Most likely yes. There isn't much reason to change the design. If you want better I/O, I'd suggest looking at 3rd party alternatives. They're quite competitive nowadays, and support most of the same operating systems.
The article is a Mozilla developer trying to push people onto Rust. And while Rust is great for *SOME THINGS*, it is still a new language that falls far too short on too many others. I've recently attempted to build some demo programs in Rust, and had not enjoyed the experience one bit. A simple "hello world" application written in Rust and compiled generates a binary that is in the order of ~500-1000KiB in size. Now, let's put this into a little bit of perspective of where I personally use C/C++ these days. I work with microcontrollers as a hobby, one of which has a total of 8KiB flash ROM. But this is just one example. Now, imagine writing an entire operating system in Rust with that type of file size. How many tiny utilities combined make up Linux or FreeBSD? Just imagine if literally EVERY single utility bundled with the OS was half megabyte in size? There are thousands of utilities, which would lead to OS bloat to an unimaginable level. Rust is promising for sure, and is doing great things for Webrender at Mozilla, but it just isn't there for smaller applications at all.
Alaska Airlines (Horizon) already does this. They have an entirely fleet of Q400s for shorter runs. From Seattle, they fly to Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
Digital OTA TV is still free. Still getting 56 channels in my area. Access to all the major networks, news, sports, etc. I can live without most of the other worthless cruft.
I'm using the HDHomeRun OTA receiver right now, and have for a couple years now. This thing is freaggin nice for my area at least. It picks up 56 OTA stations, then broadcasts them on the local LAN for any device to view. The box, plus new roof antenna, wiring, etc cost me about $200 up front, but considering most pay $100-200/mo just for TV, I consider this a MAJOR win. Through my own VPN connection (using ZeroTier right now), I'm also able to connect to the LAN streams from anywhere I want. Also, HDHomeRun is trailing an internet subscription TV service as well, but I've only tried the 5-minute demo so far, currently not interested in paying for it.
Apple shipped hardware if you hold it wrong, the cell radio doesn't function.
Google shipped a web browser with a broken DNS resolver that would wait 60 seconds to timeout before resolving a DNS entry (imaging browsing the web at only 1 page per minute).
These are just some quick examples off the top of my head, but the list is extremely long. But Microsoft is getting a scalable unfair reputation in comparison to the other companies for fucking up just as bad.
Hell, I'm on a Google Pixel phone right now. The home screen can be swiped between multiple pages. 100% consistently, if I lock my phone on one particular page, when the phone unlocks, my entire home launcher disappears. I have to swipe over to a different arbitrary page, lock the phone again, and then re-unlock it just to get my launcher back.
Microsoft releases updates to a small amount of people first, not everyone. If issues are detected, they halt updates, fix them, and then reissue the updates once again. Google? Apple? Others? They just tell you to fuck off and deal with it. This launcher bug has persisted for at least two months now. I don't even know how long the DNS resolver bug in Chrome existed, it forced me to use a different browser and I've never gone back. For a company I consult for, they had an issue where Chrome broke the ability to print documents for several months with literally hundreds of complaints on their forums. Who still prints this day in age? Anyone who uses a web based point of sales system (virtually everyone that does POS) and needing to print customer receipts.
Okay, fine, what about open source software? Surely that is better tested, right?... Remember that time one of the main devs of Linux left debug code enabled in the kernel and it actually shipped? Yeah, Linus went fucking NUTS. But that just goes to show that no matter what project or who is in charge or however much testing/review you have, shit happens.
For reference, 10gbe is ~1GB/sec. That is sustainable on burst reading on a 8x SATA drive array. I'm currently running over 20 drives in a home server with 10gbe link back to the networking core, and my desktop with a 10gbe link to that core as well. It is trivially easy to saturate a 10gbe link nowadays.
My several year old system is indeed 40x PCIe3 straight from the CPU, with the additional 5x lanes from the north bridge being PCIe2. Nice assumption though!
