It's a problem for people on machines not connected to the internet that get patched only with a small subset of updates (security critical stuff only) and then discover that their library versions are all over the place. This is definitely a corner case, but it does exist.
It's great until it breaks, and then you're hosed. If your system stops booting because some message was not passed or the listener missed it somehow tracking down the missed message can be nearly impossible. Or if the built-in resolver stops working and you have to figure out what it is trying to connect to and why it isn't working. It's kind of like trying to debug a Windows box.
If everything is working you're golden, but if it's not you are in for a world of pain.
I love how the artist envisioned this datacenter being installed in some extremely remote moonscape that you can only access by hiking in on foot. The complete lack of a plan for cooling this monster is another nice touch.
Based on what? Pent-up interest in transitioning away from fossil fuels? The incredible price point? Tesla's good safety and reliability record? I don't see what's so hard to believe about these numbers.
Tesla has had that tablet thing in all of their cars. Unusually for an auto manufacturer, they actually update the software on the tablet and continue to maintain it.
I had never heard of it either, but luckily this is one of those things where the top hit on Google gives you all of the information you need. It's basically a web scraping/scripting service. Seems modestly useful, although they appear to be kind of full of themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was bad communication. Cars were breaking down on one line, so they were sent to car maintenance. Car maintenance found no problem with the rest of the car so they sent it back out. Nobody bothered to ask track maintenance to look into the problem because it was a "car problem". This is the kind of thing you get when an organization is overly bureaucratic and you have nobody willing to speak up or take charge. People do only what is exactly on their job description and nothing more, showing zero initiative.
The perception around the NOVA area is that the DC Metro has been operating as a jobs program for city residents for so long that there are very few competent people remaining in the entire organization, especially in the maintenance departments. The organization also has a reputation for being heavily bureaucratic which makes it even more difficult for issues like this to percolate up to the top, and without buy in from management nothing gets done.
Unfortunately, there is no political will for a comprehensive management shakeup. Metro is going to continue stumbling along with constant breakdowns over neglected maintenance issues and occasional deaths for the foreseeable future.
I work with a ton of ancient 1280x1024 LCD displays and they're still perfectly adequate for the job. The biggest problem with them is the scarcity of ports, many only have VGA and Component input and some machines are starting to come with only HDMI and Displayport. None of them have issues with burn in or anything like that.
10 years is not very old for a TV set. Back in 2009 when the digital switchover and HD forced the issue, many of the TVs scrapped were from the 80s and 90s. There are no major changes to broadcast TV coming down the pike (3D is dead in the water, 4K gets a big meh from your average household) so no reason to buy a new set unless the old one craps out. I'm sure shitty capacitors will do in a number of those sets, but a good many of them will still be in use in 2019.
This is why I'm terrified of anybody who builds and AI and decides they want to try to train it from the Internet. While this makes sense on the surface, being the worlds largest and most accessible data store, it can only end with the annihilation of the human race by roving murderbots shouting "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams!"
Wow, I didn't know they built those all the way up to 2010. I thought they died out way earlier. I do like the idea of some 1RU box stuffed with A9X chips and drives. Or maybe some A9X variant that ditches the GPU part, Apple is certainly big enough to make something like that work. I wonder if they would sell them or keep them for internal use only.
Think about this. You're talking about burning 5x as much fuel per person, but still charging them the same price? Oh, and the aircraft is being built from scratch so you have to put amortized R&D costs for a limited production aircraft in there as well? It's not like Airlines operate with huge profit margins today, so where is that extra fuel money going to come from? The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that it is a scam. They could just be hopelessly incompetent, but I'm leaning more towards scam.
To be fair however, that $5000/seat cost assumes that the supersonic jet fairy visits them some time in the next year and magically makes the jet appear.
I'm more than a little skeptical. Either this tiny startup is so incompetent that they don't even have a basic grasp of the scale of the problem they're attempting to tackle, or it's a straight up scam. An all new advanced materials airliner ready to fly in 20 months? If this were some wartime thing and you had a fine tuned skunk works with a Kelly Johnson type at the helm and you had engines ready to go from a different division and an airframe you could modify and a prebuilt avionics cluster then maybe. For a brand new startup it looks outright impossible.
The almost complete lack of detail on their page is another huge red flag. As far as I can tell they have some computer render of a curvy jet and what looks like a scale model of a very old jet engine.
The worst part is that if it does become popular you'll have yet another big set of tests for every configure script and the mandatory workarounds for every application.
Or maybe they'll write a POSIX module compatibility shim that will never work quite right and be mostly ignored (see: Windows POSIX subsystem).
Reminds me a bit of X Window Managers. There are a billion of them that promise to be the smallest and most elegant and outside of their own developers are barely used. Instead the most common window manager is whatever is installed by Gnome or KDE by default.
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It's a problem for people on machines not connected to the internet that get patched only with a small subset of updates (security critical stuff only) and then discover that their library versions are all over the place. This is definitely a corner case, but it does exist.
