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One of the biggest issues we have to solve is the indexing and verification of knowledge. This is where I hope AI and ML will go, but being able to say whether the data is unique or derived from another source and being able to catalog it is something that is entirely lacking.

Right now there is just too much shit out there and it’s difficult to know what the context is for it.

It's dry, weather is consistent(though hot), has a robust power grid, has an engineering school who produces semiconductor grads, has a large pre-existing industrial base and has ready access to water (the plant is literally next to a 340 mile water canal that runs from the Colorado river and sits atop a water basin that has had water levels rising since the 80s).

I'm not sure there are many better places outside Oregon, California or Texas...

Which ironically they are trying to move away from(custom ASICS), towards more fpga based systems, since they can be somewhat harder to reverse engineer (battery back your memory/processor and scramble the bitstream when the device is tampered with).

Because wealthier people have more complicated returns and are much more likely to litigate, resulting in more time commitment.

For high net wealth audits, you could have potentially dozens of people working on it for years so there is a possibility that a judge / jury rules in your favor.

They are going after low effort people, but making it up by volume.

It actually has been in a propaganda war for the last 10+ years, but most of the leadership has been asleep at the wheel.

Coupled with the fact there are laws against what communications from the US government are considered propaganda (thus illegal), gives US adversaries a significant leg up on being able to influence the population.

My first thought is it reminds me of the infinite monkey theorem but with no code apps.

My second thought is... why? I thought the whole point of no code platforms is so you don't have to hire experts.

There are ways to detect proximity to infrastructure and proxies... it's a lot easier/cheaper to just have boxes with like 50 LTE modems and pay someone some money to switch out sims once a day/week/whenever.

In other countries, SIM cards and mobile internet is stupid cheap.

My few experiences with RH support/engineering have been universally bad. Each time they basically said, well, that won't get fixed since the fix for that behavior wasn't patched until a later feature release.

Support means fuckall when they don't care or their timelines are measured in quarters and years. It's why when someone says "oh, you are paying for support" I just laugh at them. The tens of thousands of dollars we paid per year for RHEL would have been infinitely better utilized for supporting upstream projects and their developers.

Many had automation that broke with the twitter api being rug pulled.

Others don't care for the way they systematically dismantled their trust and safety team.

And finally, some just don't like the direction the platform is heading.

Twitter has made it clear they don't care about their employees, their platform users or anything but frantically trying to extract a bit of money out of zombie company.

You should talk to some of your local newspapers/culture magazines about your experience as well, they love these types of stories and you can get free exposure for it.

Their pricing has become bonkers over the last few years. Most people in traditional businesses need o365 for word/excel/powerpoint, and you effectively get email for free, so for many companies its a no brainer.

Hmm, well, if those are accurate numbers than the us spends more than the next 9 countries combined.

Still, the us spends more than 2.5x per year than China.

Maybe, their ambitions are definitely that they stand toe to toe with the US.

However, the fact they are just now starting to issue body armor to their soldiers and have not had any real combat experience in the modern age might be difficult challenges to overcome.

It's a lot different to push around your effectively unarmed neighbors than the US, who has been in large scale military conflicts since the 40's. To put it in perspective, the US spends over 800 billion dollars per year on the military. It's more than the next 10 countries, combined.

Also, depending on how the bullets get caught at the range (shredded tires vs sand vs steel backstops), they tend to produce a lots of fine lead dust[1].

[1] - https://youtu.be/QfDoQwIAaXg

Depends on what scale, and how systems are managed.

I have seen <site code><host function><id> quite a bit for environments less than, say, 10,000 hosts work well.

I have also seen places that just do p/v/c-<id> for stuff too, where p=physical, v=virtual, c=container and id is just a hex representation of the host number in the config db.

The big thing is having thoughtful DNS and load balancer setups for services. If you have a vpn, it should be vpn.domain.name or for documentation docs.domain.name.

I had 1Password gobble my GitHub account credentials, which is fucking terrifying since most of my 2fa backup codes get stored in 1Password.

I really need to back everything up offline more frequently.

When I do this I always preface it with, "hey here is an example of what you could send... feel free to copy-pasta or ask in whatever way you want". That way it isn't as icky feeling.

You can get CM4s with eMMC memory now, but if I was doing a CM4, might as well just use an nvme ssd.

Ah yes... the all or nothing school of black and white thinking appears.

I'm not a climate scientist, activist or am particularly conscious about the environment, but even I know that these effects stack on each other. Had we even flattened emissions, rather than going up and to the right at a steep rate, we could have slowed the problem. As it is, we have drastically increased the amount of impact any meaningful solutions will need.

My understanding of the subject is basic, but the changes we are experiencing happen slowly, then quickly and unpredictably.

You sir, are a legend. This has strong stallman [1] vibes, and I say that not in a bad way, but as a norm-busting, trailblazing way.

[1] - https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

> try living in the desert without AC or spend more time outdoors

I'll pass... that sounds fucking miserable.

I think you are overestimating how much influence beancounters and marketing people have on the design.

I live in the desert as well and in the last 15 years between me, my wife and my parents have only replaced a single battery. We buy a new phone once a year and then rotate them, so keep them a minimum of 3 years.

I'm a strong advocate for right to repair... that being said, user serviceability is something that has to be explicitly defined as a requirement. However, just because something is difficult to service, doesn't mean it was designed with that in mind.

For example, designing a flex PCB with a 90 degree bend and a small inner radius like you might see on a mipi display or camera makes it extremely difficult to service, but has very little effect on initial assembly. If you design it for serviceability, you might do 2x 45 degree bends or a rounded pcb plus a stiffener above the mezzanine connector, reducing the chance it may tear or have broken joints.

I guess what I'm saying is just because it hasn't been designed to be serviced, doesn't mean it was designed to be unserviceable.

I have first hand accounts from decision makers about the challenges these decisions were faced with and have worked with many engineers in adjacent areas over the years.

Mostly right... since iOS came out there has been an app called maps, which was using google apis until iOS6, which is the point people started differentiating "Apple Maps" and "Google maps".

IIRC, one of the big reasons it was an upsetting change is there wasn't an option to change default apps and google didn't even have a maps app when iOS6 dropped, so if someone sent you an address, or you clicked on an address link, it always would open in the apple version. Which at the time was dogshit terrible, it was like stepping back in time 5 years.

Not even a little consideration for this has made manufacturers ditch removable batteries. The primary driver has been increased capacity, followed closely by the ability to make them much thinner and develop water resistant handsets. All other reasons are so far below these they aren't even worth mentioning.

This actually hits so close to home. I really like the concept of rust, but every time I sit down to write it, the syntax and the grammar feel... off and unnatural.

It really reminds me of how jarring it would be to have to write a book in the style of 1500's English. Like sure, once you get used to it, you can pick it up, but it takes a bit to get into it.

AOSP with the more modern kernels and less vendor garbage in giant forks will help with that.

Unix was king in the 80s, maybe early 90s for anyone doing terminals, banks, government and universities were all ok the big iron train. But when nt3.1 and 3.5 came out, if you were a business not looking into it, you felt like you were behind the times. We had DEC and iris at our house, so weren't in a good position to switch, but it wasn't long before the change happened.

Agreed, the article is irrelevant because it talks about desktop Linux market share.

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions.

And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr.

I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most of the net new is running Linux.