This isn't about exchange, it is only about bitcoin transactions, and the fees are in bitcoin. Converted into dollars with the current rate for "clarity".
The way transaction work is by telling the world "hey, I want to transfer 0.1 BTC to X, I give 0.001 BTC to the one (a miner) who makes if official (by committing it to the blockchain). You can chose how much you want to give, including zero, but those who give the most get priority. And because the system is overloaded, you need to give a lot just to be accepted.
These old guys are near retirement. Assuming they do a decent job, they probably have a lots of experience in areas where younger ones don't. It may be something as simple as knowing who to call when a piece of hardware fails, know which software have licenses and how to deal with them, or knowing what the server in the corner of the room does. They may know the tells that something will fail better than anyone else, because they have seen it.
They should be the trainers, not the trainees.
I'm saying it from experience. When I started working, an old guy trained me, and while he wasn't the best, and didn't know about the latest stuff, he told me where to look when things go wrong, or even before things go wrong. Later, the company started another project, the old guy came in and told the team about the flaws in their design, they didn't listen, and things failed as expected. I knew it too, having been trained by the old guy, and had I been part of the team, I would have avoided that particular pitfall. Experience is valuable, and people retiring without having the chance of transmitting it mean that the same mistakes are done over and over.
- Forceful, unconditional kernel operations. When I say "unmount this filesystem," I'm not asking a question. When I say "terminate this process," I expect the process to be removed from memory and the runqueue, regardless of consequences. - When I say "reboot" I mean "reboot." Hangs are not okay, ever.
- Actual, real soft NFS failures. Do not hang during boot for any reason unless that share is marked hard,nointr. Do not hang during shutdown/reboot, either.
Yep, that's annoying, but I don't know enough to say more.
- Enforce GPL-standard syntax on new incoming utilities. If you want into the package tree, use a GNU parsing library and use it correctly.
Perhaps a standardized syntax wrapper available for package maintainers.
That's a downside of decentralized development. The issue here is that different platforms have different standards, and a lot of linux tools are multiplatform. So you have the choice of making the syntax different for each platform or being consistent between platforms. Furthermore, for licensing reasons, using a GNU parsing library may not be an option. Keep in mind that developers may not want to go out of their ways just to be included in the package tree of a certain distro.
- Bolt simple parallelization, triggers and flow control onto init/rc.
You mean, without breaking anyone's workflow? Impossible. After many unsatisfactory attempts and discussions, it turned out that that systemd was deemed the least unsatisfactory.
- Drop this selinux shit. It's too complicated and causes more problems than it solves. Vulnerabilities come from bad code, not a lack of complex call ACLs. Security is a process, not a feature.
Feel free not to use it, we don't. Yes, it is compllcated, but when you want NSA-level security (at the time it was a thing), you can't rely on every developer and every administrator to be flawless. It's called defense in depth. Yes security is a process, and SELinux is one way of enforcing processes. And BTW, vulnerabilities tend to come from users (including admins) more than bad code.
- Standardize and fix bluetooth support ffs.
Not a linux-specific issue but please, yes. To be fair, Bluetooth is an extremely complex spec and it is at least partly justified. The issue is that no one seem to implement it correctly.
I don't know about you, but personally, I welcome every distraction during the morning stand up meeting... That your "team lead" looks at his wrist all the time during the meeting may be a signal that there is a problem with the meetings, not the smartwatch.
Well, by notification, I actually meant vibration.
Smartphone vibration motors tend to be weak, and unless you have it touching your body, if you are moving around, it is very easy to miss. Fitness trackers/smartwatches vibrate on your wrist, and it is a lot more noticeable. One use case was in a music festival. I had to meet with friends, and because of all that dancing and loud music, phone notifications were essentially useless, and checking messages or time regularly wasn't fun. Fitness tracker solved the problem.
Silent alarm also takes advantage of the vibrations. It is enough to wake you up without a loud alarm waking up the whole room (useful in a dorm).
If you submit ads to YouTube, they will universally be shown on all YouTube videos. You can't choose countries, ethics, subject matter, or complain about being "inappropriately" shown.
