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2J0··on AWS Ground Station
This is my view of Renaissance if Internet cafés!
2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
More from NEC :

"Human color perception is very subjective and highly inconsistent. You can simply not trust your eyes "

https://www.necdisplay.com/colorcritical/home/aboutcolor

2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
Eizo provide a variety of tools with their displays:

https://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/unicolor_pro/

I have a strong interest in learning more from you if you are as able ever to be a independent Guinea pig?

Above I have splurted aloud my sudden but not inconsistent desire to create a free for open source software color names reference and good color description should be mandatory for public information websites imnsho

2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
I don't recognise the adjectives used in modern speech or even the papers. I suffered a massive memory loss rendering almost all of past ten years cut from my experience during my recovery. In the meantime language changed sufficiently to reduce me to a children's reading age.
2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
Good monitors have modes for some color blindness corrections. I'm extremely embarrassed by the paucity of my domain knowledge and you are right for calling out this need because color blindness is far more prevalent than generally accepted. We all don't possess any reference on our brains. More data enters the optic nerve pathway from out brains than from our eyes.
2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
It's called being Trade Dress artist of manager, or at least before the uncalibrated www came along, there was great need for the role and I will attest the importance of making it a separate job function with direct bottom line affect.
2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
Apps like Kuler are IP territorial land grabs.

I'm so disappointed with the level of understanding of colof (and other widely used and tremendously important knowledge) that if anyone has a London home for opening a reference library I'd start by filling out a wall with the books. I long plotted opening a wework like office and furnishing the place with everything I need to return to business or try build anew bug can't afford to do simultaneously with buying the lease. You need professional lighting and environment for reading this kind of subject.

2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
uninviting greyish green #82A67D cultrate bright light green #2DFE54 muttering dusty purple #825F87

#00000 fade to black on poetic combination descriptor

2J0··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
This is big business.

Naming colours is a huge money spinning scheme.

Pantone has been given a monopoly because... Because no reason!

Forget open source as in beer software for the moment and let's write truly international canonical colour name reference.

I will get this going personally next month with anyone willing. I can support expenses and organise support and removal of all chores. I can ship the necessary tooling to participate. The project must he nonprofit by nature but I am fully equipped with the legal resources to trade donated time for real sweat equity first in line for being proportionally paid without affecting the nonprofit organ.

I love the idea of what you could achieve with the royalty income - what happens when the ODSS graphics programme worlf gets a no strings income and can be hiring and tooling the enterprise wetware necessary for the first rate conditions that only the big companies enjoy. Non profit charity organisations don't deprive their own people much anything. Sure enough for real is a helluva long shot but anyone? Shoot the breeze and scheme at least possible to collaborate via true accurate color rendition with a little bit of setting up I'm comfortable with. This is exactly the sort of thing that m6 late confounding partner wished our enterprise would be doing if our exit fell thru and his passing sure did (unnecessarily the route wasn't seen by a phalanx of attorneys highly motivated by closing fees. Ancient history now but I am speaking with genuinely passionate excitement at the fundamental principles and practice of the kind of business that is a strategic economic accelerator. I've decades of experience in media to lecture on why this is so crucial for business especially in the smaller business strata.

2J0··on Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
my father , a Depression Era banker, observed : "who asks How Much is fine but the man who asks When you are paying him is finished."

Government has to smooth time.

2J0··on NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
A million iops from spinning rust?

200 iops per drive from 2.5" 15KRPM is good going....

Edit:iops auto spellings

2J0··on NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
I hope you can correct my numbers but I am pretty sure this is within the same decimal order of magnitude :

If 1-2TB drives were handily $1k in 2010 (2005 $1K hot you 128GB 15KRPM)

and your array set is at least R10,

already raw storage is approaching half of ten thousand dollars.

And this ignores controllers, cabling and chassis.

And this is before we look at our storage software licenses.

Is backup, point in time SLA, replication and availability in this budget?

