I do find it interesting how twisted truth becomes reality so easily. No liberal or indeed, any other faction had anything to do with stopping a second vote on the same motion.
There is a long standing tradition in the UK parliament that members of parliament can not vote on the same motion twice in the same sitting of parliament. This is to stop a government crippling parliament by re-submitting the same issue over an dover again. This tradition is applied nregularly in the house of commons but nobody ever hears about it because few people actually pay attention to what is going on in parliament.
All that happened in this case is that the government were reminded that parliament will not vote on the same bill twice in one parliament.
OK so stabbings in London, being arrested for online criticism, jobs hard to come by and "different culture" people everywhere is the fault of the EU? I guess you could argue that freedom of movement contributes to "different culture" people being everywhere but given the majority of immigrants in the UK come from outside the EU, it isn't a particularly strong argument.
I get that people are unhappy with the state of the country in many ways but the EU doesn't control police on the streets, ethical priorities or even economic policy in the UK. The EU is by no means perfect but blaming it for the countries ills will solve nothing.
EV "fuelling" strategy is different than ICE fuelling strategy. 5-100% charging session are hardly, if ever needed. I have had an EV for over a year now and have never needed one.
In an ICE car you drive around until your fuel gets low and then go and fill it up. If you have an EV and a charging point at home, you plug in when you get home at night and have a "full tank" every morning so you rarely, if ever, go and "fuel" your car.
That said, if you don't have a charge point at home it all becomes a lot more inconvenient so perhaps the important thing is not so much getting battery technology to a faster charging rate and upgrading the grid to cope but instead, make it easier to get EV's charged slowly over night.
Actually tesla said the driver ignored the warning earlier in the drive. It could have been an hour before.
Tesla autopilot warns you to take control every minute or so regardless of whether it is "confused" or not. If you don't, after sufficient warnings, it stops the car.
There is no information in the Tesla statement that isn't true of many many tesla autopilot journeys.
It looks to me, as a Tesla owner myself, that autopilot did, indeed, drive him into the barrier and that we have a reminder that every time a driver looks away when on autopilot, they gamble with their life.
I'm not so sure I buy the TCO argument. When I look at EVs and hybrids, they're extremely overpriced in the fit-and-finish department. And aside from a few models (mostly adaptations of existing models), extremely out of class in the aesthetic department as well.
People don't pay $50,000 for, say, an Audi, because they're worried about gas milage. So when you stack that $50,000-$65,000 Audi up against the $65,000-$80,000 Tesla, the fuel savings aren't there.
And if you'll take a lesser fit-and-finish or general aesthetic to save gas money, be sure to compare that EV to a $15K Yaris.
I figure someone will consider an EV because a) they're very bad at math, or b) they've got cash to burn and they're investing the the future of technology, or c) they're a pretentious snob, or d) they've got cash to burn and they're wanting to take advantage of that insane torque curve.
Most people who have an EV say they would never go back to an ICE car at least partly because actually driving an EV is so much nicer.
Instant torque, near silent motors and regenerative breaking make for a very relaxing drive.
I drove six hours across Norway yesterday in an electric car. You have to drive over the mountains to do that. I drove back home the same day in it too.
I drove a return trip of 750km (about 500miles) yesterday with the temperature averaging about -6C which isnÂt that cold but cold enough. I stopped to charge and have coffee once on the way there and once for charge and pizza on the way back. Both times the charging was done before I was. This is the same as when I did the trip in the summer.
I donÂt know what the actual range reduction is but even 20% seems high.
I do think though that long distance EV driving is really only practical in a Tesla. Not because of range but because of the super charger network.
You may be right of course but it is an interesting point.
I might add, that as you get older, finding technical jobs gets more difficult but management roles are easier. I employ techies now and am ashamed to say that I have to force myself to interview the older ones because very few of them still have the passion that the young ones do, even if they are less likely to make mistakes. Some do still have passion and make excellent employees but I can understand why some people would pass over my rather extensive technical CV when they see my birth date:)
With your low Slashdot UID, I guess you have been in this game a while too. I'd be interested how you see your own future panning out in this respect.
This is true. I was a senior tech as after all, I had been doing it for twenty five years so I started to get the hang of it:) I am starting to get the hang of managing things too but my point still remains the same. Take me back to that pay grade and I'm tapping away at some code:)
It's really tough looking at my younger team members working away at techy stuff seeing the mistakes they are about to make. I have to keep my mouth shut and let them make them. It's the only way they will develop but it cuts deep to know how it really should be done but having to let it go.
Except most people will vote for those that will be best for them, not what will be best for the business as whole and that in many cases is not the same person.