I think you have quite a lot of customization possible when you post an ad, including "content exclusion". In fact, Google and others are having issues because they give a little to much control (ex: exclude black people).
A government can make the laws in their own country, of course. However, if a country enters a trade agreement, and the EU is for most part a trade agreement, it should play by the rules it if it wants to continue trading.
Apple's headquarters are in the US but it also has branches in the EU, and these branches depend on the laws of the country they are in.
So when Apple Ireland makes a sale in the EU, it has to pay taxes to Ireland, like any Irish company. And Apple France has to pay taxes in France. That the headquarters are in the US doesn't matter. And it's a good thing, otherwise, the headquarters would have been quickly relocated to a tax heaven.
He probably talked about the language itself, not the way it is used. JS is used for more than just webpages, even if it is, by far, its most common use. And ads and tracking are not only JS. On Android, it's Java, on iOS, it is Objective C or Swift.
A friend owns a Tesla though, and is expenses are hard to get lower: he pays around 12 euro per year for maintenance. I think wiper fluid was his biggest single expense. Fuel is provided by solar panels and thus pretty cheap.
I suppose tires don't count. And why do tesla offer maintenance plans that are around 500 euros per year? Is it a scam?
It is the reverse: you don't need to be an experienced electrician to know, but being an experienced electrician means you most certainly know. It means that he can't feign ignorance.
Also, while it is a well known fact that metal blocks radio waves, there are some details you need to know in order to use this technique effectively.
It's neither. Toxoplasma gondii is the true mastermind. It is a parasite capable of mind control, it uses cats as vessels. When it infect rodents, it manipulates them so that they don't hide from cats and get eaten. It can also infect humans, causing a disease called toxoplasmosis.
Nearly 50% of all people are infected, and most people don't know about it, because it doesn't seem to cause any symptom. Still we are strangely attracted to cats, don't you think?
A user doesn't have a unique identifier. A wallet has. A user can have many wallets and create new ones out of thin air for any transaction, in fact it is what already happens by default.
For example, if police gets an address where a drug dealer receive payments and sees a transaction from that address to the exchange, then it can be reasoned that the guy who cashed the bitcoin is involved. But as the chain of transaction becomes longer, the connection becomes harder and harder. For example the dealer could have used the bitcoin to buy legal stuff and the legal shop could itself have cashed the bitcoin. Of course people who want to keep their transactions anonymous know that, that's why we have tumblers: services that create unrelated transactions to make it harder to follow the trail.
Rooting has faded in popularity on Android too. Even on xda-developers.com , which is the place to go for everything related to root, some people start discouraging the practice.
The reason is that most legitimate reasons for rooting have disappeared, and even some illegitimate ones. Most tweaks that required root can now be done without it, and features that were only available to custom ROMs are now stock. Also, by rooting, you lose regular security updates (if your phone is still supported) and some features like NFC payment.
Force tobacco companies to broadcast ads against themselves on their own expense, that's weird. They will obviously attempt to make the ads as unimpactful as possible, maybe even do a bit of reverse psychology. Smoking kills... do you fear death? Smoking is addictive... to those who lack willpower. There is no such thing as a safe cigarette... nothing is safe in this world, do you want to stop living?
Why not fine them instead and let the government broadcast its own ads with the money.
Maybe it is just a weird way of phasing "how to have sex when you have kids", as in "how to avoid having little monsters interrupt intimate moments". And "how to have sex in school" is probably a question that is in the mind of every teenager...
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is even truer with computers.
Because, a Windows desktop today does much more than a Lisp machine. The GC is not the only culprit, it is a multiplier. Your GC can make your program go from 1kB to 2kB, or from 1GB to 2GB. Of course, we can ask the question : "why is it 1GB in the first place?" and it definitely is a very good question, but the GC certainly doesn't help. Now, maybe the extra work involved in using manual memory management would be better spent optimizing GC usage and lowering the base requirement. This could make the program go from 1GB (2GB with a 100% GC overhead) to 500MB (750MB with a 50% GC overhead) and beat the original. It's an interesting debate.