It's great until it breaks, and then you're hosed. If your system stops booting because some message was not passed or the listener missed it somehow tracking down the missed message can be nearly impossible. Or if the built-in resolver stops working and you have to figure out what it is trying to connect to and why it isn't working. It's kind of like trying to debug a Windows box.
If everything is working you're golden, but if it's not you are in for a world of pain.
Or maybe we can just stop burning so much Coal and let renewables take its place as much as possible?
I love how the artist envisioned this datacenter being installed in some extremely remote moonscape that you can only access by hiking in on foot. The complete lack of a plan for cooling this monster is another nice touch.
Based on what? Pent-up interest in transitioning away from fossil fuels? The incredible price point? Tesla's good safety and reliability record? I don't see what's so hard to believe about these numbers.
Tesla has had that tablet thing in all of their cars. Unusually for an auto manufacturer, they actually update the software on the tablet and continue to maintain it.
Some people got nice patterns in their UIDs today. The guy with 43690 suddenly has something kind of pretty.
I had never heard of it either, but luckily this is one of those things where the top hit on Google gives you all of the information you need. It's basically a web scraping/scripting service. Seems modestly useful, although they appear to be kind of full of themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was bad communication. Cars were breaking down on one line, so they were sent to car maintenance. Car maintenance found no problem with the rest of the car so they sent it back out. Nobody bothered to ask track maintenance to look into the problem because it was a "car problem". This is the kind of thing you get when an organization is overly bureaucratic and you have nobody willing to speak up or take charge. People do only what is exactly on their job description and nothing more, showing zero initiative.
If the system were being built today what would they use?
The perception around the NOVA area is that the DC Metro has been operating as a jobs program for city residents for so long that there are very few competent people remaining in the entire organization, especially in the maintenance departments. The organization also has a reputation for being heavily bureaucratic which makes it even more difficult for issues like this to percolate up to the top, and without buy in from management nothing gets done.
Unfortunately, there is no political will for a comprehensive management shakeup. Metro is going to continue stumbling along with constant breakdowns over neglected maintenance issues and occasional deaths for the foreseeable future.
Seems like the solution might be to turn down the color saturation on the display, and then slowly ramp it back up as the elements start to degrade.
My LCD runs at 120 Hz, but it was a "3D Gaming" display and is unfortunately a TN panel.
I work with a ton of ancient 1280x1024 LCD displays and they're still perfectly adequate for the job. The biggest problem with them is the scarcity of ports, many only have VGA and Component input and some machines are starting to come with only HDMI and Displayport. None of them have issues with burn in or anything like that.
10 years is not very old for a TV set. Back in 2009 when the digital switchover and HD forced the issue, many of the TVs scrapped were from the 80s and 90s. There are no major changes to broadcast TV coming down the pike (3D is dead in the water, 4K gets a big meh from your average household) so no reason to buy a new set unless the old one craps out. I'm sure shitty capacitors will do in a number of those sets, but a good many of them will still be in use in 2019.
This is why I'm terrified of anybody who builds and AI and decides they want to try to train it from the Internet. While this makes sense on the surface, being the worlds largest and most accessible data store, it can only end with the annihilation of the human race by roving murderbots shouting "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams!"
Wow, I didn't know they built those all the way up to 2010. I thought they died out way earlier. I do like the idea of some 1RU box stuffed with A9X chips and drives. Or maybe some A9X variant that ditches the GPU part, Apple is certainly big enough to make something like that work. I wonder if they would sell them or keep them for internal use only.
Think about this. You're talking about burning 5x as much fuel per person, but still charging them the same price? Oh, and the aircraft is being built from scratch so you have to put amortized R&D costs for a limited production aircraft in there as well? It's not like Airlines operate with huge profit margins today, so where is that extra fuel money going to come from? The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that it is a scam. They could just be hopelessly incompetent, but I'm leaning more towards scam.
To be fair however, that $5000/seat cost assumes that the supersonic jet fairy visits them some time in the next year and magically makes the jet appear.
I'm more than a little skeptical. Either this tiny startup is so incompetent that they don't even have a basic grasp of the scale of the problem they're attempting to tackle, or it's a straight up scam. An all new advanced materials airliner ready to fly in 20 months? If this were some wartime thing and you had a fine tuned skunk works with a Kelly Johnson type at the helm and you had engines ready to go from a different division and an airframe you could modify and a prebuilt avionics cluster then maybe. For a brand new startup it looks outright impossible.
The almost complete lack of detail on their page is another huge red flag. As far as I can tell they have some computer render of a curvy jet and what looks like a scale model of a very old jet engine.
The worst part is that if it does become popular you'll have yet another big set of tests for every configure script and the mandatory workarounds for every application.
Or maybe they'll write a POSIX module compatibility shim that will never work quite right and be mostly ignored (see: Windows POSIX subsystem).
Reminds me a bit of X Window Managers. There are a billion of them that promise to be the smallest and most elegant and outside of their own developers are barely used. Instead the most common window manager is whatever is installed by Gnome or KDE by default.
The other option is that you keep your purity and end up with a mostly useless toy. See: Minix.
Still only 50% as smug as MacOS. They have a lot of catching up to do.
Not while fiber transceivers cost 20x as much as copper.