Contributors is what really set Slashdot apart in the old days (as any comment site), intelligent and whitty comments (In Soviet Russia, You must be new here) made a culture, and the low barrier to get to talk to Bruce Perens and the likes.
You'd know and learn something when reading comments or at least get a smile.
I guess it was the time when computing wasn't fully commercial combined with lots of adolescents just having fun hobbying and PDP get-off-my-lawn greybeards talking shop in one place.
I really miss those days, despite I know those aren't coming back, but they got me through heavy depression.
* In our 20's we used to love to tinker with Linux.
* In our 40's we just want to get shit done -- instead of spending time recompiling our kernels.
With a MBP we have 99% what we want in a *nix box. While pricey it is "good enough."
That's true years ago (MBP2011). Nowadays apt-get shizzle and stackoverflow beat clicking through iCloud, Facebook, twitter integrations and Apple with its proprietary extensions looking like Microsoft of the past.
No need to tune etc files or recompiling kernels, simply because linux-compatible hardware works out of the box and most packages have sensible defaults out of the box.
And IF you need to edit etc files, it surely is much less of hassle than tackling those ill-documented plist files.
So, I'd like to add;
* In our 40's, when MacOSX turned to shit, we need things we can control to do away with shit.
Just for thought, it's the tinkering that started your professional life, seeking improvement; better get things done and have fun, because in your 40s, with family, kids and all, you don't want to get your job to own you.
I like the Schuko's better. Plug gets in outlet, which is safer. Locks the plug against tripping, also earth first/last; the mandatory switch on the outlet sounds overengineered, every appliance has its own switch, you plugin it in current flows, why make it complex?
x86 is the greatest tune,tinker & upgradefest in computing history.
Current alternative offerings are glued to last warranty at most.
Countless patches, fixes, whoring BIOS glitches and aftermarket parts to keep it running and extended, it's the ugly dutiful locomotive that owes respect, not your shiny new Tesla.
Fukushima won't ever happen again. Because the next executive who tries to save a couple thousand in concrete and rebar for something like this would be reported and immediately ousted (then probably lynched).
Yeah right, on your blue eyes.
Whatever safeguards, humans are fallible, anything deteriorating is fallible, nuclear technology has proven to be fallible (hence the new technologies). and will be fallible as soon as a new parameter emerges and you find a new sucker to be the fuckwad.
The fuckwad is the messenger telling you it isn't safe. If consequences of nuclear leakage were only 100 yrs from now or short-lived it wouldn't be a problem either.
I studied engineering because I loved the art, but our culture has destroyed the art of technology. I don't miss working in tech at all, but I do enjoy teaching high school math and science (my new career), and doing whatever I can to discourage students from pursuing a career in it.
The best teachers do it with their passion, the worst with their failure.
It's war. Yours is an immature absolutism that is sickening.
Keep in mind, this is a country that waged total war in its end days instead of surrendering--meaning every civilian was to take up arms to defend the mother land. Many did.
This is a country where the civilians elected a mad man, did not stay his power, cultivated his many versions of hate, and then proceeded to invade countries, kill millions of foreign civilians, launch remote rocket and artillery attacks, and kill millions of their own and neighboring citizens.
They were not human, you mean?
Refusing draft or orders was a capital offense. You don't get to pick a side and propaganda will do its work regardless of belonging to the good or bad side.
WW1 reparations enforced by allied were already too steep starving people to death, what prospect would surrender give?
The Geneve convention was drawn up by experienced people with humanity in mind. It's so fucking good because it exposes the sociopaths, usually high in power.
Dehumanizing *any* human is bound to the inhumane, nothing moral about that, it's a sanity issue. http://footage.framepool.com/s...
Install grunt. Look at the packages that had to be downloaded that grunt depends on (and depends on, and depends on....).
I was just getting to that, because really, I don't want to spend too much time programming stack building scripts to get stuff running.
But, gulp was to be the next great thing, so I went for that only to find out yarn is the place to be.
Somehow, I find myself spending more and more time managing js libraries and compiling assets due to the ADHD nature of the js community.
That altered state is the goal. And that is what addiction is all about. People get to depend on that altered state, and that is the psychological part of addiction, and actually the worst part of addiction. Why? Because the physical addiction is fairly easy to break compared to the mental habit of relying on something outside of yourself to make you feel good. That mental habit is extremely hard to break. That memory that feeling good is only a substance use away.
Addiction roots from biological makeup, the physical, not character. It requires tremendous amounts of will-power to start quitting smoking over and over again, while some may smoke on occasions only (yes, inhaling) and not be addicted. The mental consequence of the feeling-good memory for substances is a symptom, which starts unconsciously and is more or less absent with the "un-addictable".
