There was a transitional period when MTV and such were the places things got premiered, with music videos for promoted artists coming out before radio debut of the same songs. Radio was the place to run the song over and over, but MTV was the place to tell fans what they should be listening to, though that would really be more early 90s than late 80s.
As for music stores, yes, there were entire stores dedicated to selling nothing but music, but even the largest places had pretty limited selection. Like books, there was just too much music for physical space to accommodate anything other than the most popular items
Unfortunately, backwards compatibility has always been a weakness in OSS and has been getting worse over the years. I am actually reluctant to suggest linux to small teams now if they look like they are going to be up and running for a long time, the cost of keeping 'up to date' gets too high and you have to keep devoting development time to rewriting stuff that already worked or replace entire subsystems because some devs went 'we are doing cool stuff in our next version which breaks everything! but you all run from source anyway, right?'
Well yes, systemd was intended to cater to a different set of users and use cases than the old system, so of course it 'worked well', or was 'a fiasco', depending on what one was doing.
The problem is maintenance. The old tools can stick around, but someone has to maintain them, update them, and it increases the potential security problems if you have two parallel sets installed at the same time so distros will try to go with one or the other.
And there is the deeper issue : as usage changes, more and more internals are also changing. The new tools are intended to dovetail with the direction some users want linux to go, so cutting off the old tools frees them up to make deeper changes.
And that cuts to the core of it though. ifconfig works well for all but the heaviest server farms, but at this point such shops have more influence over the direction of linux than small scale users. ifconfig does not work for their needs, and they have the time/energy to retrain people to use new systems that do, so they push to shift distros over to meeting their needs. Basicly, the small admin doesn't have much political capital.
Which I think in a way is the community's own fault. Since the last 90s there has always been an air of 'protect the hobby and industry of some, screw others'. In the early 2000s you really saw this play out with the web vs embedded crowd, where licences got rewritten to really protect the work of people who wrote services, but because embedded was a 'hobby' to people paid to do webwork, the same license gutted protections for embedded developers.
I think linux was doomed once developers got to gether and went 'hey, Window's registry is great, why don't we do something like that?'.
As linux gained popularity, the culture shifted and 'unix people' increasingly got sidelined. It is kinda sad that I actually find more familiar in OSX than newer versions of Ubuntu.
Even if snake oil doesn't do any additional harm, the cost of covering it has to come from somewhere. One classic problem is quacks draining desperate people of their resources and leaving their family destitute after the patient dies.
It might not do anything.
One way to look at the bill is as a political move. The idea that the FDA is keeping treatments from people is a popular one, so people can hold up this bill as an example of 'doing something', even it ends up not actually widening access.
Well of course he wants to let them off the hook. Sanctions are not intended for companies that are making money for connected people!
I in all seriousness, this was pretty predictable. Sanctions are a low cost political tool that tends to please your base without doing much. If they impact anyone important, there is pretty much always a way around them.
I can recall after I got my new house I was looking into how I could better control the radiators and was kinda annoyed that my options seem to come down to either consumer-friendly z-wave or 'probably effective but more complicated industrial solutions'. I could not find a nice simple 'do this over PoE instead of wireless' type solution.
When we start looking at people like Bolton, I think this is pretty much the case. He is no amature, but while his objectives do not align all that well with most of the other staff, his imagry does.
Much of the whitehouse and its backers believe that one can win conflicts with 'inferior' people simply by giving them a bloody nose and they will submit, so they believe just a little violence or threats will get them the accolades they want. Bolton and his camp, I doubt they actually believe the bloody nose thing, they instead believe in large military actions that wipe out regimes.
Is that actually hypocritical though? They do not seem to be complaining that a subsidy exists, but that the current structure is making it difficult for them to compete within their structure. It is perfectly valid to go 'hey, their government is helping them more than our government is helping us and it is hurting how well we service our domestic markets'.
I keep looking for Onion watermarks on the relevant tweets... then I remember what year it is.
But yeah.. Musk seems to be getting a bit off. People idealize him because of his money and spending on sci-fi projects.. but the guy himself... not someone I would want to be in a room with.
I can't mod up, but would. This is a good description of the problem that anyone who hasn't worked in such fields needs to be aware of.
