Maybe because i'm a bit tied into the samething too, i'm probably the unluckiest racer there is... Always something cutting my budget waaaaay short.
Anyways, my 30yo corolla with it's 110WHP is happy to beat the priceeeey cars anyday;)... well it does happen to have 4k+ RPM power band, really good racing suspension, among other small things... but most importantly it's the fact the driver for some reason doesn't seem to need brakes almost ever, and it sounds like he has throttle wide open always... Wonder if that has anything to do with it passing the 3-4 times more powerfull, 3-10x higher cost cars?;)
(Actually the car is now in parts because i managed to ripp the chassis badly from plain G-forces. Quite a bit of chassis damage from plain cornering and high grip.)
It's the most biggest misconception that racing is only for the rich. If you lack the cash, just have some good ol' plain ingeniouty and effort. Money makes it all easier, but isn't necessitated that much.
Then again, it's not cheap hobby neither! Even doing the "cheap route" usually means spending about 400-600euros a month on average, no exceptions, saving saving saving saving saving and saving a bit more. Your life will easily become racing centered, it will become your life easy. Everything has to culminate around that if you want to get anywhere.
I should know: I come from the slums, with no education. Yet almost every single winter i get to race most of the season nowadays, and now targeting full summer seasons too. Just slowly building it all up. Last winter however i didn't have a proper car after dec, and thus were mainly going around to cruise and have some fun, and last summer was lost for the same reason.
Infact, at cheapest a 200€ piece of shit can do if it's RWD to get started. Get a piece of shit like that, change the oil, brake fluid, safety check, and off you go on a practice day on a dirt track. Remember to get back on the throttle ASAP, and make your braking as late and short as possible. preferrably after a strong braking turn slightly to left or right and go full out on accelerator to have some good drifting fun;) (and when you do that, congrats, you've just learned how weight shifting works.)
Yeap me too a little bit, but in fact WAY shorter cycles, i had to remind myself constantly to let loose of steering wheel because i knew i would wear out really fast.
I do drifting, so it's quite a bit different, where you are racking in extreme to extreme steering angle in extreme speeds, but because it took so much energy to do that i learned a new car way faster, how to balance it perfectly with mainly using the accelerator.
I think my max flat out was 6laps on a 800m lap, only backend and main straight without drifting, otherwise non-stop constant linked drifting. In a 30yo corolla which even on regular driving makes you work on low speeds on the steering:P Also, need to battle to stay in the OMP half bucket seat constantly, makes it that much harder.
Anyway, after a single day of training i tend to feel ecstatic for a week, and pain from my right leg ends after about 3days after it gets extremely touch sensitive because i have to lean it on the (metallic) center console to keep myself in the seat:P About every single track day my seat ripps of the chassis, and i keep welding it back in XD
Guess next summer i need to upgrade to better seat, properly reinforced seat installation, and better seat belts. and Naturally more grip and power:P Other drifters try to loose the rear end grip, i try to maximize it. My car also often has 1/4th the power the other guys have, so i tend to rely more on keeping throttle wide-open almost non-stop, weight shifting and generally inertia drifting. AKA the hardest techniques to pull of, but also the fastest, makes a 30yo corolla go higher angle and faster than a 3 times as powerfull newer car;)
On a serious tone, they have been saying it's exactly the same for ages now:D
Well, waiting until they can simulate on a per atom basis, then recreate the physical sensations as a driver too... Then we can say it's approaching exact:P
Racing myself has shown how huge the gap actually is, even on the best of today's technology has nothing compared to the real thing. But still good fun, occasionally, in the lack of the real thing;P
I for one fear of this, and am now forced to take.fi domain for our business and simply make our.com a forwarder. We operate torrent seedboxes, nothing illegal in them itself, but many users seem to use it for illegal purposes, as DMCA requests for our US servers is "quite frequent", despite we are not US business, using US provider forces us to follow DMCA for the servers in question. Operating within completely in the legal domain, doing everything legally, does seem to provide us little to no safety against the whims of US goverment.
