Exactly. Also, this situation is perfect for the ultra rich, and why there is such a high tolerance amongst execs for piracy. It keeps everyone else distracted with their media consumption while they continue to take the majority of the wealth.
I've become accomplished at public speaking, but I understand where these students are coming from. Part of it is that some students are just facing too much stress, and having to speak out in class is just too much especially since some of these students don't really have the skills to deal with the stress.
Yeah, it's a fact of life _later_ in life. But there's no reason to be harsh on everyone who has a fear of it and make them go up right away. How about instead have counsellors for students to help them deal with these issues, and let students speak in class when they are ready. Sometimes, throwing someone in the deep end is actually too much.
I think you have to look at it on a case-by-case basis. For example, I buy my classical music from Hyperion and they offer direct MP3 download without DRM/syncing restrictions. I can burn them to CDs or copy them to my phone, and I am pretty confident I have full control over them.
What they're basically saying is that 57.55% of IT workers from the named companies are suffering from psychological trauma you'd more likely expect to find in a war zone, a kidnap situation or a maximum security prison.
You should not be finding it in a 9-5 office job.
Except that in today's world, the typical tech worker has to handle more information than we ever have in our past. Not surprisingly, this causes extremely high strain and mental trauma for a fair number of them.
It may not be a war zone but it is a real problem and if we ignore it, it will just get worse for our society.
I don't know if it's the devices themselves or if we raised a generation that we didn't want to let play outside for fear that they would get into trouble or that something bad would happen to them.
No, it's the devices. The human mind is geared to respond to social cues and providing an immense flood of them to anyone is an easy path to addiction. I have seen people that were addicted to smartphones, who at the same time grew up into adulthood before the internet even existed.
AI (i.e. machine learning/neural networks) is really good at optimizing stuff, so its natural strength shows when you have hundreds of thousands of entities in a system. Examples are the electricity grid, playing Go, and a department store's inventory.
In our individual lives, AI seems more like another drop in the bucket of too much technology, and I think one day we'll realize that less is more when it comes to the stuff in our homes.
If you want encryption and Dropbox on Linux, you can make a separate partition for the Dropbox folder that remains unencrypted. On that partition, store only files encrypted with a Fuse solution like encfs. When you need to edit, change stuff, mount the encfs partition in your regular home directory.
This prevents you from sharing stuff over Dropbox, though if you are sharing stuff, you might as well just keep the shared stuff unencrypted on the separate partition.
This is a good thing. Hopefully this means we'll see more meaningful and interesting stories around here instead of endless boring stories on smartphones. Yeah, they're great. Can we get over that now and onto something more substantial?
I disagree. With TV, you just watched the shows you liked that came on at regular, specific times. You could only watch so many episodes at once.
With broadband internet, you can watch as many episodes of whatever is out there at any time you want. You can check hundreds of websites and social media accounts endlessly. Seems like the internet is much worse than TV, and the difference is much greater than TV compared to radio/books
It's not just slashdot, it's the whole internet. Search for reviews these days and you get these generic techradar-type sites that have barely any criticism about the product. You have the scroll down a lot just to see good reviews.
The internet has become infested by advertisers and politics and I for one would like to see it gone.
There are tons of correlated factors that could account for this, and probably the authors considered this but since this is slashdot I'm not going to read the paper.
But there is one direct benefit of saunas: humidified air. During colder months, the air is drier and leeches moisture from your lungs. Dry lungs means less mucus to get rid of foreign particulates. Spending time in humidified air helps combat this.
Instead of getting a sauna membership, just get a humidifier.
I had a lot of difficulty figuring out what it is as well, or what its purpose is.
It is that black rectangular tab of plastic that comes down into the screen that makes the screen a non-rectangular shape.
Its purpose is to make a space for the front-facing camera while still having the screen take up as much space as it can on the front of the phone. The time and battery status are displayed in the extra screen real estate.
It came out on the iPhone and now a ton of android handset manufacturers are copying it.
When I went to (reasonably good) school, a science degree was about 4K/year. At the same school now (10 years later) it is 8K - twice the cost. As a comparison minimum wage went from about $9 to $14.
Even back then, it is lucky I got a 50% off scholarship and family helped out. I still would have been able to do it without that help but there is no way I would be at the same level of competitiveness and education that I am at now.
Getting a STEM degree and doing something useful with it is tough, and it's sad that it's only getting so much tougher.
