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I work in this industry, so I've been following it from the start. I've run test cells and written software to analyze the results from the emissions cycles that the government uses to validate the emissions compliance. I have worked around and for a very large diesel engine manufacturer who I am convinced does not cheat on this test. You'll understand why, below.

I recently leveled-up my career, and I now work with the person who originally setup such testing at this manufacturer, and one of the two people who literally wrote the spec, which is one of the most thorough technical documents I've ever laid eyes on. These are 2 of the highest-caliber engineers I have ever met in my 25-year professional career, both in terms of intelligence and capability, and in terms of integrity and trustworthiness.

This quote from the article pisses me off: "What I understand now is that the people we entrusted with the power to protect us essentially decided not to bother. Instead, they have allowed carmakers to spew whatever they want into our air." Really?! The government commissioned the spec. The government mandated that engine makers make their engines comply, and validate this compliance with internal testing. The government then paid independent testers to validate the manufacturer's results.

Excuse me, but what more did the author expect the government to do? The regulators entrusted this process to expert engineers, and expert testers. Did the author expect people who could invent the spec and create a test cell to do the validation to go to work for the EPA directly, and do the paperwork, instead of the engineering? Did they expect them to escrow the code, and validate that there was no cheating? Possible, but, again, you're asking a very specific skillset to give up DOING, and instead REGULATING, and that doesn't usually work.

The fault of this scandal lies -- of course -- with the manufacturers, but the fault also lies with the legislators. To control diesel engine emissions within the spec requires an array of very expensive after-treatment components. That can work in the class-8 heavy trucking industry, but you can't even fit it into a passenger car, let alone make it affordable at gasoline car prices. To think that cars could use diesel engines, be cost-competitive with gasoline-fueled alternatives, AND pass the ridiculously-low emissions standards that lawmakers have arbitrarily decreed was simply wishful thinking.
Yeah, I'm with you. For example I'll never be a great skiier, and I'm content with that, but at the same time in fact I derive a fair amount of enjoyment out of the simple process of trying to get better.
I empathize with being mad at this subthread, but, respectfully, I think you're aiming at the wrong guy. Because, rhetorically, "you aren't even supported by your own source" is pretty powerful.

Also keep in mind that troglodytes like the racist in the room exist to waste the time of decent people. Doing actual research to beat on them means that they win.
What happens is people get caught make a big mistake and become humble.
Or just mount the config map as a file.
Is the air lighter? Why is it lighter? Does that mean it is missing features? Makes zero sense to me.
So did the recall all those failing 97% of 250 car models in the EU?
> Around the same time that Grace’s cancer recurred and we began chemo anew, my former partners informed me they believe I cannot devote the time necessary to care for Grace while being a valuable contributor to Bolt

Wow. What a short-sighted hostile move, and especially disgusting given the US Healthcare system. Shame on them.
Was on pololee's team as well. We were all crushed because the team was only a few months old and were we just all getting to know each other well.
Absolutely amazing, that someone connected to the civil war in that way is still alive.
similar story with charting.
Historically slavery has certainly been term-limited in numerous jurisdictions. And private prisons certainly can, and do, trade away problem inmates.

You are dimly correct in that it is not identical to every other form of slavery practiced historically. But it's close enough for me--and I can only speculate as to your motives for splitting this hair.
(Rancher employee) All the software is free to use and open source (Apache 2). Customers run the same software that's on GitHub/DockerHub.

We sell "enterprise support", which means something like "starting at mid-5 figures", and occasionally professional services engagements around/outside the product.
It's taken pretty seriously internally. All new hires at most offices receive day-1 "Customer Obsession" training. I know this because I got certified as a trainer for that class just this week.

There are some cases where I think we've failed at it, speaking for myself and not the company of course, but the concept is still the driving force behind a lot of what goes on. "Start with the customer". Amazon Go is a pretty big recent example where the company is really proud internally of the customer obsession that went into it.

Bias note: I've been an Amazon dude a long time now.
Somebody better tell the fcc then!
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yep, during the day you don't really notice cause VPNs work etc but once it gets to night, everything stops working
> The relevant question is the degree to which memory errors remain a significant source of bugs in modern C++ code.

That's easy to answer. They do. Any look at a CVE list for a browser will confirm this. These browser engines are, by and large, written in a modern style.

> Are they now of mainly theoretical importance?

No.
Perhaps best described by the Gervais Principle (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...)
>> It may be useful for some companies to think about competitors. That's why I didn't phrase it as a general rule. In particular it may be useful for more established companies to. If a startup has to, though, they're probably doomed.

