Posts by eldakka

Re: Shameful

> If you have poor quality engines and have four of them and lose one then your probably still going to be able to land it. So while it's an economically crap design, from a Russian perspective it's probably preferable.

That is entirely my point.

2 engines are more efficient/economical than 4 engines.

Russian aircraft needs 4 engines due to reliability of their engines.

Since there are 2-engine designs up to ETOPS-370 certification (their air-route has to be within 370-minutes single-engine flight-time of an airstrip that is capable of landing said aircraft), why would anyone buy the less efficient/economical 4-engine option when they could get a more economical ETOPS-370 certified aircraft instead?

Re: World’s Most Popular CPU Architectures

> i was referring to the signiicantly simpler devices like fridges, washing machines and more where a simple slow cpu like a 8 bit or even 16bit is more than enuff.

You mean like the Arm Coretex M0+?

The NXP LPC800 based on it has in its reference design portfolio examples such as:

• PC Accessory SDRAM Module Controller Based on LPC860 MCUs
• Motor Control Design Based on LPC860 MCUs
• Smart Lighting Design Based on LPC860 MCUs
• Smart Battery Charger Based on LPC860 MCUs
• LPC845 Multi-Tool Tester Platform
• LPC8N04 MCU-based IoT Sensor Node with Integrated NFC

And (using TI's page for their Coretex M0+ chips) they start at 18c e.a. (for 1000 unit quantities).

As I said, most microcontrollers for most common applications (fridges, remote controls, chargers, vacuums, etc.) are going to be based on commonly used architectures - microcontroller specific variations, but still variations on well known architectures - such as ARM, Motorola (M68000), and what have you.

Re: String theory has taught us….

> As far as I know, that still hasn't happened. String theory has been a spectacular dud,

As a general note, String Theory is not popular among the physics community as a whole. It is only popular in the tiny subset that support it (basically the ones who work on it and write books on it and get paid to present talks about it, Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, et al.) and the media and, through the media, the public.

acollierastro (a random physicist) did an interesting youtube video, string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard.

> There were other programs that dealt with sparse files that triggered the problem in the past that didn't involve coreutils.

Right, but those were usually relatively specialised and/or niche programs.

The specific program within the Coreutils 9 package that triggers this bug is a rather non-speciialised, non-niche program - cp.

That is, Coreutils 9 updated the core 'cp' command - as bog standard a unix/linux command as you can get, the copy file command - in a fashion that can trigger this bug.

Re: In fairness

> A human would presumably have felt a bump and stopped. But maybe not that much sooner than the Cruise vehicle did. The article says 20 feet (about 6m). That's really not all that far.

That is a total misunderstanding of what happened.

1) other car collides with pedestrian,

2) pedestrian gets thrown in front of cruise

3) cruise collides with pedestrian

4) cruise detects the collision and comes to a complete stop - at this point the accident is over, the cruise has stopped after that collision - no one has any problems at this point, the same would have happened to a human driver that had a pedestrian thrown in front of it due to someone else's collision, however, after this point,

5) cruise - after stopping - starts up again and drags the now prone and stationary pedestrian an additional 20 feet beyond the point where the previous accident had 'completed'.

Re: Tesla should deal

> Unions taking action in solidarity is unelected people (union bosses) governing the country.

Union bosses are elected by the membership of the union.

Just like the 'boss' of a political party (e.g. the house and senate leaders/minority leaders, PMs, etc.) are elected by the members of their party and not the general public.

Re: An irrelevant thing….

> Recently learned that Stockholm Syndrome isn’t a real thing

I felt the same way. So I picked up a book on Stockholm syndrome and by the end if iit I came around to their way of thinking.

Re: The Asylum has shown the way

> The gravity of the situation

Ba-dum tish?

Re: qualities HR doesn't like

> if the qualifications list has a typo that requires experience with fireballs,

aha! I knew my PnP DnD skills would come in useful oneday!

I have a lot of experience with fireballs - both on the receiving and delivering end.

