simpsond

Thanks, edited.

I traveled around Xinjiang in 2010. I was in Urumqi during the one year anniversary of the 2009 Urumqi riots and there was some tensions. Armored and armed guard units were walking the streets, and the Uyghur people we talked with were very nervous. There was segregation at a business level there. The main strip for food was Uyghur on one side, Hon on the other. At the time, it seemed unsettling, but people were getting on with their lives.

Looking back on it, I realize I was part of a joined agenda. We stayed in a Military hotel, and had a driver/escort who was special forces. We had to get permission to do the things we did. We wanted to stay with a Kazakh family, but were denied and told that we could stay with another Kazakh family. It was all pretty wild, and my friend kept in touch with a Uyghur we met, and she desperately wanted out of Xinjiang... and was essentially living in fear.

I didn't hear about camps then, but I wouldn't put it past the government.

This seems to require a near-by powered wifi device to aide in association of the passive device. For large deployments, that would require many powered units. In addition to that, there are requirements for multiple MACs, which may also lead to problems with limits in some networks. This is all clever, but it doesn't seem practical to me since the passive device depends on a near by powered device to do anything. I have worked on sensor networks with battery powered wifi devices. It's certainly tricky.

Maybe, or we just don’t understand all of the rules.

That’s a really interesting way of thinking about it. Gravity resists space.

Hopefully they chose to wait, so employees could spend time with family.

Your posts about bitcoin prompted me to deep dive with it. I read the white paper a few times. I setup a node on one of my machines. I wrote some code to fetch a block template from my local nodes RPC service and generate some block generations for mining. I ran some basic cpu mining, etc. I feel like I have a better grasp of it all now. One thing I am struggling with is the incentive for miners once there are no more Coinbase/generation transactions. If the POW is maximally hard (energy intensive) then transaction fees will need to be high for miners to have ROI. If transactions fees are that high, then consumers are going to spend a lot to initiate transactions. This doesn’t seem like a win win to me. How is it going to play out once all coins are mined? Reduce the complexity of POW for post Coinbase txns? The security of the network is still there due to the amount of computation in the block chain up until the mine is dry. What are your thoughts on this?

I don’t understand why miners wouldn’t include all pending transactions in their block. Seeing as how pow is a guessing game, there are plenty of permutations of the Merkle tree to generate plenty of roots. I guess to dissencentivize free loaders so miners can continue to make money once Coinbase txns are no longer a thing? It’s certainly not free to mine!

I’m not sure that is the goal. Having cheap and small atomic clocks simplifies time sensitive applications that can’t always rely on satellites or ntp. Clock synchronization is currently not a solved problem for the masses.

Anecdote: I find that towel snapping works well.

The coordinates come from an ajax call to https://ipinfo.io.

Systemd is definitely an init system.

I really hope windows runs on linux some day. I've always liked the windows shell. This might seem out of place on this post, but I get the sense that MS is putting more effort into linux.

EAP or meta data.

An organization can use transparent proxies and log web traffic for anyone using the network, among other things.

Go hiking. I do this a few times a week to get away from the desk. I still end up thinking the entire time, but my thoughts are much more positive. I end the hike feeling refreshed and happy every time.

I've had a good experience with Cassandra for times series data.

The compression is very neat.

I am trying to confirm that cox does this with google. The cert is funky and doesn't match what I see from other connections. All hosts from nslookup are cox hosts, etc.

I'm not familiar with the physics of memristors or storage in general. I was wondering if a single line is used to read and write, increasing the voltage on write to change the state.

Do memristors read or write based on the applied voltage? I noticed that in some of the intel marketing material.

On the infographic the subtext of "1000x faster" is "up to 100s of times faster than NAND"

Then it mentions 10x more performance with a PCIe/NVMe interface.

Still all good things, but 1000x is probably more marketing than reality.

Source: http://www.intelsalestraining.com/infographics/memory/3DXPoi...

Does anyone know how this will be enforced?

UniFi is likely a better solution if you are technically inclined. For most people, getting the controller up and running is too complicated. UBNT targets enterprise after all.

I'm somewhat intrigued by the HAT spec and how the daughter card provides the OS a device tree fragment. Can you comment on the pains/gains from conforming to it?

Well... there goes my weekend.

Do you have any references to support this? I find the idea fascinating.

In terms of the specs, the Edison is great. After tinkering around with it for a bit I found I didn't really like the bundled software Intel released with it.

At the end of the day I want something just like this, but with a net-installish base linux distro, and something with better temperature range than 0-40C! It's too complicated for tinkering, and the temperature range is too narrow for commercial products. It falls into the middle, where it's probably not great for anyone. I'm sure Intel can fix that.

I realize linux might be too heavy for many applications, but for any powered device, let's please make linux the default.