Maybe I'm in the minority here but in most of the shops I've worked in over the decades where the IT dept did a lot of programming most of the folks did both dev and ops although nobody called it devops back then. A pure-sysadmin in a large organization is basically a computer janitor. Without some dev skills you're not going to be able to automate anything hence you're going to be reduced to doing the chump work that somebody with dev skills has already automated. Literally "I will replace you with a small shell script" sort of stuff. So I don't know if devops is meaningless bullshit but I certainly don't think it's anything new or buzzworthy.
As a software dev I have no problem whatsoever doing ops as long as I'm never on call.
Certainly it SHOULD be possible to follow the audit trail. I suspect you are absolutely right about how rigid VW engineering usually is.
Of course it's also possible to bypass those processes for nefarious purposes.
That's true at a lot of software companies but it is almost certainly completely untrue when it comes to an embedded engine control unit at a major automotive manufacturer. That sort of development is typically slow, methodical, and rigorous, with extensive pre-release testing. And the team is probably pretty small, I doubt there are more than a dozen engineers working on that, and probably a handful of key guys write most of the code. And I can guarandamntee that their code churn is nothing like "millions of lines per minute", more like hundreds of lines per week in bursts, and even that slows down dramatically as release time approaches. Nothing happens without it being fully planned out and documented and signed off on by management and engineers alike in an engineering change request. To do otherwise would be a huge liability. Remember, facebook can't kill you, but a buggy ECU can.
I have a Chinese pulse oximeter. It's completely worthless as a pulse oximeter although it has a very nice OLED display. I can hold my breath for a minute and get tunnel vision without it showing any drop in my blood O2 concentration. I know this is crap because I've shared a hospital room overnight with a guy with really bad sleep apnea who was setting off his O2 alarm every 30 minutes as he entered a deep sleep phase, stopped breathing for 20 seconds, and his O2 dropped to 80%. That was a long night.
Many appliances run just fine on 120v DC power. Of course it's hard to tell which ones without either taking it apart and examining it or trying it and risking the magic smoke coming out.
Nothing high-current will ever switch to low voltage DC, I hope. I'm already annoyed at my 120v electric lawn mower; stupid extension cord is way heavier than my in-laws 240v electric lawn mower in Europe. Considering the cost of copper we should be switching to higher voltages, not lower.
Seems like the batteries could be redesigned to be higher voltage to reduce inverter losses. Just add more cells.
True sine wave IGBT converters are pretty efficient.
In 8th grade this one guy used pc anywhere or whatever was around back then to remote into a computer being used by a much younger student and started typed YOU WILL DIE.
There was a flap, but it didn't involve police.
IBM is famous for this. The moment you give notice your security badge is revoked and you are marched out of the building to enjoy your paid vacation for however long your notice was.
I had the priviledge of living in a government surplus FEMA trailer on a Navy base for about four weeks. It really wasn't that bad. They're just cheap trailers built by some cheap trailer company like the millions of other cheap trailers that people live in all over the US. There's nothing FEMA-ey about them. I don't know what everybody is complaining about. Bunch of whine-ass cry-babies. "Oh the FREE trailer I got from the government ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH". Or maybe this whole thing was concocted by the media. When FEMA got rid of them, this base got about a dozen, for free, and they've been lived in ever since, including by me, and they are perfectly livable.
There are those in oceanography who would tell you that Bob's submersibles are pressurized by his own overinflated ego. But I guess haters gonna hate. FWIW my grandpa met him once and speaks highly of him, and he answered a letter one of my cousin's wrote to him. And the JASON system is fucking rad.
Your victrola is probably an exceptional outlyer. It's remarkable because it's so old and still works. Nevermind the million other busted victrolas in the landfill. I've gone through plenty of old stuff that was busted and not worth fixing for any practical reason. Old does not necessarily equal good. Sure manufacturing quality of consumer goods is hit or miss but that's nothing new either. You think nobody sold junk 100 years ago? Yeah right.
It wasn't very long ago that; guess what? NOBODY owned their telephone! That's right, you RENTED it from the phone company! In fact it was ILLEGAL to third party phone. In fact some people STILL RENT their phone. Their ROTARY land line phone.
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does that even include methylation?
Maybe I'm in the minority here but in most of the shops I've worked in over the decades where the IT dept did a lot of programming most of the folks did both dev and ops although nobody called it devops back then. A pure-sysadmin in a large organization is basically a computer janitor. Without some dev skills you're not going to be able to automate anything hence you're going to be reduced to doing the chump work that somebody with dev skills has already automated. Literally "I will replace you with a small shell script" sort of stuff. So I don't know if devops is meaningless bullshit but I certainly don't think it's anything new or buzzworthy.