"The chip also has 16-lanes of on-chip PCIe connectivity" - this actually sounds EXTREMELY low. And here I am, on a CPU with 40 lanes, and a chipset that provides another 5... in a system that is several years old. This sounds like a massive downgrade. Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else. Consumer 10gbe isn't quite there yet. Add-on sound cards have gone to the wayside (onboard audio is still shit quality in comparison, but since people only listen to low bit rate streaming MP3s anyways, I guess it doesnt matter!?) The only thing I question is the NVMe craze right now, and how this chip will be able to keep up with that, since most recent ones are usually PCIe (though some are DIMM socket now as well)
You can unit-test interactive elements, sure. Or maybe that "this element should be at this location" - but that isn't the entire story of UX/UI. "Does the navigation properly flow from page A to page B when click on button C" can be tested, but the logic behind "SHOULD page A navigate to page B, and how do we properly convey this to humans who are using our software" cannot be tested. There are finite and well defiled rules for how computer languages and interpreters work, so they're easy to test. Each user, however, will interpret things a little bit different from the human perspective. Your answer describing a particular library and unit testing against it highlights this point, that you're missing the human element of UX/UI, and why it often fails in software.
I have a damn good answer for this. Because UX/UI cannot be handled by unit tests, and does not have a definite "better" or "worse" condition at face value. I cannot count the number of times I've proposed pull requests for UX issues in open-source projects, only to have them either massively argue about the need, or flat out reject the PR. One of the more recent ones, a router OS which has basic IPv6 support was displaying IPv6 delegated subnets wrong. As an end-user, this confused me and went against my knowledge of being a network admin. As a software engineer, I went in and check the UI code which displayed the info. It was a trivial bug to fix, but instead of fixing the bug, the project lead decided to take the entire feature out as a way to "fix" it. So, instead of display correct information or even wrong information, just display NO information at all to the end-user!
The two key areas where developers need to learn to open up more to contributions is for UX/UI, and for documentation. Recently I discovered that there is a dedicated group of technical writers in Seattle who are the equiv open-source software engineers, they give some of their spare time to help document open-source projects. They've been really nice, host workshops, and teach their trade openly. *THIS* is what we need in open-source, more disciplines besides just software engineers.
I would say "you must be new here", but your UID says otherwise. Since when has Slashdot been exclusively the United States? Try reading more articles and comments, and you'll see countless viewpoints from all over the world. It is small-minded to assume that just because something is English that it is from the United States.
I still have one piece of hardware that requires a WinXP VM, running IE6, with Java6... Its hell to administer, but I'm only in that maybe once a year, otherwise it is rock solid hardware.
This is why myself and a ton of the other people from the plugin community jumped ship over to foobar2000. fb2k is developed by the guy who wrote the MP3 decoder for Winamp, but had issues with the audio processing pipeline of Winamp degrading audio quality. Disputes happened. He left. Built fb2k. And the rest is history! It is by far the cleanest, lightest music player available for desktop now. Multiple tabbed playlists are awesome. My largest playlist has ~16k tracks in it, and supports pretty much real-time text searching. And yup, it supports audio codec "components" as they call them to extend it with more file support or other functionality.
Except, Winamp is ALREADY this. Winamp has an extensive plugin system. It can already play podcasts. It CREATED internet radio through Shoutcast. Other plugins are available for other data sources too... I know this, because I remember writing them and publishing them myself.
Edge? Awesome. Yes, please do this. Internet Explorere!? Oh hell no!!
Seriously, the only reason why IE is still around is due to supporting legacy systems, such as networked attached hardware (printers, routers, switches, access points, security cameras, and more). Not all of these devices are on the public internet, so security concerns in that regard may not be as high. But their web based interfaces generally can not be updated, so are stuck using older protocols. What is the point of even having IE around anymore, if its one and only task (supporting legacy enterprise systems) no longer functions? If that's the case, just remove IE entirely since it'll be made worthless.
Under some NDAs, so I cannot fully answer it. But I did talk with a client once that had a use case for 128GiB RAM on a laptop in order to run a specific type of database for presentations to high ranking government officials. These of course were not standard laptops, but over-sized and high-powered, specialized systems. Essentially mobile desktops with attached screens.
This is confusing... Windows has used the FreeBSD network stack for how long? MacOS as an entirety uses how much FreeBSD code? Yeah, it has been buddy buddy with big-tech far longer than Linux.
Who needs network capacity when you can literally just dump all of wikipedia into your own (AWS) databases all at once for faster access? https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
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Most likely yes. There isn't much reason to change the design. If you want better I/O, I'd suggest looking at 3rd party alternatives. They're quite competitive nowadays, and support most of the same operating systems.
