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I work for Pivotal and I feel I have some relevant experiences (from which the following personal opinions are derived). I started in Labs, our consulting division, known for being vociferously about XP, Lean product management and User-Centred Design. These days I work in R&D. The latter has been very educational, as we've been involved in building larger and larger systems, with lots of "oh that's what our customers meant when they talked about problem-of-scale XYZ". I know that my own temptation as a Labs Pivot was to imply that customers just weren't agile-ing hard enough; R&D has kicked a bit of that stuffing out of me. As Brooks argued in No Silver Bullet, there is essential complexity and accidental complexity. Enterprises deal with amounts of both that are hard to comprehend. You get some fascinating problems and pathologies at Enterprise scale. As the article implies, nobody ever really intends to create them, they emerge from the system's evolution.

I think the core logic of outsourcing is sound, but it's like many simple ideas: simple, but not easy. It's actually a restatement of economics 101 -- comparative advantage and gains from trade. Even if you are strictly better at doing everything yourself, it still makes sense to trade with others. At Pivotal we often discuss this as "the value line", the point in the stack where, we argue, it is more effective to delegate your technology problems to us (or -- this is how I feel personally -- to a comparable vendor, like Red Hat, over pure DIY) and to turn your own technology efforts towards the things that add value for your customers. Even if you could do a better job than any of the vendors, it might not make sense for you to do so.

That value line isn't static, of course, and it's differently located for each customer. And it remains necessary to retain enough inhouse expertise to sensibly assess vendor solutions. Enterprise software and software development is a complex "experience good". This isn't limited to software, it's true of many complex purchases -- I have a book in my collection called Industrial Megaprojects which contains a fascinating parade of such examples.

All that said, transformation is possible in my experience. The key is, as the article describes, that it takes a long time, a lot of work and a lot of money. It most of all requires enough time for cultural norms to resettle and for trust to solidify. I've worked with companies operated on a fear basis and basically, the best we could do was to create insulated bubbles of agility. We've worked with other companies which have more or less transformed themselves once we brought a spark. Sometimes we will be the true vanguard of a revolution, sometimes we will be the fad-of-the-week that the hardened veterans will shrug and mouth the slogans for while continuing with the actual way things get done. Sometimes, because many of our customers are so vast, we will be heroes to one division and villains in another.

The best that I and my peers can do is to help each client as honestly, empathetically and fully as we can to transform themselves. But, as the article points out, that is hard.
Even the old school banks have their issues, HSBC and money laundering for cartels comes to mind.

Money is power and power corrupts seems to apply too often with this stuff.
They only let you buy and sell crypto, you can't send it anywhere.
How can I improve my ability to read a book quickly?
The way I understand it it's not BGP, it's mostly human error, or malicious intent.

The protocol is fine.
We'll get right on that after everyone has IPv6 deployed.
But I'll bet you know 20 passwords, or more. That fundamental skill is not lost. You're just not getting any phone number practice anymore. You're getting password practice all the time, I'll bet.
> it got it's money from DST Global

So does Facebook, DoorDash, FlipKart and hundred+ other Silicon Valley companies. Revolut also has money from Seedcamp, Balderton, Index and tons of other VCs.

> Revolut is Russian owned and Russian managed pseudo-bank

Since when being a Russian is a crime? Besides if a company is London based it is regulated by UK authorities.

You make it sound like the guy being Russian, DST being Russian (and allegedly having "ties" to Kremlin) is somewhat a red flag. I would like to hear more on the reasoning behind how all that is negative?

Don't Silicon Valley CEOs have ties to White House? Should I not use their products? :)
For what it's worth, Monzo seems to be the only 'challenger bank' that's getting this right. They have the 24/7 in-app chat support that's super helpful, but then also a phone number you can call if you're into that. My every interaction with them as a customer has been fantastic.
Logistical is the least of the issues, the effect on world financial markets would be astounding. Besides the human cost the repercussions to the world would be generational.

Which would be worse, an EU and USA that do nothing in the face of it or do something because of it. The world is boxed and so it really comes down to China deciding if the cost in lives and to their economy is worth it.
I actually like AppImage, even if it is slightly over-engineered compared to simple appdirs. It's a shame more developers don't actually publish them, and that not a single file manager that exists supports displaying their icons.

Still, AppImage is an attempt to bring sanity to the garbage fire of the Linux Desktop. I'd rather have a system that wasn't a garbage fire to begin with.
You don't need to fix the whole org. Just the pieces that are currently bottlenecking the org's mission.

