Posts by rcxb 1016 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2018
Since 2010, I've made sure every Wi-Fi router/AP I buy has OpenWRT support:
https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128
Even if I use vendor firmware at first, I know I've always got the option to load OpenWRT later. In fact I only quite recently stopped using my 2010 (802.11n) AP.
While the US objects to Chinese subsidies, Tesla has benefited greatly from US subsidies and tax breaks, which are only available for US made electric vehicles. Not entirely equivalent, but the US pretend their hands are entirely clean of market manipulation. And if the US really wants a policy shift to EVs, they should let China dump cheap EVs on the market to spur widespread adoption.
It's non-EV manufacturers who would stand to lose out to Chinese EVs, and honestly, they deserve to. The future is EVs, anybody not pivoting hard to them right now will be going out of business in 20 years, this trade barrier will only keep that from being shortened by a few years.
google is simply going to be scraping pages and giving you their information without even linking through
Easy solution:
1) Search Google for torrents of a new movie
2) When it returns a torrent or magnet link, sue Google for copyright infringement.
Google is going the exact OPPOSITE way they should, ignoring search terms that will narrow down results and instead funneling everyone into the most popular search results.
Found an interesting example the other day... I know "DSCLI-7.8.59.215.iso" is available on IBM's website, and I know Google indexes that site, but a Google search for the exact quoted term turns up no results. Meanwhile, an Yandex search will find the correct page for you. Coincidentally, Yandex pops-up bot challenges every couple pages/queries, an unforced error damaging its own usefulness.
Anybody got other search engines to try? DuckDuckGo, Bing, Dogpile & Ask don't do any better than Google here. The previous plethora of search engines seems to have died off in the face of Google. I bet AllTheWeb would have worked if it was still around.
In the U.S.A. right now women are graduating University at close to DOUBLE the rate of men. Additionally, whites are only maintaining the narrowest majority there today, and likely to slip into minority status in short order.
https://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=72
Do we need to give women and non-whites their own 600 years of dominance and oppression of others to even things out?
I don't really feel like my ancestors had a great 600 years of privilege that gave me a huge advantage, deserving of being discriminated against now... but maybe that's just because I'm Irish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsg29nIkl5o
~50% of the population is female, you'd expect a bare minimum of 25% female employees (assuming a suitable sample size I.e. not a small business). If it's less than that then there's a bias.
It seems strange to me to force large numbers of women to become e.g. sanitation workers, and men to become e.g. nurses & therapists. Please explain why exactly is it that we need to do so.
And how would we do so, exactly? Is it like sports where we have to create separate-but-equal companies where only women are allowed?
Quite a lot, but by no means all - especially where businesses rely on specialist software which has been around for a while.
You may be talking about SMALL businesses.
Large businesses will either harass the supplier into doing so, or will write their own software that runs on the platform they prefer with a minimum of trouble.
I ran a mid-size company that was running Linux... there were a few Windows programs that were needed, which meant a few departments had a couple PCs running Windows, among the hundreds of Linux PCs. And more than that, many of those programs required XP... so running Win10 on your desktop instead of Linux doesn't help one bit.
There is also the user training issue
RIGHT! And Windows changing the UI with EVERY VERSION is an absolute NIGHTMARE for user training.
Meanwhile, our employees kept using the IDENTICAL Xfce (kiosk mode) user interface from 2004 to 2024...
If your users are familiar with Windows, it's the easiest thing in the world to customize your Linux desktop to have the panel on the bottom, with the main applications icon on the far left.
And don't get started about Office... LibreOffice doesn't change the UI around. Microsoft Office forcing the "ribbon" interface on everyone was a training nightmare.
TSMC already got a ton of money up-front to compensate for the cost difference. Saying that wasn't enough and they want more on the back-end, forever, isn't going to go over well.
It's going to get ugly if they build a fab and let it sit idle because almost nobody (except military & spy agencies) are willing to pay extra for domestic US fabbed chips. If they produce a bit, at least the capacity will be there in case anything happens to the Taiwan fabs, transit from the area, or just a surge in demand.
are people somehow actually paying Intuit $150?
If you file your taxes in person at H&R Block, I don't think you can get out the door without paying at least $150.
https://www.hrblock.com/tax-offices/upfront-pricing/
https://www.mightytaxes.com/hr-block-pricing/
I expect most people don't enjoy or don't trust themselves to "enter the number from line 14a. on line 27 if it is greater than than the number on line 8" for a couple hours of their life, and instead prefer to let someone else trudge through it.
