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Have you ever been to California? I mean seriously.

I just moved to the Central Coast. It's heaven on Earth. There's surfing, the weather is always wonderful and it's absolutely beautiful. I have ten beaches within a 5 minute drive or pleasant bike ride. I can get the best fish tacos on the planet and the girls wear really short shorts here. Cheap and delicious fresh fruit and produce. In a half-hour, I'm going up a mountain behind my house so that I can watch the Orionids meteor shower.

I've been from one end of this great country to the other. Chicago, New York, Carolinas, Texas. This is the spot, right here. When I die, I want my wife to throw my ashes on the Pacific, like Walter and the Dude threw Donnie's ashes.

https://youtu.be/u44D3qKKGPU

I can make shit up too. It's amazing what you can do with Photoshop these days.

Do you believe every single news outlet in the world is using a photoshopped image of a Nazi being punched?

Here a local Florida newspaper:

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/...

And here's a British newspaper:

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

And here's a video of Richard Spencer being punched, just because it's so fun to watch:

https://youtu.be/9rh1dhur4aI

okay try this

most companies are running about in SmartCars the ADA is like a long haul TRAIN

most of the time its a full bore MythBusters RocketSled V Car "What Car??" type thing

a clip for you
https://youtu.be/aSVfYwdGSsQ?t...

businesses have been closed over ramps being an inch to high or other trivial things

Yeah, they started soldering them in the touch bar MBPs in 2016, and the 2015 MBs. Another reason to only buy non-touch bar MBPs.

Actually, no, but they did come up with their own form factor.

Well, they did solder in the 2013 or 2014 MB. But I didn't think that mattered. And, IIRC, Apple was using NVMe drives before they were commonly available. Yes, I would love it if they moved to a standard socket. Hopefully they'll see the light this coming year.

Hence the statement elsewhere that USB-C sources that have TB capability should be fully USB-C compliant.

Except that most Thunderbolt 3 devices don't fall back to USB if Thunderbolt isn't available. Therein lies the problem for the lay consumer who doesn't know the difference.

The entire reason for stating sources must be fully compliant. Anything you plug into your laptop USB-C port should work. Again, you don't expect your printer to work properly when connected to your monitor or harddrive enclosure.

And here's what a lot of people don't understand: I spent a little over $4k building my current workstation and, yes, Apple does sell a machine that will work for me today in that price range. However, they don't sell anything that comes near touching my $4k build, which means I'll get at least 5 years out of that $4k investment before I need to upgrade, where the machine that just covers what I need today will likely need to be upgraded (we're talking Apple, so replaced) next year. Most likely, the Mac Pro I could buy today would represent a $4000/yr cost of ownership; at best I'd expect it would represent an $800/yr cost. That same $800/yr cost is the projected worst case for my Ryzen build, half that if it manages to last the decade I designed it to last.

My current build would have cost me roughly $3K with all new parts when I built it. It easily bested any single CPU mac pro until the 2013 one came out. If I dropped an additional $300 on it today, it would match pretty much any $5K mac pro easily, and more. That's just sad.

Honestly, a single CPU high end mac pro should cost maybe $3-4K tops - that includes 1TB NVMe drive with the potential for a second, a min 6 core CPU, and maybe 16GB RAM (aftermarket upgradeable to 128 or 256, of course) and a discrete graphics card. I do think I see why Apple thought they needed a change, not realizing that the real value lay in the potential added by the mini (prior to them nerfing it) Besides being a nice little desktop box for non-gaming use and a great HTPC, they also make a nice extensible compute or server farm. Instead we got a pretty design and no real functionality. For your use case, a single system probably would be in the $7-10K range. Mine might be less now.

"SpaceX has also invested significant amounts of its own funds into its new Raptor engine, which has a sea-level thrust of 380,000 pounds. But this engine has yet to undergo full-scale testing.

What full-scale testing? This full-scale testing? That's already happening. If I understand the situation correctly, SpaceX has accumulated 1200 seconds of full-scale tests by now, whereas Blue Origin just now had its first several-second burn.