Part of working with large systems is accepting that it's okay if some of the components suck as long as the objective is still being achieved.
8.8.8.8 is google’s DNS, though.
Yes I was a user in the 2000s, I don't remember it being that bad although there certainly were issues.
There’s many successful entrepreneurs with families and those without. I think you are confusing two separate issues i.e. your family and your unhappiness with your work. Family, in whatever shape it takes, always trumps work in my book.

I went-part time a few years back and enjoy supporting my family and pursuing my own work.
Seriously! I have no idea, I assume they can just call the merchant up and ask whose name the tickets were purchased in. I'm pretty sure they won't be in mine, what would be the purpose of that? The scammer just wasted a bunch of tickets if so.

I don't know why they don't just call the merchant and get the details. I tried but they wouldn't give me anything or revert the transaction.

Also, I just realize there's yet another, even larger declined transaction in the GBP tab (after I canceled the card). So the fraudster actually tried to buy even more travel stuff.
Revolut seems overkill for that, maybe try Splitwise?
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Yeah but they just wasted an hour of everyone’s lives trying to figure out WTF was going on at 3:34am.

(The average CF user has no idea what a route leak is, tbh.)
AFAIK OCXs need an installer, though you could stay within the limits of what is provided by the VB6 runtime that is already part of Windows. But it might be a better idea to not do that in the long term as Windows dropping VB6 support is more likely than dropping all Win32 support so at some point you may need to have a proper installer.

Regardless, i'm was referring to single executable cases where you just download an EXE file and run it without the need for some sort of decompressing an archive to a temporary folder (especially considering that most people nowadays use 7zip which has broken behavior when it comes to running executables from an archive: unlike WinRAR it only extracts the EXE file, not any other files the archive may have and the application may need).
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I would also love to see a writeup about low-latency kernels on the Pi, if you've got the time.

Just recently got into audio processing, and I'm finding this stuff really interesting.
I did program one to helloworld over http.
It's almost like products need multiple iterations under real life test conditions before they become functional designs!
There's disturbingly little empirical data there for what should be a very empirical question.
Replace "doesn't care about you" with "doesn't think that keeping you happy is in their financial interest" and there is no loss of clarity. The former rolls off the tongue much more easily, though.
At least the pretense for starting the latest crisis was so they could extradite two murderers _to Taiwan_. It seems to have backfired spectacularly though.
Most of the people I know with that view would be very happy with whole brain emulation, so it's not really about the meatbag.

You sound like you think you reside somewhere other than your "meatbag" when you die? Of course if that was true we wouldn't be nearly this uppity about the whole death thing.
Yeah fair, I'm calculating distance as the sum of horizontal distance + vertical distance which is 7 for both (1) and (5) - but I should calculate hypotenuse. Thanks for spotting this.
In other news: After a 3 week charter to collect plastics from the nort-pacific gyre the Ocean Voyages Institute has arrived in Honolulu on board Sailing Vessel Kwai, with 40 tons of derelict fishing gear and consumer plastics. The vessel came home with room to spare and after more funds are raised, The Ocean Voyages Institute may charter Kwai or another ship for a longer expedition to collect a larger mass of plastic. It will probably be Kwai again, as she and her crew are specially suited to this kind of work; they often load and unload cargo in places with no-where to anchor.

The OVI has been able to collect large quantities of plastic, very quickly, because they distributed GPS trackers to various vessels of opportunity. Such vessels volunteered to attach trackers to any debris they encounter while traversing the pacific, allowing the Kwai to sail straight for large clumps of plastic debris.

The ocean plastics issue is a lot more complicated than these cleanup efforts make it seem. Large debris are just the tip of the iceberg. Microplastics, consumption of single-use plastics, the U.N.'s estimate that 600 tons of netting enter the ocean each year, etc. etc. (I want to emphasize those etc's because this list is quite long)

Restoring and protecting the world's oceans requires more resources and I am honestly surprised how difficult it is to raise money to do the things which are required to sustain human life on earth. Utterly baffled. We launch satellites into space to broadcast 4K boxing to the last mile, but engineering new packaging materials, and zero-waste systems for distributing those packages is just beyond the pale.
The behavior on the site is just an on-click handler, it should be possible to get the exact same behavior on IE6 without even trying much, let alone IE11.

