I originally had this knee jerk response as well, but after I RTFA (I know, bad form) I understand he's actually talking about how these technologies translate into vehicles that never operate in earth atmosphere. Specifically that all extraterrestrial rockets before now have been single use, and more advanced multi use rockets aid long term manned missions outside of earth orbit (If one can consider the moon such).
It's only more of you subscribe through an iOS device, as they must use Apple's built in in-app purchase hooks (as opposed to other platforms where you can connect to a third party payment provider).
That's true of software contracting as well. Try telling a client you're only billing 3 hours a month sometime, and see how that goes over.
Every client relationship I've held would have (or has!) gone south if I've not committed enough of my company's resources in a timely manner. And for several contracts clients have been dependent on us for "ongoing business needs". Sure, they could contract someone else, but so can Uber.
Client/Employee relationships tend to be evaluated similar to fair use. Even if you're grounded in all measures, it may or may not fly.
Underscore is ignore. for loops operate in a key/value fashion, so:
for key, value:= range values gives you: 0, 1 1, 2 2, 3 etc.
In practice this turns out to be very convenient. You can switch storage between slices and maps without altering your code (both use the same key, value:= range x form), and I know that your example above doesn't modify anything stored in values without having to look past the loop declaration.
That title is terrible, and not supported by the article.
The article presents some numbers, quoting Nikolay Testoyedov:
Some Russian satellites are 25% imported components, some are made of 75% imported components.
Of these imported components, at most 7/8 (87%) come from America
So, at MOST, 65% (75% * 87%) of Russian satellite components are from the US.
However, this is just an upper bound from what few numbers we have. Taken in context, it seems likely that the average Russian satellite is only 1/3 to 1/2 American components. Still high, but less shocking than the title number.
Now, I think Slashdot gets off the hook for the misleading title, because the firggin article attributes the 75% from the US number to Nikolay Testoyedov and used the same number in its title. But the article title demonstrates some terrible critical math and reading comprehension skills.
Well, the person who I replied to originally called out the Nest as expensive because of its included micro, under the claim that it had 32MB of ram (IIRC it actually has 64MB). But I'll take on you're argument that this scale of device won't work on the low end, with the counter-claim that IoT can't work on smaller than this scale (mostly due to a lack of qualified developers). A few years from now I'd expect to find a micro-controller with 32MB of ram for under $3. In theory a commoditized embedded platform would provide:
Much better tooling, particularly for testing.
Lower expertise requirements, allowing a company to employ application developers instead of firmware engineers.
Decent, standard available libraries - You won't fit a good SSL library on 32KB of flash.
Upgrade infrastructure, employable without bricking the device. Imagine if heartbleed were to happen on the IoT world, it would be epic levels of bad news to not have remote upgrade capability. All the companies I work with who do anything like this in industrial applications have remote upgrade capability, leading to much duplicated work that too frequently has errors.
A large enough common market to push the prices of beefier microcontrollers even further down.
It seems likely a platform like this, even with mildly higher per-unit functionality would save costs and reduce time to market. I base this claim on the requirements for remote upgrades and secure communications channels — without which the whole IoT idea will never get anywhere — and the fact that there is not a glut of capable talent to build such infrastructure on bare-metal systems.
Of course, IoT could just be a fad buzzword that never amounts to shit for consumer products.
Accident rate is uninteresting as a percentage of cars, only accidents/miles driven is meaningful. Considering that these are test vehicles and are likely driven far more than your average commuter car, I find the 2x increase in crashes/vehicle statistically meaningless. This of course becomes more complex when you consider other factors, such as that drivers that drive less currently are more likely to get in a crash per 100,000 miles.
Without details I'm not going to accept that you can avoid confirmation bias.
I'm not trying to say that firearms are more useful than vehicles, but I think you'll find that you can save more lives by making the roads safer than you can by repealing the 2nd amendment.
If I understand your reasoning correctly, once we reduce traffic fatalities to 5000/year in America, then you will support repealing the 2nd amendment? You freedom hating monster.
In other news, ethical arguments on comparative danger are still meaningless.
