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In one case I've heard around the water cooler; A city's intersections were(are?) rocking Sun SPARC servers to do all the control stuff. Yes, each intersection apparently had its own.

I don't know if I ever really believed it until this article confirmed that kind of cost.

What redress do you think you have even if you "trust" someone? That 100 dollar widget you bought in cash didn't work? Well fuck you, see you in court. Now what? Are you going to take the store to court over 100 bucks? Pay with a card and your card company doesn't want to reverse charges? Same problem... I'd bet that per 5000 transactions, debit and credit cards have more fraud that the 'end user' has no remediation for than bitcoin does.

Sometimes, reinventing the wheel is exactly the point when the wheel has been engineered to favor the engineers.

Linux support sucks for a high-end network card that runs the Linux kernel internally for TCP offload and acceleration?

That's some deep irony.

Their original product lines at any rate. Newer wireless models don't specify.

Actually, you make the best case for ARM servers of anyone else in this thread.

The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...

That doesn't invalidate his point. He's just saying that is basically what needs to happen for ARM servers to start taking off. The next step is for companies to start deploying ARM workstations. That part still seems to be a good way off, MS abandoning their Windows ARM port didn't help the cause.

Employees only win 21% of the time. Almost half as often as federal courts and over half in state courts.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/#ep...

Plus, private arbitration is private. The terrible things the companies do to employees don't end up on public records. You can't even tell how often they are being taken to inverse kangaroo court.

"any other init system..." originally included "...besides an ancient SysV strawman." but I removed it because it seemed overly snarky.

Having written and dealt with both; It's about equal in my time and effort to write either in sh or windows ini/'unit' files.

I ask this in every systemd thread but I genuinely would love a real answer. Can anyone give me exact real-world examples of where systemd is objectively better suited than any number of other init systems?

The fact that I still have yet to see any such examples in the last half a decade seems pretty telling. Wouldn't and shouldn't there be tons of such examples given the rhetoric?

20 years later, SSD drives are eating "enterprise storage" companies alive. Time marches on...

CDN and routing optimization ala 'ECS'. Also ISPs that inject or screw with DNS queries. Its easier and more importantly cheaper to get all the same metrics and data from other sources rather than DNS. (And you already consented for those other data sources.)

I don't trust they aren't evil, they are. I trust they are also smart.

They say her 3 month supply was $3700. Branding and "format" will affect the numbers. Pen? Vile? Pump? Humalog? Novalog? did the somewhat vague "3 month supply" include both short and long acting versions in the price tag?

I don't doubt the numbers, but I do detect some omission/simplification to make it seem extra stark.

It's like watching a 3-card Monty hustler yelling across the street at the 3 cup and ball guy for being a scam.

Sure. So a contractor gets flexible hours, the possibility to telecommute and leeway on how projects are handled right? Give that a try some time as a contractor and let us know how hard the company tries to abide by those rules. I'm sure it'll work out swell.

So what your saying is... We should ignore letters from patent clerks?

Is anyone still trying to come up with Fermat's original "truly marvelous proof"? Or have math folk talked themselves out of its possible existence?

Protecting the customers buying the laws of course.

Results clearly indicate that isn't the case. EG the 2000 and 2016 elections.

The level of cognitive dissonance the public has about politics is the most disheartening part of the whole burning shit show. Remember America; It's your own fault if he beats you, you made him do it.

Wouldn't the police have a "right" to know if a person has any weapons? Detaining everyone and performing a full cavity search for any and all infractions is just the police exercising their "right" to such information. Will you be the first to bend over and spread for the cops "right" to peace of mind?

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."

The public has the same attention span of a goldfish. The rules were never going to work the way everyone assumed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-per...

http://time.com/82409/wheeler-net-neutrality/

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/tom-wheeler-net-neutr... http://time.com/74703/net-neutrality-fcc-rules-plan-angers-a...

But then 2016 and suddenly we got hit with an MIB neurolizer and Wheeler was the hero we all wanted, not the shill the lobbyists bought.

Randall put it pretty well https://xkcd.com/1827/

iPod 'circles' are physical. They are resistance based just like pots. Nothing digital about them.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1069

NuvaRing? Implant? IUD? Patch? Pills? Which birth control methods are not being covered? How old is this birth control coverage data? Viagra is a heart medication first and boner pill second, Were the data sources clear on why someone got viagra approved in any given case? I'm willing to buy it but not at face value.

I only doubt the birth control assertion for the most American of all reasons; Corporate Profits. Insurers would(do?) save BILLIONS in coverage for pregnant women by giving out the pill. It's against their own self interest.

Transistor progress is still a major if not the primary factor. The power requirements have gone down while battery density went up.

Try running an Osborne 1 on a modern laptop battery for example.

Many large cities have terrible public transit that isn't just impractical but impossible. Public transport doesn't even run around the time of morning I head in to the office at 6am.

If it DID run and I could take it, I would have to spend 3 additional hours each day in commute time between long round-about routes and waiting/switching bus/train lines. I would pay 5 dollars per day for this service. Almost double the cost to drive given the current 2.60/gal gas prices.

The number of unexplained but apparently natural heart attacks in middle aged people with disgruntled partners would sky rocket.

Weight trainers can and probably already do (ab)use insulin to maximize their gains by manipulating blood sugar levels during workouts.

self-diagnosed and self-medicated diabetics showing up at hospitals that have no indication of this and pump them full of glucose.

Public & untrusted != Unencrypted. Otherwise TLS ain't doing shit for you if I control everything you see at layer 2 and up, including the encryption keys and their validity.

Would you care to try doing your banking over my WEP-only secured 802.11b network?

Depends entirely on what replication goals you have setup. My simple cluster (not EC or XOR) mandates 2 copies per chunk at a minimum. My 1-byte file was unaffected by a single chunk corruption, even on the node in which the corruption originated.

The two are mutually exclusive? Let me have a talk with your kids about life, death, Santa and the Easter bunny. I won't be a condescending dick, I'll just be telling them how things really are.

Minnows README says it supports lwIP-raw. Atmel apparently also has their own reference example of an lwIP HTTP server for AVR32.(Probably FreeRTOS based)

http://ultimaserial.com/classroom2.html

Make a company with a 47 billion dollar valuation and those "desperate" venture capitalists will introduce themselves.

Most of the weight you manage to keep off from eating organic comes off your wallet.

"organic" is a marketing buzzword that doesn't have the meaning that you are told. USDA certified "organic" vegetables can be grown with tons of hormones and pesticides, provided they are organic in origin themselves. They can even use non-organic chemicals provided enough of the organics board decides an organic version is too costly.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/01/25/organic-101-allow...