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> the heat shield ablates for Mars trips but not Earth trips (not sure why).

I suppose the reentry speed on mars is much higher, since it happens at the end of an interplanetary trip.
Ansible internally abstracts all its SSH bits into a 'connection plug-in', the initial goal is implementing another one of those. So with one or two extra lines in ansible.cfg you will get a much faster Ansible, with no other changes necessary.

I've no desire to replace Ansible, I'm just sick of wasting hours waiting for it to finish
Also there is zypper, the package manager of OpenSUSE and SLES. That's where I first heard about this usage of SAT, around 10 years ago.
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Has anyone ever used the FM radio in their phone? I did once but got tired trying to orientate the phone and the headphone cable in a position to get decent reception.
Fair enough then! :-)

Surprised it’s cost effective to mine with commodity desktops and retail power though. ;-)
I don't get the obsession with defmacro vs syntax case. Defmacro can be implemented in syntax case in about 10 lines, whereas the power of syntax-case is very much non-trivial to implement in CL.
What makes you think so?

Are our efforts of colonizing space a detriment to our efforts to keep earth habitable?
You have conflated cause and effect here so much it is hard to untangle just where you diverged from reality, but the 1984 ad was not as important as you think. It ran once. Once. It became important as an icon later, but "everyone" doesn't remember how the commercial made them feel because most of them didn't see it. The Mac was, at the time, such a marvel of hardware and software engineering and so radically different than what was available at the time that it almost sold itself. You probably could not have picked a worse example to try to make the sales vs engineering case.
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Ah! Cat1 modules aren’t actually shipping yet with VoLTE in volume. Manufacturers are sampling them, but as of June weren’t shipping yet. Expected by year end last I heard. Maybe you have better sourcing, but that info makes more sense now. I’d love to pick your brain more, if you’re up for it, my contact info is in my profile.
I don't need help understanding how the analogy to car automation is wrong, I get that. I gave it as an example of how automation did not reduce prices.

The 'good faith' part which the responders are failing at is badgering me to accept their explanations of car manufacturing in place of farm automation. I accept their explanations but it does not help me understand this:

Why does the GP think that agricultural automation caused the decline in prices?

If I again get a response talking about cars: I don't get it. I don't understand. I can't work it out. I need help to see the connection. It doesn't make sense to me.

Please, help me understand instead of deriding me for not accepting an explanation about car manufacturing as an substitute.
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Boats already stop rockets from taking off somewhat regularly. I think a lot of people would be pissed off if they couldn't sail off the coasts of many major cities on a daily (or even more frequent?) basis.
You could just delay a flight by 4 hours and still arrive 5 hours earlier than if you had taken the airplane...
Sounds like most are single moms too. In more socialistic countries we just give them other peoples money.
I used to use mine every day at work. Was frustrating to find that my Galaxy S7 doesn't have one (or it is disabled) - though a little portable replacement was inexpensive.
Why would it be in their room. We have all our computers in one room, our family office. A shared, social environment.
This article is misleading to say the least, and the issued a statement doesn't even link to anything relevant. Summarily clickbait garbage.
With increased technology comes more liberties for all. With your kind of thinking we would still live in caves because why work on anything unless we solve all our social issues first?

Progress is not made by politicians, it is made by engineers. If you want clean water for all humans, you should be supportive of discovering new stuff.

For example, for humans to survive in hostile environments on other planets we need to create new innovations and that creates a big incentive to figure out technological solutions to hard problems.

Turning salt water into drinkable water is one, this one is actually already solved and being implemented across different countries and if we can improve that and make it cheaper we will have solved the problem of water already.
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I don't believe that you can do justice to Snow Crash in just an hour. Its going to be visually great, but with all the complexity and depth stripped out.
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Money isn't always the primary factor.
We're talking terminal (not GUI) editors here. If I fire emacs on macOS there's no menu displayed by default. If I connect remotely on a Debian machine, the menu is there but mouse reporting is not working. The help, if started by itself, vanishes at the first keypress (on macOS), which makes it really easy to skip the C-x C-c part, and uses the emacs-only convention of C- instead of the well known ^ for control (although it's explained right there), thus doubly easy to miss. I can see how newcomers would be turned away from it.
The tame version is Big Falcon Rocket.
Yes, like with this.
But as I understand with OCR you should be connected to the internet, I would like to have app working without internet.
I understand how rewriting the wheel to thoroughly learn a new language can be exciting, but please avoid the “betterism”. No, just because you’ve rewritten something in go doesn’t mean it’s better, it’s just a case of building your little space where you can claim cred.
It requires a modified setup, but you can set vim up to open multiple unsaved files in a single process. Not splits ir windows, but buffers. I have bindings set up to quickly do :bn and :bp and :bd. Your tmux usage sounds like mine, and if you did not know that there was depth to vim buffers this may be valuable to you.
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Thanks a lot, you have explained this very well. Being able to explain something this well and so understandably means you really understand what is going on too.
What problem are we trying to solve here ? And I don't mean the work around for whatever the other hacky application's flaw. What value does this give me?
>I meant arbitrary-precision, i.e. 1/3 instead of 0.333333333, is this what you mean?

No, more like having in mind the precision you want and multiplying with that (scaling your number, so to speak). But that's for fixed precision -- it just gives you access to decimal values. (You could emulate arbitrary precision in software too, but it would be way slower).

>You'd lose precision during the calculation operation, right?

Yes, but that's the case with FP too. You can't just use floats for financial calculations for example.
> but the bare minimum container that does something useful in practice is rarely less than 100 MB in size.

I’ve made containers using code written in most common programming languages (python/go/ruby/c/rust/heck even PHP/etc) which were easily under 100mb, most significantly less. If your containers are frequently >100mb, I say you’re either using the JVM or are doing it wrong!
Some don't have a helping hand and/or cannot follow the instructions (most of the time low quality) and/or don't have the patience and/or have a screw +/- left at the end and/or etc...
I havent played in this space for a year or three, but isnt this basically what everyone is doing for fixed port boxes? The os and routing daemons run on a set of low power xeons with a "bunch" of ram (RIB). That pushes forwarding down to the tomahawk et al asic (FIB). Unknown flows are punted up to the os, and possibly a remote controller (SDN). I thought this was already given inside the DC fabric, and becoming established for interconnect.

The places for the traditional giant carrier boxes are, and probably will be, wonky interface/proto/feature support beyond eth & routed IP.
I'd rather like to have a snarky SC drone (if that's not a tautology) voiced by Peter Capaldi in a detuned Malcolm Tucker mode. The Scottish accent would, of course, be appropriate...
I guess that's just how it works in present day capitalism though there might be a gap for some new laws and court system that could assess damage to the public and fine the directors something based on a guess of their responsibility even if you can't really prove who's fault things were. I doubt the odd injustice of someone not quite guilty losing a chunk of their assets would worry people that much. Like in this case you could fine the ceo say $90m even if he only has part responsibility for the breach.
I cannot help but be skeptical about these series. Amazon should leave it to the other producers that are popular in this field.
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Back in 2000 I was on a team of eight, digitising a freight system. (Handling about 50% IIRC of all foreign air freight to and from Sweden.)

For a "parcel" of goods, I counted 17 paper copies of the same shipping form, being sent to and fro. Back then IATA also used a custom text field format instead of a standard XML format I think they use now.

So while this was a long time ago, I too expect shipping to be fraught with lots of weird edge cases.
Most radio stations have streams available in much better quality than FM. Why choose FM over streaming ?
Actually they are the only one owning them because they need them

They live outside the cities where housing is more affordable but there's no public transport
Split view was actually one of the things that initially hooked me with emacs many years ago. You can split any number of times and resize, it works in GUI and text mode, and it's instant.
The International Astronautical Congress doesn't come with multiple sonic booms per day.
no worse than dropping an airplane on a city
To your specific question: no, I don't think a transistor radio would require certification unless it was somehow RF emissive.

On a broader level, making things without the FCC is fine unless you start disrupting communications networks; selling them is a different issue. In reality, all of this testing and certification is done by independent laboratories and the FCC mostly just makes sure the compliance paperwork is in order.
It makes it... less than ideal. And I don't believe we have good massively parallel synthesis approaches currently. Overall writing is problematic (reading also, but is getting cheaper/easier).
My parents, who do small-scale construction and decorating, get non-trivial numbers of enquiries about fixing people's poorly-assembled Ikea furniture.
I loled.

But they wouldn't qualify for the "in programming" part.
Remember the goal is a multiplanetary species. Earth is a part of the multiple planets.
XAML designers can be used just like Forms for those purposes.

Dropping elements from the toolbox into the form, setting properties and code-behind event handlers.

No difference here, there is no need for MVVM over-engineering if the requirements are basic as you say.

With the advantage that XAML layouts are much easier to work with than TableLayoutPanel.
Pet peeve: when talking about a new programming language in a technical context, show some code!

But the super-long page of course doesn't, and neither does the Wikipedia page [1]. Also the CODE-tab on the P4 site [2] fails at first glance ... getting frustrating but I bet the site is the right place to dig. Hang on ... Aha, it was on the front page! THANK YOU, P4 web people!

