It is not like the CPU is testing for that particular combination of conditions alone and conditionally segfaulting. Really, there is a flaw in the CPU design which so far has only been demonstrated to exhibit itself under those conditions. That is much more worrying than the summary leads us to believe.
I like AMD and Ryzen is a good bargain compared to Intel. It will be my next CPU purchase, though I am holding out until they fix the bug. But I don't like the way they are minimizing the impact.
So they hired a blind person to be in charge of making sure that nobody was sneaking in booze.
This is not a joke: I worked at university that hired a disabled guy to answer the phone and take messages. His disabilities were that he stuttered and had amnesia.
Yes he was. For obvious reasons, I am not going to link that.
he didn't lose his job
His critics are demanding that he be fired.
and there is a healthy debate over his document.
He is enduring brutal, public, ad-hominem attacks by Google management ridiculing his competence as a programmer.
In fact the only people not taking about the content of the document are the conservatives complaining that people aren't taking about the content of the document.
With individual freedom to choose and in the absence of discrimination, all groups do not voluntarily participate in activities in equal proportion, nor is there any reason whatsoever to expect that they would. Different groups are different from each other and the self-sorting of their members into activities is an expression of diversity. The great irony is that the self-proclaimed champions of diversity have utterly failed to understand the concept of diversity itself. They maintain that, in the absence of discrimination, all individuals would uniformly participate in all endeavors at the same rates, and that therefore any deviation form proportional allocation by social identity is necessarily evidence of discrimination. They believe that diversity is uniformity, when in fact different groups have different aptitudes and different preferences; They are diverse.
..little boys and little girls appear to have different play patterns which then will not surprise me if when they are adults they have different interests.
We gave my nephew, my son and my daughter those strange toy trains with faces from the Thomas train show.
My nephew ran around like maniac throwing his as far as it would go. Outdoors. Into snow drifts.
My son built an elevated track and pushed his train around it making train noises.
My daughter took hers into the bedroom and tucked it into bed.
She is the political commissar. The job is political education and control.
The title varies according to institution. In the former Soviet Union the terms were politruk, pompolit and then zampolit. The german national socialist party called theirs NS Führungsoffizier (NSFO). Apparently at Google they are called "VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance."
But we do not bear him any ill-will, we are not out to shut him up or cause him harm.
So all those death threats to trans people are writing themselves?
There is a large segment of society which disapproves of or questions that lifestyle yet tolerates it peaceably. If there are "all those death threats" and if indeed they are not hoaxes, it in no way contradicts that assertion. It would show that there exists some other group which is intolerant.
The leftists are a small minority with all the power.
Which is why democrats received a plurality of the popular vote in the last three presidential elections.
No. You need to evaluate overall trends, not consider a single election. That single election is not representative of nationwide electoral trends because Donald "Grab them by the pussy" Trump was an uncharacteristically miserable candidate. Republicans are taking over everywhere else: Congress, state legislatures, state governorships.
Leftists are especially unpopular within the Democrat party. Blacks are ideological enemies pro-homosexuality progressives and black children suffer terribly in failing Democrat-controlled unionized public schools. Working-class Democrats are flipping over to Republican.
The leftist, progressive ideologues are extremely unpopular with most of the public. But they are entrenched in positions of power in profitable mega-corporations, in the schools, in the universities, in federal bureaucracies, non-profits and the news media.
They destroy careers by firing and blacklisting.
Like how Trump wanted to fire all the DoE employees that believe in climate change?
Fake news generated by union propagandists. Look it up. Trump never said that and there is no evidence that he tried to do it. The sole basis for that accusation is innuendo from public employee union officials reported credulously by left-wing newspapers.
They use the force of law to arrest, fire and harass dissenters.
This one is extra insane. I don't even know what you are talking about here. Are you under the impression that law enforcement, a current major target of liberal outrage, is somehow under the control of leftists? Literally wtf.
Leave it to a leftist to decree that facts are "insane."
Then there was Obama's IRS illegally attempting to sic the FBI on tea party groups.
