I work at a chinese owned car company, a big one, but we don't yet have a sales presence in the US.
we have thousands in china and a few hundred in the bay area.
I often can see the difference in approach and code quality between east and west.
all I will say is: code and design from china mostly sucks. they are STILL windows-based (in thoughts and machinery) and while e-cars are all going qnx and linux (and android), the windows people still are the majority of the so-called programmers over there.
they can throw 10x as many people at a project and it will still suck.
there is a REASON software is done here in the US, for complex projects. china simply cannot do it; if they could, they would not ALL have local bay area offices where the real design is done.
the bay area engineers are more skilled and experienced, but being a chinese owned company, we are a little too, uhm, 'thrifty' and this is going to hurt us, long-term.
we also don't pay for performance and we don't reward top performers. the china way is: burn people out and hope they leave on their own, soon.
this is NO WAY to do business. but sadly, its how it is, right now.
(perhaps hold off buying chinese-made cars for a while, is my advice)
they (we) need to teach kids, early, ideally in school that:
if a politician or businessman is saying something, its generally a good bet that he's lying.
business has no ethics, not anymore. it will do anything to make a profit. lying is just a tool they allow themselves.
kids need to learn this so that we can fix it next generation. they have the benefit of the internet so they have no excuse to grow up not knowing this.
fwiw, I work on embedded systems where users will NEVER be allowed to login or install stuff to this system. its very static and industrial.
what is our init system?
systemd.
sigh;(
it was not done that way because smart guys set our system up. likely, it was LAZY guys who didn't understand enough about what EMBEDDED means.
we've been stuck with systemd in our embedded system for over 3 years now. I am trying to make it change, but only a handful of us at my company 'get it' and its an uphill battle, for some strange reason.
systemd may be ok for when users will install random apps and the startup tree needs to be smarter. but who, here, would truly recommend systemd for static embedded systems?
I am a big mint user and have been for many years.
but I'm seeing less of a diff from ubuntu, these days. I can install mate (etc) to ubuntu so I don't have to deal with unity anymore and they stopped with their 'lens' crap, so that's one less thing to hate ubuntu over.
I don't see a lot of diff anymore between mint and ubuntu.
drop systemd, put some WORK into making it happen and you'll have a brand new following.
to be honest, if people were a nuissance around where I LIVED, I'd be pissed off, too.
people have a right to 'quiet enjoyment' and while that does not always imply low-noise and silence, it means that people should not be hounded by strangers when at home.
a man's home is his castle; people do believe that. you have to put up with a lot of shit at work, but at home, you should be able to have peace and quiet.
here's how india is relevant; they are still very 'certification based' in their culture and java is a huge part of their education. sure, they are also learning python, but everyone I run into from india does have java and seems to like it a lot. they spend a lot of time with java, but I don't see that in the US at all.
I had a python instructor say this to us, during class. the US is moving toward python and india is still 'stuck' in java. how should we glue our systems together, then? RESTful interfaces to the rescue; a network api abstraction. at least that was the discussion we had in class.
do you disagree that, overall, india is still very much educating and training their software people in java, but the US schools are trending to move away from java and toward python?
the move to eliminate anonymous and track-less payment is fucking evil. we need to push back against this.
I don't trust my phone at all; and anything that allows non-phone options in the Real World is a good thing.
the millennials can just learn to carry cash. they will thank us old guys, too, WHEN they find out that blindly trusting 'the cloud' is stupid beyond compare.
I know of no new development done on java applications or anyone in my company doing anything with java. its all python now, if its not a compiled language like C. more interest in golang, actually, than java.
in india, they are still behind the times and still lazily using java. but the ROW is moving on to python and while python2 vs python3 has its issues, its nothing like the monstrocity that is java.
"write once, run everywhere". fucking pack of lies that is.
if you said all that and ran for president, I'd vote for you.
or anyone who held those as sincere.
the country does NOT exist for the ultra rich. its been out of balance like that for far too long. can we PLEASE have our country back? the rich guys have had their fun for long enough. time to share some of the wealth; and you can do that by removing special favors for rich buddies.
either work with us now or be running from us with pitchforks and fires; if not today or tomorrow, soon enough. we can only stand so much bullshit.