I took over a troubled team as my first management position. I was amazed at how childish people could be. Constant fighting, splitting up into little groups, people scoring points of each other rather than having a common purpose. It was awful and left to themselves I think it would have had to be dismantled.
That team needed management and though it is now a happy team for the most part, it still requires management to keep it that way.
The real problem is that management is generally not considered a skill taken seriously by an organization. In their view nearly anybody can do it. Just shove them in an office and give them a team. It is a skill, it does take time to learn and it needs to be taught.
While I agree with the sentiment,I would say in my own case as a manager, if the pay scale were the same as when I was a techy, I'd just stay a techie.
As a techy, you know what you deliver, you invest in what you are responsible for and generally speaking your working world revolves around the things you know you are skilled at. For me at least, as a manager, it took time to find what it was I was delivering and even now, when I am clearer on that, it is far less concrete a thing. If my team delivers far more than expected because I have managed well, it could be said I have delivered, but I cant get away from the feeling that in fact, my team have just done a really good job instead:)
As a techy, I had Unix, I had C, perl, storage systems, networks etc and these I knew well and they followed strict rules. As a manager, I am constantly thrown into areas of no rules I know about and it's up to me to react as best I can, understand what the hell people are talking about and deliver stuff while looking to my team like I know what the hell I am doing.
I like the people management part of the job and I do like it when the customer is happy with what the team have delivered but if it were the same pay scale, Id be on the shop floor.
"Somebody else's fault" can not be quantifies in mere monetary value. It is priceless to many in upper management. It is the basis of the cut and thrust of living in the upper echelons of large corporations and a trifling issue such as cost is irrelevant by comparison.
It is important to be careful when referring to "stupid directives". Most of them are not and the ones that make the headlines are not even true. For example, the banana thing was an attempt by the EU to keep the quality of bananas in the face of sub-standard imports. Interestingly, the legal properties of the banana were taken from the already existing UK regulations.
Some EU directives discussed are a bit nutty but most of them never make it to being a law.
On my ipad I have three icons next to each other that look almost exactly the same. On my Android phone I have something similar and the Dolphin browser on my phone has loads of little blobs that bear no relation to anything and the only way to find out what they do is to press them.
With OSX I have chosen not to upgrade to the latest just in case I end up not knowing what anything does. Strangely, Apple are still producing Logic X with things that look exactly like their physical counterpart, right down to useless cables in some cases.
On android google maps is pretty cool. You can say "ok google, take me home/work/xxxÂs house" without pressing anything. You can also say things like "take me to the nearest bar/pizza/ATM" etc. The navigation itself is pretty good and can use public transport if you want it to.
AppleÂs problem when competing with google is that their apps only work on Apple systems. Doing what google has done with street view is a huge undertaking if you are restricted to a smallish percent of the market.
I do understand that Apple wanted to get away from relying on Google for maps but I donÂt think they have succeeded.
However, that all started out as "can windows run without explorer". It turned out that it probably couldn't and Microsoft was found guilty of using one Microsoft product to unfairly increase the use of another Microsoft product. This is different and rather interesting though because now, Microsoft and Cyanogen are going to prove that Android can run perfectly happily without Google apps. This should suit Google just fine when the EU comes knocking.
You have plainly been around a while. Even longer than I in fact, at least on Slashdot.
I am slightly disconcerted with the unseemly personal attacks on the developer of a controversial new system component. I am slightly more concerned with the aggressive tone adopted by those who believe this component a step forward. The rather distasteful suggestion that those that hold a different opinion are simply disposable is not very attractive especially since many who are not convinced by systemd have many, many years of watching unix and unix like systems break.
I am on the fence personally, willing to be convinced but bear in mind I have many, many years of having my arse saved by following the trail the very transparent init gives us. I have many many years of experience of pain when required to follow less transparent approaches such as SMF.
This is an improvement and makes it possible to use standard monitoring tools. If one of those is a unique identifier, thats even handy.
What makes this even better is that it allows me to easily create a script to re-format the logs into something everything and everybody can easily read just as they used to.
pidfile approach is guaranteed to fail or require operator intervention from time to time. It can even be dangerous and result in the wrong thing being killed just as much, if not more than not using a pidfile.
Your description of the workflow using a pidfile already requires accessing the process table so why bother with all the other stuff. Just look for another instance of your daemon. If there is one, send it your commands but if there isnt start up.
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I do find it interesting how twisted truth becomes reality so easily. No liberal or indeed, any other faction had anything to do with stopping a second vote on the same motion.
