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Fuel injected motorcycles don’t have reserve (at least, none that I’ve seen.) instead they have low fuel lights or full fuel gauges. I’m guessing it’s because the fuel pumps are in the tank and the fuel injection system needs high pressure.
The wild logistics of getting a giant cargo ship out of the Suez Canal
Not sure if that's possible. Some quick Googling told me a typical 40' cargo container has a capacity of 30 tons, but the largest commercial cargo helicopter (the Mi-26) can carry only 22 tons.
VME support was broken on Ryzen for a while before a microcode patch came out. The VME instructions are a relatively obscure, and originally Intel proprietary extension, to i386's virtual 8086 mode. Introduced in the 90s to speed up DOS virtual machines under OS/2 and NT, I think.

I don't know much about how stuff is implemented these days, but virtual 8086 mode involves some page table muckery and similar. Surely implementing it creates a larger exposure area, from a security standpoint.
Comedy option, what wacky cold war era aircraft do we have capable of lifting massive loads like a container ship? Perhaps an enormous fleet of Chinook helicopters could take it straight up?
Define crash of a "system"?

Kernel panic? some user process you deem essential stopping?
^ Direct comparison of CoScreen.co vs Screen.so and ScreenHero (RIP)
Glad I wasn't the only one that found the indented paragraphs made it difficult to read.
I don't think VC's care about patents, they care about risk. A patent without any money behind it isn't a risk. A company that isn't making money to steal also isn't at risk. But if you have money, and the patent holder has money, then let the legal fireworks begin, and as a happy side-effect, the patent attorneys get to pay for their kids' college, and maybe an investment property or two.
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The set of people who need to know the root cause of a problem but aren't familiar with reading logs seems like it might be pretty small. I find that as a developer I only need something that a few times and then I have a sense of what log messages mean what. This seems like it might be valuable for a tech executive to get a quick feel for why categories of errors are occuring, but I would generally have someone compile and summarize that data for me.

Like most people, I love the idea of ingesting large amounts of data and making it readable. I guess what I would want, personally, is more like a gpt-3 powered stackoverflow search where I can put in an arbitrary cryptic error and get a human readable, root cause based explanation. This is a very interesting use case and I hope they continue to develop it.
Twitter link:

https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1374803809696817154
"Quarter mile" is a linear dimension. What is the width?

If you had to estimate the volume of earth in that 'quarter mile', and then estimate the size of an excavator bucket, and the capacity of a dump truck, and the availability of all those things at any given time (even if you ship them in), you'd soon realize that just digging out that earth will take more time.

On top of that, there's going to be FLOW in the canal - what will your diversion to for erosion, pressure on the locks, etc.

You risk damaging the canal itself to deal with a temporary problem if you think you can just 'dig around it' in 5 days. My bet is you've never seen how long it takes to plan something with this much risk involved.

This isn't software, you aren't going to Agile it away if you screw it up.
Postgres lets you write directly to block. In practice, nobody does this though.
I’m not a copyleft person myself - I prefer Apache 2.0 style licenses - but I have so much respect for RMS and everything he’s accomplished, and I find it laughable that we can’t agree that he and his organization have been insanely effective.

If I can speak casually for a second I have no doubt that if they oust RMS they’d replace him with a diversity hire who simply is not singlemindedly focused on free software enough to actually fight like they need to. I think it’s really easy to underestimate the extent to which being absurdly logical to a fault and incredibly principled is critical for success in RMS’ position, and that’s what he offers warts and all. You don’t have to like the guy, you can think he’s a dick, but can we at least agree that he does mot have a track record of being malicious and at least half the controversial things he’s said aren’t even unreasonable they’re just the things you’re not supposed to say
The only "embedded database" option (HSQLDB) requires the JRE. I don't know if this holds true for the "connect to an existing database" options, but I would rather throw together a Python script using SQLite when it reaches that level of complication. (It uses my existing knowledge.)
It does legitimately seem like you can do tremendous damage by derailing a few ships in the right spots. Bringing bombs or other small ships or something else seems doable for a terrorist organization on the face of it.
Yes, I’ve visited that page before today. I admit my familiarity with these DNS setups may have made the tradeoff jump out at me. No problem invalidating the complaint.
Suez canal is 24 meters deep. i count 9 iso containers stacked high on the deck (an iso container is 2.59m high).

Smit will be making bank on this.
Just to throw some numbers out there, last year the canal grossed ~15 million USD/day in revenue from the toll charge.
Perhaps most importantly: the channel is only a couple dozen meters deep, which is part of the problem. Dropping a bunch of containers down there would almost certainly create a new obstacle for this and other ships
> I've been doing a lot of hosting management and such. And there is one constant: all unforeseen issues are unforeseen.