Company spends $50,000 on delivery truck. Company dispatches truck on it's first delivery run. Rogue actor uses $5 worth of wrench to jam the driver's noggin, takes key, and steals it. Company is now out $50,000.
Because they are manned, trucks are simply far too easy to lose and far too easy to steal. They are impractical.
FTFY.
1. This does happen (Google had plenty of examples) 2. Rogue actor ends up with a huge volume of parcels that are easier to fence than a specialized machine
Not remotely true. Most digital theater projectors are 2k, which at this point I'm willing to call crap. I watched a movie with some subtitles at the beginning the other day, seeing the white text split into a grid of pixels was very off-putting. Plus it takes effort to find optimal seating.
As to audio,
Headphones do it better, if you really care, and
The total lack of control of other people makes that a pretty moot point.
I generally agree with you in terms of the market, but trying to argue that most movie theaters are providing a "premium" experience requires a fair bit of romantic idealism coupled with selection bias when you actually go.
Sure, that was 3 years ago. But you seem to be ignoring the following facts:
AMD's proprietary driver shares most of its code between Windows and Linux.
NVIDIA's proprietary driver shares code between Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX and assorted BSDs.
The majority of a device driver has to do with the device itself, and all kernels are trying to get the device to do the same thing and so will expect similar hooks. It is annoying to support multiple targets, but certainly not difficult.
I appreciate the criticism. Did another crack at research, managed to find an xorg.conf that (supposedly) does multiple sessions with one graphics card with the Nvidia driver. I think I'll try to redo the setup this weekend, if I can find the time.
I wish all my side projects were scrutinized by persons as knowledgeable as yourself. Seriously, thanks.
Then there's the people that were running multiple keyboards, mice and monitors for a couple of people on the same box well over a decade back. What is it with Wayland fanboys not having a clue about the system that they are supposed to be improving on?
I setup such a system a year and a half ago (4 stations off one computer, totaling > 10mpx of desktop space).
Allowing me to be abundantly clear: I wish Wayland was production ready a year ago. Multiseat-X sucks for these reasons:
You either need a separate graphics card per session, or use framebuffered Xephyr windows to run your desktop (I chose the latter, as performance wasn't a concern, but adding more graphics cards was)
Dynamically assigning keyboards/mice to different screens based on a common USB host... sucks. SystemD manages sessions and integrates with udev so a hotplugged USB devices can be limited to it's associated session. Seriously awesome.
The above is doubly a problem as when a usb peripheral disconnects momentarily, an X session forgets about it and never sees it again... Fixed by following what was happening with GDB, putting together an awful hack, and nuking X updates from the package system.
All users sessions run on the same virtual terminal. I'd often ssh into the system to maintain it rather than my usual ctrl+alt+F1
Documentation is erratic and frequently wrong.
What I have works, but I would not deploy it to someone else's work environment
All that badness aside, I do appreciate only having to maintain one machine for software updates etc, not having to setup network shares, or worry about users logging in with NFS + LDAP. It made it quite easy for 4 people to share a powerful machine that they only needed the speed from on occasion, and collaboration was super simple.
I look forward to rebuilding this setup with pure SystemD + Wayland in the next 18-24 months.
I apologize, I didn't make myself clear enough to justify that paradox, that apparent contradiction. My point about responsibility being a zero sum game was more about how even though A did actions that enabled B to do C does not mean B is not wholly responsible for C (Though A may also be partially, or wholly responsible. Or not).
Let me give you some other examples of non-zero sum responsibility. One can:
Prevent theft by being poor.
Never be cheated on by always being single.
Not die in a plane crash by never flying.
Avoid criticism by never doing anything noteworthy.
In the first three situations it would be common to blame the thief, the unfaithful, and the airline. But one can't deny the theoretical control the first party has. Just because one can be responsible for an end result (here, rubbing people the wrong way) does not imply one is accountable for the negative consequences of same (reciprocation with hateful, and harmful actions).