Re: Obsolete

> My computer doesn’t run an operating system anymore, now it runs a Proxmox hypervisor

You are aware, are you not, that a hypervisor is an operating system?

The user applications that a hypervisor runs are VMs running guest operating systems, rather than games or office apps.

Re: So what's stopping all that energy ...

> I think that the poster is referring to "ground bounce", and how many residential houses have lightening rods anyway?

Mine doesn't, it has a heavening rod.

Re: Scraping

And everything you just said comes under what I already said:

"I woldn't think the "as long as the data is legal" would need to be stated, e.g. copyrights, legality (kiddie porn, etc.)"

Re: Late stage capitalism

I'm not an expert, I can only speculate.

But, for example, Facebook was forced to go public in 2012 (citation in article goes to Felix Salmon) because it had passed a threshold of 500 investors.

In that cited article there is mention of volume of trading shares as well.

I suspect that share options given to employees don't count as 'investors' for that 500 investor limit, but I am only speculating.

That article you referenced did note (various quotes):

• But to keep tight control of the company's shareholders, SpaceX uses an internal stock market, according to an investor. The private exchange matches up employee shareholders with approved investors.

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...also gives SpaceX precise control over people who own pieces of the company.

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But the anonymous investor said the company didn't let employees sell to anyone at any time: It uses an internal "matchmaking service" with vetted investors to get employees cash for their options.

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Employees could try to sell their shares on their own, such as through a broker. But because SpaceX is not a public company, and its shares come with a right of first refusal, the company's board of directors can kill a private sale.

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Such comments underscore another incentive for sticking with SpaceX: Even if an employee quits with a nest egg of vested shares, they can't really do anything with them — at least legally — until SpaceX either buys them back or the company goes public, which may not happen for decades.

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Once SpaceX has a handle on which employees are selling what, they approach investors — but only trusted parties already in the company's capitalization table, or cap table.

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"They get people like me who are previous investors, which doesn't change the cap table," the investor said. "From a company perspective, they don't want their guys leaving and trying to sell the stock to other players. They want to control that process. It's very smart. SpaceX kind of controls the market."

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All of which leads me to believe that employee options aren't regarded as 'investors', that SpaceX can and does legally control to whom and when and how many of those shares obtained via share options are sold to, and keeps a 'cap table' of allowed investors so that it can ensure it doesn't exceed whatever the limits are before one is forced to be listed on a stock exchange (whether that's 200, or 500 investors, or specific share trading volume).

Right, so they do indeed collect it, they have to, it's the way TCP/IP (and UDP) work, it has the source address attached to the packet header, therefore they have to collect it initially before implementing some other process to strip it out.

It'll be interesting to see if their unsubstantiated claim that they don't store the received IP addresses is sufficient under GDPR to ignore the opt-in requirement.

Re: Did Someone Mention "Rules"?

> [some spiel about D/H and communications encryption]

That's all well and good when talking about communications encryption, but what has any of that got to do with the @Flocke Kroes post you are replying to that is about at-rest data?

If the police decide that a file on your computer is encrypted they can put you in prison until you do decrypt it.

e.g. if you have a computer with an encrypted HDD/SSD that requires a login to un-encrypt it, if you don't provide the appropriate login/password details to unencrypt that HDD/SSD then in the UK (and I think Australia too?) you will have committed a criminal offence and/or contempt of court by not handing over those details, and can be held until you do so.

> At Big ass companies, the beancounters usually are expensive lawyers.

Fixed that spelling mistake for you.

> You sound like a smoker promising to give up every time the price of packet goes up :-)

I note the smiley face at the end of that sentence, but still want to point out that is a bad analogy.

Going out buying smokes is an active err, action, that requires continuosly going and buying the smokes, and continously paying the money. Smoking costs money and effort on a daily basis.

Staying on windows 10 is entirely passive. I haven't spent a $ on windows in over a decade, win 7 -> 8.1 -> 10 upgrade path all using the same license¹. I've been running win10 for many years now, it'd take actual effort to change, but takes no effort to stay on windows 10. That's the only reason I am still on windows 10, it'd take more effort to move off it than it takes to stay on it.

