When *I* repair computer systems, and specifically storage systems, the *first* thing I do is copy off whatever bit of data I can get. That way my attempts to repair it don't result in losing any data.
Therefore, it's not inconsistent to say "it is being repaired, and they recovered some data".
> If you find out someone recorded video of you undressing in your bedroom, are you going to go after the camera manufacturer?
If the manufacturer of "smoke alarm hidden camera" advertises on voyeur porn sites, with ads that say "She'll never notice this camera hidden in her bedroom!", then yes that would be a legitimate suit.
Ridiculous or not, I can't legally fly my $100 toy quadcopter in my backyard without FAA permission, which they grant if you register it.
I have no idea what President Trump (no relation to candidate Trump) will do in regards over-regulation, but he's very different from all the professional politicians in a lot of ways, so it'll be interesting to find out.
I think I understand his point and as I said, he may be right. I just got a chuckle from the first sentence, before reading on. Kind of like when an old lady who talks real slow asks you "Do... you... like... cock... atiels ?"
Or when someone starts out with "NASA was not given the money to pursue low cost", before continuing to say something that makes sense.
Your post may make sense, I don't follow the space program(s) close enough to know. I got chuckle from this though:
> They could be more competitive on price, if they were given the money
I suppose if taxpayers gave them a trillion dollars, they could charge customers $100. That doesn't make them cheaper - that just changes who is paying the bill.
> the only way to combat it is by some incorruptible authority guarding against it with an eagle eye
If you have an incorruptible authority handy, that would certainly be good. The framers of the Constitution (the written one, not the govt we have now) explicitly designed the system to make greed and self-interest work for good. For example, the way separation of powers works was designed for that purpose. A hundred of the most powerful people in the country, the Senate, was to have many of the powers the President doesn't have; the President could gain those powers only if the Senate gave up power. That effectively restricted presidential power for most of the first 150 years - Congressmen could retain their power only by seeing to it that the President didn't take over, and vice-versa. The founders wrote about this.
Consider two economic systems. In the first, everyone is supposed to get the same $18,000/year. Greedy (amd hungry) people who want more can only get more by doing illegal things - corruption, black market, etc. In the second system, you can get more money by providing anything that people want. If farmers want better tractors, you can make a lot of money making better tractors for them. If people want better smartphones, you can make a lot of money by making better smartphones for them.
In the first system, people who want more for themselves have no choice but corruption and crime. In the second system, the easiest way to get more for yourself is to do something that's helpful to other people. The second system has much *less* corruption (much less, though not zero).
I went to update the Wikipedia page and found it says:
Media reported that data from the cockpit voice recorder indicated one of the pilots had tried to extinguish the fire in the cockpit before the airplane crashed.[104] However, after these reports were released, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority urged "media to be cautious while issuing press releases about the accident and to only rely on official reports issued by the committee itself."[105] Later, on 16 July, the committee confirmed that the cockpit voice recording mentioned "the existence of a fire".[55]
I didn't read the whole thing looking for other mentions that need to be updated.
Thanks for that. Sounds like I have a lot of work to do to become nerd famous.;)
I just checked out your blog and found the bit about switching power supplies interesting. I knew about switching *regulators*, but didn't realize common power supplies could actually run on DC. I'll have to check your blog more often.
-- Information from the flight's cockpit voice recorder suggests the pilot tried to extinguish a fire in the cockpit before the plane crashed --
The French article says: -- the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) indicates that one of the two pilot present in the cockpit of flight MS 804...
it was not this fire that suddenly cut, at 37,000 feet, the other black box, the flight recorder (FDR) -- Translated by Google translate.
The article explicitly says "not the OTHER black box, the flight data recorder".
A couple of typos made that hard to read. Let me try again:
What do you think first / most really got your name out there? Why did you start getting so much press attention, etc, compared to other people who also did important work?
Not that you aren't worth listening to. I'm not saying you don't "deserve" the attention or whatever. I'd just like to know your thoughts on how and why someone like yourself becomes a bit of a celebrity in the field.
And this is from a guy who is famous largely for saying stuff!* Well known for talking about Morse code, talking about free software and open source, talking about Debian's principles, talking at conferences, probably talking to Congress... and even you don't talk more than a few hours per week.
* and also of course for DOING a lot of things, including doing things like founding organizations - which requires a lot of talking.
Actually, that got me curious, what do you first / most really got your name out there, why do you start getting so much press attention? Busybox is important, of course, but you never hear the person who created grub mentioned in press, or the original author of glibc.
