sacheendra

I have also heard the same. An interesting thing to do would be to also be a commercial ISP (i.e., sell to datacenters and businesses). Now that is the traffic all the ISPs want as outgoing traffic goes to such networks.

Running a Global CDN and ISP might be a tad too ambitious.

True. Should have read the full changelog. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll give it a try.

The change is that VLC now supports H.265 hardware decoding on mac.

Great that VLC iterates so quickly!

If you are still on Mac, you should check out IINA(https://github.com/lhc70000/iina). I switched to it when I needed to watch 4k videos on my Macbook and it out-performs VLC. I think VLC's cross-platform compatibility hurts it here as IINA uses some Mac specific APIs.

A consequence of the "Kubernetes Effect" is that while distributed systems are easy to build and use, a lot of developers lose sight of the fundamental problems which make distributed systems difficult.

For example, the sidecar in a sidecar pattern might fail while the application is running and the system can get stuck in weird states. The developer still needs to understand fundamentally how the system works.

Eschewing deeper knowledge just because it is easy to use is trap in this case. While the article compares Kubernetes to JVM, Kubernetes can fail in a lot more hard to debug ways than the JVM right now. I don't know if this semantic gap between distributed systems like Kubernetes and monolithic systems like JVM can ever be bridged.

People think IBM has more growth potential than Apple!?

Also checkout Fission (https://github.com/fission/fission). A Kubernetes based FaaS platform in which you can define functions in any language and link them together using a DSL.

The post is remarkably devoid of any content and just a series of assertions. So, as you said, its the same take rehashed.

But apart from that, bitcoin and the concept of cryptocurrency are conceptually not that difficult. And even if they were, their value is not due to their technical novelty but due to their fundamental nature as financial instruments.

If Warren Buffet is warning against them, we do need to look at them and try to understand what is the problem he sees. As he knows more than most here about financial instruments.

The risks need not be technical in nature at all. For example, governments could fail to recognize cryptocurrencies as valid contracts thus voiding the benfit of legal systems. So, you own tokens of a house? Good luck enforcing that.

And retained control of Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.

Hulu?

Not sure why this is being downvoted? The author seems to have faced a problem with the abstraction of these services and has described it.

If anyone thinks that is wrong or has an argument supporting it or against it, just point it out. I don't think this is worthy of replyless downvotes.

I partially agree with the parent. Showing these "connections" without any context and detail is just infuriating and leads to click-bait headlines with no actual purpose served.

I don't think they are trying to insult anyone's intelligence though. They are just being careful with the data so that their sources are safe.

While safety is important, this reminds me of the story of the boy who cried wolf. If they keep doing this multiple times and there is no substantial info., people will stop paying attention when there is some real info. and demagogues will use this as evidence of fake news.

The parent comments mentions a solution where there can still be different tax regimes like the EU. But, you only pay tax to one place and they take care of splitting. Let the bureaucracy do it's work.

I think he means Anycast routing. Technically, one could run their own nameservers which direct to their own load balancers.

Or you could use one of the other DNS providers who provide Anycast support. I think DynDNS does it.

I think it could be because a lot of people trying to fool (SEO) google search, but not so many are doing it for bing.

They qualify their stand by adding "... shipping today on modern Intel-based computers"

Scientists don't work in a vacuum. They do need resources to do their work. As long as they don't get them and research funding keeps getting slashed, the scientists cannot do much. They are already trying their best with the available resources.

Climate change can only be solved by political means. Hoping someone will make a breakthrough that will make the problem go away is not realistic.

Watch Youtube and use Facebook and Twitter. :-P

These developments are quite funny. At one point GPUs were just fixed function hardware. As more flexibility was needed for novel applications, programmability was added.

Now we are going to back to fixed function units as the calculus has changed in favour of power savings and against flexibility.

I'm interesting in seeing what advance in tech will change it again in favour of flexibility.

A major change I see between the cables and connectors you describe is the move from parallel communication to serial communication. This has brought with it a great improvement in speed. I suppose, we could have a large connector with just a few pins for serial communication, but then these individual pins would be vulnerable to breakage just as they were in the old parallel connectors. Maybe even more breakable due to their sparsity. Im surprised your connectors lasted so long.