Here's a snippet, then:

table routing {
reads {
ipv4.dstAddr : lpm;
}
actions {
do_drop;
route_ipv4;
}
size: 2048;
}

control ingress {
apply(routing);
}

I don't know anything about large-scale network programming, but at least it's nice to get a hint of the concepts that the language deals with. Makes it more concrete, to me.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4_(programming_language)
2: http://p4.org/code/
Sure, but the set of rules applicable to one-off hobbyists are different from commercially manufactured/mass distributed electronics.
I used it a lot on my old Nokia brick in the 90s and it was very useful. I listen to radio a lot on my phone via the BBC Radioplayer App these days, I would certainly welcome being able to listen to the broadcast signal and save some data.
Can't read the article, but for the folks in London or around in the UK, you should check out this company, they organize events to promote repair culture and workshop (also as company events) where experts will teach you how to fix common problems: https://therestartproject.org/
Not on an unlimited data plan?
> good SciFi

Sure, but this stuff is trash. Fun to read!

I wish they would instead do a miniseries adaptation of the German Ijon Tichy show, or an original Pirx the Pilot.
he told a few jokes that bombed. tough crowd.
This plan sounds much more sensible than most of what I've heard from Musk before.

Especially the intercontinental transport part. That is a real business use-case, potentially very lucrative. I also suspect that could get quite a few more billionaires excited (after all they spend a lot of time in private jets and I'm sure they'd like to cut that time off) which could help raising more investment.

I don't believe there is much to do on mars or the moon, not much that would make economical sense anyway. But intercontinental transport? That could work.
Indeed - reopening closed lines seems to be very popular here in Scotland - the Borders Line from Edinburgh being the most obvious example although there are others.

I enjoy my commute by train into Edinburgh from Fife - not least because it means I get to go over the Forth Bridge.
> Progress is not made by politicians, it is made by engineers.

It is very easy to forget that high-tech engineer is a species that only thrives in politically stable countries.

Standing on the shoulders of giants is not only about your predecessors that solved engineering problems so you can dive even deeper - it is also about society which found better ways over time for effective financing that allows science&engineering to happen.

Also please read (for example) about Samsung and Nokia - they were forced to change industries by politicians in their respective countries.
>not only does it give less information than the specification

That's generally considered a plus (if not a sine qua non) for a simplified explanation, and the larger the specification, the bigger plus.

Else, one might as well read the 100s of pages of specs.
This is how I've always felt about presentations, not just by Musk but anyone who presents candidly. Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Bill Gates also present more or less similar characteristics. They don't prepare/rehearse for the talk. They are thinking on the fly, but they are still confident. This natural behavior is what makes listening and watching to these people so gratifying.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
Does ECHELON ring a bell to you?

I don't believe every computing device ever is exfilling the amount of data you describe, but I'd be very very surprised if it weren't an option for nation level actors at the flick of a switch.

Screw minecraft, all I need is access to your USB/ethernet controllers and that's not remotely difficult.

I believe your threat model is flawed if you don't assume any existing known vulnerability isn't being at least passively used to surveil remote systems.
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FreeBSD also doesn’t break the ABI on major versions.
Just curious, did you file a bug report for this?
Linux does, yes. MacOS and BSDs do not. (Neither does Windows - but so far as I can see, Go doesn't try to invoke the NT APIs directly there.)

Stability is guaranteed on userspace API level - e.g. libc. So well-behaving apps are supposed to just use that, and let it handle syscalls. But Go doesn't.
>why the downvote?

Because MB don't matter. It's about the experience it offers (e.g. as a better nano for early users) or doesn't offer.

Nobody cares if Emacs is only 3MB more -- it's not an argument for "just use Emacs then".
Calling them an idea person is, I think, unfair. The idea is the simple part. It is taking this idea to market, getting people to implement it, that is not easy. I'm not saying the implementors deserve the level of credit they get, but reducing the organizers to simple 'idea person' is somewhat disingenuous.
ExActivity, simple async db logging for your webapps, in Elixir
This is our first stab at a Elixir library and our very first OSS contribution! We hope it can be of use to anyone, we are using it ourselves in production.

We created the lib because after 10 years of developing PHP apps we had settled with a structured way to gather logs from our apps, in a database. We really liked this setup, so we ported it to use in our Elixir/Phoenix apps.

Feedback is welcome!
>Emacs has a GUI with icons and menus and tooltips and all that.

Which is still nearly useless without knowing of lots of Emacs arcana.
>The advantage of Nano is that it is written in C, has zero required dependencies other than libc, and the compiled binary is 200 kilobytes.

