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I bet even 8051 + 10 Mb ISA 10BASE2.

Erlang and Elixir ecosystem has a bunch of unmaintained throw-away projects.

I wrote a bunch of Erlang and Elixir tooling before I realized the most useful projects were thrown over the wall FOSS codebases.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. Fashionable is for runway models.

Not thirty years. 10-15. IT was a big industry that everyone did up until about 2010.

It absolutely depends on scale. Smaller teams of better staff can sustain cloud infrastructure, especially if grabbing as many internal needs as possible so as to gather critical mass to make it pay for itself.

It was a transparent speculation gambit to use celebrity influence outside the jurisdiction of the SEC.

Seems like the media pays too much attention to an obvious pump and dump. Don't they have John McAfee to follow to parrot half-baked nuttiness?

There are three main classes of services:

0. 12factor applications

1. Backend datastores

2. Infrastructure and miscellaneous, which is sort of turtles all the way down.

Disambiguating them is key to maintain proper infrastructure of any kind.

Heroku is so damn expensive. It's basically worthless because it's competing with free.

Serverless? There are always servers. APIs don't exist in a vacuum or scale magically.

If you don't understand how to build what's underneath, then you don't understand what's involved and are at the mercy of vendors or someone else.

The biggest problems with microservices are the lack of injecting cross-cutting concerns like security, monitoring, circuit breakers, resource metering, alerting, service dependencies, logs, resource isolation, upgrading on-the-fly, migrations, backups/restores of data, and configuration. These all have to be handled.

Docker with k8s is awful when it comes to resource metering. Docker is terrible with security and resource isolation. K8s, in general, is awful IMO because of the way it was architected and implemented.

Xen-ified "containers" (regular VMs but managed) with an ability to inject uniform, templated, configured concerns is how to do services: micro or macro; ephemeral app, infrastructure, or backend. Also, backups and logs have to live somewhere else.

Basically, a APPaaS/PaaS/IaaS in the spirit of K8s + OpenStack but much cleaner, workable, easier, simpler, fewer choices, more usable, more reliable, less stupid, and more standardized. (Discovery is insecure and fundamentally unworkable; top-down provisioning knows exactly what exists and is alive so use that as the authoritative single-source-of-truth.)

There is no other way I can see.

I never owned any BTC. I wouldn't put all of my savings into BTC, but it would be useful for (semi-/sometimes-) anonymous transactions. That makes it better than credit cards, checks, or cash because it can't be CC skimmed or physically robbed.

I would like to buy groceries with it, but I don't want to hold much BTC for very long.

Monetary value and its instruments are amoral. They're neither good nor bad, so "weighing" their uses would be entirely unfair. The demonetization in India was a perfect example of moralizing currency instruments. (The IMF loved it because of the resale of data from digitizing transactions and India loved it for tracking people's financial habits. Modi loved it because it punished poor people.)

If you're trying to ban cash because you can buy illegal things with it, then you have a logic problem.

I think they're envious and jealous because they didn't think of it and didn't get in on it. (Sour grapes) In that context, associating a financial instrument with particular real-world crimes seems like throwing FUD.

Self-esteem movement of phony over-confidence, crumbling under pressure, and no depth of knowledge.

I had a physics for engineers ( irony! ) course lecturer at De Anza College who worked at Bell Labs at the time on the transistor project.

Oh yeah, that was the time when I used my HP 48G as a universal remote to turn on all 6 TVs in the lecture hall and people freaked out. }:)

Tile. Know it, love it, accidentally click it in an elevator or in a movie theater.

Edit: I dated a girl once who couldn't tell cars apart, and had a really hard time finding hers or anyone elses.

I think it's a form of dependency/laziness. The best approach I know is to not think for them and have them help themselves to get better at independence and self-/world-awareness.

Yeah, it is. Especially people posting comments to spoon-feed them an explanation of something rather than research it for themselves. It's a form of learned helplessness.

Don't take the lord's name in vain, or he'll refer you to the guidelines. ;)

Military intelligence borrows irony from the private sector too.

