I've setup Hercules on my Mac before. Fun tool, since I last touched OS2/MVS 40 years ago. Best part is many of the old OS's (MVT, MVS, vm/370) are all still available since IBM never saw the need to copyright them.
The ARM Mac version crashes instantly upon launch with a window reporting a broken pipe error, and attempts to 'report and send diagnostics' gets the same problem.
Well, I tried to try it. I guess I'll just bookmark it and try again at a later date.
On macOS there are still a few reliability problems, mostly caused by misbehaving zsh extensions that I have to work around. I replied to your issue report, I think this should be fixable.
Do you think they would be in trouble if, sat 3 months in the future, they started saying they had not received any NEW warrants in the past 3,4,5,X months?
You don’t want to specialize without great care. I started as a UNIX admin in 1985. I learned a lot about networking at that first job, and later on, took a job as Wide Area Network engineer at large org. That job was challenging, but not as rewarding, because you could only brag about your feats at work with other WAN guys. Nobody else knew what you were talking about. Everyone else soon tired of the gobbledygook. I went back to being a Linux Sr Admin after 10 years after burning out, and eventually found a good gig where we are appreciated for the value we provide the organization.
It's a cool feature, even if you're just reading along.
Our Amazon Echo Show started doing this recently when listening to songs on Amazon's own Music service. I noticed it, thought it was interesting, commented once to the wife, then went back to just listening.
Is there a font missing or something? When I try to read the paper, every instruction dependency is displayed as x ? y, with a question mark between each object, even when the author implies there is some difference between x ? y and x ? y. I'm sure there is supposed to be some other characters there, because without them the paper makes no sense.
Perhaps it's something that only shows up properly on Windows computers?
I thought it's going to be mojibake, but it's not of the � variety, just a regular question mark. One candidate is the "precedes" symbol: https://codepoints.net/U+227A
> We say that an instruction x precedes an instruction y, sometimes denoted x ? y, if x must complete before y can begin. In a diagram for the dag, x ? y means that there is a positive-length path from x to y. If neither x ? y nor y ? x, we say the instructions are in parallel, denoted x ? y. The figure below illustrates a multithreaded dag:
That quote presents exactly the confusion for GP. x ? y is described to mean both that x precedes y and that x and y are in parallel. It suggests that something got lost in translation here.
I think solving the "last mile" problem in the US is our greatest problem, especially in rural areas. Too many state and local governments have been paid off by lobbyists to pass laws to block any competition from offering cheaper and better options.
Too many people are stuck with slow, expensive, and unreliable cable and/or DSL ISPs. Some have no choice whatsoever. Some others get to choose only from two equally awful options. We need legally available competition EVERYWHERE.
I think it's a problem even in urban areas. A friend of mine is working on something called Flume: https://www.flumeinternet.com/ Their funding model (at least right now) is basically to serve customers where the government will pay for it. Many of their customers are getting home broadband for the first time in their life. (They remark that it's fun when their friends come over and they can give them the wifi password.) This is all happening in New York City; some people are getting Internet access for the first time in their lives, in the largest city in the richest country in the world.
What I don't quite understand is how these rural areas got electricity. If it's so expensive to run something to a rural area, who ate the cost of providing grid access? Or is cable/fiber just significantly more expensive per mile compared to electricity?
The federal government ate the cost. FDR passed the Rural Electrification Act in 1935 as a part of the New Deal, which gave large loans to fund electrifying rural parts of America.
As another poster noted, the Feds funded a lot of the cost of electrification. There is starting to be some action on the internet front. But...
Here are the economics for a fiber optics deployment in 2021 for a rural town of ~800 premises, where about 60% got service. They charge customers about $100/month for symmetric 75/75mbps internet plus phone.
It costs about $40K per mile to run the fiber down the road on existing utility poles. It costs between $2K and $4K to run the drop from the utility pole to the home.
Those two numbers (miles of road, number of premises) get you in the ballpark of the cost of deployment in a town/county. More premises per mile obviously decreases the cost per premise - that's why utilities prefer dense areas (cities).
Many areas in the US still don’t. I remember living on a farm as a child, circa 1998, and our neighbors had no power or running water. It wasn’t lack of wanting it, “the money just ran out.” This was the mountains of Virginia, near Roanoke.
In the scale of the US, that's a blatantly false statement.
It's < 50,000 people out of 330 million. Or less than 0.02% of the population. Most of that is because they're living in quite isolated locations far from any population.
The figure is so high the WorldBank lists the US at 100% access to electricity with all the other affluent nations. Brazil is at 99.8% for reference, Vietnam is 99.4%, India is 97.8%.
I wasn’t saying it was whole chunks of the country. Just that there are many places, not necessarily in the same place and not necessarily enough for anyone to care about. The latter kind of being the problem…
As a society we had a much higher tolerance for risk when the electrical grid was being built. We were perfectly fine with the idea some people would die building it and some people would get electrocuted using it. The world we live in now has much lower tolerance for risk. You can't even screw a wall mount bracket in without carrying liability insurance.
Unfortunately that problem space is so large (every new line of fibre has how many stakeholders?) that a single individual or organisation might not be able to have any impact here. Which I think is the root of this question.
If there's above-ground electricity, there should be rules about getting pole access. And from what I understand those poles, and anything underground, work by getting easements rather than negotiating separately with every individual property owner.
Fibre op engineer (Canadain) here - there are rules, but those are a double edged sword; the proper paperwork to get on a pole is a large part of the total cost to attach. Ever see the mess of cables in a developing country? The laxer rules that lead to those tangles substantially reduces the cost of building out internet.
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