The advantage for whom? Surely not the user.
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>>> C is itself a massive dependency

the C standard library?
I used to before mobile internet and music streaming were as ubiquitous as they are today.
So really it's a branding problem?
It’s physically impossible to do a significant part of all the must-do things in the world, especially once you include places to see.

I used to try to catch up, and feel anxious about not being able to, now I’m just trying to take my time and enjoy, whether it’s reading, coding, watching or gaming. The wonderful thing about so much choice is that you never have to read a bad book, or see a bad movie, or play a bad game.
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If I remember correctly, that was one of the "killer features" of WordPerfect back in the days, something WordStar didn't have.
My phrasing may have been unclear: by "You could definitely get, e.g. gate area down vs. AES or ChaCha without sacrificing sane block/key sizes" I mean you can make ciphers that achieve gate areas lower than AES's or ChaCha's without sacrificing decent block/key sizes. ("Down vs." was not the clearest; maybe it sounded like "down for".)

As you note, and as I mentioned above, some standards processes have already picked some ciphers meant to be better for constrained environments than those two. The ones I know about (as a nonspecialist!) still use higher parameters than smallest versions of Simon/Speck. PRESENT, accepted by the same committee, has an 80-bit key and 64-bit block, for example, and eSTREAM has its 80-bit hardware profile. That's the "smaller primitives that still have sane-ish params" I was talking about. The smallest Simon/Speck variants go lower, and seem like skating too close to the edge to recommend and standardize, even if there's somewhere they're the right/only fit.

After posting the comment you replied to, I found a PDF from IAD that suggested that the 32/64 block/key size was never going to be submitted to the ISO committee because they have a minimum key size of 80 bits, and 48/96 was canned out of technical concern about the 48-bit block. (Posted it as a self-reply (a...great-uncle? of this comment), because it was too late to edit.) What they wrote actually makes dropping the weaker versions sound a lot less contentious than the Reuters story does, though of course it's one party's version of the story. And the continued pushback from some countries to the 128/256 versions clearly has other causes.

If you mostly just want to dunk on me, I'm sure I've said something wrong here, but not wanting to standardize very low parameters at least isn't the same as just not being aware of lightweight crypto.
Here is my solution.

https://github.com/tjdavies/copal

Its basically the same as Redux in intent but nicer to work with. It even supports the redux dev tools
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Well you can throw static builds of useful go programs which can very well be smaller than 100MB on docker scratch images. :)
I think I'm going to stop reading any article about what it's like to run a company, until I actually create and run my next one.

Does anyone feel like reading articles has reached a point of diminished returns?
I started perl because of extending nagios in the 200X years.

Then I started to write fast hacks with it (iptables to excel, monitoring to Jira, parsers, cron's, etc) really useful for daily needs at $job.

Then I started to write web dashboards (Catalyst and first Dancer releases, ok the first one was CGI) with EXTjs and jquery frontends. My team mates did find those dashboards useful.

Last years I've work with AWS and other APIs (i.e. vmware apis), doing more modern web applications using perl (and twitter bootstrap, JSON web tokens, Oauth, swagger, etc) and it did the job.

My hobby project is a lottery predictor using perl, sometimes I get more refunds than when I did use random numbers... still not rich :-)

Usually, the language is not the barrier (if it provides standard basic needs, like web frameworks, library bindings and ORMs). The programmer is the barrier.

If you can glue SSH, State, Metrics, DataWareHouse, and HTTP (API and frontend) you can do devops.

This talks about devops and perl, so now I would like to point to Paws!

https://github.com/pplu/aws-sdk-perl#trying-it-out

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/hello-perl-developers...

I can say that at least one person (me) has been successful, bridging operations and developers teams, using perl, until the present.

You just need a couple of frontend and API design skills, and then people doesn't care about your backend, while your service is useful.

Articles about this, always mention TIOBE... I never did care about it, I just put my effort in getting my job done. I care more about teammates congratulations.
Listening to Radio in FM uses passive reception and dedicated chip, and thus has probably much lower power consumption.

Not having WIFI or 4G available is also a good reason.
If I am flying a rocket plane and my normal landing site has bad weather what does the rocket do? Maybe they can have robot boats all around the world to catch them!
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In the long run, countries which have fast tech adoption and strong logistic infrastructure will probably be the ones that will advance the field the fastest. It's exciting technology, but I so far don't see a lot of people using it in a practical way. We may be seeing China as the forerunner of blockchain technology, since there's immediate business advantages for their (enormous) manufacturing and logistics setup.
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What happens if the container isn't running?