Back around the mid- or early '90s there was a management theory trend of working to identify institutional best practices and of formally benchmarking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmarking institutions against peers (often competitors). I don't recall much detail about it at all, because I was only a teenager at the time and I only heard about it from the summaries you'd see in magazines like the Economist. But what I do seem to recall is that (like many another management-theory trend) it went through a phase of red-hot excitement to widespread skepticism and moderate disillusionment, and partly for the obvious reasons: benchmarking competitors usually can't on its own deliver much insight into how to outperform the current leader in any given area, and doesn't usually offer much of an insight into future opportunities or challenges. So (it seems) even for established companies there are limits to how competitor-focussed it's usually advisable to be.

(AFAICT—and again, I'm just someone who read about this stuff in magazines as a child—this kind of management-theory/theory-of-the-firm study and experimentation really was much more prominent in the public eye twenty-five or more years ago, and has faded from popular awareness since; maybe because the work itself is less common, and less influential on institutions, nowadays too. I think that's a pity, because it seems relevant to some supposedly-new things you see generating excitement nowadays, especially in the vicinity of the tech industry. For example the whole Valve structureless-or-notionally-structureless-organisation effort is probably pretty well prefigured in the work of a generation of management consultants who looked at and tried out all kinds of institutional structures or absences of structure beside the traditional corporate model, generally in pursuit of much the same ends—more innovation, more amenability to change, better decision-making—and with similar mixed-to-disappointing results.

That's all for now kids. Next week, the X-Files. ;) )
just another provocative post title by someone wants to bash something he has no clue about
>2. Political dysfunction could cause the U.S. government to default notwithstanding its ability to print money

This risk is likely also going to be true for the Dollar, so bonds don't carry any more risk than USD in this regard.
I want my tarpit to endlessly repeat "your mother is a whore" in Chinese
How does Heroku and other managed services perform updates that might contain breaking changes? Or do they only perform minor updates or security updates with no breaking changes?

My biggest fear with managed hosting and managed databases is being given too short of a window before they update.
> You can't buy and sell them. You don't have them indefinitely. When they reproduce your don't own their offspring. They get sentenced to this servitude by society's justice system, not captured through conquest or purchased from foreign lands.

All of these individually are features of historical systems uncontroversially identified as slavery. The particular form of penal slavery at issue may be unique in combining all of them, but I don't see any coherent argument why that would make it into not-slavery.
I've seen claims that VW's whole diesel emissions and engine control subsystem was actually contracted out to Bosch. But VW execs knew about the software defeat device.
It's definitely correct and I have seen this info multiple places, but I don't have a second source at hand.
If it could boil water, could one use it for generating electricity or even as a part of a steam engine of sorts?
This got me curious about existing solutions that might be technologically adjacent. From poking around a bit I see that refrigerated shipping containers have a standard known as "reefer socket" (yes, seriously) for which suitably large/rugged distribution units exist, but they seemingly only provide electricity and not connections that could be used for water/sewer (some containers are described as water-cooled, but it's not clear to me how that works).
Novosbed+Coupon+MarchMadness+Savings
"We can’t tell you the name of the company that’s the latest—but certainly not the last—to join that list. That’s because despite our repeated efforts to alert the company to the leak, it has yet to fix the problem or acknowledge our request for comment. Because the leaked data violates the privacy of hundreds if not thousands of people, and because that data is still very easy for anyone to find and access, even naming the company publicly could lead bad actors to it."

If even naming the company would "lead bad actors to it" then so will publishing this article. I imagine the list of companies making "consumer-grade" spyware that "markets itself mostly to parents" and whose domain is registered through GoDaddy with a "Gmail address" for the "site’s administrator" is relatively short.

I don't think they should have published this before it was secured.
It depends entirely where you are. Here in Maryland I’m getting over 200 mbps down on an iPhone XR: https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/3160011117
If you're hiring a "devops engineer" whose total responsibility is cloud touching, sure. You're right.

But where is that actually the case and your app can run comfortably on Heroku?

At multiple jobs I've been the only person who could credibly claim to understand the entire stack used at the company, from the web frontend to the OS the backend database runs on and the person to whom teams would come to validate their designs for scaling and reliability. I didn't write product code in those roles. But I multiplied the effectiveness of the people who did.

Heroku is a wonderful tool that doesn't get you the actually hard parts of the job req.
Not really. PHP is not awful. It powers much of the web because it's actually good at its job. What's your programming language of choice? I bet you will find ample, justified criticism of it too.
Seems a little disingenuous to compare it to those hashes, which have very different guarantees re: hash collisions as they point out in the first section. Seems like SIP would be the better point of comparison, unless I've missed something.
How do you manage to work during the night? External internet gets throttled so much that trying to load pages like Gitlab take minutes and a simple `git pull` can take 5 minutes. All VPNs stop working and even obscure sites like payment providers and Slack seem to only run at around 5kbps. I'm guessing it's not normal for people to work outside of 9-6?
This is good for bitcoin!

