Why not? I'm techy. I'm in the security business. There absolutely is stuff that can be known. Admitting you don't know stuff on Slashdot seems like a challenge for many. I'm asserting that after reading the WSJ article, I still don't know what has happened or why.
All the interpretation is coming from the journo. My long experience with this sort of thing informs me that reality is probably different.
How about - Google+ wasn't making any money. Let's kill it now. + There was an information leak of some undefined form - and the two are unrelated. I don't know if that's true - I just made it up, but the arrow of causation is from the journo and all I did was delete it.
My cynicism/realism comes from every news-reported event for which I have direct personal knowledge. I can count 5 off the top of my head and there are a few more out there. In every instance, a false narrative was written, even when I talked directly to the journalist and made entirely sure that they knew exactly what was going on. Thus I learned how their job is not to report events and explain. Their job is to form stories that people will read and which will improve their standing as a journalist.
I would ask someone involved. In this case, someone working at Google who I know well enough that we can have an off-the-record engineer to engineer conversation.
If you wanted to know what went down with the dual-ec-drbg/Snowden/SP800-90A/Linux kernel flustercluck, you might ask me - It's my field and I know stuff. No journalist has ever accurately reported those events correctly. If you want to know what's happening at Google, privately ask a Google person who knows. Give up on thinking you can also fix reporting or tell the world yourself. The best you can do is know for yourself.
A journalist wrote this. So it must fit into a continuing narrative that follows on from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica problem. Thus parallels will be drawn and details filled into establish this equivalence. We see exactly this in TFA. This is what journalists do. Take a (probably complex or subtle) technical problem and fit it into an existing mental model.
It's called lying.
Something in tech happened. It's probably not good. The Wall Street Journal is not the publication to tell you about it. They will tell you a story instead.
Yup Affinity stuff is legit. Being able to buy it is excellent to - $50 a month for Adobe adds up. I wrote a book using LaTeX with Affinity designer for the diagrams.
Their stuff comes across as being from a "Let's make a clean sheet version Adobe tools" angle and so it does the same stuff with less cruft and a nicer UI. I don't have to wait a week for it to open either.
Ton : Imperial measurement. Ad hoc unit of weight based on the shin length of a medieval mole-rat. Tonne: 1000 kilograms. Based on big round numbers that divide nicely by other big round numbers.
Yes the Tesla is better than the Leaf. I've tried the Tesla S and 3 and I own a Leaf. The leaf is still very nice to own compared to the petrol cars I've owned. It's quick off the mark, cheap (I got it used), cheap to run and I never have to visit a gas station.
I assume your employer has rules concerning travel with the laptop containing the oh-so-special secrets. Mine does. Leave it at home and take a burner. It's the cost of doing business and the burner costs less than $5000.
I have. I'm on the board (to keep a crazy rule nazi off the board).
We're good with solar panels. That's a fed thing as are the antenna rules. We're good with painting the roof - They're flat and not visible from the street Painting the front - there's no local ordinance for that.
>The latest thinking is that the appendix plays a role in maintaining beneficial gut flora, people without it suffer much more colitis, if so then preserving it would be wise whenever possible. The Peritonitis risk comes when it bursts.
Yet more laterer thinking is that gut flora is only beneficial in the context of a fiber rich diet since it's undigestable by humans, and gut flora is largely irrelevant on a carnivorous diet.
Plant adapted primates have a huge secum to accommodate all the bugs that turn fiber into short chain fatty acids that the body can digest. All humans have left of the secum is the appendix. The secum was lost as an an adaptation trade off with a larger brain and the accompanying increased requirement for high nutrition foods - I.E. meat.
This is why so many people with gut problems have solved their problems with a carnivorous diet.
It was out of step with the direction of OS development at the time. This is one of the reasons it didn't catch on.
Many of the people who worked on it are now retired or dead.
As a CPU design with a security focus and with specific security guarantees built in, it was indeed ahead of its time. We surely are finding we need such ideas in CPUs today.
College students WERE kids more recently than the "grownups" who are under a misguided delusion that suffering (getting up at 6 am for a high school student) somehow builds character.
Bravado and posturing is all very nice, but in other countries all schools manage to start all at the same time at 9.00pm and things work out fine.
In the USA, whinging about busses costing money and requiring absurd pre-sunrise wake up times to compensate is a product of inadequate taxing and incompetent government.
Magically mapping naive algorithms to efficient algorithms would be a start. I'll be working on making it faster the hard way - probably parallelizing it, possibly making a more efficient algorithm.
FPGAs are handy when you are running locally - especially if you happen to be a hardware engineer. Not so much when you're expecting it to run on arbitrary machines.
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Why not? I'm techy. I'm in the security business. There absolutely is stuff that can be known. Admitting you don't know stuff on Slashdot seems like a challenge for many. I'm asserting that after reading the WSJ article, I still don't know what has happened or why.
All the interpretation is coming from the journo. My long experience with this sort of thing informs me that reality is probably different.
How about - Google+ wasn't making any money. Let's kill it now. + There was an information leak of some undefined form - and the two are unrelated. I don't know if that's true - I just made it up, but the arrow of causation is from the journo and all I did was delete it.