You can of course Google for yourself if you'd like to see a dozen examples, but here's one to get you started. Nashville council member Sheri Weiner admits the anti-Google fiber council proposal she sponsored was written by AT&T and Comcast.
Last year's financial statement, which you so helpfully linked to, shows that their subscriber revenue approximately covers the cost of customer service and other expenses they had last year while using the network that taxpayers spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build.
When you invest in infrastructure, a key number is how long it takes to recover your investment. If you spend $350 million building a network and it generates gross profit of $70 million / year, the recovery period is five years - it takes five years to get your money back. Keep in mind you'll need to replace much of that network as technology advances, and you better recover your costs of the network before have to start replacing parts of it.
What is the cost recovery time for EPBFI? Five years? Ten? Try 300 years! At least 50 times worse than any operating private company.
> that was only a portion of the Federal Stimulus dollars, so why shouldn't any of the people in Tennessee get some? They too pay their taxes.
For all I care, go ahead and pay an extra $230/month taxes and $50/month on your "electric" bill to subsidize an inefficient ISP, but don't then lie and say it costs $70/month. It costs $230/month plus $50/month plus $70/month = $350/month.
> Also, Google's problem isn't with municipal ISP's. Their problem is that the local provider, Comcast, AT&T, etc
I have no doubt that some ISPs have tried to slow Google fiber down however they could. Also, we know that Google announced at the outset that they wouldn't even consider b deploying in a city until the city itself promised not to be a major pain in the butt. They didn't insist on that because of their imagination. City administrations HAVE derailed deployments, sometimes but not always while receiving donations or legal kickbacks from incumbent providers. Often, the city's franchise agreement with the incumbent is that the incumbent ISP (Comcast) pays the city 3% of all revenue. So the more subscribers Comcast has, the more money city council gets to spend on Councilman Jones Parkway. Having competition come in, from Google or elsewhere, directly reduces the budget for the council members' pet projects.
> . If so why are you "paid" (as in employed) rather than owning all of the massive value you add (by being a founder / owner)?
I've founded a few companies. One I sold for a good price. One I still own. I haven't been an executive, or an employee, of that company for four years, just the owner, because I add more value an as engineer than I do as an executive. I'm better at designing really cool tech systems than I am at running a company. Also, I don't *want* to work 60 hours. I want to work 40, so I work 40 doing what I'm good at. Other people who don't know a stored procedure from a packed structure are good at running a company and want to spend 60 hours/week doing so, so I let them do that.
As well as owning 100% of the stock in the company I founded, I'm also an owner of Google, Autozone, and dozens of other companies (in other words, I save for my retirement in mutual funds). Owning the companies is completely separate from, and irrelevant to, my daily work.
> You're lucky, and your circumstances can change. The perceived value that you add may not be recognized by different people in the future.
For the last 20 years, I've been able to keep an eye on major trends, pivoting to where the demand is increasing. I suspect I'll be able to keep doing so. Thanks for your concern, though. On luck, luck is probability * habits. If you make it a habit to drive without your seatbelt, probability says you'll probably eventually get injured when you're in a car wreck. You'll say you were unlucky to get injured in a wreck. If your habit is to talk behind people's back, probably one day when a colleague you've gossiped about becomes your boss or whatever, that'll come back to bite you. You'll say you were unlucky that the person who hates you got the promotion. If you make it a habit to try to be helpful to colleagues, when a colleague you've helped becomes the boss you'll say it's lucky that the new boss is your friend. Yes, I'm "lucky", I try to cultivate those habits that will, when the time comes, bring good things my way.
> EPBFI are offering gig-level service for the same price that Google Fiber was.
EPB costs five times as much as Google fiber, and you're forced to pay most of that cost whether you want the service or not. Most of the cost of EPB is funded by federal tax dollars - residents of California being forced to pay the bill for Chattanooga's internet service. The next largest source of funding is from residents' electric bills. Again, you pay for it whether you want the internet service or not. About 20% of the cost is covered by the $70 / month that internet customers pay.
In total, the cost is $350 / month per customer - five times as much as Google fiber, and people who don't even get the service still have to pay for it.
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When *I* repair computer systems, and specifically storage systems, the *first* thing I do is copy off whatever bit of data I can get. That way my attempts to repair it don't result in losing any data.
Therefore, it's not inconsistent to say "it is being repaired, and they recovered some data".
> I remember years ago we had this massive migration project ...
> after a week the deadline was looming
> Who was the bad developer in that story?
The one who said "yes, we can do this massive migration in a week or so."
> When you get such trivialities as left pad in the registry, why should anyone care that the raw number of packages is large?
So you're saying node.js developers have small packages?