The usual stance however seem to not give a shit and throw hardware at the problem. It is a valid stance : faster time to market, better focus on user requirements than technical details, cheaper, etc... It's just that I am a bit sad to see so much power wasted on abstraction layers, GC being just part of it, especially on mobile.
Ok, you stated your position in the old debate. It is clear that you want a garbage collected language. Some high profile programmers agree with you, others have different ideas.
Personally, I tend to prefer manual memory management, I think that garbage collectors are wasteful and that abstraction pile is the reason why we have these ridiculous 6 GB smartphones that still have unacceptable latency. But I understand the value of it.
I know C++, I learned economics and crypto at school, I also own a credit card. That obviously makes me a master of cryptocurrencies. But this is not enough, so let me prove you I am Satoshi : I don't own any bitcoin, and I don't bring the topic on bitcoin for unrelated conversations./facepalm
And if that story makes sense, it would make sense for millions of people. Nice story though. I would have preferred Steve Jobs though, leaving us with bitcoin just before his death, and getting buried with the private key would have made a great story.
Privacy is a weak selling point. It may be important to some but it is not what will make Firefox competitive over Chrome.
I know many people who understand what Google is doing and everything that it means regarding privacy, but they still are using Google as their search engine, because the search results are better.
For Firefox, it means that they need to make a good browser first. The privacy bits don't matter if no one wants to use a browser because it sucks. Firefox took over IE because it was just an overall better browser, not for some philosophical reason.
And if privacy is the only goal, you could do with a Chromium build, no need for for an entirely different engine.
Firefox focus on speed is a good one IMHO. It was a big selling point for Chrome, and the numbers proved it effective. Speed beats privacy as a selling point.
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This isn't about exchange, it is only about bitcoin transactions, and the fees are in bitcoin. Converted into dollars with the current rate for "clarity".
The way transaction work is by telling the world "hey, I want to transfer 0.1 BTC to X, I give 0.001 BTC to the one (a miner) who makes if official (by committing it to the blockchain). You can chose how much you want to give, including zero, but those who give the most get priority. And because the system is overloaded, you need to give a lot just to be accepted.
You are right, garbage collection is male-dominated.
We should get rid of Java and Go and replace it with C and C++ to restore balance.
These old guys are near retirement. Assuming they do a decent job, they probably have a lots of experience in areas where younger ones don't. It may be something as simple as knowing who to call when a piece of hardware fails, know which software have licenses and how to deal with them, or knowing what the server in the corner of the room does. They may know the tells that something will fail better than anyone else, because they have seen it.
They should be the trainers, not the trainees.
I'm saying it from experience. When I started working, an old guy trained me, and while he wasn't the best, and didn't know about the latest stuff, he told me where to look when things go wrong, or even before things go wrong. Later, the company started another project, the old guy came in and told the team about the flaws in their design, they didn't listen, and things failed as expected. I knew it too, having been trained by the old guy, and had I been part of the team, I would have avoided that particular pitfall. Experience is valuable, and people retiring without having the chance of transmitting it mean that the same mistakes are done over and over.
- Forceful, unconditional kernel operations. When I say "unmount this filesystem," I'm not asking a question. When I say "terminate this process," I expect the process to be removed from memory and the runqueue, regardless of consequences.
- When I say "reboot" I mean "reboot." Hangs are not okay, ever.
What about the Magic SysRq key?
- Actual, real soft NFS failures. Do not hang during boot for any reason unless that share is marked hard,nointr. Do not hang during shutdown/reboot, either.
Yep, that's annoying, but I don't know enough to say more.
- Enforce GPL-standard syntax on new incoming utilities. If you want into the package tree, use a GNU parsing library and use it correctly.
Perhaps a standardized syntax wrapper available for package maintainers.
That's a downside of decentralized development. The issue here is that different platforms have different standards, and a lot of linux tools are multiplatform. So you have the choice of making the syntax different for each platform or being consistent between platforms. Furthermore, for licensing reasons, using a GNU parsing library may not be an option. Keep in mind that developers may not want to go out of their ways just to be included in the package tree of a certain distro.