There is a long standing tradition in the UK parliament that members of parliament can not vote on the same motion twice in the same sitting of parliament. This is to stop a government crippling parliament by re-submitting the same issue over an dover again. This tradition is applied nregularly in the house of commons but nobody ever hears about it because few people actually pay attention to what is going on in parliament.
All that happened in this case is that the government were reminded that parliament will not vote on the same bill twice in one parliament.
And the opposing march nearly managed to fill a pub in Nottinghamshire.
OK so stabbings in London, being arrested for online criticism, jobs hard to come by and "different culture" people everywhere is the fault of the EU? I guess you could argue that freedom of movement contributes to "different culture" people being everywhere but given the majority of immigrants in the UK come from outside the EU, it isn't a particularly strong argument.
I get that people are unhappy with the state of the country in many ways but the EU doesn't control police on the streets, ethical priorities or even economic policy in the UK. The EU is by no means perfect but blaming it for the countries ills will solve nothing.
sync && sync
EV "fuelling" strategy is different than ICE fuelling strategy. 5-100% charging session are hardly, if ever needed. I have had an EV for over a year now and have never needed one.
In an ICE car you drive around until your fuel gets low and then go and fill it up. If you have an EV and a charging point at home, you plug in when you get home at night and have a "full tank" every morning so you rarely, if ever, go and "fuel" your car.
That said, if you don't have a charge point at home it all becomes a lot more inconvenient so perhaps the important thing is not so much getting battery technology to a faster charging rate and upgrading the grid to cope but instead, make it easier to get EV's charged slowly over night.
Actually tesla said the driver ignored the warning earlier in the drive. It could have been an hour before.
Tesla autopilot warns you to take control every minute or so regardless of whether it is "confused" or not. If you don't, after sufficient warnings, it stops the car.
There is no information in the Tesla statement that isn't true of many many tesla autopilot journeys.
It looks to me, as a Tesla owner myself, that autopilot did, indeed, drive him into the barrier and that we have a reminder that every time a driver looks away when on autopilot, they gamble with their life.
I'm not so sure I buy the TCO argument. When I look at EVs and hybrids, they're extremely overpriced in the fit-and-finish department. And aside from a few models (mostly adaptations of existing models), extremely out of class in the aesthetic department as well.
People don't pay $50,000 for, say, an Audi, because they're worried about gas milage. So when you stack that $50,000-$65,000 Audi up against the $65,000-$80,000 Tesla, the fuel savings aren't there.
And if you'll take a lesser fit-and-finish or general aesthetic to save gas money, be sure to compare that EV to a $15K Yaris.
I figure someone will consider an EV because a) they're very bad at math, or b) they've got cash to burn and they're investing the the future of technology, or c) they're a pretentious snob, or d) they've got cash to burn and they're wanting to take advantage of that insane torque curve.
Most people who have an EV say they would never go back to an ICE car at least partly because actually driving an EV is so much nicer.
Instant torque, near silent motors and regenerative breaking make for a very relaxing drive.
ThatÂs strange
I drove six hours across Norway yesterday in an electric car. You have to drive over the mountains to do that. I drove back home the same day in it too.
Nowhere close to 50%.
I drove a return trip of 750km (about 500miles) yesterday with the temperature averaging about -6C which isnÂt that cold but cold enough. I stopped to charge and have coffee once on the way there and once for charge and pizza on the way back. Both times the charging was done before I was. This is the same as when I did the trip in the summer.
I donÂt know what the actual range reduction is but even 20% seems high.
I do think though that long distance EV driving is really only practical in a Tesla. Not because of range but because of the super charger network.
You may be right of course but it is an interesting point.
I might add, that as you get older, finding technical jobs gets more difficult but management roles are easier. I employ techies now and am ashamed to say that I have to force myself to interview the older ones because very few of them still have the passion that the young ones do, even if they are less likely to make mistakes. Some do still have passion and make excellent employees but I can understand why some people would pass over my rather extensive technical CV when they see my birth date :)
With your low Slashdot UID, I guess you have been in this game a while too. I'd be interested how you see your own future panning out in this respect.
Thanks,
This is true. I was a senior tech as after all, I had been doing it for twenty five years so I started to get the hang of it :) I am starting to get the hang of managing things too but my point still remains the same. Take me back to that pay grade and I'm tapping away at some code :)
It's really tough looking at my younger team members working away at techy stuff seeing the mistakes they are about to make. I have to keep my mouth shut and let them make them. It's the only way they will develop but it cuts deep to know how it really should be done but having to let it go.
Except most people will vote for those that will be best for them, not what will be best for the business as whole and that in many cases is not the same person.