No, businesses will just have their lawyers find the best way to slither around any such rule.
The solution is to have IRS.gov provide a free service to fill out your taxes, getting all the tax prep services out of it entirely. They've got all your tax info, they could easily pre-fill a tax return for you, and just let you scrutinize it and either submit as-is, or go through and make any changes / itemizations you want/need.
The only reason the IRS didn't start providing this service a couple decades ago is the for-profit tax services lobbied against it, and they all agreed to provide free filing options for cheaper/simplel tax returns, in exchange for the IRS scuttling the plan. Since they've demonstrated their bad faith, it's back to plan A.
They are starting to do this now. "Direct File" is available this year for "12 pilot states". Hopefully this will be expanded to the rest by next year.
Some IRA free file partners are honest. https://www.olt.com/ will allow you to file Federal taxes up to any income level for free. They prompt you to spend a few dollars for greater features, but you can opt out. However, state taxes aren't free, about $10 if you file through them. Some states don't have income taxes, and others have their own websites to allow free filing, but paying OLT $10 to pre-fill your state return may be the most convenient.
If you're going to bring "Julian Assange's actual character" into it, then we have to discuss the time he promised to turn himself in to serve US prison time if Obama granted clemency for Manning. Obama did commute Manning's sentence some weeks later. After which Assange used every bit of tortured logic he could come up with to back out of his pledge:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/assange-weasels-out-of-pledge-to-surrender-if-manning-received-clemency/
OpenVMS' stability had nothing to do with the list of supported hardware, and everything to do with being a microkernel operating system that ran even drivers in an unpriv context, monitored them, and restarted them when they misbehaved with the end user none the wiser as to the near crash.
Memory protections have been a hardware feature since Intel 286s at least.
Day 1, I followed the instructions, erased all the files on the user disk [...]My supervisor said (face palm moment) that is an example of the command - not the actual command.
The documentation was changed to make it clearer
You're anecdote reminds me very much of some the users I had to support, years back.
Day 3: You're NOT supposed to type the quotation marks around the command.
Day 4: You missed the step that tells you to exit the editor. The commands don't work because you're just typing them all into a text document...
Day 5: The word "replace" means "put the disk back in," NOT "throw it in the trash and go get a new one."
Day 6: Nothing wrong with your computer. It keeps rebooting because you keep pushing the reset button when you mean to push the floppy disk eject button. Yes, it did work fine yesterday, because yesterday you pushed the correct button... It's not the computer that forgot how to do its job from one day to the next.
Some motorcycle racing drivers are forbidden to ride bikes on the street by their contracts, even.
That's probably not because of a risk they will break the law, more likely just because they're valuable assets, and there's a vastly higher risk of motorcyclists on the street getting seriously injured or killed in accidents.
Fatality Rate, Per 100 million vehicle miles traveled 2017 Motorcycles: 25.67 Passenger cars: 0.94
https://www.autoinsurance.org/motorcycle-vs-car-accidents/
Without the GNU tools and utilities he wrote as part of the GNU effort Linus would have had nothing to boot his kernel with or even make it to start with.
Instead of GNU, Linus could easily have used the open source 4.4BSD-Lite userland.
Yet the princess's prolonged absence from public life since has led to all sorts of rumor and speculation about the true state of her health. Fears - among some - were stoked further when she released a digitally doctored photo of her with her children on Mothering Sunday.
The fact that tabloids whipped themselves up into a frothing fit about something, doesn't make it notable/newsworthy. The "doctored" photo in question was a matter of minor touch-ups, not pasting Kate's face on someone else's body... a minor faux pas that gave the tabloids an opportunity to scream a bit longer about their self-invented non-story. Lots of smoke, but no fire.
I fail to see the use-case of a hydrogen fuel cell, other than in space-based applications.
Whether you're using it like a battery (generating fuel on-site) or a generator (hauled-in via truck of pipeline) it will be cheaper and more efficient to do the the same with electrolyte (instead of hydrogen) for a redox flow battery (instead of a fuel cell).
Maybe this is related to Amazon dropping Android on their Fire devices for a much more locked down "Vega".
Microsoft hitched their wagon to the Amazon Android Store, which will be going away sooner rather than later. And they're not about to go to Google and have the Play Store on Win11. If they were smart, they'd switch to F-Droid.
