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While I disagree with your point of view, I understand that you may perceive things like that. However, the problem is very simple: vast majority of work done in FreeBSD is being done by unpaid volunteers, unlike in case of RHEL/Fedora/Centos and Ubuntu/Debian. The solution to this problem is also very simple: donate money to the project with that particular request. Once enough money is donated, the project can deliver what users like you are asking for, by hiring engineers to work on it. I don't know if you have or have not donated money to the project, but looking at FreeBSDFoundation donors list I can't see rsync.net there ;) So, everything is in your hands!
You don't need a blockchain to do that
The CDN offering is one of the most commodity and portable services available. Plenty of different CDNs on the market that all support any origin.

If you're talking about actually running a global application then that would be a scenario where a network like Google's or Softlayer's does help by having 1 giant VLAN.
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Only low value, commodity items are shipped via rail however.
Trying hard to resist saying this, but all I can think of is "infinite polygon engine" ...
Where can you find targeted list of companies?
How do open source solutions like minio.io on bare metal compare to s3? I don't have much experience with any of those, but it seems like a compatible solution.
It seems to be a substantial number at least. http://www.siop.org/Media/News/office_romance.aspx
I don't disagree with your point per se as I do love working with physical gear, but I do think you're grossly missing the point in places:

> "My take: a single machine (or two for HA) will be enough"

2 bare metal instances isn't HA. Not even close.

> "if you really want to go big separate the web server from the database but that's it."

I would always recommend separating the web server from the database server on anything professional. It gives an easy clear path for scaling sideways (since you've already separated out your back end from your application), it allows you to tighten security (eg only allow access to the DB server from the web servers via the unprivileged DB user connection), it also makes maintenance easier. Even if you're only running on one physical box, put the web server and DB in their own VM or LXC/Zone/Jail container.

> The other day I saw quad E7-4870 (yeah won't win any single thread contest but has 40 cores and 80 threads) 512GB RAM servers for $299 a month, with 1TB RAM for $499. Had a low end 2TB SSD for boot and you could add 8x1TB HDD w/ HW RAID for $40...

I work with both bare metal servers matching your description and both self-hosted and private clouds. Frankly I think your rant misses one of the most important point of working with AWS and that's the convenience and redundancy that the tooling offers. AWS isn't just about single instances, it's about having redundant availability zones with redundant networking hardware and about being able to have disaster recovery zones in whole other data centres and having all of the above work automatically. Getting our self hosted stuff to even close the level of tooling that AWS offers took months of man hours and quite a considerable more initial set up costs. Having to buy at least two of every piece of kit for redundancy, having to have BT lay two dedicated internet links (we have 3 now) just incase a builder accidentally cuts one of our lines and having core infrastructure replicated off site all adds considerably to both the set up time and cost. So yeah, for small businesses and personal blogs AWS is a bit overkill. But you cannot use the "high availability" argument and say "2 physical machines is enough".

Disclaimer: I've worked for clients such as Sony, UEFA and News International as well as many smaller but still sizable national publications. Our infrastructure has consisted of both scaled up physical hardware and scaled sideways virtual machines and frankly I/we wouldn't be able to offer the kinds of services we do nor with the kind of uptime we do without running a fleet of virtualized web servers.
KDE and Gnome are not the only desktop environments available. I use XFCE and am very happy with it, no speed problems at all.
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False accusations should be punished with the same penalty as the accuser tried to put upon the innocent. Until that happens, people will see no reason to stop false accusations that they think will help them.
The problem with using MSAs for this kind of analysis is that it ignores states like New Jersey. Some parts of new Jersey are very highly educated but do not fall within an MSA.
Great minds came up with great things because of 'boredom' and their ability to reflect during 'boredom'. Now, virtually there is no 'boredom' because of social-media. If you think that is good, it is not. It is similar to mindless eating of junk-food, instead of being in empty stomach.
For me the weirdest was the Coliseum I think, I took a few pictures myself then started wandering around, looking at the details, trying to see a little bit of what I couldn't get in history books or Google.

After a while, I started noticing people around me, they ported their phones from each of the more popular photo spots and went on to take between 10-60 selfies with slightly varying angles or facial expressions, upon finishing their session not once did they turn back and looked to see where they were.