I took over a troubled team as my first management position. I was amazed at how childish people could be. Constant fighting, splitting up into little groups, people scoring points of each other rather than having a common purpose. It was awful and left to themselves I think it would have had to be dismantled.
That team needed management and though it is now a happy team for the most part, it still requires management to keep it that way.
The real problem is that management is generally not considered a skill taken seriously by an organization. In their view nearly anybody can do it. Just shove them in an office and give them a team. It is a skill, it does take time to learn and it needs to be taught.
While I agree with the sentiment,I would say in my own case as a manager, if the pay scale were the same as when I was a techy, I'd just stay a techie.
As a techy, you know what you deliver, you invest in what you are responsible for and generally speaking your working world revolves around the things you know you are skilled at. For me at least, as a manager, it took time to find what it was I was delivering and even now, when I am clearer on that, it is far less concrete a thing. If my team delivers far more than expected because I have managed well, it could be said I have delivered, but I cant get away from the feeling that in fact, my team have just done a really good job instead :)
As a techy, I had Unix, I had C, perl, storage systems, networks etc and these I knew well and they followed strict rules. As a manager, I am constantly thrown into areas of no rules I know about and it's up to me to react as best I can, understand what the hell people are talking about and deliver stuff while looking to my team like I know what the hell I am doing.
I like the people management part of the job and I do like it when the customer is happy with what the team have delivered but if it were the same pay scale, Id be on the shop floor.
This is truth!
"Somebody else's fault" can not be quantifies in mere monetary value. It is priceless to many in upper management. It is the basis of the cut and thrust of living in the upper echelons of large corporations and a trifling issue such as cost is irrelevant by comparison.
There are fjords in England now?
Did prohibition of alcohol work well?
Harsh but fair
It is important to be careful when referring to "stupid directives". Most of them are not and the ones that make the headlines are not even true. For example, the banana thing was an attempt by the EU to keep the quality of bananas in the face of sub-standard imports. Interestingly, the legal properties of the banana were taken from the already existing UK regulations.
Some EU directives discussed are a bit nutty but most of them never make it to being a law.
I completely agree.
On my ipad I have three icons next to each other that look almost exactly the same. On my Android phone I have something similar and the Dolphin browser on my phone has loads of little blobs that bear no relation to anything and the only way to find out what they do is to press them.
With OSX I have chosen not to upgrade to the latest just in case I end up not knowing what anything does. Strangely, Apple are still producing Logic X with things that look exactly like their physical counterpart, right down to useless cables in some cases.
I think the map data itself is fine. It works great on a TomTom
On android google maps is pretty cool. You can say "ok google, take me home/work/xxxÂs house" without pressing anything. You can also say things like "take me to the nearest bar/pizza/ATM" etc. The navigation itself is pretty good and can use public transport if you want it to.
AppleÂs problem when competing with google is that their apps only work on Apple systems. Doing what google has done with street view is a huge undertaking if you are restricted to a smallish percent of the market.
I do understand that Apple wanted to get away from relying on Google for maps but I donÂt think they have succeeded.
However, that all started out as "can windows run without explorer". It turned out that it probably couldn't and Microsoft was found guilty of using one Microsoft product to unfairly increase the use of another Microsoft product. This is different and rather interesting though because now, Microsoft and Cyanogen are going to prove that Android can run perfectly happily without Google apps. This should suit Google just fine when the EU comes knocking.
You have plainly been around a while. Even longer than I in fact, at least on Slashdot.
I am slightly disconcerted with the unseemly personal attacks on the developer of a controversial new system component. I am slightly more concerned with the aggressive tone adopted by those who believe this component a step forward. The rather distasteful suggestion that those that hold a different opinion are simply disposable is not very attractive especially since many who are not convinced by systemd have many, many years of watching unix and unix like systems break.
I am on the fence personally, willing to be convinced but bear in mind I have many, many years of having my arse saved by following the trail the very transparent init gives us. I have many many years of experience of pain when required to follow less transparent approaches such as SMF.
Perhaps you have a convincing argument for me.
Regards
This is an improvement and makes it possible to use standard monitoring tools. If one of those is a unique identifier, thats even handy.
What makes this even better is that it allows me to easily create a script to re-format the logs into something everything and everybody can easily read just as they used to.
pidfile approach is guaranteed to fail or require operator intervention from time to time. It can even be dangerous and result in the wrong thing being killed just as much, if not more than not using a pidfile.
Your description of the workflow using a pidfile already requires accessing the process table so why bother with all the other stuff. Just look for another instance of your daemon. If there is one, send it your commands but if there isnt start up.