Yes, our market is likely to be used for illegal purposes. So are the tools of locksmith or the common kitchen knife possibility to be used for bad. And what the article shows is one of those.
The business plan of MAFIAA is outdated, and should be updated, but whenever new technology comes around something like this happens, but this is the first time actual tangible efforts has happened afaik.
I'm sick of this, the world is crazy. What matters is what the average person thinks and does, and businesses as well as goverments SHOULD fear the population. It's the only way for humanity to get the most out of our lives, and the most progress.
You cannot stop progress. I sense a darknet to rise if this becomes too common.
Anyone know the domain registrars in question? Is it everything ICANN controls or specific domain registrars? That would show which registrars to avoid. I'm also curious why they did not shut down piratebay etc. as well? what is the pattern on the sites closed? ie. what is the pattern by which they do the seizing.
It could still be described as experimental: Seeking if it works on large scale operation and across any kind of devices. So not cheating, if they have intend to drop it, or if it's good suggest in a subsequent RFC for widespread implementation.
My personal general rule of thumb is: It's not cheating if it A) Works, B) Does not have any significant negative impact and my another rule of thumb is: It's a must have if A) lowers cost of operation, B) net benefit greatly outweights negatives
of course my general rules does not anything to do with wider scale implementation, but hey, this is/. and everyone's 2cents is as good as fact, right? >;)
Sails: Kites are being used to tap into faster winds going higher up to reduce fuel costs today.
Nuclear: This thread is about giant vessels, only 57 of them in the world, and they are totally giants, biggest ones being close to 400m long. I think these kind of ships are large enough for benefitting nuclear, but the reason not to use nuclear is elsewhere i would think.
and it is being used or going to be used in near future, i saw some article about using sails to tow normal vessels to decrease fuel consumption a few years back.
global warming is all outdated already, climate change is all the rage now, as some parts of world are actually coldest in 50+ years;)
Global warming, climate change just seems to be yet again mostly about just having sometimes to rage about. If i recall right, no one has yet to proof anything actually conclusive about global warming, all proof are about climate change, and neglect all factors. There was one study that all the planets in our galaxy are warming up(??!)
Sure: There IS real damage to the immediate local environment from pollution, but probably not on the global scale.
The warming period we saw, could be just a natural cycle.
And don't confuse this is saying "pollution does not matter", as it clearly does, in cities for example. Just that you shouldn't buy anything mainstream media is raging about at face value, do your own research and make your own conclusions.
Things get interesting when you have already done all that, run benchmark after benchmark for days upon days, even tried to change design and still lacking the last 2-5%, customer rejects the work and no new hardware is allowed.
What to do then, is a real trick. Well, i managed to finally get more performance out of it, just so that someone else could break it a little bit later on without any sign anywhere in version control about how it was broken.
"We can't solve this by adding new hardware" is a technical problem. Throwing hardware at a problem most of the time is not the good choice, and the pain now solving it technically pays off dividends for rest of the lifecycle of the software.
I use extensively the so called NoSQL stuff, but for caching. The actual, real data and it's relations are still stored in a RDBMS which is accessed if there's no cache hit.
NoSQL for most part is just key/value pairs, nothing special.
Try to map out in NoSQL reliably a very complex data structure (think 50+ interconnected relations of one to many or many to many)
So you've not worked on anything like that, where actually someone knew how to make a relational database.
Ty very much, but our DBs are running fine with over 100million rows that's almost purely textual data being searched (relational full text searches) and 500+ q/s, and double that in hits per sec with a single modern server still having plenty of free resources. Ok that doesn't change that much, but then we got this one thing which over 100x the size, runs even way heavier searches (exponentially more complex), and updates almost constantly and public uses it from just 2 nodes, and this has been designed to have over 100 pageviews per sec.
All of that runs on top of MySQL and standard hardware. (No SSD, no gigantic amounts of ram, no gigantic amounts of HDDs etc.) And the most expensive server was 5500eur, the more complex one uses ~3½k eur blades.
Roflmao! "Push to save data that does not fit into any schema."
