I totally agree with both of you. But the questions he answers isn't : "My toy isn't working as expected. Who wrote this shit?" but "This 'bug' very much looks like an intentional backdoor. Does git blame returns joe@nsa.gov?"
"I'm working on a new independent project. It will soon become the new Facebook, and I'll be billionaire next quarter. The only problem is that I don't know which luxury yacht to buy with all this money. I've been looking at Lady Moura, Christina O, Pelorus, Venus and others. What do you recommend? What problems have you run into with the ones you've tried?"
+1 In French Guiana, isolated tribes saw white men coming at them, and basically telling them : "Congrats, you're now officialy unemployed French citizens. You don't know what money is, but you'll receive XXX Francs per month from the government. You can go visit the next town, and discover what rum and hookers are. Not much else to do though. kthxbye!"
From TFA: "At the start of each round an independent judge flips a fair coin and tells your opponent the result but does not tell you. If the coin came up heads your opponent must play rock." The opponent isn't forced to get at least 50% rock after any number of plays.
Humans are interesting animals. We are still 80% dependent on fossil fuels for our energy needs and have no clue what we could use at this scale when they're depleted. But let's worry about what could happen to the sun in 5 billion years!
The external speakers aren't for the engine or the driver, it's to let the hot chicks know how much you paid for your car. From the above article : "Volkswagen previously used a resonator tube similar to the Mustang’s in its GTI but has switched to what it calls a “Soundaktor.” This system is like the M5’s, in that an audio file is stored on the car’s computer and then played during certain throttle applications. Unlike the more selective M5 setup, VW’s broadcasts all the noise from under the hood through a dedicated speaker located near the engine’s throttle body. Soundaktor speakers are currently making noise in the GTI, GLI, and Beetle Turbo."
It's not only for Tesla, and not just on videos either. Engines are getting more efficient and quieter every year, and cars are better insulated as well. Customers are disappointed when they spend big bucks on a car only to find out it doesn't sound like a big old sport car. The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car. You sometimes get V8 sound out of a V6 car:)
Fun fact : what you wrote is utter bullshit. Another fun fact : you need to invest more energy in order to get 1kWh worth of oil than 1kWh of solar electricity.
I love git, because all my development repos are self-contained, easy to backup and work perfectly offline. "git rebase -i" is just wonderful.
BUT : You want to pull and overwrite your local changes? It's as easy as :
git add *
git commit -a -m "auto dev server commit"
git fetch origin master
git merge -s recursive -X theirs origin/master
You want to clone your local repo to a new remote one and use it as origin? Sure : #On local machine cd foo_project git init git add * git commit -m "My initial commit message" #On remote machine (Git remote repository) sudo su - git cd/usr/local/git_root/ mkdir foo-project.git cd foo-project.git/ git --bare init git config core.sharedrepository 1 git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true find objects -type d -exec chmod 02770 {} \; #On local machine, in your git project git remote add origin ssh://git@example.com:2227/usr/local/git_root/foo_project.git git push -u origin master
Those are just 2 examples that come often enough to be an annoyance, but not often enough that I can remember them.
I loved KDE 3.5, and would spend weeks customizing everything to look exactly like I wanted. It worked perfectly, I had all the right applications and buttons at the right place.
I tried 4.5 and newer versions, but with a kid and my day job, I simply don't have time to look through the 1000 menus, tabs and radio buttons. So I have to stay with the default config, but it kinda sucks.
On the other hand, Linux Mint + Mate gets the job done out of the box and it looks decent.
Yes, but it would also have to be fast. When I use Eclipse, Netbeans or Rubymine, I'm both impressed by the IDE features and angry at how sluggish simple operations are in comparison to vim. I always fall back to vim.
Exactly. - Sorry, we lost $1B - But, you owe us $50M - What a coincidence! I just found $100M. But I promise you, I don't know where the other $900M are.
*) Diurnal. Does it mean what you think it means? *) Energy received and energy emitted by the Earth aren't equal. You might have heard of global warming. *) The energy emitted by the Earth isn't all infrared radiation.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... and http://www.eoearth.org/view/ar... ) *) Temperature doesn't have color, pressure doesn't have speed and energy doesn't have entropy. You can only define entropy for a thermodynamic system (i.e. Earth, or Earth + atmosphere). *) Entropy more or less describes the disorder of a system. All oher things being equal, the entropy goes up with the temperature (0 at 0K, higher at 6000K than at 300K) *) You're probably talking about exergy : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Thermodynamics is hard. You have to define everything and understand the underlying mathematical concepts.
I'm not sure Amsterdam and San Francisco are representative cities for either the US or Europe. It's like saying : "Take 2 average girls, say, Natalie Portman and Kate Middleton"
Slashdot Mirror
Because if boobs were brains, she'd have three Nobel medecine prizes.
I totally agree with both of you.
But the questions he answers isn't : "My toy isn't working as expected. Who wrote this shit?" but "This 'bug' very much looks like an intentional backdoor. Does git blame returns joe@nsa.gov?"
"I'm working on a new independent project. It will soon become the new Facebook, and I'll be billionaire next quarter. The only problem is that I don't know which luxury yacht to buy with all this money. I've been looking at Lady Moura, Christina O, Pelorus, Venus and others. What do you recommend? What problems have you run into with the ones you've tried?"
