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811.
by rswail 4y ago
The push against Huawei started in Australia as we started to deploy 5G. Our government essentially banned our telcos from installing Huawei equipment. The UK had set up a different approach where Huawei exposed their entire stack to UK sec
812.
by rswail 4y ago
You're taking the perspective from places where iPhones are in a majority, or a plurality of people's pockets. In Asia, Africa, Middle East, South America etc, Android has a much larger share of the market, even if it is spread ac
813.
by rswail 4y ago
Are there more important things to solve? Of course. However, this particular topic on this particular message board is about dotfiles and the alternatives. Dotfiles are a clumsy mechanism that came from the early days of Unix. There are be
814.
by rswail 4y ago
You do realize that the US applies that the same sort of regulatory business processes for overseas companies that wish to operate in the US. In fact, the US "reach" into overseas trading including banking and other business proce
815.
by rswail 4y ago
When the NAFO have defeated the orcs in the current conflict, they will need a new enemy.
816.
by rswail 4y ago
Singapore is aligned with the West, trains with/by Australia who are aligned with the US and NZ.
817.
by rswail 4y ago
Or, like the UK, the days of Russian empire are over and the new bi-polar world will be the NATO/India/AUNZ/Asia vs China/Africa. So another Cold War for the 21st Century if we continue to rely on a mercantilist attitude
818.
by rswail 4y ago
That's a crap comment, define where and how it's "too much", considering that the vehicle design rules and regulations have literally saved millions of lives? People forget the Edsel and "unsafe at any speed" f
819.
by rswail 4y ago
The problem is not drunk drivers but incapacitated drivers, whether due to alcohol, drugs, lack of sleep, distractions (mobile phones), etc. The fix is not arbitrary alcohol blood levels, or extending the "War on Drugs", but w
820.
by rswail 4y ago
The Wikipedia article about PKI is a pretty good introduction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure
821.
by rswail 4y ago
It's corporate nonsense-speak. Not sure how it removes the negative connotation though.
822.
by rswail 4y ago
I might sound like an old fart, but what is wrong with the word "lessons" that we need to replace it as a noun with a noun-ed verb like "learnings"?
823.
by rswail 4y ago
You could almost say [citation needed] /s
824.
by rswail 4y ago
What are the tests that people have to take to gain US citizenship? While people born in the US automatically have citizenship, my personal belief is that people should have to pass the citizenship tests to get the right to vote. btw, I&#x2
825.
by rswail 4y ago
The GDPR is an unalloyed good for consumer protection. The fact that stupid website designers and even stupider web marketers want to collect useless information to the point that they have to have complicated cookie acceptance banners is
826.
by rswail 4y ago
I wonder how long before IE goes with EU standards instead of UK ones, now that the UK has exited?
827.
by rswail 4y ago
Except electricians and the companies that insure them for professional liability, or the companies that insure houses against electrical fires use that national code as a reference, same for building codes, etc. It's interesting to re
828.
by rswail 4y ago
Been through all the silver bullets of the last 30 years, and the UML round-trip craze of the late 90s/early 00s were the worst. Sequence diagrams, ERDs, state diagrams are all good things. UML class diagrams were the worst though, mai
829.
by rswail 4y ago
So my Linux kernel running the majority of the infrastructure of the company I work for is untrustworthy? Do you not trust kernel.org? Or the GPG signatures of the commits? What about Mozilla? As for "someone that can be sued", ha
830.
by rswail 4y ago
Of course they will, but the actual problem is there. I've been delivering systems where we had to deliver the source environment (ie what is used to build production) into escrow with a lawyer as part of the contract. It effectively
831.
by rswail 4y ago
Not only that but which floor is the 13th (in the West) or 14th (in China)? Often those numbers are skipped because "luck", "feng shui", or other superstitious nonsense. Do you count the machine floors in high rise build
832.
by rswail 4y ago
By 2030, I expect the number of EV produced to exceed the number of ICE vehicles. EV doesn't need a gearbox, which makes the discussion about manual vs automatic transmission moot. In terms of vehicle external design, modern vehicles a
833.
by rswail 4y ago
That's using the "what's the earliest date you can't prove you won't be finished by" method of estimation.
834.
by rswail 4y ago
Because people are "scratching an itch", not creating a product. Most engineers are terrible at writing documentation.
835.
by rswail 4y ago
I don't "believe" in REST, except that when you do it "properly" with media types and links, and proper thought about the resources you identify and what the state transitions are, it all works very nicely as a requ
836.
by rswail 4y ago
Sure, but the point was that C was designed to implement Unix and Unix was implemented on DEC machines and DEC machines had a particular architecture around registers that included the pre/post increment, which lead to the C *p++ style
837.
by rswail 4y ago
Because C was originally for PDP/DEC equipment and the instruction set had standard register access modes including both pre and post increment. So the (for example) strcmp "while ( s++ == d++);" made sense as efficient code
838.
by rswail 4y ago
So encrypt it with KMS and store it in S3.
839.
by rswail 4y ago
The verb-oriented style is part of the problem. Too many verbs is the problem. Java/OOP problems are not the same as the REST style, which is entirely about Nouns. There's none of the Java ManagerFactoryManager problems. The gener
840.
by rswail 4y ago
Personal opinion: RPC is a failed architectural style, independent of what serialization/marshalling of arguments is used. it failed with CORBA, it failed with ONC-RPC, it failed with Java RMI. Remote Procedure Calls attempt to abstrac

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