Linux or BSD) software distribution:
      - Are you going for performance or power efficiency
      - What 'drivers' are you going to support (3rd party IP like USB, Ethernet controllers, Video processors and crypto offload processoring)
      - What is your target boot address .. reference design etc.

    The ARM customer will most typically work within the above to build the board and break out whatever peripherals are useful for their application.

    There must be at least a dozen well know ARM CPUs out there ... Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, Freescale, Allwinner, TI, Broadcom, ...

  7. IBM has its own, perfectly good,

    Well AIX does have a reputation .. and it isn't perfectly good :P

  8. Re:I keep asking this on these kind of threads on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting question ... it there any reason to believe that HRC or anyone else in that seat would *do* any different? We know HRC was tight with Saudi and knew Saudi was sending the weapons the were buying (under here okay as US Sec Of State) to support ISIS in Syria. We know Obama was tight with Saudi, we know the Bushes were all best fiends with the Saudi and investment partners with the 'bin Laden' family.

    So what new crazy outsider do you image sitting the the hot seat will do it differently?

    IMO there is no candidate that can make it through to the ballet that would do any different ... sure they would use different words or demand some slap on the wrist but nobody gets there without being co-opted ... except for the current guy .. because we all laughed at the SOB ... and then he won.

  9. Re:Why not a "problem" pre-Koshoggi? on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the same as 'pre-Snowden' and 'pre-wikileaks' dump of diplomatic cables.
    Everyone who is dealing with Saudi knows they are an open enemy of the US, but until Turkey called foul and claimed to have evidence the world could play pretend.

    Before wikileaks dumped the diplomatic cables *everyone* know about CryptoAG and that the US was listening in.... but embassy's could pretend and hope that it wasn't as bad ... or perhaps the the leaks were overblown, or ... but the cable dump removed all doubt and nobody could pretend it away.

    Before Snowden *everyone* knew the NSA was hoovering up data and recording phone calls all over the world, including us domestic calls of us citizens that were illegal according to their mandate, but Snowden's document dump with the help of some US frenemies was enough to remove all reasonable doubt that the NSA was in fact going far beyond it's mandate routinely illegally collecting data.

    So post Kashoggi all doubt about the fate of people disappeared has been removed and there is no pretending that they voluntarily disappeared or went into hiding.

    To be frank Islam as practiced throughout the middle east is a problem. Islam has many problems .. principally it is resistant to ideological reformation that would make it compatible with modern western civilization. In contract pre-1700 Christianity [after multiple reformations] was itself ill suited to modern western civilization. Core Islamic doctrine still presents a strict divide between 'Muslim' and 'Non-Muslim' where the 'Non-Muslim' is of strictly lesser value https://www.answering-islam.or...
    In contract a Muslim living in a western society is still afforded fully equal status.

  10. Re:Isis == Saudi Arabia without oil on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ISIS is also heavily funded by Saudi Arabia in both cash and transfer of weapons, of which I fully expect a large percentage of the latest 100b deal to funneled to ISIS.

  11. Re:The problem is impatient people on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    AR done right is still missing the most critical of all pieces ... a lightweight, high resolution, volumetric display.
    It's not clear (to anyone) that those pieces can be put together before next decade. Until then all we really have is various versions of a HUD which while sometimes interesting, us ultimately more of a hindrance that a help.

    A halfway point would be a HUD that can shift focal distance combined with an eye tracking system to place the HUD focal distance to match where the user is looking.

  12. Suse 15 does not install rsyslog by default.

  13. Please god yes. Cal exit.
    (Oh, and surprise ... Cal gone a couple of years after that ... water rights go away with Cal exit, and Cal goes away w/o water).

  14. Re:They aren't making any money really on Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 An Hour Was Not Correct (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly,

    The 'study' comes out to $8-10 net taxable profit, assuming the maximum per-mile deductible.

    So yeah the per-mile includes depreciation meaning a replacement vehicle is in already included in the expenses.
    Also the longer you can keep the car in good condition the better you profit margin gets.
        Ex: $0.53 / mile * 100k miles -> $53k in expenses (including fuel [10k at 30 mpg] and maintenance, taxes, insurance [Say another 10K or so, worst case]).
    If you can keep the vehicle in good condition for, say, 200k miles (not unreasonable for a quality build) you may have a full $70-80k banked for that next car (or two and hire a second driver).

    For the right mindset it can be a good opportunity, but if that 80k gets spent on something else, ouch.

  15. Re:Here Are the Patents in question on BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well https://patents.google.com/pat... (May 2007) is either
        - prior art as facebook enabled tagging users in photos in Dec 2005. [https://patents.google.com/patent/US7945653B2/en]
    or
        - Not applicable (The patent is about Facebook for BlackBerry® smartphones).

