barkingcat

I have a Jetson as well, and you are sorely mistaken. Just reading the doc pages everything seems nice and well, but Nvidia deprecates these little boards like no other. No support after you've bought the thing, and everything is kept frozen. (ie no new python, no new python dependencies, etc) What they aren't telling you is that specific sub-versions within each jetson/orin family board have differing support (ie not what they say on that website you are reading), and it's up to you to figure it out.

I've gotten my Jetson to work well using Yocto to build my own linux distros with correct updated dependencies, libraries and updated jetpack, but it's not for the faint of heart, and that's a whole other ball of yarn. It also takes a few hours to generate a new build every time I need to update some dependency that depends on other dependencies (Yocto maintenance is a full time job in many embedded development shops - you're basically authoring your own distribution).

Treat these devices as what they are: embedded target boards for fixed industrial development (for example, to go into a robot or a car - once that design is finished, Nvidia will expect you to NEVER update any part of the system with an embedded jetson or orin system for years, until you replace the whole thing with their newest model that you buy off the shelf again).

This is standard fare in embedded and robotics space. Do not use these boards for any kind of rapidly moving software development, because it's the wrong tool for the job.

by hijacking the git moniker. most college students think of github before they think of git itself.

that brand power is worth billions.

also, if you really need to transfer hundreds of TB's of data from South Africa to the US, put it on a palette of disks and send it via bulk shipping.

then load the data into the datacentre and then just pay for the last sync / delta.

It's kind of disingenuous to criticise minipc's for "limited upgrade-ability" when the Mac Mini has everything soldered on and is completely non-upgradable (no storage, no memory, no cpu upgrades), and the Mac Studio has memory slots, but non-upgradable and proprietary components.

If you want to judge a small serverlike device for being non-upgradable, the Mac Mini and Mac Studio would completely fail this criteria.

Why would you assume that? You don’t need to use their app.

The Music is awesome.

reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgrn7vopZU

what if it was a crappy 12 character password like 123456789012 and got bruteforced in 2 tries?

also, at one point it was popular to use l33t speak for passwords so there are many crappy 12+ char l33t passwords floating around that are trivial to guess, no brute forcing required.

why does this need a technical solution? Just type in the password. Presumably if the system is important enough to be airgapped and needs a 100+ character randomized password (without copy paste and without hardware keys), it is important enough for you to spend the time to memorize and type in the passwords.

Otherwise, it is just security theatre if you won't even spend the time to make absolutely sure that 1) you are typing into an authorized device that won't log your key strokes, and 2) that using any other "assistance" mechanisms represents a breach in the security of this system.

Just friggin memorize it and type it in. For me, I memorize my bank password and PIN even though it's very complicated. This information is important enough for me to commit the time and not cheapen out by "relying on a tool". Of course, I keep it in my password manager as a record, but in daily use I absolutely do not say to the teller: oh I need to look it up. I recite to the bank my passphrase and other id confirmation by memorization, I know it even better than my own phone number.

If you need multiple people to log in, each person should have a different password, only memorized by that person alone.

If the person can't memorize it, I would say either change the design of the system or fire this person because "they had one job: to memorize and type in this password".

Wall street is full of corporate board members being very critical of ceo's approach and therefore driving sales of divisions, assets, layoffs, etc.

that's one of the fundamental jobs of the board: to be critical and to guide direction, especially if the direction is different from what is happening at the moment.

and yes, multiple Ford board members were/are extremely critical of Ford's approach to cars and are very public about it. That's why multiple CEO's were sacked, and even members of the Ford family are not spared from criticism from the Ford Board.

It's entirely possible that both suffer from sunk cost fallacy, and from that analysis there isn't a "better" or "more" sunk cost. It's already sunk, anything you sink further into it is a waste.

In general, the first paycheck from a new employer is usually an actual paper check, because they want you to get your 1st payment before the direct deposit is set up.

I've even been given a pro-rated paper check from the accounting department on the first day (as part of onboarding), for 1st day wages, as soon as I get into the office and shown to my desk/work area.

It's an act of good will because they are paying you for work you did on your first day (instead of cheating you to say "we'll pay you when everything gets set up", they are upfront with the "day worked deserves fair wage" principle)

Usually, if you buy a vinyl, the artist will include a download link for digital files of your choice - I like buying music this way because the vinyl helps the artist, and in turn the artist usually will give you lossless compressed files direct from mastering.

wikipedia has a great article on broadcom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom

Its history goes back to the 1960's. It is a major semiconductor company that I would say, was part of the ecosystem that made computers and networks possible.

You haven't heard of them because they make too much of everything that makes the fabric of everyday computing.

It's like how you would never really know of the company who made the pipes for your toilet/plumbing.

good mention of the replay feature! I haven't used that before, but that sounds like something that they could sell for a lot of money and companies would want to buy that feature.

