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This is exactly what I'm saying.

"DMA" as the parent puts it implies a core in the same SoC, rather than external. It would be hair brained to let this have unfiltered access to the fabric. However, that's exactly how older SoCs used to do it - in fact it used to be in charge and the AP shoved behind the IOMMU.

These days nobody I know of is stupid enough to have that arrangement. So it's not really a choice of "DMA" vs USB. External isn't buying much, unless you distrust the fabric filter (IOMMU), which isn't necessarily paranoid... but a level beyond this kind of system decision.
> so why aren't we seeing more of the "new" prepper culture cropping up on the other side of the pond?

Maybe it's because there's not as much individual land ownership in Europe because there isn't as much land. In America we have a vast frontier so to speak, plus we've had the act of homesteading as a the cornerstone of our traditional values for a long time.

There's room for everyone to have their own little homestead, at least thats been the feeling culturally for a couple of hundred years, and so people today are also prone to think along the lines that traditional homesteaders thought.. well water, garden, dogs, fishing, shotgun, shovel, plow, etc.. maybe even horses if you can afford it. One difference is today people also care about an Internet connection. In my view these people aren't paranoid at all they're just passing on the traditional values.
Evolve the idea of what a home is.

Elio motors is offering a small 84MPG vehicle for $6,800.
30 year old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers maintain a high resale value to this very day. Why are all mobile homes so huge? How much money do people spend on rent, leases, mortgages, and buying homes?

I'm sure college students would love a compact mobile home vehicle. Developing countries would likely eat such a thing up.

The CEO of Zappos lives in a trailer park of Airstream trailers and Tumbleweed tiny mobile houses with a shared kitchen, living room and other common areas designed to encourage a true neighborhood / community.

Or just consider a house as infrastructure.
Real estate is assumed to be limited, but that's mostly
the result of nimbyism and the gaming of developments
sold off on the real estate market as "investments". The
whole trend of gentrification will likely play out in
less expensive regions of North America and developing
countries, and presumably there will be large dense
affordable housing somewhere someday and these areas tend
to be fertile for creative businesses and cultural
experimentation. New York is long stagnate, and it's
amazing how much San Fransisco suffers from real estate
leaching off of the working population and tech economy.

A home isn't limited to being a house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
If you could count the chromosomes in every cell of a patient's body and specifically kill cells with/without certain numbers, you could cure the cancer. For practical purposes it is one disease with a single identifying characteristic and molecular target. Only technical limitations are preventing a cure.

No disease manifests exactly the same way in every person, so I don't get the point of calling cancer multiple diseases.
How about implementing your CPU on a FPGA? It should be easier to verify the physical hardware hasn't been tampered with.

e.x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(processor_core)

Of course it would be orders of magnitude slower than a modern CPU.
> To me that's not paranoia

And I don't consider firearms as a broad subject paranoid. It's when talking about the use of firearms to injure other human beings alongside the best way to store flour is where I draw the line.

I'm just looking at food storage. I'm not interested in surviving apocalyptic-level events via good old wild-west justice.
You misunderstand the concept of barter. It was actually an informal, unrecorded socially-based debt system. Read "Debt, the first 5,000 Years" for a good explanation.
Between Christmas and New Year a massive surprise blizzard hit the area I live in. We were on vacation and got home a few days later. We couldn't get back into town for 2 days because the roads were closed (snow in infrequent enough here the city and county don't have snow plow equipment).

The neighbors called (they are in their late 70s). Half a mile down a dirt road they hadn't been able to get out for 3 days and were getting a little scared. We picked up a few groceries (the store shelves were pretty empty as trucks hadn't been able to get into town) and parked on the highway and hiked them in. Then it was hike half a mile through deep snow to the car parked on the highway for the next two days until the county managed to get the dirt road to our houses cleared.

Very revealing experience. It's not a good idea to imagine technology or society is going to solve all problems in a timely manner. When things go bad on a massive scale, especially when it's unexpected, you are on very often on your own for a bit even in this day and age. It's a good idea to be at least mildly prepared.
So the company that was one of lead bad actors in a global crisis that wiped out lots of little folks gets -

No execs (or anybody else) go to Jail

Continues to do business as usual

Pays a small fraction of its profits in fines (but gets to keep the multi-billions of tax-payer money under various govt. programs)

Admits to no wrong doing

Basically a speeding-ticket that gets dismissed when you pony up the cash after being caught drunk driving with dead body stuck on your fender.
You know what is even more hardcore than facebook with the "friend finder?" Freaking linkedin. That thing found people I sold things to on craigslist in 2005 and put them in my "people you may know" suggestions. Girls I hooked up with in high school, a professor who taught a course randomly during an off summer at a community college. People I've emailed from my fake throwaway email accounts I don't remember the logs ins or the passwords to any more. People I've only corresponded with from my firewalled work accounts and never logs into them from my personal computer. Old frat brothers who were 4 years ahead of me in college. A person who went missing when their family moved away from my jr high school and I completely forgot about them. My Japanese exchange student who I lost contact with in 2008. People from random 4-wheeling forum I never emailed with or talked to directly. I have no idea how they did it but it was rather disconcerting. If I knew how to turn it off, I would.