> If you find out someone recorded video of you undressing in your bedroom, are you going to go after the camera manufacturer?
If the manufacturer of "smoke alarm hidden camera" advertises on voyeur porn sites, with ads that say "She'll never notice this camera hidden in her bedroom!", then yes that would be a legitimate suit.
Why attack somewhere named for it's strippers?
Ridiculous or not, I can't legally fly my $100 toy quadcopter in my backyard without FAA permission, which they grant if you register it.
I have no idea what President Trump (no relation to candidate Trump) will do in regards over-regulation, but he's very different from all the professional politicians in a lot of ways, so it'll be interesting to find out.
I think I understand his point and as I said, he may be right. I just got a chuckle from the first sentence, before reading on. Kind of like when an old lady who talks real slow asks you "Do ... ... ... ...
you
like
cock
atiels
?"
Or when someone starts out with "NASA was not given the money to pursue low cost", before continuing to say something that makes sense.
Interesting, the cost to buy a brand new 737 is just about equal to the cost of launching the Falconl 9 once.
> Is anybody surprised that this costs a lot of money?
Just this guy:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
Your post may make sense, I don't follow the space program(s) close enough to know. I got chuckle from this though:
> They could be more competitive on price, if they were given the money
I suppose if taxpayers gave them a trillion dollars, they could charge customers $100. That doesn't make them cheaper - that just changes who is paying the bill.
> the only way to combat it is by some incorruptible authority guarding against it with an eagle eye
If you have an incorruptible authority handy, that would certainly be good. The framers of the Constitution (the written one, not the govt we have now) explicitly designed the system to make greed and self-interest work for good. For example, the way separation of powers works was designed for that purpose. A hundred of the most powerful people in the country, the Senate, was to have many of the powers the President doesn't have; the President could gain those powers only if the Senate gave up power. That effectively restricted presidential power for most of the first 150 years - Congressmen could retain their power only by seeing to it that the President didn't take over, and vice-versa. The founders wrote about this.
Consider two economic systems. In the first, everyone is supposed to get the same $18,000 /year. Greedy (amd hungry) people who want more can only get more by doing illegal things - corruption, black market, etc. In the second system, you can get more money by providing anything that people want. If farmers want better tractors, you can make a lot of money making better tractors for them. If people want better smartphones, you can make a lot of money by making better smartphones for them.
In the first system, people who want more for themselves have no choice but corruption and crime. In the second system, the easiest way to get more for yourself is to do something that's helpful to other people. The second system has much *less* corruption (much less, though not zero).
I went to update the Wikipedia page and found it says:
Media reported that data from the cockpit voice recorder indicated one of the pilots had tried to extinguish the fire in the cockpit before the airplane crashed.[104] However, after these reports were released, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority urged "media to be cautious while issuing press releases about the accident and to only rely on official reports issued by the committee itself."[105] Later, on 16 July, the committee confirmed that the cockpit voice recording mentioned "the existence of a fire".[55]
I didn't read the whole thing looking for other mentions that need to be updated.
> Slashdot would become a cesspool of bots arguing and trolling each other.
As opposed to a cesspool of fanbois arguing and trolling each other.
Thanks for that. Sounds like I have a lot of work to do to become nerd famous. ;)
I just checked out your blog and found the bit about switching power supplies interesting. I knew about switching *regulators*, but didn't realize common power supplies could actually run on DC. I'll have to check your blog more often.
The sub-headline of the story I linked to is:
--
Information from the flight's cockpit voice recorder suggests the pilot tried to extinguish a fire in the cockpit before the plane crashed
--
The French article says: ...
--
the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) indicates that one of the two pilot present in the cockpit of flight MS 804
it was not this fire that suddenly cut, at 37,000 feet, the other black box, the flight recorder (FDR)
--
Translated by Google translate.
The article explicitly says "not the OTHER black box, the flight data recorder".
A couple of typos made that hard to read. Let me try again:
What do you think first / most really got your name out there?
Why did you start getting so much press attention, etc, compared to other people who also did important work?
Not that you aren't worth listening to. I'm not saying you don't "deserve" the attention or whatever. I'd just like to know your thoughts on how and why someone like yourself becomes a bit of a celebrity in the field.
> [I] haven't said many words at all.
And this is from a guy who is famous largely for saying stuff!* Well known for talking about Morse code, talking about free software and open source, talking about Debian's principles, talking at conferences, probably talking to Congress ... and even you don't talk more than a few hours per week.
* and also of course for DOING a lot of things, including doing things like founding organizations - which requires a lot of talking.