I'll bet Google Pixel 2 won't be able to identify the songs on my playlist.

https://youtu.be/99KkbFjZR20

Yeah, they started soldering them in the touch bar MBPs in 2016, and the 2015 MBs. Another reason to only buy non-touch bar MBPs.

Actually, no, but they did come up with their own form factor.

Hence the statement elsewhere that USB-C sources that have TB capability should be fully USB-C compliant.

Except that most Thunderbolt 3 devices don't fall back to USB if Thunderbolt isn't available. Therein lies the problem for the lay consumer who doesn't know the difference.

We'll see what their redesigned mac pro brings, that will either herald a new approach or nail the coffin shut.

Fingers crossed. I mean, I'm really not looking forward to dropping $10k+ on my next workstation, but I'll do so with a smile 5 or 6 years down the road when I need to replace my current one if Apple is offering a worthy replacement.

And here's what a lot of people don't understand: I spent a little over $4k building my current workstation and, yes, Apple does sell a machine that will work for me today in that price range. However, they don't sell anything that comes near touching my $4k build, which means I'll get at least 5 years out of that $4k investment before I need to upgrade, where the machine that just covers what I need today will likely need to be upgraded (we're talking Apple, so replaced) next year. Most likely, the Mac Pro I could buy today would represent a $4000/yr cost of ownership; at best I'd expect it would represent an $800/yr cost. That same $800/yr cost is the projected worst case for my Ryzen build, half that if it manages to last the decade I designed it to last.

An Epyc-based Mac Pro, even the lowest-end Epyc, in a proper tower could easily serve my needs for well over a decade, making a $10k price tag easily justifiable. If Apple were to go that route, well, I think we're in agreement on what would happen.

This can only end one way...

Finnish Metal is much higher quality:

https://youtu.be/aNJXS9X0yY0

They need walking music

Care to explain or are you using the opportunity to prove your account name?

Coming from an AC, that is ironic. How about: YOU FIRST.

Watch the researcher's video or Aruba Network's FAQ

Watch the video by the security researcher. The attack is successful because it's a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM). In the video, the hacker tricks the target's device into joining a rogue "testnetwork" that is not the real "testnetwork". As a MITM attack, any PSKs or specific username/passwords are given up by the target because it thinks it is on the real network.

Try Chinese software!
https://youtu.be/-ncwCETyQlk

https://youtu.be/Ev4DqBHtA24?t...

Their diplomats are going deaf in Cuba, also.
From the BBC:

The Dutch have acquired new recordings of a militarized sonic warfare device targeting their embassy in Cuba. Many of their diplomats are being recalled with serious hearing loss.

Professionals do not scream at other people and use profanity, let alone to their bosses.

You sure about that? I suspect Bobby Knight would disagree

The actual sound is very creepy, but its slightly under volume. You may need to adjust your speaker volume. At 3min the tones begin to oscillate a little causing a slightly dizziness. Be careful. https://youtu.be/cyMHZVT91Dw?t=3m5s

It's not a "both sides do it" thing, though. One side has the power to censor or bury content on Youtube, Google, Facebook, and so on. The enemy side doesn't. The Youtube "trending" news carousel has been exposed to be manipulated by the PC police, not an algorithm, and they can and do remove content they disagree with.

I sense this was modded troll because it doesn't acknowledge the propaganda efforts by 'the other side', but this is absolutely accurate in the sense that Youtube, Google and Facebook are not neutral parties but are actively manipulating.

Here is a Youtube employee discussing how the news carousel is curated for example, as they cut ad revenue from content creators and independent journalists who offer opposing viewpoints. What happened to James Damore exposed exactly the corporate culture at Google, which also removed the Gab app from Google Play because it didn't conform to their own censorship rules. Facebook has already been exposed to manipulating user's feeds for effect.

So in keeping with the GP's point about having blinders on in terms of the other 'side', this is inevitable, and from the perspective of conducting propaganda, very desirable. These platforms are massive and have the ability to define reality for a lot of people.

