"And what do you come up with ? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. For fuck's sake."
Pretty much what I was saying. If all you have is the choice of losers, it's not much of a choice. We didn't get here because honest people were doing the vetting of the candidates, eh?
And she lost despite serious corruption, which was peripherally reported (districts with more D votes than registered voters discovered by Jill Stein) - and the arrogant attitude "why am I not 50 points ahead?"
(which could be interpreted, we've rigged till we're blue in the face and it's not working though we greased all the right palms - why isn't it working?). While the MSM just mentioned it in passing, and amplified all reports true or false negative to the "other side".
I think that's why the various investigations are hoping it'll all blow over, as it appears there is absolutely no one innocent - the Manaforts all lead back to the Podestas for example - so the truth benefits NO ONE IN POWER NOW. And so we won't hear it from them, QED.
I'd note that just because one side is wrong, it doesn't make the other one right. False choice/dichotomy is totally in play here among most of you it seems. And corruption by one party to the game doesn't make all other corruption OK either. Wrong is wrong. But that's too hard for tiny minds to handle, seems most want a super oversimplification and fixing the blame is more important than fixing the problem. I think fixing the problem is a better way, even if it's hard.
People, you're letting evil take you over here. Sure, in some eyes we dodged a bullet - but we also backed into a buzzsaw doing it. We "chose" between a corrupt elitist, and an immature buffoon - elitist. If we let that kinda thing divide us and distract attention from the fact that we really had no choice in the matter, evil wins. Yes, the deep state/MIC/IC hate the current guy - which in my opinion is one of the higher compliments - Oh, the moneyed interests in defense - and the press - and hollywood hate that one? Hmmm...Fascism is when the money runs the show...Hmmm. Totalitarianism is orthagonal, but often comes along for that ride. Hmmm.
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Just sayin, we have huge issues with governance in the US, and while it's convienient to blame others (and fer sure they are involved) - it's not just the foreign influences that are the most important. They don't have any monopoly on telling us lies, and trying to blame all deception on an external cause is kinda vain. I seem to recall the old saying "fool me once, shame on you - fool my twice, shame on me". Well, we've been fooled again (apologies Who) and again for as long as I remember at age 64. How about taking some responsibility for that? Oh right, it's mostly immature kids here. You may now get off my lawn. Eisenhower had it right - and it was probably true before he said it.
If you actually want to fix a problem, rather than just whine about it, it pays to define it correctly. Don't let hate - encouraged by people who don't have your interests at heart - win.
Clearly, divide and conquer is at play here. And I don't think all that is external - only a few percent is.
Seemingly never mentioned in this or other major (OPM) hacks - could the hackers have altered the data, even changed timestamps/logs to cover their tracks? Could it be proved either way? Speaking of a real can of worms legally, can one now challenge that data if you don't like it under the assumption it's been hacked?
Could you get a security clearance via hacking OPM? Ramifications are interesting here. If one had content of both, they'd know who to blackmail as well. And these are the guys who want the keys to our crypto, promising they'll keep it safe when they can't even keep their own employee stuff safe?
Agreed. People should look at the big picture and the norms (which aren't great for any player here) before using a small sample of recent events as justification for hateful opinions. This isn't really new stuff here to justify extra "Russia-bad" think, though obviously there are people who think their paychecks depend on that meme posting. In fact we've "poked the bear" damn hard a few times lately, with a very statesmanlike response on their part...we'd have never put up with what we've done to them, but they've put up with mistreatment (so far) pretty nicely...
I'm not pro-Russian-government - but I don't hate Russians or pretty much anyone else. I'm not fond of most governments and the lies they tell their people to subjugate them, though. Russia's far from alone on that scorecard...Which was really my point. FWIW, they are kinda recovering from having lost their previous empire. They had exactly two warm-water naval ports...One in Crimea, the other one in Syria. Guess where we've been meddling and trying to "spread democracy"? No government is telling us the truth that it's really all about who gets to run pipelines from where (either Arab or Russian) to the EU to keep them warm and cop their bucks. Yep, follow the money, the rest is just PR and propaganda kark.