Followed by your allies in the media pronouncing that we "hate government," "oppose education" and "deny science" because we are incensed by corruption of those institutions and endeavors to serve your own ideological and political ends.
Isn't that what every group in power tries to do?
No.
Your guys are doing it right now, and have done it before.
The announced plan is to shut down large sections of government and fire the officials so to prevent abuses, not to redirect abuses to the other party. "Drain the swamp," as the guy said. The fewer government bureaucrats, the fewer government bureaucrats who can abuse their authority for political ends. Given that Trump is an idiot, it seems unlikely that he will achieve much reduction in government. Though he has made some progress in firing VA employees.
...a short-sighted if not outright evil power broker by the name of Robert Moses...
Funny how you substituted "power broker" for "government bureaucrat." From wikipedia:
Robert Moses simultaneously held twelve titles...but was never elected to any public office... Nevertheless, he created and led numerous public authorities that gave him autonomy from the general public and elected officials. Through these authorities, he controlled millions of dollars in income from his projects, such as tolls, and he could issue bonds to borrow vast sums for new ventures with little or no input from legislative bodies, allowing him to circumvent the power of the purse as it normally functioned in the United States, and the process of public comment on major public works. As a result of Moses' work, New York has the United States' greatest proportion of public benefit corporations, which are the prime mode of infrastructure building and maintenance in New York and account for most of the state's debt.
In one corner, we have the traditional right and the alt-right --including the idiots who voted for Trump. We have science and whatever is left since the 1990's of the religious right and some Libertarians and defecting working-class Democrats. We believe that women and men are genetically, anatomically, and psychologically innately different. We are aware of oddballs who don't get that, but whatever, to each his own, live and let live. It should be a free country and you should not be required to believe, or forced to express, facts which make you feel uncomfortable. Like evolution and the moon landing. And you should be free to endorse whatever nonsense you want, from Creationism to Keynes. We might feel Caitlyn Jenner is creepy, or sympathize with his psychiatric disorder or just disagree that it is possible to be a woman trapped in a man's body. But we do not bear him any ill-will, we are not out to shut him up or cause him harm.
In the other corner, we have the sanctimonious leftist ideologues, among them the leadership of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, universities, colleges and federal bureaucracies. They are convinced that gender is a social construct and that any statement of perceived difference between genders (it's not reality, it's just your perception) is necessarily either the outcome of socialization or an expression of sexism. It is impossible that men and women have different genes and that genes influence behavior. Anyone who mentions the possibility must be ridiculed, ostracized and fired, be made to pay a price, be made to suffer for their heresy. Their downfall must serve as an example to others who would dare question official belief.
So it's not just one bunch of people's opinion against another's. It is asymmetric warfare. The leftists are a small minority with all the power. They control the largest, most profitable corporations in the country, they run the education system, they control the mainstream media. And they are completely intolerant of differing opinions; they use public shaming to destroy the reputations of those who dare question. They destroy careers by firing and blacklisting. They use the force of law to arrest, fine and harass dissenters.
The opponents of the left are those who resent compulsory ideological indoctrination. Primarily backlash against leftist fascism, not left-right differences in social and political beliefs, shifts American voters against the Democrat party. Social and political differences count for little: The alt-right is not powerfully attracted to the ideology of its own leaders. How could they be? Trump either has no ideology, or one that changes daily. He is a thoughtless blowhard. His supporters apologize for him daily. His sole genuine quality is not being Hillary Clinton. Nor is what the left endorses destructive to their opponents; I am not pained by Kristen Beck wearing a dress or a woman writing a computer program.
The fundamental driver of the American political insurgency is revulsion to authoritarianism of the left; It is not what you leftists believe that pisses us off so much that we go the polls and vote. What pisses us off is the fascist elites imposing their ideology on the rest of us using the power of government, the education system and corporations. Followed by your allies in the media pronouncing that we "hate government," "oppose education" and "deny science" because we are incensed by corruption of those institutions and endeavors to serve your own ideological and political ends.
