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Why would a farmer own a combine? Aren't they owned by specialized harvest outfits? I don't have any experience in the business but when I was a kid and we needed the hay cut and baled we called the guy who brought in the hay baler on a low-boy. Nobody owned their own.

Perhaps, but the impression is reinforced when the police organize themselves to break the law in an organized fashion. For example, consider the police of Oakland, California. Every one of their patrol motorcycles is modified with a loud, unlawful exhaust muffler, through actions that body deliberately undertook. Clearly there are numerous criminals among the ranks of that police department, but it's also true that the department itself is corrupt and makes corrupt decisions as an organized body.

Edit: which is to overlook the most glaring examples of NYPD corruption: parking placards and get-out-of-jail-free cards for friends and family (recently reduced from 30 to 20 per officer!). It is not a great exaggeration to claim that the NYPD is America's largest criminal gang.

There should be some kind of cooling-off period between when these can hit the front page and when the comments begin, proportional to the length of the document. This one is 200 pages, so the first useful comment on this report will appear tomorrow at the earliest.

The only conclusion we can draw right now is that some software company has an exclusive contract to provide the government with PDF export applications that do not generate hyperlinked tables of contents, and that publishing such a document is in fact a crime against the people.

I buy all of my laptops here and the UX seems adequate.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=thinkpad&sort=...

Linux network maintainers have repeatedly rejected attempts by Eric Dumazet and others to expose delack_min and other parameters to userspace. This is the kernel tyranny to which I refer.

Notably many of the people whose proposals have been shot down by linux netdev are currently working on QUIC.

Yep, but it would be inadvisable to set it lower than the peer’s delayed ACK timeout, unless you want to just always resend every packet.

Those do not affect TCP state machine parameters like RTO(min), ATO, and TLP timeout. These are internal to the kernel and are either static, or can only be set systemwide. For example the minimum delayed ack timeout in Linux is just 40ms and can't be changed except by recompiling the kernel. 40ms is a totally inappropriate number for ATO in a datacenter or other low-latency setting. Other numbers like RTO(min) are specified in RFCs as 200ms, again completely inappropriate in a low-latency setting.

QUIC also frees us from other outdated misfeatures of TCP such as timestamps in milliseconds when they should be in microseconds.

This post groks QUIC. The most important thing about QUIC is it frees applications from the tyranny of the kernel TCP state machine. Today all TCP sockets (at least, on Linux) are subject to the same system-wide parameters of the TCP state machine, none of which are appropriate for any particular application. With QUIC we will finally have each application in control of its own retry timers and other parameters. That is going to be quite beneficial, especially on mobile where packet loss is so common.

Yeah, it is amazing. Maps only recently stopped working on my ancient BlackBerry.

This is backwards. Google rescued Deja’s archives which were going to be deleted and then expanded the archives back to 1981. Without Google’s interventions you’d all be left wondering what was in Usenet.

A lot of these are pretty silly. 100% of Songza features were rolled into Google Music. Listing every phone they no longer market doesn’t make a lot of sense either. You might as well list Maps for Series 60 phones if you wanted to get down to that level.

That’s not the reason. Vic Gundotra, the mastermind/moron behind Google+ would not tolerate any other Google properties with social features. Since you could share feeds and articles on Reader, and because it had followers and comments and whatnot, it had to be sacrificed on the altar of Google+.

In the US you may exclude up to half a million dollars of gains from your taxable income if you owned and lived in a property for at least two years. Otherwise gains on the sale of real property are taxed as ordinary income.

Unions are definitely the primary driver. Construction unions in New York are using current contracts to pay for their pension liabilities. In other words, taxpayers today are paying for work that was done 30 years ago. This guy is sort of irritating if you have to read him for more than a few hours, but his blog is full of evidence and analysis on this topic.

https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/an-open-se...

It is pretty hard to burn 100000 acres of California without hitting a toxic waste cleanup site of some kind or other, unfortunately.

The upgrade instructions are firmly in the lolwut category. The database is just not available during the transition. I think they should focus on fixing their protocol such that multiple versions can run at the same time, and rollbacks are possible.

The numbers really are crazy wrong. My total comp as a new grad in SF tech industry was $170k, in 1998. A “senior software engineer” at Google, which is the median grade of engineers at that company, makes around $500k/yr in total comp.

And VMWare is a fine product, but VMWare Cloud is kinda not.

Those engineers shop themselves around and maybe move offices. Google often destaffs launched, current products so this is not too weird of a situation for a Googler to be in. It’s not something that happens only to canceled products.

Borg can’t be a public product. Look at the way people complain how hard it is to use EC2 then multiply by a large factor. No isolation, sudden death, zero local I/O resources. It’s technically marvelous and dirt cheap but the masses aren’t ready for it.

Google App Engine is the OG serverless cloud product. Ten years old.

How can it be worse than a leader from VMWare? Have you ever seen VMWare's cloud product? It literally has little pictures of pretend computers that you click the reset buttons of with your mouse.

I guess I assumed all data at AWS was encrypted at rest. Disturbing if not. Compare:

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default...

sizeof(double) is 1 if you're using Analog's compiler. You have to use --double-size-64 to get the bigger one.

DSPs are pretty good discriminators for supposed-portable code. On SHARC for example everything is 32-bits wide (except long double, which is 64). Chars are 32 bits. Bytes are 32 bits. That is, int is 32 bits and sizeof(int) == 1. I imagine that porting Java, where byte is defined as an octet, to this architecture must be a chore.

That’s good to hear. I went to OSSM in the 90s and the legislature tried to defund it.

You left off teen fertility rate.

Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.

A: Because we don't have a lot of experience in distributed systems.

Weather in the Mono basin is irrelevant to conditions in the Feather River canyon. California, it turns out, is a large state with multiple distinct climate zones. As you note, it is the length of the summer drought which is increasing. This is not even contradictory with increasing or stable annual precipitation. It just means more of the water is coming in a shorter, rainier season.