It's not working for this guy: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
and some others who have been jailed for contempt for refusing. Funny thing about courts - your interpretation of a law means nothing to a judge. Only his matters.
I'd suggest googling yubikey weakness and looking at the bug list before trusting one. Or any hardware/software device you don't really control the innards of.
Agreed. I cared enough to do something about it. Created a LAN of things - no internet presence at all, for myself. I only need automation for my place, not some data-monetizer (or worse, rent seeker or just go out of business) inserted into my stream. And then there's security. .
But first, imagine a world where one of these jerks comes along with "and now you'll pay rent or I'll stop making your home work".
Abandonware is bad enough as is.
Signed code won't mean diddly here. If there's a way to make a camera send a stream someplace, which has to be for it to serve its function, any hack can send that stream elsewhere - the code for pushing the stream has to exist even in the signed version. And if there's any other hack possible, even allowing the user to retain the default pword and so on - then signing doesn't really do squat, now does it?
I'm doing a LAN of things for my off-grid homestead, some of the machines are for example, Raspberry pi's, some intel nucs, and things below that (which run my own opsys).
Why restart things? You must be new to the biz. Mysql_safe for example - anything that needs more than 2 9's of reliability needs a way to make sure it stays up even if the odd cosmic ray hits a ram location and flips a bit...and it goes on and on.
Starting things at boot after a power failure...well...
LAN of things scenario:
Dead of winter, sleeting, high winds, nasty out, 3 am. Power glitch that the ups doesn't quite get, or super EMI from nearby lighting. Old DCF is in bed. One of his automation systems glitches, and it controls interesting things like heat, air compressors for the shop, main system battery run-down protection etc.
You mean I should have to get up to restart stuff on a reboot over a minimal glitch in power or an EMI event, go out in that weather and do it to all 4 buildings on my campus, which have more than one machine each, after checking which subsystems in each even need that?
The old rc.local method worked fine...and didn't change the rules on every apt-get upgrade...
It might be easy as you say if you're up to speed with current dox, and aren't by accident reading old ones that didn't die on the 'net.
Not everyone running linux wants to be a super hands-on sysadmin - it's one thing for my laptop but another for "real world use" - and you don't for other opsys to get stuff like this to work. Changing the rules...maybe one reason linux is as popular as it is is because Linus has this rule - don't break userland...
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If the distros shipped updates to the systemD dox when they break stuff...or if I could just never have to do an update (yeah, right) because no apps would develop dependencies on the new stuff (goodluckwiththat)...I wouldn't care. Heck, if there was one clear well advertised source of dox about systemD that kept up with what set of bugs were shipped in every version of every distro, I'd be happy. Even at age 64, I still learn things, being a real serious engineer even well after I retired. But you have to make it not so hard,,so I can get on with the stuff I really love,,and not need a team I can't afford on Social Security (or a possible customer can't afford to pay for or amortize on their crap paycheck).
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I don't see any benefit for other than people doing cloud instances of all-the-same-crap with no hardware dependencies at all. Sure, that's a paying customer market, which is why Red Hat is chasing it so hard. BUT!!! It's not the world, there's embedded control too, and lots of other stuff.
Honest question, as systemD broke many things here in a heterogeneous environment. Perfectly legal things that were to start at boot and restart (the equvilant of mysqld_safe). Multiple times, differently with updates to systemD.
So, where's the docs that are up to date, not about things that have already changed 3 times, that match my distro, so I CAN learn it. And how do I keep up with constant changes? Do I just stop updating the 20 or so machines on my campus? Do I need a test machine to mirror each one to test with (they are quite unique and do important automation work)? You want to come and tutor this programmer who's been at this since the 60's who doesn't need one more stupid problem on the way to off grid automation - for free? Breaking my stuff isn't a way to make friends. It gets cold and wet around here when the systems go down...because of your unneeded new shiny.
