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Great article. I certainly agree that when it comes to engineering software the most important thing is what is between your legs.
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UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says. I'd add an attemptedly-amusing blurb, but I think the Beeb already did
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Kent Sharkey wrote: UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence
FTFY  
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buzz words generating hype seems people with brains are hard to find these days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space. Plan your next trip now!
There's Imbrian Dark Mantle in them thar moon.
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Fast, if you order right now, you will be there to see the next impact in first person
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Kent Sharkey wrote: explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history
I think they meant to say, "the 4.5 billion year history", not the 4.5 billion-year-old history. Just sayin...
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RACK911 says the bugs can be exploited by an attacker to delete files used by the antivirus or by the operating system, resulting in crashes or rendering the computer unusable. It's not a bug, it's a pointer to a bug?
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So... at the end it will be true that being witout antivirus is safer. 
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I guess he was just sarcastic.
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Really? Kent can be sarcastic? No way...
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Me? Nah, never
TTFN - Kent
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Isn't "I was just being sarcastic" what you say when you realize that you really have goofed it up?
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I object to this comment. Perhaps you could clean it up with a little Lysol or uh, perhaps some UV light!? 
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If you think I goofed it, why did you asked me if "he" was being sarcastic?
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Our current server operating systems have not changed in 50 years and do not reflect modern day concerns for managing servers and cyber-security. So...it's the Year of ex-Linux?
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It is the Year of LoW (Linux on Windows) 
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Quote: Unikernels are provisioned directly on the hypervisor without a traditional system like Linux. So run 1000X more vms/per server.
I suppose if you were running an OS so bloated, or a microservice so insanely small that 99.9% of your server capacity was being consumed by the OS this might seem like a good idea; but you'd be fixing the wrong problem.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I remember when the micro-kernel architecture was the "next big thing!"
The difficult we do right away...
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And then someone tried implementing them and discovered they only worked in ivory tower circle![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) s? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can see the zealots trying to force everyone to move to them but I suspect they can make sense if you're living in a world of webby microservices and cloud lambdas, or whatever...
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Yeah, but in most cases IMO if you're building something that way, you're doing it wrong. The few case studies I've seen with AWS Lambda are that unless the controller methods you're writing are really fat or your comparison VM servers load is approximately zero the minimum per call price Amazon charges will dwarf the cost of running the same app conventionally. And the complexity of a bazillion microservices vs a conventional monolithic web server is IMO only justifiable if you're building something that needs a crapton of CPU cores anyway; and just plain stupid for the typical website that can happily run one a sub-1 socket sized VM. Nothing I've ever worked on was that big; and excepting a single customer I've not involved with I don't think any projects my company's done are at that scale. (Could be wrong on the latter since I don't have details on all of them.)
Even there though, creating a custom hacked down OS stub for each feels like it's adding a bunch of new potential failure points while simultaneously kneecapping your ability to investigate any problems that do occur.
Since you're calling them zealots I assume your views are broadly similar to mine. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: the minimum per call price Amazon charges will dwarf the cost of running the same app conventionally
I never cease to be amazed at the price people will pay for (perceived) convenience. The more you outsource, the better, they seem to think.
Dan Neely wrote: And the complexity of a bazillion microservices vs a conventional monolithic web server is IMO only justifiable if you're building something that needs a crapton of CPU cores anyway; and just plain stupid for the typical website that can happily run one a sub-1 socket sized VM. Nothing I've ever worked on was that big; and excepting a single customer I've not involved with I don't think any projects my company's done are at that scale. (Could be wrong on the latter since I don't have details on all of them.)
Oh for sure, I agree with you. But clearly someone out there is using this stuff and wants this stuff. They may be living in a world of false economies but they seem to be running the asylum now.
Dan Neely wrote: Since you're calling them zealots I assume your views are broadly similar to mine.
Yes, indeed.
I am already certain that this unikernel stuff is going to be big and it will most likely have a number of very forceful opinion formers behind it who will do their best to kill off or sideline everything that went before in favour of their shiny new cool-stuff-of-the-day. We're all doomed, I tell you. 
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markrlondon wrote: Dan Neely wrote: the minimum per call price Amazon charges will dwarf the cost of running the same app conventionally
I never cease to be amazed at the price people will pay for (perceived) convenience. The more you outsource, the better, they seem to think.
Agreed. I'd like to be in a place where I had enough time to do an experiment where I ported an entire app to Lambda just to see if it would save us money. But that's probably too much to hope for.
Which isn't to say I've never used them. They're the easiest way to schedule a task within AWS, but that usage falls massively under the free tier calls/month threshold, and the lambdas themselves were just a dozenish lines of node to execute an controller method on the main webserver. (Much simpler than setting all the AWS stuff up to deploy fat C# methods as lambdas.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Humour aside, this sort of thing does look quite cool (for certain web-centric use cases) but it's going to need a whole new generation of tools to maintain, diagnose and fix problems. Not everything is amenable to being fixed by a reboot or being sent back to the devs.
Yup, we do live in an age of bloated operating systems but, then again, the more they can do the more we use them for.
Cool new stuff to learn, new fortunes to be made...
Didn't mainframes have utilities that booted without an operating system?
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