My cynicism/realism comes from every news-reported event for which I have direct personal knowledge. I can count 5 off the top of my head and there are a few more out there. In every instance, a false narrative was written, even when I talked directly to the journalist and made entirely sure that they knew exactly what was going on. Thus I learned how their job is not to report events and explain. Their job is to form stories that people will read and which will improve their standing as a journalist.
I would ask someone involved. In this case, someone working at Google who I know well enough that we can have an off-the-record engineer to engineer conversation.
If you wanted to know what went down with the dual-ec-drbg/Snowden/SP800-90A/Linux kernel flustercluck, you might ask me - It's my field and I know stuff. No journalist has ever accurately reported those events correctly. If you want to know what's happening at Google, privately ask a Google person who knows. Give up on thinking you can also fix reporting or tell the world yourself. The best you can do is know for yourself.
A journalist wrote this. So it must fit into a continuing narrative that follows on from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica problem. Thus parallels will be drawn and details filled into establish this equivalence. We see exactly this in TFA. This is what journalists do. Take a (probably complex or subtle) technical problem and fit it into an existing mental model.
It's called lying.
Something in tech happened. It's probably not good. The Wall Street Journal is not the publication to tell you about it. They will tell you a story instead.
Yup Affinity stuff is legit. Being able to buy it is excellent to - $50 a month for Adobe adds up. I wrote a book using LaTeX with Affinity designer for the diagrams.
Their stuff comes across as being from a "Let's make a clean sheet version Adobe tools" angle and so it does the same stuff with less cruft and a nicer UI. I don't have to wait a week for it to open either.
Ton : Imperial measurement. Ad hoc unit of weight based on the shin length of a medieval mole-rat.
Tonne: 1000 kilograms. Based on big round numbers that divide nicely by other big round numbers.
"Metric Ton"?
Yes the Tesla is better than the Leaf. I've tried the Tesla S and 3 and I own a Leaf. The leaf is still very nice to own compared to the petrol cars I've owned. It's quick off the mark, cheap (I got it used), cheap to run and I never have to visit a gas station.
That depends on what the pine cone was made of. An ornamental gold pine cone might be more damaging, but it could also help defray the repair cost.
Oooh! N=2, at the start of production of a new product. Very convincing.
The ford Model A was a bargain basement model. Tesla are hardly aiming at that market segment.
Go here : here and click on August and see how they are doing relative to similarly priced models today.
Some MVNO phones aren't easily root-able for obvious reasons.
What is the non-obvious, obvious reason?
Maybe the other self driving car companies should write him a cheque - he saved them millions.
I assume your employer has rules concerning travel with the laptop containing the oh-so-special secrets. Mine does. Leave it at home and take a burner. It's the cost of doing business and the burner costs less than $5000.
I have. I'm on the board (to keep a crazy rule nazi off the board).
We're good with solar panels. That's a fed thing as are the antenna rules.
We're good with painting the roof - They're flat and not visible from the street
Painting the front - there's no local ordinance for that.
I'd love to see what crap the HOA comes up with when I paint my house white.
setgrey vs setgray
'nuff said
Relevant to what? Does the profit or loss on a model 3 change because Elon's in the shitter? Clue - No. It doesn't.
News on production is relevant to profits. News on tweets, Musk's sleep schedule and SEC action is not. I took the dip as a buying opportunity.
>The latest thinking is that the appendix plays a role in maintaining beneficial gut flora, people without it suffer much more colitis, if so then preserving it would be wise whenever possible. The Peritonitis risk comes when it bursts.
Yet more laterer thinking is that gut flora is only beneficial in the context of a fiber rich diet since it's undigestable by humans, and gut flora is largely irrelevant on a carnivorous diet.
Plant adapted primates have a huge secum to accommodate all the bugs that turn fiber into short chain fatty acids that the body can digest. All humans have left of the secum is the appendix. The secum was lost as an an adaptation trade off with a larger brain and the accompanying increased requirement for high nutrition foods - I.E. meat.
This is why so many people with gut problems have solved their problems with a carnivorous diet.
It was out of step with the direction of OS development at the time. This is one of the reasons it didn't catch on.
Many of the people who worked on it are now retired or dead.
As a CPU design with a security focus and with specific security guarantees built in, it was indeed ahead of its time. We surely are finding we need such ideas in CPUs today.
College students WERE kids more recently than the "grownups" who are under a misguided delusion that suffering (getting up at 6 am for a high school student) somehow builds character.
Bravado and posturing is all very nice, but in other countries all schools manage to start all at the same time at 9.00pm and things work out fine.
In the USA, whinging about busses costing money and requiring absurd pre-sunrise wake up times to compensate is a product of inadequate taxing and incompetent government.
Highest efficiency brings the least resilience.
The first bus to stall at a traffic light is going to bring the school system to a halt.
Why would running on arbitrary machines even be interesting?
Because I don't expect every machine to have an FPGA rig running next to it.
Magically mapping naive algorithms to efficient algorithms would be a start. I'll be working on making it faster the hard way - probably parallelizing it, possibly making a more efficient algorithm.
FPGAs are handy when you are running locally - especially if you happen to be a hardware engineer. Not so much when you're expecting it to run on arbitrary machines.
That graph seems to confirm Moore's law is still holding.
Yep. It leaves off the multi-core performance which should follow the transistor count growth.