You mean NSA has cracked it too? "don't complain when your files get reviewed by an invasive dictatorship" That's here, and not just since Trump either.
I kind of chuckled at the story that the Israelis had cracked it and told us they found the Russians there already. As if the Russians (gov) couldn't just watch the data going in and out on the fiber without leaving a trace at Kaspersky itself (as NSA does), and as if only the Israelis had any good crackers...
Compared to the MIC who's been getting more for longer than you've been alive to launch crappier rockets, for more money and with a slower schedule?
Elon's doing pretty well. He has gotten a lot less per real world result than the other guys, to the point where if he's bidding, they drop out...
Do I need to name names and show budgets here? Does Elon get the import/export bank to loan his customers money to buy his products on our back?
The subsidy line-whine is getting pretty old in light of the facts. He's just usually a little late. Most people would be "never". Sour grapes much?
No, I made it up on the spot after being disgusted at the unreasoning hate displayed here and last week on the same thread at Hackaday. If you think "pecking the eyes out of smokers" is about littering in general, you need to go some work on reading comprehension. Smokers might be jerks, but most picked up the habit when it was cool - and then couldn't put it down, ask anyone familiar with addiction how hard it is. As a smoker, I didn't force it on others, I went away from them once the majority switched to non smoking, but I never hated over it, even though I was in pain and actually the one losing my own life, and ashamed I couldn't quit something many say is harder to quit than opiods...
And I gave up mod points - which are like a bucket in a tsunami sometimes - to post that.
Hatred isn't justified for most situations. That's a big thing wrong in our world today, from virtue signalling without owning the virtue, to divide and conquer working on jerks just waiting for something easy to understand to fall for so they don't have to think...that blame passing thing gets real old if you're seen 60+ years of it.
Let's have our minute of hate for those who grew up when smoking was cool and haven't been able to quit, despite a lot of hassle and hate. Then get real. Glad I didn't grow up around the hateful people posting on this (or the week older hackaday thread...and it looks like about the same dumb, intolerant crowd here).
I smoked 44 years, then quit. It was EXTREMELY HARD to do. But I managed - and years later, it still tugs on me just about every day. When you've pulled that off, you can talk hateful about people who didn't do as well as you, maybe...but only maybe.
But you jerks grew up when it was already uncool and never got addicted. Proud of yourself for just going with the flow? You got lucky, you weren't smarter or more disciplined. Don't feel so superior just because you had situation luck...
Why not try actually being superior first. It's hard, it's why everyone can't be above average - or won't. Which are you? Most seem like they could, but won't. Lazy.
I didn't make enough money to get most of the subsidy for my Volt, and it worked out to only a few percent of the price, making it still expensive. But worth it, been trouble free since late 2011.
You can write just as bad code in C, you know, or very nearly. All your complaints seem to be about bad software engineers, and I share them. But I don't blame the language for the idiots.
It's debatable whether the drive to make it so "anyone can code" was a good idea. If you do that, then you get anyone coding and anyone usually sucks at it.
Just my never humble opinion.
Perl was a step along that path, but it's pretty easy to argue that drag drop "VB" class and.net are a step further yet along with those so terrible their names won't be named.
And no, a web developer isn't a real programmer, at least not in my book. Certainly not a system architect or admin, at least not automagically - I'm aware of people who are good at all that, but they don't have to mess with html, their other skills make them too valuable to waste the time on that.
And yes, I myself have been at this game since before integrated circuits and do a lot of C too. So, most of y'all can now remove yourselves from my lawn.
