Hahaha, nice. I should possibly start to read these things again even when they scream "stupid" at me from far away. May provide some entertainment value.
Or the fact that they chose the worst possible SoC with no valid upgrade path and a secret data-sheet and very limited interfaces. (In a machine targeted at _education_! It really does not get worse than that: You may run pretty little programs, but if you want to look under the hood, you are out of luck...) The networking and USB is unreliable, has bad performance and is generally one big disaster. (Comparable offerings from, e.g., Allwinner, have on-the-chip GbE, USB, Audio, and even SATA...) The original power-regulator stage was designed by an "electronics engineer" that does not even understand switching regulators. The "audio" is a horrible joke. A recent release was sensitive to bright light as the "designers" apparently did not know that this happens with case-less semiconductors. They tried to laugh it off, but it is just another proof of their fundamental incompetence.
I have probably overlooked quite a few things, because after I found all these issues I have given up on the RPi I own. Just not worth the time.
It is meant for people that want to see themselves as "hackers" or "makers" and as superior to any actual engineer because they are not part of the "establishment". The are traditionally called "wannabes" and have a massively inflated opinion of themselves and their skills.
Bunny is pretty good though, definitely deserved than engineering PhD for hacking the xbox. He is not that unique though, there are many good PhD-level hardware hackers out there and, having read his book on the xbox hack, I know several people (including myself) that could likely have done it equally well given comparable time and resources. That is not to put him down in any way, "pretty good" is nothing anybody needs to be ashamed of at this difficulty level. I doubt however that many of the intended audience are even marginally equipped to understand what he describes.
While there is a lot of truth in that, occasionally (say 1 in 100 cases) people actually get started on real engineering this way. You can recognize them by them eventually developing a strong disdain for these toys that essentially cater to the stupid. While Arduino hardware has some merit, in particular if you have a clue what you are doing and can read a data-sheet (quite unlike the typical "maker"), the Raspberry Pi is an unmitigated disaster, with not a single competent engineer involved in the design and quite a bit of arrogance in the whole team and the community.
Indeed. And very likely by a culture of "not contradicting the boss". An engineer that is unwilling to "contradict the boss" is a bad engineer, no matter what other skills he has. Of course, many bosses simply get rid of the "naysayers" and foster a culture of "can do". The results are invariably what we see in this story, although many managers manage to conceal that they were responsible for quite a while and sometimes forever. If the damage is huge, it is very rarely the engineers that have screwed up.
This is just one of the more spectacular examples. I have heard of managers of large software teams that "do not believe in testing", I have seen Internet-reachable critical software that got a security evaluation only after deployment, because it was finished only a few days before deployment, and quite a few more things of similar utter incompetence. My guess is that the people responsible for these completely ridiculous screwups are "managers" that think they know how it all works (while being clueless), and that have eliminated all resistance to their views by firing anybody actually competent.
This is a dangerous and completely unacceptable regression. Humanity needs to be good at engineering if it is to have a future.
That would be adequate for all the damage she did. But CEOs these days cannot fail anymore, no matter how stupid and destructive. They just get a few ten millions less in compensation, but still get indecently rich.
That is just the thing with protectionism: It looks good short-term, but long term it _assures_ failure because innovation and modernization are delayed forever. The voters are to stupid to grasp even elementary and obvious things like that and the politicians do not care as long as they get to keep their power. An increased call to protectionism is a good indicator that a country is in serious economic trouble, typically of their own making.
And that is just it: This thing does not exist to solve any exiting problem, it is a power-grab, plain and simple. That is also why it grows though Linux like a cancer and absorbs everything it can, so it cannot easily be ripped out. If it had stuck to being a better init-system, it may have had merit, but this way it is a huge threat to Linux, nothing else.
Indeed. No tangible benefits for many people and at the same time massive mission creep. If it were a sane design and just stuck to being an init-system, it would also be very easy to fully support other init-systems in parallel. The systemd developers have made that hard, and I think intentionally so. I call that one thing: "sabotage".
Naaa, that would be solid engineering, as opposed to anything Poettering can do. This person must not even have heard of KISS or he is to stupid to recognize what it means and why it is at the core of solid engineering.