Excuse me, if you cannot comprehend the data (no schema can be created), then let someone else do it who actually knows what they are doing.
All data is just data, they have relations, they have types, they have patterns etc. There's no magical data no one cannot comprehend enough to put it into a DB Schema.
"NoSQL" or key/value datastore is good for caching data. but i don't see much value beyond that if there's any relations.
Thing is, most people are ignorant and clueless. Probably 90% of code i see (and i see it a lot) i discard as bad quality. Ironically, those with most buzzwords in marketing about code quality seems to have the lowest code quality in practical terms, and most idiotic software architecture. And yes, i do mean Magento.
Magento is a modern marvel example of this, they claim all the buzzwords which are hip. MVC, EAV, Enterprise, Open Source etc. They are just that: Features with checkmarks. MVC rules are broken left and right, so are EAV rules, it's not truly open source neither: The code is so shit it's clear it's just a gigantic push for consulting services, some features are paywalled etc.
In the end, the cost of rolling out a new quite standard web shop was over 4x compared to slightly modified oscommerce codebase (basicly changed from standard to ease changing layout, nothing else) and not all features got completed.
Things like payment gateways required thousands of lines to code for the most basic of support, where OSCommerce counterpart module was under 200lines. Hell, developing anything custom into it is a major PITA unless you are unfortunate enough that you HAVE to work with Magento for a reeeeally long time.
Also, it's quite slow, and idiotic design.
Drawbacks were like:
- MVC layers were all mixed up, especially in the view there could be quite a bit logic.
- Forced JS for your customers
- The "SEO" features makes you rank worse (Duplicate content issues all over the place, the JS forcing etc.)
- Completely stupid abstractions
- EAV meaning for them: Shitload of useless abstraction
- Abstractions or simply hooks were inconsistently spread all over the place in illogical locations
- Uses totally "wierd methods" for handling plugins etc. (quite well known software, but not used by anyone else for that task and fault prone)
- That plugin installation was likely to fail
- Error handling: Bad (at best) to complete hindrance. Errors where execution should be stopped did not even yield a error message (even in logs), errors which were informative at best (such as adding text to inexistant string variale $inexists.= 'foobar') caused a complete halt
- Templates: By default it consists of tens of thousands of lines of CSS, which is mostly duplicate & irrelevant special cases just reaffirming the already applied styles. Minimum requirement for working layout is ~5k lines of CSS.
- Templates: CSS requires insane amounts of tiny special cases to make it work overally.
- Templates: Unless you use a reaaally specific definition, no matter how tiny the change, you were likely to break something else when you fixed this. This is due to the fact that by default the HTML is so crap, and rewriting it all is too big of an task.
- CSS: Classes & ID differences are misunderstood, generic class mismatches, inconsistent use and collisions.
- The amount of files in the system is simply stunning, take out popcorn and sit back while waiting the counting to finish on regular workstation. (I'm not saying those files should be joined, but some forethough into the design should have taken before doing the design so that instead of requiring that 1-2 files which are actually necessary you are required to create 5+ directories and 20+ files).
Well you get the feeling. It's a really good example of how not to code anythign, should be taken into schools as an example of what to avoid. Pretty much anything they've done is more or less wrong. Basicly they taken everything what is Buzz and what has been Buzz and forced it all into a single system.
Btw, that list was out of my head, and last time i've touched magento was almost 1½yrs ago. It's something i will never forget, it was that excruciatingly painfull.
By sounds of it the Tesla motor is quite normal type brushless motor, nothing special. The efficiency % could even be increased from what it is. By the looks on it at the surface, there's something they could work on to gain higher efficiency.
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Hey, you just described my favourite bag o' smells in the world, that cocktail of smells and i'm right at home enjoying the fresh breeze :P
(Yes, i do race abit ...)
HAhaha! Loved the old Datsun bit! :P
Maybe because i'm a bit tied into the samething too, i'm probably the unluckiest racer there is ... Always something cutting my budget waaaaay short.