Perl 5 pretty much lets you do things your way TMTOWTDI. This means a great programmer can write well structured code that is super easy to read and maintain, and a monkey can write monkey-code and have it still work, kinda - This is one school of thought, and all the complaints about perl 5 I see are about the latter class, which sadly, seems to be the majority of coders - only a few are really good and disciplined. No one's complained about the code I post on my site, ever, it's so obvious how it works, well documented and so on - you can use freedom to make it good too - it's a matter of choice and the bad stuff out there is more a comment on how crappy/lazy humans are rather than the language itself.
Along comes the opposite, more or less, Rust, and many people think that a restrictive rule set guarantees better code. Vain, aren't we? You really thought of every way to get it wrong and made a rule about every single way to mess up? Boy could I have some fun with you... Granted, the sheer compiler-warning-error noise will keep away some of the monkeys, and that's probably a good thing, but then again, the fact that it's nowhere near as rich a language means that it's a tool fit for a class of jobs most of us don't do.
I'm forced to program in a number of languages, I use perl a lot when I don't have to care, which is more and more of the time (hint: use Inline::Python to steal one-off code - from that language, perl supports many other languages and sometimes runs them faster than natively). Given a choice, it's perl for ease to get to an answer - save programmer time, and C++ for resource or time tight applications where it's worth the extra sweat to get it just so. The rest you can keep.
Nope, haven't tried perl 6. I agree it should be named something else. I am somewhat impressed with it as a comp sci excercise, especially through the work of Damian Conway (look up his talk at YAPC "On the shoulders of giants" - it's good and it's hilarious). If Larry is the absent minded professor, and he is, Damian is the mad scientist...
"People with no or low income could search for better jobs". Yeah, right. Dead giveaway it's a shill talking. So if they want more than H1B pay...they'd better be pretty accomplished at something already - which means they have associations and connections in whatever business.
Manufacturers complaining about a lack of talent mean "I can't find anyone who can walk in the door with 5 year experience running this cad/cam/cnc that's only existed for 1 or 2 and who will work for...minimum wage...".
Or maybe the author thinks that meaningless marketing jobs like his are going wanting? .
You gonna learn how to program on a tablet? n Really?
If you have no or low income, isn't that an indicator of something else like, maybe there aren't many jobs period, or good ones for people at your level of accomplishment and drive - making a bit of hardware relatively meaningless?
My 2012 Volt integrates nicely with my off-grid solar system. It's never been charged from the grid. No, I don't drive all day every day - it's used to run my errand loop - but in a very rural place (26.5 mi round trip for beer and munchies for example).
While it voids the warranty, I added a 1.5 kw inverter to its 12volt system (which has a 175 amp switcher from the main Li battery) so it can also back up my homestead in times of need (thick snow on the solar panels for example) - even if it has to run its amazingly efficient engine - it's a generator that is able to get to the store to be refilled, and no spilled gas or issues with starting - meant to be in the weather. I've only used it like that once to prove I wired it up right, but it's nice to know it's there.
I'm showing 224 lifetime mpg on the thing as I try and keep my trips in it to the range - which is consistently around 10 miles more than they claimed, at least in summer time. In winter, the heater is a pig...it's about the one time a gasoline car makes sense, as you capture your waste heat to heat the cabin.
Obviously you'd prefer Ars, where even the slightest hint of right-anything, libertarian, or just factual about political doings, will get you downvoted into 'removed comment' so fast your head will spin. If this is "hard right" I question what you think "center" is. It's far more concentrated there - I've not seen a single article praising anyone in this admin there, ever. Not that they deserve much, but...here at least there are both.
I've had this exact problem with trackpads - tap it while tying and text goes "wherever" - in the same or some other window which is disaster during code dev.
I've never had a trackpoint, but was thinking it might solve that one. Nope?
And people scorned the manuf (Acer?) who once put the trackpad above the keyboard instead of below.
Obviously most users either don't or can't touch type. If you do your palm WILL hit the trackpad.
It's especially bad for proficient touch typists as you might only look up every now and then to find out you've been telling the computer crazy stuff with the cursor where it is, rather than where you thought it should be.