2J0··on Launch HN: Terusama (YC W20) – We help warehouses schedule trucks
How is engine idle running a drivers home appliances and hvac statutory tachtime?

(ymmv linguistically I suppose depending where you haul from/how much time you spent in freeway lay-bys fixing your pickup/bandmobile/trabbi but there's a lot of important social going on in these times and at least in the past Indy drivers got themselves booked and did their paperwork meanwhile)

2J0··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
I'm saying I'm serious twice in this year already do it had to be the end..

Send everyone over 55 s as my working phone capable of doing Skype or whatever and provide the device a data connection to a Chatroulette app setup and instructions to disable the it and use normally in big big print and grayscale not color screens please color is confusing or color only what you want clicked (NeXT could have been a revolution for just doing that) by us old people anyway...

2J0··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
I'm fifty +- some and became isolated without realising during the years I cared for my mother.

You want to give the old folks, among who I am myself in this respect, something to live for. Attention is the catnip.

Want to kill the olds in droves? Isolate them.

I'm bloody serious about this and believe it's tort that needs a Court hearing for the human sake alone. You don't know anything until you friend all died. Mine did except for who then exited into a new world of economic paranoia and now hides in a regular job after increasingly failing to deal with isolation in the context of a young loving family around him at home at least. I'm so intensely proud of my buddy but he's a truly impractical link back to life for me

2J0··on MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
See my comment about ASN.1 which is anything but incomplete...
2J0··on MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
Whatever was wrong with ASN.1 for the wire? it's not a direct replacement but a sanitising schema that's truly amazing in application breadth, support, tooling, and implementation efficiency.

In force documentation:

https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.68...

Blog on ASN.1 schema for JSON:

https://www.obj-sys.com/blog/?p=508

2J0··on New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave
My memory is hazy but I'm sure I recall the problem during summer 94, but I stand corrected. Was there any normal way for the information to reach us? That was the year intel took down Vlsd Pentkovskis profile page.. I loved to tease everyone that Pentium was named tribute to him...

Edit:typo fixed for pentium

2J0··on New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave
Seriously this isn't humor, we're running a "abandoned " processor for authentication and a operating system decidedly unattractive unless you want to win capture the flag at deacon. We abandoned the secure operating system version very reluctantly so it was formerly B book.
2J0··on New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave
Can I restate the go question as "is complexity of the machine effectively security by obscurity and effective in practice for reliance upon?"

Really how much unnecessary complexity is traversing boundaries we can shut down or at least gate effectively?

My company has used CICS for this purpose since forever and we're not so much a legacy that you will think about our architecture in this way if we talked about it, but CICS is a very rare interface in this era.

2J0··on A man launched a new ISP from his garage (2018) [video]
Does enough independent isp demand exist to aggregate the traffic to provide breakouts and satisfy Spectrum's 8 point term?

This reminds me of writing a bit to catch the BT SIN Supplier Information Notes ephemeral notices: BT and later OpenReach were required by law to advertise every sweetheart deal to all comers on this domain. This might take place for only long enough for the page to come and go from the google cache (which BT had some way of automating content exclusion from, the cache page link in search results leading to a 404 was a dirty little trick to claim the advertising and universal offering components of statutes, which didn't last long for a ruse because the entire uk industry seemed to automatically file in court to obtain even the simplest of provisions, I know we weren't alone) anyway that was how we discovered BT would lease twisted copper pairs from CPE to exchange and you could hop onto commercial backhaul from there, so we had 4 wire SHDSL modems either end and the tent was a enormous £495pq British pounds or about $3kpa for a symmetric 10Mb/s last mile to clec

