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* AutoCAD (Drafting)

* Inventor (Mechanical analysis)

* PLAXIS (Geotechnical finite element analysis)

* Aspen HYSYS (Chemical process simulation)

Probably a pile more that I don't know off the top my head.

At least it's not a gate in just outside of Vancouver. ;)

Yeah trying to get it to work via config tree is basically begging for pain and suffering. You need to create all the configurations from scratch via the CLI to have a chance for it to work in a semi sane way.

I was able to finally get it work on one of my subnets, but then everything sort of just fell apart because I have a segregated network aside from my main home network and for the life of me I couldn't get it to work on two different subnets. Then throw in the whole issue of firewall rules, since since the prefix my ISP assigns is dynamic; it changes every time the router reboots. I figured I'd have to write a little service to watch the prefixes and adjust the rules as needed but just seems too like too much grief to deal with.

Left it until now when I found that android does some weird shenanigans with DNS so it's back on my radar but it's not something I'm particularly looking forward to struggling with again.

The older Ubiquiti Edge Routers by default don't support IPv6 very well unless you go in by the CLI; you have to set everything up from scratch.

Trying to get it to run from scratch on an OpenWRT x86 image is also a royal PITA, but that might be just a quirk of how the x86 image is configured by default; I haven't had a chance to try it on hardware they support properly.

Huh?

Been a while since I was in the digital signage space but a lot of the equipment runs of the shelf RK3288 plugged into commercial displays. 2GB of RAM was pretty common. IIRC's though LG's WebOS TV's have minimum 2GB of RAM in the digital signage space directly built into the units themselves. I believe Samsung Tizen based units has similar RAM.

My router has 1GB of RAM in it. But even my cheapest routers have 128 to 256 MB of RAM. The Cisco 9300 Catalyst switches have about 8 GB of RAM, but switches with beefy amounts of RAM are getting pretty common now, even if somewhat pricey.

Yeah there's massive swathes of embedded space that's tiny. But the higher end stuff isn't exactly out of reach anymore. The RK3288's IIRC ran about $20 a unit at the time before I left the industry.

16% of Canadians in 2022 didn't have a data plan on their phone, according to Statistics Canada. Roughly 6 million Canadians or so.

So not everyone. Actually a decent number of people that don't.

They might not have a choice but to do so.

UN Regulation 155 and ISO/SAE 21434 are going to require that intra-car communications require some sort of authentication system between computers. It's regulations attempting to get ahead of potential hacks for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) infrastructure.

Unfortunately this likely also means the ability to replace failed ECU's on a car will be only limited to car manufacturers willingness to explicitly authorize a part to be installed into a car, even genuinely OEM parts straight from the manufacturer. Don't know when it comes into force but it's on the way.

Overhead which probably includes warranty of the work and materials, and liability in case he damages something doing the work along with the additional regular costs.

Not to mention there's the possible, "I don't like you," fee.

I suppose if would depend on whether you believe that inaction leading to more death is more ethical then actively choosing to murder one life to save the other.

Let's look at the same problem but swap out the actors. Say you have one man with a mortal wound to his heart, and another man with a mortal wound to his lungs. Both will probably die, both men have families, and neither wants to die. Is it ethical to murder one man without his consent and harvest the deceased's organs to save the other?

Children apparently. And common enough apparently that ISO formalized it:

> This document specifies requirements to reduce the risk of asphyxiation from caps for writing and marking instruments. It relates to such instruments which in normal or foreseeable circumstances are likely to be used by children up to the age of 14 years.

- ISO 11540:2021, https://www.iso.org/standard/81889.html

Dunno if it's any better.

The competition then switches from spending direct financial resources to the university to spending financial resources to out compete other students vying for the same university. In China there's usually 1 seat per 50 candidates for good university spots, and the only thing that matters is your ranking in the entrance exams. It's not exactly uncommon for high school students to be spending 14 to 19 hours a day 7 days a week for 3 to 4 years preparing academically to win a spot.