The article is a Mozilla developer trying to push people onto Rust. And while Rust is great for *SOME THINGS*, it is still a new language that falls far too short on too many others. I've recently attempted to build some demo programs in Rust, and had not enjoyed the experience one bit. A simple "hello world" application written in Rust and compiled generates a binary that is in the order of ~500-1000KiB in size. Now, let's put this into a little bit of perspective of where I personally use C/C++ these days. I work with microcontrollers as a hobby, one of which has a total of 8KiB flash ROM. But this is just one example. Now, imagine writing an entire operating system in Rust with that type of file size. How many tiny utilities combined make up Linux or FreeBSD? Just imagine if literally EVERY single utility bundled with the OS was half megabyte in size? There are thousands of utilities, which would lead to OS bloat to an unimaginable level. Rust is promising for sure, and is doing great things for Webrender at Mozilla, but it just isn't there for smaller applications at all.
But we cannot Google it, that's the whole point! Nigeria stole Google!
Nigerian scam!?
Alaska Airlines (Horizon) already does this. They have an entirely fleet of Q400s for shorter runs. From Seattle, they fly to Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
Digital OTA TV is still free. Still getting 56 channels in my area. Access to all the major networks, news, sports, etc. I can live without most of the other worthless cruft.
I'm using the HDHomeRun OTA receiver right now, and have for a couple years now. This thing is freaggin nice for my area at least. It picks up 56 OTA stations, then broadcasts them on the local LAN for any device to view. The box, plus new roof antenna, wiring, etc cost me about $200 up front, but considering most pay $100-200/mo just for TV, I consider this a MAJOR win. Through my own VPN connection (using ZeroTier right now), I'm also able to connect to the LAN streams from anywhere I want. Also, HDHomeRun is trailing an internet subscription TV service as well, but I've only tried the 5-minute demo so far, currently not interested in paying for it.
INb4 "Microsoft Broke It!" - they've yet to actually take over. They're still waiting on government approval of the acquisition.
Apple shipped hardware if you hold it wrong, the cell radio doesn't function.
Google shipped a web browser with a broken DNS resolver that would wait 60 seconds to timeout before resolving a DNS entry (imaging browsing the web at only 1 page per minute).
These are just some quick examples off the top of my head, but the list is extremely long. But Microsoft is getting a scalable unfair reputation in comparison to the other companies for fucking up just as bad.
Hell, I'm on a Google Pixel phone right now. The home screen can be swiped between multiple pages. 100% consistently, if I lock my phone on one particular page, when the phone unlocks, my entire home launcher disappears. I have to swipe over to a different arbitrary page, lock the phone again, and then re-unlock it just to get my launcher back.
Microsoft releases updates to a small amount of people first, not everyone. If issues are detected, they halt updates, fix them, and then reissue the updates once again. Google? Apple? Others? They just tell you to fuck off and deal with it. This launcher bug has persisted for at least two months now. I don't even know how long the DNS resolver bug in Chrome existed, it forced me to use a different browser and I've never gone back. For a company I consult for, they had an issue where Chrome broke the ability to print documents for several months with literally hundreds of complaints on their forums. Who still prints this day in age? Anyone who uses a web based point of sales system (virtually everyone that does POS) and needing to print customer receipts.
Okay, fine, what about open source software? Surely that is better tested, right? ... Remember that time one of the main devs of Linux left debug code enabled in the kernel and it actually shipped? Yeah, Linus went fucking NUTS. But that just goes to show that no matter what project or who is in charge or however much testing/review you have, shit happens.
This is great... in theory... Until it is actually tried in court, and they possibly rule a different way.
For reference, 10gbe is ~1GB/sec. That is sustainable on burst reading on a 8x SATA drive array. I'm currently running over 20 drives in a home server with 10gbe link back to the networking core, and my desktop with a 10gbe link to that core as well. It is trivially easy to saturate a 10gbe link nowadays.
My several year old system is indeed 40x PCIe3 straight from the CPU, with the additional 5x lanes from the north bridge being PCIe2. Nice assumption though!