Indeed. I think that overall this is a very good thing, because even a crappy job should be done well and the worker should be respected for it. What will probably vanish is a lot of unnecessary jobs that primarily are there to annoy people. Anything that has a real purpose, you will find somebody for.
Example: In one of the better restaurants in the city I live, one of the serving staff is actually the heiress to the rather very expensive building the restaurant is in. She apparently just enjoys doing the job well and has no higher ambitions. I think there are a lot of people that want to be useful to society by doing something well and that these people will keep things going in any case.
Not so difficult. For example, Amazon reviews are pretty good for that. First, discard anything that does not get at least 4 stars on average. Then read a few of the positive reviews _and_ some of the negative ones. Not 100% perfect, but works pretty well.
1. UBI is also paid for each child 2. This is not about (un)fairness at all, this is about society not being able to offer jobs to an increasing number of people
Unless when it is actually accurate. As it is here, as these people really have no clue what they are actually asking for. Even a senator cannot be a real expert on most things they decide about and if they chose to ignore what the actual experts say, then they are "woefully ignorant". I like to call them "Stupid Type II": Not even aware that they have no clue about the matter.
You can serve malware to a TOR user that has neglected to update the software relatively cheaply and compromise the TOR-browser. For much more money, you can do this with an unknown vulnerability to an updated browser. In both cases the target machine has been compromised and the attacker could have placed arbitrary data on it. That is why in a sane legal system, you cannot obtain evidence this way and whatever is on the target machine is inadmissible.
Very, very insightful. I really like the example about the broom having been had to be made by its user. Of course, I still like to make things that I could just buy, and enjoy the pleasure afterwards. As to capitalists, I think the alternatives are a reasonable basic income you can actually live off decently, or a hellish welfare-state where nobody has enough to life and everybody has too much do die and personal freedoms are essentially gone.
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That sucks. My condolences.
Hahaha, nice. I should possibly start to read these things again even when they scream "stupid" at me from far away. May provide some entertainment value.
If you mean that my intelligence is not on the right level so that I can see their unmitigated greatness, I am damn happy that this is the case.
Bunny is pretty good though, definitely deserved than engineering PhD for hacking the xbox.
It's cool and he's a very smart guy, but that's not the sort of thing that PhDs are generally awarded for.
You are wrong. And this nicely shows you have no idea what you are talking about.
Or the fact that they chose the worst possible SoC with no valid upgrade path and a secret data-sheet and very limited interfaces. (In a machine targeted at _education_! It really does not get worse than that: You may run pretty little programs, but if you want to look under the hood, you are out of luck...) The networking and USB is unreliable, has bad performance and is generally one big disaster. (Comparable offerings from, e.g., Allwinner, have on-the-chip GbE, USB, Audio, and even SATA...) The original power-regulator stage was designed by an "electronics engineer" that does not even understand switching regulators. The "audio" is a horrible joke. A recent release was sensitive to bright light as the "designers" apparently did not know that this happens with case-less semiconductors. They tried to laugh it off, but it is just another proof of their fundamental incompetence.
I have probably overlooked quite a few things, because after I found all these issues I have given up on the RPi I own. Just not worth the time.
It is meant for people that want to see themselves as "hackers" or "makers" and as superior to any actual engineer because they are not part of the "establishment". The are traditionally called "wannabes" and have a massively inflated opinion of themselves and their skills.
Bunny is pretty good though, definitely deserved than engineering PhD for hacking the xbox. He is not that unique though, there are many good PhD-level hardware hackers out there and, having read his book on the xbox hack, I know several people (including myself) that could likely have done it equally well given comparable time and resources. That is not to put him down in any way, "pretty good" is nothing anybody needs to be ashamed of at this difficulty level. I doubt however that many of the intended audience are even marginally equipped to understand what he describes.
While there is a lot of truth in that, occasionally (say 1 in 100 cases) people actually get started on real engineering this way. You can recognize them by them eventually developing a strong disdain for these toys that essentially cater to the stupid. While Arduino hardware has some merit, in particular if you have a clue what you are doing and can read a data-sheet (quite unlike the typical "maker"), the Raspberry Pi is an unmitigated disaster, with not a single competent engineer involved in the design and quite a bit of arrogance in the whole team and the community.