A better analogy would be staying in a job you don't like. Can you find a job with better pay? Can you find one at all? Maybe just put up with it until something better comes along rather than being proactive and quitting and getting a new job ...

However, when it does come time for getting off windows 10, it'd be comparable effort to go to win 11 or Linux, therefore that's when the choice will be made (with my level of laziness), not 'now'.

And a note to those who'll diss Linux, saying its hard to move to and I never will move to Linux because it's too hard, I'll just note that I moved from Linux to Windows, I used a Linux desktop at home from the mid 90's (pre 1.0 linux) until around 2000, when I went to Win2kpro for home desktop usage. I currently use Linux at work (and was a Solaris sysadmin for a decade before that), I have Linux computers at home for server usage, just not daily-driver desktop. I'm quite familiar with Linux. I'm just too lazy to move at home when 80% of my home desktop computer usage is gaming, it's just less friction to stay on windows when the primary usage is games. The question comes down to if the friction to stay on windows is greater then the friction to overcome my laziness to move, or whether the friction to move from win10 -> 11 when the time comes is enough to overcome the friction of win10 -> Linux.

And that's the point of my original post, Microsoft is increasing that friction to go from win10 -> 11, such that it's looking likely to be greater than the friction of going to Linux, at least for me.

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1. OK, not entirely 100% true, I've purchased 3 laptops in that same time, and they came with pre-installed windows and license with each of those laptops, and despite the cost not being broken out as a separate line item in the receiprt, the cost is built into the price you pay. However those have not been my daily-driver at home desktops, and I've never upgraded the O/S on them, they've each lasted as long as the pre-installed O/S was supported for.

Re: the terrifying power of Rick Astley.

> I thought that was banned under the Geneva Conventions?

It is -see the section on torture.

But the Geneva Conventions only apply between soverign states, it does not apply to things like rebellions, civil wars, insurgencies. I think ISIL is regarded as an insurgency, not a soverign nation, therefore the Geneva Conventions do not apply.

Re: "Especially"?

> Surely it's "even though"?

Commuting to and from work for a normal onsite employee is not 'staff travel', as it occurs outside employment activities, therefore imposes no direct costs on the business. Getting to and from the initial location of carrying out work is a private expense of the employee, if you start work at 9am at the office and work there until 5pm, it is a private expense, a part of expectation of employment, that the employee get themselves there on their own time and at their own expense. However, if during that 9-5 window the employer changes the location of work, such that you have to travel to a second location (and then possibly back to the first location), that cost must be covered by the employer - whether re-imbursement of a taxi ride or a fuel allowance or a direct payment such as with a corporate credit card - thus it is 'staff travel'.

e.g. I'm at the office doing work at 10am, then a meeting is called for 2pm that is to occur in an office that's 20 minutes drive away, therefore as part of work I have to travel between 2 different work locations. So I take a taxi to the location of the meeting and put it on the corporate credit card. Then after the meeting I go back to the office where I started my day, and again place that taxi fare on the corporate credit card. The business has picked up those travel costs.

But mostly in-person work meetings occur within offices in the same building or immediately adjacent buildings which are a few minutes walk, therefore don't incur what would be a staff travel expense (whether re-imbursable or covered up-front by the business). However, if people are typically or often working at home, then many in-person meeting requirement would now be travelling for work purposes that would be an expense to the business, that is, during a single work cycle, you will be working from multiple places - start work at home, then at 11am travelling to another work location for work purposes - to attend that in-person meeting - then potentially travelling back to your other place of work, home, incurring yet another business expense.

edit: So many typo's.

Except for giant space-mice.

Re: Thunderbirds are Go!

> Well I think it looked like a giant cock.

Sure, if your cock is 1cm in diameter and 13cm long, in which case you have a very weird cock.

No, the cockiest rocket I've ever seen is Blue Origin's New Shephard.