"The chip also has 16-lanes of on-chip PCIe connectivity" - this actually sounds EXTREMELY low. And here I am, on a CPU with 40 lanes, and a chipset that provides another 5... in a system that is several years old. This sounds like a massive downgrade. Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else. Consumer 10gbe isn't quite there yet. Add-on sound cards have gone to the wayside (onboard audio is still shit quality in comparison, but since people only listen to low bit rate streaming MP3s anyways, I guess it doesnt matter!?) The only thing I question is the NVMe craze right now, and how this chip will be able to keep up with that, since most recent ones are usually PCIe (though some are DIMM socket now as well)
You can unit-test interactive elements, sure. Or maybe that "this element should be at this location" - but that isn't the entire story of UX/UI. "Does the navigation properly flow from page A to page B when click on button C" can be tested, but the logic behind "SHOULD page A navigate to page B, and how do we properly convey this to humans who are using our software" cannot be tested. There are finite and well defiled rules for how computer languages and interpreters work, so they're easy to test. Each user, however, will interpret things a little bit different from the human perspective. Your answer describing a particular library and unit testing against it highlights this point, that you're missing the human element of UX/UI, and why it often fails in software.
I have a damn good answer for this. Because UX/UI cannot be handled by unit tests, and does not have a definite "better" or "worse" condition at face value. I cannot count the number of times I've proposed pull requests for UX issues in open-source projects, only to have them either massively argue about the need, or flat out reject the PR. One of the more recent ones, a router OS which has basic IPv6 support was displaying IPv6 delegated subnets wrong. As an end-user, this confused me and went against my knowledge of being a network admin. As a software engineer, I went in and check the UI code which displayed the info. It was a trivial bug to fix, but instead of fixing the bug, the project lead decided to take the entire feature out as a way to "fix" it. So, instead of display correct information or even wrong information, just display NO information at all to the end-user!
The two key areas where developers need to learn to open up more to contributions is for UX/UI, and for documentation. Recently I discovered that there is a dedicated group of technical writers in Seattle who are the equiv open-source software engineers, they give some of their spare time to help document open-source projects. They've been really nice, host workshops, and teach their trade openly. *THIS* is what we need in open-source, more disciplines besides just software engineers.
I would say "you must be new here", but your UID says otherwise. Since when has Slashdot been exclusively the United States? Try reading more articles and comments, and you'll see countless viewpoints from all over the world. It is small-minded to assume that just because something is English that it is from the United States.
"AOL", that's how it died.
I still have one piece of hardware that requires a WinXP VM, running IE6, with Java6... Its hell to administer, but I'm only in that maybe once a year, otherwise it is rock solid hardware.
This is why myself and a ton of the other people from the plugin community jumped ship over to foobar2000. fb2k is developed by the guy who wrote the MP3 decoder for Winamp, but had issues with the audio processing pipeline of Winamp degrading audio quality. Disputes happened. He left. Built fb2k. And the rest is history! It is by far the cleanest, lightest music player available for desktop now. Multiple tabbed playlists are awesome. My largest playlist has ~16k tracks in it, and supports pretty much real-time text searching. And yup, it supports audio codec "components" as they call them to extend it with more file support or other functionality.
Except, Winamp is ALREADY this. Winamp has an extensive plugin system. It can already play podcasts. It CREATED internet radio through Shoutcast. Other plugins are available for other data sources too... I know this, because I remember writing them and publishing them myself.
Edge? Awesome. Yes, please do this.
Internet Explorere!? Oh hell no!!
Seriously, the only reason why IE is still around is due to supporting legacy systems, such as networked attached hardware (printers, routers, switches, access points, security cameras, and more). Not all of these devices are on the public internet, so security concerns in that regard may not be as high. But their web based interfaces generally can not be updated, so are stuck using older protocols. What is the point of even having IE around anymore, if its one and only task (supporting legacy enterprise systems) no longer functions? If that's the case, just remove IE entirely since it'll be made worthless.
Under some NDAs, so I cannot fully answer it. But I did talk with a client once that had a use case for 128GiB RAM on a laptop in order to run a specific type of database for presentations to high ranking government officials. These of course were not standard laptops, but over-sized and high-powered, specialized systems. Essentially mobile desktops with attached screens.
WOAH, sounds just like Comcast and CenturyLink!
This is confusing... Windows has used the FreeBSD network stack for how long? MacOS as an entirety uses how much FreeBSD code? Yeah, it has been buddy buddy with big-tech far longer than Linux.
Who needs network capacity when you can literally just dump all of wikipedia into your own (AWS) databases all at once for faster access? https://dumps.wikimedia.org/