of course, it was more like "go ask to countries which does not care about IP/NDAs" they can post it freely. you can always copy what they do even without using whole code/image/bin.
MikroTik RouterOS 7, for example, runs perfectly fine on devices with 32 MB of RAM. Not everything has to be bloated with hundreds of megabytes of Javascript running on top of Node.
> Not everything has to be bloated with hundreds of megabytes of Javascript running on top of Node.
Is that all you think memory is for? What if somebody wants to run an MITM or DNS-based content blocker for LAN clients? I can imagine loading URL blocklists into RAM for efficient evaluation taking more than the 16-24MB RAM available in the scenario you're talking about, for instance. Or what if somebody wants to fire up a NAS with an old spinning disk and use RAM for write caching?
> Or what if somebody wants to fire up a NAS with an old spinning disk and use RAM for write caching?
Then this hardware is not for you. Not everything has to line up with your expectations. Plus this thing is like $35, what do you expect? There are other capable systems like the solidrun honeycomb.
I never said that it had to [meet my expectations] or that it's optimal or that this hardware is or isn't for me. I was pointing out that saying 512MB of RAM is for Node apps is a straw man.
Normally, when you are leaving the baggage claim area, there are two customs corridors - green one for people who have nothing to declare, and red for people who wish to make a customs declaration.
Typically, the customs declaration is filled out on the airplane. This can be done through a mobile app (which most frequent travelers do), in which case, customs might have it before you've even left the plane.
If it's done on paper, this is done at the passport check, before you've picked up your checked luggage, and well before picking a customs lane.
I've certainly been randomly chosen for a screening, and when that happened, a customs agent went up to me (deliberately) shortly after I got my luggage. I forget why, but they have flags for suspicious behavior. I think it might have been because I came back with one more bag than I left with, or some intermediate destination.
There are also, in some airports, customs dogs sniffing things between luggage pickup and customs who can also flag for screens.
So none of this sounds too unusual to me, except for the final step: being shipped off to a detention center. I've never brought in anything improper, but I know people who came to the US with illicit food. The outcome was:
1) A rather serious fine
2) Being screened literally every time they passed into the US
The second was more obnoxious. Every time they came into the US for at least the next half-decade, customs would unpack their bags.
That's a pretty good description of what happens at most airports I've been through.
> So none of this sounds too unusual to me, except for the final step: being shipped off to a detention center.
It's because her J-1 visa was cancelled. I am not sure if that was warranted or how threatening frog embryos are, so can't judge there. But if the J-1 visa is cancelled, the person usually has to exit the US and re-apply. She didn't necessarily lose her status as a J-1 student, but she may need a new visa. So the procedure here would have been to put her on a plane to Russia. However they asked her if it would be dangerous for her to be there, and it is, so she got sent to a detention center instead.
It's worth considering how remarkably broken that system is. The end result is detention or deportation of a highly skilled professional with ongoing employment in the US. That's not someone who would typically be considered a flight risk or an overstay risk.
Requiring one to return home to reapply also never made any sense for student visas, at least when it comes to graduate level research. Academics at state funded institutions who are paid off of government grants aren't generally people you need to worry about sticking around if their visa is denied. Neither is it clear why you would ever want to deny a visa to such a person to begin with.
> The end result is detention or deportation of a highly skilled professional with ongoing employment in the US.
Agree. However, this kind of visa is not necessarily for highly skilled professionals, it can be for general cultural exchange, even for au pairs. They have to be "sponsored" by someone. As such, it can also be a vehicle to get people in the country and overstay the visa, I know someone who did that. Then, once it's cancelled, the general rule is you can't enter into the country. To a port of entry person a J-1 for a nanny for a rich family is just as good as J-1 for a Harvard researcher. Except the Harvard researcher now did break some rule so is in a much worse position.
> at least when it comes to graduate level research.
Most definitely. There should be someone looking here and saying maybe these should different visa types and the requirement to leave sounds excessive. It shouldn't be the default, I think. Maybe with the most visible cases like these, there is more of a chance to change the rules.
> Neither is it clear why you would ever want to deny a visa to such a person to begin with.
They broke a rule or law and seemingly tried to hide it. At that point I guess it depends on the mood of the person at the port of entry. It shouldn't be like that but it is. There is no general right to have a visa or some way to compel the US government to give you one. A lawyer through a court could make a case here. But in general you can't show up and say "You owe me a J-1 visa" or "you'll un-cancel the previous one".
If you want to compare the merits of two systems, you have to do it on legal grounds. If you allow cheating, then nothing is comparable, everything is possible, no system is better.
There is also legal cheating that only works if there is enough money involved. For example, for German companies, a holding company in Malta with low corporate taxes - but it happens not to make sense for typical freelancers.
The majority state-owned (well̃, >30% federal state and >20% city) Frankfurt airport company has a holding... sorry, "management" company in Malta. Maybe they are doing just enough business in Malta to hold up to scrutiny. Most are based on no one looking too closely. But it's not a very meaningful difference. Heck, maybe I'd occasionally fly to Malta and work from there if that helped to "optimize" taxes like the big boys.
Renault's ICE engines are also known to be extremely reliable amongst central and southern europe's taxi drivers (who put insane mileage on them). Unlike other French marques - Peugeot and Citroen - who are in the "stay away" category amongst people who drive 40,000+ km/year
> Renault's ICE engines are also known to be extremely reliable amongst central and southern europe's taxi drivers (who put insane mileage on them). Unlike other French marques - Peugeot and Citroen - who are in the "stay away" category amongst people who drive 40,000+ km/year
Yes. This is also quite a twist of fate because 10-15y ago it was exactly the opposite.
Renault had the reputation of poor reliability with a lot of problems regarding electronics while the old TUs engines from PSA (now Stellantis) where rocks solid monsters you could bring to 300k km without a swet. Many of them are still alive and way over 1M km in northern Africa.
They do - Spectre Elite is the most common RDD around. However, it only detects low-quality and old radar detectors, newer ones are much harder to pick out since they don't emit noise on their superheterodyne frequency.
