Not meaning to offend any 'official' engineers here - I understand the work that goes into an engineering degree, and I understand the legal and ethical need to protect the title from pretenders
The title is 'licensed Professional Engineer', as I understand it.
I don't expect the guy who drives a train to build an artificial heart, and nobody else does either.
The State was just punishing this guy to shut him down - they were doing no protection of the public (in fact, that's what *he* was trying to do).
I wonder why they don't transfer the solar panels to the space station and do reentry on internal batteries only? Surely the station could use them as additional, or at least spare, panels.
I think we can bet that if SpaceX builds a space station, it'll have solar cells with modular connectors on the edges, and each supply vessel can have its detached and added to the space station.
But ISS was designed by NASA, which has several conflicting priorities.
Then the button needs to be called "Endorse and support" and not "Like," so that it is explicit in its meaning to both the user and the viewer
That's not how Facebook's algorithm works. Clicking 'Like' means a post deserves a wider audience. It could be for so many reasons.
Similarly, I frequently upvote posts on Reddit because they deserve discussion, not because I agree with the assertion.
Slashdot is a bits less Bayesian - if I see a comment that needs refuting, but I am busy, I will often mark it 'interesting' so more people see it.
Monopoly court systems are frequently incompetent, which we already knew, but this serves as a useful reminder. If somebody is seriously questioning whether or not the court has a valid point, well, I'd, uhhh, mark them 'Interesting'.
Yup. I have a folder in my bookmarks - it has a bunch of wide-ranging sources, "professional" and "amateur", libertarian to socialist. I right-click, "Open All in New Window" and go through each one, closing each tab with a new angle.
An authorized sale outside the United States, just as one within the United States, exhausts all rights under the Patent Act. - SCOTUS
Oh, jiggity - aside from any targeted corporate welfare statutes, this looks like "Canadian drugs" are no longer grey-market items under the patent regime.
I wonder if the EpiPen boondoggle was on the Justices' minds.
So Snapcat started out as an app for kids to send nudes to each other but once the "disappearing messages" feature was found out to be entirely marketing, they copied Wechat instead and then did an IPO?
The whole complaint about dealing with malformed XML isn't going to be fixed with this new format. If people are malforming their XML, then they're also going to be malforming their JSON too.
And smart programmers are already using a feed parsing library that's using an XML parsing library that has relaxed parsing logic, to handle malformed XML.
Guess what - if your feed is so broken that the popular podcatchers can't handle it, nobody is going to listen to your show anyway; it's not like incentives don't exist for publishers to host valid XML feeds.
Maybe by the end of the year we'll be reading about bored developers who claim email is unusable crap because it's not a JSON feed.
What is the target market for a high end PC tricked out with these new CPUs? Don't give me university researchers crunching physics data, they don't have enough money.
If I were willing to spend the money to do 4K home video of my kids, maybe I'd want one of these for doing the rendering.
But since these aren't price-competitive with Xeon, I don't know why people would want them. Maybe there's a huge L2 cache and good cache-contention logic to utilize it efficiently across all these cores, but I haven't read the spec sheet searching for an excuse to spend that much money on a CPU.
Shit, I work at a "cushy" government job where you get disciplined if you even use more than two sick days in a year even though you're given 10. You get them, you're just not allowed to use them without getting disciplined. If you use your vacation time you are quickly labeled the "troublemaker" and will be passed over for promotions, etc.
Why are you working for the government? You're probably smart enough to do much better.
I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation.
Is it a company that's funded solely by earnings?
not those who are so self-righteous to believe no one else can do their job (that's total and unadulterated bullshit)
Some companies are staffed to a razor-thin margin that it's a real problem when people take vacation time. An employee should absolutely not work for those companies if they can avoid it, but the costs to have an employee are now so high, it's not like the old days that most places could afford to be 20% "over"-staffed.
It's crazy, but most Americans pay more in just sales taxes every year (before we talk about income or property taxes) than the average world annual salary in nominal dollars. American employees are _very_ expensive and one of the places that costs are made up is in staffing levels.
Americans have chosen high government spending over time off. Maybe not consciously, but as a consequence of their aggregate voting patterns.
