I don't think it helps to characterise this as a simple textual bulletin log.
I am by no means an expert, however to me this system appears to include: a globally agreed upon data format, a transmission protocol hardware distributed across the planet in ground stations and air vehicles, and 70 years of legacy.
And all of that is enshrined in legislation across many countries.
And while there is a modernisation effort in progress, the nature of this system means that things will move slowly.
In 2023 anyone can suggest a better data format and distribution system if they start from scratch. Good luck getting the world to use it and good luck getting anyone to care.
You're right that the main challeges are political & bureaucratic inertia. That shouldn't stop us from honestly & plainly describing its core, & the industry's state-of-the-art for similar systems that don't have the legacy system's encumbrances.
The "globally agreed-upon data format" is essentially text blobs with a standard set of abbreviations, that assist search/filtering by flight-paths & planned waypoints. It seems to be a mere 150MB a year.
The inherently "move slowly" modernization effort can only be helped by a clearer outline of what's now possible. This is too important to prematurely dumb-down brainstorming ideas, based on low-expectations for the adoption process!
And a modern architecture for distributed updates & reliability could trivially mimic the old system's pilot-visible outputs, to remain familiar to tenured personnel.
In terms of the GDPR, your company would need to satisfy compliance of the GDPR. For small companies this is pretty straight forward, and it definitely helps to think about this early.
The obligation laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply to:
* processing which is occasional, does not include, on a large scale, processing of special categories of data as referred to in Article 9(1) or processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10, and is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, taking into account the nature, context, scope and purposes of the processing; or
But then it's precisely the kind of processing the EU rightly wants to address, and not only because it's the USA: China is a similar case.
But that doesn't matter to you. As long as you're too small to have a server and a (part-time) "controller" inside the EU, you seem to be out of luck (note: IANAL; there might be another way; cooperation with another small company, perhaps?).
I agree with you. I also think consumer privacy protection is important, so I'm not mad at the EU here. I'm mad at the US government for the CLOUD Act.
The consensus from folks in my circle is that the quality of Made products has dropped off entirely. The timber has visible machining marks, joins are not square, product finishes differ a lot from the photos.
I can imagine that during their boom period they flogged a lot of production orders off to cheap factories to meet demand.
I wonder if they have taken a reputation hit and customers are moving off their products, and not so much a cost of living adjustment that is impacting their sales. I suspect that their customers tend towards higher income brackets and are not as impacted by cost of living rises.
It sounds to me like management is refusing to take responsibility for the situation, but at the end of the day they should not have taken on orders that they could not fulfill to a high standard of quality.
I've seen many companies fail in this way. They see dollars signs and loose their way. Companies that make it long term focus on quality and customer satisfaction not maximum sales or taking advantage of a temporary peak in demand, at the cost of quality.
Not sure what you are trying to say with your quoted phrases.
There was an issue with the standard for the Kilogram, which was recognised then corrected by introducing a definition which is based on physically measurable phenomenon. The new approach allows independent experiments to derive the value of the Kilogram.
That seems to me like a process that works, and I struggle to think of a better outcome.
> Not sure what you are trying to say with your quoted phrases.
That the metric system is just as arbitrary as the customary units. Things like the meter and (kilo)gram were based on arbitrary objects rather than anything objective. They've since been redefined using physical constants to come close enough to the old reference objects. (And the US customary units are officially defined as exact fractions from the SI units -- making the whole world happy to have exact measurements regardless of the system you use.)
At least the customary units have nice divisors. Just saying.
The metric system was based on the existing unit of time and the dimensions of the earth. The metre was originally defined as 1/40,000,000 of the circumference of the earth (through the poles and Paris). From the metre they derived units of weight and volume.
There was some debate at the time about using a pendulum with a 1s period to define the metre, but it was known to be less accurately reproducible than the geodetic version.
Their aim was to define a system that could in principle be recreated from scratch anywhere on Earth without necessarily relying on access to the physical prototypes. In practice the relative imprecision of the original measurements compared to the later demands of science and engineering meant that the prototypes became the definition.
It’s interesting to compare with the British Imperial units reform in the 1820s. Part of that act specifies how to recreate the prototypes from physical properties of the units. When the Palace of Westminster burned down in the 1830s the ancient prototypes were destroyed. But the replacements were recreated from copies, not from the specification in the act. And not much later, the official definition was based on the metric system because the metric standards were manufactured to much greater quality.
> That the metric system is just as arbitrary as the customary units
No-one claims it isn't arbitrary. Any choice of units is arbitrary. "Not being arbitrary" just isn't a desideratum when considering what makes a good system of units.
The main desirable property is coherence [0], which SI has.
But I don't think anyone would claim SI is perfect. It's not; it's got at least a couple of warts. One is that "kg" is a base unit and is prefixed. But that's about the worst of it.
CGS is also coherent, but has a similar problem with a prefixed base unit (in this case, cm).
US Customary units is not only incoherent, but does things like conflate mass and force (lb is a technically a measure of force, so is the long/short ton, and slug is the proper unit for mass) and has far too many derived units that measure the same thing (e.g. ft lb/s, hp and BTU/h, vs just W).
I'm not sure I completely follow, aren't tabs still within the same window? How would tabs solve the 'keeping everything inside a single window' problem?
Is the conversation list on the left side of the window not analogous to tabs? A conversation can be pinned there which would be providing the same experience as keeping a conversation open in a tab.
I think is true for single detached housing, is it also true for larger apartment complexes? I bring this up because in Germany I believe most of the population does not live in detached housing or semi-detached housing.
With larger apartment complexes it may be economically feasible to pursue geothermal heat. In this case a more efficient solution could be a heating arrangement using hydronic heating combining geothermal heat, waste heat, topped off with an efficient large-scale boiler (the apartments need hot water anyway), and then pumped into radiators or underfloor heating.
And naturally the most efficient solution of all could be district heating.
Our apartment complex uses a gas micro power plant to produce electricity and uses the waste heat for heating/warm water. It’s a building of its own on a compound with 20 or so apartment buildings. Replacing that with a heat pump will require some very serious planning efforts - apart from the requirement that like 1000 individual parties in 20 home owner associations would approve the change. Not going to happen this year.
You could argue that there are some crates in the Rust ecosystem that suffer from a deep dependency tree, I don't think you can argue that Rust developers are trying to do this for the kernel.
The article states:
> The Rust-for-Linux developers understand this situation and are not envisioning adding the ability to pull in modules with a tool like Cargo
> You could argue that there are some crates in the Rust ecosystem that suffer from a deep dependency tree
Some? Dependency graphs of well over a hundred packages are ubiquitous. I've long since stopped being surprised when I compile a rust package that makes no network connections and see it (indirectly) pulling in multiple HTTPS libraries.
Right, great example. I think 'understand the situation' refers to this. I imagine the Rust for Linux developers would be going through any dependencies they pull in with a fine comb, in this case a dependency that pulls in HTTPS libraries for presumably no reason should be rejected. If that particular dependency makes it into the kernel, well, then you can start complaining about it. But right now feels a bit premature.
There are more than just ICE and IC trains in Germany. These other trains are not powered by green energy. So yes it seems reasonable that there are some coal power plants that are providing power for trains.
I am by no means an expert, however to me this system appears to include: a globally agreed upon data format, a transmission protocol hardware distributed across the planet in ground stations and air vehicles, and 70 years of legacy.
And all of that is enshrined in legislation across many countries.
And while there is a modernisation effort in progress, the nature of this system means that things will move slowly.
In 2023 anyone can suggest a better data format and distribution system if they start from scratch. Good luck getting the world to use it and good luck getting anyone to care.