Trading one bad situation for another one really.

Isn't there problems with replacing a single cell causing the battery management system to go whacky? I was under the impression that the cells need to be balanced with each other in some fashion.

Japan's wary about making their automotive industry critically dependant on Chinese industries. The Chinese already proved twice that they're willing to use supply chain dependency as political means to punish Japan, once with rare earth minerals and again recently with graphite in retaliation for the semi conductor exports ban.

And it's not just batteries. The supply chain of mineral mining, purification processing, to sub component manufacturing is dominated by Chinese companies. I think it's something like 98% of the global purified graphite needed for battery cathodes comes from Chinese refineries; everywhere else multiple times more expensive. For procuring one of the most common elements on the planet; carbon.

I suspect part of the reason why Japan not so hesitant anymore is because of the US Japan Critical Minerals Agreement covering cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and nickel.

https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press1e_000400.html

"You took an oath, if you recall, when you first came to work for me. And I don't mean to the National Security Advisor of the United States, I mean to his boss... and I don't mean the President. You gave your word to his boss: you gave your word to the people of the United States. Your word is who you are."

I doubt anyone could pull the gravitas that he brought to the role of Admiral Greer.

Low but it wasn't exactly unheard of either. There were full time positions publicly offering only $20,000 a year right on the listing itself. Not sure how publicly offering below minimum wage makes any sense though.

Highest offer I've heard specifically for a mid level SDET position was $72,000 for 4 to 5 YOE but it was with a big company out of Vancouver. AFAIK they had no problem filling that opening within a few weeks.

Kind of depends. I live in Canada, most companies don't pay software related jobs like dev or SDET particularly well. When I left my QA / SDET position at 9 years of experience my salary was $52,000 Canadian a year.

To give you an idea, it would've been like living in Denver, Colorado on a $35,000 USD salary in 2020-ish or so.

Not every engineer is going to be making six figures. You just don't see those folks talking about it too much.

Canadian federal government just mandated 3 days in the office for all government employees.

Canadian businesses were lobbying as well as pressure from Ontario Premier Ford and Mayor Olivia Chow. The Ontario and Nova Scotia provincial governments have ordered return to office minimum 3 days a week by October.

Governments in Canada are not sleeping. Quite the opposite in fact.

Eh, maybe. There's Indian devs from Noida are up to snuff; skilled, fluent in English and hard working, and mesh well with western team members.

But they're not cheap from what I've heard, especially with overhead setting up shop in a foreign country. Similar story for devs from São Paulo as well.

To a degree, the dedicated barcode scanners is still a fair bit faster. So anything dealing with high volumes of barcodes like warehousing inventory or store stock management benefits from a dedicated scanner.

Police, EMS, fire service, and military use them. The laptops are often mounted inside of the vehicles and need to withstand a fair amount of bumping around. A lot of them also specifically include RS232 ports to interface with industrial equipment as well.

I daily used a semi rugged for a while for shits and giggles. Actually wasn't bad to lug around, it had an inbuilt handle made it easy. And there was very little guilt about quickly slamming the lid shut so moving it around from place to place was actually easier then you'd think.

>Every time I see the advice to wear insect-repellent every time going outdoors, I wonder whether that's actually good advice, and what the health pros&cons are.

The insect repellent isn't just for mosquitos. DEET is fairly effective against ticks and black flies as well, neither of which is particularly fun to deal with. Whether you need to apply it or not depends a lot on the environment and climate but I always keep a bottle of DEET based repellent and Afterbite in the car just in case.

>Also suspicious is that protocol is missing. For example, how do you use bug spray, where on body, do you really need it every time you go outside, when do you wash it off and how, what about clothing, why do only sometimes they say not to use such-and-such spray on children and pregnant/nursing women (but other times they don't), does advice differ for urban vs. rural, what are the side effects or adverse interactions to know, etc.

