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> It's the ecosystem.

Definitively, and situations like the Broadcom one IMO just underline that as a company you should never ever get your core infra locked into proprietary vendors' ecosystem, as that is just waiting for getting squeezed out, which they can for the reasons you laid out.

> Your outsourced VMware-certified experts don't actually know that much about virtualization (somehow).

That should be a wake-up call to have some in-house expertise for any core infra you run, at least as a mid-sized, or bigger, company. Most projects targeting the enterprise, like Proxmox VE, provide official trainings for exactly that reason.

https://proxmox.com/en/services/training

> * Your backup software provider is just now researching adding Proxmox support (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/22/veeam_proxmox_oracle_...)

Yeah, that's understandable, one wants to avoid switching both, the hyper-visors that hosts core-infrastructure and the backup solution that holds all data, often even from the whole period a company needs to legally save that.

But as you saw, even the biggest backup player sees enough reason to hedge their offerings and takes Proxmox VE very seriously as alternative, the rest is a matter of time.

> A few years ago you 'reduced storage cost and complexity' by moving to VMware vSAN, now you have a SAN purchase and data migration on your task list

No, you should rather evaluate Proxmox's Ceph integration instead of getting yet another overly expensive SAN box. As ceph allows you to also run a powerful and near indestructible HCI storage, but avoids any lock-in as Ceph is FLOSS and there are many companies providing support for it and other hyper-visors that can use it.

> * The hybrid cloud solution that was implemented isn't compatible with Proxmox.
> * The ServiceNow integration for VMware works great and is saving you tons of time and money. You want to give that up?

That certainly needs more work and is part of the chicken and egg problem that backup support is (or well, was) facing, but also somewhat underlines how lock-in works.

> * Can you live without logging, reporting, and dashboards until your team gets some free time?

Proxmox VE has some integrated logging and metrics, and provides native support to send to external metrics server, we use that for all of our infra (that runs on a dozen PVE servers in various datacenters around the world) with great success and not much initial implementation effort.

So yeah, it's the ecosystem, but there are alternatives for most things and just throwing up your hands only signals to those companies that they can squeeze you much tighter.
I met him while I was studying at Berkeley. Not only he helped upend the long-held notion of "rational economics", he was also a great person to meet!
That only works for copyleft licenses. Even with Antirez' original work fully available under BSD, there is nothing stopping Redis Labs from adding new code under a proprietary license.
Because their labor costs nothing. I took these minibuses a lot in Ukraine, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Russian Far East and Kazakhstan. The cars work and aren't entirely unsafe, but I bet none of them would pass western technical and emission inspection. They fix it themselves using scrap and they keep it running for 1M+ km.
Yeah, but ......

How do total sales today compare with total sales back around the late 80s?
>By operators exploiting themselves because of only coarsely tracked costs and low level of reserves.

Let's also not ignore outright gang/mob style affiliation of minibus transit organisations that will then also actively sabotage government public transport on their post profitable routes.

These private entities in the third world fill a role, but often are also rent-seeking and carve it out for themselves from a government without the willpower to A) build proper public transit infrastructure and B) defend it from bad actors.
Tesla comes back to Facebook, sending cash into Zuck's pocket
I Love Google Docs [video]
Los Angeles NOTION for invite list to film, tv, music, fashion mixers. Also includes resources for business and legal information. Organized in a wiki format. Long-term project to create artistic communities and safe spaces for artists utilizing digital tools to bring people together in real life.
I think the Peter Principle actually doesn't apply to hyper competent people because we get the "You're too valuable in your current position" treatment and therefore aren't given the opportunity to rise at all.

By some interpretations, it sounds like it means that people who are incompetent used to be competent before they were promoted into their current position... But in fact, because the super-competent candidates are locked into their low positions, it ensures that the pool of candidates who are selected for promotion consists mostly of moderately incompetent people... Kind of like "I like this person and they are OK in their current position but maybe if we promoted them, we'll get that spark going..." But, surprise surprise, they never attain excellence.
> you often find independent minibus operators zooming around town, carrying ~20 passengers each, offering in aggregate a very good public transit service, charging a few coins adding up to barely more than the fuel cost for the bus.

NYC actually has an analogue to this! (Had? I’m not sure how many of these routes survived covid)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_...
While the game is in early access we're going to have one tier, priced at around $8.99/month. Later on we might introduce a cheaper starter tier with all the base functionality, and a more expensive one with the more advanced coaching features.
> Interesting thanks for sharing. Surfacing this in the UI would be great if it works well for sure.

