Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Young Doc: Unbelievable.
I've been ordering from Aliexpress and Chinavasion for a long time. A lot was just knockoffs. Then there was some innovation now they're actually incrementally improving on their designs.
My current mobile computing device (without cell access) is a Vernee Active. IP68, USBC, 8-cores, dual sim, world (minus the US) capable. For cheap. It's a great phone. It looks like Vernee actually put time and effort into designing their website.
Chinese "brands" are popping up and they're doing pretty good. And their current customer service is better than Walmart. I've gotten a few bad boards, some with a design flaws, some stuff that broke and I've never had a problem getting a refund or a replacement. They're fighting each other for 5-star reviews and they'll do anything to get you to leave a 5 star review.
A good industry to have been watching is 3D printers. The product life cycle follows a fairly predictable design cycle.
Someone comes up with a design.
People rush to the design.
Other companies knock off the design.
Someone comes up with a new design.
GOTO 1
Most of the early growing pains with FOSS were because the chinese simply didn't understand how it worked. I have some soft bricked devices because of bad uBoot with no source. However that's been turning around. Allwinner/sunix has come a long way in the last decade. It's probably as good as Broadcom at this point but not quite Marvell.
Walmart and Amazon should be afraid because the Chinese have learned how to cut them out.
And some 14 year old was hunting and gathering. Not everyone learns the same or at the same rate. We learn time and time again that 'one size fits all' doesn't ever work.
I wasn't "properly" introduced to Assembly until a college controls course where we made a PID on a 68k. The goal wasn't to do assembly, it was to make a PID. But that was the motivation (on top of a grade) for me to get into assembly.
People from the 50s would say the same thing about your life and not knowing how woodworking, plumbing, electrical wiring, cars, etc worked.
Your life is built on abstraction. How well do you know how most of the machines that run your life work?
I'm sure some polymath will come in here proclaiming they own a homestead, repair their own cars, build their own silicon chips, et al but the reality is that for you to get any depth in a subject you have to neglect the depth in others.
I learned to program on Hypercard at ~14. Scratch and NodeRed look like great modern day equivalents for the same age. A 14 year old doesn't need to know how to bit bang with assembly but a high level introduction may lead them down the road of wanting to know.
Someone should clone Facebook 2004 and relaunch it.
I half feel bad for people that missed out. People yelling down the dorm halls "Did you find out about the facebook?" "Our school has been added to the facebook, do you have an invite?"
College only, you could go to away games or "networking" events and connect with other people that wasn't e-mail.
Now it's just the tragedy of the commons. I want to know how many "dark" groups there are. It's what has my wife hooked. She's in quite a few 'invite only' groups for her profession. They'd be much better off on a subreddit with some anonymity. I ended up making a new account just so I could add some sub groups that think that's the best way to communicate. (Some CNC, 3D printing and FreeNAS/BSD groups).
We're sitting on a powder keg of people ready to migrate to a new site. The next site that takes on Facebook, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, etc is going to be huge. Everyone is just too afraid to leave what they know for now.
Keyboards, like any other hobby, can get a bit extreme if you listen to all of the people that use it as a hobby.
Before dropping $100+ on a keyboard because [long spec list that really doesn't matter] I went ahead and bought a $50 keyboard on Amazon. I love it. But it's "Blue Style" not "official" blue switches. It doesn't have a detachable USB cable. I'm sure I'll be outed as a hethen by the/r/MechanicalKeyboard group.
Same with the safety razor group. A $12 handle and $0.1 blades are fine. You don't need $100 in accessories to shave.
Insulting world leaders, pushing Montenegro's Prime Minister out of the way, insulting adult senators, insulting gold star family, cheating on your wife, accused of sexual assault by multiple different women.
What exactly does it take to get certain members off of twitter? Do russian bots buy what American advertisers are?
Remember the NuBus DOS card you could get to run DOS at 'native' speeds?
That said, I welcome it and other similar endeavors. I wish I could buy a more 'modular' desktop for exploratory development. For my work I'd rather have a boatload of ARM cores or FPGA devices on a x16 PCI link than a video card.
I'll buy in. The biggest problem with switching companies as a contractor or getting hired on through another company is dealing with benefits and making sure your family is covered.
Someone should set up a company on paper and 'contract' out a large chunk of it. Manage my 401k and health care and let me find jobs. You take a portion off the top smaller than current companies are scamming us for and you have a hit.