Related: Project 100,000 - Build those org chart pyramids, grow budgets, and get promoted.

The MIC is about spending as much money as possible.

Officially, it's $721,531,000,000 FY2020

"In 2018, it was announced that the Department of Defense was indeed the subject of a comprehensive budgetary audit. This review was conducted by private, third-party accounting consultants. The audit ended and was deemed incomplete due to deficient accounting practices in the department."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

Job security ftw. Even if it's useless in practice, churn it out to make General PHB happy.

I don't see how you can teach SA in a book.

Plus, some people are hopelessly clueless and don't see subtle details as well as others.

It's a nice thought to explain some trail signs, but experience, practice, and particular personal qualities likely prove more valuable to think independently. Primitive hunting, street and wilderness intelligence, and practiced SA in everyday life are probably the best teachers.

This is true, however some devices including floppies, tape, and optical media have been made impossible, more difficult, and/or inconvenient to use with modern kernels.

And then there's throwing away 386 compatibility in 2012 and now they want to nuke a bunch more.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2021-Lin...

Fund and have a legacy devices and architecture team that takes over support when things become too rare or obsolete. Legacy that can build on or with stable or mainline without impacting current development. Vintage computing or even moderately-recent computing shouldn't be thrown under the bus to chase consumerism only.

Nuke them... from Orbit!

Not angry in either case. To me, it seemed like an inference that I didn't intend. Apologies if I yelled at you. :)

"Magical beliefs" not "magic" as in a party trick, but as in beyond the limits of reality, comprehension, and understanding, like the literary genre of magical realism which is fiction that diverges spontaneously into unreal elements. Most religious texts include a great deal of mythological parables that have been inherited, tuned, and reframed. "Ancient holdover" as in many religions draw-on previous religions and include practices that could've started possibly 4 millennia or more BP. In addition there are many rituals, acts, and practices which are questionable: chicken sacrifices, muta'a marriage to underage girls, suicide bombings, IEDs, bombing civilians, circumcision, FGM, abstinence lack of education/blame/shame, Vatican's wealth, communities shunning people for minor infractions, and exclusion of women from education/driving/public independence.

I think we would be letting ourselves be beholden to crybullies / bullies if we self-censor and let other people's beliefs limit what we can discuss because other people might not use personal responsibility to behave rationally and reasonably. I don't understand how someone can be responsible for another adult's behavioral choices. What's your take?

For centuries, many Irish believed some people were replaced by imposters called changelings and then they used this belief to attack, banish, or murder them. I think that's an example of a terrible belief that should be ridiculed, discussed, debunked, and eliminated. There are many types and classifications of on net harmful beliefs that inflict suffering. There are also plenty of beliefs that seek to be at peace with the human condition and with the nature of suffering, like the irreligious parts of Buddhist philosophy.

If this or any public forum isn't "appropriate" to discuss undiscussable taboos, haven't we ceased to be a liberal, open, curious, and reasonable debate society that seeks to advance enlightenment?

I'm not going to participate in any flamewars because "it takes two to tango" and I don't see the point of vitriol for the purpose of attacking, or projecting negativity, to someone you don't know. But I would ask questions if there legitimately-curious points in-between the pixels of other people's burning desire to express their anger unproductively. :)

"Do no harm" is also "do least net harm."

How many lives will be lost due to a lack of vaccines to administer vs. side-effects? I think it's safe to say the side-effects are a few per million, and that makes it inconsequential.

Not favoring any religion, but the absence of mythology and superstitions. Isn't religion and all magical beliefs against HN science and intellectual-first curiosity? If not, wouldn't that reveal HN has an inconsistency and may not be summoning the courage to say "All kinds of deity worship is an ancient holdover from before the scientific method"?

If true, that sucks. I always report but the site is flooded with Aliexpress/Alibaba goods.

Not really. There's multiple kinds of dropshipping sources, be it ecomm, wholesalers, or manufacturers. Dropshipping is when a seller has their vendor send customers their orders directly. It can be JIT fulfillment but it depends on the vendors' ability to source product. No one really wants to hold inventory because it deprecates.