georgebarnett

On the contrary.

It means that everything will only change when you change yourself. Find your own harmony and don’t worry about others. Their path is theirs.

That’s all well and good, and has nothing to do with Chromium keeping ftp support.

Completely agree it still has its uses. So does Cobol and any number of older legacy tooling.

That’s not the point we are discussing though; This is specifically regarding Chromium supporting FTP.

Genuinely curious. Why do you think a bitstream from an FTP server is faster than from a HTTP server?

Why do we need a separate legacy protocol for file transfers?

What’s the benefit in keeping protocols for the sake of it?

I do wonder sometimes when self preservation will kick in and put a stop to this kind of stupidity.

I mean - surely the executives of those companies eat food right?

Not to mention the lawsuits as big ag realises that their cash cows have been killed by an one of their suppliers products.

The Kinesis Advantage is truly magical. It was a game changer for me.

Sorry if it’s not clear.

The cluster had thousands of individual machines, each performing their own discrete tasks with aggregate ram across the cluster in the petabytes.

There was no swap on any of those machines.

As an aside, the commentary at the bottom of the post is very insightful and a great example of how important it is to carefully choose what is being optimised for.

I’ve run clusters of several thousands machines installed with petabytes of ram with no swap (or even disks).

It works just fine however you need to keep a appropriate headroom to allow the kernel to do its thing with caches as indicated otherwise things get very weird very quickly.

Containers are very helpful in this regard for helping explicitly divide a machine up between processes without allowing any one to get out of hand.

This lesson will continue until we realise that the ultimate goal is the improvement of our society and that to get there we create markets which serve society.

At the moment we appear to be confused and think the goal of society is to have markets, so we regulate for the market and hope society gets an outcome.

That’s pretty much computing. It’s usually the case that unless you have a complete understanding, there’s a pothole waiting to trip you.

As an FYI - we no longer use Postgres on NFS as we have migrated the entire architecture underlying the systems in question.

I’ve lost count of the number of designers who tell me that the way I use the product is wrong.

OK. Won’t use the product then.

Border security are not idiots. They know about travel mode.

Travel mode works because it can’t be changed on device and so moves the vault out of border security jurisdiction.

They can have probable cause to search your phone and will if they want to but they are unable to put you in a room with a browser and make you download something, so hence it’s out reach.

No it’s not.

Google has many primary concerns it needs to manage. That’s how you get big - by managing lots of concerns successfully.

If they drop one too long, they start going backwards very quickly.

My work machine is a 2018 13" Pro. Its not that I don't like it - it simply isn't a joy to use like my 12".

RIP Macbook. You have been my favourite machine for a long time.

Only somewhat jokingly, this is the start of things like doBillCustomer().

Years ago I switched to a dumb short throw projector. Now I get a huge clear picture connected to an Apple TV and a decent set of speakers. I do not regret my decision. No crappy smart software. Just on and off.

I want to echo the sentiment of other posters. I’m a senior architect on a team of several hundred people and I can without a doubt say that Sysadmin skills are hugely valuable and SAs normally have a very distinct and useful perspective on the end to end process of software delivery (of which coding is only one part).

My advice would be to explore more areas of self improvement. It’s not only code out there!

You could look at continuous integration, focus on deployments, learn networking, go deep in cloud config management.

There’s also the people side, like project managing technical implementations, managing vendors, or doing budgets and planning.

You might also consider database admin which is really interesting work.

I guess what I’m saying is don’t feel limited by coding not being you thing. If you can learn enough to get by, you’ll find many roles where it’s not the core skill.

I recall doing this to my first gen intel MacBook Pro. Sad to see Apple still hasn’t figured out how to apply thermal paste a decade later.

Fortunately, somebody has actually studied this and has found that yes, speed does matter:

"In Rheinland-Pfalz, a 130 km speed limit was also introduced on a 167km section of the A61 in 1991 and has been retained since then. This measure was combined with a ban on overtaking for heavy good vehicles. The impact of these two measures was a 30% reduction in fatal and severe injury accidents (comparing one year after and one year before their introduction – Rheinland-Pfalz Ministry of Transport)."

https://etsc.eu/wp-content/uploads/Speed_Fact_Sheet_1.pdf

I find this argument rediculous.

We should not allow a huge negative behaviour every single day, just on the off chance that there’s a possibility it would restrict us in a very unusual event.

Hundreds of people should die because maybe we can save a few?

Makes no sense.

I see a lot of commentary on break quality and stopping distance.

Those things matter, but not as much as reflex response time, which is mostly a fixed constant for most people.

Going faster means you travel further before even getting to the brakes.

Bell have every right to stick to their guns, but it seems like a really dumb decision.

Is $1800 really worth the negative press and focussing legislators on a part of the business that was not included in prior legislations?

Facebook quiet literally figured out how to build a global social network connecting billions of people.

Given they solved that insanely hard problem pretty well, I’d suggest they could also solve this if they had sufficient motivation.

This really is a non-story.

The future is by definition uncertain.

You don’t mention which ecosystem you live in. I’m very happy with my Apple Homepods. The sound quality is great and I trust Apple with privacy. I don’t use Siri at all (I have disabled the microphone) and so for me they’re purely network speakers which are very easy to use and look after themselves with updates.

Have a look at the Miao Miao. It does exactly what you’ve described and is waterproof and rechargeable.

I’ve found it VERY reliable.

This is good advice and something I’ve learned over the past years.

One of the interesting points I’ve relfected on over time has been how _my_ issue was solved with the patch, however for others it wasn’t.

When I think about this I of course recognise that Postgres owes me nothing, however we both had similarly aligned objectives (fix bugs, do good), but because of our inability to successfully communicate, we didn’t get to a productive outcome and so a fixable bug sat in the release for some time.

I do wonder how we go about improving that kind of circumstance.