Sure, when happy the addiction is far away, because addiction starts when your body fails to provide.
Once blessed with this addictive trait (in such a way you drown in it) you better not start any addictive (substance) habit, though it's tough looking into a mirror constantly.
Your best bet is regular physical exercise (running), balanced diet to keep a stable sugar level (no
liquorice or chocolate) and don't watch food/beverage commercials that appear to make people happy.
Give every customer of an effected car, at minimum, $5000 extra for the inconvenience and deception.
Every new car off the assembly line must an electric vehicle AND to be sold at the same price as a similar gas powered car. Even if it is at a loss.
That's ridiculous, it will not bleed the company, it will bankrupt it. Moreover, all industry will pack up and move to other countries. You didn't think VW is the only one, did you?
The top of the executives needs to be jailed hard time, Germany knows a strong hierarchy in work, the top is responsible.
Meanwhile, politics need to take that head out off their arse and reassess their simple-minded drive to lower CO2 at all costs (NOx) without planning and assisting for a total revision of the infrastructure, supporting electric; but that's tricky if you want to be re-elected.
Right now we have the worst combination of politics and corporation, both knew it was fishy but didn't want to know. It took power play to get this train moving, just don't be naive to think it started because of concern of health issues.
Microsoft hasn't had a successful entry into a new market since..what? The xbox? Their mobile efforts have not only been disasters, they've been repeated and predictable disasters.
They've got their core markets ( desktop, server/services, gaming ), and are arguably "improving" them successfully ( with some serious mis steps along the way ), but I just don't see how anyone can think they'll pull a rabbit out of their hat here.
Want to know what makes for a good base product over time? Become a platform that bigger hits work with smoothly. Support that platform, and make a brand out of the efficiency, stability and reliability of that platform.
Perhaps the bell rings once global usage drops below 5%, after almost reaching 50% in 2009.
The British joined the EU with special conditions because their economy was in really bad shape. And now they want to leave to improve their economic position? This is really tragic. They seem to have decided that fucking themselves with a wire-brush is a really good idea.
Short term, longterm highly doubtful..a single and smaller entity is faster to adapt.
Countries outside Euro/EU have shown faster and better economic resilience, EU only started moderately after massive QE.
So, let's give it another year, Brexit has been taken seriously shortly, EU has given itself over a decade with very little improvement on the voluntary side of individual countries, let alone the preposterous travelling between Brussels and Strasbourg, and the inability to adequately address recent crises such as the refugee issue.
Large parts of the EU haven't been, aren't first world regions and probably won't for the next century.
.. when Linus decides the next major release is to be written in Rust.
Or for argument's sake, Mozilla itself.
Every language has it pitfalls, at least with ye olde C/C++ I know where to look and what to expect. ...
Suddenly you start to respect and embrace the get-off-my-lawn attitude, you simply want things to work rather than be written in the next greatest language of the moment.
I think I'm ready to deal with my dad now:)
As a higher earner (well, when I'm not in startup mode), I don't actually have a problem with being taxed more - provided those that earn even more than me are not able to avoid the tax.
Well geez, lower incomes did just that without reservations.
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Contributors is what really set Slashdot apart in the old days (as any comment site), intelligent and whitty comments (In Soviet Russia, You must be new here) made a culture, and the low barrier to get to talk to Bruce Perens and the likes.
You'd know and learn something when reading comments or at least get a smile.
I guess it was the time when computing wasn't fully commercial combined with lots of adolescents just having fun hobbying and PDP get-off-my-lawn greybeards talking shop in one place.
I really miss those days, despite I know those aren't coming back, but they got me through heavy depression.
Thank you.
That's true years ago (MBP2011). Nowadays apt-get shizzle and stackoverflow beat clicking through iCloud, Facebook, twitter integrations and Apple with its proprietary extensions looking like Microsoft of the past.
No need to tune etc files or recompiling kernels, simply because linux-compatible hardware works out of the box and most packages have sensible defaults out of the box.
And IF you need to edit etc files, it surely is much less of hassle than tackling those ill-documented plist files.
So, I'd like to add;
* In our 40's, when MacOSX turned to shit, we need things we can control to do away with shit.
Just for thought, it's the tinkering that started your professional life, seeking improvement; better get things done and have fun, because in your 40s, with family, kids and all, you don't want to get your job to own you.