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"And what do you come up with ? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. For fuck's sake." Pretty much what I was saying. If all you have is the choice of losers, it's not much of a choice. We didn't get here because honest people were doing the vetting of the candidates, eh?
And she lost despite serious corruption, which was peripherally reported (districts with more D votes than registered voters discovered by Jill Stein) - and the arrogant attitude "why am I not 50 points ahead?" (which could be interpreted, we've rigged till we're blue in the face and it's not working though we greased all the right palms - why isn't it working?). While the MSM just mentioned it in passing, and amplified all reports true or false negative to the "other side".
I think that's why the various investigations are hoping it'll all blow over, as it appears there is absolutely no one innocent - the Manaforts all lead back to the Podestas for example - so the truth benefits NO ONE IN POWER NOW. And so we won't hear it from them, QED.
I'd note that just because one side is wrong, it doesn't make the other one right. False choice/dichotomy is totally in play here among most of you it seems.
And corruption by one party to the game doesn't make all other corruption OK either. Wrong is wrong. But that's too hard for tiny minds to handle, seems most want a super oversimplification and fixing the blame is more important than fixing the problem. I think fixing the problem is a better way, even if it's hard.
People, you're letting evil take you over here. Sure, in some eyes we dodged a bullet - but we also backed into a buzzsaw doing it. We "chose" between a corrupt elitist, and an immature buffoon - elitist. If we let that kinda thing divide us and distract attention from the fact that we really had no choice in the matter, evil wins. Yes, the deep state/MIC/IC hate the current guy - which in my opinion is one of the higher compliments - Oh, the moneyed interests in defense - and the press - and hollywood hate that one? Hmmm...Fascism is when the money runs the show...Hmmm. Totalitarianism is orthagonal, but often comes along for that ride. Hmmm.
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Just sayin, we have huge issues with governance in the US, and while it's convienient to blame others (and fer sure they are involved) - it's not just the foreign influences that are the most important. They don't have any monopoly on telling us lies, and trying to blame all deception on an external cause is kinda vain. I seem to recall the old saying "fool me once, shame on you - fool my twice, shame on me". Well, we've been fooled again (apologies Who) and again for as long as I remember at age 64. How about taking some responsibility for that? Oh right, it's mostly immature kids here. You may now get off my lawn. Eisenhower had it right - and it was probably true before he said it.
If you actually want to fix a problem, rather than just whine about it, it pays to define it correctly. Don't let hate - encouraged by people who don't have your interests at heart - win.
Clearly, divide and conquer is at play here. And I don't think all that is external - only a few percent is.
So much of the economy is driven by truckers having jobs it's not funny at all. You'd be seriously affected if they were to become unemployed.
Seemingly never mentioned in this or other major (OPM) hacks - could the hackers have altered the data, even changed timestamps/logs to cover their tracks?
Could it be proved either way? Speaking of a real can of worms legally, can one now challenge that data if you don't like it under the assumption it's been hacked?
Could you get a security clearance via hacking OPM? Ramifications are interesting here. If one had content of both, they'd know who to blackmail as well. And these are the guys who want the keys to our crypto, promising they'll keep it safe when they can't even keep their own employee stuff safe?
Agreed. People should look at the big picture and the norms (which aren't great for any player here) before using a small sample of recent events as justification for hateful opinions. This isn't really new stuff here to justify extra "Russia-bad" think, though obviously there are people who think their paychecks depend on that meme posting. In fact we've "poked the bear" damn hard a few times lately, with a very statesmanlike response on their part...we'd have never put up with what we've done to them, but they've put up with mistreatment (so far) pretty nicely...
I'm not pro-Russian-government - but I don't hate Russians or pretty much anyone else. I'm not fond of most governments and the lies they tell their people to subjugate them, though. Russia's far from alone on that scorecard...Which was really my point.