I seriously don't know how Linkedin found all these people but they somehow dredged them all up.
50+ years in future - Amazon is still optimising some part of their ecommerce infrastructure / entering a new market. Jokes aside, it will be incredibly interesting how Amazon's strategy to discard profits and just scale everywhere will work out. Will they become insanely profitable as everyone expects?
1GB server comes to £73 which includes $50 service support.
We do use a dedicated server for DB. Recently moved our ap servers from dedicated to cloud.
I could have used Digital Ocean as well they have similar setting. I can now easily use the ansible scripts to setup on any other server.
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OS X - puppet/chef or equivalent

Android - MDM (I think the stock google apps MDM can do client Certs and 802.11x network config)

Nest - would not bother; stick on a dedicated standard WPA2 network, segregate from rest of network then leave well alone.

Wired network - yes, you'd need a managed L2 switch (but then you'd need that anyway to trunk multiple tagged vlans to your APs).
Killer analysis. Love the research and context.
I personally think the "crazy" label kicks in when the person has severely diminished their actual, real life in order to prepare for an unlikely future scenario. Especially when that scenario is strangely specific and seems more like fantasy where the preparer will become a vigilante hero in the new world.

Simply being prepared for emergencies is certainly not crazy. Saving money for an employment emergency seems like the most real threat to most of us. But I guess that's not as much fun as stock-piling guns and ammo for a zombie apocalypse.
Well, the Fed's approach is a flexible supply. You change the supply of money based on economic factors (that no one agrees upon true, but flexibility is the key)
All that does is makes U.S. encryption the worst available and hands a free kick to other countries.
I thought they actually are profitable due to earning interest on the difference between accounts receivable (quick) and accounts payable (slow).
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The Agile in question refers to the made up customer (in the book) who asks for changes and features on the go by walking by your desk. It's a good book.
In reference to the zombies...

I'll come back and post the link if I can find the reference, but apparently real life zombies are somewhat possible. A few years back (2008ish?), I read an article about a German scientist that was able to alter rabies so that humans don't die when they get it. The resulting claim was that they would become super aggressive and attack others, similar to rabid animals, and would create a zombie-like virus. Granted you won't see humans walking around with half their limbs off after dying, but I thought it was interesting how the claim was that it could essentially create a World War Z type of scenario.

Now idk how much of this is true, but I'm almost certain I read it on phys.org, which if I did, would lead me to believe that it's a valid article. I'll see if I can find the link tomorrow.
Redshift is pretty nice too, if you are on Linux. Unfortunately, f.lux experience isn't so great on Linux.
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I have a TS-140 with four disks in it running FreeNAS. I'll hook it up to a killawatt tomorrow and let you know what it draws.
Just wanted to add that there is no support currently for Windows phone.

If you are willing to collaborate, please do share a short bio (like field of expertise, area of interest, past experience in similar field)
I don't see a problem here, I already put SO links in my code whenever I use something from SO; example:

/// <summary>
/// Special JsonConvert resolver that allows you to ignore properties. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/13588192/1037948
/// </summary>

or:

//SOURCE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c
No, it's an issue. Heavy rain and fog are even problematic for humans. Current systems use image of the pavement for precise vehicle localization. Pavement not visible? You're fucked. Pavement markings unclear? You're fucked. Road crew painted on temporary markings alongside existing? You're fucked. And so on and so forth.
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which e.g. is used by the container engine rkt https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/rkt-vs-other-projects.htm...
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Any idea or product that enhances an OS interaction and could be easily integrated into the OS if the vendor just decided they wanted to do so.
Hey I figure Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet can all start using backdoored encryption.

Let's see how it works for them.
How do you choose the programming language for a project?
Why not? I've been extremely happy with FreeNAS. I have two mirrored pairs of disks in mine. Besides performing NAS duties with aplomb, I also have a half dozen jails running various HTPC tasks such as hosting Plex.
My first NAS build used FreeNAS. For a simple Samba box, it's just about perfect. However, I wanted my NAS to run a few more services than the ones that were easily available and pre-built "blessed" plugins.

I had a low spec CPU in the NAS and went through hell and back to build/install/jail a few packages from source (along with their dependancies). It was a steep learning curve and wasn't terribly fun.

