Posts by asdf

Re: Another 1980s game it should try

Permadeath autosaves that is.

Re: Build time internet dependencies are garbage

Yeah I know but was trolling in general. Don't get me wrong the standard library and its ilk in different languages is usually a better idea than rolling your own for most things but some of these frameworks often seem used more as a faddish crutch than anything. You should at least understand somewhat what is going on under the hood which to be fair many people do.

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Aren't most modern aircraft fly by wire? The days of the pilot being manually in control of analog (non digital) controls are in the past from what I understand.

(edit: 737 max looks like it is only partially FBW. Learn something every day. Carry on but FBW and automation is the future)

Oh yeah forgot virtual particles as well even if there is no real particles in your vacuum. Quantum stuff makes a mess of classical world at smallest scales.

Re: Extradiction unlikely

We have about as much control over our 1%ers as you all do.

Re: Wandering star ?

Isn't everything but helium, hydrogen, and lithium ultimately made by a star (perhaps layers blown off instead of core though)? "We're made of star stuff." as Sagan famously said. I think the models assume Mercury was made out of the same gas cloud the rest of the solar system was though.

Re: The issue is changing the password...

>Indeed. My understanding is that is how LUKS works.

How about bioctl and CRYPTO? Asking for a friend :)

Re: I can't get the sensor to fit

>But the problems of the F-35, as so often with military programs, are political.

Same with our space program which is why Russian safety culture is even the topic at hand.

Re: Time to troll

>It's entirely possible to have a Linux system without bash.

Yep I do run OpenWRT on my router at home (dual boot with LMDE on desktop at home to be fair as well). I know people love GNU and they have done many great things but after supporting HP-UX production systems at work very sad to see real UNIX disappearing outside the BSDs and even they are under threat. The GNU tool set is also often more bloated and buggier than the original UNIX utilities. Plus Red Hat took advantage of GNU/Linux to basically kill off POSIX. Sad to see how more and more FOSS is becoming dependent on the Linux kernel. Linux is the future but more due to bean counters than being technologically superior. My HP-UX systems have never crashed in 5+ years I have been responsible for them. Some that is down to the high build quality of the hardware but rock solid software than is specifically made for that hardware is a big part of the equation also.

Wow bravo brutal and accurate. +1

Re: 25 TeV vs 14 TeV

How about 300 EeV? A cosmic ray particle with the kinetic energy on par with a decently pitched cricket ball.

Re: If this is the price

But with 5G you can hit your data cap (bring on the overage gravy) in seconds instead of minutes. Won't anyone think of the telecom shareholders?

Re: Fire Sale?

Or how about AOL buying it for 165 billion (more than Time magazine obviously but still).

>Sadly too many web "devs" are far too wedded to JS.

Yep running Dillo as your daily driver is not a whole lot of fun.

Re: DNSSEC ?

Run DNSSEC through unbound on my home router but DNSSEC is not an ideal solution for grandma imo. Too easy for her to assume her internet is broken instead of there being a misconfigured domain or her ISP doing some MITM shenanigans (insert ads, etc). Granted you or I would want to know but many people don't care and just want their internet to always work. DNS not resolving can be frustrating even if you are an IT nerd (ie try using dnsmasq to do dnssec back a few years ago, aka bring the pain). Terrifying to the normals.

Re: The humans won because strategy - no surprise there

>The key thing is we went in with a game plan, and we were coordinated.

For whatever reason this story makes me think of Emmet in the Lego Movie basically saying the exact same thing lol.

Re: second worst telecom

>Everyone thinks that they have the worst or second-worst telecom provider

They mostly do suck here in the US and people really hate mine (CenutryLink) but honestly can't complain myself. Sure I only get 20Mbps ASDL but have consistently got it for under $40 a month for years now not bundled with any other services and except for maybe one outage caused by some 3rd party yahoo installer in the neighborhood (took me offline for a day or so) can't complain. Of course I don't deal with their customer service basically ever.

Re: As with all these cases, eveyone out for themselves, the customer comes last

>It has its place.

Perhaps but the wonderful thing about this capitalist wonderland is there are plenty of tangible easy to buy things I can find to spend my money on to entertain myself today instead of pie in the sky stuff in the future on a wing and a prayer. More power to others to spend their money how they wish but Gen Xers like me are big on money in the bank (we tend to save like our grandparents not our less responsible parents generation) or in viable sensible investments with a track record of delivering. Idealism isn't always high on the list. But sure go on change the world. YOLO.

Re: 25 years and still a PITA

Meant to say 9 pin serial com port as the USB to serial nonsense is the dog's breakfast and not worth the hassle especially when diagnosing comm issues with old equipment where want less variables not more. Went W2K instead of XP due to less memory usage which before I increased laptop memory was an issue sometimes.

Re: Long live Windows production servers

>That's not a problem with Windows that a problem with your AV vendor / your testing and rollout process.

IE corporate security who gets the last say. News flash many on here might nod their heads at when you are in manufacturing the corporate headquarters IS doesn't always have the 24/7/365 mindset. As for Linux being good enough perhaps but exist in a space where I care 100x more about reliability than performance or latest wiz bang features (yes yes you can go super redundant with Linux and BSD which I would probably be all for in a new non legacy system). The software I am running minus the occasional enhancement hasn't changed in a decade. Luckily corporate is letting me migrate to Itanium HP-UX instead of Linux but even dreading that some. I will also be honest and say we do most of our new development with software running on Windows boxes because it is at least an order of magnitude quicker to develop with. 90%+ of the support calls I do get when its on my side and are general server issues are on the Windows boxes (or corporate network or oracle dbs problems but I digress) though. The future may not be big iron UNIX but hoping it can carry some ways towards retirement at least :P I don't need HPE any more (for at least another 5 to 10 years) really because luckily people there in the past got it right.

rome wasn't built in a day

Product design cycles are a lot longer than a year especially when you have to balance the fix against the tremendous performance increases the vulnerability gave your product. Not excusing Intel or chip makers in general especially since they spent billions acquiring McAfee which was supposed to increase their security (so showed they at least gave it lip service) but not surprised new products don't have the fixes yet.

Re: Actually, this has already been said about Python. Many times over.

>It looks good enough to get the job done.

Probably true for vast majority of use cases out there. You wouldn't want to use it say for embedded systems development though. It does have some JIT capability IIRC but horses for courses.