You act like this contradictory. Alpine is NOT some overgrown blob, it's nice because it does one thing - email - and does it in the way a fair number of people think sucks least. It may try to be your editor too but at least it is easy and straightforward to tell it to knock it off, and it listens.
Systemd is not like that. It takes over everything and wont give it back, even when it pretends to. For instance, it logs in binary. IF you read the docs and throw the right switches, you CAN get it to put out text logs. Ok, so no big deal, just flip the switch, right?
No. The main reason we want text logs is because of what happens when the system crashes. Even if you flip the switch, systemd is still logging in binary and just writing out a text version to make you happy, a few milliseconds later. So this fix is, well, not totally pointless, it does at least make the logs manipulable using standard tools again. Except on occasions when you really need to read them.
The trouble is they know exactly why they are better, but cannot be forced to see why they are also worse. New technologies always have flaws, and it takes time for the kinks to be worked out in practice, leaving a mature technology. There is a delicate balance between early adopters that keep the new technologies alive enough to have a chance to mature, and the slower moving segments of the market that need maturity and reliability.
In the tech market, in this century, the latter segment is riotously underserved. Supporting mature products is considered a waste of resources that should be instead used to push the boundaries of in-your-face ad delivery. The entire situation is ridiculous and could only occur in a market where the buyer typically has no better way of choosing between competitors than flipping a coin - because he has no idea what he his buying!
"As a tech worker myself, I don't see why foreign workers would be inherently worse."
They are not, *inherently* worse. Not by a long shot. Some of them are very, very good.
The problem is that they are being selected, not on the basis of technical skills, but on the basis of lower costs and more subservience. Companies prefer, not just foreign workers, but H1B workers specifically - because they are powerless and easier to abuse.
Just a look at the 'products' these so-called tech companies are churning out should be enough to give lie to the idea that they have any interest at all in technical excellence. They do not. They want cheap code-monkeys that will crank out utter crap as directed with no back talk, no wage pressures, and no looking for a better job to worry about.
"I mean I've seen some people, very much home grown, who seem to have such a poor grasp of how things work that I wonder how on earth they even have a job."
Sure. But we dont have any kind of monopoly on those people. Outsource to save money and you are likely to get the south asian equivalent - all the same problems, plus communication and cultural difficulties on top of it.
You forget that the people pay for the government, and are supposed to own it. The government is supposed to be part of the nation, not an external bloodsucker set on top of it. And searches are supposed to require a warrant, supported under oath or by affirmation, giving probable cause that a crime has been committed.
So yes, if the FBI wants to take OUR database which is in their care, and compare it with OUR database which is in the care of the INS, then they should do so within the constitutional framework, get a warrant, and only get to keep the results that match the warrant, not everything else.
His point only stands up if the utterance indeed had the sarcastic intonation. Intonation being absent in written word, his point fails completely.
Yes it's *possible* to say that sarcastically, but no I have never heard anyone actually do it. They are just dropping a word from a cliche that has been worn so slick by the passage of time their tongues cannot adhere.
There are two sides to it - some laws and agreements that are truly senseless - but a large part of it really is a complaint from rent-seekers about subsidies they feel entitled to.
The fact is solar PV is at present NOT very that cost effective, even in the markets where it works best.
Removing illogical obstacles to PV installation would be a good thing, but 'generous subsidies' paid for predominantly by the working poor, to help rich landowners install PV and cut their bills going forward, is not.
I would also suggest that Floridians worried about their sunlight going to waste investigate solar-thermal (hot water) rather than PV (photovoltaic) panels. Quite a bit less expensive and you dont need to generate electricity to displace some demand.
What you are getting is the ability to use similar hotspots as you move around. The actual utility of that seems questionable - most are going to be in someones home where you cannot use them anyway.
If you own your own modem and it works I would advise you to keep it no matter what they offer. The wireless gateways are absolute junk.
Indeed. Every router-and-modem-in-one-box I have seen yet is a POS. The very best case is if they will accept bridge mode and imitate a modem properly. Very often they actually will not (though they may appear to agree at first, and only cause problems later. I would actually go one better and refuse to take their modem as well, since they will only have old beat-up returned modems in stock. Buy a decent modem and tell them to provision it then leave it alone.