(I don't expect any change, though. I'm old and don't believe we CAN change, but I can still dream...)
let alone people believing that unions are universally bad. big religion gives a side-channel to peoples' brains.
they get brainwashed by their churches (mostly republican based) and they vote against their own best interestes.
the R's are masters at this. evil as all fuck, but masters nonetheless.
unions are a balance of power. but the R's (that have a policy of being entirely pro-business and anti-consumer) convince their base that allowing unions is somehow 'anti american' and jesus will punish you for this (I'm not kidding; the thinking processes of most party republicans are broken and this is really how they see the world). this is why 'we can't have nice things'. the authoritarians ruin shit for the rest of us.
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I work at a chinese owned car company, a big one, but we don't yet have a sales presence in the US.
we have thousands in china and a few hundred in the bay area.
I often can see the difference in approach and code quality between east and west.
all I will say is: code and design from china mostly sucks. they are STILL windows-based (in thoughts and machinery) and while e-cars are all going qnx and linux (and android), the windows people still are the majority of the so-called programmers over there.
they can throw 10x as many people at a project and it will still suck.
there is a REASON software is done here in the US, for complex projects. china simply cannot do it; if they could, they would not ALL have local bay area offices where the real design is done.
the bay area engineers are more skilled and experienced, but being a chinese owned company, we are a little too, uhm, 'thrifty' and this is going to hurt us, long-term.
we also don't pay for performance and we don't reward top performers. the china way is: burn people out and hope they leave on their own, soon.
this is NO WAY to do business. but sadly, its how it is, right now.
(perhaps hold off buying chinese-made cars for a while, is my advice)
AMD has their own problems ;(
I just bought (and had to return) an amd rizen 1700 system.
make -j16 with either silent errors or sigsegv.
no known cure, and bug was reported to amd back in 2017!
they suggest disabling ALL smt threads (-j16 becomes -j8) and disabling many other things. its fucked.
I tried using AMD and its useless for a build server. sorry, but I have to return to intel even though it pains me so.
I'll check back again in a year or two, but for now, I do NOT trust AMD for compute/build servers. threadrippers, maybe, but the rizens are fucked.
yeah, well, the girlscouts aren't all that much better. ...except for those cookies. but that goes without saying.
they (we) need to teach kids, early, ideally in school that:
if a politician or businessman is saying something, its generally a good bet that he's lying.
business has no ethics, not anymore. it will do anything to make a profit. lying is just a tool they allow themselves.
kids need to learn this so that we can fix it next generation. they have the benefit of the internet so they have no excuse to grow up not knowing this.
you're a fucking idiot.
mueller is a republican!
go to hell, asshole. your lies, in defense of the damned R's are part of the problem.
why do you hate america so much?
not. the. point.
the point is: to get them on record as being anti-american (yes, I truly mean that).
the GOP are fucking evil. would have been fun to see their faces with all the NO given to their little tricks.
when will the US finally get tired of the R's being so fucking evil?
WHEN????
fwiw, I work on embedded systems where users will NEVER be allowed to login or install stuff to this system. its very static and industrial.
what is our init system?
systemd.
sigh ;(
it was not done that way because smart guys set our system up. likely, it was LAZY guys who didn't understand enough about what EMBEDDED means.
we've been stuck with systemd in our embedded system for over 3 years now. I am trying to make it change, but only a handful of us at my company 'get it' and its an uphill battle, for some strange reason.
systemd may be ok for when users will install random apps and the startup tree needs to be smarter. but who, here, would truly recommend systemd for static embedded systems?
thirded!
I am a big mint user and have been for many years.
but I'm seeing less of a diff from ubuntu, these days. I can install mate (etc) to ubuntu so I don't have to deal with unity anymore and they stopped with their 'lens' crap, so that's one less thing to hate ubuntu over.
I don't see a lot of diff anymore between mint and ubuntu.
drop systemd, put some WORK into making it happen and you'll have a brand new following.
make mint different again ;)
things you need will be blocked at the CAN/LIN gateway.
if not now, then later on.
whole foods is called, around here (bay area) 'whole paycheck'.
I never shop there. and there are not that many of them so its not like that are all local to you.
15 years on a tesla?