FWIW, they are kinda recovering from having lost their previous empire. They had exactly two warm-water naval ports...One in Crimea, the other one in Syria. Guess where we've been meddling and trying to "spread democracy"? No government is telling us the truth that it's really all about who gets to run pipelines from where (either Arab or Russian) to the EU to keep them warm and cop their bucks. Yep, follow the money, the rest is just PR and propaganda kark.
Russia "invaded" Ukraine after we created a revolution ( Victoria Nuland's fuck the EU) and put in a REAL NAZI? You have kool-aid all over you.
If you aren't working for equifax, how is it that they have your data (or had, more to the point)? Your inference is highly flawed.
It's not working for this guy: https://www.theregister.co.uk/... and some others who have been jailed for contempt for refusing. Funny thing about courts - your interpretation of a law means nothing to a judge. Only his matters.
I'd suggest googling yubikey weakness and looking at the bug list before trusting one. Or any hardware/software device you don't really control the innards of.
Agreed. I cared enough to do something about it. Created a LAN of things - no internet presence at all, for myself. I only need automation for my place, not some data-monetizer (or worse, rent seeker or just go out of business) inserted into my stream. And then there's security.
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But first, imagine a world where one of these jerks comes along with "and now you'll pay rent or I'll stop making your home work".
Abandonware is bad enough as is.
Signed code won't mean diddly here. If there's a way to make a camera send a stream someplace, which has to be for it to serve its function, any hack can send that stream elsewhere - the code for pushing the stream has to exist even in the signed version. And if there's any other hack possible, even allowing the user to retain the default pword and so on - then signing doesn't really do squat, now does it?
I'm doing a LAN of things for my off-grid homestead, some of the machines are for example, Raspberry pi's, some intel nucs, and things below that (which run my own opsys). Why restart things? You must be new to the biz. Mysql_safe for example - anything that needs more than 2 9's of reliability needs a way to make sure it stays up even if the odd cosmic ray hits a ram location and flips a bit...and it goes on and on. Starting things at boot after a power failure...well... LAN of things scenario: Dead of winter, sleeting, high winds, nasty out, 3 am. Power glitch that the ups doesn't quite get, or super EMI from nearby lighting. Old DCF is in bed. One of his automation systems glitches, and it controls interesting things like heat, air compressors for the shop, main system battery run-down protection etc. You mean I should have to get up to restart stuff on a reboot over a minimal glitch in power or an EMI event, go out in that weather and do it to all 4 buildings on my campus, which have more than one machine each, after checking which subsystems in each even need that? The old rc.local method worked fine...and didn't change the rules on every apt-get upgrade... It might be easy as you say if you're up to speed with current dox, and aren't by accident reading old ones that didn't die on the 'net. Not everyone running linux wants to be a super hands-on sysadmin - it's one thing for my laptop but another for "real world use" - and you don't for other opsys to get stuff like this to work. Changing the rules...maybe one reason linux is as popular as it is is because Linus has this rule - don't break userland... ,so I can get on with the stuff I really love, ,and not need a team I can't afford on Social Security (or a possible customer can't afford to pay for or amortize on their crap paycheck).
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If the distros shipped updates to the systemD dox when they break stuff...or if I could just never have to do an update (yeah, right) because no apps would develop dependencies on the new stuff (goodluckwiththat)...I wouldn't care. Heck, if there was one clear well advertised source of dox about systemD that kept up with what set of bugs were shipped in every version of every distro, I'd be happy. Even at age 64, I still learn things, being a real serious engineer even well after I retired. But you have to make it not so hard,
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I don't see any benefit for other than people doing cloud instances of all-the-same-crap with no hardware dependencies at all. Sure, that's a paying customer market, which is why Red Hat is chasing it so hard. BUT!!! It's not the world, there's embedded control too, and lots of other stuff.
Honest question, as systemD broke many things here in a heterogeneous environment. Perfectly legal things that were to start at boot and restart (the equvilant of mysqld_safe). Multiple times, differently with updates to systemD.