I cant see any compelling reason you should not be able to agree to a non-disparagement clause, assuming it's clearly presented ahead of time and you knowingly agreed to it in return for compensation. Devils advocate, of course, is to point out that it's not really clear that this was the case - the 'policy' may not have been clearly presented ahead of time and knowingly agreed to by guests and I saw no mention of compensation. So if it ever went to court there would be room for invalidation.
Regardless, it looks like the market is taking care of it fine, without even needing a court to review the 'contract' - the very fact that this business tried to impose such a policy is set to cost them a pretty good slice of profits, and the public nature of the reaction is helping to discourage any other businesses that might try the same thing.
You're telling me why businesses need free software. That's not in question. The question is who needs these big corpos? If they prefer not to adapt then they can die, and why should I mourn them?
Simply letting him get away would be horrible, because of the prevention aspect. If that were standard practice on the part of the cops, then the rate of car theft would certainly go way up.
But there is another possibility besides letting him go and flying off in a risky high speed chase. There's this old-school police technique called a 'tail' where you follow at a distance and let the target think he's getting away (while of course using your radio to get ahead of him.) Much less chance of injury or death that way. Too old-school for US cops these days, but in some backwards jurisdictions it might still be used.
"There was a lot more oxygen in the air back then. It wasn't just hotter. With the lower oxygen levels the huge dinos wouldn't do so well because they didn't have muscles for breathing like we do."
I think you are rather badly mistaken. There was actually much less oxygen in the atmosphere then.
Warning, link is not really a webpage, js required:( but you can search yourself for a better source.
"TSE costs $45. And if you are ok with that huge flaw, then by all means..."
Huh?
Being windows only (WINE works but I dont want to have to rely on it,) and closed source are drawbacks I care about, and why I am not using it. The $45 is nothing for a quality tool. I bet you've paid more than that for games that you did not even play through once.
This link puts a little meat on the bones, though the story is still sketchy. Seems the law was aimed at 5 or 6 specific bloggers, though probably upwards of 500 could wind up being covered. ISPs not happy with it. Law purports to regulate Russian-language blogging, not limited by geography or physical placement. So a foreigner could theoretically run afoul of it if they publish in Russian (and become popular doing so) while a Russian could write anything they want without worry as long as they do it in another language?
Absolutely. For simple text file editing, it really cant be beat. No wasted time, you type what you want and it does it, end of story. You can even use it in scripts! The ideal tool for many, many jobs.
"That's one of the reason I stopped using Google anything. Until they do the right thing and give us back our YouTube accounts, they can go fuck themselves."
Hear hear!
That was really an act of astonishing rudeness and arrogance. A formal apology and the firing of the person responsible would not be uncalled for.
So they did a text-editor roundup that excluded every serious contender in favor of 5 third-string also-rans.
I actually tried to read the text but it was too brain-numbingly stupid to get through. He's trumpeting all these wonderful features that... vi and emacs had in the 80s.
It's so true - 'those who do not remember Unix are condemned to re-invent it, poorly.'
I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. I don't know COBOL. Are you saying that if you gave me an assignment to parse a data stream in COBOL, and I couldn't do it in COBOL because I don't know COBOL, but I could both demonstrate a solution in another language and learn COBOL at a later date, I would still FAIL?
Not the same guy but I think we are on the right wavelength.
I dont care if you have ever heard of Cobol or not. I have never used it myself, and I havent been a working programmer in decades. But if I needed a parser written in Cobol I expect I could search for the docs first thing in the morning, find a syntax reference, and have a working if rough parser done before lunch. If this sort of work was needed by me on a regular basis I expect I would become very familiar with Cobol and a week later I would re-implement that parser in less than an hour and do a much better job.
All a computer can do is math, or if you prefer to think of it as symbolic logic, fine. But it's still all the same stuff. Any high level language you use, no matter how strange the syntax, no matter how unfamiliar the vocabulary, is still the exact same thing at core. Logic. Arithmetic. Algorithms.
A particular language may be a pleasure to work with, or it may be a pain but end of the day if you understand logic you should be able to translate your logic into any language for which you can find useful reference documentation.
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You act like this contradictory. Alpine is NOT some overgrown blob, it's nice because it does one thing - email - and does it in the way a fair number of people think sucks least. It may try to be your editor too but at least it is easy and straightforward to tell it to knock it off, and it listens.