The SquareTrade people released their numbers on the GS8 and it's the most fragile phone ever released, due to the edge-to-edge screen. It cracks at the drop of a hat.
One nice thing about the MBP (and the Powerbook before them) series was that they were built to be especially rugged, this side of actual ruggedized gear.
When PC's were shipping plastic, they were shipping cast magnesium frames, etc. (later unibody aluminum cores).
If Essential wants my money, the phone will not be extremely breakable. It'll have a headphone jack, an SD card slot, all-band dual-sim radios, timely updates, and a battery I can swap out in a minute or so.
On hardware, except for the battery, my Moto X Pure does all those things and at half the money. But Moto's upgrade stream sucks (short of LegacyOS or Android O, so that's somewhere that Essential can stand out. But there's no way I'm buying one of those things if it can't take a tiny drop (I'll wait for third-party evaluations).
Thus it's not that big co's cannot innovate, it's that innovation requires high-risk investors, perhaps suckers even, who are willing to (or inadvertently) absorb mass failures.
Apple does a lot of products internally and then kills them because they don't think they will be proven-winners in the market.
Apple is so afraid of failure that it doesn't get any big wins anymore. They're unwilling to take the risks they need to in order to do that.
And as a business they're so damn successful that maybe they'd be foolish to be an innovator at this point. The remaining question is if they will always be this successful with this strategy, and if not if it will be too late to change . I mean, who wants to go work at Apple at this point? There are costs to not failing as well.
You can't just say "We paid the men more because they asked for more."
Can you just say, "we paid the people more who asked for more"? That's how salaries work in the US culture, for better or for worse. Malfeasance not required.
One sub-group that gets really screwed: aspies. Don't tell a class-action lawyer that's epigenetic, though.
They should be the place where you can buy Drones, 3D Printers, and Raspberry Pis and.. have classes where they can bring in outsiders to experiment with the products or troubleshoot what they need to do.
Let's pretend this is a viable market for a moment - one that can bring in a million dollars of net revenue per store per year, minimum (so it can be staffed 18x7 by at least six people with full bennies, pay the rent, business loans, franchise fees, be a worthwhile investment, etc..). Where's Radio Shack's marketplace competition?
Do any real unix filesystems have magic filenames? I know unlinked files will be dumped in lost+found by convention, but it's just a directory. HFS+ didn't grow up on unix, so all of its magic files don't really count (NeXT used UFS, right?)
All I can think of is mount/.zfs on ZFS, but it's built to handle traversal - any others? Any kernel code that relies on structures that can be impacted from userspace is a potential problem, so if there are some we should watch out for them and double-check that code.
I'm so grateful they immediately ousted Brendan Eich (with his "proven technical and leadership background" bullshit)
I was just reading a bug yesterday where Eich was doing everything he could to say that adding concurrency to Firefox was too hard to bother with (by pointing out problems to be solved as reasons to not do it), and I immediately started to wonder if the gay thing was just an excuse that could be used politically to undo a mistake.
For whatever reason* the Chrome team seems to exist in a "get it done" engineering environment.
* I'd actually like to know why the Chrome team works where the Firefox team doesn't.
server admins use Debian. And server admins who consider systemd to be a destabilizing atrocity that chucks reliability out the window in favor of GNOME edge cases
What are these server admins doing? I have the defaults on EL7 and Debian 8 and all I notice is the VM's come up much faster and with fewer race conditions than under previous inits.
This is over dozens of unique VM images, but they're all doing pretty standard server stuff. What unusual things are people doing that break systemd-based distros?
I understand that some people have philosophical objections - fine - but I haven't heard any of my colleagues complaining of actual instability or unreliability.
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RIP, Seth Rich.
Which other pollutants are essential for all life on earth?
We all die of oxidative damage, man (excepting the RUD incidents).
Not meaning to offend any 'official' engineers here - I understand the work that goes into an engineering degree, and I understand the legal and ethical need to protect the title from pretenders
The title is 'licensed Professional Engineer', as I understand it.
I don't expect the guy who drives a train to build an artificial heart, and nobody else does either.
The State was just punishing this guy to shut him down - they were doing no protection of the public (in fact, that's what *he* was trying to do).