I work in hosting too, and have been for a long time. I feel ya.
It's a lot of containers.
I was aghast when they killed Reader in order to promote G+. It was obviously the kind of "strategic business" decision that I would only expect from a failing organization, which changed my view of Google.

The organic, 'bootstrapped' way forward for Google would have been to carefully expand the social features of Reader, which had a large loyal following. Instead they forced it to stagnate then sacrificed it upon their stupid G+ altar trying to copy Facebook years late. SO lame.
They hired a company specialized in this kind of stuff (Boskalis), but as their CEO mentioned of TV it depends on how stuck it is. If you're lucky, pumping out the fuel and ballast can make the ship light enough to drag it clear with tugboats. If that doesn't work, you might have to unload some, most or all of the 20k containers from the ship to make it light enough. It can be done, but depending on how much is required it'll take a few days to a week to get the required equipment all the way to Egypt.
The trick is to do exactly what they tell you not too immediately.

Masks don't protect against covid - jump on Alibaba and buy some.

Don't buy extra toiled paper, there will be no limits on its sale - immediately do a order on amazon prime. Because within a few days there will be price caps on the sale of TP (increased prices would deter hoarding) so everything will sell out right away.

I think people have really learned this by now - as SOON as the announcements come that there is nothing to worry about and they won't do price caps or other things, they will be doing exactly that soon.

Places like Alibaba do seem to continue to function - masks are maybe 50 cents per mask instead of 5, so folks buy a lot less, but you can still get a few for $5. Same with TP, it's not dirt cheap per roll, but you can get a few.
Those excavators are there for show while they try to figure out what to do. There is absolutely no chance that 2 guys with excavators are going to dredge out enough of the canal to free the ship, and the canal authorities know this.

It there was even shadow of a chance that that might work, then every single excavator in Northern Africa would be on it's way to the canal to dig it out and free the ship.

In fact I'd say that if there was even a snowball's chance in hell that that would work, China would be airdropping excavators into the area as we speak.
I noticed a weird thing here.
All the regular pasta rapidly disappeared. Rice also was gone.

But "Gluten Free"(I am a GFer) pasta - in this case, pasta made from rice - was fine!

I amused myself with the idea that people:"would rather starve to death than eat that GF crap." :-)
With both paper certificates and NFTs, their worth depends on the issuer. The NFT craze is stupid, but as you point out, coupling real art with a NFT certificate is a really neat use case for NFTs. A NFT minted by an author and/or a reputable source such as an auction house can act as a unique, impossible-to-duplicate certificate that helps claim ownership of some real-world possession.

It's a given that at some point this will be tested in a court, with favorable results.
For real. Why haven’t they just mobilized hacker news?
2021 Suez Canal Obstruction
The human-readable text is very nice. However, these are not Root Causes:

* The root cause of the issue was that the Jenkins master was not able to connect to the vCenter server. ==> Why was it not?

* The root cause was a drive failed error ==> Why did the drive fail?

* The root cause was that the Slack API was rate limited. => Why was it rate limited?

These exampled from the article may be human-readable errors, but that doesn't make them root causes.

To have a root cause analysis, try asking Why five times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
Somebody just have to come up with a good idea.... IE: blow up a boat load of C4 on the side of it...
Many new bikes come with a lot of rider aids for safety (ABS, TCS) as well as all kinds of electronics (fuel maps), so this is changing. But of course manual transmission won't go away until bike are electric.

I am one of those who likes things old school. My bike still has a carburetor, has no fuel light or tachometer, and I have certainly had some practice reaching down to turn the fuel petcock to reserve while sputtering on the highway. If they didn't intend for me to do that, why did they put it on the left side? :)
You have to do it, not imagine it. I didn't imagine I'd sell my car when I moved to my current house. But seeing the bus every day while I drove for a few months convinced me I ought to at least try it - two months later I sold the car that I hadn't used in a month.

Sadly I have to move.
One thing that many Linux/Unix users do not know is that all commonly used filesystems have a "reserved" amount of space to which only "root" can write. The typical format (mkfs) default is to leave 5% of the disk reserved. The reserved space can be modified (by root) any time, and it can be specified as a block count or a percentage.

As long as your application does not have root privileges, it will hit the wall when the free+reserved space runs out. Instead of the clumsy "spacer.img" solution, one could simply (temporarily) reduce the reserved space to quickly recover from a disk full condition.
Slack warning/ticket at 75%, page at 85% (to oncall obviously). Don’t let user workload crap into your root partition. I’ve been doing this for over 10 years and managed many thousands of nodes and literally don’t recall full disk problem unless it was in staging somewhere where monitoring was deliberately disabled.
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I hate that you’re right. What is it with people flagging as an uber downvote?!
Volume is ^3 of the linear size. To get a clear picture of how much it is do this:

- launch minecraft in creative mode and make 40x40 pad of steel blocks, 1 block high. You should do it in a few minutes.

