Comment Re:'Far Less Competent Than a Human ... (Score 3, Funny) 196
being a better driver than the average American driver is rather a low bar
yeah, easily half the people on the roads manage to do it without thinking.
Comment Re:KDE Plasma (Score 1) 96
> And does it include source for things like Google Play Store?
F-Droid exists and is Good.
Comment Re:What does skype do that webTRC doesn't? (Score 1) 97
I don't know what software package they use, but there's a good chance that they were talking about the great (and FOSS) nothing-to-install* WebRTC group chat solution from Jitsi:
* you'll need to install a browser plugin if you want to share your screen, but that's mainly to allow an out-of-sandbox exemption to the browser.
Comment does this one go to 11G? (Score 2) 129
Only 6G? fuck it, let's do 7G
Comment Re:Why are we letting this continue? (Score 1) 54
Well, how long they stay up depends on the orbit you put them in of course. In a cheap LEO or one that is highly eccentric they won't stay up too long, but at 575 km near circular orbit as with this launch they'll be up there for a while. If you put one in high geostationary orbit it will be stable for probably longer than our civilization.
Comment Re:Why ony in "developed" countries do I hear this (Score 4, Interesting) 194
It's not crunchy water to blame, it is migrant farm workers not being given bathroom breaks and so taking shits in the fields instead. "transmission occurs through fecal contamination of food and water supplies" --Wikipedia
Comment Re: Freedom within limits (Score 1) 57
And vi is better than emacs.
Comment Re: Will it hold in court (Score 0) 57
Ok, fine. Then here's another example: If you translate Harry Potter into Klingon and try to sell it in your popular sci-fi bookstore you can expect to get a nasty letter from JK's lawyers.
Fair Use has its limits just as Derivative Work does. You can not whole-hog rip off another work's implementation or port code line by line to a new language without permission of the owner.
Comment Re:Hams have always been fighting each other (Score 1) 183
Meh, I taught my self Morse on the edge of that era with the aid of some free DOS-based software from a BBS. It really wasn't much more of an effort than learning to touch type, which I assume most of the people reading this at least have a feel for what it takes to learn that. It took some practice but any schmoe could do it if they put the effort in. If you are someone who learned to type Dvorak your mind could easily handle learning Morse.
The great practical advantage of Morse in my mind is that it will get a message through on a poor signal where voice is impossible, and doesn't require any additional modulation equipment beyond what you have on your shoulders to make it work. So I didn't feel the least bit put out that they removed the Morse test soon after I'd put in the work to learn it. I never really understood what the fuss was about really.
Linus Torvalds Reflects On How He's Been Hostile To Linux Community Members Over the Years, Issues Apology, and Announces He Will Be Taking Some Time Off (kernel.org) 985
On Sunday, Linus Torvalds spoke about the confusion he had regarding Maintainer's Summit, but more importantly, how this incident gave him a chance to realize "that I really had been ignoring some fairly deep-seated feelings in the community." In an email to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Torvalds apologized for hurting people with his behavior over the years, and possibly driving some people "away from kernel development entirely." On that end, said Torvalds, "I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately." He wrote: [...] It's one thing when you can ignore these issues. Usually it's just something I didn't want to deal with. This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good. This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.
The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.
Put another way: When asked at conferences, I occasionally talk about how the pain-points in kernel development have generally not been about the _technical_ issues, but about the inflection points where development flow and behavior changed. These pain points have been about managing the flow of patches, and often been associated with big tooling changes - moving from making releases with "patches and tar-balls" (and the _very_ painful discussions about how "Linus doesn't scale" back 15+ years ago) to using BitKeeper, and then to having to write git in order to get past the point of that no longer working for us. We haven't had that kind of pain-point in about a decade. But this week felt like that kind of pain point to me. To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this_is_ related!) I actually think that 4.19 is looking fairly good, things have gotten to the "calm" period of the release cycle, and I've talked to Greg to ask him if he'd mind finishing up 4.19 for me, so that I can take a break, and try to at least fix my own behavior.
This is not some kind of "I'm burnt out, I need to just go away" break. I'm not feeling like I don't want to continue maintaining Linux. Quite the reverse. I very much *do* want to continue to do this project that I've been working on for almost three decades. This is more like the time I got out of kernel development for a while because I needed to write a little tool called "git". I need to take a break to get help on how to behave differently and fix some issues in my tooling and workflow.
And yes, some of it might be "just" tooling. Maybe I can get an email filter in place so at when I send email with curse-words, they just won't go out. Because hey, I'm a big believer in tools, and at least _some_ problems going forward might be improved with simple automation. [...]
The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.
Put another way: When asked at conferences, I occasionally talk about how the pain-points in kernel development have generally not been about the _technical_ issues, but about the inflection points where development flow and behavior changed. These pain points have been about managing the flow of patches, and often been associated with big tooling changes - moving from making releases with "patches and tar-balls" (and the _very_ painful discussions about how "Linus doesn't scale" back 15+ years ago) to using BitKeeper, and then to having to write git in order to get past the point of that no longer working for us. We haven't had that kind of pain-point in about a decade. But this week felt like that kind of pain point to me. To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this_is_ related!) I actually think that 4.19 is looking fairly good, things have gotten to the "calm" period of the release cycle, and I've talked to Greg to ask him if he'd mind finishing up 4.19 for me, so that I can take a break, and try to at least fix my own behavior.
This is not some kind of "I'm burnt out, I need to just go away" break. I'm not feeling like I don't want to continue maintaining Linux. Quite the reverse. I very much *do* want to continue to do this project that I've been working on for almost three decades. This is more like the time I got out of kernel development for a while because I needed to write a little tool called "git". I need to take a break to get help on how to behave differently and fix some issues in my tooling and workflow.
And yes, some of it might be "just" tooling. Maybe I can get an email filter in place so at when I send email with curse-words, they just won't go out. Because hey, I'm a big believer in tools, and at least _some_ problems going forward might be improved with simple automation. [...]
Comment Re:Arduino? (Score 2) 560
I'll stick to C++ on Ardunio myself but programming Arduinos with Python, toolchain-free, is now a thing thanks to small onboard flash storage, complex but hidden bootloaders, and more powerful microcontroller chips such as the Cortex M4.
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/what-is-circuitpython
Comment Re:Half a million Model 3 this year (Score 1) 126
I estimate moving goal posts. And a loss, as always predicted.
Final production numbers are now out by the way, 28,587 model 3's produced in Q2.
Comment Re:Half a million Model 3 this year (Score 2) 126
> Tesla has not yet reached 5000 model 3s per week. It's a false claim.
um,
https://electrek.co/2018/07/01/tesla-model-3-production-rate-5000-units-employees-celebrate/
https://electrek.co/2018/07/01/tesla-model-3-production-milestone-record-total-production-elon-musk/
Wait for the SEC report in a few days to be sure if they have reached this completely arbitrary threshold. And as always, it's as much the rate of chance as the instantaneous absolute value that matters.
Comment Unless they also buy one for every student too. (Score 1) 82
They'd be better off sending him one of these, although I'm not sure why this particular kit costs as much as it does and not $45.
https://www.adafruit.com/produ...
Is the OLPC project still active? Haven't heard anything about them in ages.
Comment Re:How well optimized is CLANG vs Visual C++ Compi (Score 1) 94
Want to know the answer? There's an easy way. RTFA and find out! Amazing but true!
tl;dr +/- 5%. In some areas Clang does better, in others worse.