Also when going to museums saw a lot of people going from display to display, photographing the artifacts/paintings, sometimes they also photograph the description and they won't actually read it.
Or just reworded it: "I don't think you are not seeing MS's real objective here" is probably what he meant, in the tone he thought it, he just wrote it in a more direct manner that made it seem more aggressively negative.
Thank you both. I've been mystified by this behavior for years. How do I tell when it becomes responsive ? Without trying to type of course.
Not all of us are obsessed with 'avin a cuppa mate ;-)
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I guess you can say it's not needed but then again what is?

Some paper and a pen might solve your business problem but you shouldn't extrapolate that all business cases would be met with those capabilities.

I do think there is plenty of room for private blockchains, but the use cases will be specific to the needs and constraints of the stakeholders.
If you go to see the full results: http://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx , you can see that asian country have a lot of good results. Do you know what the cause is?
If I followed this advice, it would hurt my startup badly.

We would be investing far more time into system operations than I do now thanks to AWS's automation of standard stuff. My hosting bill would increase - partly because we can run on t2.micro instances, but that awfully glib advice about overprovisioning is most definitely asking for trouble; and we'd lose curated services like RDS and OpsWorks - which, by the way, are PostgreSQL and Chef, hardly a "ugly vendor lock" but simply well-designed infrastructure services based on standard parts. Oh, and I'd have to spend more money and time on auditors, because bare-metal providers don't have compliance programmes like AWS/Azure/GCP do. And I've haven't even started to think about securing the resulting systems to the same level I get for minimal effort from a major public cloud.

You're not a dinosaur, no, but these claims don't match my reality, nor that of many other projects besides. This is compounded in my view because you've claimed specific expertise to promote your opinion. Any manager bringing me such a poorly considered and bombastically argued business case would be sent away with an ear bashing about TCO and opportunity cost.
The joke is, Macbooks are dead slow on WPA2-Enterprise networks once you go with certificate-based logins. At home, I'm in the network often enough faster than 1s - at work, up to two minutes sometimes.

I guess that modern macbooks keep the connection alive on the PHY level while asleep... they do have that "backup/sync while you sleep" feature, so quite possible that the chip handling this feature only speaks "normal" WPA2, keeps the connection alive and then after resuming the OS only has to re-check the IP address and does not have to do the full PHY handshake first...
It is crazy to use your real name to comment on stuff. I limit my real name to GitHub, and even there I always try to comment on stuff like a robot would.
The point is that when mainstream ML begins to realize that there are limitations to the current cartoonish representations of neural networks, they then go back to the biology to see what they're missing.

However there are other companies, like Numenta, which realized decades ago that the current techniques will not be sufficient for general intelligence.

Numenta is not trying to emulate the brain like the Human Brain Project, they are aiming to learn the principles behind the neocortex and replicate it in software.

Again, I don't think most people know enough about the neocortex because if they did, we probably wouldn't be so quick to discard the only real example of intelligence we have.
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Not a chance, that maybe, if you view family and community as a value and realize that all those people going to vanish in the hedonistic accid bath we labeled society will not contribute to either, its your right to withold support to this?
Especially if those who turn theire back return to dissolve the livelihood of people without creating a worth-wile replacement?

The fact that these communities basically with education create forces that harass and destroy them, makes the delay in backlash actually quite astounding.
Shouldn't it be fairly similar to the Metal version, which is basically Apple's Vulkan/Dx12? (IIRC Metal is more between OGL and Vulkan, it does more hand-holding and implicit than Vulkan, but way less than OGL)
I have the same feeling, I consider I don't usually need a picture(or a bunch) of a place by itself, these days you can Google better pictures of anything TBH, but pictures of you and the people you're with are unique.
None, since no customer ever asked for it. Much more people are asking for AAX or even LV2.
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It's worth noting that the author just added a license (MIT) to the repo.
Why do you feel the need to go just so you can respond "yes" to someone asking you if you went to X, Y, or Z?

