Compared to xz and even parallel xz, gzip and parallel gzip are just better if speed is more important. The compression is not superior but already good if you consider just the uncompressed data. For long term storage, it makes sense, to invest the extra time for better compression but if it's about transfer time, you might end up with a overall longer processing time instead of just a longer transfer time because of a worse compression ratio.
It's like with image formats: Pick the right one for your use case.
If you add zstd to the comparison matrix, it wins on both speed and compression ratio. Its adoption is quickly catching up to xz as a result, and I expect it to approach gzip in availability in a few years.
True. Reading code needs some experience in how coding actually works. I feel confident enough to read code in programming languages I've never coded in as long as they are imperative because the the pattern will be similar so that an abstract static analysis is possible.
I don't mind the usage of AI agents but review the code, understand and improve it. Every other prompt I don't even need to run the code to see that it won't work and I'm tired of the "oh sorry, you're right! Here's a fixed version" excuses.
I've already noticed, how AI usage makes people not think anymore. There's a problem? Ask the AI. Run whatever the AI returns. It declares solutions as dangerous and explains why but I saw enough people solving their problems with --force until it caused real damage or failed.
And the explanation is filling with indignation: "Just use --force" - "why?" - "It does not work otherwise" - "why?" - "I don't know". It was a npm telling, it cannot resolve the dependency tree anymore.
Yes, it is. I've been on a long distance train and there was some guy watching a movie on his tablet. Sleeping. In the quiet zone.
Rude, loud people usually don’t react kindly when you call them out on their behavior. It’s practically asking for trouble. That may be one reason why many people avoid conflict, even if it bothers them a lot.
Damn that's scary. I like that guy. He said everything necessary to that topic.
Never rely on something you've found working for your case but not designed to be used like that.
People talk a bunch of stuff about malfunctioning, bugged software and so on. We can assume, the car was just trapped in some infinite loop so it'll never reach it's goal for some reason but also wasn't able to realize that and call the routine for that. Fine.
It's not a dangerous situation for the passenger but it definitely something that makes you feel very uncomfortable which could lead to panic because you're trapped. The doors are locked and even if they weren't you cannot simply exit the car. That's okay. Trains don't allow this either to open the doors on a track section. You need a supervisor to do that. In case of an emergency you can still unlock the doors mechanically. So after pulling the emergency brake you can still do that. It would be interesting how these cars behave in case of a fire inside or something which leads me to my final thought:
In case of issues on or with a ride in a theme park, there are usually operators. So in case of a technical malfunction there's an emergency stop which should make disarm systems in a safe manner and bring the ride into a safe position or at least make sure it stops safely. Of course it's not possible to trigger an e-stop as passenger but an operator can do that in case you can somehow make clear that it's needed right now.
The situation in the video is a very bad experience because a phone call from the passengers device is needed and he was asked to do something in the app. Probably to identify the car and enable the remote control. Elevators handle this much better. There's an emergency system in the cabin which transmits all important information to the service center, so it's immediately clear where the emergency call originated from. An app on a smartphone should never replace this installation!
When I pulled the emergency stop cord on the train, I also pulled the emergency door opening lever. The doors opened, on a track section. I've used an emergency door opening lever more recently when the train had already stopped and we were being instructed to exit because of a mechanical problem (possibly a fire), but that was at a station.
Elevators, in my experience, also universally have E-stop buttons or switches.
Thanks to the article I now have the proper word for it: Bossware.
I feel reminded of Ploito. It got advertised on HN. 6 months later I'm sure: It was an ad to gain attention. Idk what happened but it seems that the poster and their business owner became very silent 2 months after their pitch.
It's still worth to quote the BO
> "weed out the lazy and deceitful, thereby forming a healthy and efficient team."
It's bossware disguised as a "cool" product to connect teams. You could say it's a Trojan horse. Sure the monitoring is all "optional" but the mentality is baked into the product.
For me it's just right to reject every potential company installing bossware alone for your personal health. People burn out under constant monitoring forced to be 100% productive all day. Have a bad day? Sad for you, it lowers your numbers. Sick leave instead? "Oh what a weak person, how unreliable".
People with utilizing computers to effectively slave-drive people should be held responsible for the damage they cause. They should pay for the treatment if they drive people into depressions and burnout and neither health insurances or the society.
Really depends on what you expect for 1 Euro. A single CPU core of an Intel Xenon Gold 6230R isn't much but it handles small loads very well. 1 GB memory is okayish. 10 GB SSD? Meh. A dedicated IPv4 address? That's hot! The uptime is flawless and it's fine to host or forward requests and serve as VPN gateway for my personal stuff or host a few small services. For 1 Euro/month it's a good offer. I used it to encode videos for months. No complaints or something from them.
But according to Reddit, once you get into trouble, the support is the biggest weakness. I'm just parroting what other people probably also parroted.
Initially I had the same thought: I'm not using their services, how can I break TOS? But this explains it. If a device cannot be controlled locally and need their cloud connection to work, it's in a high risk of becoming e-waste at some point of time. That's why I would never pick such devices.
You could lock it away so people start messing with their cars to unlock it again. Yes.
I wish people would realize how dangerous it is to be so much faster than the adjacent lane.
It's just: I can go faster, if I want to (or for some reason need to).
I'm really not a fan of doing the Apple thing and to infantilize the user by disallowing sideloading because it's dangerous.
The discussion got dragged to compare force and impact but similarly to train tracks, highways are usually a place of motion. People don't walk around and cars are usually also fast.
We counter the emergency situation such as the infamous end of a traffic jam by adding brake assistants that warn the driver to brake and then hit the brake on their own. This kind of technology seems to reduce traffic incidents so that the most danger comes from older cars without this technology.
I completely agree, that we don't need hyper cars or racing cars on the road. But the 100 mph limit wouldn't help at all in cities. There are better ways like obstacles that force a driver to slow down or routing with curves instead of straight lines.
I really don't care for your analogy, speeding is a choice that puts others at risk and I think safety rules that protect everyone from each other, are far from infantilism.
But also, we shouldn't let perfect get in the way of good. Blocking 100mph+ may only improve safety on faster roads, but that's still a gross improvement. A few people a year are caught doing 150mph on 60mph single carriageways near me. Far more nationally, far more never caught, and exponentially more on superbikes.
If there's no legal reason to do 100mph on any road, why not just stop it being an option? Remove that temptation. It will save far more lives than it costs.
