UL stands for Underwriter's Laboratories, and while UL approval may literally be required for some vendors to purchase product liability insurance, a true 21st-Century Enterpreneur [TM] shouldn't let difficulty in getting insured be an obstacle. You have to have an Exit Strategy so that before the claims come pouring in, you've already taken the money and run.
OR, you could be a mega-too-big-to-fail corporation, self-insure and pay claims out of petty cash the way that Detroit automakers computed the cost/benefit ratio of lives lost versus cost of installing seatbelts (and other equipment) before the goddam gubmint made them do so regardless.
Actually, according to the documents packaged with the Roku 3, that particular device does understand to go to sleep when not in use, which is why it has no power switch. The upstream HDMI load, lack thereof, or possibly some HDMI signal negotiations appears to be sufficient to let it know. Plus there's an intermediate timeout/screensaver mode.
Disclaimer: the Roku can stay warm enough that a cynic might interpret lack of a power switch as a beancounter's justification for skimping on a 25-cent part, but then again, it's got a live remote control receiver in it.
The problem with "work from anywhere" is that only a small percentage of the workforce can be effective working remotely. Many (probably most) aren't able to communicate and stay focused when working remotely, so management insists on having everyone in the cubical farm together.
Hobby software like Linux doesn't have that priority so it has no place in my mission-critical installations. But it's certainly fine for browsing, email and playing games.
Exactly! That's why the Microsoft's Hotmail servers ran BSD for so long. Because Windows wasn't fine for email.
Amazingly enough, something like 75% of the existence of the USA existed under tariffs. Was it impoverished and authoritarian back then? Did the government spy indiscriminately on every individual? Did people grow up with the expectations that their children would probably be less well off than they were?
Of course, that's all moot if the land isn't arable without expensive water importation. Or even livable beyond nomadic population densities. Look at the maps and pictures.
You generate the power where people don't/can't live and pump it to where they do. Just like we do in the USA. At least when we're not creating new Superfund sites.
Trees???? A major part of Morocco is in the Sahara Desert!
Or are we building power plants out of wood these days?
How much carbon does it take to make a fossil-fuel boiler, ship it, set it up?
We're actually not talking much difference, anyway - this is not a photovoltaic solar farm, it's a heat-converting facility. Same as coal or oil based generating systems, but without shipping in coal or oil to keep it going. You can do an awful lot of maintenance if you don't have to budget for fuel or fuel-shipping costs.
And being as it's in a high-sunlight region, you could even do a fair amount of metallurgy using concentrated solar energy if you were really obsessed with setup energy costs. A simple Fresnel lens out of an old flat-screen TV can smelt metal and there are YouTube videos to prove it.
... available if requested since these are government employees and the public has a duty of oversight.
Wrong. This is 21ST Century USA. The public has the right to stay at home and shut up. If they want to travel or assemble, they must do so under careful government oversite. The government can look after itself.
The government is required to know all about the people, but only a Terrorist-loving traitor would want information on the government. That information should be classified, along with bus schedules, weather reports, pictures of government buildings and monuments and other possible sources of information that might usable by the enemy.
some of these calls made me genuinely cringe. i expected to feel "serves you right" but ended up feeling sorry for the callers. they're just people who can't get a job anywhere else.
Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses. Are they still in operation?
Wasn't a common library the entire point of Docker?
Packaging the libs with the app, etc, to reduce dependence on the host OS?
No, although it's one of Docker's features. Docker images are actually stacked layers of filesystem sub-images operating as overlays, so a typical Docker image might consist of a base OS image, several library images built by the Docker build process, culminating in the actual application image. Done judiciously, those sub-images can be shared by multiple application images, thereby saving space in the Docker image store.
But Docker is a lot more than that. You can run virtual networks within containers, share resources between selected containers (and ONLY those container), inject external filesystems into the containers and do many other useful things as well.
Yeah, except that FreeBSD has had 'jails' for over a decade, which are far more secure than anything Docker brings to bear.
Linux has had jails for over a decade. I image that FreeBSD actually goes back further than that.