I'm not asking as a criticism, just curious. It sounds like this is what many other people are doing, but perhaps they're not aware of their motivation.
Maybe they should be criminal. Too many people are allowed to buy their way out of consequences that would actually harm them.
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Mm, that doesn't look terribly convincing compared to a real study like this one from Stanford which shows a much lower figure: (link in the article to the full study if you can access it) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/how-m...
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Flash was efficient on Windows only. On OS X anything flash was sure way to make the fans spin.
The critical thing is to give it enough memory.

For a really small team with 6 developers and maybe 3 CI builds per hour, I had to give the Docker container 7GB ram to run well. (not including the CI runner)

It's ridiculous that it would need that much for a small setup, but any less and page load times get very slow.
When economic power begets political power, the state's justice molds to the needs of those with money. Thus, Purdue Pharmaceuticals executives who knowingly misled doctors about the medication OxyContin, causing the explosion of opiate addiction that kills 50,000 people per year, were not even sentenced to a day in jail, but rather paid completely affordable fines both personally and as a corporation. My empathy is with the victims of those kinds of crimes that the powerful have had rewritten into misdemeanors, not with the perpetrators.
Very good list. Some additions:

Hot Air Station: YIHUA 650W. Avoid fakes, they can be dangerous!

Multimeter: Extech EX330 DMM

Soldering iron: if you can't get the Hakko, the Ersa RDS80 is decent.
On a similar sized ssd I'm saving a good bit of space with compression, have benefited from snapshots and rollback, and zfs send beats rsync by a mile for backups.

You might want to look into these and other benefits I think it's worth it even on single disk setups.
If I have a musikcube server running on my network, can I stream music from my web browser to it?
I wish that people making this argument would learn how much of the modern web was first brought to public by Apple.
You may be surprised, but:

"There are also more trucks operating in Europe than there are in the United States, with 63 trucks per 1,000 people in the EU — compared to only 21 trucks per 1,000 people in the United States." [1]

The USA uses long distance rail freight far more than Europe, where the railways are full (i.e. at capacity) with passenger rail. That's in spite of much stricter controls on driving time.

(I think there's also a fair amount of water transport in Europe. When I moved house from England to Denmark, my belongings were transported on a ship across the North Sea.)

[1] https://www.theglobalist.com/america-and-europe-keep-on-truc...
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The thing I like most about TS is interfaces. I use a single "options" parameter for functions whenever there are a bunch of parameters, and having autocomplete for it makes life so much easier.
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> I could imagine several people in computing alone that might end up inventing three different fields.

I'm curious, who would those be?
And "Mattress Girl".
I see this a lot and never quite understand it. Code structuring to me seems more like a craft, something that is improved through experience and wisdom and not abstract rules.
Zfs on funtoo here. Seems to be working well and since all funtoo installs are manual its not much different from any other install.
When Isaac Newton was old, he used to give his visitors a lock of his hair in a small gold case, because he knew, and they knew, that they would be museum pieces one day. He was right, I saw one of them in a museum. I don't think any living scientist could confidently do that today.
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Although it won't give the same social protection, chewing a gum is a ritual for me and helps me relax. I started this habit after seeing it on the show House of Cards and to my surprise it is really effective for me :).

I think you can always say that you need some fresh air and go out.
Case law defines each of those points. This elaborates more on that:

http://coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf
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Sounds like Musk has been reading the 1997 book written by my old Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg)... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Machines
Very nice idea!
There are successful defamation lawsuits, even for public figures. For instance, radio host Art Bell succesfully sued Gunderson and Michael Savage for Libel/Slander though these lawsuits were settled out of court.
"...using it as an argument advertises the fact that you view women as prizes rather than as people."

That's an interesting and incendiary interpretation. Do you know for a fact that this person views women as prizes to be won or are you perhaps ascribing more meaning to the comment than can reasonably be inferred?
I never once said that liberal coastal lifestyles are the best way to live.

What I was getting at is that the more educated people feel stifled in communities that disregard rational thought process.

People out there are good but they have very little proclivity to critical thinking and desire for educated neighbors.

An example is that they'd rather segregate the poor out than actually work towards building an educated society and uplift the unfortunate.
You've hit the nerve there.

OpenGL has so much implicit state and "defaults" set for you that you can get a "hello world" -style app done really quickly, but then it all falls apart.