When it came time to add a second NAS, I chose Ubuntu and ZFS on Linux. It's been running like a champ for well over a year without a single hiccup. I don't think I've even built a single package ever. Best of both worlds, in my opinion.
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Someday I hope that Amazon will provide a fully vertically-integrated ecommerce marketplace for the people of the Amazon River basin.
Instead of running some homemade script, you better use something like SnapRaid (http://www.snapraid.it/)
Won't be using this suckless format. Pretty useless. The real image formats took effort and are mature. This is just a more compact, less useful hacked out version of netpbm etc. Being easy to parse is no particular virtue. Use libraries with good APIs.
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This deal is huge, but I hope Amazon starts doing a little better diligence on their sellers. I was initially drawn to Amazon for their amazing customer reviews - they were usually current and decently, well-written - but most importantly they offered a resassurance that websites without product reviews didn't have.

Over the past year, I've noticed a HUGE uptick in the quantity of fake 5-star reviews. They are so blatant it's frightening, and they usually go unnoticed in Amazon's default "Most Helpful" sorting.

In particular, the Home Office Desk Chairs landscape is pretty insane: http://www.amazon.com/Home-Office-Desk-Chairs-Furniture/b?ie.... I was trying to find a chair back in September, and I was appalled by some of the reviews I was seeing. Top selling products, with several hundred reviews that averaged out to 4/4.5/5 stars.

This is a screenshot from back in September: http://imgur.com/qbCz0yE, and it only contains a small sample of the "Awesome, highly recommend" reviews spattered around. You'll notice this pattern on virtually every chair on Amazon, except the Aamazon basics chairs which wer launched sometime in late September / early October. Their reviews seem pretty good so far (i.e. real), but unfortunately for me I had purchased a chair from eBay before these launched.

These patterns are pretty frighteneing (especially considering a lot of people are actually buying these things), especially considering I've experienced the same issues when shopping for others things.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Or am I losing it?
Totally agree with what has been said. However, I find it interesting that most of the signatories displayed were for JS projects.
This still falls foul of the simple numbers problem: there's going to be more people without then with, that's why its a disaster in the first place.

Now, humans are social animals - we naturally form groups. And the group which will have the most necessity is anyone without sufficient immediate resources. And who has the most resources? Why, the guy with 6 months of food rations. 6 months of food rations will feed him for 6 months, or my group of 30 for 6 days - which gives us say, 10 days to find more.

The real question in that scenario then, is how stupid is the guy with 6 months of supplies planning to be about distribution?

A much better risk-mitigation plan is this: either die preventing the catastrophe, or prevent it.
Didn't seem to list the total price.
Couldn't that same argument be used on routers/switches/other equipment that we find back-doors in all the time?
There is a lot of cargo cult about this.

Firstly the claim that freebsd has wider testing is utter trash. In terms of TBs installed ZFS on linux >> freenas/freebsd

the amount of money behind ZoL is now surprisingly large.

Also, extensive memtest of ECC ram is pointless, ECC ram has checksumming built into the chip which will tell you if there is a memory error and correct it if possible.

As for most drive fail in the first hours: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ evidence says other wise. Infant mortality is a thing, but its a matter of months, not hours. (internal QA grabs most of the ones that die within a few hours.)

The best way to combat simultaneous failure is to mix hardrive types, this makes it much less likley that a single fault class will be triggered on all disks.
My biggest gripe with GitHub has been the notification system. Personally I can't use the web UI for notifications because they bundle multiple notifications per issue. This leads to potentially missed notifications since it is up to me to scan the issue/PR for new comments.

My workaround has been to use email notifications exclusively. I have a Gmail filter that applies a label to all notifications and skips the inbox. Then in my mail client I have a smart mailbox that only shows me unread notifications with that label (or that folder, from an IMAP perspective). The smart mailbox then shows me a counter of unread notifications. This way I don't oversee comments when multiple ones are made in a PR.

Problem 1: No context in these notifications. It would be nice if these emails could show the code in question for diff comments or the entire comments thread.

Problem 2: Now what is really bad with these notification emails is that the link "view it on GitHub" sometimes no longer links to the comment I'm being notified of. This happens when the comment was made on a PR on a line of the diff that no longer exists, as sometimes is the case when new commits are pushed. I then have to go to the main PR page, expand all collapsed "foo commented on an outdated diff" comments and manually search for the comment in order to get the context and be able to reply.

By fixing problem 1, problem 2 would be automatically fixed with it and make my workflow much more productive. Is there anyone else annoyed by this?
And what if it really was a parody? Just censor it?
What difference does the host make? You're not interacting directly with it anyway, as far as I know.
Yes, there are Chinese bitcoin miners paying even less than that for power.