Here's an old story you might find apolitically interesting. We knew way before the election that Kaspersky was KGB trained and a Putin loyalist. You can read my comment history of you're an actual skeptic rather than a Russian botnik. But I also recommend anyone who doubts Putin's viciousness to hear the story of how he murdered his way into office from this PBS Documentary.

As a sidenote, I'm a slashdot reader from more than a decade ago, and I've been really disappointed to see the amount of denialism present on this issue. I remember this as a place for pragmatic, intelligent, realistic people. And here's the reality: Putin is at war with you, he doesn't give a shit about you or your family or even his own citizens' families, and he actively hopes that you are confused about what he is doing, or denying it entirely.

An Asian, you mean like someone from India, or Pakistan?

The stereotype is that a Japanese person in the future living in a cosmopolitan city like Los Angeles would have any sort of accent.

Ooh, my mistake, see I thought you were trying to play on the "they can't pronounce this letter, so they pronounce this one instead" stereotype except you got it wrong.

yes, what people get are "a few colorful beads"
https://youtu.be/JJ1yS9JIJKs?t...

I'll just leave this here
https://youtu.be/tdUX3ypDVwI?t...

There is no "pressure" needed for anti-aging because there is a strong market pull (demand). Just ask your wife how much she's spending on anti-aging lotions etc.

Joking aside - there have been tremendous advances in extending life expectancy worldwide: https://youtu.be/jbkSRLYSojo

You may educate yourself here with more updated numbers: https://www.gapminder.org/

Risc architecture will change everything!

triple the speed of a pentium!

it even has a pci bus!

https://youtu.be/wPrUmViN_5c

Semantic ambiguity is the last thing you want in a programming language. It reminds me of the way Perl treats lists in different contexts and the bugs and security vulnerabilities that caused. It's hard enough to reason about a program's correctness as it is, without having to take ambiguity and quirks in the language itself into account.

On a more positive note, Larry Wall is finally letting go of those moronic sigils. 29 years late, but better late than never I guess.

They are infamous. If you do only a simple duckduckgo search, you will quickly find a dozen stories from the Entertainment industry about how "D" screwed people over.

Only the other day, I saw this: https://youtu.be/_pd6yO-jBRo
Quentin Tarantino's 70mm "The Hateful Eight" had been pushed out from the 70mm "Cinerama Dome" theatre because The Mouse wanted to show Star Wars there a couple weeks longer.

That 5S is still my one and only phone and runs 11 just fine. No UI glitching, nothing. If there is a performance hit it is imperceptible.

According to this youtuber, 5s with ios11 is slow for websites and third-party apps. The phone lags and lags which means you'll hate using it and buy a new phone.

https://youtu.be/LjITArXdnv0?t...

Managing the charging state and thermal management of lithium ion batteries are essential. Additives play a significant role for lifetime. Please watch this vidoe where Jeff Dahn explains their experiments concerning life time

https://youtu.be/9qi03QawZEk

Btw, also contains a comparison between several manufacturer's batteries,

Lost it at "I know that", a favourite retort of comic bumbling incompetents in a futile attempt to hide their idiocies.

Unfortunately Trump has somehow found a way through the fourth wall and is now let loose upon the world with the keys to the gun room and that's not funny.

Even if the magically fixed bluetooth latency lots of new problems will certainly arise. Surely if everyone started using bluetooth it would cause interference? My wireless headphones already stutter and fail whenever a Taxi drives past.
I realise google probably wish for an invisible UI and replace mobile with a pair of very losable, wireless earphones controlled with just your voice. Great for some, but for me and the wife, our Scottish accents rendered a recent purchase of Amazon Alexa, absolutely fucking worthless.

https://youtu.be/5FFRoYhTJQQ

Oblig: We need a medical dictionary!!!!!! To quone someone.

I think this just about covers everything: https://youtu.be/xLTAKb8IyqA

I'd love a karaoke version of that.

And of course https://youtu.be/RUbp_d2DkYU

I think this just about covers everything: https://youtu.be/xLTAKb8IyqA

I'd love a karaoke version of that.

