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Sorry - not gonna stop liking things you don't like :)

Football and baseball are things to which people are inoculated when young. I suppose the same is true of basketball but I'm just not familiar with it beyond attempting to play it in a pickup fashion while in school.

You'd think curling would be boring, but I've watched it a few times and there's a lot going on.

And never mind golf, which I love to watch. It's been compared to watching grass grow. I can't argue.

At least in the college game, there's the issue of "tempo", which has a tactical as well as (I'm sure) a desire to reduce that time between plays. "Tactical" because it puts pressure on the defense to assemble more quickly.

It gets even worse - I like college ball, but the pros look to me like they just run their pattern and stop, where you might find a college quarterback that will improve most of a game.
At least you had a programming class. The computers at my high school didn't even have a compiler.
Regardless of your feelings on net neutrality, it is a completely different topic and the fact that you bring it up is strange.
Or it's that they're are past the middle of their working life, and they feel like exploring what else life has to offer.
I'm late to the conversation, but I bought a copy yesterday and I just could not be happier with the product. I'm hoping to convert all of my teaching notes and use the presentation mode in class. I have been a dedicated org-mode user, but this might be the one exception to my "emacs for everything" policy.
That seems really brittle. The baseline for every vehicle should be safety in every situation. (Sometimes that might mean: pull over to the side of the road and stop.) Only once every vehicle is proved safe, can certain combinations of vehicles negotiate compromises to safety in pursuit of other goals like speed.
The contrary view is the story of why the Brooklyn Dodgers left for California. Ball clubs are semi-public goods, so it gets tedious very quickly trying to factor it all out.
"IPv6 support
1. Took forever to implement, and the timetable broke promises to customers.
2. Inferior. Digital Ocean still won't give you a /64 per standards."

Far more egregious is that they silently drop port 25 on IPv6. This means that enabling IPv6 will cause mail problems for some destinations (destinations that support IPv6, like Google). When asked they say it's because a /64 is too much address space in the hands of potential (ab)users. This fails to understand that an IPv6 /64 is conceptually similar to an IPv4 /32. (In fact, there are pretty reasonable arguments for assigning IPv6 /56s or /48s with the same semantics as how IPv4 /32s are assigned.)
True. I haven't heard folks other than Google explicitly talking about this as a best practice.
Wouldn't the likelihood of the area going up already be built into the price?
A VPC is analogous to a physical network, not a subnet. Nobody uses them that way because it's not easy to grok, but you can treat a VPC as a physical network complete with your own numbering and ACL policies.

If you're doing that defense in depth on a physical network, I'm impressed by your dedication but would avoid your work for wasting resources.
> 3. These kernels often contain relevant security vulnerabilities.

This is really the only part of the list that I think has merit. I love Digital Ocean in general, but my own gripe is with their API and its lack of proper automatic key management:

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
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Project lead here: We are about to push v2.0 live, apologies if the site goes down momentarily.

The one time we try to update things quietly...

EDIT: We are going to post 2.0 tomorrow morning our time (that's about 18 hours from now), but we have setup a redirect from the old dev version that was posted to a newer student version. The dev version shows all comments/planning etc so harder to read. Though everything will look much nicer tomorrow morning with the new open source version hosted here https://github.com/uccser/cs-field-guide
> How many people want to run an updated kernel without known security vulnerabilities?

How many people call that "a custom kernel"? Haven't heard anybody call an upstream distro kernel update a "custom kernel".

Is this a typical conversation people have?

"Hey Jim, did you update the servers to get the latest OpenSSL security fixes? - Yap, I compiled and installed a custom kernel".

Maybe they need to run a better distro with faster security update response?
I think in this case, insurance companies will help drive adoption. If an insurance company believes that accidents are say half as likely, you would have to imagine one of them would bite on changing premiums by a bit. Cold hard cash will facilitate adoption, assuming basic regulatory guardrails are in place.
I think in this case, insurance companies will help drive adoption. If an insurance company believes that accidents are day half as likely, you would have to imagine one of them would bite on changing premiums by a bit. Cold hard cash will facilitate adoption, assuming basic regulatory guardrails are in place.
Monetary compensation for "pain and suffering" damages (which is not a monetary loss) is I believe not seen nearly as much in other countries.
> With all the problems noted over the last few years I'm surprised that anyone wants it

What makes you think anyone wants it?

Buyers of things like this don't buy because they want to, they buy because they're told to.

My friend at DMO (Defense Materials Organization) in Australia spent 2 years of his life on a huge team that recommended the Australian Defense Force don't buy any Abrams tanks for a whole bunch of very valid reasons.