2J0··on Session: An open-source private messenger that doesn’t need your phone number
Skype uses Signal protocol and allows call records deletion. AFAICR a email address registration will suffice instead of a phone number
2J0··on Session: An open-source private messenger that doesn’t need your phone number
SMS leaks gps and tower triangulation data
2J0··on The God Box (2004)
My 2005 Dell dual Xeon 3.9Ghz box with 8GB RAM is floating around, we used VMware and more memory than that though and the nvidia card has half a gig and my box had four 15k 146GB Fujitsu drives on a LSI R10 with iirc 1GB BBU RAM cache , this was fiscal 04 iirc
2J0··on The End of the IPO as We Know It?
The primary buyers of newly issued stocks are precisely who have been forced into buying artificially supply constrained private shares with in many professional opinions made available to me under assurances of my probity, unlawful restraint and restrictions and highly unnatural interpretations of GAAP. I recently received a three word share report from a former limited partner and it read "Out Of Expletives ". Okay six words or three plus one acronym for "E&EO" ended the message.

Price increases are macro driven or trading and execution or business distribution factor sensitive appreciation. There's no real economic growth. I am presently held from advancing my own business because such a incredible burden of anecdotal evidence that's my direct experience has accumulated until I realised only this year that I am duty bound to account for and attempt to report the findings however that may be possible, before committing to a major investment. I owe my partners my experience and that's become a consideration under my employment contract as my responsibility to so do. At least I am sure I will not be imprudent if I do spend the necessary time in writing. Health forced me into a prolonged period of sabbatical and I am changed by my experiences. I genuinely fear for a complete paralysed economy and not even paralysis is correct nomenclature because that word implies a otherwise viable body capable of resuscitation. I think we killed capitalism as we thought we knew it and we have all become parasitic unknowingly and blind to the ways we so became. I suffered memory loss from a head trauma and actually had to somehow reboot my system for thought about every aspect of my life. My business was all consuming to my near death by self neglect and the upshot is I regained or just gained a humanity I cannot believe but know was horribly diminished if not lost over almost thirty years pursuing a ridiculous ambition without any rest. I never noticed the time passing but I was matrix style patched in to the business world and ignorant of everything else. Learning about business and economic opportunities from scratch in much needed normal conditions instead of catapulted from a exclusive education has confronted me with a sense of total terror at the frailty of our economic civilisation. Even more frightening and yet optimistic I discovered that the communities of computing nerds actually are most attuned to global risks and dangers. Which means that the most important knowledge is altogether compartmented separately from political potential for action. This isn't non obvious of course but I think it's a different level of separation from forty years ago and now the majority of logical arguments are happening apart from mainstream media and society. Because every science is become just "tech news" as if they saw the world of science through a Slashdot filter

2J0··on Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications
They're turning our dens into the next generation datacenter and personally I won't be happy until our furnace is substituted for radiators that are heat sinks / backplanes for the various 1U * servers I'd like instead of overpriced home automation systems and poor entertainment hardware that is bettered by miles for much less by actual professional production gear and this is how I dream we're going to be able to heat the homes of our elderly people who not too long hence will count among their number this comment author or rather my wife and my ashes after I expire from shock at human kind managing a drinking session in a brewery. But I have hope, sure and certain hope, as my faith's liturgy inters it's believers...(I think of religion like a lost advanced technology that has become entirely misunderstood and its uses forgotten or even despised because maybe like LISP having faith in our fellow humanity is plain hard and involves too many macros. But that's the kit of my digression into that subject, I am merely so deeply worried about global events that I fear a retrograde to exactly what of theology is most abhorrent and destructive though ephemerally consoling. This race of man needs to work afresh to understand anew everything, I believe, and I already think I'm seeing the failures of modern civilisation caused by the passing of the last generation who learned the hardest way to work first towards better life for all and trust that wealth will subsequently follow, instead we're almost entirely product now of gaming the edge cases of capitalism which cases should instead be solved to enable the future to be built)

(preferably the open computing rack spec or maybe something entirely different and more suitably designed. This area is ripe for patents and I'm looking for like minds to establish some prior art in anticipation of bad actors especially the mostly unprofitable energy utilities, and I've legal and development budget carved out of my savings to do so on my hunch I can reasonably ask to be made whole if the product is useful)