Leftist ideology is unpopular yet dominant because leftists have co-opted the resources of institutions chartered to serve the public good so to impose their ideology on a majority which disagrees. Leftism thus depends on public corruption for sustenance.
There are at least two forces driving this, one physics, the other economic:
The big picture is that, as feature size approaches physical limits of silicon, progress toward ever-higher gate density has slowed. In fact, Intel has had to revise their Tic Tock design cadence to pad in more CPU architecture re-designs as they await finer processes. So though Intel was way out ahead, their rate of progress slowed, allowing AMD to catch up.
The other point is, Intel's positive re-enforcement loop of having the best processors because they had the most revenues from selling the best processors to develop new processor fabs has been broken by ARM. Competition from ARM architecture drives fab R&D outside of Intel, so much so that Samsung foundries were shipping Qualcomm ARM processors at 10nm while Intel was still stuck at 14nm.
It speaks to the powerful intransigence of entrenched management culture that companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars fail while others grow to replace them, as opposed to substituting in better executives with the same strategies as their winning competitors. The real infrastructure loss and financial loss to investors is enormous compared to the price of hiring better executives. There is a massive inefficiency here.
One of my favorite neighbors is a WWII U.S. Navy veteran. Sometimes I see him out with his Shih Tsu when I am walking my German Shepherd I always take the opportunity to chat.
You do not see many of those out and around today but he is younger than most because he lied about his age to enlist in the Navy young. He grew up in Pittsburgh where the only job he could get was working in the steel mills. He says it was deadly, his fellow workers were so often maimed or killed that he was desperate to get out and took the first opportunity he could, leaving the mills and going to war to be safe.
I know that sounds like he was being ironic or funny but he is dead serious.
His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.”
Google is abusing that word "cool" to mean mean generically "stuff I like" whereas typically, and particularly with teenagers who as a class are are especially concerned with impressing their peers , "cool" means stuff with social cachet. Synonyms for "cool" (according to a Google search) are "fashionable, stylish, chic, up-to-the-minute, sophisticated." Google is liked because it is reliable, has utility and is free not because it is any of those things.
What Google has is a popular product. What they are falsely claiming is that they have a "cool" product; Teenagers do not display Google branding to impress other teenagers like they wore "Calvin Klein" on the ass of their bluejeans when I was that age.
Generally, branding is no longer cool. Jimmy DiResta paints over the branding of his tools with white paint (or he did until DeWalt paid him not to), Casey Neistat carves the Ray-Ban logo off of his Ray-Bans. Brandlessness has been central to the Muji identity since its founding in 1979.
When you buy something physical -- a toaster, a book, or a printer, for example -- you expect to be free to use it as you see fit: to adapt it to suit your needs, fix it when it breaks, re-use it, lend it, sell it, or give it away when you're done with it. Your freedom to do those things is a necessary aspect of your ownership of those objects.
Yet, whenever AirbnB is discussed here, a significant contingent espouses precisely the opposite principle, that the owner should not be free to use as he sees fit.
...garbage disposal and off-shore drilling too! Come on women, WTF!
Good point, much like one in a Camille Paglia interview published yesterday.
It is an absolute outrage how so many pampered, affluent, upper-middle-class professional women chronically spout snide anti-male feminist rhetoric, while they remain completely blind to the constant labor and sacrifices going on all around them as working-class men create and maintain the fabulous infrastructure that makes modern life possible in the Western world. Only a tiny number of women want to enter the trades where most of the nitty-gritty physical work is actually going on—plumbing, electricity, construction. Women have played virtually no role in the erection of those magnificent towers in every major city in the world. It's men who operate the cranes or set the foundations or wash windows on the 85th floor. It's men who troop out at 2:00 AM during an ice storm to restore power to neighborhoods where falling trees have brought down live wires. It's men who mix the stinking, toxic cauldrons to spread steaming hot tar on city roofs. Last year in a nearby town, I drove by a huge, chaotic scene where emergency workers in hazmat suits were struggling with a giant pipe break, as raw sewage was pouring into the street. Of course all those workers up to their knees in a torrent of thick brown water were men! I've seen figures indicating that 92 per cent of people killed on the job are men—and it's precisely because men are heroically doing most of the dangerous jobs in modern society...