How does a server decide whether to trust a request from a computer where a known user is logged in, rather than rejecting it as a web browser that got subverted by malware or a new-fangled kind of attack ad?
The same way you have been able to do it for a while. PGP signing. Go to a 'key signing party' and rub elbows with people you actually trust. Next time you get a letter from them verify the information is signed from them.
If the printer can inject errors we have bigger issues.
What shocks me in all of these e-mail leak scandals is how un verified it is. I remember being able to telnet to open port 25s and send e-mail to anyone as anyone. PGP encryption and signing should be standard by anyone at that level.
Companies want flashy pretty webpages. Developers prefer to produce something else.
I only look for jobs that use Simulink, Matlab, and embedded C/C++. But that's because I have no desire to ever be near the web front end. I know nothing professionally about TCP/IP but have CAN memorized.
Apple has handled 68k -> PPC -> PPC64 -> x86 -> x64 -> arm -> arm64 fairly well.
How much 'cruft' and security holes exist in Windows because of that backwards compatibility? Let some things die. If you want to run an app on Windows 3.1, run a VM of Windows 3.1.
I wish they did. I learned to program on Hypercard. It took care of one of the biggest 'problems' with most languages now, a GUI. Python's GUI tools are still a mess that don't always work cross platform.
It was easy enough and came with enough built in documentation that 13 year old me could figure it out before Stack Exchange.
Slashdot Mirror
And fast.
I've been ordering from Aliexpress and Chinavasion for a long time. A lot was just knockoffs. Then there was some innovation now they're actually incrementally improving on their designs.
My current mobile computing device (without cell access) is a Vernee Active. IP68, USBC, 8-cores, dual sim, world (minus the US) capable. For cheap. It's a great phone. It looks like Vernee actually put time and effort into designing their website.
Chinese "brands" are popping up and they're doing pretty good. And their current customer service is better than Walmart. I've gotten a few bad boards, some with a design flaws, some stuff that broke and I've never had a problem getting a refund or a replacement. They're fighting each other for 5-star reviews and they'll do anything to get you to leave a 5 star review.
A good industry to have been watching is 3D printers. The product life cycle follows a fairly predictable design cycle.
Most of the early growing pains with FOSS were because the chinese simply didn't understand how it worked. I have some soft bricked devices because of bad uBoot with no source. However that's been turning around. Allwinner/sunix has come a long way in the last decade. It's probably as good as Broadcom at this point but not quite Marvell.
Walmart and Amazon should be afraid because the Chinese have learned how to cut them out.
And some 14 year old was hunting and gathering. Not everyone learns the same or at the same rate. We learn time and time again that 'one size fits all' doesn't ever work.
I wasn't "properly" introduced to Assembly until a college controls course where we made a PID on a 68k. The goal wasn't to do assembly, it was to make a PID. But that was the motivation (on top of a grade) for me to get into assembly.
I finally started playing around with Raspbian and it's a great OS that addresses all of the above.
It has multiple IDE's built in like Node-RED, Scratch, Python (Thonny). A command line terminal is built in as well as apt-get.
People from the 50s would say the same thing about your life and not knowing how woodworking, plumbing, electrical wiring, cars, etc worked.
Your life is built on abstraction. How well do you know how most of the machines that run your life work?
I'm sure some polymath will come in here proclaiming they own a homestead, repair their own cars, build their own silicon chips, et al but the reality is that for you to get any depth in a subject you have to neglect the depth in others.
I learned to program on Hypercard at ~14. Scratch and NodeRed look like great modern day equivalents for the same age. A 14 year old doesn't need to know how to bit bang with assembly but a high level introduction may lead them down the road of wanting to know.
Years ago my library had 2 "internet" computers on the DSL and 3-4 other computers that were a telnet client only.
You bet I taught my 15/16 year old self to check (POP3) and send (STMP) e-mail and chat (IRC) all from telnet.
Not sure how much "Lighter" you could get. I think a Pi3 has more computing power per core than those machines had total.
How heavy would a minimalistic POP3/STMP client with SSL support be?
Someone should clone Facebook 2004 and relaunch it.
I half feel bad for people that missed out. People yelling down the dorm halls "Did you find out about the facebook?" "Our school has been added to the facebook, do you have an invite?"
College only, you could go to away games or "networking" events and connect with other people that wasn't e-mail.
