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  1. ES sucks for the cloud on Is Amazon's AWS Approaching 'War' for Control of Elasticsearch? (datanami.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is ES was not well designed with cloud computing in mind. It's super painful to secure and tune in the cloud. So, of course Amazon is going to try to bridge those deficiencies when all their customers keep using Amazon support resources to walk the complicated tightwire. ES should build better packaging and management tools. It's that simple. Elasticsearch sucks.

  2. Re: Yes, they are on Is Amazon's AWS Approaching 'War' for Control of Elasticsearch? (datanami.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then why didn't you build your own AWS AMIs for your users who all want to use your software on AWS anyway? Why didn't you properly package your software for `yum` and `apt`? Why did you make setting up your software so difficult and bespoke that it's easier to use someone else's version?

    Why did you release your software as open source without understanding the business model behind the license you chose?

  3. Re: Great, except that wouldn't work on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Those resources are only limited because we waste so much on things like intramural sports and teaching world history to 2nd graders. Of course it requires more resources to apply private school style math education to all students, but at the same time everyone keeps claiming that math is super important to anyone operating in the modern world. We need to put our money where our mouths are.

    And to be clear, I'm not suggesting we don't teach the kids and just wait for them to learn an pass on their own. Like you, I'm suggesting peer groups of those at the same level. Though I don't see any significant issue if you have 18 year olds in with 6 year olds all learning arithmetio and numeric literacy. If that's where you're at, that's where you're at.

  4. Are those kids willing to sacrifice something? on Kids From At Least 112 Countries, Including the US, Go on Strike To Protest Climate Change · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't take much to get a kid to decide not to go to school. But are they willing to make real sacrifices for the environment? Probably not. You have to give up meat. You can't buy electronics devices. You can't use plastics. Can't drink milk or consume many other animal products unless they are expensive sustainable varieties. You have to give up on shopping at the mall and do all your clothes shopping at thrift stores buying only highly durable clothing that lasts more than a season. Give up any sports or extracurriculars that require you to travel by bus.

    When kids do those things, they will be standing on firm moral ground.

  5. Re: Math is stupid & useless. on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but that's more of a semantic argument, as liberal today means something quite different from what it meant during the Gilded Age. The modern parallel is libertarian.

  6. Apple needs Spotify more on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple needs apps from third parties in order to have a useful platform. Spotify benefits Apple ecosystem by gracing the App Store with their presence. No need to send remuneration to Apple at all.

  7. There's no need, because they are not republishing the photos or even legitimately derivative works. What they used from the photos is objective data, not an artistic work built on the photos. You can't copyright objective data, only a particular representation of it. In this case, the photographer's representation is a photo, and IBMs is a neural net.

  8. Oh mighty Shai-hulud
    Keeper of balance

    Bless the Maker and His water
    Bless the coming and going of Him
    May His passage cleanse the world

  9. When did you unilaterally decide arithmetic was no longer a branch of mathematics?

  10. Re: Math is stupid & useless. on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Liberal agenda? I think it would be news to most that people like the Rockefellers were liberals.

  11. Re: Well, math anxiety... on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's true for any subject that isn't predominantly just talking about shit. Any topic with objective measurements of success and failure is cause for anxiety from those who can't do it. Other subjects you can bullshit through, parrot a few sentances, and your teacher can subjectively pass you. As soon as there I an objective measure, you have kids who are objectively failures.

  12. Collect the dumb kids together on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The pacing of math is wrong for the vast majority of kids. Many are bored to death, just as many are confused and barely skating through. But our math education is all laid out on a rigid timeline. We need to not just get of rid of the idea of grades (4th grade math is a stupid concept), but we also need to actively collect dumb students and smart students into their own groups early on.

    Math education should simply be standardized tests that you can take when you feel ready. Any other form of grading or advancement will inevitably lead to a poor education for the majority of the students.

  13. Re: What is News here? on Facebook's Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what's important.

  14. What is an Android virus? on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    All the apps have very explicit permissions. Google blocks malware at the source at the Play Store when it is identified. I've never felt at all compelled to run antivirus on Android. What is the value?

  15. There's no implication IBM did anything wrong. This is what the Creative Commons licenses are for. What's the story?

  16. The big difference is Windows marketshare was significant enough to be talked about as a monopoly.

    Apple's not even the market leader.

  17. Re:Just like with "AMP" pages. on Chrome's Lite Pages Speed Up HTTPS Webpages on Slow Connections (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the goal here is the same goal Opera had when they added the feature a decade or so ago. It provides a marked improvement in page load time. Yes, it requires sending info through the provider. But it absolutely is a killer feature for shitty mobile connections. The Opera version - at least - would pre-render the page on the server, then generate a vastly simplified version of the page that is designed to render pretty much the same way. Because most web pages are utter shite filled with atrocious amounts of garbage, this has a significant impact in the amount of shit that gets passed through your tiny pipe.

  18. Going down the Opera list of features... on Chrome's Lite Pages Speed Up HTTPS Webpages on Slow Connections (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems lately like the Chrome team is just going through a list of features available in Opera in 1998.

  19. Re: Dude got busy IS the problem on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 1

    The idea of FOSS is you build on someone else's work. If you don't like the work they did, don't use it. If you are not qualified to build on their work, hire someone to do it. If you just wanna leach free software, then you're stuck with whatever the devs wanna give you.

  20. Re: systemd merits? Name 10. on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 1

    My point was not that systemd fixes the log problem. My point is that on a systemd system, it is trivial to audit and manage all your logging in a way that is consistent and simple. The fact that they integrated something like logging rather than just wrangling STDOUT/STDERR means that one doesn't have to hunt the init script to discover how logging is handled, where it goes, how to configure log rotation, etc.

    Configuring logging sounds simple. It should be. But the traditional way of doing it simply does not work. If it did, we wouldn't encounter failure after failure of doing it correctly in the wild.

  21. Re: systemd merits? Name 10. on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 1

    The important people chose it. Like the engineers at RedHat and those working on Debian.

  22. Yeah, KYC laws aren't going anywhere. We'll drop murder as a crime before we drop money laundering.

  23. And no, it does not depend on where you bank. It depends on where you shop. As I initially stated to your abject skepticism, there fees are charged by the merchant at P.O.S., not by your bank.

  24. Yes, stores commonly charge debit fees in many places. Yes, you have an opportunity to cancel beforehand. So what? The point is in many places debit cards regularly incur fees at P.O.S.

  25. Re: The end of private spending on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Public school taxes aren't to educate your kids. They are to fund an educated society. You are receiving that benefit as much as any of your neighbors.