And if I'm guessing correctly, you probably used legacy, fixed function OpenGL (ie. no shaders) with immediate mode rendering (glBegin/glEnd). Because you can't do anything in 10 lines with modern OpenGL.

As soon as you start doing something practical, you start fighting OpenGL all the time. It's a badly designed, very error prone API that requires much more developer effort than any of the competing APIs.

If you apply best practices to OpenGL code (don't rely on global, implicit state, use shaders/buffers/etc) , it's about on par with the "lower level" APIs.

My OpenGL boilerplate code and my Vulkan boilerplate code have about the same number of lines of code in them while they do about the same things (create rendertarget, framebuffer, clear the screen, draw some text, draw a triangle, blit to screen, measure performance counters). OpenGL is a bit less by a small margin, but the difference is only in the verbosity of Vulkan code (ie. you have to explicitly type every single pipeline state, even if it doesn't matter, e.g. depth test mode when depth test is disabled).

In my opinion the bottom line is this: Vulkan is verbose but OpenGL is complex. I'll take verbosity over hidden complexity any time.
Not currently; the only client right now is a native Android app[1]. However, the server[2] uses vanilla HTTP (for audio) and WebSockets (for data and eventing), so it should be relatively straight forward to build a web frontend.

[1] https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/musikdr...

[2] https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki/remote-api-documen...
I've used both, and like Paint.NET for more complex work, but both have too much UI clutter for the simple tasks I mentioned...
I think long term stability is more an indication of your competence as a software engineer than flex builder's stability.

not bashing flash/flex though, my first job was making educational flash games. I wish I could be as productive and have as much fun when working in html and js.
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> OK, this is not that hard

Actually. It really is. It really is. You can't brush the enormous complexities of life, human perception, self-image, misunderstanding, varying life experiences and social norms under the carpet with a wave of the hand.

It really, really is hard for normal decent human beings to get this right even if you don't throw bad actors and out-and-out sociopaths into the mix.

The problem is that sexual harassment does exist. But so does horrific misunderstand or outright false accusation. The latter two are probably an order of magnitude less common than the former but they are potentially life-destroying and shouldn't be brushed aside.

Also - it fuels the crazy men's rights types and lends credence to their sense of persecution. If you vacate the center of the debate then the other side will claim it.
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Huh. I grew up very poor -- there were months when the bins behind supermarkets were a primary source of food -- and I've seen rough-sleepers die from exposure. It's hard to reconcile that one could make a "simple neutral comment" about something that, for me, is a very real life-or-death issue. But I accept that was your intention.
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> Women get sexually harassed or assaulted much more than they fabricate allegations for personal gain (and note that this is not what happened in this case), as a woman rarely gains from making allegations, either true or false.

I don't understand the logic here, are you saying that men gain more from sexually harassing women than women gain from falsely accusing men? I think you would have a hard time finding a man who would be in a better position if he just started sexually harassing women.

Edit: Note that I believe that honest accusations are far more common than false ones, I am just criticizing this explanation.
Ahh, looks like you're right. Seems nobody ever tries to get boys into the girl guides, frankly it seems a bit unfair that there is basically nowhere boys can be boys.
UK Scouting is fully non-gendered for all ages; see Scouting for All and the Equal Opportunities Policy: http://scouts.org.uk/about-us/key-policies/equal-opportuniti....

UK Guiding allows girls and young women, but fully supports gender self-identification:
https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/making-guiding-happen/policie....

Scouting and Guiding in the UK are refreshingly progressive organisations. Source: current Scout leader.
>I gave one example of many of the ways in which we absolutely do restrict the rights of the entire population to engage in voluntary interactions to preempt crime.

Yes I can see how you interpreted my comment that way. I meant we should not do that. In writing it, I was thinking along the lines of "you don't do [some unethical thing]" as a normative statement, not a description of what you don't do. The wording I chose doesn't make that at all clear, so your interpretation is understandable.

>We limit the types of contracts that everyone can engage in, to prevent a subset of them that would be used abusively.

Like I said: A court will void contractual provisions like this, based on a comprehensive body of case law that establishes what constitutes consent. This is a universe away from what you're defending here, which is a federal agency prosecuting individuals because they entered into some investment transaction without 'permission' from said regulatory agency.
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