That's on the roadmap, from the original forum post linked here:

> Q: Will other import sources be supported in the future?
> A: We plan to integrate our OVF/OVA import tools into this new stack in the future.
> Currently, integrating additional import sources is not on our roadmap, but will be re-evaluated periodically.
Why is that a better fix? Transit also has externalities (pollution, congestion, noise), just fewer than cars.
How will you take care of your personal safety ? Harassment/Assaults/Muggings/Slashings are becoming rather common in the subway there right ? There appear to be several incidents reported weekly - and these are only the ones that get views.
Won't happen. Just like Cheney, Bush, Blair and Howard were never tried for Iraq 2003.
All the Mediterrean countries have it.

It used to be quite common to get software at street bazaars, and during the 8/16 bit home computer era, even the "original" stuff bought at computer shops were hand made copies of tapes and floppies.

One of the "jobs" on the Demoscene groups was to distribute new material.
Thanks for the feedback, although the app isn’t released yet so you should at least give it a shot once it’s out.

I do try to strike a balance between flexibility and ease of use. I think Notion is too complicated (yet very flexible/powerful). With Plume, the focus is to be able to organize your thoughts in a powerful way, effortlessly. Sign up to the waitlist and try it once it’s out. Much more is coming soon.
What Dutch city looks anything remotely similar to NYC? There are very good reasons to drive into NYC for many people, due to density - much more people have much more diverse needs, and need much more workers moving around with their equipment and much more goods.
Efficientdet gives almost acceptable performance for security cams on an i5 if you only decode keyframes, I wonder how many NVR channels it could handle?
Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70
I hope they didn’t store the literal rate, but only the selected product id, in the session. Otherwise, you could just modify your request and set a low rate…
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them
Cosmos Persona – A fun personality quiz
Smaller farmers generally work hard for small margins. They are easily mobilized by the big agricultural companies that hide behind them.

Whatever measures are taken should, in my opinion at least, focus on the highly automated mass polluting bio industry and subsidize smaller, eco- and animal-friendly businesses instead.

The massive food surplus clearly leaves plenty of space to trim down a bit. The resulting CO2 decrease might even allow a few new houses to be built.
I'd go further:

"Use checklists." - @AtulGawande

There, now you don't need to read the book.
It's a chronological distortion to say that the peace process was stopped by the second Intifada. It did not start until after the breakdown of the peace process.
ooh where do I start... Let's see:

1. Every single gradle script is a unique snowflake of mishmashed plugins and custom functions

2. Gradle likes to pretend it is declarative, but as people very quickly learn it really isn't.

3. The one thing a build system is expected to do is be reliable in face of changing platform version, libraries and plugins. But gradle, being built on top a language on top of JDK itself has a Compatibility Matrix[0] that one has to be aware of. Often when upgrading a project you have to update JDK and gradle in explicit order, sometimes multiple times.

4. Speaking of which, did you know that gradle, being designed to build java projects does not even manage multiple JDK versions?!

5. untyped groovy means you're forever left wondering whether what you wrote is actually correct until you run it, at which point it fails with excellent errors that tell you nothing. Granted, this situation has improved in recent days, but a jump from 90th floor compared to 100th is still painful.

6. Every single fkin thing that gradle offers can be done in half dozen ways and nothing tells you which way is better or why. Ex.A: is it providedCompile or implementation? Yes, one is intended to be a replacement for another, and no, they are /not/ same.

7. The 'One Nice Thing' gradle had going for is that it bootstraps itself. But look, if want to add gradle to a 'new' project, you have to install it to your system first and use it to add the wrapper. But after that, you are expected to use the wrapper. Nobody tells you that, you just have to figure it out. Oh and when it comes time to upgrade the wrapper version, you're to use the wrapper itself, not the system gradle, again mentioned nowhere, and if you try updating the wrapper using system gradle, the error helps exactly not.

8. Gradle takes free reign in breaking APIs /between minor versions/. WTF!

9. gradle starts a daemon to cache stuff, which is nice I guess. Except when you don't want it to run a daemon, so you tell it with `--no-daemon`. Do you know what that does? It starts a daemon, runs the build and shuts it down. This may not sound like a big deal, but it is just cherry on top of this shitcacke that tells you just how thoughtfully and well designed gradle is. /s

/endrant

[0]: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html
Interesting to see a modern variant of compurgation still in active use.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, if me and one of my friends both have a valid ID, we can get anybody's birth certificate?
Automatic pollen monitoring network SwissPollen
The London and Singapore congestion schemes have been running for decades with clear, measured benefits.

https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-news/143883/l...

https://www.oecd.org/climate-action/ipac/practices/london-s-...
An inconsistency Tolkien "solved" is most notably Glorfindel. The name was used twice in early drafts so he decided to merge those two persons even though they appears eras apart, and the first one had died. He did it by introducing the concept of reincarnation for the elves.
I'm betting, this is how tech firms offload content moderation work in its entirety.
Between this, and GenAI (LLMs), the argument for dumping trust and safety onto T&S firms sounds like an inevitability. So I really hope this works.