    That's a set of cajones for ya.

  16. Re:Other networks give more GB's at full speed som on Project Fi Creates Its Own Version of An Unlimited Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never run a 'speed test' but most of the time I connect via LTE where LTE exists. AFAIK the data isn't capped while travelling internationally. Although Hong Kong is still a random blackout sore spot, which is really annoying when 3 offers unlimited LTE at US$12/month.

    ObRant: 3 is owned by Hutchison Whampoa based in Whampoa, Hong Kong. The FI international provider is Hutchison Whampoa and states that they provide access to 3's LTE network (which has the greatest and fastest coverage in Hong Kong) yet every time I'm there data and cell connectivity is a crapshoot. Hong Kong has historically been, and continues to be, a problematic destination for FI users.

  17. Re:more fear mongering on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    So either way the fundamental problem of too many people solves itself.

  18. Re: "Not a good thing" on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Most locales today are ad valorem (taxed at market value). Here there is still a cap .. your market value is capped at 10% increase per yer. If you do any improvements to the property that cap is tossed.
    Also the estimated percent of property taxes is 1% for a first ~100k (may have changed) and then 2% there after.
    Also insurance is included int the mortgage* payment.
    Mortgage includes: Interest + Principal + Property Taxes + Property Insurance + PMI**

    * This all assumes your mortgage is with a bank or lending institution as opposed to a private party.
    ** Bank's repayment insurance .. if your equity to loan ratio is less than 20% [or 30% in some locations] of value.

  19. Re: Obviously bullshit statement there on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    How many lines of code in CarPlay?

    No much (for the car) actually.
    It's *mostly* hooking the A/V streams to the codecs and handling some control logic (who owns the mic/display/speakers) depending on the state machine.
    Same is true for Android Auto for what it's worth.

  20. Re:Steve Jobs made one really HUGE mistake. on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    ... foxconn only does assembly.

  21. Re:You Have Got To Be Kidding Me on Enthusiast Resurrects IBM's Legendary 'Model F' Keyboard (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    My impression is that http://clickykeyboards.com/ would have taken them off your hands and listed them as well.

    Real shame that ...

  22. Re:Systemd! on Systemd-Free Devuan Announces Its First Stable Release Candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 (devuan.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes ... but systemd is a 'happy path' only.
    When something goes wrong then the thing just shits all over itself. Just like everything else pottering has ever touched,
    Just went through the shit this weekend .. CD drive died (no big, wasn't being used for anything) but systemd managed to fubar the whole f'ing system. Fallback to upstart worked fine.

    Other stuff that is a major PITA with systemd: OpenVPN. Whenever I change my .conf file I have to update systemd with some whacky config because it 'caches' my config file in it's own little world. WTF is that about? Dunno but it's enough of a pain that I'll be jumping to the debian boxen to devuan and tossing the ubuntu for the same reason.

    Let CentOS / RHEL 7 deal with all the SystemD crap .. when it's actually decent (after pottering gets bored and real developer fixes all his shit) then maybe it will be the init system that it is being touted as.

  23. Re:San Jose must be in the middle... on The Best and Worst Cities To Live in For Tech Workers, Based on Rent and Commute (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Rent control.
    50K is considered poverty level by the county (for an individual) in that area.
    If they were paying market rate the rent is closer to 2500/mo.

    Also starting wage for IT is closer to 120k in the area (at the bottom end) and 160k median so I hope you have some amazing benefits ...
    Where are you doing IT is Palo Alto, Frys?

  24. Re:Bad Idea, but that's what Germany is up to now. on Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    ... with a heads-up display

    The problem with the HUD is that projected overlays remain at a fixed focal distance. A volumetric HUD (holographic) would work for this experiment but I think this is a nifty 'cheat' for demonstrating what a volumetric HUD can do, should a car manufacturer pursue commercializing it.

    The current commercial offerings for HUD tech are at best a driving distraction, which is in large part why they have failed in the market place.

  25. Google vs Breitbart on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given Sundar Pichai is Google's CEO ...
    Seems to me this is just Breitbart trying to muddy the waters as Google is taking a stand against 'fake news' and twitter is banning the alt-right.
    If Breitbart can claim victim status perhaps they can get around Google (and thereby Facebook et.al.) from classifying them as 'fake news'.
    By being incendiary about Asian (that's Indian in British parlance) CEOs then can later claim that Google banning them (Breitbart) is personal.
    While I probably don't agree that Breitbart is 'fake' they are certainly walking the line and occasionally stepping over. Breitbart is unabashedly biased and incendiary and some opinions and commentary seems to not be shy of using 'post-fact' rhetoric.