+1
In French Guiana, isolated tribes saw white men coming at them, and basically telling them :
"Congrats, you're now officialy unemployed French citizens. You don't know what money is, but you'll receive XXX Francs per month from the government. You can go visit the next town, and discover what rum and hookers are. Not much else to do though. kthxbye!"
PARSE ERROR:
"Michael S. Rosenwald was so disgusted with myself.'
The brain was not designed for reading Andrew Dillon."
Wait, what??? Could you please write shorter paragraphs?
+1. Very insightful and fun answers.
From TFA: "At the start of each round an independent judge flips a fair coin and tells your opponent the result but does not tell you. If the coin came up heads your opponent must play rock."
The opponent isn't forced to get at least 50% rock after any number of plays.
Humans are interesting animals.
We are still 80% dependent on fossil fuels for our energy needs and have no clue what we could use at this scale when they're depleted.
But let's worry about what could happen to the sun in 5 billion years!
You mean like :
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
or
http://features.slashdot.org/s...
?
But to be fair, http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?... is much more "Ask X what you will" than "X answers your questions".
The external speakers aren't for the engine or the driver, it's to let the hot chicks know how much you paid for your car.
From the above article :
"Volkswagen previously used a resonator tube similar to the Mustang’s in its GTI but has switched to what it calls a “Soundaktor.” This system is like the M5’s, in that an audio file is stored on the car’s computer and then played during certain throttle applications. Unlike the more selective M5 setup, VW’s broadcasts all the noise from under the hood through a dedicated speaker located near the engine’s throttle body. Soundaktor speakers are currently making noise in the GTI, GLI, and Beetle Turbo."
It's not only for Tesla, and not just on videos either. :)
Engines are getting more efficient and quieter every year, and cars are better insulated as well. Customers are disappointed when they spend big bucks on a car only to find out it doesn't sound like a big old sport car.
The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car.
You sometimes get V8 sound out of a V6 car
http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...
Fun fact : what you wrote is utter bullshit.
Another fun fact : you need to invest more energy in order to get 1kWh worth of oil than 1kWh of solar electricity.
Exactly.
I love git, because all my development repos are self-contained, easy to backup and work perfectly offline.
"git rebase -i" is just wonderful.
BUT :
You want to pull and overwrite your local changes? It's as easy as :
git add *
git commit -a -m "auto dev server commit"
git fetch origin master
git merge -s recursive -X theirs origin/master
You want to clone your local repo to a new remote one and use it as origin? Sure : /usr/local/git_root/
#On local machine
cd foo_project
git init
git add *
git commit -m "My initial commit message"
#On remote machine (Git remote repository)
sudo su - git
cd
mkdir foo-project.git
cd foo-project.git/
git --bare init
git config core.sharedrepository 1
git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true
find objects -type d -exec chmod 02770 {} \;
#On local machine, in your git project
git remote add origin ssh://git@example.com:2227/usr/local/git_root/foo_project.git
git push -u origin master
Those are just 2 examples that come often enough to be an annoyance, but not often enough that I can remember them.
I loved KDE 3.5, and would spend weeks customizing everything to look exactly like I wanted.
It worked perfectly, I had all the right applications and buttons at the right place.
I tried 4.5 and newer versions, but with a kid and my day job, I simply don't have time to look through the 1000 menus, tabs and radio buttons.
So I have to stay with the default config, but it kinda sucks.
On the other hand, Linux Mint + Mate gets the job done out of the box and it looks decent.
/dev/null ?
Guy cannot drive and trashes expensive car, blames manufacturer.
News at 11.
PS: Apparently, "The Model S accelerator pedal is disabled if you press the accelerator pedal and brake pedal simultaneously."
+1
Yes, but it would also have to be fast.
When I use Eclipse, Netbeans or Rubymine, I'm both impressed by the IDE features and angry at how sluggish simple operations are in comparison to vim.
I always fall back to vim.
https://xkcd.com/1204/
Exactly.
- Sorry, we lost $1B
- But, you owe us $50M
- What a coincidence! I just found $100M. But I promise you, I don't know where the other $900M are.
Score 5: Interesting/Insightful. WTF?
*) Diurnal. Does it mean what you think it means?
*) Energy received and energy emitted by the Earth aren't equal. You might have heard of global warming.
*) The energy emitted by the Earth isn't all infrared radiation.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... and http://www.eoearth.org/view/ar... )
*) Temperature doesn't have color, pressure doesn't have speed and energy doesn't have entropy. You can only define entropy for a thermodynamic system (i.e. Earth, or Earth + atmosphere).
*) Entropy more or less describes the disorder of a system. All oher things being equal, the entropy goes up with the temperature (0 at 0K, higher at 6000K than at 300K)
*) You're probably talking about exergy : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Thermodynamics is hard. You have to define everything and understand the underlying mathematical concepts.
1) Give it to my girlfriend
2) Make love for two whole minutes
3) Sleep happily
I'm not sure Amsterdam and San Francisco are representative cities for either the US or Europe.
It's like saying : "Take 2 average girls, say, Natalie Portman and Kate Middleton"
Pardon my french, but why the f**k do you need 2400 opened tabs for?
I think the real problem here is :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...