One blind spot that I hadn't thought about was when people share non-consensual content about you.

Right now I don't see any recourse for coordination problems that need the whole network to co-operate.

As a result, I think that there will always be a force that centralizes networks. Not just because big-brother, but because citizens don't accept some types of behavior, even if you do it in your own home.
You mean Services Oriented Architectures, or Common Object Request Broker Architecture, or maybe Distributed Computing Environment?
I'm a Londoner and I don't see why things should be draconian if someone makes an error. Just send them a bill for the normal charge if they go in without paying once. Maybe for repeat offenders charge 10x.
Doing so in all seriousness would collectively wipe trillions off the valuations of companies and reduce peoples net worths.
I recently stumbled across the MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source code [1].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
I don't think I agree with that. For my work at least, the only model I can swap with OpenAI and get similar results is Claude. None of the open models come even close to producing good outputs for the same prompt.
I always heard about Caravaggio from books and Internet, finding his paintings "ok, realistic, cool for the time, skilfully made".

Then I saw a few live.
The chiaroscuro theatre of shadow and light, the insane details, the dynamic of each painting, the mastery it takes to reproduce such art pieces, it all humbled me as an artist in a way I did not expect. This man had such an insane talent, vision and skill to produce some of these paintings, their harshness matching his lifestyle.

If you have a chance to see some of his works in person, go for it, it will definitely pay off.
Tolkien (or his son Christopher) had said that names are meant to be unique in this world. See the matter of Glorfindel.
GameStop makes a harsh decision amid declining sales
Yes, I completely agree.

Something or somebody is beautiful if it is pleasant to see it.

Somebody is attractive if you enjoy their company and you have the desire to touch them and engage in activities that would cause mutual pleasure.

These are distinct feelings, even if there exists some correlation between them, mostly because when you consider somebody ugly, you are unlikely to be attracted to them. The reverse is not true, you can consider someone as very beautiful without feeling the slightest attraction toward them.
Back in the 1980s you had plenty of human contact. You would hang out at the newsagent of your town and wait to find out who bought the other two copies of your favorite computing magazine. And teenagers would swap floppy disks and try them out on the display machines of department stores in bigger cities. There were also computer clubs, and people met up to play computer games.

What destroyed a lot of that is that you can play on the network without organizing a co-player to play with; everybody "meets" only online. The worst of this is teenagers call these remote acquaintances "friends".
Make your own engine, open source it, get plenty of traction, then make money off it as its premier consultant, or have a team who specialises in porting, etc.

The first bit will take time. Or you might have a "hook" which speeds up the traction part a bit (like Bevy being made with Rust, I guess).
> And Proxmox is just skin on lxc and quemu/kvm.

Not really, we have a full-blown REST API that provides storage plugins for a dozen of technologies, disk management, system metrics reporting, management of LXC and QEMU (as in full-blown LXD/Incus and libvirt replacement), which alone probably is taking up a third of our code base, to provide replication, live-migration, local-storage (live-)migration, backup management, HA, good integration into our access control management including multifactor authentication, integration in to LDAP/AD or SSO like OpenID Connect, software defined storage and network integrations, our own kernel, qemu and lxc builds, and hundreds of other features. Don't even get me started on the devs required on each project to continue integration and upstream development and provide enterprise support that actually can fix problems.

In other words, wrapping QEMU or LXC to provide ones custom VM/CTs might be doable easily, but that isn't even a percent of what Proxmox VE offers you.

If a thin UI around LXC/QEMU is all one would need to be competitive with VMWare, then every web dev would be stupid to not create one as a weekend project, but reality is that there's much more required to actually provide the whole ecosystem a modern hyper-visor stack requires to even be considered for any production use case.
DIY WiFi controlled ESP32 drone
Economic activity benefits the people who, in the end, consume the products and services. Today, there are long and intransparent supply chains but I think they mostly serve this goal. Economic growth, however does not only require better products and services in the pipeline. It also needs consumers who are ready to adopt these innovative products. A significant part of the world has aging populations (China, Japan, western Europe). There, a large fraction of the population might not adopt new and innovative life styles.

I think this is the reason why every innovation takes time until it's faded in completely and the entire society benefits from the innovation. So, neither AI nor other innovations will usher in an era of explosive growth.
That wasn't the deal in HP-UX vaults, Solaris Zones, System 360/MVS virtualization,...

