Flat pack (container) and drags out to 100's of meters. This has military purposes, but there are immediate other potential applications without even squinting that hard.
Interesting use of `latency_ms_max` as a naming convention. I'm definitely guilty of `max_latency_ms` instead, but they make a convincing argument for putting `max` at the end.
If this topic floats your boat, go look up the NASA coding standards. For a few projects, I tried to follow a lot of their flow control recommendations, and will still reach for: `while ... && LIMIT > 0` in some situations.
Still a huge fan of including some type info in the variable name, eg: duration_s, limit_ms makes it extremely clear that you shouldn't mix math on those integers.
Tribes 2 was basically a reimplementation of the major Internet protocols at the time... IRC for their chat rooms, newsgroups for the forums postings, profile pages was kindof proto-myspace, joining a "tribe" had obvious Unix groups parallels.
...but yes, MA[2] has now been "in development" for nearing a decade now, and there is still activity with the original clients/servers most day of the week.
The baseline for watches is changing the battery every 3-5 YEARS! This modernity of charging watches daily is a pox on humanity brought on by Apple.
Pebble (and Fitbit, and others) were always in the "week-plus" timeframe for charging. Meeting the "minimum bar" of 14-17 days battery life (of the OG pebbles) is successful. Shooting for "30 days" is definitively best-in-class performance for smart-watches!
Similarly Wheel of Time had one... I had to dig deep and converse with an LLM to figure it out. I proposed to it "copyslop" as the term of art, it came back with "placeholder productions", "copyright keepers", and eventually there seems to be a "real" term-of-art called "ashcan" - https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9jxvtb/til_a...
In any case: """Yes, you're likely thinking of the "Wheel of Time" pilot episode titled Winter Dragon, which aired in
2015. It was a low-budget production that was released with almost no promotion and aired in the middle of the night on FXX. The purpose of this release was widely believed to be an attempt by Red Eagle Entertainment to retain the rights to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, as their licensing
agreement required them to produce something before a specific deadline."""
The 1994 Fantastic 4 movie was the same deal. Produced for $1M, never released. I guess it's hard to make a legal standard for "actually trying" with a license, but it is really weird to see that you can keep these licenses alive with these zombie products.
Another less token one I'm aware of is the Marvel themed land of Universal Orlando. Universal has an indefinite license to the IP as long as they don't 'mishandle' it. An easy way to make it very clear that you haven't done that is to just never change anything. So all the rides, signage, etc is carefully maintained but identical to how it was 20 years ago.
There was some great lwn commentary a while back about Linux permissions being borked in the modern era... that mount-level (instead of mixed-file-level) was a better modern model.
Maybe something like bsd's "pledge" where user-invoked processes don't get all capabilities automatically?
Linux has been too "high trust" for a while now, and I don't know what the appetite is for us all digging out of it is...
There are two issues - one is that the permission model of Linux may not be suitable for modern workloads, but the second is that Linux is a huge, constantly-moving beast written in a memory-unsafe language and has regular privilege escalation exploits. Addressing the former still won’t address the latter.
Hypervisor-based security seems to be the least worst way to deal with this problem currently, and indeed appears to be a successful defense given cloud providers’ bottom-lines.
PERL tripped over it's own feet (too clever, line-noise, unmaintainable).
Java(TM) being "guaranteed to be business-like" sucked the serious use cases away.
PHP was easier to grok, had "editable man pages" (ie: comment forum attached to each built-in), and didn't have "slow CGI overhead" or "FastCGI complexity".
Python was waaaay easier to read/write/maintain, and was a serious alternative (except for trickier process-control integration, you couldn't just "$XYZ = `ls -al`" like you could in perl).
...and then "PERL6 will be gloriously filled with rainbows, butterflies, will be backwards incompatible, and will be released Any Day Now(tm)" sucked alll the oxygen out of a developer investing in perl.
By the time nodejs became another contender for server-side languages, there was no place for PERL as it's effectively become kindof a COBOL for unix systems. Don't touch it if you can avoid it, and it requires expensive, difficult-to-find specialists to maintain it if you need to.
I don’t, libertarian ideals like that book die the first time they meet an organized group of bears[1]
Also if I recall they were in underground cities in that book and not clinging to the edge of a mountainside like invaders would be doing in regards to the content of the original post
Oh I’m sorry, that was a tongue in cheek reference to a known event that I assume /u/ancapistani is familiar with unless you have the luckiest random user name ever.
The point was that libertarian ideals fail whenever faced with a problem that requires a societal level response since the members are incapable of working together due to their own selfishness, e.x. Someone feeding the bears that were causing their neighbors harm
And the state hasn’t managed a solution to bears? They mustered the banners and had their hunters kill them all back when it was a problem.
The libertarians are the ones arguing that I should be allowed to run a bear farming factory next to the kindergarten with a suspiciously high number of bear related deaths per capita for children.
I’m quite familiar with the failings of these sorts of social experiments. I followed the Free State Project from its inception, watched Anarchon happen in real time, etc. I get what you’re saying. I have two points to make in response.
The first is that libertarian experiments in the last 20 years or so in the Western world have tended to draw the most extreme and outspoken members of the group. Those people also tend to value what they consider to be ideological purity over effectiveness, and tend to have strong/abrasive personalities. There’s a good deal of selection bias happening here.
The second is that I personally believe that the more extreme an idea is, the more consistently educated and motivated the participants must be in order for it to work. As an extreme example: I want to see the US government disappear. That’s a bold statement, but hear me out for a moment. If we all woke up tomorrow morning and government at all levels from municipal to federal were gone, it would be a disaster. The same would be true of any sort of coup. The only way for a stateless society to exist and be functional is if the people no longer need or desire a state. To put it another way - I don’t want a government that we can “drown in a bathtub”, I want us to move toward a world where one day we realize it’s no longer serving a purpose.
I’m in no way threatened if you disagree with me here, I’m just compelled to clarify when I see libertarian beliefs being dismissed because a specific problem exists when the same problem exists in the status quo.
No political system is perfect. Our current system _certainly_ isn’t. It’s intellectually lazy to oppose a change on the grounds that it doesn’t solve everything.
As long as you aren’t claiming the corporate boot actually tastes great it’s only government issued boots that can’t be licked, I tend to be fine with libertarians but, especially after the Mises Caucus takeover of the party and its collapse in many states, those types are exceedingly rare and you will excuse me if I don’t extend the benefit of the doubt to someone who wears parts of their ideology as a name
Now that the furor has died down: "how easy it is to win when you can just let go of a rock and it’s guided to your enemy by gravity"
...that's literally the main plot point of the book: "The Moon lets go of a rock and it's guided to Earth by gravity."
Libertarian ideals aside, if you want a better introspection into political ideologies by the same author, "Starship Troopers" provided lots of food for thought.
There was one similar issue with DOOM framerate, I'm assuming an intern got tasked with adding the "blink the LED on the fancy mouse" code (due to a marketing partnership) and it absolutely _trashes_ the framerate!
Flat pack (container) and drags out to 100's of meters. This has military purposes, but there are immediate other potential applications without even squinting that hard.
Cardboard beds for refugee camps: https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/ingenious-cardboard-bed/
Fold-down (from wall) stairs: https://sawmillstructures.com/product/stair-wall-fold-flat-w...
Cardboard honeycomb packaging cushioning: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Honeycomb-Cushion-Wra...
...and some of the OG uses of the same "Miura fold" for deploying solar panels in outer space: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/cbzjp...
(in my nerdier days, I used to re-fold tourist maps using this technique so it'd "auto-open/close")
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