This is why some open-source people like Stallman are so fanatical. We have Linux, and no one can take it away from us. In ten years from now when everyone is suffering with DaaS, I'll still be typing away with Linux, free as always.
Human society has never before been linked together so well. We need to guard against unintended consequences, like the unimaginable power that some will have to control dissent by electronically preventing dissenters from buying food at the grocery store.
OpenStreetMap is pretty damn good. For example, the OsmAnd android app allows you to browse in excellent detail any offline downloaded map. In this sense it's far superior to Google maps. It can even calculate offline directions.
The problem is OpenStreetMap is not easy for editing or browsing on a computer. Try finding a GUI. There are two dozen and they all suck. OpenStreetMap needs a professional editor/viewer for all platforms and it could be vastly more popular.
Says that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions, and octonions are the only kinds of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. This is obviously false, as that can be done in any division algebra (including any field, like finite fields, rational numbers, etc, and there are there are uncountably many fields).
What they meant to say is that those are the only normed division algebras - basically, algebras over the real numbers with a notion of distance and such that the distance is compatible with multiplication.
de-facto standard? Seriously? For every snapshots that's true. However, full-frame cameras are not targeted at people who want every snapshots and selfies. Full-frame cameras are for people who want high-quality shots at a variety of focal lengths, often in tougher lighting situations like wildlife and sports where smartphones are next to useless.
It's easy. Create a half a dozen or more files of random numbers or use existing large files. I created six files of a million random integers in Python. End result, six files of about 6.9MB each. Create an md5 checksum file when you make them.
Copy them to a USB stick, and then yank the stick right when the light stops blinking. Plug the USB stick back in. Watch and learn. Easily reproducible phenomenon are: * Not all files even appear when the stick is plugged back in * Some of the files might appear, but give I/O errors and won't even be complete * A Few might pass the checksum integrity test
I'm on Linux Mint, but I have seen the results on other OSes as well. The OS caches the data to be written sometime, presumably to speed up file operations. There's a reason why eject exists.
Perhaps some motivated individual will come up with a way to use this ideal to overwrite your data on every major service with zeroes. A standard API for personal data might be a good thing, if it comes with a delete function.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. Also, this situation is perfect for the ultra rich, and why there is such a high tolerance amongst execs for piracy. It keeps everyone else distracted with their media consumption while they continue to take the majority of the wealth.
I've become accomplished at public speaking, but I understand where these students are coming from. Part of it is that some students are just facing too much stress, and having to speak out in class is just too much especially since some of these students don't really have the skills to deal with the stress.
Yeah, it's a fact of life _later_ in life. But there's no reason to be harsh on everyone who has a fear of it and make them go up right away. How about instead have counsellors for students to help them deal with these issues, and let students speak in class when they are ready. Sometimes, throwing someone in the deep end is actually too much.
I think you have to look at it on a case-by-case basis. For example, I buy my classical music from Hyperion and they offer direct MP3 download without DRM/syncing restrictions. I can burn them to CDs or copy them to my phone, and I am pretty confident I have full control over them.
Someone should help make a mirror of this distro, as it has run out of bandwidth for downloading it seems. It's also 32-bit only.
Except that in today's world, the typical tech worker has to handle more information than we ever have in our past. Not surprisingly, this causes extremely high strain and mental trauma for a fair number of them.
It may not be a war zone but it is a real problem and if we ignore it, it will just get worse for our society.
No, it's the devices. The human mind is geared to respond to social cues and providing an immense flood of them to anyone is an easy path to addiction. I have seen people that were addicted to smartphones, who at the same time grew up into adulthood before the internet even existed.
AI (i.e. machine learning/neural networks) is really good at optimizing stuff, so its natural strength shows when you have hundreds of thousands of entities in a system. Examples are the electricity grid, playing Go, and a department store's inventory.
In our individual lives, AI seems more like another drop in the bucket of too much technology, and I think one day we'll realize that less is more when it comes to the stuff in our homes.
They forgot to mention it now runs inside Emacs.
There, fixed that for you.
If you want encryption and Dropbox on Linux, you can make a separate partition for the Dropbox folder that remains unencrypted. On that partition, store only files encrypted with a Fuse solution like encfs. When you need to edit, change stuff, mount the encfs partition in your regular home directory.
This prevents you from sharing stuff over Dropbox, though if you are sharing stuff, you might as well just keep the shared stuff unencrypted on the separate partition.