I keep thinking back to the quote "AI, like fusion power, has been about 10 years away for 30 years now", and that was from the 80s I think and still holds true today. I think there is a lot of enthusiasm for AI finally solving various problems, but it is still mostly stuck in the 'recommending purchases' stage of 'great for things that do not matter, bad for critical decision making'.
There is also a rather serious mechanical problem.
Humans are, more or less, gracefully failing and self healing. While not perfect, we tend to have a pretty good idea of how to keep functioning when things in us fail, and are really good about complaining about it.
Machines on the other hand, well, when was the last time you saw a PC maker who could put out desktops that 99% of them are still functioning after 15 years independent of how good of care the user keeps them? And that is just the computer part, think of all the sensor systems... half the sensors on my car are broken and they just track silly things like if the door is open or closed.. even more worryingly, when I OBD codes there are all sorts of failure I am not even aware of. If those were actually important to not crashing into things, that would be serious.
And among the self driving cars that are on the road today, few have been on for very long, which means no maintenance or service issues have caught up.
Think about how many problems pretty much any PC one interacts with has as it ages. Go to even the crappiest budget seller and their systems are generally fine for a few months. But cars are something we hold on to for years or decades.
On the problem of stupid and lack of respect.... there is a lot of discussion about how configurable self driving cars will be, either through manufacturers offering different packages/settings or people modding their own. Many of the behaviors that cause traffic problems and accidents are things that freedom loving people might put right back into their car's autonomous behavior. After all, they are in a hurry!
On the other end, self driving cars have become a near religious cause to a lot of people, with unbending faith that the technology either works or will work 'real soon'. But just like fusion power, thorium reactors, and strong AI, it might end up being one of those things that people believe should work and is just around the corner but never really materializes because that last 10% of the problem is so much harder than the 90% people have already seen accomplished.
It can get even worse when looking for non-commercial stuff.
Tracking down old blog posts or amature music videos can be a real pain, or they can just be outright gone. Stuff that does not get meme worthy disappears when either the single source goes away or when google/youtube purges it.
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There was a transitional period when MTV and such were the places things got premiered, with music videos for promoted artists coming out before radio debut of the same songs. Radio was the place to run the song over and over, but MTV was the place to tell fans what they should be listening to, though that would really be more early 90s than late 80s. As for music stores, yes, there were entire stores dedicated to selling nothing but music, but even the largest places had pretty limited selection. Like books, there was just too much music for physical space to accommodate anything other than the most popular items
Both sides were doing work, just not the same work.
Unfortunately, backwards compatibility has always been a weakness in OSS and has been getting worse over the years. I am actually reluctant to suggest linux to small teams now if they look like they are going to be up and running for a long time, the cost of keeping 'up to date' gets too high and you have to keep devoting development time to rewriting stuff that already worked or replace entire subsystems because some devs went 'we are doing cool stuff in our next version which breaks everything! but you all run from source anyway, right?'
Well yes, systemd was intended to cater to a different set of users and use cases than the old system, so of course it 'worked well', or was 'a fiasco', depending on what one was doing.
The problem is maintenance. The old tools can stick around, but someone has to maintain them, update them, and it increases the potential security problems if you have two parallel sets installed at the same time so distros will try to go with one or the other. And there is the deeper issue : as usage changes, more and more internals are also changing. The new tools are intended to dovetail with the direction some users want linux to go, so cutting off the old tools frees them up to make deeper changes.
And that cuts to the core of it though. ifconfig works well for all but the heaviest server farms, but at this point such shops have more influence over the direction of linux than small scale users. ifconfig does not work for their needs, and they have the time/energy to retrain people to use new systems that do, so they push to shift distros over to meeting their needs. Basicly, the small admin doesn't have much political capital. Which I think in a way is the community's own fault. Since the last 90s there has always been an air of 'protect the hobby and industry of some, screw others'. In the early 2000s you really saw this play out with the web vs embedded crowd, where licences got rewritten to really protect the work of people who wrote services, but because embedded was a 'hobby' to people paid to do webwork, the same license gutted protections for embedded developers.
I think linux was doomed once developers got to gether and went 'hey, Window's registry is great, why don't we do something like that?'. As linux gained popularity, the culture shifted and 'unix people' increasingly got sidelined. It is kinda sad that I actually find more familiar in OSX than newer versions of Ubuntu.