"A Brazilian judge ruled that a driver using the Uber ride-hailing app is an employee of the San Francisco-based company and is entitled to workers' benefits, adding to the global debate over labor rights for drivers on the platform...."
Did anyone notice the contradiction? The submitter reports a Brazilian judge requiring that mandatory entitlements be given to Uber drivers, then within the same sentence instead refers to "workers rights".
Entitlements are the opposite rights. An entitlement is prohibition of liberty; If the Uber driver is entitled to receive X dollars in compensation then the driver can not choose to work for less. A right is a grant of liberty; If I have the right to free speech then I can choose what to say without restriction.
That bizarre cathedral guy, Eric Raymond, is busy cleaning up NTP for security and recently evaluated Rust as a possible language for a complete re-write and found it deficient. His blog posts on that:
Which is exactly what you get when foreign engineering and design firms which operate from nations with permissive immigration for STEM talent outsource their low-wage manual labor jobs here for manufacture. What? You want those corporations and their profits to stay here? Forget that, you just walled off the vast international source of talent from domestic high-tech companies which need access to succeed.
Ceteris paribus, the most successful companies are those with the best access to resources, not those with the most limited access to resources. Labor is a resource.
Engineering and design work supports an umbrella of labor: managers, accountants, IT, safety, etc. If your company fails because misguided nationalists blocked access to engineering talent, then all those jobs go with it.
The nations which most successfully exploit the law of comparative advantage by allowing the most free exchange of goods and labor are the wealthiest nations. Walling yourself off because you believe that hoarding jobs and goods in your own country will make it richer is a certain formula for failure and poverty.
Highly variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar in combination with energy storage using batteries to balance out variations in both load and supply might well be the wave of the future. However, it seems unlikely that these Tesla battery packs, optimized as they are for use in automobiles and thus designed to meet standards for compactness, weight, and collision safety, are also optimal for grid energy storage, which has different requirements. Assembling grid-scale energy storage from individual cells is probably a technological dead-end and will be supplanted by flow batteries.
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Wow. Now imagine we called black people being discriminated against "black discontent."
Google search for "black discontent", about 11,400 results.
Google search for "white discontent", about 1,530 results.
So about 7.5x more "black discontent" than "white discontent".
Here is a graph of the frequency of the two over a 208-year span, from 1800 to 2008.
My California city has more than 3,000 homeless people.
Homelessness is caused by government.
It is not like the CPU is testing for that particular combination of conditions alone and conditionally segfaulting. Really, there is a flaw in the CPU design which so far has only been demonstrated to exhibit itself under those conditions. That is much more worrying than the summary leads us to believe.
I like AMD and Ryzen is a good bargain compared to Intel. It will be my next CPU purchase, though I am holding out until they fix the bug. But I don't like the way they are minimizing the impact.
So they hired a blind person to be in charge of making sure that nobody was sneaking in booze.
This is not a joke: I worked at university that hired a disabled guy to answer the phone and take messages. His disabilities were that he stuttered and had amnesia.
He wasn't doxxed
Yes he was. For obvious reasons, I am not going to link that.
he didn't lose his job
His critics are demanding that he be fired.
and there is a healthy debate over his document.
He is enduring brutal, public, ad-hominem attacks by Google management ridiculing his competence as a programmer.
In fact the only people not taking about the content of the document are the conservatives complaining that people aren't taking about the content of the document.
Horseshit.
With individual freedom to choose and in the absence of discrimination, all groups do not voluntarily participate in activities in equal proportion, nor is there any reason whatsoever to expect that they would. Different groups are different from each other and the self-sorting of their members into activities is an expression of diversity. The great irony is that the self-proclaimed champions of diversity have utterly failed to understand the concept of diversity itself. They maintain that, in the absence of discrimination, all individuals would uniformly participate in all endeavors at the same rates, and that therefore any deviation form proportional allocation by social identity is necessarily evidence of discrimination. They believe that diversity is uniformity, when in fact different groups have different aptitudes and different preferences; They are diverse.