There's more then one kind of repellent, and their delivery is going to change the formula as well; lotion isn't going to be be same formulation is an aerosol or manual spray, even if the repellent itself is the same. Is it any real surprise that there isn't going to be some universal direction for application with so much variety?

More volatile, actually. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231344

It's a big reason why ordinance has a shelf life and has to be destroyed once it hits that age.

I don't think it's just that. Imagine the kind of money the more unscrupulous could make selling sugar pills for $100 each saying that it's the cure for whatever is killing you.

Desperation can cloud even the most rational of minds.

>HTTPS is shrouded behind inscrutable crypto, but nearly everyone trusts it with their credit card details.

Credit card via HTTPS has a second layer to it though, the accountings/auditing layer. You can't achieve that with secret ballot voting without throwing out the secret part.

That genuinely doesn't seem to solve anything to me.

Sure you can generate all these secret codes but then why wouldn't a briber ask for you to take a picture or video of the screen with all the codes and secret? OCR and computer vision is quite good nowadays and most people are carrying a video camera in their pocket, so the process can potentially be scaled. Bonus points if its install the Purple App and ask the voter to point their camera at the screen with all the codes. Double bonus points if the app generates a nice easy password for the used to plug in to be used as your secret.

And the thing is that it doesn't need to be super accurate. Even if its only budgeted with $10 million worth of $100 gift cards and it's only about 70% of the cards were getting the desired outcome, that's still 70,000 votes going purple. Especially if you limit it to being the first 100,000 confirmed voters, you'll still get people participating if they think there is still hope for getting a card. Even more if you're convincing voters that are only voting for the sake of a gift card and don't actually care about the result of the election.

And ultimately that's just one of several attack vectors I can think of. And I'm not a smart person; I'd go as far to say that I'm actually pretty stupid. I can't imagine what a room full of actually smart folks with NSA-like budget and NSA-like permissions can come up with. Remember the gigantic mess with Dual_EC_DRBG in the FIPS 140-2 standard?

I'm not sure how the solves the issue of a voter that wants to reveal their vote.

Not really, one of the goals in contradictory to the stated goal of an electronic voting system of voter verifiability.

The problem is that when you can verify that your own vote has been counted a certain way, that can be used to influence the vote. $100 Amazon gift card if you verify that you have voted Purple. Lack of verifiability has been a feature to prevent a voter from willingly participating in manipulation.

Yes they can conflict. I chose slavery because it did conflict. 13 States left succeeded from the United States to form the Confederacy to protect slavery at the behest of their own citizens. And the remaining Union disagreed. Violently. The US Civil War was one of the bloodiest in it's history.

Even today. SCOTUS overturning Roe vs Wade and allowing States to prohibit abortions. A difference because of a disagreement on whether or not a human embryo is entitled to be treated as a full human being with all the same rights and responsibilities.

Hence the nuance. You can look at the same document that says these rights, but how they are achieved and what limits there are can differ due to differences in opinion.

>To use your example, the slave owner's right to pursuit of happiness ends where the slaves' rights to liberty and pursuit of happiness begin. A would-be slave owner cannot and should not violate another man's (a would-be slave's) right to liberty and pursuit of happiness

Except you've chosen to violate the owners right to happiness by attempting to place limitations on the rights that were so called inalienable. What you think the limit should be and what the slave owner thinks the limit should be differ.

Same right, but in this case brought into conflict by disagreement of interpretations.

Second, what happens when the other side refuses to stop because he believes that your interpretation is wrong? What do you do then?

No GP but I think they such rights cannot be absolute because the same right can conflict with itself.

Say it's the 18 century with slavery is common. The slave owners are depriving the slaves of liberty and happiness. But the deprivation of the slaves liberty brings the owners happiness.

If you cannot persuade the owners to stop depriving slaves of liberty, then there two options remain.

One, you respect the owners right to happiness. But at the expense of the slave's liberty.

Two, you use force to stop the owners from violating the slaves rights. But in doing so you violate the owners right to happiness.

What's the answer then here if there no options that do not harm someone's unalienable rights?