Anyways, my 30yo corolla with it's 110WHP is happy to beat the priceeeey cars anyday ;) ... well it does happen to have 4k+ RPM power band, really good racing suspension, among other small things... but most importantly it's the fact the driver for some reason doesn't seem to need brakes almost ever, and it sounds like he has throttle wide open always... Wonder if that has anything to do with it passing the 3-4 times more powerfull, 3-10x higher cost cars? ;)
(Actually the car is now in parts because i managed to ripp the chassis badly from plain G-forces. Quite a bit of chassis damage from plain cornering and high grip.)
It's the most biggest misconception that racing is only for the rich. If you lack the cash, just have some good ol' plain ingeniouty and effort. Money makes it all easier, but isn't necessitated that much.
Then again, it's not cheap hobby neither! Even doing the "cheap route" usually means spending about 400-600euros a month on average, no exceptions, saving saving saving saving saving and saving a bit more. Your life will easily become racing centered, it will become your life easy. Everything has to culminate around that if you want to get anywhere.
I should know: I come from the slums, with no education. Yet almost every single winter i get to race most of the season nowadays, and now targeting full summer seasons too. Just slowly building it all up. Last winter however i didn't have a proper car after dec, and thus were mainly going around to cruise and have some fun, and last summer was lost for the same reason.
Infact, at cheapest a 200€ piece of shit can do if it's RWD to get started. Get a piece of shit like that, change the oil, brake fluid, safety check, and off you go on a practice day on a dirt track. Remember to get back on the throttle ASAP, and make your braking as late and short as possible. preferrably after a strong braking turn slightly to left or right and go full out on accelerator to have some good drifting fun ;) (and when you do that, congrats, you've just learned how weight shifting works.)
Yeap me too a little bit, but in fact WAY shorter cycles, i had to remind myself constantly to let loose of steering wheel because i knew i would wear out really fast.
I do drifting, so it's quite a bit different, where you are racking in extreme to extreme steering angle in extreme speeds, but because it took so much energy to do that i learned a new car way faster, how to balance it perfectly with mainly using the accelerator.
I think my max flat out was 6laps on a 800m lap, only backend and main straight without drifting, otherwise non-stop constant linked drifting. In a 30yo corolla which even on regular driving makes you work on low speeds on the steering :P Also, need to battle to stay in the OMP half bucket seat constantly, makes it that much harder.
Anyway, after a single day of training i tend to feel ecstatic for a week, and pain from my right leg ends after about 3days after it gets extremely touch sensitive because i have to lean it on the (metallic) center console to keep myself in the seat :P About every single track day my seat ripps of the chassis, and i keep welding it back in XD
Guess next summer i need to upgrade to better seat, properly reinforced seat installation, and better seat belts. and Naturally more grip and power :P Other drifters try to loose the rear end grip, i try to maximize it. My car also often has 1/4th the power the other guys have, so i tend to rely more on keeping throttle wide-open almost non-stop, weight shifting and generally inertia drifting. AKA the hardest techniques to pull of, but also the fastest, makes a 30yo corolla go higher angle and faster than a 3 times as powerfull newer car ;)
On a serious tone, they have been saying it's exactly the same for ages now :D
Well, waiting until they can simulate on a per atom basis, then recreate the physical sensations as a driver too... Then we can say it's approaching exact :P
Racing myself has shown how huge the gap actually is, even on the best of today's technology has nothing compared to the real thing. But still good fun, occasionally, in the lack of the real thing ;P
MAFIAA revenues are national security. Haven't you been paying attention? ;) ;)
MAFIAA atleast would like it to be so
What happened to innocent until proven quilty?
mod parent something like +trillion insightfull.
I for one fear of this, and am now forced to take .fi domain for our business and simply make our .com a forwarder. We operate torrent seedboxes, nothing illegal in them itself, but many users seem to use it for illegal purposes, as DMCA requests for our US servers is "quite frequent", despite we are not US business, using US provider forces us to follow DMCA for the servers in question. Operating within completely in the legal domain, doing everything legally, does seem to provide us little to no safety against the whims of US goverment.