..little boys and little girls appear to have different play patterns which then will not surprise me if when they are adults they have different interests.
We gave my nephew, my son and my daughter those strange toy trains with faces from the Thomas train show.
My nephew ran around like maniac throwing his as far as it would go. Outdoors. Into snow drifts.
My son built an elevated track and pushed his train around it making train noises.
My daughter took hers into the bedroom and tucked it into bed.
Talk about a useless position.
She is the political commissar. The job is political education and control.
The title varies according to institution. In the former Soviet Union the terms were politruk, pompolit and then zampolit. The german national socialist party called theirs NS Führungsoffizier (NSFO). Apparently at Google they are called "VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance."
But we do not bear him any ill-will, we are not out to shut him up or cause him harm.
So all those death threats to trans people are writing themselves?
There is a large segment of society which disapproves of or questions that lifestyle yet tolerates it peaceably. If there are "all those death threats" and if indeed they are not hoaxes, it in no way contradicts that assertion. It would show that there exists some other group which is intolerant.
The leftists are a small minority with all the power.
Which is why democrats received a plurality of the popular vote in the last three presidential elections.
No. You need to evaluate overall trends, not consider a single election. That single election is not representative of nationwide electoral trends because Donald "Grab them by the pussy" Trump was an uncharacteristically miserable candidate. Republicans are taking over everywhere else: Congress, state legislatures, state governorships.
Leftists are especially unpopular within the Democrat party. Blacks are ideological enemies pro-homosexuality progressives and black children suffer terribly in failing Democrat-controlled unionized public schools. Working-class Democrats are flipping over to Republican.
The leftist, progressive ideologues are extremely unpopular with most of the public. But they are entrenched in positions of power in profitable mega-corporations, in the schools, in the universities, in federal bureaucracies, non-profits and the news media.
They destroy careers by firing and blacklisting.
Like how Trump wanted to fire all the DoE employees that believe in climate change?
Fake news generated by union propagandists. Look it up. Trump never said that and there is no evidence that he tried to do it. The sole basis for that accusation is innuendo from public employee union officials reported credulously by left-wing newspapers.
They use the force of law to arrest, fire and harass dissenters.
This one is extra insane. I don't even know what you are talking about here. Are you under the impression that law enforcement, a current major target of liberal outrage, is somehow under the control of leftists? Literally wtf.
Leave it to a leftist to decree that facts are "insane."
When leftists control law enforcement they they corrupt it.
Oh, and there is this.
Then there was Obama's IRS illegally attempting to sic the FBI on tea party groups.
Followed by your allies in the media pronouncing that we "hate government," "oppose education" and "deny science" because we are incensed by corruption of those institutions and endeavors to serve your own ideological and political ends.
Isn't that what every group in power tries to do?
No.
Your guys are doing it right now, and have done it before.
The announced plan is to shut down large sections of government and fire the officials so to prevent abuses, not to redirect abuses to the other party. "Drain the swamp," as the guy said. The fewer government bureaucrats, the fewer government bureaucrats who can abuse their authority for political ends. Given that Trump is an idiot, it seems unlikely that he will achieve much reduction in government. Though he has made some progress in firing VA employees.
That is seemingly the entire point of government.
You need some historical perspective.
Bruce Perens wrote:
...a short-sighted if not outright evil power broker by the name of Robert Moses...
Funny how you substituted "power broker" for "government bureaucrat." From wikipedia:
In one corner, we have the traditional right and the alt-right --including the idiots who voted for Trump. We have science and whatever is left since the 1990's of the religious right and some Libertarians and defecting working-class Democrats. We believe that women and men are genetically, anatomically, and psychologically innately different. We are aware of oddballs who don't get that, but whatever, to each his own, live and let live. It should be a free country and you should not be required to believe, or forced to express, facts which make you feel uncomfortable. Like evolution and the moon landing. And you should be free to endorse whatever nonsense you want, from Creationism to Keynes. We might feel Caitlyn Jenner is creepy, or sympathize with his psychiatric disorder or just disagree that it is possible to be a woman trapped in a man's body. But we do not bear him any ill-will, we are not out to shut him up or cause him harm.