Web devs seem to just use stuff for the sake of using them, not because they actually need them.
I suppose most of those could/should be tested against, and bring back every bug under "assumption bug". But yeah, I agree with you, this definition is not wrong it's just unhelpful
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What is a route leak?
Most ways of preserving your health, for example not smoking, add years to your youth.
It is :( Piraeus is pretty cool, their apps have been convenient. The biggest issue with me is that I can't split bills with my friends because it costs 3 euros and takes a day to send money to a different account, while Revolut makes that use case easy.

Not "1057 EUR" easy, though.
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Malicious intent could likely be mitigated with cryptography. E.g., publishing a prefix requiring a signature from its owner.

Such system would also contain human error to a smaller set of possible faults.
From the way in which the CEO of this company treats he's own employees you can imagine how he will treat he's clients. This company is just toxic, there are other better options that solves the same problem, N26, Monzo etc check them out
Thanks, it does seem interesting!

It seems there is no server implemented yet, not sure if it'll even rely on one. I've almost written mine already so I'll stick to my solution for personal needs.

I'm also making my service a bit more "intelligent", meaning it'll ask conditional questions based on your answers to previous questions. I guess sort of like the author of this thread is planning on doing.
Exactly, I don't understand why we can't do "push" money transfers and we have to do "pull"... Cryptocurrencies have a much better use case when it comes to the transaction UX. I also think some countries like the Netherlands have a "push" system that seems convenient.
Doesn't appear to work for us
And after reading about their work culture, I also don't tend to trust companies that grind their employees down and spit them out. Banking is high pressure at the best of times, but reading about how they work doesn't fill me with confidence in their quality.
Oh fantastic, thank you!
> there is a huge amount of trouble coming for them

Apparently neither the House Financial Services committee nor Senate Banking Committee were given a heads up on this launch. From a government relations perspective, this is a whiff of fresh breeze for those of us advocating for a break-up.
I must qualify what I said by saying that I've found this much harder the more specific I need to be. I could find 0 results for short M3 screws when I searched domestic sellers a few weeks ago. No hardware- or electronic stores carried them. One had them listed with a 3 month delivery and at about $3 each. After that hour+ you Amazon it, without putting hours into finding it in other countries who's languages you don't speak.

Airsoft glasses is something I can find in any mall here.
An unauthenticated protocol that allows unsigned routes to be blindly accepted is not a good protocol, that's why Cloudflare has been pushing RPKI for a while https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki-details/
I'm curious if you considered providing the course using one of the online courseware providers (Coursera, Udemy, etc.)?

Second, no love for Linux? DBeaver and pgsql are obviously available, is there any particular reason that Linux isn't included; or anything in the course that's specific to MacOS/MS Windows?
This is the same bullshit companies like Airbnb and Uber try to pull.

No, the people sit in the Amazon offices. If you sell stolen goods you're lucky if you aren't charged with fencing but you can bet you won't be reimbursed if those goods get claimed. If you sell fake products, you should be held accountable just the same.

Sure, pass the buck up the chain but this should never allow the consumer to be knowingly harmed by an intermediary knowingly enabling the sale of counterfeit items with no accountability.´

Amazon is knowingly allowing fraud to happen. It's a risk they're willing to take and they can get away with it because there's no legal accountability. They could try to curb it but that would impact the bottom line. The only way to fix this is regulation (i.e. laws) and more consistent application of it.

The market can't fix it because there's no market incentive to fix it.
How can you get to 100% renewables using solar and wind? We don't have the capability to store enough energy to get through a few days without wind, especially during the winter months in northern countries where solar doesn't produce much energy.

Nuclear energy may take longer and may be more expensive (not sure that's still the case when you build a few hundred plants), but it least it provides reliable energy all year.
I guess we are in that 3% then!

But 50% of our traffic has gone!

Hopefully you are still working on it!
> You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

—- From the movie Network, 1976
I remember watching Threads for the first time. It is the most hardest hitting movie I have ever seen. I could barely will myself to get out of bed the next day after I watched it the first time. A shocking, shocking but brilliant depiction.
It's not so much that the transformers consume more power than just radiating it into the air, but that Ethernet is not designed with power efficiency as a goal. Ethernet devices that need more power usually get it from PoE instead.