As a software dev I have no problem whatsoever doing ops as long as I'm never on call.
is anything like "ZFS will be the default". He just said that it would be in the distro.
eh they might not have it cracked yet but that doesn't matter because they'll just record it and crack it later
LGPL versions 2 and 3 are both extant and widely used. Ditto the AGPL.
I'd have a print out of the email from my manager directing me to do it regardless of it's illegality on file at my lawyers office.
Certainly it SHOULD be possible to follow the audit trail. I suspect you are absolutely right about how rigid VW engineering usually is. Of course it's also possible to bypass those processes for nefarious purposes.
It will be interesting to see if your car will pass state inspection without being "upgraded".
How would that have helped? They found this by analyzing tailpipe emissions, not source code.
That's true at a lot of software companies but it is almost certainly completely untrue when it comes to an embedded engine control unit at a major automotive manufacturer. That sort of development is typically slow, methodical, and rigorous, with extensive pre-release testing. And the team is probably pretty small, I doubt there are more than a dozen engineers working on that, and probably a handful of key guys write most of the code. And I can guarandamntee that their code churn is nothing like "millions of lines per minute", more like hundreds of lines per week in bursts, and even that slows down dramatically as release time approaches. Nothing happens without it being fully planned out and documented and signed off on by management and engineers alike in an engineering change request. To do otherwise would be a huge liability. Remember, facebook can't kill you, but a buggy ECU can.
I have a Chinese pulse oximeter. It's completely worthless as a pulse oximeter although it has a very nice OLED display. I can hold my breath for a minute and get tunnel vision without it showing any drop in my blood O2 concentration. I know this is crap because I've shared a hospital room overnight with a guy with really bad sleep apnea who was setting off his O2 alarm every 30 minutes as he entered a deep sleep phase, stopped breathing for 20 seconds, and his O2 dropped to 80%. That was a long night.
Will any of these ablate copper? IE can you use it to make a PCB?
Many appliances run just fine on 120v DC power. Of course it's hard to tell which ones without either taking it apart and examining it or trying it and risking the magic smoke coming out.
Nothing high-current will ever switch to low voltage DC, I hope. I'm already annoyed at my 120v electric lawn mower; stupid extension cord is way heavier than my in-laws 240v electric lawn mower in Europe. Considering the cost of copper we should be switching to higher voltages, not lower.
Seems like the batteries could be redesigned to be higher voltage to reduce inverter losses. Just add more cells.
True sine wave IGBT converters are pretty efficient.
Until your building burns down. Hopefully you had the foresight to do off-site backups.
Gave both dolls and cars to both my daughter and son... The boy likes cars and the girl likes dolls. It's genetic.
In 8th grade this one guy used pc anywhere or whatever was around back then to remote into a computer being used by a much younger student and started typed YOU WILL DIE. There was a flap, but it didn't involve police.
The FCC could possibly regulate this.
That's not how things are done in Essex Jct VT.
IBM is famous for this. The moment you give notice your security badge is revoked and you are marched out of the building to enjoy your paid vacation for however long your notice was.
I had the priviledge of living in a government surplus FEMA trailer on a Navy base for about four weeks. It really wasn't that bad. They're just cheap trailers built by some cheap trailer company like the millions of other cheap trailers that people live in all over the US. There's nothing FEMA-ey about them. I don't know what everybody is complaining about. Bunch of whine-ass cry-babies. "Oh the FREE trailer I got from the government ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH". Or maybe this whole thing was concocted by the media. When FEMA got rid of them, this base got about a dozen, for free, and they've been lived in ever since, including by me, and they are perfectly livable.
There are those in oceanography who would tell you that Bob's submersibles are pressurized by his own overinflated ego. But I guess haters gonna hate. FWIW my grandpa met him once and speaks highly of him, and he answered a letter one of my cousin's wrote to him. And the JASON system is fucking rad.
Or it could be Nazi Germany and you could be a certain famous Jewish patent clerk turned physicist.
If you haven't broken a hundred screwdrivers you haven't done any real work.
Your victrola is probably an exceptional outlyer. It's remarkable because it's so old and still works. Nevermind the million other busted victrolas in the landfill. I've gone through plenty of old stuff that was busted and not worth fixing for any practical reason. Old does not necessarily equal good. Sure manufacturing quality of consumer goods is hit or miss but that's nothing new either. You think nobody sold junk 100 years ago? Yeah right.
It wasn't very long ago that; guess what? NOBODY owned their telephone! That's right, you RENTED it from the phone company! In fact it was ILLEGAL to third party phone. In fact some people STILL RENT their phone. Their ROTARY land line phone.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm
Funny how quickly people forget. As they say in china, there's nothing new under the sun.