And of course https://youtu.be/RUbp_d2DkYU

Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh did you say ‘yutes’? Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two yutes. Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a yute? Vinny Gambini: Oh, excuse me, your honor https://youtu.be/K6qGwmXZtsE?t...

Yes, he earned that Nobel Prize.
https://youtu.be/8gibAubnNcI

Already exists. In fact, from Tesla themselves:

https://youtu.be/fkQBVoS9lAo
https://youtu.be/VZjEvwrDXn0

Tesla is also building the biggest grid-connected battery in the world right now in South Australia, to be installed by 1 December or it's free - written into the contract at Tesla's request.

Grid-connected battery storage is a real thing. Today.

Already exists. In fact, from Tesla themselves:

https://youtu.be/fkQBVoS9lAo
https://youtu.be/VZjEvwrDXn0

Tesla is also building the biggest grid-connected battery in the world right now in South Australia, to be installed by 1 December or it's free - written into the contract at Tesla's request.

Grid-connected battery storage is a real thing. Today.

https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?t...

We all know that StarTrek runs in a parallel universe where OS/2 Warp was the winning OS of the 90's OS Wars. https://youtu.be/WCKr-2EJxE4?t...

I'm looking for a better video by they way.

yeah, but the first target will be South Korea.

Besides, nobody agrees with you.

Are we on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea? Probably not ...

In South Korea, daily stresses outweigh North Korea missile worries

North Korea could go nuclear, but most South Koreans don't care

So settle down Sally, and don't get your "panties in a wad.

I and many others use Thunderbird all the time and rave about it to others. It is unfortunate that it has been neglected because with better support for Outlook stuff and Exchange Server it'd basically kill off Outlook. Outlook is a terrible program and I'm very happy to have an excellent alternative to it.

But you're right. Mozilla has spent a lot of time not listening to its user base. I definitely understand that the user is not always right, but after the Australis shit and the looming murder of XUL/XPCOM despite WebExtensions being woefully inadequate at this stage, Mozilla is winning the "Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" YOU'RE WINNER trophy of shooting oneself in both feet with a crossbow several times in a row.

This is the same problem as DNA 'fingerprinting'. Statistically, there are likely to be around 50 people in the UK who have the same DNA fingerprint..

Not that I'm doubting your 'integrity' (fwiw, I'm not) but this is a new statistic to me and one which, if true, is seriously troubling.

Would you, by any chance, have a reference to a reliable source for this figure? If that reference went into detail regarding accuracy based on number of STR's used or the number of sample sites or the like so much the better.

https://youtu.be/ScmJvmzDcG0?t...

Whistles you say? You mean like these?

https://youtu.be/IawEMxTroBk?t...

Whistles are the weapons of left wing ignorance.

With iTunes, for instance, they have been unable to fix the most mind-boggling problem with its core functionality - playing music - that on occasion it stops playing music in the middle of a track and skips to the next one. Screencast evidence.

What a load of false flag horseshit. See if you can spot the direct contradiction in the first two sentences.

Did U Know the Cubans also mind-controlled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and forced him to use private jets on the taxpayer's dime while Puerto Rico died? Gotta watch them Cubans. I've been their and let me tell you, their sonic weapons will make you dance uncontrollably.

https://youtu.be/wFCG2TIEAjY

I was there the first time the "year of Linux on the desktop" was run up a jury-rigged flag pole.

It puts me in mind of Olbermann's fifty phrases of Trump "becoming" presidential.

Never believed it the first time, nor any of the times thereafter.

Olbermann shtick is to become so repetitive as to render himself completely unlistenable to anyone with access to a supplemental news source. I think he regards this grinding hatchet job as a form of insistent emphasis. It's perhaps also why the sound bite on his media channel features a heavy drum. Case in point, I didn't even finish the above clip. But the passage I quoted is excellent, which is why I keep going back, for the brief moments when Olbermann punches through this endless brow beating.

Olbermann is right about this. Trump successfully reads off a teleprompter for an entire thirty minutes, and five minutes later many in the media proclaim a shotgun marriage to an elf princess, and the reclamation of Elendil's throne consummated. True, Aragorn did put his hand on the same Saudi orb, but then again he also killed some living, breathing Uruk-hai. Advantage, Aragorn.

