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This is such a great post, I'm surprised it doesn't have more traction but maybe people aren't into reading longform plain text. "spamming Internet users at sc
by earthscienceman 5y ago
This is such a great post, I'm surprised it doesn't have more traction but maybe people aren't into reading longform plain text.
"spamming Internet users at scale requires a lot of parallel activity, after all. If those processes can be segregated so that all siblings of any given core run processes from the same customer, we can be spared the gruesome prospect of one spammer stealing another's target list — or somebody else's private keys."
- jacquesm 5y agoTechnical writing with a sense of humor is great. Highly recommended: the user manual of the SkyRC MC3000 Li-Ion charger.
- HanaShiratori 5y agoHaha yeah the good old MC3000. I love this charger, it makes a simple task a little more exciting and sometimes (a bit) unnecessarily complicated - but at the least you've got full control about charging those damn batteries!
- wazoox 5y agoI still remember the fun I had 30 years ago reading the t.c. electronics 2290 digital delay user manual.
- Fnoord 5y agoLink to PDFs [1] (scroll down, EN and DE it seems). Seems like an amazing device, too. Too bad it could only charge one at a time, so I guess you'd buy multiple of these on a tech dept. [1] https://www.skyrc.com/MC3000_Charger https://www.skyrc.com/MC3000_Charger
- bayindirh 5y ago> Too bad it could only charge one at a time, so I guess you'd buy multiple of these on a tech dept. The phone app screenshots show three charge one discharge cycle at the same time. It's a 4 channel charger which can work even with a single battery. Currently I use IKEA's battery chargers*, but if I gonna need something more advanced, gonna look at this one. *: IKEA's battery chargers are no slouches either. They're very intelligent with battery fault detection and very good charging characteristics.
- jacquesm 5y agoHighly recommended, I have a whole slew of consumer and pro-sumer Li-Ion chargers and this one is by far the best, it's not the cheapest but it works very well.
- HanaShiratori 5y agoWhat do you mean with one at a time? I've been using one of these chargers for a couple for years now and can charge multiple batteries at the same time. Even different types are not a problem. (nimh / liion)
- Fnoord 5y agoWhat I mean is the very same type is going to work only once since you cannot convert it to twice the type you need. So in a work environment where you use these, you might end up with say two of these to load two of such rechargeable batteries at the same time. Whereas 'normal' chargers for things like AA and AAA have multiple spots for the same battery. Like the other comment, I also currently use IKEA's charger (my wife bought it), and it can charge a lot of batteries at the same time.
- jacquesm 5y agoIt charges up to 4 batteries at the same time (or discharges, or prepares them for long term storage etc).
- HanaShiratori 5y agoI'm sorry I don't really get what you're saying. You can charge any (supported) battery type in any of those slots regardless of how many you want to charge at the same time. I can charge 4 eneloops simultaneously or 18650 or whatever...
- Fnoord 5y agoThanks, also jacquesm, I get/see it now. Its springs which adapt to the battery size. Neat!
- jacquesm 5y agoYes, most of these have that feature, what's unique about the MC3000 is that it allows you to create your own charge profiles ('programs') which you can then use to perform various operations on single batteries of batches of them. For instance, you can move batteries to a target voltage, which is wise to do before welding a pack with parallel cells (unless you like sparks, and if the difference is large enough, burning up interconnects).
- bayindirh 5y agoThat's a fine charger too. Good hardware, good features, humorous user manual. A splendid combination, indeed.
- sytelus 5y agoA majority of long form writing is extremely low information density and, even worse, just designed to retain attention as long as possible. I now dislike majority of news articles which starts with pseudo-literary description of anecdot and a main detail is revealed 3/4 of the way in sentence or two. It’s purely filler and like sugar it has a purpose. I want all long form writing to have sub title to tell the core of story in one line, followed by abstract, or let Twitter guy summarize it for me.
- tluyben2 5y agoYes, and I have the same issue with videos: 30 min videos with something that fits in 1 written sentence. Ugh. People are so afraid of reading (or are just very slow readers?); many even here won't read beyond the first line of this comment and if they comment, they comment only on that line often). But... this does not apply to this post. It is not that long, not low density and does not have fillers or sugar.
- azalemeth 5y agoI have exactly this issue with video, moaned about it here a few weeks ago -- and another HN reader explained, very pithily why the trend has occurred: money. It's much easier to monetise a YouTube video than it is an easy, or a blog post. Video impressions get more currency/eyeball even outside of YouTube. Our lack of ability to skim read or rapidly search for information doesn't enter the calculus.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoThese days I'm supposed to watch a 30 min video in order to check if a Wikipedia source really contains the quoted statement.
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- mwcampbell 5y agoMaybe I'm just being too humorless, but I found the quoted passage a bit too dismissive of all the good things that are being done in cloud environments. Some of us are developing products that actually make people's lives better, and we're selling those products as SaaS, but we're not yet big enough to operate dedicated hardware with the same level of reliability and security that, say, AWS can achieve, so we run in a shared cloud environment. Anyway, the constant cynicism in online communities like this one, and reflected in that part of the OP, gets to me.
- bayindirh 5y agoWe also do useful things in cloud/HPC which touches people's lives, but a little joke here and there doesn't hurt IMHO. Maybe I'm too used to stab myself and laugh at it.
- wayoutthere 5y agoThe Linux kernel community has always had a bit of a suspicious attitude towards commercial use. This attitude long predates the cloud / SaaS and reflects Linux’s origins (and Linus Torvalds’ world view) inside Scandinavian academia.
- secondaryacct 5y agoYes you're being too humourless :)
- sosadmin007 5y agoI agree, especially since this huge change was a prime example of how open source is incredible ! This work was made possible because engineers working for competitors such as DigitalOcean, Google, Oracle and Microsoft worked together with the kernel community to find an acceptable software solution to a hardware problem that impacts a lot of people.
- Diederich 5y agoSuch dry humor is one of the best things about Jonathan Corbet's writing style.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> longform plain text Lol it's just a thousand words!