In the other corner, we have the sanctimonious leftist ideologues, among them the leadership of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, universities, colleges and federal bureaucracies. They are convinced that gender is a social construct and that any statement of perceived difference between genders (it's not reality, it's just your perception) is necessarily either the outcome of socialization or an expression of sexism. It is impossible that men and women have different genes and that genes influence behavior. Anyone who mentions the possibility must be ridiculed, ostracized and fired, be made to pay a price, be made to suffer for their heresy. Their downfall must serve as an example to others who would dare question official belief.
So it's not just one bunch of people's opinion against another's. It is asymmetric warfare. The leftists are a small minority with all the power. They control the largest, most profitable corporations in the country, they run the education system, they control the mainstream media. And they are completely intolerant of differing opinions; they use public shaming to destroy the reputations of those who dare question. They destroy careers by firing and blacklisting. They use the force of law to arrest, fine and harass dissenters.
The opponents of the left are those who resent compulsory ideological indoctrination. Primarily backlash against leftist fascism, not left-right differences in social and political beliefs, shifts American voters against the Democrat party. Social and political differences count for little: The alt-right is not powerfully attracted to the ideology of its own leaders. How could they be? Trump either has no ideology, or one that changes daily. He is a thoughtless blowhard. His supporters apologize for him daily. His sole genuine quality is not being Hillary Clinton. Nor is what the left endorses destructive to their opponents; I am not pained by Kristen Beck wearing a dress or a woman writing a computer program.
The fundamental driver of the American political insurgency is revulsion to authoritarianism of the left; It is not what you leftists believe that pisses us off so much that we go the polls and vote. What pisses us off is the fascist elites imposing their ideology on the rest of us using the power of government, the education system and corporations. Followed by your allies in the media pronouncing that we "hate government," "oppose education" and "deny science" because we are incensed by corruption of those institutions and endeavors to serve your own ideological and political ends.
Leftist ideology is unpopular yet dominant because leftists have co-opted the resources of institutions chartered to serve the public good so to impose their ideology on a majority which disagrees. Leftism thus depends on public corruption for sustenance.
There are at least two forces driving this, one physics, the other economic:
The big picture is that, as feature size approaches physical limits of silicon, progress toward ever-higher gate density has slowed. In fact, Intel has had to revise their Tic Tock design cadence to pad in more CPU architecture re-designs as they await finer processes. So though Intel was way out ahead, their rate of progress slowed, allowing AMD to catch up.
The other point is, Intel's positive re-enforcement loop of having the best processors because they had the most revenues from selling the best processors to develop new processor fabs has been broken by ARM. Competition from ARM architecture drives fab R&D outside of Intel, so much so that Samsung foundries were shipping Qualcomm ARM processors at 10nm while Intel was still stuck at 14nm.
The history of how Walmart crushed Kmart and other competitors is interesting....
Well Sears was the largest retailer in the United States until October 1989 when it was surpassed by Walmart. Amazon is now twice the size of Walmart.
It speaks to the powerful intransigence of entrenched management culture that companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars fail while others grow to replace them, as opposed to substituting in better executives with the same strategies as their winning competitors. The real infrastructure loss and financial loss to investors is enormous compared to the price of hiring better executives. There is a massive inefficiency here.
One of my favorite neighbors is a WWII U.S. Navy veteran. Sometimes I see him out with his Shih Tsu when I am walking my German Shepherd I always take the opportunity to chat.
You do not see many of those out and around today but he is younger than most because he lied about his age to enlist in the Navy young. He grew up in Pittsburgh where the only job he could get was working in the steel mills. He says it was deadly, his fellow workers were so often maimed or killed that he was desperate to get out and took the first opportunity he could, leaving the mills and going to war to be safe.