Systemd is not like that. It takes over everything and wont give it back, even when it pretends to. For instance, it logs in binary. IF you read the docs and throw the right switches, you CAN get it to put out text logs. Ok, so no big deal, just flip the switch, right?
No. The main reason we want text logs is because of what happens when the system crashes. Even if you flip the switch, systemd is still logging in binary and just writing out a text version to make you happy, a few milliseconds later. So this fix is, well, not totally pointless, it does at least make the logs manipulable using standard tools again. Except on occasions when you really need to read them.
The trouble is they know exactly why they are better, but cannot be forced to see why they are also worse. New technologies always have flaws, and it takes time for the kinks to be worked out in practice, leaving a mature technology. There is a delicate balance between early adopters that keep the new technologies alive enough to have a chance to mature, and the slower moving segments of the market that need maturity and reliability.
In the tech market, in this century, the latter segment is riotously underserved. Supporting mature products is considered a waste of resources that should be instead used to push the boundaries of in-your-face ad delivery. The entire situation is ridiculous and could only occur in a market where the buyer typically has no better way of choosing between competitors than flipping a coin - because he has no idea what he his buying!
"As a tech worker myself, I don't see why foreign workers would be inherently worse."
They are not, *inherently* worse. Not by a long shot. Some of them are very, very good.
The problem is that they are being selected, not on the basis of technical skills, but on the basis of lower costs and more subservience. Companies prefer, not just foreign workers, but H1B workers specifically - because they are powerless and easier to abuse.
Just a look at the 'products' these so-called tech companies are churning out should be enough to give lie to the idea that they have any interest at all in technical excellence. They do not. They want cheap code-monkeys that will crank out utter crap as directed with no back talk, no wage pressures, and no looking for a better job to worry about.
"I mean I've seen some people, very much home grown, who seem to have such a poor grasp of how things work that I wonder how on earth they even have a job."
Sure. But we dont have any kind of monopoly on those people. Outsource to save money and you are likely to get the south asian equivalent - all the same problems, plus communication and cultural difficulties on top of it.
They wrap the sharks in kevlar? Now there is an exciting job. How much does it pay?
You forget that the people pay for the government, and are supposed to own it. The government is supposed to be part of the nation, not an external bloodsucker set on top of it. And searches are supposed to require a warrant, supported under oath or by affirmation, giving probable cause that a crime has been committed.
So yes, if the FBI wants to take OUR database which is in their care, and compare it with OUR database which is in the care of the INS, then they should do so within the constitutional framework, get a warrant, and only get to keep the results that match the warrant, not everything else.
Of course they are.
And how does anyone even pretend this is legal? They can just 'waive' laws for special people and leave them in place for us proles now?
This is not the American way. One law for everyone. If the law is wrong, repeal it, don't 'waive' it for your friends while the rest suffer.
Also there is no peak stupid. There is no limit to stupid, and it's impossible to make things stupid-proof. Stupid is just too ingenious.
His point only stands up if the utterance indeed had the sarcastic intonation. Intonation being absent in written word, his point fails completely.
Yes it's *possible* to say that sarcastically, but no I have never heard anyone actually do it. They are just dropping a word from a cliche that has been worn so slick by the passage of time their tongues cannot adhere.
You got modded down but it's basically true.
There are two sides to it - some laws and agreements that are truly senseless - but a large part of it really is a complaint from rent-seekers about subsidies they feel entitled to.
The fact is solar PV is at present NOT very that cost effective, even in the markets where it works best.
Removing illogical obstacles to PV installation would be a good thing, but 'generous subsidies' paid for predominantly by the working poor, to help rich landowners install PV and cut their bills going forward, is not.
I would also suggest that Floridians worried about their sunlight going to waste investigate solar-thermal (hot water) rather than PV (photovoltaic) panels. Quite a bit less expensive and you dont need to generate electricity to displace some demand.
What you are getting is the ability to use similar hotspots as you move around. The actual utility of that seems questionable - most are going to be in someones home where you cannot use them anyway.
If you own your own modem and it works I would advise you to keep it no matter what they offer. The wireless gateways are absolute junk.
Indeed. Every router-and-modem-in-one-box I have seen yet is a POS. The very best case is if they will accept bridge mode and imitate a modem properly. Very often they actually will not (though they may appear to agree at first, and only cause problems later. I would actually go one better and refuse to take their modem as well, since they will only have old beat-up returned modems in stock. Buy a decent modem and tell them to provision it then leave it alone.