I'm using a MBP 2019 16" at the moment, and I can't upgrade yet. Hopefully I get to move over to the apple silicon laptops in the next couple years!

most people don't use vmware the way you use virtualbox.

The money making part of vmware licensing is the baremetal hypervisor ESXi, the competitors are xen or hyperv and the likes.

The lock-in part of vmware is the vsphere management software, that allows you to move VM's en mass from one baremetal machine to another baremetal machine, or allows you to nest vm's, etc. manage your entire fleet of vm's which could be thousands or hundreds of thousands of virtual machines, from one management interface.

it's basically docker except it's actual entire vm's being moved around. VMWare ESXi being a baremetal hypervisor means you can run different OS's on top of these vm's and imagine being able to move these VM's all running different OS's around in your ecosystem.

That's what people pay the big bucks to vmware for.

It would be very difficult to build the vsphere/esxi ecosystem with pure opensource tools (it's possible with Xen, etc) but you'd be right back at paying some vendor a massive amount of money for building, integrating, and supporting this kind of system. (Redhat will happily sell you something that approximates vmware's tools, for megabucks).

As an aside, the consumer "vmware" software that you install on your workstation is such a small portion of their business, they basically spend no money on fixing/upkeeping. Apple silicon support was in beta for a loooong time, and they don't actually care about their workstation product. ESXi makes the money.

personally, I think all the people involved and the releases, written statements, etc were outputs of the LLM.

this kind of thinking is avoiding responsibility. He is part of the board, so he acted to bring this about.

Clippy is the ultimate brand name of an AI assistant

Musk can fire anyone who stayed.

Incredible as it sounds, the end goal is to end all human civilization.

Nuclear deterrence is built on the idea that if I don't get to live, nobody gets to live.

The leaders of the nuclear powers decided it would be better for all humanity to die than for a nuclear power to be striked.

I like the inclusion of the bibliography. I should do that with all my blog posts too (even if it's links to other posts, etc, the references still help to understand the post)

More like a motorcade of motorcycles, 3 at the front in arrow formation pushing out the traffic, the forward section not shy about using their guns to move people away - these would be real NYPD with badges hired during their off-duty hours, they would be carrying NYPD weapons.

Then you have the main security cordon, a quad / box. They would be on motorbikes, but it would be like guards, and since the traffic is already cleared by the forward section, it would just go at the fastest speed the cyclist courier can go.

The cyclist is in the middle of the quad/box.

Then at the back you have a rear section (also 3 NYPD off duty cops on motorbikes with firearms licenses and authorized to shoot with no consequence because they are union protected), which will block traffic from coming too close to the courier.

There are thousands of these kinds of services. Almost all would be bonded, some would offer armed security escorts to go with the courier (of course, for a fee).

There is a collision in names:

Cicada, this CI tool, uses a DSL (domain specific language) to write configuration, and this DSL is referred to as "Cicada language", and blasted in marketing copy as a "real programming language" on https://cicada.sh/ . The Cicada DSL is documented in https://cicada.sh/docs/ci-lang/index.html

However, this is a completely different language from Cicada language, a programming language and theorem prover hosted at https://cicada-lang.org/ and https://github.com/cicada-lang/cicada .

This name collision is very confusing, and I wonder why Cicada the CI tool didn't just stick to python, since it is also a "real programming language."

Reads like an inability to follow directions and to communicate clearly.

This person even though having great ideas, needs an editor and a communicator liaison to help get the ideas across.

First suggestion is to separate out the personal greavances from the ideas for the project and present them as distinct issues.

There is a section of this posting that reads like what I would send to an HR department when trying to get accommodation.

Datacentre administrators don't know how to run utilities.

Imagine replacing the word "power" with "sewage" and try to see if you would entrust the functionality of your toilet to your local friendly sysadmin.

No. You'd never ask a system administrator to administer your plumbing. Neither should you ask your system administrator to maintain a diesel power generator. Diesel generators have more in common with automobile internal combustion engines and in the high power segment, airplane jet turbines. In fact, many turbine cores are used as both airplane jet engine and as terrestrial power generation unit.

You're basically asking the wrong people to maintain the infrastructure.

Part of your story involves the point os update release where apple just straight up removed system python.

that would have been a nightmare

They need to look good in order to sell you ads and sell you software, so in my opinion, Microsoft is bound to be good (in order to go bad)

this means there's no point in evangelizing for big companies like microsoft, because it's just the cycle. (And also, no need to be embarrassed, because that's the cycle too!)

It's like feeling bad that you got hungry, so you ate, and then you feel sorry that you ate, so you got hungry again, it's a cycle, companies need to look good in order to get customers, then they will exploit the customers they got by looking good, and then look bad cause the goal is to exploit the customers, and the cycle starts again.