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  1. Re:Absolutely a thing, but... on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    People who can code all aspects of an application exist.

    Well, I exist. Never occurred to me that managing the servers, databases, containers and writing the code at all tiers was special enough to deserve some designation. I just figured I was more willing than others to go where effort was required and learn what I had to learn. I guess I've been "full stack" since the late 90's.

  2. rightwing

    Ah! The crime! Had Facebook simply taken care to avoid supporting wrongthinkers there would no headlines to squabble about.

  3. It's no secret that Facebook's various offenses and Zuckerberg's pretty damning responses to the blowback are troubling the Facebook eloi. One can only imagine how difficult it must be to concentrate on automating the liberal safe space they all dream of while navigating this ongoing shitstorm. They thought they were working on behalf of the most virtuous of all the virtue mongers in the Valley, but it turns out they're actually employed by a bunch of piratic shitheels.

  4. Re:documents? on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course not. You'll need to file a FOIA request, wait for it to be denied and then sue.

  5. JWST is beyond NASA on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    JWST is really just too much to expect of today's NASA. Too complex, too long a time frame, all spinning out of control in the leadership vacuum that has been misgoverning NASA for at least 10 years. Expect to see another NASA announcement to delay SLS as well; the current 'estimated' launch date is Nov 2018. They won't make that and it will get pushed into 2019 or later. Same reasons. NASA doesn't even have a confirmed chairman and the previous chairman was an indifferent caretaker; Bolden oversaw delay after delay of a project he inherited and then handed down.

  6. Re:No, no it didn't on World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The e-field figures (5, 25 and 50 V/m) are pretty unrealistic as well. An LTE macrocell has 20-69 watts of energy at the antenna feedpoint. If you concentrate 69 watts with a 10 DBi gain lobe (typical for cell antennas and completely ignoring radiation efficiency losses of the antenna) you have to be within about 3 meters line-of-sight to get 50 V/m, 6 meters to get 25 V/m and 29 meters to get 5 V/m. There probably are cases in densely populated urban areas where you find yourself in the main lobe of an antenna at these distances, but cellular transceivers in these areas necessarily operate at the low end of the power range due to cell density, so it's pretty difficult to imagine a scenario where large populations of people are getting the amount of continuous e-field exposure used in this work.

  7. Re:That's cool on Windows Server 2019 Will Feature Linux and Kubernetes Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you want is to run your Windows Server on a VM and use that to emulate Linux and then launch containers inside the emulated Linux. Naturally, inside the containers you run your software inside virtual machine models such as the JVM. If you don't have at least four layers of 'virtual' between you and your hardware you're not trying hard enough.

  8. How is that a question? on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do people really believe that everyone else is going to adopt some great downsizing to yurts and kale? It's not going to happen folks. Grow up. If climate change get addressed it will be through the creation of cheaper, cleaner alternatives. Nothing else is feasible. It never was.

  9. Prices weren't "getting low." Stop making shit up.

  10. Re:Drag them all out into the street on Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're going to need a GULAG system.

    Enjoy becoming the next legendary atrocity shitlord of our species.

  11. Re:Drag them all out into the street on Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    as a warning to the rest of the 'financial community' to NOT FUCK UP.

    The "rest of the 'financial community'" understands that the "FUCK UP" here was a traceable use of the Internet and text messages.

  12. Re:Credibility and Integrity? on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    jackass

    jackass: anyone expressing things I don't like.

  13. Re:Has there been an open sourced oscilloscope? on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Rigol DS1054Z has its flaws but there's simply no way you're building a 4 channel 100MHz digital scope with network interface and usable GUI for 400$ yourself.

    You get a 100MHz DS1054Z for ~$400 only if you don't pay for the unlock license and instead steal that capability with self generated unlock codes. Who knows if some future firmware obviates your ability to steal it.

  14. Re:Instruments on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    will be nice to view

    121GW circuit diagram

  15. Instruments on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is probably a lot of potential for open electronics instruments as well. Multimeters, oscilloscopes, low end audio and RF spectrum analyzers and such. Dave Jones has had a very well received (AU$ 644,674) Kickstarter project with the 121GW multimeter. It's not entirely open (the firmware is proprietary,) but the hardware is open (schematics, components details, etc.,) the MCU is an easy to deal with STM32 and the programming headers are deliberately easy to get at, so ultimately open source firmware will emerge.