I cant see any compelling reason you should not be able to agree to a non-disparagement clause, assuming it's clearly presented ahead of time and you knowingly agreed to it in return for compensation. Devils advocate, of course, is to point out that it's not really clear that this was the case - the 'policy' may not have been clearly presented ahead of time and knowingly agreed to by guests and I saw no mention of compensation. So if it ever went to court there would be room for invalidation.
Regardless, it looks like the market is taking care of it fine, without even needing a court to review the 'contract' - the very fact that this business tried to impose such a policy is set to cost them a pretty good slice of profits, and the public nature of the reaction is helping to discourage any other businesses that might try the same thing.
You were saying?
You're telling me why businesses need free software. That's not in question. The question is who needs these big corpos? If they prefer not to adapt then they can die, and why should I mourn them?
The unspoken assumption behind your comment (and much else on the page) is that it's important for 'open source' to be accepted by big business.
Why?
Simply letting him get away would be horrible, because of the prevention aspect. If that were standard practice on the part of the cops, then the rate of car theft would certainly go way up.
But there is another possibility besides letting him go and flying off in a risky high speed chase. There's this old-school police technique called a 'tail' where you follow at a distance and let the target think he's getting away (while of course using your radio to get ahead of him.) Much less chance of injury or death that way. Too old-school for US cops these days, but in some backwards jurisdictions it might still be used.
I think you are rather badly mistaken. There was actually much less oxygen in the atmosphere then.
Warning, link is not really a webpage, js required :( but you can search yourself for a better source.
"TSE costs $45. And if you are ok with that huge flaw, then by all means..."
Huh?
Being windows only (WINE works but I dont want to have to rely on it,) and closed source are drawbacks I care about, and why I am not using it. The $45 is nothing for a quality tool. I bet you've paid more than that for games that you did not even play through once.
This link puts a little meat on the bones, though the story is still sketchy. Seems the law was aimed at 5 or 6 specific bloggers, though probably upwards of 500 could wind up being covered. ISPs not happy with it. Law purports to regulate Russian-language blogging, not limited by geography or physical placement. So a foreigner could theoretically run afoul of it if they publish in Russian (and become popular doing so) while a Russian could write anything they want without worry as long as they do it in another language?
Nice dig but quite out of date. Check out EVIL.
Absolutely. For simple text file editing, it really cant be beat. No wasted time, you type what you want and it does it, end of story. You can even use it in scripts! The ideal tool for many, many jobs.
Notepad++ is windows-only. And if you are ok with that huge flaw, you should really try TSE. By far the best windows editor.
"That's one of the reason I stopped using Google anything. Until they do the right thing and give us back our YouTube accounts, they can go fuck themselves."
Hear hear!
That was really an act of astonishing rudeness and arrogance. A formal apology and the firing of the person responsible would not be uncalled for.
So they did a text-editor roundup that excluded every serious contender in favor of 5 third-string also-rans.
I actually tried to read the text but it was too brain-numbingly stupid to get through. He's trumpeting all these wonderful features that... vi and emacs had in the 80s.
It's so true - 'those who do not remember Unix are condemned to re-invent it, poorly.'
Indeed, ages ago, I used to have so much fun with assembly.
High level languages sucked all the fun out of programming for me though.
Not the same guy but I think we are on the right wavelength.
Here. Now go parse that stream using Cobol.
I dont care if you have ever heard of Cobol or not. I have never used it myself, and I havent been a working programmer in decades. But if I needed a parser written in Cobol I expect I could search for the docs first thing in the morning, find a syntax reference, and have a working if rough parser done before lunch. If this sort of work was needed by me on a regular basis I expect I would become very familiar with Cobol and a week later I would re-implement that parser in less than an hour and do a much better job.
All a computer can do is math, or if you prefer to think of it as symbolic logic, fine. But it's still all the same stuff. Any high level language you use, no matter how strange the syntax, no matter how unfamiliar the vocabulary, is still the exact same thing at core. Logic. Arithmetic. Algorithms.
A particular language may be a pleasure to work with, or it may be a pain but end of the day if you understand logic you should be able to translate your logic into any language for which you can find useful reference documentation.