This is a good thing. Hopefully this means we'll see more meaningful and interesting stories around here instead of endless boring stories on smartphones. Yeah, they're great. Can we get over that now and onto something more substantial?
I disagree. With TV, you just watched the shows you liked that came on at regular, specific times. You could only watch so many episodes at once.
With broadband internet, you can watch as many episodes of whatever is out there at any time you want. You can check hundreds of websites and social media accounts endlessly. Seems like the internet is much worse than TV, and the difference is much greater than TV compared to radio/books
It's not just slashdot, it's the whole internet. Search for reviews these days and you get these generic techradar-type sites that have barely any criticism about the product. You have the scroll down a lot just to see good reviews.
The internet has become infested by advertisers and politics and I for one would like to see it gone.
There are tons of correlated factors that could account for this, and probably the authors considered this but since this is slashdot I'm not going to read the paper.
But there is one direct benefit of saunas: humidified air. During colder months, the air is drier and leeches moisture from your lungs. Dry lungs means less mucus to get rid of foreign particulates. Spending time in humidified air helps combat this.
Instead of getting a sauna membership, just get a humidifier.
Headline makes this sound like some kind of study. It's not. It's an ad.
I had a lot of difficulty figuring out what it is as well, or what its purpose is.
It is that black rectangular tab of plastic that comes down into the screen that makes the screen a non-rectangular shape.
Its purpose is to make a space for the front-facing camera while still having the screen take up as much space as it can on the front of the phone. The time and battery status are displayed in the extra screen real estate.
It came out on the iPhone and now a ton of android handset manufacturers are copying it.
Looks ugly to me.
When I went to (reasonably good) school, a science degree was about 4K/year. At the same school now (10 years later) it is 8K - twice the cost. As a comparison minimum wage went from about $9 to $14.
Even back then, it is lucky I got a 50% off scholarship and family helped out. I still would have been able to do it without that help but there is no way I would be at the same level of competitiveness and education that I am at now.
Getting a STEM degree and doing something useful with it is tough, and it's sad that it's only getting so much tougher.
This is why some open-source people like Stallman are so fanatical. We have Linux, and no one can take it away from us. In ten years from now when everyone is suffering with DaaS, I'll still be typing away with Linux, free as always.
It's just another social network in the long line of networks that will come and go. Who's surprised?
Human society has never before been linked together so well. We need to guard against unintended consequences, like the unimaginable power that some will have to control dissent by electronically preventing dissenters from buying food at the grocery store.
OpenStreetMap is pretty damn good. For example, the OsmAnd android app allows you to browse in excellent detail any offline downloaded map. In this sense it's far superior to Google maps. It can even calculate offline directions.
The problem is OpenStreetMap is not easy for editing or browsing on a computer. Try finding a GUI. There are two dozen and they all suck. OpenStreetMap needs a professional editor/viewer for all platforms and it could be vastly more popular.
Says that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions, and octonions are the only kinds of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. This is obviously false, as that can be done in any division algebra (including any field, like finite fields, rational numbers, etc, and there are there are uncountably many fields).
What they meant to say is that those are the only normed division algebras - basically, algebras over the real numbers with a notion of distance and such that the distance is compatible with multiplication.
de-facto standard? Seriously? For every snapshots that's true. However, full-frame cameras are not targeted at people who want every snapshots and selfies. Full-frame cameras are for people who want high-quality shots at a variety of focal lengths, often in tougher lighting situations like wildlife and sports where smartphones are next to useless.
Ever think of testing this for yourself?
It's easy. Create a half a dozen or more files of random numbers or use existing large files. I created six files of a million random integers in Python. End result, six files of about 6.9MB each. Create an md5 checksum file when you make them.
Copy them to a USB stick, and then yank the stick right when the light stops blinking. Plug the USB stick back in. Watch and learn. Easily reproducible phenomenon are:
* Not all files even appear when the stick is plugged back in
* Some of the files might appear, but give I/O errors and won't even be complete
* A Few might pass the checksum integrity test
I'm on Linux Mint, but I have seen the results on other OSes as well. The OS caches the data to be written sometime, presumably to speed up file operations. There's a reason why eject exists.
Perhaps some motivated individual will come up with a way to use this ideal to overwrite your data on every major service with zeroes. A standard API for personal data might be a good thing, if it comes with a delete function.