MartyFouts

MartyFouts, 7 days ago

@b0rk I have used git since the day Linus switched the kernel to it and I am really looking forward to this. It is going to be the best introduction to git so far.

MartyFouts, 7 days ago

@airfive @b0rk introduction was probably the wrong description. Overview might be a better description.

MartyFouts, 8 days ago

@eniko I used to be involved in consumer electronics product release scheduling and we always tried for June releases because of what the industry calls “dads and grads” in the US. June is the second busiest time of the year for retail because of Father’s Day and graduation presents but the range of things people buy is narrower than during the Christmas shopping season. I assume that the game industry has the same retail window.

MartyFouts, 8 days ago

@eniko which makes no sense as you already said. There’s a trade show component to cluster announcements in other industries like NAMM for music gear. Is there a big game show in June or did there used to be?

MartyFouts, 8 days ago

@eniko Inertia is responsible for so many industry practices in so many industries. Look at the way CES never quite dies. I am surprised that indie developers don’t break away from June. I suppose the trade press is also geared toward to the schedule though.

MartyFouts, 10 days ago

@patrickworld around here there’s a theater that shows movies with subtitles. They give you a little device that attaches to your seat and can be adjusted so only you can see the display. It usually works well.

MartyFouts, 16 days ago

@Alice Waymo is operating under a program from CAL DMV that sets three classes of vehicles for them. Some areas require backup drivers in the vehicle, most require remote monitoring of the vehicle, while none yet allow unsupervised driving as far as I know. San Francisco is remotely monitored but the recent addition of Sunnyvale still requires drivers in the car. However Waymo does not remotely operate the vehicles unless there is an emergency.

MartyFouts, 24 days ago

@DJDarren Apple’s trade in prices are enough below market that the effect on second hand supply is negligible. Most of the devices that they destroy are either not repairable or models that are no longer supported. They should do a better job of removing and recovering material but they are not trying to reduce resale.

MartyFouts, 24 days ago

@DJDarren most phone resales are person to person without an intermediary but there are other channels than Facebook and even Apple sells its refurbished devices on the used market. There are several reasons for the buy back program but reducing second hand supply is not one of them.

MartyFouts, 23 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost @DJDarren Yes, after spending 20 years as a principal engineer developing consumer electronics products I can really say that. Although I never worked for Apple I do know what the rates are in the industry and since they are due mostly to physical factors they should be similar for Apple. One of the side effects of Moore’s law is that there are far fewer parts on a phone and they are far more complex than 20 years ago. /1

MartyFouts, 23 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost @DJDarren perhaps I should mention that the hard problem with recycling electronics is testing to see if the part still works to spec. It can cost more to test a part than to replace it with a new one. This trend has also been driven by Moore. But it’s also driven by what consumers are willing to pay. You lose money if it costs more to refurbish than you can sell it for. So a lot of devices are destroyed because of this.

MartyFouts, 23 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost @DJDarren I don’t know Apple’s reasoning behind their use of pairing but it sometimes benefits the customer. It allows building systems that work better with less expensive parts because it can be cheaper to match two parts of lower tolerance than to require both parts to have higher tolerance. Maybe Apple’s use is monopolistic rather than good design. If it’s not, phones repaired without matching will be less reliable.

MartyFouts, 23 days ago

@princessnorah @DJDarren @puppygirlhornypost I have missed that Apple is using the phrase “part pairing” to cover their attempt to limit replacement parts to genuine Apple parts and prevent the use of third party replacements. What I said is true for the sort of pairing that requires both parts to be replaced as a pair but not true for what Apple is doing.

MartyFouts, 1 month ago

@SteveBellovin I am surprised that the map doesn’t show Ames-vax connection to UCB. I think it was there by then. I didn’t attach Amelia until the fall though.

MartyFouts, 1 month ago

@ned When I was at NASA I did research on the impact of public funding on technological innovation and it was much smaller than that image implies. Cell phone technology, despite the claim here, was almost entirely developed by corporations, for example. Governments can be good at funding basic research but tend not to be good at funding directed research and development.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@RickiTarr My sister is a public defender. She has long said that “the rich get richer and the poor get prison”.

MartyFouts, 1 month ago

@RickiTarr she is a very good trial lawyer but the state doesn’t allow her the size budget to prepare her case that it gives to the prosecution.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@bagder IBM alone is responsible for more than 2 billion of that, since they spent at least that much developing Linux. Much of the rest is from other companies, like Google’s investment in Android and the hundreds of companies developing embedded devices. Probably 90 percent was developed by paid professionals.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@lucasmz @linux_mclinuxface Yes, alas, with a bunch of caveats about jurisdictions varying. If redis owns the copyright on all of the code they can change the license going forward at any time. Revoking the license on already licensed code is tricky but technically allowed under the BSD license.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@astro_jcm So glad I retired from research before this.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@RickiTarr I might be the person I thought I would be when I got up this morning. I’ll know for sure after a good night’s sleep.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@Teri_Kanefield Thanks for the excellent blog post. Can you clarify a small point for me? You wrote “(In other words, she wished the 5 other conservatives had just shut up about whether federal legislation was required so that they could have issued a clean anonymous opinion.)” and I wonder if “anonymous” was meant to be “unanimous”? If you did mean anonymous could you elaborate on why anonymity would be good in this specific instance?

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@RickiTarr I would follow you to the ends of the earth if only it weren’t round.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago

@fraying Problem is that you have framed the issues in a way that would mislead someone who doesn’t understand those things and maybe your audience needs to hear about rights assignment in TOS, and the difference between expressive and non expressive use of copyrighted works even if you don’t. Because if one understands those things one would not be confused. If we’re going to fix the underlying problem it would help to describe it better.

MartyFouts, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

@parismarx I doubt that Apple abandoning a project that IIRC they never officially announced will have any impact on the 60 or so companies in California that are working on driving automation, except maybe to make some talent available for hire. If Waymo announcing that full driving automation was impossible didn’t deter anyone why would this?