- now do a 40x40x40 cube. Good luck for the rest of your day.
Based on the information on Wikipedia, it sounds like the ship could potentially hold more than 20,000 containers. Assuming I'm understanding the article correctly, that'd be a lot of containers to move 1-by-1.
This gave me a good laugh.
Oh my god who is driving this thing?
>Some people have suggested unloading the ship. I don't think you realize the infrastructure required to unload a ship. You're basically asking to build a port in the middle of the egyptian desert. That isn't going to happen.

I think you just need a smaller crane ship to transfer the cargo e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_crane_ship
An entire fleet of tug-boats seem unable to move the ship. I don't think tanks would fare much better.

The proper solution is probably (?? I'm not an engineer, just spitballing here) a system of pulleys. See Archemedies and The Syracusia: Archemedies allegedly moved a ship powered only with his own muscles using only a system of pulleys as an assist.

I realize that the Syracusia is probably smaller than this container ship in the canal. Still though: a system of pulleys is probably cheaper and stronger than what a team of Tanks would do.

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They're at least in a situation where there's a ton of land nearby that can serve as an anchor point. I mean... the problem right now is probably just figuring out where and how to safely pull the ship. They need to apply hundreds-of-thousands of tons of force in a way that:

1. Won't break the ship apart

2. Successfully dislodges it

Its a relatively simple problem to apply hundreds-of-thousands of tons of force. But doing it in such a way to keep the ship floating... that's the hard part.
I'm also just speculating but my understanding is that there is already a lot of money behind this and that it simply takes time for companies specialized in salvaging ships to physically get there with their equipment and also develop a solution that works.

I don't think more money would make those companies work faster and I don't think there is some reasonable alternative solution available other than using these companies.
Just get people who know what they are doing to sort it out.
Kind of amazing that in 48 hours, an event happens that threatens one of Egypts major income streams and political power sources, and the maximum they can spare is 2 bulldozers...

Like why not call in the army, rent every bulldozer in the district, and within 12 hours you'll have 30 on site and be able to move a lot of sand quickly to free it?
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I disagree, but in I hope in constructive fashion.

1. it is a whole movement, and sadly there is some evidence that malicious state actors supports its growth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

2. There's some good evidence to suggest that aggressively driving trolls and their ilk is the most effective strategy against unwanted incursions: https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/

3. The basic problem is that lies ('marshmallows are literally the spawn of Satan and if you eat one a devil will grow inside you') spread faster than truth and require more effort to debunk than to create: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

A serious problem is that trolling is really quite highly refined, and for people who enjoy it, great fun to participate in; your loss (of composure or time) is their (emotional) gain. Perhaps 30% of people are wired this way.

Debunking (qua PR/information warfare strategy rather than scientific peer review) is not as well developed, and you thev the basic problem that making a logical argument often requires educating readers, which is time consuming in its own right, and may be counterintuitive. The 'truth sandwich' proposed by Lakoff and others is only effective to the extent that people trust the person making the argument. So Tony Fauci can pull it off because he has been doing public health epidemiology for 40 years, but if he died tomorrow it would take time for other public-facing medicos to establish the same level of credibility.

It might be that there are better communication strategies than burying skeptical readers in facts and adversarial debate: https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154289

...but bear in mind that these are extremely labor intensive and only work when all parties approach the issue in good faith and a sincere desire for the best outcome. In my view, when you are dealing with malicious actors who originate or deliberately amplify bad-faith discourse, it's better to marshall a broad spectrum aggressive response.
If it's fully loaded, that'd be something like ten thousand 40' containers to move.

Hooking them up to a helicopter would be a slow, dangerous process as well.
When I wrote that I was under the impression that the brainfuck interpreter implementations were the only benchmarks in the repo. There are, however (I now realize), also benchmarks for base64 decoding, JSON parsing, and writing your own matmul (rather than calling a BLAS matmul, which is not generally recommended), so this is more reasonable than I thought but still a somewhat odd collection of tasks to benchmark. Of course, microbenchmarks are hard — they are all fairly arbitrary and random.

In a delightful twist, it seems that there is a Julia implementation of a Brainfuck JIT that is much faster than the fastest interpreter that is benchmarked here, so even by this somewhat esoteric benchmark, Julia ends up being absurdly fast.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585042
It has something like 20000 containers on it. Even if helicopters would lift a container off every 10 minutes, it wouldn't make any meaningful difference.