Even more worrying is if we start seeing people like Lynda Hazzard again... Jillian Epperly VS. Dr.Lynda Hazzard
Even if snake oil doesn't do any additional harm, the cost of covering it has to come from somewhere. One classic problem is quacks draining desperate people of their resources and leaving their family destitute after the patient dies.
It might not do anything. One way to look at the bill is as a political move. The idea that the FDA is keeping treatments from people is a popular one, so people can hold up this bill as an example of 'doing something', even it ends up not actually widening access.
Well of course he wants to let them off the hook. Sanctions are not intended for companies that are making money for connected people! I in all seriousness, this was pretty predictable. Sanctions are a low cost political tool that tends to please your base without doing much. If they impact anyone important, there is pretty much always a way around them.
I can recall after I got my new house I was looking into how I could better control the radiators and was kinda annoyed that my options seem to come down to either consumer-friendly z-wave or 'probably effective but more complicated industrial solutions'. I could not find a nice simple 'do this over PoE instead of wireless' type solution.
Unlikely. They are probably being capitalist and steering people to the videos that their advertisers like the most.
Yeah, it is mostly a joke in foreign policy circles. I depends so heavily on racism that only certain little clusters still believe it.
When we start looking at people like Bolton, I think this is pretty much the case. He is no amature, but while his objectives do not align all that well with most of the other staff, his imagry does. Much of the whitehouse and its backers believe that one can win conflicts with 'inferior' people simply by giving them a bloody nose and they will submit, so they believe just a little violence or threats will get them the accolades they want. Bolton and his camp, I doubt they actually believe the bloody nose thing, they instead believe in large military actions that wipe out regimes.
Is that actually hypocritical though? They do not seem to be complaining that a subsidy exists, but that the current structure is making it difficult for them to compete within their structure. It is perfectly valid to go 'hey, their government is helping them more than our government is helping us and it is hurting how well we service our domestic markets'.
I keep looking for Onion watermarks on the relevant tweets... then I remember what year it is. But yeah.. Musk seems to be getting a bit off. People idealize him because of his money and spending on sci-fi projects.. but the guy himself... not someone I would want to be in a room with.
The small numbers fallacy cuts both ways. Something is not inevitable simply because other unrelated things have happened.
I can't mod up, but would. This is a good description of the problem that anyone who hasn't worked in such fields needs to be aware of. I keep thinking back to the quote "AI, like fusion power, has been about 10 years away for 30 years now", and that was from the 80s I think and still holds true today. I think there is a lot of enthusiasm for AI finally solving various problems, but it is still mostly stuck in the 'recommending purchases' stage of 'great for things that do not matter, bad for critical decision making'.
There is also a rather serious mechanical problem. Humans are, more or less, gracefully failing and self healing. While not perfect, we tend to have a pretty good idea of how to keep functioning when things in us fail, and are really good about complaining about it. Machines on the other hand, well, when was the last time you saw a PC maker who could put out desktops that 99% of them are still functioning after 15 years independent of how good of care the user keeps them? And that is just the computer part, think of all the sensor systems... half the sensors on my car are broken and they just track silly things like if the door is open or closed.. even more worryingly, when I OBD codes there are all sorts of failure I am not even aware of. If those were actually important to not crashing into things, that would be serious.
And among the self driving cars that are on the road today, few have been on for very long, which means no maintenance or service issues have caught up. Think about how many problems pretty much any PC one interacts with has as it ages. Go to even the crappiest budget seller and their systems are generally fine for a few months. But cars are something we hold on to for years or decades.
On the problem of stupid and lack of respect.... there is a lot of discussion about how configurable self driving cars will be, either through manufacturers offering different packages/settings or people modding their own. Many of the behaviors that cause traffic problems and accidents are things that freedom loving people might put right back into their car's autonomous behavior. After all, they are in a hurry!
On the other end, self driving cars have become a near religious cause to a lot of people, with unbending faith that the technology either works or will work 'real soon'. But just like fusion power, thorium reactors, and strong AI, it might end up being one of those things that people believe should work and is just around the corner but never really materializes because that last 10% of the problem is so much harder than the 90% people have already seen accomplished.
It can get even worse when looking for non-commercial stuff. Tracking down old blog posts or amature music videos can be a real pain, or they can just be outright gone. Stuff that does not get meme worthy disappears when either the single source goes away or when google/youtube purges it.
Having a pre-existing relationship doesn't make anything more or less stalkery.