wonko1

Can anyone attend these lectures? It's always been a dream to attend Knuth's Christmas lecture.

Of the 2 employers I've had who self-hosted, they both did this. I've also done this when self hosting, it's super easy.

I guess there are probably no surveys of this though...

I really enjoyed this, it reminded me of early experimental sites like what hell dot com used to be...

That's really interesting. I've been considering moving back to my own mail server from gmail for a long time but have been worried about the security issues.

This is one more thing pushing me in that direction.

It's not really changed.

To be honest, I don't think it so much of an issue any more. I have a library of parts I use regularly and just design footprints for new parts.

I'm my case, I doubt that Altium would have footprints for many of the parts I want to use anyway (quite often cheap connectors, switches etc). I feel like being comfortable with footprint design is an important part of the design process.

That said, there are many features of Altium that look very attractive. For example the push and shove routing.

An unrelated but interesting point he noted was that Apple are one of the only vendors that provide long term firmware updates (he mentioned 8 years). It's a shame nobody else really does this.

In summary: Coreboot+Linux as a bootloader

I think I've seen this before in an HPC context. But they've build a firmware distribution called Heads. It boots using coreboot then fires up a Linux kernel from flash.

The kernel is then used as a second stage bootloader. It takes about 2 seconds to get Linux booted from flash.

They can then boot the system OS, optionally using kexec to smoothly transition to the system kernel.

Very neat! Along the way they've also done other important work, like put together a minimal firmware for the Management engine (a second CPU in Intel system with its own OS, and many many issues).

The biggest problem here is same issue that coreboot has. Coreboot support is really limited. I think it down supports Lenovo X220s, but late time I looked not much modern hardware.

Why do so many MongoDB installation lack a password on the Admin account?

I tried search for me info, but could find anything. Was this the default? Procedure given in a popular tutorial? It seems pretty insane.

Interesting idea. I use Ad-blockers but I'm not so sure I'd go so far as to encourage other people to use them, each to their own.

A Lenovo X200 running Debian which I paid 50USD for. I use a 128Gb SSD (which cost more than the laptop). My daily contracting rate is more than 10x the cost of the laptop, but this setup just works really well for me.

When my daughter pours water in the keyboard I just get a new one and don't have to care too much.

It's clear that he was lucky to have a school teacher who inspired him from an early age and effected his world view significantly.

I guess he got lucky, but as a parent I worry about this. He points out that most educational establishments don't encourage individual exploration, and that was my experience too.

Makes me consider home schooling, but that seems like a less than ideal solution too. Do we just have to rely on luck?

The hardware is google home. Software is less clear, someone said it was cleverbot.

I guess I was looking for a lower bound. I'll be surprised if they can manage to implement this on their cheapest products.

Looking through their site the cheapest home applicances that LG sells are microwaves.

They cost on the order of 100USD for the cheapest models. The cheapest Wifi "IoT" microcontrollers are on the order of 1USD.

Seems like it might be a reasonable business move, even if it's just a box ticking exercise.

I'll be surprised if they do put them in their lowest end products though. Perhaps those product lines are stable and won't be updated in 2017?