I have no justification. I missed the 20k bandwagon and wanted to participate in a “meaningful” way.
People can't have locks on their doors if their home isn't built up to Western building codes?

The OP was talking about "I'm beginning to see a case for loosening some construction rules to make true low-cost housing available to more people". My actual real world experience living in a developing country that doesn't have US- or European-level building codes (which you dismissed from your comfortable arm chair in a rich country) agreed with the OP.

Building codes are nice but they are, to a large extent, a luxury good. Rich people/countries can afford them. Poor people can't. They act a barrier to entry for having a home by increasing the cost.

Take GFCI electrical outlets. A GFCI outlet costs about $10 at Walmart, whereas a non-GFCI outlet costs about $5 at Walmart. For the average American that's a trivial difference. For the lady down the street from me, that's an entire day's income. Upgrading all of the outlets in her small house would take a week's pay.

The introduction of GFCI outlet's saved ~600 lives a year in the US (population 300,000,000).

Would you give up a week's pay to avoid something that only has about a 0.002% chance of happening in your lifetime?

I guarantee you that not having GFCI outlets doesn't increase the chance of burglary or rape.....
> Of the three white guys I referred, two were hired. How's that for unhealthy?

I feel like you're trying to turn this into a race or gender issue when that isn't necessarily relevant. Like your boss said, maybe he really does just prefer to hire Americans and the race/gender is irrelevant to him.
> >2. Political dysfunction could cause the U.S. government to default notwithstanding its ability to print money

> This risk is likely also going to be true for the Dollar

It can't be, because it doesn't apply to the currency, which while it is structurally created by creation of debt is not a debt the government is obligated to pay and on which it can fail and default.

> so bonds don't carry any more risk than USD in this regard

Even if there was a default risk in the dollar, bonds necessarily have more risk since they are fully exposed to every risk to the currency they are denominated in and also their own default risk, which even if the currency had such a risk would sit on top of it.
I was searching for this and it seems like Harvey Mudd has had some pretty good success in increasing the percentage of women CS graduates: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-harvey-mudd-tec...
From what I know about pg and Jessica, they would have no interest in starting a rocket company - even if they had infinite resources.

Figuring out how to get the smartest people in the world working on important problems (like rocket companies!) is way more their style. And they’re having incredible influence on that even in “retirement.”
the pension is older than inflation based monetary policy in the United States
I work for an occasional competitor. Heroku are legit.
Swoole is awesome. We use it in production as does tencent. Documentation needs a bit of work though.
I'm talking about race and timing conditions between multiple machines. It's a lot easier to just log the various points to find the ordering of things for these kinds of conditions. As long as your clocks are closely sync'd, it's easy to merge the logs together to look and see what multiple machines are doing as a call flow.

Of course understanding the root cause is the key to fixing any issue.
I'm simply saying that modern C++ is not safe (and it will probably never be). If you write C++ at scale, you need to accept that you're going to ship memory safety bugs.

I've said many times there is a legitimate reason to write C++. If you understand you will be shipping memory safety issues, but the advantages of C++ outweigh the memory safety issues that you will ship to production, then I can't argue with that. I've seen game developers argue as much, and that's legitimate! Maybe, for your use case, memory safety problems really don't matter (or don't matter enough to outweigh C++'s other features). But it doesn't do anyone any good to sugarcoat the fact that C++ at scale virtually always ends up with memory safety problems, and while there have been many mitigations there has been no effective solution so far.
A lot of people could easily get away with only ever using the free tier.

Like other commenters said, you can also start a new meeting after that 40 minutes is up. It's great for 1:1 video chats as well.

Screen sharing also beats slack and webex with quality, as well as the ability to only share a portion of your screen. I've been getting fed up with Slack's screen sharing because it always looks so compressed and terrible (even though screenhero was great.)
What parts of Kube did you find yourself reinventing with ECS? It’s not the most complex microservice setup, but I run around 60 services over 3 ECS clusters and have found it pretty easy and solid at this point. Only real pain point we’ve had was the limit on Awsvpc mode service per ec2 instance—never have figured out why instances are limited to just a few NICs.
Does that mean you believe the decision to ground 737 max 8s is incorrect?
Why? Even my small, middle-class suburban neighborhood has AT&T fiber: it's cheap, fast, reliable, and available in most places where people would be interested in such a fast connection. What's the issue?
They usually get bad screens in that segment. The last 8" Android tablet that I would consider good was Huawei MediaPad M5, which is 8.4" 2560x1600.
I find that in Kubernetes I do a great deal of tedious boilerplate work. Sometimes I just want to run some damn software and let the platform do the boring stuff.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we have a hand in a few such things.
If you're going for Heroku because of its simplicity, I don't consider the alternative to be "spend an hour reading about Kubernetes" (and presumably many more hours when I have to troubleshoot it next week). I'm not touching Kubernetes or Docker or any of that.

