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Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 435

Who can't afford overhead and bloat?

The Hypervisor for those Embedded ARM SoCs. HYP mode is appropriate for a kernel that is only a few dozen kilobytes in size, and ARM's HYP mode doesn't play nicely as a Type-2 hypervisor (KVM, VMware, etc).

Plus your typical ARM SoC has several DSPs or microcontrollers on the chip.

I guess we're still not to the point where we can have one programming language we use for everything. I mean if you ignore plain old boring C as an option.

Comment is it really force? (Score 1) 702

"Software is simply bloated up until you're forced to buy a new one."

I do this weird trick, I don't upgrade the software. If I was happy with the software on my phone in 2011, why wouldn't I still be happy with it in 2014 ?

it helps that I don't go online much or install a lot of third party software, I understand sometimes security fixes are necessary. (otoh, I was saved from the heartbleed bug on my laptop because it was such an old copy of debian)

Comment rope making (Score 1) 737

I know how to make a rope making machine with sticks and a nail. While I'm a software engineer right now, I think I could make a pretty good living as a rope maker, this assumes if rope suddenly becomes a lot more valuable than it is now.

It's good to have a fallback career because it would probably be quite a while before anyone makes computers for me to program.

Comment Re:Why not... (Score 1) 519

As long as you don't actually capture someone else. you don't need to get into a tizzy over might-haves and could-haves.

I wasn't suggesting you get thrown into the gulag if you capture someone's photograph. But you probably should delete it if you don't have their permission. (I do this already, I feel that it is polite)

Comment How I would fix it (Score 1) 482

No vaccination? No public school.

Work with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other youth organizations and have them adopt vaccination policies as well. So that unvaccinated children are not interacting in large groups.

Then on top of this when someone's baby goes blind from rubella or dies from measles, open a class action lawsuit against every parent in that county that failed to get their child vaccinated.

Folks, we need to be hard asses about vaccinations. We need serious social and financial consequences to people who fail to participate. If you want to live in a society with high infant mortality, then find some poor horrible place to live far away from me.

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