Really I just found how the structure of this conversation parallels conversations I've been involved in recently regarding gender and IT, and was trying to explore the "Maybe sexism would be a step in the right direction," angle, as it at least implies acceptance of an external group of people. I think often people of our ilk tend to be dismissive and derogatory toward those who reach a different conclusion based on values we disagree with, such as the creators of systemd and their opponents who clearly value different things at this point, to the point where they can't even agree on what those different things are).
So, victim blaming? I see your point, but the abuse he describes experiencing (as a young white male) reminds me of a trendy workplace topic. Maybe women aren't in IT because of sexist assholes, but because of unqualified assholes.
I agree, he has some power to control the response he gets from the community. But responsibility isn't a zero-sum game, and should he have to?
My point was that regional blocking of Canadians by.com's predated the updated copyright legislation, they are entirely separate issues. damien_kane below provides a nice explanation why.
As an aside, the updates to the Copyright Act were to satisfy obligations to WIPO treaties more than a decade old. And it beat the hell out of C-60 that the liberals proposed in 2005, which was just "Let's add the bad parts of the DMCA to Canadian copyright law and call it a day." (Don't get me wrong, if I had my druthers I would have put Charlie Angus (NDP) in charge of this bill, but that's not going to happen any time soon. Lazy youth voters, grr).
If you can't figure out that an "Environment FIle" might contain these things known as "Environement Variables," I question your claim to have been using Unix since 1978.
The environment file sets all the environment variables the service sees. It sees no more or less than what is in that file by default, which is both more secure and maintainable.
In the first part of your post, you talk about how Unix is just as easy to administer, then later, you talk about how Active directory is easier to administer than OpenLDAP.
No, he said there exists N such that managing > N linux servers is easier than managing > N windows servers. Then he went on to compare them in single server environments, and discussed why windows is often used in small businesses as their only server.
As to installing proprietary software: honestly, my experience says that this tends to suck equally on all platforms. Had to maintain a small CS2 deployment years back, standard operating procedure when it fucked up was to reinstall the OS. I've never had to resort to such levels to clean reinstall proprietary software on linux, but I've also had difficulties with some proprietary software on Linux. I really think that tends to be a quality of the vendor thing more so than the underlying OS.
Uhm... cp has the exact same behaviour as systemd. Examples from my system: : cp -ar bin bin2 : cp -ar bin/bin2 cp: cannot create directory ‘/bin2’: Permission denied : echo $? 1 : systemctl start dmraid.service : systemctl start imaginary.service Failed to issue method call: Unit imaginary.service failed to load: No such file or directory. : echo $? 6 :
So, systemctl behaves exactly the same as cp - error message and non-zero return on failure. Perhaps you were thinking of the verbose option for cp, which some people alias in permanently but is very non-unixy?
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I originally had this knee jerk response as well, but after I RTFA (I know, bad form) I understand he's actually talking about how these technologies translate into vehicles that never operate in earth atmosphere. Specifically that all extraterrestrial rockets before now have been single use, and more advanced multi use rockets aid long term manned missions outside of earth orbit (If one can consider the moon such).
It's only more of you subscribe through an iOS device, as they must use Apple's built in in-app purchase hooks (as opposed to other platforms where you can connect to a third party payment provider).
That's true of software contracting as well. Try telling a client you're only billing 3 hours a month sometime, and see how that goes over.
Every client relationship I've held would have (or has!) gone south if I've not committed enough of my company's resources in a timely manner. And for several contracts clients have been dependent on us for "ongoing business needs". Sure, they could contract someone else, but so can Uber.
Client/Employee relationships tend to be evaluated similar to fair use. Even if you're grounded in all measures, it may or may not fly.
Underscore is ignore. for loops operate in a key/value fashion, so:
for key, value := range values
gives you:
0, 1
1, 2
2, 3
etc.
In practice this turns out to be very convenient. You can switch storage between slices and maps without altering your code (both use the same key, value := range x form), and I know that your example above doesn't modify anything stored in values without having to look past the loop declaration.
That title is terrible, and not supported by the article.
