Alright, not that I wrote or implied that anywhere… In fact Java was probably the whole reason Oracle bought Sun to gain leverage over Android. Which fits very much into what I wrote - one company innovates, another one buys them to squeeze users (Google wasn’t a customer of Sun, they used their own implementation which wasn’t exactly Java but also not exactly anything else). Just that Sun by all means wasn’t a small company, I mean they controlled almost a full stack with their own processors (SPARC), workstations and servers (Blade was somewhat famous), an operating system with Solaris (and if you want to count it even JavaOS) and Java on top of those, and they contributed a lot of technology like NFS, ZFS (license discussions aside). On the other hand, when they bought someone, the product wasn’t just milked to death, but actually integrated into their stack and continued to be developed in the open.

Shame it turned out that way, I guess Sun was a bit overleveraged with how much they did vs. how much they made from it. And to think that Oracle paid less than a fifth than what Twitter sold for later for all of that technology to go to waste, just for a chance to sue Google… But we long as suits continue to license their stuff because they have cool advertisements at airports, this will keep going.

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level , it’s first and foremost a company focused on selling licenses, and they’re really innovative in that regard but if you fall for that as a company, I have no pity, this is their whole schtick.

Big companies in general are often rather conservative in nature while innovation happens on smaller scale and later expands.

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts, especially when money was cheap to borrow. Innovation bears risk, buying an established solution and milking existing users much less so.

I don’t think the users are without blame. A lot of people ignore the red flags when a solution is just convenient enough (we need the commercial support / this exactly covers our use case so we don’t have to hire someone to adapt it / …) and the vendor then cashes out when moving away from his solution would be really expensive.

I think there’s still a lot of innovation lately, but a lot people are just looking for the next big thing that does everything it feels like.

Is docker even declarative?

Also you can build docker images from nix derivations

Ich habe mir die Infos immer aus Foren und Reddit gezogen, wenn es Neuigkeiten zu Boards hab, z.B. dem von SiFive. Eine einheitliche Quelle gibt es da nicht, das Thema ist aus meiner Sicht noch zu jung. Was nicht heißt, dass man sich damit nicht beschäftigen sollte oder dass es uninteressant ist. Man sollte halt nicht das Ökosystem eines Raspberry Pi erwarten. Ich würde vermuten, der Stand für RISC-V ist so wie zur Zeit des ersten Raspberry für ARM, vielleicht sogar schlechter. Aber das ist jetzt geraten. Was aber stimmt, ist, dass es einfach nicht die Chiphersteller dafür gibt, die ein Know-how für die Architektur haben, wie es es schon damals für ARM gab, dafür ist das alles noch zu jung. Die größten Stückzahlen finden sich da bei Festplatten als Controller, die Halle auch sehr eingeschränkt sind, und wo das Einsparen der Lizenzzahlungen jegliche Nachteile aufwiegt.

Der Support und die Leistung sind noch relativ weit von den gängigen ARM-Boards entfernt. Als Spielerei kann man es natürlich machen. Ich habe allerdings absichtlich “langfristig” geschrieben, um keine Hoffnungen auf jetzt fertige Lösungen zu wecken.

Es ist halt eine andere Architektur, deren ISA offen ist. Softbank, die derzeitigen Eigner von ARM, ziehen momentan die Daumenschrauben an, es wurde viel Geld für ARM ausgegeben und nun will man auch einen RoI. Zuerst trifft es wahrscheinlich die großen Hersteller mit eigenen Designs mit Ausnahme von Apple. Für den Nutzer sollte sich allerdings am Ende nichts ändern, der Distributor baut einfach auch Pakete für die Plattform.

Langfristig sollte man auf eine RISC-V Plattform wechseln. Ich vermute allerdings, dass die üblichen Hersteller das sowieso tun werden. Auch wenn die Zeit jetzt noch nicht reif ist.

I think they’re a great format to buy, but nowadays not that great to use. They offer the best audio quality of all physical media (fight me, vinyl enthusiasts), are really easy to handle (on par with cassettes), offers track selection (later cassette decks could detect silence but this doesn’t work for gapless tracks), the equipment is rather cheap nowadays, it’s a digital format without DRM… red book CD might be the best consumer media industry has ever created, my only gripe in the modern world is that its sampling rate is a bit off today’s 48kHz.

However, I only rip the CDs to lossless and then rarely take them out of my cupboard anymore, don’t even have a CD player. Using CDs in a mobile setting is a whole different beast, it requires a buffer and can also damage the discs in the worst case. But at home, pressed CDs live very long without any degradation in sounds quality, regardless of use. And ironically, buying them is often cheaper than buying non-physical only, though it often means that you end up with tracks you don’t want. But that’s an issue all physical media has.

brain has both suid and sgid bit set

The reason 60Hz was so prominent has to do with the power line frequency. Screens originated as cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that were only able to use a single frequency, which was the one chosen by TV networks. They chose a the power line frequency because this minimizes flicker when recording light powered with the same frequency as the one you record with, and you want to play back in the same frequency for normal content.

This however isn’t as important for modern monitors. You have other image sources than video content produced for TV which benefit from higher rates but don’t need to match a multiple of 60. So nowadays manufacturers go as high as their panels allow, my guess is 144 exists because that’s 6*24Hz (the latter being the “cinematic” frequency). My monitor for example is 75 Hz which is 1.5*50Hz, which is the European power line frequency, but the refresh rate is variable anyways, making it can match full multiples of content frequency dynamically if desired.

Nice, I paid less than 300€ for a new PC with 16GB shared memory about a month or two ago. This was with a 512 GB SSD, Ryzen 5700U system so not exactly garbage

This old trope

In fact tech has always been a very deflationary sector (as in the longer you wait, the more you get for your money) yet it’s pretty profitable. Nobody would ever get a phone by that logic

I wouldn’t count too much on younger generations drinking less forever. Smoking was in decline here for years for younger demographics but recently went back up. The same might happen for alcohol. You never know.

So by your logic, cigarettes shouldn’t be taxed at all?

Also, the way this is proposed kind of avoids the issue. People importing cigarettes already smoke, and they’ll be able to in the future because this only targets people born after a certain date to deter them from starting.

Women: don’t smoke, but if you do, never stop.

/s for good measure

At least over here, taxation on cigarettes offsets the direct cost caused by smoking according to experts. That’s why I left it out, I do believe you’re allowed to be stupid and smoke. But keep the damage to yourself and make sure non-smokers aren’t paying for it one way or another.

So yeah your demand is at least partially already reality over here.

The “disposable” vapes are a different issue that needs to be tackled. I’m pretty sure that a meaningful deposit (5 or 10 euros) and the obligation for every seller to accept returns would solve the problem.

In fairness, smoking tobacco is one of the few routes of administration where outlawing makes sense. The overall societal cost is very high, even for non-smokers, as in second-hand smokers and cigarette butts littering. It’s one of the few substances that health experts often recommend to make as unattractive as possible, be it through taxation or law.

I don’t really mind vaping or heating that much, I’d be fine with making cigarettes illegal while keeping the alternatives. Unfortunately, latest legislation has imposed higher burdens on the latter while doing jack about smoking.

2? Not X?

3 is such a coin-eating masterpiece though

It’s the same for Linux though, if you mount any drive, your user or rather UID/GID needs appropriate permissions to perform any action. Can even happen that you mount a disk with your old home directory somewhere and can’t access it because your UID changed between installations (though it’s 1000 for most people).