Yes, our market is likely to be used for illegal purposes. So are the tools of locksmith or the common kitchen knife possibility to be used for bad. And what the article shows is one of those.
The business plan of MAFIAA is outdated, and should be updated, but whenever new technology comes around something like this happens, but this is the first time actual tangible efforts has happened afaik.
I'm sick of this, the world is crazy. What matters is what the average person thinks and does, and businesses as well as goverments SHOULD fear the population. It's the only way for humanity to get the most out of our lives, and the most progress.
You cannot stop progress. I sense a darknet to rise if this becomes too common.
Anyone know the domain registrars in question? Is it everything ICANN controls or specific domain registrars? That would show which registrars to avoid.
I'm also curious why they did not shut down piratebay etc. as well? what is the pattern on the sites closed? ie. what is the pattern by which they do the seizing.
It could still be described as experimental: Seeking if it works on large scale operation and across any kind of devices. So not cheating, if they have intend to drop it, or if it's good suggest in a subsequent RFC for widespread implementation.
My personal general rule of thumb is: It's not cheating if it A) Works, B) Does not have any significant negative impact
and my another rule of thumb is: It's a must have if A) lowers cost of operation, B) net benefit greatly outweights negatives
of course my general rules does not anything to do with wider scale implementation, but hey, this is /. and everyone's 2cents is as good as fact, right? >;)
Maybe he cheated his way back in as well? ;)
Then how the average server admin can take advantage of this? ;)
do you use somekind of software to do that, or the paper & bins method?
Sails: Kites are being used to tap into faster winds going higher up to reduce fuel costs today.
Nuclear: This thread is about giant vessels, only 57 of them in the world, and they are totally giants, biggest ones being close to 400m long. I think these kind of ships are large enough for benefitting nuclear, but the reason not to use nuclear is elsewhere i would think.
already being employed for a few years afaik. Atleast it's been several years since i saw about this exact same thing.
You probably saw it too but cannot remember it anymore :)
and it is being used or going to be used in near future, i saw some article about using sails to tow normal vessels to decrease fuel consumption a few years back.
and constructions methods has since been slightly improved. Say, in metallurgy for example.
global warming is all outdated already, climate change is all the rage now, as some parts of world are actually coldest in 50+ years ;)
Global warming, climate change just seems to be yet again mostly about just having sometimes to rage about. If i recall right, no one has yet to proof anything actually conclusive about global warming, all proof are about climate change, and neglect all factors. There was one study that all the planets in our galaxy are warming up(??!)
Sure: There IS real damage to the immediate local environment from pollution, but probably not on the global scale.
The warming period we saw, could be just a natural cycle.
And don't confuse this is saying "pollution does not matter", as it clearly does, in cities for example. Just that you shouldn't buy anything mainstream media is raging about at face value, do your own research and make your own conclusions.
Things get interesting when you have already done all that, run benchmark after benchmark for days upon days, even tried to change design and still lacking the last 2-5%, customer rejects the work and no new hardware is allowed.
What to do then, is a real trick. Well, i managed to finally get more performance out of it, just so that someone else could break it a little bit later on without any sign anywhere in version control about how it was broken.
"We can't solve this by adding new hardware" is a technical problem.
Throwing hardware at a problem most of the time is not the good choice, and the pain now solving it technically pays off dividends for rest of the lifecycle of the software.
I use extensively the so called NoSQL stuff, but for caching. The actual, real data and it's relations are still stored in a RDBMS which is accessed if there's no cache hit.
NoSQL for most part is just key/value pairs, nothing special.
Try to map out in NoSQL reliably a very complex data structure (think 50+ interconnected relations of one to many or many to many)
So you've not worked on anything like that, where actually someone knew how to make a relational database.
Ty very much, but our DBs are running fine with over 100million rows that's almost purely textual data being searched (relational full text searches) and 500+ q/s, and double that in hits per sec with a single modern server still having plenty of free resources.
Ok that doesn't change that much, but then we got this one thing which over 100x the size, runs even way heavier searches (exponentially more complex), and updates almost constantly and public uses it from just 2 nodes, and this has been designed to have over 100 pageviews per sec.
