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"No son, the ice cream man plays that music to let people know he's all out of ice cream."

Ok, got it. So this implies installing equipment in a number of PoPs presumably based on some study of where your core customers are? And I guess this isn't for all application logic, just cache stuff, quick and easy interaction gains, and none the less still passing heavy lifting back to the DC?

I'm realising, with my limited understanding of electronics, that the flywheel acts in these cases as a capacitor, albeit a frickin' huge mechanical one.

I have yet to read a definition of 'edge' that makes sense to me, sysadmin/infrastructure/coder of ~30 years in the industry.

Anyone?

These were huge. In fact iirc the power that came into the building spun them, and the DC ran off the resultant generated electricity. So the risk at cutover is minimal, there is in fact no loss of electricity unless the wheel drops below the required revs.

One of these units blew at one point. We had 4 and only needed two running, so no big deal. The company who managed the whole thing (Swiss) came to replace it. Amazing job, they had to put it on small rollers, like industrial roller skates, then embed hooks in the walls at each corridor junction, and slowly winch the thing along, it was like watching the minute hand of a clock.

Then the whole process in reverse to bring in the new one. Was fascinating to watch. The guy in charge was a giant, built like a brick outhouse. They knew their stuff.

I have, and least power. I worked in a DC with 4 very large diesel generators, each backed up by a multi-ton flywheel that managed the transition between a power cut and the generators taking over.

Area wide power cut, winter afternoon so it was already getting dark. The two signs I knew there was something wrong were that all the lights went out outside, ie other businesses, street lighting etc. And my internet connection stopped working. Nothing else in the DC was affected. Even the elevator was working.

This has always been a problem for me and has led to disregarding many otherwise ok colourschemes.

Nope, asking money for a colourscheme is ridiculous.

The bubble you live in that makes you think this is a good idea. Sheesh.

Thanks, that makes sense. So all this implies the camera is transmitting information elsewhere and not storing it locally.

I'm confused, what RF does a camera typically emit, and why?

This is a question for your IT team, not HN.

I'm still baffled as to how this is allowed anywhere near public roads. The only reason I can think of is that the US values trade above risk of killing people.

What a bunch of nutters.

In a parallel universe OS/2 won over Windows, and we're living in a very different world.

Why is the device connected to the Internet? And why does it have a camera?

Same here, otherwise I'd be considering the BSDs.

I handed a project over to a new developer once before leaving the company. I returned about 18 months later, and he'd stripped out the one Easter egg I'd put in. No sense of humor that chap. Good coder though.

Very nice! Inspiring.

I'm guessing that this practice is not possible in the European Union?

> Google's own incompetence and lack of reliability

Google are not a hardware company, they are an advertising broker. They aren't in the least bit interested in anything that doesn't increase money from that core business. They only started making phones so as not to lose control over that advertising space, but they remain mediocre at it at best because that's enough for them.

Apple are a hardware company, that's where their focus is.

Can you give us a couple of examples?

Like all good writing, this article is not about the subject in the title. This is the pertinent line :

> They are intellectually secure in the center of a vast mob; their wisdom was received, not crafted.

I love that development continues on Haiku, great work all. I was a big fan of BeOS back in the day (I still have a BeOS shirt :-)). A great user experience on top of some fantastic technical ideas.

I recently changed from Alacritty to WezTerm due to bugs in the former and I don't have any complaints so far. It is part of my daily professional workflow, works well with Tmux, under WSL. Great piece of software.

They know that the latest Apple laptop is the fastest, but they don't know an ARM from a leg, and neither should they need to.

Intel should never be directing its branding at the end user in the first place. Joe Public doesn't give a rats ass what is powering his device. Ask anyone off the street if they know who AMD are and what they produce. Concentrate on making good product and the device manufacturers will come to you.

One thing I learned when I started learning Kubernetes is that it is two disciplines that overlap, but are distinct none the less:

- Platform build and management - App build and management

Getting a stable K8s cluster up and running is quite different to building and running apps on it. Obviously there is overlap in the knowledge required, but there is a world of difference between using a cloud based cluster over your own home made one.

We are a very small team and opted for cloud managed clusters, which really freed me up to concentrate on how to build and manage applications running on it.

Hey Apple, are you listening? Pages, Numbers, Photos, Finder, Messages...

A true cure would be a change in the way male baldness is perceived by society.