Australia bought a bunch of them anyway, in direct contradiction to the organization who's very purpose it is to make these kinds of purchasing decisions.
Cloud hosting companies are making logical choices.

They care about a company's growth, not its profit.

They'd rather get $1M/annum from an unprofitable VC-backed company than $100k/annum from a profitable bootstrap.
AWS package, if I understand correctly, only includes training and support for non-portfolio companies. You're still limited to their free tier for services themselves.
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Ok, no serious project would run their own kernel. What are you hosting that you want to run your own kernel?
I don't mind someone looking at their phone while they're waiting for a red light. I'm more worried about the ones who do it while in motion.
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I've had the same thing. I didn't tell my coworkers I had a Pebble, but when I got a notification in a meeting, I looked at my watch and the boss commented that I must be bored with the meeting and looking to get out. Once I said it was a smartwatch, they then always assumed I was playing Tetris.
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>"Investigators were blinded to allocation during experiments
and outcome assessment, except for rare instances where blinding was not possible."

Not saying this should mar the study or anything, but I wonder what that could mean.

Edit: It appears I spoke too soon and this does mar the study. I thought they always waited for natural death, but no:

"mice were injected twice a week with AP or vehicle until they became moribund or died of natural causes."

They don't explain the methods or data (how many, etc) regarding these moribund mice anywhere either. The lack of effective blinding procedures combined with this undefined "moribund" state is actually a huge red flag.
F35 is made by Lockheed Martin, a private company, not the US government. The only people involved from the government side would mostly be management paper pushers or engineers who do IV&V work (independent verification and validation). Basically just check boxes that say LM completed XYZ and passed testing.
Oh, I didn't know companies had to be profitable from day one, I'm sorry. Maybe you should apply for a position of Musk's business development advisor, clearly you know business side of things better than he does.

And Tesla is about a month and a half away from unveiling its "non-rich" people car, and they used Model S revenues to corner the market on lithium ion batteries in the meanwhile.

Space X is the only US company that can currently deliver shit to ISS. Soon they will also be the only US company that can deliver people to ISS, and the only company in the world to use a reusable first stage. If that's not an achievement in your book, then I'm not sure what a real achievement would look like to you.
Does the DO credit expire after one year? AWS and Google credits for >= $100K expire after one year. This really is a genius business move on any cloud provider's part. If you can get a startup to spend $100k of their free credit, they will have somewhere around an $8k monthly bill once they convert to a paying customer after the first year.

It's a nice deal for startups, but the average startup will save more money in the long run by developing efficient applications that likely won't come close to a $100k credit in the first year. This will also likely result in a much more scalable app and much less technical debt.
It's specific to VM images. "Custom" here means "not baked into Xen," since your filesystem is not considered when spawning a domU kernel except in limited circumstances. In the Xen world, your kernel is provided by your hosting provider. You can apt-get all day and nothing will happen.

That is what custom means in this context. "Not yours." Read accordingly; you've made the same flawed point at several spots in this thread.
As am I, reports of widespread wildlife dying? Seems hard to believe when nobody else reported it.
Doof, correct. Planning a SW roadtrip so that's on the tip of my fingers.
Bloomberg is turning into the Wired of financial reporting.

It's not that clear that the fall in energy prices has been all that good for the rest of the economy.

What's ... tension inducing is that in 2008, the event that triggered Fed tightening was an uptick in oil prices. Some will disagree, but this was the thing more than anything else that helped us have the recession by many stories - the financial crisis itself didn't last that long.

And to those who would pretend the energy sector doesn't exist, you could get your wish.
It look me longer than I would like to admit to realize this wasn't satire.
This is great! I'm one of those self-taught programmers who holds two truths in his head at once:

1) I can learn anything I need to when the need comes up

2) With the exceptions of PLT and complexity, there are a lot of things (network protocols, compression, crypto, formal languages) that have not come up yet!

So I'm glad to see a survey of these subjects. Formal languages in particular I've felt the hole.
I love email, but I'm still not really in love with any of the email clients I've used. I'd really like something with high information density ([0] for example) and fast keyboard shortcuts, but that has some of the soft edges that come with a gui client, such as drag and drop attachments and displaying images inline. I think astroid [1] is heading there but isn't widely supported and doesn't play nice with syncing changes back to a standard mailstore.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schmeisers/sup-colors-redt...

[1] https://github.com/gauteh/astroid
I take it you have no experience filing tickets with them. A typical ticket goes something like this:

1. File ticket.

2. Wait. Then wait some more. Even if you pay big money for a support contract, they take a long time to respond (often > 1 hour).