Without doing any analysis at all, I suspect the idle behaviour is a big difference; Wifi goes silent if there's no traffic, apart from AP beacons, but Ethernet continuously transmits "fast link pulses" every 16 miliseconds to maintain autonegotiation and detect connection lost.
Well, same reason why so many people watch playthroughs of difficult games on YT without playing the games themselves. There is a pay off for seeing what you could do if you had the time or motivation to do so.
We're definitely still working on it. Sorry you're affected by this. We're talking with the network providers involved. If anyone from the Verizon NOC is online... call me!
Sorry to hear about your trouble. For me the deal-breaker for Revolut when I was looking at my options was that it's not really a bank, while N26 is (which means deposits are protected up to 100k). So I went with them and have no regrets so far.
Unless it’s a total coincidence, this looks like this is affecting some Amazon services, including Sagemaker notebooks and Echo devices.
I realized that it would be an issue like this when downforeveryoneorjustme.com didn't load either.
I think this book might give you some insight on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
> Because every other large company is as equally inefficient.

I think there are commonalities in pathologies. After all: humans are humans and large enough groups of people will exhibit regression to the mean.

But the exact details can vary so much that I am often reminded of Tolstoy's observation that:

> Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
microHDMI-HDMI is passive, as mentioned by another poster. The issue here is the software - two standard HDMI (electrically) ports can be really well supported by all the software, meaning that it can all be multi-monitor friendly. USB-C uses hardware so wouldn't have the support, see the issues with HDMI-VGA when the first pie came out.

As an aside, they probably went with microHDMI as they're smaller (and hence cheaper in cost and area) on the board, and put less force with heavy connectors. Lastly, many android tablets have the microHDMI connector so they're easy to get hold of (first world anyway).
Definitely got an unsafe ladder from Amazon. Nothing important gets purchased from them anymore.
He does? Can you cite that? As I said, many people believe that people who commit murder ought to be executed, that's not a racist belief.
Don’t be so sure.
> No regular user needs more than this.

These are words I've heard from arrogant techies for decades, yet they are continually surprised to find that people don't use the shit they condescendingly designed for them based on that premise.
On the older RPIs the ethernet was connected via the USB ports, so I understand GP's stance.
> withness US dollars and oil

The petrodollar conspiracy gets causation backwards.

People don’t use dollars because oil is mostly dollar denominated. International trade is priced in dollars because American consumers put lots of dollars in exporters’ pockets. That drives demand for dollar financial products which powers a varied financial services system. (Oil is regularly traded in pounds sterling and Euros with limited fanfare.)
regarding procrssor design, as well as operating systems, couldn’t china simply switch to open source ? (risc-v and linux or android without google services)

It never seemed to me that this ban was a great threat to a country that always had the desire to be autonomous and grow local alternatives to whatever the US is building. It looks more like the confirmation that their strategy was the correct one...
This is great information, I will, thank you!
What today's fiction authors write, with no access to life extension technology, doesn't really tell us anything about what the reality would be like.

It's very rare to find a healthy person - even in their '90s or '100s - who actually wants to die. Many more younger people imagine they would want to die at such an age. I suspect the same will be true for 200 or 400 year olds.
It's one or two cubic meters per person.
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“AS396531 "Allegheny Technologies Incorporated" is leaking a better-reachable route for AS13335 "Cloudflare, Inc." towards AS701 "Verizon Business/UUnet" explaining the current LSE going on.”

https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1143117619106652160
I think the pressure to implement better ROA checking and something like RPKI will be much stronger than the push to IPv6 was if we keep having major route leaks multiple times a year.

Eventually some governments will have to get involved...
Experiencing around 60% traffic drop on customer's sites.
Shouldn't be surprising. All the developers are using 32GB 6+ core monstrosities and thinking everything is fine while doing their part to ensure that the world of computing still will continue to suck for the foreseeable future.
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esp32 is a great way to fill drawers as well.
Please add RSS on your todo list ;-)
Unless you're using Python where exceptions occur every time you finish looping. https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/exceptions.html#StopIter...
Using a comprehensive and a well crafted type system limits the choice you can input to your functions. Drastically. If you utilize the type system right it essentially forbids you from supplying faulty data as input to your functions.

After a large range of (faulty) inputs are already forbidden by the type system you're left to write tests that actually test the business logic. I don't see how this would not cut the required test coverage compared to for example dynamic type systems where virtually any input is allowed and has to be covered by tests.
They don't actually deal with cryptocurrencies (like, you can't buy BTC with them). They just added tickers and let you gamble with the price.
No system failure is ever "human error". It's faulty system design.