Contact based connectors rather than pin based based connectors as mentioned in some other thread might be the answer. I don't know what problems they might lead to though. Personally, I'm a huge fan of apple MagSafe 1/2 cables.

I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the info. This was the fallacy of looking at the past from a current perspective.

For the sake of argument, they are at the mercy of voters is only true if voters cannot be influenced by these companies. Today's tech companies can influence voters in subtle ways an run huge PR campaigns to influence voters. In the future, only favourable legislators will come into power and laws, precedent and changing mindset will make it difficult for for a judge to rule against them.

The difference between modern tech giants and erstwhile powerful companies like standard oil is that tech giants are much closer to people's daily lives and occupy some much of their time. This way people are attached and strong feelings about Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. that they didn't have towards Standard Oil.

Digital Ocean is still a premium provider.

I would look at providers like OVH and even cheaper (Treudler, TransIP, RamNode, etc.) For example, an SSD with 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM and 40GB SSD is 13.49$ per month from OVH.

What is the point of a Linux based console?

Traditional consoles had fixed hardware which could be exploited through vendor specific APIs. If this is just going to run games programmed with OpenGL, this is not different from any other Linux PC.

Given the introduction of APIs like Vulkan which bings the programmability of PCs even closer to consoles, I don't see a use case.

The only market I can think of the niche of Atari fans.

Why is it a shame about Apple's direction?

Apple realised there is a market of privacy minded people who don't want to trade themselves to get a phone at a low price.

Apple can be privacy minded for profit and "do right by the users" at the same time. They aren't diametrically opposed to each other.

It is sad that we expect that a company trying to stay profitable is trying to screw users over in some way.

I'm not saying its not true in many cases, just in this case.

How do I access the moments feature. There is nothing on the homepage about moments. Doing a simple text search on the page turns up nothing.

Doing a Google search for "twitter moments" results in the about page, again with no info on how to access the feature. This is followed by some news articles saying moments has been replaced by an "explore" tab, which I again can't find.

No wonder twitter is going down the drain. :-(

I agree with your point. Its just that not all consulting or outsourcing is bad.

A decade ago, at least in my experience, Chinese products were synonymous with bad quality and were not considered reliable. Nowadays, while those kinds of products do exist there also exist very good products designed and made in China (eg: DJI, OnePlus, etc.).

I reckon its still early days for software and going forward, we will learn how to build higher quality standard stuff and even high quality novel products. Generating this stigma against against consulting and off-shoring before we have had time to properly analyse the cost-benefit tradeoff doesn't help anyone.

They might be and are probably bad in many cases, and cases where they did not work should be publicised and studied. But making broad statements and correlating them with bad work environment is not helpful.

I don't understand the negativity towards using consultants and off-shoring.

Using consultants is a business decision which helps the company hire people for the short term of the project and also offload risk. Not all companies have the capability to handle all kinds of risk. For example, software companies don't specialise in financial models and investing. So they don't take on financial risks by investing in derivatives and other instruments to make profit. Whenever possible, risk outside core competencies is outsourced. This is good for the company as then it can focus on the core business and make money.

Off-shoring is bad in the sense that jobs are lost in the local economy. But, this is again similar to having a factory in China as opposed to San Francisco. It brings in more expertise at a reduced cost. Off-shoring helps make things cheaper in the end. For example, as your insurance company uses off-shore consultants to make their software, it is cheaper directly translating to lower insurance premiums. the same for many other products.

While I understand that software is a different beast to build unlike toys or other products. Once built, the normal theories of economics still apply.

Adding to ^. You don't need to have the Xorg stuff running to run tests.

True. I was grossly exaggerating.

I was thinking of Pernkopf's anatomy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Pernkopf) when i was making the comment. It is not true to say textbooks are based on his work.

But apparently his work is used in books. The argument is that it we use results and data from nazi experiments.

Yes we did. A lot of textbooks on human anatomy are from that time.

There is even an ethical issues section on the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation