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OneTimePetes··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Would be nice to have a german software culture. But all we got is politicians who wish for that and then turn a blind eye on fraudsters like WireCard. Something is missing from the german cultural dna, that our neighbours have.(Swiss,Luxemburg, Belgians, Chechen Republic, Poland, Litauen).

Seems the most important thing to be big in software in europe, is to foremost be not german ;)

OneTimePetes··on Waterford has Ireland's 2nd highest Covid incidence with 99.7% fully vaccinated
The vaccine relies on the human immune response to fight the disease it learned.

If there is a health-pandemic, that suppresses the imune-system (like unrecognized diabetes/ vitamin-d deficiency / rheumatic suppression medication) the disease will wage its attack against a weakened imune-system.

Which creates ideal conditions for a full disease break-through.

So Covid only highlights all sorts of failing health systems.

OneTimePetes··on Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)
To be honest, i found these values touted, to be the signal of the worst kind of subjective code, leading to endless "battles" between subjective "better" code styles and bitter endless "but mine is more logic"-debates where the subjectiveness of ones opinion is not even perceived.

I had programers on lousy toolchains argue for the 9000 codeline one-file copy paste monolith, because it was "objectively" easier to debug.

There is always a teammates code, who will be different.

OneTimePetes··on Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?
It points towards black-market activity being legalized so what is effectively a despicable crime against the allmende can happen in broad daylight. This lack of "black markets" is more a indicator of systemic rot.
OneTimePetes··on Combatting Mass Clear-Cutting in Congo
It would be nice though, if the illegal loggers at least planted bamboo - the only "forrest" proven to be sustainable near large conglomerations of humans.
OneTimePetes··on Russia is stoking tension with Ukraine and the EU
Historic landmarks are not relevant at all. If a people wants to join a different nation - while shouldn't they? Nations are the nautilus shells of the hermit crabs that are people.

In Recognition of the soon the posted argument of the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

Russia failed to attract its potential citizens, to offer a cooler, more vital society other people wanted to join

OneTimePetes··on Your next car may refuse to start if it thinks you've had a drink
"Only a drunk would argue with a robot-"
OneTimePetes··on The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)
A massive body such as the moon, would re-merge by gravity alone, wouldnt it?
OneTimePetes··on Show HN: I made a no-code tool to create animated technical papers
and thus will reinvent the wheel - instead of simply including executable javascript into the pdf

All things become browsers given enough time..

OneTimePetes··on Russia has conducted an Anti-satellite weapons test. ISS crew sheltering
Every billionaire with space capabilitys has a defacto nuke anyway. He who is out of the gravity well, has power over those who downwards dwell.

Any hobo in space with a ion-thruster and a astronomically app, can hold a planet for ransom. Space civilization, has a physics based class system..

OneTimePetes··on Show HN: I made a no-code tool to create animated technical papers
That is because the target market usually shuns technical papers, because the tool didnt exist previously.

This is for the Projectlead who sends you links to papers, to do "research" for him and wants it visualized in a presentation.

Now he does not need you to be his eyes and explaining things in layman terms. Actually i could see this standardized and partially auto-generated for math-papers.

OneTimePetes··on Combatting Mass Clear-Cutting in Congo
This is what the silk road was all about, that everyone cheered on- build infra-structure, to harvest resources like the colonizers of old. Debt-slavery and strategic owned ports.

There are no "nice" big players, just different decoration styles to resource extraction.

OneTimePetes··on Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
The whole thing is further complicated, by significant differences, being- unimportant. As in- differences of the sweat glands do not make for real differentiation. Different coloured skin is a superficial- unimportant difference.

What would be a differentiator - aka different brain-chemistrys and neuro-types - are non-existent or omnipresent.

Taking neuro-types as adapted to circumstances, the characteristika usually fielded by racists, are almost always a expression of "percentages" of neuro-types thriving due to different historic circumstances.

If you spend several generations enslaved and waged war upon, those neuro-typus adapted to the circumstances - will make up a large part of the surviving population.

Racism causes history, and history causes perceivable "Race" because humanity adapts to whatever it goes through. Given enough "good time" generations, the "adapted survivors" retreat percentage wise and are replaced once again with peaceful neuro-types. Unless, the stressful conditions are artificially prolonged.

OneTimePetes··on Your next car may refuse to start if it thinks you've had a drink
"Open the door halcohol"..

"Im afraid i cant do that.."

"Why not hal?"

"Your colone is to rich in ethanol. And so is the window-cleaning fluid and the stuff they spilled over your shirt."

"But im not drunk. Let me proof it."

OneTimePetes··on Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports
TL,DR: Unregulated business optimized towards size instead of continuous flow of goods and boom-busted transport infra-structure.

Thesis does not hold up. If smaller transport craft could compete, they would and good transported with them would arrive faster.

OneTimePetes··on Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
This is not a argument, this is just contradiction.
OneTimePetes··on Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
So true, should store the unaltered raw-data-picture as scanned.

Its actually nightmarish.

A silent corruption of court-documents, stored plans and land-records, patent-filings with the originals often permanently gone.