* slightly involved investigation showed me I can assemble the most excellent home theater system from pro equipment for plenty less than close to the higher end of consumer systems, while giving my family the facility almost every way equal to a professional post production studio. This isn't Lutron. Lutron don't sell DANTE routing/ volume controls and switching with display to fit into our light switch soffets. But Teac do for a modest sum. DANTE is the most advanced pro audio live audio interface over Ethernet so we'll be able to connect our daughters keyboard music workstation to the DAC in our den, which can record 32 channels of 5Mhz sample sound to SD card, or have a computer patched in by a inexpensive Yamaha PCIe (v4!) card capable of incredible wonders and software process for Dolby and Auro3D (a lesser known but arguably far better surround format originally adopted by Skywalker and big studios and now part of the IMAX 8K spec. This is software processing and we can record as easily as play. We aimed to beat a dealerships quote for a "safely not high end but show off what's possible today not tomorrow please " setup and managed by a pleasant amount.

.... all I have written looks like prime Azure/IoT candidate income sources to my vision of the not distant future. Of course Microsoft is bold. How can you be anything but hold at trillion dollars scales? How can you move the needle unless you're playing with a big stack? I amuse myself with thoughts about splitting Microsoft's businesses now and separating cloud from on premises lines. This makes sense to me as a business decision that would help the company to thrive whilst enabling the less connected economic world to access software systems that aren't subsidies for the cloud computing competition. I think Azure is a better standalone business than integrated. This may require a long term investment from shareholders. But our 401ks need genuine growth stocks. The legacy business will serve the world being served by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation today. That's a sympathy for the good in every way possible that I've thought about it. I would separate the IP and patent portfolio into a trust in recognition of Microsoft business in the OSS world which needs assurance and support but by separating the on premise Microsoft from Azure, the on prem Microsoft can now compete with open source alternatives. Equally this is the open source movements greatest opportunity for all time. Who cares about the Year Of Desktop Linux if Microsoft is abandoning the desktop? We won already. So did Microsoft. Pooh, capitalism is about growing pies for real? Hand me my defibrillator!

2J0··on Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications
Plenty of businesses aren't necessarily businesses already.

My company partnership numbered five in the beginning.

This isn't a unusual headcount for a family home that's represented by a ad hoc bunch of pcs, phones, printers, and possibly a consumer NAS in the most prominent form likely a cable box or network movie disc player.

No Active Directory licences involved here.

But why not?

My brother is a retired professor of transportation sciences and setting Windows Update is not a use of time he'll entertain. I think he just isn't aware that he's not enjoying his new SSD storage how he should. Startup time is 5KRPM SATA quick for his main machine.

I am going to provide a Microsoft 365 account and licenses for him from allocation for ad hoc consultants to work on their own personal laptops but our operating system image and our network not touching anything about their environment at all.

However I'm positive I can provide very close to the same by simply buying a Office 365 Premium CAL from the local pc world store. This won't include any cloud W10 license not the virtual machine runtime and asynchronous mirroring for a DR facility and neither is the extensive endpoint security system included that's a real selling point now iPhone and iPad and Linux are to be supported sny day now.

But just roll out the sum of the above for a "family office" license (includes one academic license without further application) for say $50pcm .

I know that I am going to sell countless such hypothetical licenses if they made available to retail. Upgrade payments get you the virtual machine runtimes, storage lakes and archives, mail order Microsoft hardware tokens/2FA sold under Xbox xtranet branding (I could think of better but I could also register and sell a good name too) which is something that I cannot wait for giving the kids to secure their phones and laptops at school because they will accept the device and not reject it because they will need it to log in to their games after school as well and they will be able to signal their achievements with flare and graphics emblazons on their keys and their parents are going to be able to secure the kids against forced access by ovrrreaching school administrators (who did so to our wrath on unfounded allegations of cheating last semester) because we'll be able to require no line zone simultaneous authorisation by one of us via another channel and assuming we paid for content security we'll be able to prevent copying and searching by anyone we don't wish to all the while nobody can accuse the girls of withholding their passwords and I best not start on the enforceability of contractual allowance for such invasions upon minors whilst parents guardians nor anybody's got any legal rights to bind a minor to such impositions as far as our counsel advised...