- Bolt simple parallelization, triggers and flow control onto init/rc.
You mean, without breaking anyone's workflow? Impossible. After many unsatisfactory attempts and discussions, it turned out that that systemd was deemed the least unsatisfactory.
- Drop this selinux shit. It's too complicated and causes more problems than it solves. Vulnerabilities come from bad code, not a lack of complex call ACLs. Security is a process, not a feature.
Feel free not to use it, we don't. Yes, it is compllcated, but when you want NSA-level security (at the time it was a thing), you can't rely on every developer and every administrator to be flawless. It's called defense in depth. Yes security is a process, and SELinux is one way of enforcing processes. And BTW, vulnerabilities tend to come from users (including admins) more than bad code.
- Standardize and fix bluetooth support ffs.
Not a linux-specific issue but please, yes. To be fair, Bluetooth is an extremely complex spec and it is at least partly justified. The issue is that no one seem to implement it correctly.
I don't know about you, but personally, I welcome every distraction during the morning stand up meeting...
That your "team lead" looks at his wrist all the time during the meeting may be a signal that there is a problem with the meetings, not the smartwatch.
Well, by notification, I actually meant vibration.
Smartphone vibration motors tend to be weak, and unless you have it touching your body, if you are moving around, it is very easy to miss. Fitness trackers/smartwatches vibrate on your wrist, and it is a lot more noticeable. One use case was in a music festival. I had to meet with friends, and because of all that dancing and loud music, phone notifications were essentially useless, and checking messages or time regularly wasn't fun. Fitness tracker solved the problem.
Silent alarm also takes advantage of the vibrations. It is enough to wake you up without a loud alarm waking up the whole room (useful in a dorm).
I use a MiBand 1 btw.
Even if you are not using it for fitness, the notification and silent alarm features most trackers have can be really useful.
If you submit ads to YouTube, they will universally be shown on all YouTube videos. You can't choose countries, ethics, subject matter, or complain about being "inappropriately" shown.
I think you have quite a lot of customization possible when you post an ad, including "content exclusion". In fact, Google and others are having issues because they give a little to much control (ex: exclude black people).
Demonetized video don't get ad revenue but they still get YouTube Red money.
The EU is not an irrelevant third party, it is the main reason why Apple is in Ireland.
Do you think Apple has such a presence in Ireland for the domestic market?
Ireland has signed and ratified a treaty to be in the EU, they didn't follow the rules, it is illegal.
A government can make the laws in their own country, of course.
However, if a country enters a trade agreement, and the EU is for most part a trade agreement, it should play by the rules it if it wants to continue trading.
Apple's headquarters are in the US but it also has branches in the EU, and these branches depend on the laws of the country they are in.
So when Apple Ireland makes a sale in the EU, it has to pay taxes to Ireland, like any Irish company. And Apple France has to pay taxes in France. That the headquarters are in the US doesn't matter. And it's a good thing, otherwise, the headquarters would have been quickly relocated to a tax heaven.
He probably talked about the language itself, not the way it is used.
JS is used for more than just webpages, even if it is, by far, its most common use. And ads and tracking are not only JS. On Android, it's Java, on iOS, it is Objective C or Swift.
A friend owns a Tesla though, and is expenses are hard to get lower: he pays around 12 euro per year for maintenance. I think wiper fluid was his biggest single expense. Fuel is provided by solar panels and thus pretty cheap.
I suppose tires don't count.
And why do tesla offer maintenance plans that are around 500 euros per year? Is it a scam?
It is the reverse: you don't need to be an experienced electrician to know, but being an experienced electrician means you most certainly know.
It means that he can't feign ignorance.
Also, while it is a well known fact that metal blocks radio waves, there are some details you need to know in order to use this technique effectively.
It's neither. Toxoplasma gondii is the true mastermind. It is a parasite capable of mind control, it uses cats as vessels. When it infect rodents, it manipulates them so that they don't hide from cats and get eaten. It can also infect humans, causing a disease called toxoplasmosis.