The way they are used on GNU/Linux is indeed a solution to GNU/Linux's software distribution issues on a highly fragmented landscape.
No pictures? I get 50% of the information of a recipe based on the picture of the final dish. I don't buy recipe books if they don't have pictures of the final dish of each recipe
spend $5K/month on some voiceover artist or a few cents on AI that barely makes mistakes and can be programmed (with hints) to correct their speech?
A congestion tax isn’t “blaming drivers”, it’s just creating an incentive for them not to drive.

Most of the cost of delivery is labor. If a congestion tax successfully decreases congestion, overall delivery costs may actually go down. A lot of last-mile deliveries are done by bike (not subject to the charge) anyway because they’re more efficient.
I like how they mentioned Gilbreth instead of the arguably better-known Taylor - the one actually concerned with time -, lest the uneducated reader grasp the reference.
You could forget about loneliness while reading a book, however it does not change fact that you reding it alone.
>> The danger could only be warded off by adopting ... aerial and naval unmanned systems ...

That was actually spot on, as recent events show.
You forget that America is a car culture outside of NYC so a typical tourist coming to NYC for the day will likely just eat the cost and drive anyway. The geography of NYC is also very challenging. A lot of the public transportation options don't even cover places like Staten Island properly so people drive instead. There won't be much of a difference in traffic imo. Taking the train is already pretty expensive.
> This meant that every user could have their own unique Jonathan setup, pulling together various software platforms, storage devices, and hardware capabilities into their own personalized system. Imagining what would have been required for all this to work together gives me a headache. In addition to the shared backbone interface, there would need to be software written to make an almost-endless number of configurations work smoothly for the most demanding of users. It was all very ambitions, but perhaps a little too far-fetched.

gestures at the Amigas and PCs of the time
You mean like proposing JSON as XML replacement, rebuilding from scratch all the XML tooling including validation, and when almost done with it, replacing JSON with YAML?
But the direction is not at all binary, it's a direction in a very high-dimensional weight space.
Symptoms most likely didn't decrease dramatically, it's just no longer as visible and easily recognizable to the parents; they also likely started to spend more time with their child, helping them keep attention to tasks that need it.
I am a living example of this principle! They should use me as an example in the textbook.
In 2016, Ammon Bundy led the takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, another standoff with law enforcement which culminated in the death of a rancher and the indictment of 27 of the occupiers.

The epic storming of a building defended by ducks by the Y'allQaeda group.

The Ballad of the Malheur Patriots

(Song of the Oregon Wildlife Refuge Standoff) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODGXw0AZX4
I think the best version of universities would be specifically for studying what the workforce doesn’t invest in and we’d have respected vocational schools (and ideally trainee positions) as the default choice for people just looking to get a job.

When I started at university, it was because I wanted to learn things about computers and computing that I didn’t think an employer would pay me to learn. I added courses in philosophy and economics out of curiosity and avoided course that appealed to workplace relevance (primarily because I don’t want half the questions to be about what’ll appear on the exam).

And with a sample size of one, all of that is useful to me.

For everything that is wrong with academia, I’d put more of the blame on company administrations minmaxing for quarterly gains refusing to post trainee positions guiding people from school to the workforce. And the housing market pushing up entry salary expectations, and internet job boards for opening up an oversized funnel of applications for any junior position.
Wouldn't it be simpler to sell $20-30 dollar jewelry for 50$ with explicit promise that this jewelry is very easy to return in exchange for the 50$ gift card? You could add RFC chips to them so people couldn't return counterfeits. Epoxy resin is good at covering chips.

It would solve the problem of littering your house with cheap products, save the buyer the embarrassment of gifting something that looks like 2$ jewelry (it is noticeable when it is that cheap), and it makes easier for people to pretend that they actually want that necklace for the necklace and not for the gift card.
Wouldn’t the best thing have been to retract the book, or at least to published a revised edition?
Afuera.
> Your entire day captured, task by task.

Scary.
It's also convenient when they're one-to-one; russian names, nicknames, and patronymics in stories are infamous for failure to be injective.
So does plain Docker runtimes nowadays, specially since the company had to pivot into something else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815850
Confusingly, the operating system of the ST was called TOS – The Operating System.
I’m allowed to find it fascinating, that’s why.
Similar but Beaglebones have flash drive controller which they boot off so they do better at not corrupting themselves on power cycling. I don't know about the BeagleY-AI but the Beaglebone black's power sequencer has won't fix issues that cause the board to fail to start if the power comes on too slow.

Open source hardware means they give you schematics and the board layout as an Altium project. You can take that and customize it to fit your needs. When it comes to processors that can run embedded linux that's actually common. Advantage if you don't modify the layout of the high speed buses your prototype will likely just work.