Indeed. And very likely by a culture of "not contradicting the boss". An engineer that is unwilling to "contradict the boss" is a bad engineer, no matter what other skills he has. Of course, many bosses simply get rid of the "naysayers" and foster a culture of "can do". The results are invariably what we see in this story, although many managers manage to conceal that they were responsible for quite a while and sometimes forever. If the damage is huge, it is very rarely the engineers that have screwed up.
This is just one of the more spectacular examples. I have heard of managers of large software teams that "do not believe in testing", I have seen Internet-reachable critical software that got a security evaluation only after deployment, because it was finished only a few days before deployment, and quite a few more things of similar utter incompetence. My guess is that the people responsible for these completely ridiculous screwups are "managers" that think they know how it all works (while being clueless), and that have eliminated all resistance to their views by firing anybody actually competent.
This is a dangerous and completely unacceptable regression. Humanity needs to be good at engineering if it is to have a future.
These people have no clue and very likely nothing they do is anywhere near fact-based.
That would be adequate for all the damage she did. But CEOs these days cannot fail anymore, no matter how stupid and destructive. They just get a few ten millions less in compensation, but still get indecently rich.
That is just the thing with protectionism: It looks good short-term, but long term it _assures_ failure because innovation and modernization are delayed forever. The voters are to stupid to grasp even elementary and obvious things like that and the politicians do not care as long as they get to keep their power. An increased call to protectionism is a good indicator that a country is in serious economic trouble, typically of their own making.
If their stuff is so bad, why are they a threat at all? Why are artificial measures needed to make their stuff more expensive?
And that is just it: This thing does not exist to solve any exiting problem, it is a power-grab, plain and simple. That is also why it grows though Linux like a cancer and absorbs everything it can, so it cannot easily be ripped out. If it had stuck to being a better init-system, it may have had merit, but this way it is a huge threat to Linux, nothing else.
Indeed. No tangible benefits for many people and at the same time massive mission creep. If it were a sane design and just stuck to being an init-system, it would also be very easy to fully support other init-systems in parallel. The systemd developers have made that hard, and I think intentionally so. I call that one thing: "sabotage".
Naaa, that would be solid engineering, as opposed to anything Poettering can do. This person must not even have heard of KISS or he is to stupid to recognize what it means and why it is at the core of solid engineering.
Indeed. I think that overall this is a very good thing, because even a crappy job should be done well and the worker should be respected for it. What will probably vanish is a lot of unnecessary jobs that primarily are there to annoy people. Anything that has a real purpose, you will find somebody for.
Example: In one of the better restaurants in the city I live, one of the serving staff is actually the heiress to the rather very expensive building the restaurant is in. She apparently just enjoys doing the job well and has no higher ambitions. I think there are a lot of people that want to be useful to society by doing something well and that these people will keep things going in any case.
Not so difficult. For example, Amazon reviews are pretty good for that. First, discard anything that does not get at least 4 stars on average. Then read a few of the positive reviews _and_ some of the negative ones. Not 100% perfect, but works pretty well.
1. UBI is also paid for each child
2. This is not about (un)fairness at all, this is about society not being able to offer jobs to an increasing number of people
Probably. But calling her "evil" is not something that will accomplish much. Hence "woefully ignorant".
Unless when it is actually accurate. As it is here, as these people really have no clue what they are actually asking for. Even a senator cannot be a real expert on most things they decide about and if they chose to ignore what the actual experts say, then they are "woefully ignorant". I like to call them "Stupid Type II": Not even aware that they have no clue about the matter.
You can serve malware to a TOR user that has neglected to update the software relatively cheaply and compromise the TOR-browser. For much more money, you can do this with an unknown vulnerability to an updated browser. In both cases the target machine has been compromised and the attacker could have placed arbitrary data on it. That is why in a sane legal system, you cannot obtain evidence this way and whatever is on the target machine is inadmissible.
Wow, you _really_ have no clue how things actually work. Impressive!
Very, very insightful. I really like the example about the broom having been had to be made by its user. Of course, I still like to make things that I could just buy, and enjoy the pleasure afterwards. As to capitalists, I think the alternatives are a reasonable basic income you can actually live off decently, or a hellish welfare-state where nobody has enough to life and everybody has too much do die and personal freedoms are essentially gone.
Really no way around that.