Nearly 50% of all people are infected, and most people don't know about it, because it doesn't seem to cause any symptom. Still we are strangely attracted to cats, don't you think?
A user doesn't have a unique identifier. A wallet has.
A user can have many wallets and create new ones out of thin air for any transaction, in fact it is what already happens by default.
For example, if police gets an address where a drug dealer receive payments and sees a transaction from that address to the exchange, then it can be reasoned that the guy who cashed the bitcoin is involved. But as the chain of transaction becomes longer, the connection becomes harder and harder. For example the dealer could have used the bitcoin to buy legal stuff and the legal shop could itself have cashed the bitcoin. Of course people who want to keep their transactions anonymous know that, that's why we have tumblers: services that create unrelated transactions to make it harder to follow the trail.
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
Rooting has faded in popularity on Android too.
Even on xda-developers.com , which is the place to go for everything related to root, some people start discouraging the practice.
The reason is that most legitimate reasons for rooting have disappeared, and even some illegitimate ones. Most tweaks that required root can now be done without it, and features that were only available to custom ROMs are now stock. Also, by rooting, you lose regular security updates (if your phone is still supported) and some features like NFC payment.
Force tobacco companies to broadcast ads against themselves on their own expense, that's weird. They will obviously attempt to make the ads as unimpactful as possible, maybe even do a bit of reverse psychology. Smoking kills... do you fear death? Smoking is addictive... to those who lack willpower. There is no such thing as a safe cigarette... nothing is safe in this world, do you want to stop living?
Why not fine them instead and let the government broadcast its own ads with the money.
Maybe it is just a weird way of phasing "how to have sex when you have kids", as in "how to avoid having little monsters interrupt intimate moments". And "how to have sex in school" is probably a question that is in the mind of every teenager...
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is even truer with computers.
Because, a Windows desktop today does much more than a Lisp machine.
The GC is not the only culprit, it is a multiplier. Your GC can make your program go from 1kB to 2kB, or from 1GB to 2GB. Of course, we can ask the question : "why is it 1GB in the first place?" and it definitely is a very good question, but the GC certainly doesn't help.
Now, maybe the extra work involved in using manual memory management would be better spent optimizing GC usage and lowering the base requirement. This could make the program go from 1GB (2GB with a 100% GC overhead) to 500MB (750MB with a 50% GC overhead) and beat the original. It's an interesting debate.
The usual stance however seem to not give a shit and throw hardware at the problem. It is a valid stance : faster time to market, better focus on user requirements than technical details, cheaper, etc... It's just that I am a bit sad to see so much power wasted on abstraction layers, GC being just part of it, especially on mobile.
Ok, you stated your position in the old debate. It is clear that you want a garbage collected language. Some high profile programmers agree with you, others have different ideas.
Personally, I tend to prefer manual memory management, I think that garbage collectors are wasteful and that abstraction pile is the reason why we have these ridiculous 6 GB smartphones that still have unacceptable latency. But I understand the value of it.
I know C++, I learned economics and crypto at school, I also own a credit card. That obviously makes me a master of cryptocurrencies. /facepalm
But this is not enough, so let me prove you I am Satoshi : I don't own any bitcoin, and I don't bring the topic on bitcoin for unrelated conversations.
And if that story makes sense, it would make sense for millions of people. Nice story though. I would have preferred Steve Jobs though, leaving us with bitcoin just before his death, and getting buried with the private key would have made a great story.
Privacy is a weak selling point. It may be important to some but it is not what will make Firefox competitive over Chrome.
I know many people who understand what Google is doing and everything that it means regarding privacy, but they still are using Google as their search engine, because the search results are better.
For Firefox, it means that they need to make a good browser first. The privacy bits don't matter if no one wants to use a browser because it sucks. Firefox took over IE because it was just an overall better browser, not for some philosophical reason.
And if privacy is the only goal, you could do with a Chromium build, no need for for an entirely different engine.
Firefox focus on speed is a good one IMHO. It was a big selling point for Chrome, and the numbers proved it effective. Speed beats privacy as a selling point.