As a matter of fact, I don't see that el reg has reported on that story. But we have no shortage of NextPlatform articles about a 3% speed-bump of whatever data center product.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-is-dropping-android-for-vega-smart-device-operating-system
Cut out the Oracle stuff out before the infection takes over...
Even for old platforms there OpenJDK builds out there, they're just difficult to find:
https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds#openjdk-unofficial-installers-for-windows-linux-and-mac-os-x
https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild
https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html
https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/downloads/
https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/
"If it had had a payload, it would have made it to orbit. Because the reason it didn't quite make it to orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen, and the liquid oxygen ultimately led to fire and an explosion ..."
"Look! I barely exploded at all."
"We can control that with medication."
-- Malfunctioning Eddie in Futurama Season 3, Episode 12: Insane in the Mainframe
I had the same question as you, but a search for "OT and industrial control systems" turned up relevant results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_technology
https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/topics/security/what-is-ot-security.html
https://www.tenable.com/principles/operational-technology-principles
"I no longer would have to travel to locations. If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it's text. If I wanted to write a scene on the Moon, it's text, and this AI can generate it like [its] nothing."
Hasn't he heard of matte painting, green screen, or CGI before? Cheap illusions have been standard since before films went to color...
it does a battery good to discharge it occasionally
Not true of most battery chemistries.
and not be continuously charging it.
You can avoid overcharging batteries, without resorting to discharging them. It's common for smaller UPSes to be that stupid and just constantly float charge, but any large battery installations will have more intelligent charging circuitry.
I don't see why private space launch companies are getting all the flack. NASA's SLS and Artemis program are ridiculous square-peg, round-hole plans to cobble together the biggest political contributors' products into a basically unworkable layer cake of a moon program...
"at least 15 launches will be required to refuel HLS in orbit per crewed mission"
100 year old house would be perfectly fine today
You wouldn't be happy about the knob and tube electrical wiring, the lack of insulation, the leaky windows & doors, crumbling masonry (chimney), etc. Sure, you can renovate an old house up to modern standards, but it usually costs more than knocking it down and rebuilding.
Illegal smuggling causes a MASSIVE price increase, which is nearly as good. It's not as though a single chip slipping through the blockade will unlock the secrets of the universe... They are needed in huge quantities.
If it would cost you 10X as much to buy a car as your neighbors, what are the odds you'd still buy one?
We're in the era of javascript. Most sites don't work properly without JS, at least most won't load images. Why not write a JPEG-XL to (PNG/JPG) JS conversion routine if you want to use it. Will save you the bandwidth, and be compatible with all browsers, not needing to wait on browser maker support.
Republican party is a Russian asset. They are set to destroy America from within and enrich themselves in the process.
"No" to the first, "Yes" to the second.
Republicans (other than Trump) don't like Putin. Putin likes the Republicans because they're trying to destroy America. Republicans are right on the edge of being a non-viable national party, so they'll quietly accept Putin's help in any form that helps them win elections they might otherwise have lost.
So what's the problem
Laws are all about dotting your "t's" and crossing your "i's".
It doesn't matter how reasonable and common-sense something might be, if the law doesn't specifically say you're allowed to breathe, then you're going to get slapped by the court for breathing...
The one that always bothered me is the term "broadband" in the US Fed is legally defined as bandwidth of 25Mbps download speeds. So your baseband ethernet network at home is legally broadband, while slower 5Mbps DSL service (which is a broadband signal/service) is legally not "broadband." It's like they updated the definition of a "horse" to include cars, and exclude horses...
the sort of hardware that went into a Windows 3.11 PC is getting rarer, and much is not manufactured any more.
For the most part you shouldn't need era-appropriate hardware. The OS doesn't need details on what type of RAM is in-use. Many/most modern PCs maintain DOS backwards compatibility. You might run into an issue if you still need an old ISA card (adapters exist that work for some), but PCI can still be easily found in specialty motherboards. UEFI firmware options in most systems allow USB keyboards/mice to be seen as PS/2, and SATA SSDs to appear as old IDE/ATA drives. Many video cards retain VGA/SVGA/VESA interfaces.
And if that's not good enough, there are emulators out there. You could run DOS and Windows 3.11 under a web browser with reasonable performance these days.
There's even active development in this space: "high resolution 256-color driver for Windows 3.1"
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-retro-development/
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