Docker has jails plus virtual networks plus various other isolation mechanisms, so I cannot credit your assertion that a jail-only mechanism is more secure.
If by our you mean the US, the use of the term state to refer to something that is not an independent nation state is at odds with most of the rest of the world.
Except for the United States of Mexico, the Federated States of Micronesia, and perhaps a few others.
Then again, some thought when the USA was founded that the states should be independent. Abraham Lincoln pretty much put a stop to that, though.
Absolutely. And the title is realy stupid. "One Hoss Shay" - if the horse dies, get another horse, and vice versa. No need to throw everything out just because the horse died, same as no reason to throw a vehicle just because the engine died.
Sigh.
Don't kids learn anything these days? Or do they just hear-and-respond without any thought at all?
I recently was planning to digitize a number of cassette recordings -- radio broadcasts from the early 80's -- and well the horror. Hiss. And these were high quality cassettes. As with the commercial cassettes easily the worst format in the century of recorded sound -- I think wax cylinders and piano rolls hold up better.
Dolby?
Commercial tapes were often non-dolby and cassette tape hiss was a problem even on new tapes. Dolby addressed that by specifically tailoring the recorded signal towards the high-end frequencies where hiss comes in.
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UL stands for Underwriter's Laboratories, and while UL approval may literally be required for some vendors to purchase product liability insurance, a true 21st-Century Enterpreneur [TM] shouldn't let difficulty in getting insured be an obstacle. You have to have an Exit Strategy so that before the claims come pouring in, you've already taken the money and run.
OR, you could be a mega-too-big-to-fail corporation, self-insure and pay claims out of petty cash the way that Detroit automakers computed the cost/benefit ratio of lives lost versus cost of installing seatbelts (and other equipment) before the goddam gubmint made them do so regardless.
Actually, according to the documents packaged with the Roku 3, that particular device does understand to go to sleep when not in use, which is why it has no power switch. The upstream HDMI load, lack thereof, or possibly some HDMI signal negotiations appears to be sufficient to let it know. Plus there's an intermediate timeout/screensaver mode.
Disclaimer: the Roku can stay warm enough that a cynic might interpret lack of a power switch as a beancounter's justification for skimping on a 25-cent part, but then again, it's got a live remote control receiver in it.
No, people might actually do that.
In India, $5/hr is a decent salary for a software engineer.
Well, int the 60s, everyone was going on about how the increased productivity automation brought us was going to have us all working 3-hour work days.
Productivity went up, the work week went up, the profits from increased productivity went into someone else's pockets.
The problem with "work from anywhere" is that only a small percentage of the workforce can be effective working remotely. Many (probably most) aren't able to communicate and stay focused when working remotely, so management insists on having everyone in the cubical farm together.
Statistics, please?
Don't use drugstore prices as a reference. DVDs at drugstores are often marked up horribly compared to other places.
And unless you MUST have Blu-Ray, conventional DVDs are cheaper.
Who bothers with DVDs anymore? Unless your tastes are way off the beaten track, everything you might want is available for streaming anyway.
The BBC has taken Dr. Who off Netfllx and Hulu in the USA. So far, they cannot do that with the physical discs I have.
Of course, I presume when you meant "available for streaming" you meant legal streaming.
Hobby software like Linux doesn't have that priority so it has no place in my mission-critical installations. But it's certainly fine for browsing, email and playing games.
Exactly! That's why the Microsoft's Hotmail servers ran BSD for so long. Because Windows wasn't fine for email.
Well, at least we in the USA can still read Mein Kampf.
When I see VC, I think Victoria Cross.
Do you pronounce ATM as "cashpoint"?
Lawyers and politicians have the power to have people's property seized and their freedom curtailed.
Unfortunately, they've never learned that this isn't the same thing as having the power to bend reality.
Amazingly enough, something like 75% of the existence of the USA existed under tariffs. Was it impoverished and authoritarian back then? Did the government spy indiscriminately on every individual? Did people grow up with the expectations that their children would probably be less well off than they were?
This post brought to you by the First World Problems Department.