The article presents some numbers, quoting Nikolay Testoyedov:
Now, I think Slashdot gets off the hook for the misleading title, because the firggin article attributes the 75% from the US number to Nikolay Testoyedov and used the same number in its title. But the article title demonstrates some terrible critical math and reading comprehension skills.
Well, the person who I replied to originally called out the Nest as expensive because of its included micro, under the claim that it had 32MB of ram (IIRC it actually has 64MB).
But I'll take on you're argument that this scale of device won't work on the low end, with the counter-claim that IoT can't work on smaller than this scale (mostly due to a lack of qualified developers).
A few years from now I'd expect to find a micro-controller with 32MB of ram for under $3. In theory a commoditized embedded platform would provide:
It seems likely a platform like this, even with mildly higher per-unit functionality would save costs and reduce time to market. I base this claim on the requirements for remote upgrades and secure communications channels — without which the whole IoT idea will never get anywhere — and the fact that there is not a glut of capable talent to build such infrastructure on bare-metal systems.
Of course, IoT could just be a fad buzzword that never amounts to shit for consumer products.
In bulk it is easy to purchase microcontroller with 32MB of ram for $7 (though the closest my lazy digikey search turned up was $11.50 for 24M).
The cost of the microcontroller has a negligible cost on the nest retail price, and darn near every other embedded system sold to consumers.
Accident rate is uninteresting as a percentage of cars, only accidents/miles driven is meaningful. Considering that these are test vehicles and are likely driven far more than your average commuter car, I find the 2x increase in crashes/vehicle statistically meaningless. This of course becomes more complex when you consider other factors, such as that drivers that drive less currently are more likely to get in a crash per 100,000 miles.
Without details I'm not going to accept that you can avoid confirmation bias.
I'm not trying to say that firearms are more useful than vehicles, but I think you'll find that you can save more lives by making the roads safer than you can by repealing the 2nd amendment.
If I understand your reasoning correctly, once we reduce traffic fatalities to 5000/year in America, then you will support repealing the 2nd amendment? You freedom hating monster.
In other news, ethical arguments on comparative danger are still meaningless.
Company spends $50,000 on delivery truck. Company dispatches truck on it's first delivery run. Rogue actor uses $5 worth of wrench to jam the driver's noggin, takes key, and steals it. Company is now out $50,000.
Because they are manned, trucks are simply far too easy to lose and far too easy to steal. They are impractical.
FTFY.
1. This does happen (Google had plenty of examples)
2. Rogue actor ends up with a huge volume of parcels that are easier to fence than a specialized machine
Besides, your screen at home isn't as good
Not remotely true. Most digital theater projectors are 2k, which at this point I'm willing to call crap. I watched a movie with some subtitles at the beginning the other day, seeing the white text split into a grid of pixels was very off-putting. Plus it takes effort to find optimal seating.
As to audio,
Headphones do it better, if you really care, and
The total lack of control of other people makes that a pretty moot point.
I generally agree with you in terms of the market, but trying to argue that most movie theaters are providing a "premium" experience requires a fair bit of romantic idealism coupled with selection bias when you actually go.
Surely this is "fair dealing" isn't it? ;-)
FTFY, don't forget this is Canada ;)
It would seem your baseless assumptions are wrong.
Sure, that was 3 years ago. But you seem to be ignoring the following facts:
You have failed to understand the analogy.
Deutsche Bank = Microsoft
Branch = servers in Ireland
New York Times = EU citizens using servers in EU
I appreciate the criticism. Did another crack at research, managed to find an xorg.conf that (supposedly) does multiple sessions with one graphics card with the Nvidia driver. I think I'll try to redo the setup this weekend, if I can find the time.
I wish all my side projects were scrutinized by persons as knowledgeable as yourself. Seriously, thanks.
Then there's the people that were running multiple keyboards, mice and monitors for a couple of people on the same box well over a decade back. What is it with Wayland fanboys not having a clue about the system that they are supposed to be improving on?
I setup such a system a year and a half ago (4 stations off one computer, totaling > 10mpx of desktop space).