I wonder why they don't transfer the solar panels to the space station and do reentry on internal batteries only? Surely the station could use them as additional, or at least spare, panels.
I think we can bet that if SpaceX builds a space station, it'll have solar cells with modular connectors on the edges, and each supply vessel can have its detached and added to the space station.
But ISS was designed by NASA, which has several conflicting priorities.
This is where the theory of law and the practice of law intersect at 60 mph with no crumple zones.
Everything you are saying is NOT being borne out in this guy's case.
Exactly. And if this trial result stands, everything dtgatwood said will be a quaint relic of history.
The GGP post could have said, "if this case proceeds along its current trajectory" or something else softening, but that is usually assumed.
Then the button needs to be called "Endorse and support" and not "Like," so that it is explicit in its meaning to both the user and the viewer
That's not how Facebook's algorithm works. Clicking 'Like' means a post deserves a wider audience. It could be for so many reasons.
Similarly, I frequently upvote posts on Reddit because they deserve discussion, not because I agree with the assertion.
Slashdot is a bits less Bayesian - if I see a comment that needs refuting, but I am busy, I will often mark it 'interesting' so more people see it.
Monopoly court systems are frequently incompetent, which we already knew, but this serves as a useful reminder. If somebody is seriously questioning whether or not the court has a valid point, well, I'd, uhhh, mark them 'Interesting'.
Our society cannot function on steampunk technology - if it did it would be a different society, no matter how alluring the aesthetic.
Yup. I have a folder in my bookmarks - it has a bunch of wide-ranging sources, "professional" and "amateur", libertarian to socialist. I right-click, "Open All in New Window" and go through each one, closing each tab with a new angle.
Being informed is hard work, unfortunately.
Oh, jiggity - aside from any targeted corporate welfare statutes, this looks like "Canadian drugs" are no longer grey-market items under the patent regime.
I wonder if the EpiPen boondoggle was on the Justices' minds.
Farming is owned, end to end.
As it should be - the State is Mother, the State is Father. We eat at its pleasure.
Snapchat copied Wechat.
So Snapcat started out as an app for kids to send nudes to each other but once the "disappearing messages" feature was found out to be entirely marketing, they copied Wechat instead and then did an IPO?
The whole complaint about dealing with malformed XML isn't going to be fixed with this new format. If people are malforming their XML, then they're also going to be malforming their JSON too.
And smart programmers are already using a feed parsing library that's using an XML parsing library that has relaxed parsing logic, to handle malformed XML.
Guess what - if your feed is so broken that the popular podcatchers can't handle it, nobody is going to listen to your show anyway; it's not like incentives don't exist for publishers to host valid XML feeds.
Maybe by the end of the year we'll be reading about bored developers who claim email is unusable crap because it's not a JSON feed.
What is the target market for a high end PC tricked out with these new CPUs? Don't give me university researchers crunching physics data, they don't have enough money.
If I were willing to spend the money to do 4K home video of my kids, maybe I'd want one of these for doing the rendering.
But since these aren't price-competitive with Xeon, I don't know why people would want them. Maybe there's a huge L2 cache and good cache-contention logic to utilize it efficiently across all these cores, but I haven't read the spec sheet searching for an excuse to spend that much money on a CPU.
Shit, I work at a "cushy" government job where you get disciplined if you even use more than two sick days in a year even though you're given 10. You get them, you're just not allowed to use them without getting disciplined. If you use your vacation time you are quickly labeled the "troublemaker" and will be passed over for promotions, etc.
Why are you working for the government? You're probably smart enough to do much better.
I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation.
Is it a company that's funded solely by earnings?
not those who are so self-righteous to believe no one else can do their job (that's total and unadulterated bullshit)
Some companies are staffed to a razor-thin margin that it's a real problem when people take vacation time. An employee should absolutely not work for those companies if they can avoid it, but the costs to have an employee are now so high, it's not like the old days that most places could afford to be 20% "over"-staffed.
It's crazy, but most Americans pay more in just sales taxes every year (before we talk about income or property taxes) than the average world annual salary in nominal dollars. American employees are _very_ expensive and one of the places that costs are made up is in staffing levels.