3. Get a response from a first level rep who has no access to anything, has little dev experience, and asks some inane questions which I'm convinced is a purposeful stalling tactic.

4. Play the dumb question/obvious response dance, waiting an hour or more for a response each time.

5. If you are lucky (usually a couple hours in now) they acknowledge there's some problem (but never give you any detail) and escalate your ticket to a higher level internal team. If you are unlucky, you are calling up your account rep (do you even have one??) and getting them to harass tech support.

6. Usually around now the problem "magically" disappears if you haven't already fixed it yourself.

7. If you are lucky, a few hours, days, weeks later you get a response asking if you are still having the problem? You, of course, are NOT having the problem since you long ago solved it yourself. If you are really unlucky they try to schedule a meeting with one of their "solution architects" who is then going to waste an hour of your time telling you how to properly "design" your software for the cloud (i.e. trying to sell you on even more of their services).

8. Ticket is closed having never gotten to the bottom of the problem, maybe get a survey.

I've never seen this go down differently. Filing more tickets isn't going to change this. You want to really change things?

STOP PAYING THEM!

If a few mid-sized customers stop paying them and make a big-stink when they do it, then I guarantee you things will change! Until then, they have little incentive to improve and the big customers have a direct line to Amazon so they can circumvent all this crap. It's up to the small and mid-sized customers to push for change and the most effective way to do this would be to spend your money elsewhere.
Ah, I understand now, thanks for explaining.

I thought they used KVM for some reason... But I guess if they use Xen they yeah, they are stuck with whatever kernel they get.
If you want to maintain your server well and keep the kernel updated against security vulnerabilities, that's a pretty big deal. It would suck to be the victim of a root escalation and have no way of preventing it.
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Well...that's just like your opinion man...

Amazed that people still think that other wide-held opinions can't be valid because one person doesn't like it.

Some people say "computer stuff" is boring. Doesn't change the fact that there are entire huge communities (this being one) dedicated to it.

Different people have different opinions. The inability to comprehend that says more about the person making that statement than it does about the people with a wide-held opinion.
About the Toyota's unintended acceleration (UA) incidents.
From Wikipedia:
"On February 8, 2011, the NHTSA, in collaboration with NASA, released its findings into the investigation on the Toyota drive-by-wire throttle system. After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles.[27] Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents.[28] The report ended stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical." This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats.[29]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...

If this was true, then the self-driving car may have prevented the accidents. If it was really a software problem, then fix the software. It may be much more easy to fix the software rather than to fix human behaviors.
Bizspark does not require you to be part of an accelerator. I've used it with two separate startups without any external funding.
BizSpark requires a 5 minute write up. It's comically easy to get accepted as an individual if you can string together a few sentences.

Azure is so inexpensive even without BizSpark it's kind of amazing to me. Having done startups in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, what people have available now is incredible IMO.</old man>
Yep, you would have to change the settings a bit if you want that behaviour.

Connect to your ZNC’s web frontend, and then go to:

ZNC » webadmin » Edit User [the name of the user you’re editing] » Edit Network [the name of the network you’re editing]

Then checkmark the following:

• awaystore¹ (Adds auto-away with logging, useful when you use ZNC from different locations)

• simple_away² (This module will automatically set you away on IRC while you are disconnected from the bouncer.) [You probably already have this checked]

(This is assuming you’re on ZNC 1.6.1 like me).

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¹ — http://wiki.znc.in/Simple_away

² — http://wiki.znc.in/Awaystore
A bit of googling didn't hit on much, but is there a plan for what happens in the future if this continues to go well? In the same way that ITER would be followed by DEMO then hopefully more commercial reactors.
From tree burials to computer-guided space funerals in Japan's aging society
I think it could be predictability of a self-driving car in an accident that is making people uncomfortable and accident rate does not capture that. For e.g., an accident might means hitting a barrier, a human realizes the terrible situation and will swerve away from the cliff behind the barrier. But what would a self-driving car do? Its sensor might be too damaged to realize the dire consequence.
It's a slightly similar story under KVM in these scenarios. Customer kernels are trickier.
Defer is just not built yet, that's all.
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Actually, Bizspark requires neither. It's a great way to get resources while you're still figuring out what your idea really is.
There are multiple, here is their team:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/about/
Because generating p on the fly is expensive. On the other hand, using a safe prime is fine, even if it was generated by a third party.
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Fat cells are not worn out. When they wear out, they're gone. I guess.
I really like wunderlist, put items in, sort them by rank, go through them one by one and tick them off when you're done.

