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kw71 commented on Chickens Are Bullies – Can Their Behavior Teach Us About Our Own? medium.com/@s.french531/c... · Posted by u/sfrench531

chrisco255 · 7 years ago

I can't imagine that modern chickens aren't well adapted to coop life. We've been raising them that way for quite a few millenia now. And look how, for example, dogs have evolved from wolves in the same time frame. At any rate, my mother raises chickens and tried to raise them free range (with full access to 3 or 4 acres) for a while, but she would lose them constantly to coyotes. I think that nowadays, chickens are ill-adapted for the wild.

kw71 · 7 years ago

It depends on the confinement, the overcrowding of industrial production may be unadaptable. There are still enough instincts programmed that unfamiliar males would rather avoid each other.

I do not beleive that industrial breeding is selecting for anything that makes such prison life tolerable. Birds in production generally aren't reproducing, so nothing in the henhouse is affecting evolution.

kw71 commented on Every IT pro should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015) planetmainframe.com/2015/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jdaytona · 7 years ago

Basically it seems like the article is saying having mutliple people responsible for different aspects of server environment is better than one person doing it all and companies that have mainframes embrace that - also including snark that it's beneficial that mainframes have remained stagnant in features while open source keeps adapting and changing?

kw71 · 7 years ago

> while open source keeps adapting and changing

In these places, this is a great thing to avoid. Old software is well known. You do not want to be the one to be affected by a bug that stops production or changes data.

> mainframes have remained stagnant in features

Having a well known universe without any beta software, and not being disrupted by new stuff that you don't need anyway, is a damn good feature.

kw71 commented on Every IT pro should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015) planetmainframe.com/2015/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ratling · 7 years ago

...no?

Mainframes are still relevant for certain projects and legacy environments but unless you know you have that problem there is zero reason to greenfield there.

kw71 · 7 years ago

Writing off all the big computer shop stuff as irrelevant means you throw away all the experience and best practices and will be repeating the mistakes people made 50 years ago. And maybe reinvent some wheels too.

A computer center is your best resource for observing and learning how to build computer services, deploy them, and keep them available. And for knowing what experienced computing people and their customers expect.

And some of the stuff you do today is descended from here:

You probably wrote this comment in a program that displays forms, and allows you to fill in forms and call up other forms. This is how the 3270 terminal worked.

Maybe you have some hypervisor running somewhere. Welcome to 1970s IBM. We don't want to rewrite our 360 stuff so we will emulate the 360 in its own sandbox.

Saddest part of these things, when they come into general awareness one way or another, they are so out of tune with the universe that the public hail them as new "technology." The ideas are old, it's only some new implementation or circumstance that's novel.

kw71 commented on A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla bostonglobe.com/metro/201... · Posted by u/lelf

dsfyu404ed · 7 years ago

>Improperly repaired and modified cars are a detriment to the safety of others on the road

Mechanical failure is a fart in a hurricane compared to human factors (distraction, alcohol, run of the mill stupidity) when it comes to dangerous things on the road. Regulating mechanical condition is exponentially less effective once you start caring about more than the most basic things (e.g. heavy trucks with bald tires). That's why a handful of states have created then scrapped vehicle inspection programs. I get that it bothers people but mechanical failure is a tiny edge case compared to everything else. Why bother, there's other better things to spend our resources regulating if road safety is the goal. If mechanical condition mattered more than trivially this would be reflected in insurance rated between states with/without regulation covering this (inspection programs).

In my experience shitboxes with mufflers falling off and rust holes are more likely to damage community image than anything else.

kw71 · 7 years ago

In the US, yea, inspections aren't universal, but the only inspection program I know of that has been scrapped was Florida's. I think there are more operating inspection regimes than defunct ones, even if you can cheat some of them. This also seems to be an anomaly among developed countries.

Rust that's more than superficial can lead to structural failure, and improper crash repairs can cause this. These are definitely situations that leave the vehicle in a lesser state of crashworthiness.

A compromised exhaust frequently leads to more exhaust entering the cabin.

This gets into the roots of my socialist beliefs as caring for our injured comrades brings us all down. There are always better things to send effort and resources to than dealing with the loss of productivity, the costs to deal with whatever damage, and misery of loved ones.

kw71 commented on A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla bostonglobe.com/metro/201... · Posted by u/lelf

rb808 · 7 years ago

What if Tesla goes bankrupt? Are we allowed to repair then?

kw71 · 7 years ago

Maybe they won't try to sue you for distributing the documentation and software, then :)

kw71 commented on A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla bostonglobe.com/metro/201... · Posted by u/lelf

userbinator · 7 years ago

A Tesla representative, in a statement to the Globe, said “there are significant safety concerns when salvaged Teslas are repaired improperly or when Tesla parts are used outside of their original design intent, as these vehicles could pose a danger to both the mechanic and other drivers on the road.”

It seems Tesla is deliberately ignoring or trying to squash the aftermarket/custom-car culture which has basically existed since cars existed... and in contrast, Chrysler/Ford/GM are happy to sell you parts like engines and transmissions without caring whether they'll even be used in a car, and have been doing so for literally decades, so obviously they're aware of and not worried about any legal liability issues.

kw71 · 7 years ago

> It seems Tesla is deliberately ignoring or trying to squash the aftermarket/custom-car culture

This culture ("F your emissions controls," "I the lay blue collar know better than the committes of degreed engineers who designed the thing") has never cared about safety, nor has the aftermarket ("fitness for purpose, engineering, warranty... to hell with all that, the only requirement for our product is that some idiot should buy it")

Improperly repaired and modified cars are a detriment to the safety of others on the road, but wishing the problem away like Tesla is doing is not going to help anything, they need to publish and make accessible the documentation like the real car makers do.

kw71 commented on 'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports theguardian.com/cities/20... · Posted by u/chriskanan

nradov · 7 years ago

Working lawnmowers get sold and used, not discarded. So that has virtually zero impact on the number of lawnmowers needed.

kw71 · 7 years ago

I feel like I am the only person around me who maintains (changes oil, rebuilt carb etc.) equipment and people seem to treat lawnmowers the worst. I swear I think people throw them away because they're out of fuel sometimes.

kw71 commented on 'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports theguardian.com/cities/20... · Posted by u/chriskanan

ghufran_syed · 7 years ago

Do you have a reference for the car engine thing? I did a quick search and couldn't find anything yet. Sounds really interesting, I'd like to read more.

kw71 · 7 years ago

Ford has been doing this for decades (I think I saw it mentioned in the docs for EEC IV.) It turns off fuel for a cylinder here and there intending to pump heat out of the engine (a cylinder with no fuel is an air pump.)

It doesn't really let you operate with no coolant. Might get you farther before you die if you push it.

kw71 commented on My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 mailarchive.ietf.org/arch... · Posted by u/baptou12

calibas · 7 years ago

This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...

If people don't push back against these kinds of things, Google will continue to abuse their power. There shouldn't be an army of apologists here making excuses for them.

As far as a solution goes, they can simply make 8.8.8.8 a fallback when something goes wrong. It's a disturbing trend to see them forcing things like this upon users.

kw71 · 7 years ago

It's ridiculous that android devices ignore the dns server my dhcp gives, too.

kw71 commented on The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years vox.com/future-perfect/20... · Posted by u/docker_up

mc32 · 7 years ago

Yeah, people with rap sheets, I don’t think tend to age out of criminality.

Young offenders (most?), yeah, I believe they have the potential to age out as they mature and are given avenues to pursue other civil endeavors.

kw71 · 7 years ago

I know personally both kinds of cases but unfortunately the career criminals are not as rare really as they seem to be for this author