Also. Seriously, this is "news for nerds"? A minor font tweak on some ebook reader?
If it saves some other nerd from creating a product with eyestrain-inducing text, then yes.
Of course, that's all moot if the land isn't arable without expensive water importation. Or even livable beyond nomadic population densities. Look at the maps and pictures.
You generate the power where people don't/can't live and pump it to where they do. Just like we do in the USA. At least when we're not creating new Superfund sites.
Trees???? A major part of Morocco is in the Sahara Desert!
Or are we building power plants out of wood these days?
How much carbon does it take to make a fossil-fuel boiler, ship it, set it up?
We're actually not talking much difference, anyway - this is not a photovoltaic solar farm, it's a heat-converting facility. Same as coal or oil based generating systems, but without shipping in coal or oil to keep it going. You can do an awful lot of maintenance if you don't have to budget for fuel or fuel-shipping costs.
And being as it's in a high-sunlight region, you could even do a fair amount of metallurgy using concentrated solar energy if you were really obsessed with setup energy costs. A simple Fresnel lens out of an old flat-screen TV can smelt metal and there are YouTube videos to prove it.
... available if requested since these are government employees and the public has a duty of oversight.
Wrong. This is 21ST Century USA. The public has the right to stay at home and shut up. If they want to travel or assemble, they must do so under careful government oversite. The government can look after itself.
The government is required to know all about the people, but only a Terrorist-loving traitor would want information on the government. That information should be classified, along with bus schedules, weather reports, pictures of government buildings and monuments and other possible sources of information that might usable by the enemy.
If I didn't misunderstand them, keeping the common core up to date was one of the goals behind Red Hat's Project Atomic.
Which one is legal? Which one isn't?
Idiot.
Which one is the bigger blight on society? The one who lifts a few wallets everyday, or the one who spreads misery to literally millions?
Legal shouldn't be the only basis for behavior.
some of these calls made me genuinely cringe. i expected to feel "serves you right" but ended up feeling sorry for the callers. they're just people who can't get a job anywhere else.
Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses. Are they still in operation?
Wasn't a common library the entire point of Docker?
Packaging the libs with the app, etc, to reduce dependence on the host OS?
No, although it's one of Docker's features. Docker images are actually stacked layers of filesystem sub-images operating as overlays, so a typical Docker image might consist of a base OS image, several library images built by the Docker build process, culminating in the actual application image. Done judiciously, those sub-images can be shared by multiple application images, thereby saving space in the Docker image store.
But Docker is a lot more than that. You can run virtual networks within containers, share resources between selected containers (and ONLY those container), inject external filesystems into the containers and do many other useful things as well.
Yeah, except that FreeBSD has had 'jails' for over a decade, which are far more secure than anything Docker brings to bear.
Linux has had jails for over a decade. I image that FreeBSD actually goes back further than that.
Docker has jails plus virtual networks plus various other isolation mechanisms, so I cannot credit your assertion that a jail-only mechanism is more secure.
If by our you mean the US, the use of the term state to refer to something that is not an independent nation state is at odds with most of the rest of the world.
Except for the United States of Mexico, the Federated States of Micronesia, and perhaps a few others.
Then again, some thought when the USA was founded that the states should be independent. Abraham Lincoln pretty much put a stop to that, though.
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We get it, you're a hackaday shill.
Absolutely. And the title is realy stupid. "One Hoss Shay" - if the horse dies, get another horse, and vice versa. No need to throw everything out just because the horse died, same as no reason to throw a vehicle just because the engine died.
Sigh.
Don't kids learn anything these days? Or do they just hear-and-respond without any thought at all?
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/holm...
I recently was planning to digitize a number of cassette recordings -- radio broadcasts from the early 80's -- and well the horror. Hiss. And these were high quality cassettes.
As with the commercial cassettes easily the worst format in the century of recorded sound -- I think wax cylinders and piano rolls hold up better.
Dolby?
Commercial tapes were often non-dolby and cassette tape hiss was a problem even on new tapes. Dolby addressed that by specifically tailoring the recorded signal towards the high-end frequencies where hiss comes in.