Also it can sync with your phone which is pretty nice
You meant Matt Cutts? He's still at Google, isn't he?
Yes, I'm very aware of who makes the F-35. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor and operator of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) in Fort Worth, Texas, where the majority of F-35s will be made (all but two to date have been made in Fort Worth, but the other two FACOs in Cameri, Italy, and Nagoya, Japan are now building F-35s). Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems are the other two major players on the team.

And you are not quite correct on who the people involved on the government side are. There are management paper pushers, but every engineering team has government engineers working side by side with their contractor counterparts, and the program has been run that way from the start. They do far more than just "check boxes". They have helped with the design and testing all the way through the program.
Well, you can do that too, but the point is that you have control over what kernel your VMs are running and not the hosting provider. From a technical perspective it makes little difference where that kernel comes from; either you control what kernel you're running or you don't.
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Who gets to say what "too big" is? I'd rather see a healthy energy sector than the continued eclipsing of everything else by finance.

Health care will eat everything now anyway. Medicaid is going to be the real estate purchaser of last resort - if you live long enough to outrun Medicare, the State (not the Federal gov't ) will get your house. No amount of estate planning will prevent it.

High energy prices could be quite useful right now - we'd seen actual drops in measures proportional to carbon being added to the atmosphere. I'd rather see that done in the market than by government fiat. It is just that government fiat takes a couple-three generations to get calibrated.

And I have a really funny feeling about your "at the expense of the rest of the economy". I didn't buy that in the 1980s and I don't buy it now. We're not exactly seeing an explosion on consumer spending.
But they aren't making a profit, not even close
I agree with what you're saying.

I'm not an expert - just learning more about this myself over the last few months, but it sounds to me like the investment style you're talking about exists inside the world of private equity.

They're not playing the venture game - it's a different model. Buy and hold for either cashflow/dividends, or do some financial/managerial engineering and flip the asset.

Outside of the world of Venture Capital, there's a HUGE spectrum of investors out there doing every kind of investment - just gotta tune into it I've found.

(Great place to start is a podcast called PE Funcast - seems to me they've been doing this type of investing.)
I assume you mean Rand Paul; he has suspended his campaign for President.
This is awesome! I wish I learned to code during high school. I can't imagine what level the next generation engineers/developers will be like if they start when they're teens. Limitless potential!
it's analogous to a vlan, and it's not that much work to maintain ACLs if the vlans aren't supposed to talk to each other, which they're not, that's the whole point.
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I can't talk about port 25, but we have 15 mailservers hosted on $5/per pop with DigitalOcean and with properly setup rDNS and SPF including our IPv6 address, we don't see any problems with deliveribility to gmail via subscription port.

That is on circa 600,000 emails per month sent to gmail.
I've found that Colemak avoids this problem for the most part, as unlike Dvorak, most of the bottom row of QWERTY is left intact: http://colemak.com/
I've struggled a lot with having _one_ system that works. The best ones for me are either a physical notebook (Moleskine style or spiral) or a stack of index cards. What's good about index cards over a notebook is that you can lay them out so they're all visible at once, can sort them how you like, and it's easy to dispose of cards when they're used up.

Digitally, I juggle Keep, Evernote and email, so no I never quite trust one system. I wish Evernote had a Keep-like dashboard where you could see multiple notes.
This is what the world looks like with abundant cheap oil, not what it looks like without oil.
If you want a DO competitor check out vultr.com -- I've used them for years and been quite impressed. They seem at least as good if not better and they have some very interesting features like turn-key BGP and AnyCast hosting.

I have no affiliation with them.
Linode, Slicehost (RIP), the cornucopia of LEB, prgmr, DigitalOcean and friends target hobbyists and small fleets. Their model encourages precious snowflake named machines that aren't disposable and last a while. That model also falls apart beyond on the order of 50-100 nodes, depending on admin competence and documentation. (If you are holding 1,000 machines named after stars or authors or something together with sheer will, consider going disposable and ask me for a beer.)

Amazon is playing a whole different game. Azure is there too. There's a middle, too, where Rackspace Cloud is ending up. They were headed for the Amazon game and seem to have lost momentum. Come to think of it, the middle is littered with those with their eye on competing with Amazon.

With Google's default project quotas, they almost fall in that smaller bucket too (I was surprised by the core quota in particular), but the limits are easy to raise, so they're in the middle somewhere as well.

That's how I'd frame this, not necessarily amateur/pro, but it does sort of break that way. Snowflake/disposable is also the sysadmin/SRE inflection point.
Differentially ( IOW, all other things being equal ), higher energy prices favor better environmental behavior.
That's not a flaw in the metaphor. The whole point is that your plans are likely wrong and that the riches go to the ones who execute rather than the ones that spend all of their time on a perfect plan.