So, where's the docs that are up to date, not about things that have already changed 3 times, that match my distro, so I CAN learn it. And how do I keep up with constant changes? Do I just stop updating the 20 or so machines on my campus? Do I need a test machine to mirror each one to test with (they are quite unique and do important automation work)? You want to come and tutor this programmer who's been at this since the 60's who doesn't need one more stupid problem on the way to off grid automation - for free? Breaking my stuff isn't a way to make friends. It gets cold and wet around here when the systems go down...because of your unneeded new shiny.
You mean NSA has cracked it too? "don't complain when your files get reviewed by an invasive dictatorship" That's here, and not just since Trump either. I kind of chuckled at the story that the Israelis had cracked it and told us they found the Russians there already. As if the Russians (gov) couldn't just watch the data going in and out on the fiber without leaving a trace at Kaspersky itself (as NSA does), and as if only the Israelis had any good crackers...
Compared to the MIC who's been getting more for longer than you've been alive to launch crappier rockets, for more money and with a slower schedule?
Elon's doing pretty well. He has gotten a lot less per real world result than the other guys, to the point where if he's bidding, they drop out...
Do I need to name names and show budgets here? Does Elon get the import/export bank to loan his customers money to buy his products on our back?
The subsidy line-whine is getting pretty old in light of the facts. He's just usually a little late. Most people would be "never". Sour grapes much?
No, I made it up on the spot after being disgusted at the unreasoning hate displayed here and last week on the same thread at Hackaday. If you think "pecking the eyes out of smokers" is about littering in general, you need to go some work on reading comprehension. Smokers might be jerks, but most picked up the habit when it was cool - and then couldn't put it down, ask anyone familiar with addiction how hard it is. As a smoker, I didn't force it on others, I went away from them once the majority switched to non smoking, but I never hated over it, even though I was in pain and actually the one losing my own life, and ashamed I couldn't quit something many say is harder to quit than opiods...
And I gave up mod points - which are like a bucket in a tsunami sometimes - to post that.
Hatred isn't justified for most situations. That's a big thing wrong in our world today, from virtue signalling without owning the virtue, to divide and conquer working on jerks just waiting for something easy to understand to fall for so they don't have to think...that blame passing thing gets real old if you're seen 60+ years of it.
Let's have our minute of hate for those who grew up when smoking was cool and haven't been able to quit, despite a lot of hassle and hate. Then get real. Glad I didn't grow up around the hateful people posting on this (or the week older hackaday thread...and it looks like about the same dumb, intolerant crowd here). I smoked 44 years, then quit. It was EXTREMELY HARD to do. But I managed - and years later, it still tugs on me just about every day. When you've pulled that off, you can talk hateful about people who didn't do as well as you, maybe...but only maybe.
But you jerks grew up when it was already uncool and never got addicted. Proud of yourself for just going with the flow? You got lucky, you weren't smarter or more disciplined. Don't feel so superior just because you had situation luck...
Why not try actually being superior first. It's hard, it's why everyone can't be above average - or won't. Which are you? Most seem like they could, but won't. Lazy.
I didn't make enough money to get most of the subsidy for my Volt, and it worked out to only a few percent of the price, making it still expensive. But worth it, been trouble free since late 2011.
You can write just as bad code in C, you know, or very nearly. All your complaints seem to be about bad software engineers, and I share them. But I don't blame the language for the idiots. .net are a step further yet along with those so terrible their names won't be named.
It's debatable whether the drive to make it so "anyone can code" was a good idea. If you do that, then you get anyone coding and anyone usually sucks at it.
Just my never humble opinion.
Perl was a step along that path, but it's pretty easy to argue that drag drop "VB" class and
And no, a web developer isn't a real programmer, at least not in my book. Certainly not a system architect or admin, at least not automagically - I'm aware of people who are good at all that, but they don't have to mess with html, their other skills make them too valuable to waste the time on that.
