Can someone break it down how this is different from Jails? I have almost a dozen different jails on my FreeNAS machine serving everything from nginx to iPython.

I know this make come as a shock to most people but has anyone ever sat down and asked a 5 year old girl what she wants? What does she want to do and figure out

We've been trying to sell girls on STEM without figuring out how to sell STEM to girls. Programming, science, technology, engineering, math are all tools to do something else faster/easier/better.

I love baking (take that gender stereotypes) and there is a huge market for making stuff that makes baking easier. I hate measuring liquids since it just takes time. I want a bartender bot for water, oil, vinegar, flour, sugar, etc. I want to take a QR code picture of a recipe and have it measure out all of the above into a bowl.

If there is a trinket or toy that they want/need, figure out how to 3D print it. If the part breaks, figure out why.

Just sit down and ask a 5 year old girl what frustrates her and figure out how to make Programming+STEM do it for them. I'm the laziest engineer I know because if I have to do something twice I'd rather write a script/program to do it. Getting girls to try and solve the problems of 5 year old boys isn't going to make them interested in something.

And end the pink washing. Seriously. It doesn't need to be pink.

Eh, forget the ./

Dice you've successfully figured out how to run one of the most best 'news' and opensource websites and run them into the ground for profit. /. and Fark were the only 2 places that could handle 9/11 traffic. I rode out that entire day on both sites when CNN was crumbling.

I'm glad I had Slashdot over Reddit when I was an angsty tenager. I took pride in trying to get +5 comments and put effort into doing so. Honestly slashdot made me a better writer. Reddit is nice for short terse communication but sometimes I want to "talk with adults".

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After E3 it should be clear to most spectators on the sidelines of gamergate that there is no pleasing the Femnazis. They got E3 passes and complained about literally everything for no reason other than to complain. For a group of 'gamer's they aren't offering any solutions

Only if they're gay. That's the only socially acceptable time for a male to go into beauty parlors.

I just switched to FreeBSD and I'm kicking myself for not doing it years ago.

Jails are exactly what I've been looking for for most of my 'virtualization' (Separate containers for different apps). The separation with /usr/local/ is strict. Ports and pkg cover all of my software needs.

I just built a Kodi HTPC with FreeBSD as the OS. It supports Nvidia VDPAU video acceleration. Transmission and an autostarting VPN is in its own jail.

Plus ZFS on root file system. I've moved the same ZFS poolbetween 3 different OSes (Solaris, ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD) in the last 7 years. Hard drives just get replaced and and the pool enlarges. I think I started with 250 GB drives and it now has 5-2TB drives. I haven't lost a file since then. It'll make a great set top box.

More likely tuning algorithms. [And Uber just stole my business idea.]

"Test Cell" time is very expensive. I think some of ours run $20k an hour and that's not even close to as expensive as they get. Additionally each prototype in a test cell can only ever accumulate 168 of test data per week. (It's a hard limit.)

The 'hardware' part of driverless cars has been pretty much nailed down. We've come a long way in the 11 years since the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge (The original event didn't go so well) Google and Uber have been poaching the grad students and professors from a lot of the first teams.

Now what those engineers need is more data. They have dSPACE machines hooked up to all of their Matlab models and are running a few thousands 'vehicles' in parallel. The problem is they need a very smart and adaptive better controller to test scenarios with. Uber is tuning it's algorithms against human drivers. The payout is two fold. In the short term they get to vet drivers. In the long term they don't have to deal with drivers again.

If this pans out Uber will be releasing driving game for the XBox One, PS4 & Desktop. "Earn up to $1/hour driving a car!". It'll be a gamified Mechanical Turk. For $20k Google could have 20,000 hours of data in an hour. "Promote" the best driving drivers to $2/hour, $4... $10. You'd still be generating 2,000 hours of data per hour and you'd have the "best" drivers you can find.

The entire "personal vehicles" and "are they licensed" is moot when it's fleets of driverless cars all dispatched from a few locations around the city (as driverless cars become legal). They're already collecting all the data as to where the vehicles are needed. I wouldn't be shocked if Uber isn't already buying up property in places that their data shows a lot of vehicles are needed.

Uber is playing long game. "Drivers" right now are just a cheap way to collect all that data since Taxi companies probably won't release it (or even keep it).

I expect Google is doing all of the same things in parallel.

Coreboot "is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems.</marketing>

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a free software project, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware found in most computers with a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot

> To me, having to manually mess around with numbers is an annoyance, and it means that the init system is getting in the way.

Just build a script to optimize the boot sequence. I'll leave my laptop or PC to reboot over the weekend as it sorts out dependencies and boot time.

Boot everything sequentially. Measure exactly how much memory/CPU/time each app takes.

Testing that is something computers are good at. Boring and repetitive.

Give it a 'quit' criteria of 'any optimizations less than .5s, you can stop'.

Set up a website to submit results to and you can download the 'boot profile' closest to your use and

Hell let the cloud and VMs autotune it. You could have an EC2 appliance rebooting 24/7 optimizing the boot sequence. [It'd be NP-hard but](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) to test to completion but you should be able to get a pretty decent ball park.

Insurance company wants to know what you owned on a particular day? Check out that revision.

Do quarterly tags. Push it to Github. Put it on a dropbox or google drive,

git rm -rf ./
git commit -a -m "House burned down:("

The PI is the prototype. Of course you don't rapid prototype until you figure out what you need.

OSEK is a standards body that has produced specifications for an embedded operating system, a communications stack, and a network management protocol for automotive embedded systems. Nothing about this should cost $2M. You could easily build an OSEK compliant car with an open source software (GPL3) They're finally getting open source PLCs

There is no reason HVAC should cost what it does. The only reason it does cost that much is because each company is closed source and has separate networking protocols.

In addition to being cheaper in 40 years when they decide to replace it no one will wonder where the guy was that programmed it or if the company that built it is still in business. They'll have the full drawings and source to the project.

> and many (not all) of the vendors like to keep their circuit and programming technology proprietary.

I would kickstart or donate to a HVAC trade school to come up with a better mousetrap.

Send them 100 arduinos, some actuators and HVAC equipment. Open source it. If you want it the source is there and free and you can run with it. If you would rather just pay someone to do it a company will probably spring up to provide that.

Some mesh networking, power drops and the whole thing is up and operational for cheap.

I make a post explaining that because of the historical context, his "joke" wasn't funny.

You made a post explaining to me why his joke was funny.

I made a couple of "jokes" that were identical in form and historical context to his, pointing out the absurdity of your point.

You respond by saying I don't get humor and that I lack reading comprehension. It's pretty clear you didn't find my "jokes" funny, despite them being fundamentally the same in tone and historical context.

One of us isn't following along here, and it's very obviously you.

There was nothing wrong with Usenet all it needed was some 'moderation'.

It's already distributed. It'll work on everything from 57k up through a Gig internet.

Put a nice web page in front of it so people can interact with it like slashdot or reddit. Add on some code to allow voting and dole out mod points.

Use IRC as the 'live chat' back end. Facebook grinds to a halt when irssi is handling hundreds (if not thousands) of people in multiple different 'chat rooms'.

And if ever 2 communities come to an impasse they can fork the server content. Just provide a different set of 'usenet servers' to communicate with.

I would like to see a filter implemented so that it would reject anything with less than an 8th grade reading level. All we've tried to do over the last 20+ years is reinvent Usenet and IRC.

Just have news.slashdot.org and news.reddit.com and the communities can continue to be the same. And if they get banned from everywhere they can make news.fatpeoplehate.com.