Contracts that can be nulled and voided by a hostile party on this basis by simply challenging the document on basis of the archiving process.

A error so deep and systematic, it even mangled the birth certificate of the us-president when it was scanned. The whole affair is a huge advertisement for keeping written records and avoid digitization, same as voting machines.

OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Our company developed for twincat3. Yes there is progress. And yes it is very slow. None the less - the inheritance & interfaces work. And the community produces great stuff - low and behold. A wild UnitTest framework for PLCs appears.

https://tcunit.org/

Im not pessimistic. Im just realistic. This is not enough speed to keep up with something disruptive brewed within AMZ or TESLA.

All they have to do is piss of a billionaire with delays one to many times..

OneTimePetes··on Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
And destroyed the legal viability of several scanned document archives in the progress. If you have any contracts/legal binding documents that were archived with this technology, you may appeal them at any time.
OneTimePetes··on How to invest without knowing the future
The trick is to overcome the "just one scenario" bug in our brains, that is there to prevent group-fracturing and civil war. This is why we prefer binary worldviews (black/white).

So, you are ready for parallel exploration- now a working capitalism can do that for you, when its not self-sabotaging by becoming monopolistic. There is no real parallel exploration in a big cooperation.

Finally, the last sub-optimal part that has to go, is the attachment to enterprises and humans. What is important is not the company or the CEO, but the technology.

A company can go bust and all you retain as shareholder is the IP - and this can become the foundation of a whole micro-cosmos. Individual Products are nothing, but the capability to produce something within resource reach- is everything.

OneTimePetes··on Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia
Yes, i know, no market, no interest in it, but there is this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy

It correlates with the wealth in a country. An-alphabets will prefer voice chat.

OneTimePetes··on Boeing admits full responsibility for 737 Max plane crash in Ethiopia
"Is anyone here a doctor.. Im sorry, force of habit.. Is anyone here a software engineer..Whatever you do, do not close your laptop at take-off.."
OneTimePetes··on How trains could replace planes in Europe
Specially love those tourist traps, who "loose" your bags so they can sell you cloths and "find" it, upon your return trip.

You were the local shopping stimulus all along.

OneTimePetes··on How trains could replace planes in Europe
Wish there was a hack for this.. like selling them to yourselves with same day delivery on amazon.
OneTimePetes··on Google reorg moves AR, VR, Starline and Area 120 into new ‘Labs’ team
<Promotion crickets> on the project graveyard.

The truth is that google project are dead is by now a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody will build a company, which is relying on google frameworks and APIs beyond adtech.

OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
No, i do not. But i suggest having environments, that teach those technicians over time the basics and shove them towards searching for engineering knowledge for solutions and incooperate best practices.

I'm violently opposed to crunching those "self-thought" to death in no-code-marathons were they are expected to realize complex behaviour with declawed software-Lego-bricks.

Software is eating their world too. Have you ever seen the eyes of a guy who copy pasted a "pallet" structure together, because he never knew about arrays?

PostScriptum:

>Nobody wants it and the few that want it don't want

>to pay for it. Control engineering really isn't a

>branch of CS, its culturally its own thing.

I have heard these lines a thousand times by now.

Its different - we have processes that require hard "Real-time"-capable hard and software..

So.. Space X and all those other projects using hard real-time in the lower decks, are not software controlled devices?

Its different -we have physical processes we control at the end of day. So a amazon package logistic center is not a physical process? A self-driving car is not a physical process?

Its different, reliability is huge if the process ever fails. So Google and AWHs DevOps do not have that pressure?

Its exactly this. Just another, run-down department of CS. Run-down to save a few cents and now running into the limitations its No-Code solutions impose. Grinding good, untrained people to dust, because it wants to save money. And thus ready for disruption.

OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Yes, you do not. Its a no code solution for beginners. The very same beginner who rule this industry style wise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBPxxIjr9U

You can program it in simatic manager- which can convert other languages (KOP, AWL (Assembly-equivalent if i recall)) into FUP.

Which promotes using it for larger scale projects. Which will not have objects. Not have functions. Just kilometres of ladder logic, by the time the disaster management crew is called.

OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Honestly i do not understand that large SV-Companies like Amazon or Tesla not just roll out there own equipment and steam-roll this whole deprecated industry. Any IDE + git is superior to almost anything they have currently shipped. (Beckhoff at least tried)

I can only imagine the scene of a PLC-Programmer explaining to Elon, that instancing the exact same machine will take the exact same development time again & again. Cause using Parameter & Configfiles is not done - instead its pasted into the code.

Add a Steam like Online-Software shop (Dev to Dev) to it while basically vendoring the equipment for cheap and you got the whole Eco-system cornered happily forever after.

This nightmarish pre-historic dinosaurs with copy & paste monks producing software - have to go. The 80s are over.

OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Its very much broken by design. It has no proper Callstack debugging and thus discourages structured programming - aka use of objects and methods.
OneTimePetes··on Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Usually BH is the cheaper more capable solution. Add a el3204 if its not already build into the core you buy and voila.
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