Now it's just the tragedy of the commons. I want to know how many "dark" groups there are. It's what has my wife hooked. She's in quite a few 'invite only' groups for her profession. They'd be much better off on a subreddit with some anonymity. I ended up making a new account just so I could add some sub groups that think that's the best way to communicate. (Some CNC, 3D printing and FreeNAS/BSD groups).
We're sitting on a powder keg of people ready to migrate to a new site. The next site that takes on Facebook, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, etc is going to be huge. Everyone is just too afraid to leave what they know for now.
Keyboards, like any other hobby, can get a bit extreme if you listen to all of the people that use it as a hobby.
Before dropping $100+ on a keyboard because [long spec list that really doesn't matter] I went ahead and bought a $50 keyboard on Amazon. I love it. But it's "Blue Style" not "official" blue switches. It doesn't have a detachable USB cable. I'm sure I'll be outed as a hethen by the /r/MechanicalKeyboard group.
Same with the safety razor group. A $12 handle and $0.1 blades are fine. You don't need $100 in accessories to shave.
Son of a.
Yep. I was wrong. Apparently I can't even read TFH these days.
Nothing else. I was wrong.
Insulting world leaders, pushing Montenegro's Prime Minister out of the way, insulting adult senators, insulting gold star family, cheating on your wife, accused of sexual assault by multiple different women.
What exactly does it take to get certain members off of twitter? Do russian bots buy what American advertisers are?
he said recent price swings indicated a bubble
wasn't rational for a "few-winners-take-most" market
ITAR can not.
I'm not sure how many of the originals are still working, but I imagine some of their resumes just had one line.
Skunk Works Lockheed Martin
Thanks for all the R&D over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Remember the NuBus DOS card you could get to run DOS at 'native' speeds?
That said, I welcome it and other similar endeavors. I wish I could buy a more 'modular' desktop for exploratory development. For my work I'd rather have a boatload of ARM cores or FPGA devices on a x16 PCI link than a video card.
I'll buy in. The biggest problem with switching companies as a contractor or getting hired on through another company is dealing with benefits and making sure your family is covered.
Someone should set up a company on paper and 'contract' out a large chunk of it. Manage my 401k and health care and let me find jobs. You take a portion off the top smaller than current companies are scamming us for and you have a hit.
How does a server decide whether to trust a request from a computer where a known user is logged in, rather than rejecting it as a web browser that got subverted by malware or a new-fangled kind of attack ad?
The same way you have been able to do it for a while. PGP signing. Go to a 'key signing party' and rub elbows with people you actually trust. Next time you get a letter from them verify the information is signed from them.
If the printer can inject errors we have bigger issues.
What shocks me in all of these e-mail leak scandals is how un verified it is. I remember being able to telnet to open port 25s and send e-mail to anyone as anyone. PGP encryption and signing should be standard by anyone at that level.
Companies want flashy pretty webpages. Developers prefer to produce something else.
I only look for jobs that use Simulink, Matlab, and embedded C/C++. But that's because I have no desire to ever be near the web front end. I know nothing professionally about TCP/IP but have CAN memorized.
Do a diff of find / on both iOS and MacOS. It's just BSD with a pretty paint job. People pay for the paint job not the BSD.
Mark Cuban is a billionare because of a project Yahoo bought and shuttered.
How is AOL doing?
Apple has handled 68k -> PPC -> PPC64 -> x86 -> x64 -> arm -> arm64 fairly well.
How much 'cruft' and security holes exist in Windows because of that backwards compatibility? Let some things die. If you want to run an app on Windows 3.1, run a VM of Windows 3.1.
I wish they did. I learned to program on Hypercard. It took care of one of the biggest 'problems' with most languages now, a GUI. Python's GUI tools are still a mess that don't always work cross platform.
It was easy enough and came with enough built in documentation that 13 year old me could figure it out before Stack Exchange.
He hid a private key. A string of text. That's it. The story has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.
These guys stored a video clip in DNA.
Last time they at least could go re-hire Jobs.
They need another Jobs at the helm. Design by committee and a leader that doesn't know exactly what he wants is killing them.
They don't need the math, just the high level concept. Just like we do with every thing else you teach them.
Use a trampoline. Roll balls around each other and each other.
about $8k/month
I never bothered to look into pricing but.... there aren't even words.
WTF. Most of the discussion I see on ircd requirements mention computers in the hundreds of MHz.