Even on AWS, I can deploy with one short command, and it's much cheaper than Heroku.
So many businesses failed before which relied on SEO. This one could go really bad if Google pulls the plug.
It's about the color of the phosphorus in old black and white tubes. Doesn't matter if it was static or not.
Unlike WebEx and some others, Zoom has a Linux client that's not terrible. It'd be nice if it just worked with webrtc though...
Journalists do it all the time so you obviously can[1]. Google is less white than the US is and journalists talk about their diversity problem. The definition of white is shifting as has been obvious for decades[2]. Asians are white when convenient and not when not.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/google-diversity-problem-in-...

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Can we put a moratorium on articles about graphene until it can be produced at scale?
Documenting Britain’s Changing Climate
How many times can Silicon Valley be wrong about cars?
I realised how old these articles were when blindly preferring C# or Perl over Java was listed as a thing that "expert beginners" are likely to do.
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/stack

tl;dr: You get a few choices of Ubuntu LTS releases, which they maintain for a long time (currently they still support 14.04, now nearly 5 years old). Or you can push Docker images, at which point the underlying OS is squarely back in your court — technically they must be applying kernel patches, but Linus is fairly religious about not breaking userland.
I feel so old because to me OCI means Oracle Call Interface, their DB client C API. I guess nobody cares that it may confuse people like me.
This sounds fun:

"Watching a movie can be a raucous affair - films are translated into local languages such as Luganda by VJs, or video jokers, who add their own jokes and improvised commentary, live."
The government. The government has been funding Oracle from the start, and it's never stopped. Who do you think the NSA and CIA use for all of their data storage and warehousing? It was the FBI that started this mess, and it's the rest of the government that continues it. Ellison often comes off as untouchable in this stories, and that's because he is. He made it possible for the spooks to build "Echelon" 30 years ago. God knows what that's morphed into now. He's a hero to them.

Yes, I'm being purposely sardonic, but only a little.
Reeks of Yelp all over again.
I think CRDs are mostly going to be a quagmire. It's Wordpress plugins all over again, if Wordpress plugins could also affect the OS kernel.
If there are parts of America as lawless as Brazil and Mexico you need to re-evaluate your priorities. Giving those people guns and wishing them the best is just horrifying. Figure out how to repair the situation instead. Mad Max wasn't meant to be instructional, you know.

I'd also suggest your opinions about America are pretty divorced from the realities on the ground.
Musk says SEC wrong at every level
Or you store legal files on your gdrive that Google thinks violates their policies and bans your account.
I found the example to be very clear. What exactly are you confused about?

Here is the summary from the GP.

>[An inverted yield curve] often indicates that investors think a recession is around the corner. The reason is that investors are betting that the prevailing interest rates will drop. If interest rates drop, then future bond purchases may have much lower interest rates than those bought today. It turns out you might like the idea of getting 2% interest for 10 years rather than 2.13% for 5 years and then 0.5% for the next 5 years.
How hard would it be to automatically derive such maps from textures? After all, they are already drawn to visually imply that with shading, so wouldn't it be possible to e.g. train a model to extract that information, just as our eye does?
> I've never done graffiti in my life

I think maybe you adopted the voice of someone else in your post, then, and it didn't read in an obvious way.

> I'm sorry you think that what I did to your stuff trashed it, but I think I enhanced it/everyone else thinks I enhanced/I didn't think you cared?

> No harm no foul; like, if I set fire to your building, no one thinks that's harmless or acceptable. But if I paint something on your ugly outside wall, why would anyone be up in arms about that on your behalf?

The "I"s in there make it sound like you're very on board with destroying property, so yeah, I was definitely trying to make a case against that mindset.

I don't think it's a mindset a lot of people have. They draw subjective and somewhat arbitrary lines between "art" and "vandalism", and when legality is indeterminable, that line probably has a lot to do with "whether I think it's pretty or not".

I guess I'm not sure what kind of graffiti you're advocating for. Public murals? Those are pretty cool. But the parent you were replying to also called those out as being great, so it seemed like you were making the case for more illegal, less well-meaning forms.

It sounds like either we're misaligned on exactly what kind of thing you're talking about, or maybe we all agree that a certain very pretty, fairly legal minority is relatively harmless.. If your first comment's words aren't your actual views, I don't feel the need to talk it to death.