They prey on nostalgia, but the rugged aspect also speaks to me.
Casio watches, Nokia cellphones (formerly, now Huawei or Xiaomi), Thinkpad latops and Panasonic Toughbooks - if you have one, you are likely to have one of the others.
Looks like people are getting defined by their lifestyle. (I guess Rolex and Apple would be on the other end of the spectrum)
I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more.
Eventually, something that is not licensed from a western company (or which can't be protected by IP law) but that is fast enough for most uses will also become a $0.10 afterthought.
The mips24k is remarkable in that you can comfortably run a linux kernel with a lot of userland utilities and even text mode software -- just what we used to run on Linux computers many years ago!
Medical information is likely to be ICD codes for the active diagnosis, and antecedents (history) for this patient.
This is worse than full text medical information because everything is already coded, so you can make some simple algorithms to find crunchy details with a very high specificity.
After they received training when they learn that this step is important and not just a formality, and why it is done, I found that people do observe procedures, especially when they have to sign the checklist they filled themselves.
Human beings observe procedures when they understand it's part of the job and they are held accountable.
If the "allowed" ICD code is linked to the public key, or in the worst case if the patient provides the disposable private key to the insurance for verification (along with PCI like rules forbidding this key to be stored, like credit card expiration date if I remember correctly) this couldn't happen.
It is gross negligence to keep these things together for longer than they need to be. Private data should be seen as a liability.
In spreadsheets (excel) and notebooks (ipython/rstudio), having the data bundled with the code is a feature. It provides reproducibility.
> a destroyed formula can go undetected for a while...
That is a problem in methodology, not with the tools. There are many solutions that do not require abandoning spreadsheets.
For the destroyed formula example, you need tests. Simple example to do that with a checklist: if you are doing a SUM(), require that the employee ticks a box saying "all the number were highlighted when clicking on the SUM formula".
For the out-of-sync version, you need a central repository and another box "I retrieved the latest version from the xx repository, and this version was: ... "
Then require that to be printed and signed (accountability), and you'll see mistake disappear.
There is absolutely no technical reason why it should be the case if done properly.
With SIM cards or other hardware devices, your private key is never leaked (if "done properly")
With cryptos like BTC, you can generate many keys from one source of entropy, and treat them as disposable.
I don't see why medical records couldn't be encrypted with a disposable key, given by a hardware device which stores the seed, and only linked to the matching public key.
Name + ICD diagnosis, what a wonderful leak for blackmailers wordwide! (/s)
Seriously, these two pieces of data that are innocent alone, when taken separately (HIV, chlamydia, cancer...) should NEVER have been linked together, ESPECIALLY when given to a third party, EVEN MORE stored together.
I pray it will result in many lawsuits with hefty punitive damages, and that as a consequence private data will be considered a liability to be deleted as early as possible (just like corporate email in many companies)
The beautiful thing with democracy is that these housing solutions that provided an actual solution to homelessness where banned, are still illegal, and thus won't be "brought back" even if they make perfect sense, were preferred by the people who used them, are a free market solution, and much cheaper than the alternatives.
See San Francisco as an example of what happens when more money is poured in the "modern" solutions - very little reduction of the problem, if any.
> VThe problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China
yet
> Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM l
ARM -> RISC, as ARM is not the only game in town. For example, at the moment I am having a lot of fun with a Unielec u7621 board (2 mini PCIe, mSata and USB3 with hardware accelerated NAT to handle 1Gbps) that costed me about $45 : https://openwrt.org/toh/unielec/u7621-06
I would love to see MIPS64 SOCs with a few GBs of RAM to replace my raspberries
We can't ever know the counterfactual. If these had degenerated into a revolution, there would have been many more casualties.
What we know for sure is that, 30 years later, the country is enjoying tremendous growth, has lifted a lot of its population from poverty, and did that even with foreign powers trying to meddle with it.
Personally, I would consider that a success - especially when compared to say Russia. Sure, things could have been handled better, but Monday quarterbacking is easy, while action is hard.
The whole point of my post was to look for the root of the disagreement. What you call luck (as you suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do evil), I call that normal as I suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do good, and are looking for ways to continuously improve that.
> Using fission as your go-to example of "See? It's OK, we can handle world-ending technologies" is just appallingly wrong, it actually demonstrates precisely the opposite. We can't be trusted
The fact that we are alive seems to demonstrate precisely the opposite. You also conveniently forgot how many countries engaged in bilateral disarming programs (well, maybe Ukraine shouldn't have...) and how it generally makes sense because these nuclear weapons are expansive to maintain.
Still, you consider global atomic war a recurring risk every year, because you do not trust fellow human beings taking the right decision: "we can't be trusted".
This is why I believe this opposition comes from wrapped world views, a lack of trust in the future and future generations.
It seems like a sad way to live. Meanwhile, the world is improving, little by little.
Another thing build for live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W126
I'd love to import a well maintained one, still featuring its original parts.