Actually, that got me curious, what do you first / most really got your name out there, why do you start getting so much press attention? Busybox is important, of course, but you never hear the person who created grub mentioned in press, or the original author of glibc.
> The cockpit recorder should have picked up a few explicit verbal phrases if such an event had taken place.
The recorder did in fact record the pilots trying to put out a fire in the cockpit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
No I don't know the exact wording they used.
The recorder did in fact record the pilots trying to put out a fire in the cockpit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
You can of course Google for yourself if you'd like to see a dozen examples, but here's one to get you started. Nashville council member Sheri Weiner admits the anti-Google fiber council proposal she sponsored was written by AT&T and Comcast.
Last year's financial statement, which you so helpfully linked to, shows that their subscriber revenue approximately covers the cost of customer service and other expenses they had last year while using the network that taxpayers spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build.
When you invest in infrastructure, a key number is how long it takes to recover your investment. If you spend $350 million building a network and it generates gross profit of $70 million / year, the recovery period is five years - it takes five years to get your money back. Keep in mind you'll need to replace much of that network as technology advances, and you better recover your costs of the network before have to start replacing parts of it.
What is the cost recovery time for EPBFI? Five years? Ten? Try 300 years! At least 50 times worse than any operating private company.
> that was only a portion of the Federal Stimulus dollars, so why shouldn't any of the people in Tennessee get some? They too pay their taxes.
For all I care, go ahead and pay an extra $230/month taxes and $50/month on your "electric" bill to subsidize an inefficient ISP, but don't then lie and say it costs $70/month. It costs $230/month plus $50/month plus $70/month = $350/month.
> Also, Google's problem isn't with municipal ISP's. Their problem is that the local provider, Comcast, AT&T, etc
I have no doubt that some ISPs have tried to slow Google fiber down however they could. Also, we know that Google announced at the outset that they wouldn't even consider b deploying in a city until the city itself promised not to be a major pain in the butt. They didn't insist on that because of their imagination. City administrations HAVE derailed deployments, sometimes but not always while receiving donations or legal kickbacks from incumbent providers. Often, the city's franchise agreement with the incumbent is that the incumbent ISP (Comcast) pays the city 3% of all revenue. So the more subscribers Comcast has, the more money city council gets to spend on Councilman Jones Parkway. Having competition come in, from Google or elsewhere, directly reduces the budget for the council members' pet projects.
> . If so why are you "paid" (as in employed) rather than owning all of the massive value you add (by being a founder / owner)?
I've founded a few companies. One I sold for a good price. One I still own. I haven't been an executive, or an employee, of that company for four years, just the owner, because I add more value an as engineer than I do as an executive. I'm better at designing really cool tech systems than I am at running a company. Also, I don't *want* to work 60 hours. I want to work 40, so I work 40 doing what I'm good at. Other people who don't know a stored procedure from a packed structure are good at running a company and want to spend 60 hours/week doing so, so I let them do that.
As well as owning 100% of the stock in the company I founded, I'm also an owner of Google, Autozone, and dozens of other companies (in other words, I save for my retirement in mutual funds). Owning the companies is completely separate from, and irrelevant to, my daily work.
> You're lucky, and your circumstances can change. The perceived value that you add may not be recognized by different people in the future.
For the last 20 years, I've been able to keep an eye on major trends, pivoting to where the demand is increasing. I suspect I'll be able to keep doing so. Thanks for your concern, though. On luck, luck is probability * habits. If you make it a habit to drive without your seatbelt, probability says you'll probably eventually get injured when you're in a car wreck. You'll say you were unlucky to get injured in a wreck. If your habit is to talk behind people's back, probably one day when a colleague you've gossiped about becomes your boss or whatever, that'll come back to bite you. You'll say you were unlucky that the person who hates you got the promotion. If you make it a habit to try to be helpful to colleagues, when a colleague you've helped becomes the boss you'll say it's lucky that the new boss is your friend. Yes, I'm "lucky", I try to cultivate those habits that will, when the time comes, bring good things my way.
No matter how many programmers there are, if adding me at $150,000 produces $500,000 in value, you should do so.
> EPBFI are offering gig-level service for the same price that Google Fiber was.
EPB costs five times as much as Google fiber, and you're forced to pay most of that cost whether you want the service or not. Most of the cost of EPB is funded by federal tax dollars - residents of California being forced to pay the bill for Chattanooga's internet service. The next largest source of funding is from residents' electric bills. Again, you pay for it whether you want the internet service or not. About 20% of the cost is covered by the $70 / month that internet customers pay.
In total, the cost is $350 / month per customer - five times as much as Google fiber, and people who don't even get the service still have to pay for it.