Also, you can't do the maneuvering they were trying to with the tugs at the same time you're doing something like that, unless you want to kill someone.

Unloading such a ship to empty would take a long time even if it's in port facilities under many cranes.
Yes. I notice that the two Maersk freighters behind the Ever Given are no longer there. It looks like all traffic has been cleared from the canal on both sides. Zoom out. The north end of the Gulf of Suez looks like a parking lot. So does the Med north of Port Said. So does Fayed, the lake in the middle of the canal.

Smit, the big Dutch salvage firm, has been called in and already has their first heavy equipment, a dredger, on site. "Days to weeks" is all they'll say. The good case is that they pump fuel and ballast water out of the ship, plus some dredging, and it floats free. The not so good case is they bring in a big crane and start unloading containers. The bad case is that the ship is partly sunk and will have to be patched and refloated. The really bad case is that the hull is so badly damaged that the ship has to be cut apart in place.

Meanwhile, shipping from China to Europe is now US$4000/TEU. Usually it's around US$1000. China's "Belt and Road" rail plan may pay off.
The biggest choppers in the world can only lift about 20 tonnes. 20 foot containers max gross is 25 tonnes, and 40 foot containers even more.
I'd be amazed if the density of weight on the ship is such that an arbitrarily large fleet of Chinooks could actually safely accomplish this. And helicopters flying in a dense formation under strain is quite likely to result in a lot of really big problems.
> they could just start pushing cargo containers overboard and fish them out until it's light enough to move

Light boats are less stable. One of the few that could make this situation worse would be the damn thing capsizing.
Note that he didn't say overpaying, just paying. It is true that in all organisations (including those associations), as time passes, professionalisation progresses, headcount raises, administrative and secondary tasks develop; and self-preservation, self-replication become a goal of its own. There is a whole range of people (I don't mean leaders or managers, but bottom/middle people) who make a career in all those non-profits, para-public and semi-public associations (all of them living mostly from subsidies), hoping from one to another. At least it goes like that in my country, it has developed a lot in the last 30 years.
Extrapolating from the 2014 extensions, building a 2nd backup canal would cost >$8B.

Considering it earns $10B/year to Egypt, I don't know if this short downtime will justify the cost to them.
Unicode lets you record the data but does not address the societal problem of record keeping in a way that all staff can use.

British Columbia has a very large population of Chinese speakers. If you allow multiple language script for every language you would still need a transliteration in English or French, since they are the common denominator languages. Same is true to for Cyrillic, Arabic and Korean, all of which are well represented in modern day Canadian society.

Some years back the City of Richmond BC was having difficulty in the fire department because they could not identify the names of some local businesses that called in because the signs were all in Chinese script. :)

Not sure how that has been or was actually rectified.
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Unloading is feasible, it would just take a couple of weeks. They just need a floating crane on each side and some barges to take the containers away.
It's not really irrational or some behavior that they'd change if they did introspect. I suspect a significant portion of these people are internally like "Yeah, I'm part of the problem now, but the problem is not going to go away if I don't join in on it, I'll just get screwed."

In other words, they understand game theory and tragedy of the commons.
Thats.. almost literally unbelievable. I almost want to suspect that that's a code name? For any sufficiently large ship that blocks a major waterway? Incredible.
"We should take the ship, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE" :D [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sTNLdNhuE
I would use SQLite on a single-machine web server. However, I prefer to build my web stuff as stateless machine images that connect to a separate database instance, because it lets me scale them independently.

I should revisit this policy now that you can run a truly huge site off a 1U slot (I work for an alexa top10k, and our compute would fit comfortably in 1U); computers are so fast that vertical scaling is probably a viable option.
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And as a bit more context, the cranes that are used at ports are capable of moving 60+ tonnes[0] - physics becomes a bit of a problem when your crane is a lever..

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_crane
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I did a casual browse of the repo and likely keep overlooking the windows 7 build.

Hoping you could point out how to build it or where it is hiding.
At the same time, there are real benefits to having a phone call. It's like having waitstaff at the table. You can confirm if an entree comes with rice, or ask if it contains a certain ingredient, ask how big the portion actually is, etc. A lot of times when you click "Orange chicken" on grubhub you are shooting into the dark with what you are expecting. Having to do some private eye work on yelp to get a picture of an entree is no fun.
It has a 20,000 container capacity, so if it's full and you could unload them at a rate of 1 per minute (assuming multiple choppers) it would take 2 weeks with no stopping, but I assume the frequency would be much lower than that so you're talking possibly months to unload even a fraction of them.
The rotor wash beneath it all would be breathtaking.. and might blow all the water out of the canal. :)