I like the Schuko's better. Plug gets in outlet, which is safer. Locks the plug against tripping, also earth first/last; the mandatory switch on the outlet sounds overengineered, every appliance has its own switch, you plugin it in current flows, why make it complex?
Never liked?
x86 is the greatest tune,tinker & upgradefest in computing history.
Current alternative offerings are glued to last warranty at most.
Countless patches, fixes, whoring BIOS glitches and aftermarket parts to keep it running and extended, it's the ugly dutiful locomotive that owes respect, not your shiny new Tesla.
You could have just said Warez.
Yeah right, on your blue eyes.
Whatever safeguards, humans are fallible, anything deteriorating is fallible, nuclear technology has proven to be fallible (hence the new technologies). and will be fallible as soon as a new parameter emerges and you find a new sucker to be the fuckwad.
The fuckwad is the messenger telling you it isn't safe. If consequences of nuclear leakage were only 100 yrs from now or short-lived it wouldn't be a problem either.
The best teachers do it with their passion, the worst with their failure.
They were not human, you mean?
Refusing draft or orders was a capital offense. You don't get to pick a side and propaganda will do its work regardless of belonging to the good or bad side.
WW1 reparations enforced by allied were already too steep starving people to death, what prospect would surrender give?
The Geneve convention was drawn up by experienced people with humanity in mind. It's so fucking good because it exposes the sociopaths, usually high in power.
Dehumanizing *any* human is bound to the inhumane, nothing moral about that, it's a sanity issue.
http://footage.framepool.com/s...
Leasing is always more expensive than buying. Rental is the base of a feodal system, etc. etc.
I was just getting to that, because really, I don't want to spend too much time programming stack building scripts to get stuff running.
But, gulp was to be the next great thing, so I went for that only to find out yarn is the place to be.
Somehow, I find myself spending more and more time managing js libraries and compiling assets due to the ADHD nature of the js community.
First thought; sarcasm,
Reading tweets; pathethic
Contemplating; why did we put up with Linus all this time?!?
Addiction roots from biological makeup, the physical, not character. It requires tremendous amounts of will-power to start quitting smoking over and over again, while some may smoke on occasions only (yes, inhaling) and not be addicted. The mental consequence of the feeling-good memory for substances is a symptom, which starts unconsciously and is more or less absent with the "un-addictable" .
Sure, when happy the addiction is far away, because addiction starts when your body fails to provide.
Once blessed with this addictive trait (in such a way you drown in it) you better not start any addictive (substance) habit, though it's tough looking into a mirror constantly.
Your best bet is regular physical exercise (running), balanced diet to keep a stable sugar level (no liquorice or chocolate) and don't watch food/beverage commercials that appear to make people happy.
True, but we need the insane to determine the boundaries of sanity.
bought used, good quality, though i cannot get used to the interface or the lack of modding.
That's ridiculous, it will not bleed the company, it will bankrupt it. Moreover, all industry will pack up and move to other countries. You didn't think VW is the only one, did you?
The top of the executives needs to be jailed hard time, Germany knows a strong hierarchy in work, the top is responsible.
Meanwhile, politics need to take that head out off their arse and reassess their simple-minded drive to lower CO2 at all costs (NOx) without planning and assisting for a total revision of the infrastructure, supporting electric; but that's tricky if you want to be re-elected.
Right now we have the worst combination of politics and corporation, both knew it was fishy but didn't want to know. It took power play to get this train moving, just don't be naive to think it started because of concern of health issues.
Yes, now with seeking times under a day!
MS has leverage.
If no, then it has no value.
That's amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!
Don't forget it requires HHVM because that's so much faster than PHP ;-P
Perhaps the bell rings once global usage drops below 5%, after almost reaching 50% in 2009.
Short term, longterm highly doubtful..a single and smaller entity is faster to adapt.
Countries outside Euro/EU have shown faster and better economic resilience, EU only started moderately after massive QE.
So, let's give it another year, Brexit has been taken seriously shortly, EU has given itself over a decade with very little improvement on the voluntary side of individual countries, let alone the preposterous travelling between Brussels and Strasbourg, and the inability to adequately address recent crises such as the refugee issue.
Large parts of the EU haven't been, aren't first world regions and probably won't for the next century.
When does the hurting stop.
.. when Linus decides the next major release is to be written in Rust.
... :)
Or for argument's sake, Mozilla itself.
Every language has it pitfalls, at least with ye olde C/C++ I know where to look and what to expect.
Suddenly you start to respect and embrace the get-off-my-lawn attitude, you simply want things to work rather than be written in the next greatest language of the moment.
I think I'm ready to deal with my dad now
Well geez, lower incomes did just that without reservations.