Americans have chosen high government spending over time off. Maybe not consciously, but as a consequence of their aggregate voting patterns.
repairable
The SquareTrade people released their numbers on the GS8 and it's the most fragile phone ever released, due to the edge-to-edge screen. It cracks at the drop of a hat.
One nice thing about the MBP (and the Powerbook before them) series was that they were built to be especially rugged, this side of actual ruggedized gear.
When PC's were shipping plastic, they were shipping cast magnesium frames, etc. (later unibody aluminum cores).
If Essential wants my money, the phone will not be extremely breakable. It'll have a headphone jack, an SD card slot, all-band dual-sim radios, timely updates, and a battery I can swap out in a minute or so.
On hardware, except for the battery, my Moto X Pure does all those things and at half the money. But Moto's upgrade stream sucks (short of LegacyOS or Android O, so that's somewhere that Essential can stand out. But there's no way I'm buying one of those things if it can't take a tiny drop (I'll wait for third-party evaluations).
Thus it's not that big co's cannot innovate, it's that innovation requires high-risk investors, perhaps suckers even, who are willing to (or inadvertently) absorb mass failures.
Apple does a lot of products internally and then kills them because they don't think they will be proven-winners in the market.
Apple is so afraid of failure that it doesn't get any big wins anymore. They're unwilling to take the risks they need to in order to do that.
And as a business they're so damn successful that maybe they'd be foolish to be an innovator at this point. The remaining question is if they will always be this successful with this strategy, and if not if it will be too late to change . I mean, who wants to go work at Apple at this point? There are costs to not failing as well.
But can it yodel?
Supposedly there's a Southbridge to the Gabrielle Processing Unit, but the official docs don't confirm that.
I'm not insisting that there is evidence of such abuses,
Google would be fiscally stupid to comply with the request, even if it wanted to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can't just say "We paid the men more because they asked for more."
Can you just say, "we paid the people more who asked for more"? That's how salaries work in the US culture, for better or for worse. Malfeasance not required.
One sub-group that gets really screwed: aspies. Don't tell a class-action lawyer that's epigenetic, though.
They should be the place where you can buy Drones, 3D Printers, and Raspberry Pis and.. have classes where they can bring in outsiders to experiment with the products or troubleshoot what they need to do.
Let's pretend this is a viable market for a moment - one that can bring in a million dollars of net revenue per store per year, minimum (so it can be staffed 18x7 by at least six people with full bennies, pay the rent, business loans, franchise fees, be a worthwhile investment, etc..). Where's Radio Shack's marketplace competition?
Yeah.
Hopefully you're referring to a different Icarus because that one is hot shit, and I'd prefer to have a probe worth more than the movie.
Used to be I could tell which ones were the trolls around here.
Do any real unix filesystems have magic filenames? I know unlinked files will be dumped in lost+found by convention, but it's just a directory. HFS+ didn't grow up on unix, so all of its magic files don't really count (NeXT used UFS, right?)
All I can think of is mount/.zfs on ZFS, but it's built to handle traversal - any others? Any kernel code that relies on structures that can be impacted from userspace is a potential problem, so if there are some we should watch out for them and double-check that code.
I'm so grateful they immediately ousted Brendan Eich (with his "proven technical and leadership background" bullshit)
I was just reading a bug yesterday where Eich was doing everything he could to say that adding concurrency to Firefox was too hard to bother with (by pointing out problems to be solved as reasons to not do it), and I immediately started to wonder if the gay thing was just an excuse that could be used politically to undo a mistake.
For whatever reason* the Chrome team seems to exist in a "get it done" engineering environment.
* I'd actually like to know why the Chrome team works where the Firefox team doesn't.
server admins use Debian. And server admins who consider systemd to be a destabilizing atrocity that chucks reliability out the window in favor of GNOME edge cases
What are these server admins doing? I have the defaults on EL7 and Debian 8 and all I notice is the VM's come up much faster and with fewer race conditions than under previous inits.
This is over dozens of unique VM images, but they're all doing pretty standard server stuff. What unusual things are people doing that break systemd-based distros?
I understand that some people have philosophical objections - fine - but I haven't heard any of my colleagues complaining of actual instability or unreliability.