China has a quarter of the world's hydroelectric generating capacity, but its utilization rate is low, far lower than in places like the Unites States, Canada, or Norway. This is primarily because much of the potential hydropower cannot be absorbed by the grid in western China, where many dams have been built over the past decade on the rivers flowing off the Tibetan plateau. Bitcoin mining operations are the rare customers that can show up near an isolated, idle hydropower station and gobble up electricity from turbines that otherwise wouldn't even be spinning.

The other factor I mentioned, that bitcoin mining in China provides an added return in the form of expatriated revenue, does not enter into the calculation of marginal cost. But it does effectively add several percent—the price of moving money out of China via other mechanisms—to Chinese miners' marginal revenue. And it's marginal revenue minus marginal cost that matters, not marginal cost alone.
This is why I never advertise myself as a freelancer. I'm a "consultant". Same job, more money.
Their method boils down to "think about what you're doing." It sounds simple enough, but it's something that takes practice, and as someone who does practice it, the lack of practice by others does become apparent. We tend to shoot ourselves in the foot, and the control and focus we need to get things done often is a simple matter of not shooting ourselves, as opposed to gaining some new or special insight.

The reason why many end up on facebook or addicted to cigarettes or pile on credit card debt or subscribed to Time Warner is not because we suck. It's because there are seriously effective forces actively trying to get us to do these things. Cigarettes maybe not so much as before, but it boils down to them physically being addictive and their ads being effective etc. The engineers at facebook aren't trying to help you not waste time. Their actively seeking to keep you there. So in the end, we're not underestimating our own inadequacy. We're underestimating our collective competency at getting people to buy and do things we want. It's just that we find ourselves at the wrong end of it too often.

And regarding happiness... At the end of the article there is a guy talking about how he gets up an hour early to do the things he wants... That's pretty much it. Happiness is also a skill because it takes practice, and the best way to practice it is by making other people happy. Once we get good at recognizing the simple causes of happiness, we can then do the same with ourselves, almost as if we were just another person. And it does boil down to the simple pleasures such as "making coffee and listening to Moby-Dick". There really isn't much more to it.

So practice thinking about what you're doing, and practice making everyone happy. Include "yourself" in "everyone". Brilliant!
This is why your application should always have a "dump version string"-button, conveniently embedded together with your "report bug" button which doesn't have to be more advanced than simply opening your email-client or forward you to a webpage. This form should be free text but pre-filled with the version string pasted at the top and contain headers that invite the user to fill in the rest, such as Reproducing: <write what you did to cause the bug>. 100 different drop-downs makes nobody happy.
So they are paying back some of the bail out money. Not exactly a fine, and the individuals responsible are not affected.
I've always thought of suckless.org tools as more of an educational tool than anything. Certainly some people use them in their day to day lives but for me it's always been like "What's the simplest way to do X?" It gets you thinking about the complexity of modern software and hopefully makes you question your assumptions. But yeah, pretty useless.
If that really is your argument, then you'd need to change your statement to be "weren't really paying netflix for content".

That being said, Motel6 gave him the key to the Hilton, he just had to walk over and use it
I feel like you give any talented engineer 2 years and they could write Zappos from scratch on Amazon architecture.
Bay Area. Seems like there's a few choices with Hollister, Lodi, Monterey Bay, Norcal. Lodi seems like it's the bigger name out the bunch.
I've been personally paying for a couple of years, and the SAAS company I work for (~50 engineers) has committed to moving away from Github for some of these (and other) reasons.

Here are some of my fave :+1:-a-thons that help demonstrate when the issue system starts to be less useful, and the Github acknowledgement seems sparse:

* https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/18

* https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/215

Also, you might consider empowering your social media team. I see Github as a pretty cool company. And when I sent this tweet, I was expecting to have a bit of a shared chortle with this tweet as I know I would of had with @SlackHq:

https://twitter.com/Ash_Coolman/status/670595632659206146

But instead I got nothing, except a vague sense of having offended someone (sorry BTW, it was only a joke! :'()
Cpt. Crunch would have been a better choice of novelty account name.
Even though finishing/launching a project is a skill in itself, which I should learn, I fall in to this trap also.
I think he might have been sarcastic with his statement.
Confidential computing in the cloud, for example.
The big question is, if you're a Chinese factory and you want to sell directly on Amazon's marketplace, don't you still need an "importer" of record? I do recall hearing about this mysterious Samuel Shapiro Co as well. Is that going to change? If the goods are sitting in Amazon's warehouse, does the Chinese factory still legally own them? Who gets sued if they're defective?
Where's the rest of the comp. domain?
Ok I get it, everyone has faster internet than me. All I'm saying is that Netflix works fine even with my apparently shitty internet, but torrenting isn't great. I do torrent stuff occasionally, but it just isn't as good or convenient.
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