All of that runs on top of MySQL and standard hardware. (No SSD, no gigantic amounts of ram, no gigantic amounts of HDDs etc.)
And the most expensive server was 5500eur, the more complex one uses ~3½k eur blades.
Roflmao! "Push to save data that does not fit into any schema."
Excuse me, if you cannot comprehend the data (no schema can be created), then let someone else do it who actually knows what they are doing.
All data is just data, they have relations, they have types, they have patterns etc. There's no magical data no one cannot comprehend enough to put it into a DB Schema.
Yup, someone simply made up a buzzword it caught.
"NoSQL" or key/value datastore is good for caching data. but i don't see much value beyond that if there's any relations.
Thing is, most people are ignorant and clueless. Probably 90% of code i see (and i see it a lot) i discard as bad quality. Ironically, those with most buzzwords in marketing about code quality seems to have the lowest code quality in practical terms, and most idiotic software architecture. And yes, i do mean Magento.
Magento is a modern marvel example of this, they claim all the buzzwords which are hip. MVC, EAV, Enterprise, Open Source etc. They are just that: Features with checkmarks.
MVC rules are broken left and right, so are EAV rules, it's not truly open source neither: The code is so shit it's clear it's just a gigantic push for consulting services, some features are paywalled etc.
In the end, the cost of rolling out a new quite standard web shop was over 4x compared to slightly modified oscommerce codebase (basicly changed from standard to ease changing layout, nothing else) and not all features got completed.
Things like payment gateways required thousands of lines to code for the most basic of support, where OSCommerce counterpart module was under 200lines. Hell, developing anything custom into it is a major PITA unless you are unfortunate enough that you HAVE to work with Magento for a reeeeally long time.
Also, it's quite slow, and idiotic design.
Drawbacks were like: .= 'foobar') caused a complete halt
- MVC layers were all mixed up, especially in the view there could be quite a bit logic.
- Forced JS for your customers
- The "SEO" features makes you rank worse (Duplicate content issues all over the place, the JS forcing etc.)
- Completely stupid abstractions
- EAV meaning for them: Shitload of useless abstraction
- Abstractions or simply hooks were inconsistently spread all over the place in illogical locations
- Uses totally "wierd methods" for handling plugins etc. (quite well known software, but not used by anyone else for that task and fault prone)
- That plugin installation was likely to fail
- Error handling: Bad (at best) to complete hindrance. Errors where execution should be stopped did not even yield a error message (even in logs), errors which were informative at best (such as adding text to inexistant string variale $inexists
- Templates: By default it consists of tens of thousands of lines of CSS, which is mostly duplicate & irrelevant special cases just reaffirming the already applied styles. Minimum requirement for working layout is ~5k lines of CSS.
- Templates: CSS requires insane amounts of tiny special cases to make it work overally.
- Templates: Unless you use a reaaally specific definition, no matter how tiny the change, you were likely to break something else when you fixed this. This is due to the fact that by default the HTML is so crap, and rewriting it all is too big of an task.
- CSS: Classes & ID differences are misunderstood, generic class mismatches, inconsistent use and collisions.
- The amount of files in the system is simply stunning, take out popcorn and sit back while waiting the counting to finish on regular workstation. (I'm not saying those files should be joined, but some forethough into the design should have taken before doing the design so that instead of requiring that 1-2 files which are actually necessary you are required to create 5+ directories and 20+ files).
Well you get the feeling. It's a really good example of how not to code anythign, should be taken into schools as an example of what to avoid. Pretty much anything they've done is more or less wrong.
Basicly they taken everything what is Buzz and what has been Buzz and forced it all into a single system.
Btw, that list was out of my head, and last time i've touched magento was almost 1½yrs ago. It's something i will never forget, it was that excruciatingly painfull.
Which is most likely scenario as SQL scales tremendously given some thought to it.
By sounds of it the Tesla motor is quite normal type brushless motor, nothing special. The efficiency % could even be increased from what it is. By the looks on it at the surface, there's something they could work on to gain higher efficiency.