And yes, I myself have been at this game since before integrated circuits and do a lot of C too. So, most of y'all can now remove yourselves from my lawn.
Perl 5 pretty much lets you do things your way TMTOWTDI. This means a great programmer can write well structured code that is super easy to read and maintain, and a monkey can write monkey-code and have it still work, kinda - This is one school of thought, and all the complaints about perl 5 I see are about the latter class, which sadly, seems to be the majority of coders - only a few are really good and disciplined. No one's complained about the code I post on my site, ever, it's so obvious how it works, well documented and so on - you can use freedom to make it good too - it's a matter of choice and the bad stuff out there is more a comment on how crappy/lazy humans are rather than the language itself. Along comes the opposite, more or less, Rust, and many people think that a restrictive rule set guarantees better code. Vain, aren't we? You really thought of every way to get it wrong and made a rule about every single way to mess up? Boy could I have some fun with you... Granted, the sheer compiler-warning-error noise will keep away some of the monkeys, and that's probably a good thing, but then again, the fact that it's nowhere near as rich a language means that it's a tool fit for a class of jobs most of us don't do. I'm forced to program in a number of languages, I use perl a lot when I don't have to care, which is more and more of the time (hint: use Inline::Python to steal one-off code - from that language, perl supports many other languages and sometimes runs them faster than natively). Given a choice, it's perl for ease to get to an answer - save programmer time, and C++ for resource or time tight applications where it's worth the extra sweat to get it just so. The rest you can keep. Nope, haven't tried perl 6. I agree it should be named something else. I am somewhat impressed with it as a comp sci excercise, especially through the work of Damian Conway (look up his talk at YAPC "On the shoulders of giants" - it's good and it's hilarious). If Larry is the absent minded professor, and he is, Damian is the mad scientist...
Manufacturers complaining about a lack of talent mean "I can't find anyone who can walk in the door with 5 year experience running this cad/cam/cnc that's only existed for 1 or 2 and who will work for...minimum wage...".
Or maybe the author thinks that meaningless marketing jobs like his are going wanting?
You gonna learn how to program on a tablet? n Really?
If you have no or low income, isn't that an indicator of something else like, maybe there aren't many jobs period, or good ones for people at your level of accomplishment and drive - making a bit of hardware relatively meaningless?
My 2012 Volt integrates nicely with my off-grid solar system. It's never been charged from the grid. No, I don't drive all day every day - it's used to run my errand loop - but in a very rural place (26.5 mi round trip for beer and munchies for example).
While it voids the warranty, I added a 1.5 kw inverter to its 12volt system (which has a 175 amp switcher from the main Li battery) so it can also back up my homestead in times of need (thick snow on the solar panels for example) - even if it has to run its amazingly efficient engine - it's a generator that is able to get to the store to be refilled, and no spilled gas or issues with starting - meant to be in the weather. I've only used it like that once to prove I wired it up right, but it's nice to know it's there.
I'm showing 224 lifetime mpg on the thing as I try and keep my trips in it to the range - which is consistently around 10 miles more than they claimed, at least in summer time. In winter, the heater is a pig...it's about the one time a gasoline car makes sense, as you capture your waste heat to heat the cabin.
Obviously you'd prefer Ars, where even the slightest hint of right-anything, libertarian, or just factual about political doings, will get you downvoted into 'removed comment' so fast your head will spin. If this is "hard right" I question what you think "center" is. It's far more concentrated there - I've not seen a single article praising anyone in this admin there, ever. Not that they deserve much, but...here at least there are both.
I've never had a trackpoint, but was thinking it might solve that one. Nope?
And people scorned the manuf (Acer?) who once put the trackpad above the keyboard instead of below.
Obviously most users either don't or can't touch type. If you do your palm WILL hit the trackpad.
It's especially bad for proficient touch typists as you might only look up every now and then to find out you've been telling the computer crazy stuff with the cursor where it is, rather than where you thought it should be.
gets the cheese.