The year of Linux on the desktop is a turtle race with Trump becoming presidential. Always has been, always will be.

Same media dunce caps, to a mortal certainty.

"The race of Minix is failing. The blood of Numenor is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten. It is only because of Tmux and Docker that Ring 0 survives. I was there Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago ..."

Indeed, Elrond, we've now had megapixel screen buffers for an age of men.

The original Let's Pretend MegaPixel Display was a monochrome 17" monitor displaying 4 brightness levels (black, dark gray, light gray and white) in a fixed resolution of 1120 x 832 at 92 DPI (931,840 total pixels) at 68 Hz.

It integrated a mono microphone, mono speaker, stereo RCA sockets, a 3.5 mm headphone socket and a socket for the keyboard/mouse. A unique feature was that the monitor was connected to the computer by a single ultra-proprietary 6-foot cable which provided power, video signals, and all the rest.

A severe problem with this setup was that the monitor could not be switched off completely while the computer was powered on. The screen could be switched to black but the cathode heater always remained on. This led to extreme screen dimming after some years of use, especially when the computer was not turned off overnight as in a server setup or in a busy software lab.

Man, can't imagine what mystic wandering in the wilderness might have invented that bodge. Yes, and he was also subject to an endless litany of premature coronation (one suspects trigger-happy journalism interns vying for first post), until finally breaking through with the iPhone.

2007: official year of Apple finally kicking everyone's ass, after thirty years of overblown self-aggrandizement.

There's the rub: once in a long while, a princess finally does kiss the right frog.

Your bullshit "hate speech" is nothing more then censorship.

Apparently you learnt NOTHING from (British) Political Philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) to which this YouTuber beautifully summarized:

[He] made an argument for free speech including that of hate speech for a good reason.

He argued that if we censor hate speech our fundamental beliefs of what is right and wrong are not tested.

If our beliefs are aren't argued against then we don't attempt to rationalize what we believe to be true.

We don't think about why our beliefs are right.

When we don't question our beliefs we don't think about them.

And when we don't think about our beliefs we don't learn new things. We don't advance and improve our thoughts about what is right and wrong.

He argued that even if someone's argument is wrong it still serves a purpose of making us rationalize and check our beliefs and even improve them.

Being able to listen to an argument that is wrong lets us understand what makes an argument wrong and improve our own beliefs from learning from someone else's failure.

Gee, oh look, C. S. Lewis (Hey, look another smart British citizen!) said the SAME thing, except he called it Chronological Snobbery

Grow the fuck up EU already. Just maybe you should pay more attention to your history.

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Only cowards censor.

"The key thrust of recent years was delegating power down. It was like magic! Improved quality, productivity, morale. We have small teams with no central control. The teams own the process, but they have to have one. They have many different processes. They own the schedule, but they feel the pressure of the market. This pressure causes them to reach for tools on their own."

A lot of 'modern' management schemes, like scrum, are designed to goad programmers to work harder. Even Silicon Valley portrays Scrum as getting programmers to work harder. That's the whole purpose, it's a stick managers can wield.

The kind of programmers I like working with can self-manage. The only coordination we need is figuring out who will work on what.

Depends on what you are doing. Is single-threaded? Multi-threaded? Needs ECC, Memory bound? Computer bound? etc.

For gaming? Nope. An i7-7700K is still faster then the iCore 9. LOL.

For rendering? Yep 2:07 vs 7:19

However, it is important to point out:

* Intel CPU's are the fastest CPU's around but you literally PAY through the nose 2x- 5x for a measly ~10% increase in performance.
* AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs have WAY better bang/buck. i.e. In Blender 2.78c AMD's Theadripper 1950X ($999) is faster then the Xeon E5 2699 v4 ($4,115). LOL.

Conclusion:

Is the i9-7960X worth a whopping $700 more then Threadripper 1950X?

For many people, the answer is no. That is money that could be spent into a better GPU or more RAM/SSD.

What CPU is "best" depends on your workload.