This is easy a couple of hundred of millions of "small business " Azure/Intune sites to connect and the arguments are wholly relevant to our immediate lives and very strongly represented by many other means without any advertising to us at all.

Microsoft is to our knowledge the sole major cloud computing business who spends real money to deflect warrant less and unlawful ingress into accounts by LEOs. Apple appears to be protective of customers whenever it protects Apple. This notwithstanding, the Santander case being the one to watch, iPhone or rather the now almost usable iPad OS, after gaining Microsoft endpoint security (another paid upgrade to reach the magical $75pcm mark equal to LinkedIn and far more than a office license costs in real world pricing) that's what this is about.

This is a theoretical two hundred billion dollars in revenue coming on stream in effect possible any time Nadella is up for it.

How to handle this network load?

That's why David Cutler was pulled from retirement to bootstrap Windows on the Xbox and why they're selling serious workstation class hardware for peanuts in the guise of a gaming console.

2J0··on Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications
Please let me make the connection from active directory wan replication, as far as what I believe is the objective of ramping up the azure ad services capability and capacity: making a global computing grid with current and next generation Xbox consoles. This isn't a polished presentation, I'm genuinely sorry I can't manage better, but this is a proper long line strategy. (Also you could imagine a phone product fitting into this end scenario, at least I can)

I suspect that pushing the world off local machines and licenses is not a bad thing for the security of systems generally.

But consider the flatness of the stock during Ballmer's tenure.

By literally cutting the supply of people who can maintain off net machines, Nadella is pushing the license revolution about the hardest he can.

I hold two not necessarily complimentary theories about the stock under SB: flat stock suits a relentless acquirer such as SB, who iirc became the largest non founder shareholder by committing his net worth to his employer stock and sticking to this policy in every remuneration review. I believe SB laid some of the best foundations for growth to ever be implemented by any internally promoted business leader in a direct majority positive personal wealth correlation position at the time of appointment. Many CEOs have become one to one linked to their employer success but only after options awards and bonus schemes created that equity correlation. Ballmer was all in. I beseech you especially if you're not favourable to the man by reputation, to look at SB more closely. I experienced a Damascene conversation and subsequently I discovered I admire Ballmer's dedication and principles as much as they surely desperately needed smoothing with greater sensitivity to the constituencies that are the still neglected bedrock of economic and technological capability and development in America (much less so in Europe unfortunately) because we just can't respond to any proverbial chair throwing, it's not in the geek career handbook, sorry Steve, but I at least know that you truly tried and can guess how much it means to you still. ---- Equally Ballmer could have suppressed the stock by his relentless investment in long term economic growth. Windows Mobile is the best known calamity. Not necessarily for the mobile ecosystem, but for the social and political relationships that ownership of Nokia could have created. Such transatlantic opportunities are not necessarily seen in every generation.

I think Ballmer takes credit but SN was the trigger puller on the XboxOneX architecture that enticed Dave Cutler from retirement to bootstrap W10 on the 1X. This puts workstation class 3D hardware in homes for under three hundred dollars, last offers I saw. The next model is even more attractive. But at launch the 1X was almost five times the component value and packaged how very few are capable of producing. Powerful workstations in ubiquitous distribution is a stepping stone to the next technological transformation in this lifetime I hope to see and even participate in.

Can you now appreciate why I've digressed so much?

Hundreds of millions of workstation class consoles presents the most important network and remote tenant support challenge that I think I will see in my life.