I know that sounds like he was being ironic or funny but he is dead serious.
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Google is abusing that word "cool" to mean mean generically "stuff I like" whereas typically, and particularly with teenagers who as a class are are especially concerned with impressing their peers , "cool" means stuff with social cachet. Synonyms for "cool" (according to a Google search) are "fashionable, stylish, chic, up-to-the-minute, sophisticated." Google is liked because it is reliable, has utility and is free not because it is any of those things.
What Google has is a popular product. What they are falsely claiming is that they have a "cool" product; Teenagers do not display Google branding to impress other teenagers like they wore "Calvin Klein" on the ass of their bluejeans when I was that age.
Generally, branding is no longer cool. Jimmy DiResta paints over the branding of his tools with white paint (or he did until DeWalt paid him not to), Casey Neistat carves the Ray-Ban logo off of his Ray-Bans. Brandlessness has been central to the Muji identity since its founding in 1979.
from the /. summary:
When you buy something physical -- a toaster, a book, or a printer, for example -- you expect to be free to use it as you see fit: to adapt it to suit your needs, fix it when it breaks, re-use it, lend it, sell it, or give it away when you're done with it. Your freedom to do those things is a necessary aspect of your ownership of those objects.
Yet, whenever AirbnB is discussed here, a significant contingent espouses precisely the opposite principle, that the owner should not be free to use as he sees fit.
...garbage disposal and off-shore drilling too! Come on women, WTF!
Good point, much like one in a Camille Paglia interview published yesterday.
Crab mentality- "If I can't have it, neither can you."
from the summary:
"A Brazilian judge ruled that a driver using the Uber ride-hailing app is an employee of the San Francisco-based company and is entitled to workers' benefits, adding to the global debate over labor rights for drivers on the platform...."
Did anyone notice the contradiction? The submitter reports a Brazilian judge requiring that mandatory entitlements be given to Uber drivers, then within the same sentence instead refers to "workers rights".
Entitlements are the opposite rights. An entitlement is prohibition of liberty; If the Uber driver is entitled to receive X dollars in compensation then the driver can not choose to work for less. A right is a grant of liberty; If I have the right to free speech then I can choose what to say without restriction.
This "news" was posted about ten years ago on ./, by CmdrTaco on in December 2007.
That bizarre cathedral guy, Eric Raymond, is busy cleaning up NTP for security and recently evaluated Rust as a possible language for a complete re-write and found it deficient. His blog posts on that:
"Rust vs. Go"
Rust severely disappoints me
"Rust and the limits of swarm design"
AMERICANS NEED JOBS!
Which is exactly what you get when foreign engineering and design firms which operate from nations with permissive immigration for STEM talent outsource their low-wage manual labor jobs here for manufacture. What? You want those corporations and their profits to stay here? Forget that, you just walled off the vast international source of talent from domestic high-tech companies which need access to succeed.
Ceteris paribus, the most successful companies are those with the best access to resources, not those with the most limited access to resources. Labor is a resource.
Engineering and design work supports an umbrella of labor: managers, accountants, IT, safety, etc. If your company fails because misguided nationalists blocked access to engineering talent, then all those jobs go with it.
The nations which most successfully exploit the law of comparative advantage by allowing the most free exchange of goods and labor are the wealthiest nations. Walling yourself off because you believe that hoarding jobs and goods in your own country will make it richer is a certain formula for failure and poverty.
Historically, the artic, has, Been ice free.
Nice try, Mr. Shatner.
Highly variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar in combination with energy storage using batteries to balance out variations in both load and supply might well be the wave of the future. However, it seems unlikely that these Tesla battery packs, optimized as they are for use in automobiles and thus designed to meet standards for compactness, weight, and collision safety, are also optimal for grid energy storage, which has different requirements. Assembling grid-scale energy storage from individual cells is probably a technological dead-end and will be supplanted by flow batteries.