  16. Re:Since when did commie capitalists play fair? on Elon Musk Sides With Trump On Trade With China, Citing 25 Percent Import Duty On American Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ADP.

  17. Re:Since when did commie capitalists play fair? on Elon Musk Sides With Trump On Trade With China, Citing 25 Percent Import Duty On American Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your BLS numbers are as rigged as a Democrat primary. And you had no alternatives you cared to name.

  18. Re:Since when did commie capitalists play fair? on Elon Musk Sides With Trump On Trade With China, Citing 25 Percent Import Duty On American Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    were laid off

    Employment is growing rapidly. Every layoff anecdote you can cite I can cite more wins; coal miners, steel workers, gas and oil field workers; 235,000 jobs last month; five solid months of employment growth like we haven't seen in the US since the 90's. But CNBC taught you your little Carrier anecdote and here you are parroting it.

    believe in many of the underlying causes

    Name your alternative. Or don't bother; it'll be more swamp creatures delivering the same globalist answers and the same PC platitudes. But they flatter the crazy value set that all comfortable people indulge today and so secure your mindless love.

  19. Re:Since when did commie capitalists play fair? on Elon Musk Sides With Trump On Trade With China, Citing 25 Percent Import Duty On American Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you are anti-tariff

    The indifference to foreign tariffs and other unfair trade policies that our own leaders have shown for decades belies their real motivations. Just as illegal immigration has tacit support from both ends (the R's have powerful constituents that want to drive down working class wages while the D's want to displace white Americans with dependent and loyal immigrants,) our highly biased trade regime also has bilateral support; the R's want to leverage cheap foreign labor while avoiding the domestic regulatory regime and the D's are happy to a.) dismantle the economic means of the white working class and b.) facilitate the evacuation of heavy industry from (most of) North America.

    It has been a nearly frictionless win-win for about 50 years now. Then Trump happened.

    Actual change — the thing we've been told we need so much — has arrived. Funny how the people that purported to want "change" so damn much seem so unhappy about it.

  20. 2016 called on FBI Paid Geek Squad Repair Staff As Informants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They want their headline back.

    yeah, I know: "but it's important and bears repeating herp derp"

    Fuck off; it's outrage porn. The same FBI that you're hating on with this headline you defend as a pillar of democracy when Trump shits on them. We're literally living in 1984. The only actual solution is to de-fund them and you're constitutionally incapable is even considering such blasphemy, so just live in it; you have the government you deserve.

  21. Re:Jakarta? on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Was anything of value lost?

  22. Re:Don't we all know this already? on Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency Is 'Rare Technology That Has Caused Deaths In a Fairly Direct Way' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How many times is cash used for illicit transactions .... some kind of wallet to receive the funds

    Making sense isn't necessary because the establishment media will not question Gates, and Reddit doesn't count. This is just the blather that comes out of his mouth as he thinks up rationalizations for the imposition of his will. The establishment mentality. The thought that something, somewhere might happen beyond scrutiny is intolerable so whatever BS must be promulgated to stop it is the gospel of the day.

  23. Soros on Vietnam's Internet is in Trouble (wapo.st) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The ruling class want FacebookGoogleTwitterEtc regulated to stop "populism." Here is Soros using fear to justify putting government minders in control, complete with scary images of eyeballs controlled by corporations and warnings of a Trump dictatorship.

    Everywhere you look leftists and statists are using fear to put themselves in control of the Internet.

  24. Re:I just hope that ... on SpaceX Hits Two Milestones In Plan For Low-Latency Satellite Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone with networking knowledge

    I have a working knowledge. Switching elements, particularly at peering points, add latency. Longer paths due to terrestrial geography also add latency. A large source of latency is the refractive index of fiber — about 1.47 — which means light takes 1.47 times longer to travel the same distance through fiber than through vacuum. Coaxial and twisted pair elements have similar propagation delays; anything that isn't vacuum is slower than vacuum.

    A satellite network can reduce some part of all of these sources of latency. Satellites operate in near vacuum; propagation between satellites is nearly 100% light speed, and the up/down link through the atmosphere is also very fast as air adds only negligible delay. Satellites suffer no geographic detours. Satellites can reduce the number of switching elements between sites to a small number. I suspect you are way off base about the latency delta between terrestrial and LEO satellite Internet.

  25. This isn't orbiting the Earth. It's no more a problem than any chunk of rock orbiting our star.