Allowing me to be abundantly clear: I wish Wayland was production ready a year ago. Multiseat-X sucks for these reasons:
All that badness aside, I do appreciate only having to maintain one machine for software updates etc, not having to setup network shares, or worry about users logging in with NFS + LDAP. It made it quite easy for 4 people to share a powerful machine that they only needed the speed from on occasion, and collaboration was super simple.
I look forward to rebuilding this setup with pure SystemD + Wayland in the next 18-24 months.
I apologize, I didn't make myself clear enough to justify that paradox, that apparent contradiction. My point about responsibility being a zero sum game was more about how even though A did actions that enabled B to do C does not mean B is not wholly responsible for C (Though A may also be partially, or wholly responsible. Or not).
Let me give you some other examples of non-zero sum responsibility. One can:
In the first three situations it would be common to blame the thief, the unfaithful, and the airline. But one can't deny the theoretical control the first party has. Just because one can be responsible for an end result (here, rubbing people the wrong way) does not imply one is accountable for the negative consequences of same (reciprocation with hateful, and harmful actions).
Really I just found how the structure of this conversation parallels conversations I've been involved in recently regarding gender and IT, and was trying to explore the "Maybe sexism would be a step in the right direction," angle, as it at least implies acceptance of an external group of people. I think often people of our ilk tend to be dismissive and derogatory toward those who reach a different conclusion based on values we disagree with, such as the creators of systemd and their opponents who clearly value different things at this point, to the point where they can't even agree on what those different things are).
So, victim blaming? I see your point, but the abuse he describes experiencing (as a young white male) reminds me of a trendy workplace topic. Maybe women aren't in IT because of sexist assholes, but because of unqualified assholes.
I agree, he has some power to control the response he gets from the community. But responsibility isn't a zero-sum game, and should he have to?
I really doubt SpaceX is going to stop work on a vehicle they were developing before they were awarded the contract.
Boeing, on the other hand...
That's what __attribute__((cleanup(function))) is for. Thank you, GNU C extensions!
Actually, I'm Canadian.
My point was that regional blocking of Canadians by .com's predated the updated copyright legislation, they are entirely separate issues. damien_kane below provides a nice explanation why.
As an aside, the updates to the Copyright Act were to satisfy obligations to WIPO treaties more than a decade old. And it beat the hell out of C-60 that the liberals proposed in 2005, which was just "Let's add the bad parts of the DMCA to Canadian copyright law and call it a day." (Don't get me wrong, if I had my druthers I would have put Charlie Angus (NDP) in charge of this bill, but that's not going to happen any time soon. Lazy youth voters, grr).
Those limits were imposed by modifications to the copyright act 2 years ago. What was there excuse before then?
The line immediately above:
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
If you can't figure out that an "Environment FIle" might contain these things known as "Environement Variables," I question your claim to have been using Unix since 1978.
The environment file sets all the environment variables the service sees. It sees no more or less than what is in that file by default, which is both more secure and maintainable.
In the first part of your post, you talk about how Unix is just as easy to administer, then later, you talk about how Active directory is easier to administer than OpenLDAP.
No, he said there exists N such that managing > N linux servers is easier than managing > N windows servers. Then he went on to compare them in single server environments, and discussed why windows is often used in small businesses as their only server.
As to installing proprietary software: honestly, my experience says that this tends to suck equally on all platforms. Had to maintain a small CS2 deployment years back, standard operating procedure when it fucked up was to reinstall the OS. I've never had to resort to such levels to clean reinstall proprietary software on linux, but I've also had difficulties with some proprietary software on Linux. I really think that tends to be a quality of the vendor thing more so than the underlying OS.
Uhm... cp has the exact same behaviour as systemd. Examples from my system: /bin2
: cp -ar bin bin2
: cp -ar bin
cp: cannot create directory ‘/bin2’: Permission denied
: echo $?
1
: systemctl start dmraid.service
: systemctl start imaginary.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit imaginary.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
: echo $?
6
:
So, systemctl behaves exactly the same as cp - error message and non-zero return on failure. Perhaps you were thinking of the verbose option for cp, which some people alias in permanently but is very non-unixy?