jrmcauliffe

The main watering hole for the hobbyist community around these machines vanished from the internet a while back, taking the forums and info around porting software with it.. I guess some of it is available via wayback etc.

I mean, it would be surprising. In what world does Hyundai want to build a multi billion dollar plant in a foreign country and subcontract to a 'sublegal operation' which still has to send foreign nationals, presumably experts in their specific fields along with housing them to 'cut costs'...?

Had a mobile mechanic unable to change the timing belt on our 10 y/o Volkswagen Golf because the balancer is now secured with a proprietary lock-ring instead of four hex bolts.

He said this sort of thing is getting more common and even if he did want to buy all of the required bits and bobs he wouldn't be able to fit them all in his van.

Even in the 'good old days', you weren't getting very far working on your car without things like gear pullers, timing guns and feeler gauges. All things that technically you could be using for other things, but not exactly in the average toolbox of someone that doesn't work on cars.

But if anything is going to push it over the edge of going off (for whatever reason it has finally decided it's time), it's going to be a plane driving over the top / near it.

I didn't realise we had 18 mile depths.

Lol any serious business. Shoutout to all the people at mega-corps using Teams!

Yeah, I love the fact that Jetbrains 'everything' is actually affordable by a solo software engineer and you can just 'bring your own tools' to a job.

Sigh, remembers when Visual Age for Java was $10k a seat in 2000 $$$.

Companies are made of people and people have lives.

Genuine page turner.

A fair chunk of modern corporate data ends up in OLAP systems that are now more often or not stored using s3 (or their MS/Google equivalents) in 'Data Lakes'. The concept of 'private data' whilst using cloud providers is an interesting one, but there has been enough work done by all parties involved to ensure that all but the most sensitive data is now created, stored and analysed using the systems provided by "Big Cloud".

Once you reach a certain scale in a particular type of company the repo just becomes another type of org unit. Your giant fish swallows a minnow, it looks good on paper, someone does a half arse integration, then that repo becomes the one. The one that your manager says, under no circumstances no-one commits to, because then it's OUR repo (with whatever baggage that brings)... The org depends on the code, but the org actively resists it like a virus. This kills any attempt at the mono repo at any largish non FAANG org.

A final low pass filter (tuned to remove anything above half the sample rate) allows the accurate reconstruction of the original analogue waveform from the sampled digital data. ( The vertical 'stair step' of sampled data is very high frequency information which gets removed, 'bending' the output back into it's original shape). The video linked above is well worth a watch.

A king who is also secretly

The Duke of Cornwall, The Duke of Somerset, The Duke of Norfolk and The Duke of Richmond

Sign me up..!

Lotus Notes.. :-)

Seriously though, visual coding/drag and drop etc are great for non-technical users but in my experience the issue isn't code vs. icons. I worked in corporate workflow development for around 15 years using guess what, Lotus Notes, and the 'real' problem was getting end users to think programmatically, not remember syntax / tools. You can have all the easy to use tools in the world, but you still need to really be able to think through a process.

I can't wait for this too. I've got a Prusa printer that's got the perfect spot for Pi Zero, but its never quite had enough juice to run octopi with all the trimmings.

The Brodie Forth books were the first thing that popped into my head too, but the Head First books really are another step away from K&R C etc.

Because they link quality of life to making great art rather than rent seeking(?)

Sure, if you want to define competition as the market you come from, rather than the market you're in.

Vmware virtualises 'modern' hardware.

There is usually only one provider of roads..

I've used the cheapest celeron nuc for this. Has built in IR, just add a usb drive / laptop drive and memory. Not much more expensive than a dedicated box here in Aus, and much faster.

If you listen to Amazon at their shin-digs, they tell it like all of these new services and features are in response to requests from existing customers.

I would guess the proportion of non-tech family that equate firefox/'The Internet' with this set of circumstances approaches zero.

I would assume because the sales team has told them they already have a 'best of breed' solution in 'your vertical market'. Oracle then bills the client for them to write ('customise') said solution, then adds it their product portfolio.

Or whatever came 10 years before that. FTP? Batch tape?

I don't have a Scientific Computing Workflow/Background, but the AWS recommended tool for automated deployment to AWS is Cloudformation

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

Connecting Spot instances to EBS volumes isn't really possible via their APIs though. Amazon's API seems to regard Spot Instances as stateless compute entities, you need to push the results to a real on-demand instance (with attached EBS Volume) or something like ec2.

If you have massive compute requirements, companies like

http://www.cyclecomputing.com/

will do the hard work for you, otherwise with a bit of configuration work you can spin up a master node with an ebs volume along with a set of spot instances (of any type) to perform the work.

Checkout the Cloudformation template examples. There's bound to be something that's pretty close to your use case (including software installs etc).

Facebook is the most resource hungry app in a lot of workplaces...

Looks pretty good compared to the 'On Demand' instances though, even including the MS and (I assume) Teradici licensing. Somewhere in between On Demand on Reserved. If you can script yo sh!t together, spot instances is where it's at..

This is their solution.

http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

I would imagine it's at least in the ball park if you have 100 servers..