If by reaping the financial benefits of pushing sites to cloud and subscriptions, Nadella can afford to extend Intune to domestic demand on the scale of the consoles market, the hardware will support a new era of possibilities. I certainly didn't think the adapter for the Xbox to use the switches and controls you bring, was by any means facing only the challenges of physical disability. I have forever since been thinking about my garage door opener being replaced with a simple relay and I have sufficient trust in my wan access to my console to be completely comfortable with this. (Plus of course further security doors before you enter our home)

How do you prefer to heat your home? I prefer to be paid for running azure jobs that are modelling for local transport conditions and micro climate forecasts. Rackfill not landfill, is the future for hardware my company hopes to speed into reality. Miniaturisation is plenty for the data created by our lives exception being sensor data and video capture of later value in review. But I expect to see de duplication of scenery behind multiple channels of capturing cameras, after dimensional data extraction, which is easy to control the storage facility for, over neighbourhood 5G networks (see STH for latest Celeron 5G targeted chips, the most interesting news I'm surprised HN hasn't leaped upon) for simultaneous multi deca gigabit ptp mimo is upon us probably before a full traditional interval technological generation (I think the important tech generation interval is halved and halved again in the last decade alone and therefore I believe that Moore's Law is now manifest in the periodicity of development having become challenged by other limits nevertheless the technology advances just not by virtue of inherent value or capability but external factors. If Moore's Law can be restated to apply for the interval of development continuing the capability exponential growth, please allow the currying to be noted as Kirby's Second Law, my first being explaining is losing, a admonishment probably rather than immutable law but it is very hard to find ways it is inapplicable. Hence my second law could be written, laws return in guise too thin to deceive but too importantly to be obvious (we are too preoccupied with the effect of force unknown ") I had better write that much better.. please please don't take me too seriously in fact please don't take me seriously in the first place, as Feynman offered the seeker of physics profundity his advice "physics doesn't matter, love does" I'm ashamed every time I consume my listeners attention without being able to make some token of value beyond the time taken. Time is beyond the gift of the gods. Its waste is in this incredible epoch I believe is the only crime that is important to punish with meaningful actions.

2J0··on Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications
We pushed federation caches over the signalling channel of ISDN2 as late as 2007. ISDN is the most commonly misunderstood and under appreciated communications standard. During the early nineties ISSN acquired a horrible reputation for incompatibility, but the very nature and value proposition of ISDN remains the most adaptable and capable L0/1/2 communications standard that was intentionally designed to adapt to and enable legacy protocols and future transition requirements. This is why the D channel is capable of transfer of user defined packet payloads up to 16kbps. Commonly dismissed as the signalling channel, why was it designated as "D channel " and the commonly presumed data channels, "B channels"?

The myriad problems and factors that assailed practical IDDN adoption in the early days when a working ISDN interface was a genuine wonder not of miracles in configuration but the capability delivered (we ran applications in advertising that had financial trading style requirements for transactions and the fact that advertising copy was delivered via ISDN was the kind of integration that was envisioned originally)

Everyone is confusing me with their apparent over reaction to the connection of cloud to remote sites. This was what CICS was written for fifty years ago. I feel like I'm discussing state secrets every time I mention CICS. Can anyone recall the killer feature of NT3.1? MTS, if you must have it. MTS is why SQLserver was so easily portable to Linux. I suspect about everyone who reads HN might have a ball with some of the desperately not trendy things we are involved in. Like my uncle dusting his suit vests, smiling he only had to wait thirty years for them to return to fashion. This is a universal interval someone who can explain it will deserve a Nobel I'm sure...

2J0··on Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says
If that's the case then if I'm a thriller author and my bestseller is going into production then I will be lining up a whole artillery of attorneys and probably some court orders equivalent to Anton Pillar orders which is the England copyright abuse evidence seizure order and the nuclear option and also capable of being treated as international when the agreement is operated from England the location of parties subject to the Royal Courts is irrelevant unless you can't obtain LEO cooperation in which case your judge chews the England based entity a new one for starters. My objective being to secure definitive evidence whether the movie producers are debasing my moral copyright in a criminal defacement and distortion of my artwork.
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