One thing that has always seriously annoyed me about Linux desktop managers is the way they're almost ALL too stupid to automatically add newly-installed apps to their equivalent of the start menu.
I dunno what you're using, but on the debian-based mate system I've been using since 2015 all apps, whether GTK, KDE or just X, that I've installed have installed themselves to the start menu just fine.
I'm wondering where the HELL he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
It would take a pretty talented programmer to code it to run well on a single pair of 8-core servers with four NVMe drives each, and a pair of archive servers. Less talented programmers would need more than those four servers. Smart programmers would put a four-some of servers in different regions, so maybe 16 servers total for an ideal implementation. That's maybe $16K / year. I'd cost him $180,000 to build and run the thing. So $200K to keep it running.
Where the F is he spending the other couple hundred million? Tech support must be a big cost, but a couple hundred million?
My guess for some of it - really, really bad programming and sysadmin which ends up with a hundred times as many servers as needed if it were done well, and because it's done poorly they are constantly breaking.
Whoops, forgot to post the link: This architect!
I'm wondering where the HELL he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
It would take a pretty talented programmer to code it to run well on a single pair of 8-core servers with four NVMe drives each, and a pair of archive servers. Less talented programmers would need more than those four servers. Smart programmers would put a four-some of servers in different regions, so maybe 16 servers total for an ideal implementation. That's maybe $16K / year. I'd cost him $180,000 to build and run the thing. So $200K to keep it running.
Where the F is he spending the other couple hundred million? Tech support must be a big cost, but a couple hundred million?
My guess for some of it - really, really bad programming and sysadmin which ends up with a hundred times as many servers as needed if it were done well, and because it's done poorly they are constantly breaking.
They hired the architect mentioned in this post (Yes, I read reddit too, so what?).
If you think all that is needed is to connect two device ip/ports in order to send an encrypted SMS to another device asynchronously in a timely manner, you really don't understand what's going on. Here's a data point: if the average user sends 53 messages a day (https://www.textrequest.com/blog/how-many-texts-people-send-per-day/) and you have 500 million users, that will cost nearly 5 million in just in push notifications (https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/).
And it will cost a 10th of that if you don't use AWS. Maybe that's why Telegram needs so much money for operations - they run it on AWS.
Really, the only people who care are the "UI Mavens".
If that were true, how would companies like Notion grow?
This is the first I'm hearing of them. If their UI was any good I'd have heard about them by now.
Sex under false pretences is sexual assault, it's rape.
No, it isn't. Some specific cases might be, but only if certain specific conditions are met.
Promising a girlfriend/wife/acquintance jewelry in exchange for sex and then not delivering is not rape.
Pretending to be single for a 1-night stand is not rape.
Pretending to love someone for who they are and not their money is not rape.
We should aim for a higher level of protection for people than "just don't make any mistakes". Human beings, especially young and inexperienced ones, make mistakes and they should not be catastrophic if they don't have to be.
Too bad Pornhub (and probably all other user-uploaded-content sites) have section 230 protections. Right?
Draft up a project plan. Make a demo. Put down in writing what you are doing. Scaffold the documentation for it. Outline your deliverables. Mock up the UI. Actually do the work to get your idea closer to fruition.
That doesn't work in most dev shops, as each of your hours must be logged to a ticket, and only a PM can create projects for devs to create tickets against.
If you try that approach, your timesheets are going to have large holes
The fact that Linux still falls over copying files to/from USB drives, hanging the entire UI as everything interactive grinds to a standstill is a pretty glaring issue for a desktop OS to have.
I've only ever seen that on Windows.
The same issue can be reproduced with heavy I/O to/from an SD card on Android too. Even without dealbreakers like that, there is also the fact that nothing remains stable for long, outside of the kernel userspace API, everything else chops and changes so rapidly that it is a support nightmare for developers and techies alike.
I've only ever had that nightmare on Windows
Also, apps written once, to be left alone to “just work” are a dead end since distros ditch support for much needed libraries without caring what gets broken.
Once again, that is something that I've only ever experienced on Windows.
It does not make for a good desktop system compared to the competition
Seeing as how you've perfectly described the competition, I think you're high.
Never did detect the comprehension of what I actually wrote. Therefore I think it safe to regard this "discussion" as terminated.
You know, when the people you are "discussing" things with refrain from digressing, it does not mean that they did not read or understand what you wrote, it means that what you wrote was not relevant to the discussion.
I'd be interested to hear what you think the difference is and how that applies to crypto.
Okay, you said:
Random is NOT the same thing as "evenly distributed" or "looks disordered".
Just because something is not "evenly distributed" and does not "look disordered", it does not mean that it isn't unpredictable. The quantity of data points matters: the frequency distribution smooths over time for randomness (guaranteed), not necessarily for predictability (it can, but that's not guaranteed).
To clarify, an even distribution can be predictable, an uneven distribution can be predictable, "looking ordered" can be predictable and "looking unordered" can be predictable. An even distribution can be random, an uneven distribution cannot be be random, "looking ordered" cannot be random and "looking unordered" can be random.
Frequency distribution is neither negatively nor positively correlated with predictability, while randomness correlates very well with frequency distribution.
For key/salt/modulus generation we want unpredictable numbers, not just random numbers. This is why my original post said "not merely":
As far as cryptography goes, we want unpredictable numbers, not merely random ones.
(PS, as you can see from some of my posts over the last ten years or so, I work in encryption, and delivered a postgrad encryption course (amongst others) at a university when I was still in academia). I'm not totally clueless yet
Random is NOT the same thing as "evenly distributed" or "looks disordered".
Close.
"Random is not the same as unpredictable"
As far as cryptography goes, we want unpredictable numbers, not merely random ones.
I don't think it's a scam but imagine that a sequence like 1,2,3,4,5,6 came up in order.
That's so exceedingly unlikely to have been by chance that I'd almost certainly call it a fix.
It's as equally likely as any other number. The odds of 1,2,3,4,5,6 from a particular pool of numbers is as likely as any random sequence from the same pool of numbers.
Okay, then I should have focused more on that phrase or made greater allowances for your intentions. Sorry.
Now where's your apology for how completely you failed to read what I actually wrote?
I did read what you wrote, and none of it appeared to be relevant to the fact that insurance does not work if everyone claimed at the same time. TBH, even a savings account at banks can't pay out if everyone withdrew their money at the same time. I also didn't really want to reply to passive-aggressive insults and snide remarks like:
I suppose I'd settle for some clear evidence of comprehension,
because that just shifts focus from the topic.
though you don't see much of that on Slashdot 2020.
Even better if you have a superior solution approach to dividing and conquering Covid-19.
I don't. I didn't pretend that I did, hence there's no need to respond to the rest of what you wrote (which I read).
Yeah, the simpleminded idea of insurance is that it can only work if some people don't collect on damage claims.
I didn't say that. I said that insurance doesn't help if everyone claims at the same time. There's nothing simple-minded about that, it's just the way insurance works: they don't have enough money to pay out everyone at the same time, much like banks.
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
