(e) Thousands of person-years wasted bickering over how real climate change is and what the magnitude will really be, when it ought to be obvious that renewable energy sources are preferable to non-renewable ones.
Are there really significant use-cases which require both a higher performance processor and GPIO pins? I imagine at this point there is value in splitting the product line to tailor towards "mini Arm server", and "IoT/robotics" users separately.
Yes, a lot. Also, the GPIO pins are there just because they are, and why not? There's enough pins, why not route them out?
You need gpio pins for random kiosks (web access, photo printing/scanning, etc. to control the leds, lights, etc., even coin slots), retro arcades (to get input from joysticks, buttons, etc.), robotics (camera for video, a lot of cpu for processing, gpio pins to control the movement), advanced sensor boards (where the processing is done on the device), smart home stuff, etc.
"Back in my time", we used to use parallel ports for that... 8 very limited gpios were enough to drive a few leds or read some data from an external device.
Application Frameworks tend to become quite heavy (think Electron on X11, event QT) where most activity on the processor is rendering and business logic wise in some UI flows while once in a while, local data is collected (like temperature, humidity or your custom sensors).
Think a terminal in a Museum with lights, think a local hotspots with sensor and connected (normal tablets), think a ECG machine, ... . Use Cases there are enough, whether other criteria (like quality/reliability) are sufficent, is another story).
Any specific questions? It's a home/office automation project, it's for fun and learning, we started it during a hackathon at my company. It does things like close the window blinds or turn off the lights with funny remarks in response.
I love that Google are willing to such a big swing at Microsoft in the text of this announcement - I just wish AWS wasn't so badly shackled busy it's marketing and PR people these days.
This seems like an opportune moment to remind/notify any fellow UK dark-dwellers that the NHS recommends taking vitamin D supplements here in the winter.
One of the biggest things I hate about crypto is how it sucked all the air out of “decentralization.” Now people hear that and think “oh another scam coin.”
“Local first” and “federated” are perhaps more accurate anyway.
Indeed, crypto made the world a harder place for projects with good intention. We aim to build a truly decentralized, peer to peer cloud infrastructure that you can connect to or even replicate on your own terms, and yet familiar to developers and system admins by providing the tools they love for provisioning and managing their workloads.
The whole system is 100% opensource, you can run it on your own terms (we would be happy if other people based on our work and expanded further)
We are moving to support fiat as well, as well. You can literally build anything (we recently built a students platform to deploy their workloads without concerns about tokenomics)
Tokenomics aside, I'm sure https://manual.grid.tf will show very interesting bit, And please keep in mind that the system works .. quite well actually (and it's opensource if you like the idea, and don't like the execution :)
Repost this to HN when a more normal fiat based pricing model exists or … not a new token but at least, at least, satoshis or something like bits of btc.
The system is completely opensource, the team would be even more the willing to help you to build your own clouds separate from the current main one, and even can guide you if you ever wanted to change how the payment works. We are already at the point of designing the 4th iteration of the system. Too many believed in our vision and connected their capacity to make it reality.
There're various definitions of free, e.g it will cost power and bandwidth for sure, but free as in totally decentralized as owned by the people? they get to decide how and where their workloads are hosted :) you can connect a server in your basement and I deploy my workloads on it or you can even host your website (trusting other human beings on your own terms :) )
No offense to the creators, I appreciate anyone shipping something new, but this has been tried many times without success. HNT being the largest example.
Yeah ICP/Dfinity was one of the originals to target cloud computing on a blockchain platform, with one of the biggest budgets, highest profile backers (A16Z), and strongest engineering teams in the business (they poached IBM Zurich’s research lab). But it’s not taking off. The concept seems either not viable for reasons, or its too ahead of its time. Anyone attempting a new version needs a clear value proposition that’s different from prior attempts.
It's not taking off because their marketing is incredibly deceptive and there was a report showing that there was probably a planned retail dump shortly after launch allowing lots of backers to pull out. It's not really decentralized in any meaningful sense and they misuse terminology (like what the term "node" means, among other things) in order to give the appearance otherwise.
The manager wasn't the one doing the forcing - the overall stack-ranking system was, and the manager was just employing the required level of doublethink to convince themselves the employee was both suitable for firing and also worth trying to retain.
I disagree, this is not some junior manager drinking the company cool aid. They are a middle manager with hundreds of indirect reports - in HR, no less - fully aware of what they're doing and with a metric to hit.
So they lined up potential candidates, made them the same deal and tested their level of docility and loyalty to himself. Some of the candidates demurred and they got the boot, the author played the loyalty game and then "backstabbed" his superior and screwed the stats.
So, good? The employee recognizes that the employer is just screwing around with everyone, seems like a FAFO situation; I hope Amazon has this happen endlessly.
To the point here: I think people think these managers are in a position of real power. They are not. They are cogs in the wheel as are their subordinates. It's entirely possible this manager wasn't even the one doing the direct ranking, sometimes this roles up to levels beyond where the manager can give real input. Someone has to get pipped as the system demands it, it happened to land on the person in the article. The manager is then trying to get them out of it because they believe they don't actually require the pip.
So this is both a failure of the manager (it is their job to navigate the system and boost their reports during stack ranking), and also a failure of the system as a whole (this person probably shouldn't have been pipped).
I don't think it's so much doublethink as it is this manager is trying to balance competing interests in their very immediate sphere.
How can they be maintaining these completely antithetitical interests, like wjy do they want to arbitrarily fire the person at all if they have already evaluated that person to be worthy of retention? Why is this even on the table in the absence of any failure to meet whatever metrics?
Is it just a big power play that keeps rolling in the expectation of bottomless/infinite talenent and pepetual inflow/attrition?
I assume there are different competing priorities at play that converge in particularly dumb ways sometimes.
Some stakeholders latched onto the idea of churning some % of staff each year in an effort to, I guess, eventually filter the entire human population for the best possible employees.
Some people want to make it look like their HR team is doing a lot of useful stuff.
Some people want to boost their own department's metrics.
Some people want to work with a team to achieve actual business goals.
> Is it just a big power play that keeps rolling in the expectation of bottomless/infinite talenent and pepetual inflow/attrition?
This has always been my interpretation. The "everybody is replaceable" mindset comes from Amazon retail warehouses, and bled into the rest of the company.