I'm considering buying one, but if I do, it will be kept for 4 years or less, then sold.
no way I'm keeping something SO TECH based that, after x amount of years, its just not a current platform anymore.
not to mention batteries losing so much of their capacity over time.
this is not an 'own for a long time' kind of car. not for me, anyway, and I don't think most owners think of this as a long-term keeper, either.
to be honest, if people were a nuissance around where I LIVED, I'd be pissed off, too.
people have a right to 'quiet enjoyment' and while that does not always imply low-noise and silence, it means that people should not be hounded by strangers when at home.
a man's home is his castle; people do believe that. you have to put up with a lot of shit at work, but at home, you should be able to have peace and quiet.
so, I understand and agree, in general.
here's how india is relevant; they are still very 'certification based' in their culture and java is a huge part of their education. sure, they are also learning python, but everyone I run into from india does have java and seems to like it a lot. they spend a lot of time with java, but I don't see that in the US at all.
I had a python instructor say this to us, during class. the US is moving toward python and india is still 'stuck' in java. how should we glue our systems together, then? RESTful interfaces to the rescue; a network api abstraction. at least that was the discussion we had in class.
do you disagree that, overall, india is still very much educating and training their software people in java, but the US schools are trending to move away from java and toward python?
all the young ones seem to have trouble with 'new math'.
and by new math, I mean COUNTING.
I drove thru a fast food drive-in and the bill was $4.06
I gave the cashier a fiver and 6 cents. I did not have 4 ones with me.
the cashier paused, not sure what to do. "why did this customer overpay like that?"
yeah, that's a hard one. think long and hard about it, millennial.
agreed!
the move to eliminate anonymous and track-less payment is fucking evil. we need to push back against this.
I don't trust my phone at all; and anything that allows non-phone options in the Real World is a good thing.
the millennials can just learn to carry cash. they will thank us old guys, too, WHEN they find out that blindly trusting 'the cloud' is stupid beyond compare.
I know of no new development done on java applications or anyone in my company doing anything with java. its all python now, if its not a compiled language like C. more interest in golang, actually, than java.
in india, they are still behind the times and still lazily using java. but the ROW is moving on to python and while python2 vs python3 has its issues, its nothing like the monstrocity that is java.
"write once, run everywhere". fucking pack of lies that is.
java can fuck off and die. sooner the better.
if you said all that and ran for president, I'd vote for you.
or anyone who held those as sincere.
the country does NOT exist for the ultra rich. its been out of balance like that for far too long. can we PLEASE have our country back? the rich guys have had their fun for long enough. time to share some of the wealth; and you can do that by removing special favors for rich buddies.
either work with us now or be running from us with pitchforks and fires; if not today or tomorrow, soon enough. we can only stand so much bullshit.
(I don't expect any change, though. I'm old and don't believe we CAN change, but I can still dream...)
let alone people believing that unions are universally bad.
big religion gives a side-channel to peoples' brains.
they get brainwashed by their churches (mostly republican based) and they vote against their own best interestes.
the R's are masters at this. evil as all fuck, but masters nonetheless.
unions are a balance of power. but the R's (that have a policy of being entirely pro-business and anti-consumer) convince their base that allowing unions is somehow 'anti american' and jesus will punish you for this (I'm not kidding; the thinking processes of most party republicans are broken and this is really how they see the world). this is why 'we can't have nice things'. the authoritarians ruin shit for the rest of us.
the right to sue is the ONLY power 'small guys' have.
remove that and you make us slaves. ...which is what we all CURRENTLY are, truth be told.
this is long overdue. companies have WAY too much power and this has been hurting america for decades.
companies exist for PEOPLE. its not the other way around. time to reverse 'backward land'.
they thought of that. there are manpa-
nevermind.
been more like 10 years that the right wingers came here to 'balance' (cough) things out a bit.
a few posters are real, but most are turfers and bots. very annoying.
he is universally hated by those both living and dead*
(*) republicans exempted, because...reasons
you are right.
any phone that is accepted by a local government is unsafe to use, if you NEED privacy and trust.
build your own layers on top, but assume all transports are compromised. they are. baked thru in silicon.
phones are crap and 'they' like it that way.
intel?
oh, what I wish I could say about intel and their modems.
how I WISH I could say stuff.
but I can't.
if its from various overseas countries.
its well-known that many cultures encourage rote memorization and that passes for 'learning'.
is THAT what we really want? have you not seen enough of that from people you work with?
this is bullshit and we all know it.