My context is widely different from a US-living IT worker: I live in Finland and am a post-doc researcher in a field related to chemistry. I work very close to exactly 40 hours/week, even though sometimes I could get away with less. It's just that I really enjoy what I do. But even so, I never let myself work more than 40 hrs/week because family.
Executives do the most generic job in the fucking galaxy. You can take any executive and drop it into any company's executive position and he/she wll perform identically badly.
He's able to get away with what he's doing in Syria because there are no boots on the ground and so hardly any risk to Russian soldiers. The chance of a shoot down at the altitude Russian sorties are being flown at is pretty negligible.
First of all, let me stress very strongly that I agree 100% wit everything you said, except the quote above. The thing is, Putin can get away with bombing Syrian rebels because he is very effective (compared to allied sorties) also against ISIS targets. The thing is that UK and EU public opinion is very much in favor of Russian airstrikes in Syria. I have seen BBC News stories where the comment section was flooded with messages in support of the Russian attacks (it was a story about Turkey warning Russia not to interfere in its air space). And practically all the highest-voted comments were pro-Russian strikes.
Why is Russia so much more effective than the allies (chiefly the US)? I thin because the allied sorties amount to little more than pitter-patter, as they're super-careful to not offend the Saudis and Turkey, both of whom are strong supporters of Syrian rebel groups, including Al-Nusra and apparently even ISIS. Russia doesn't give a shit about Saudi Arabia since they have their own oil and gas. They don't give much of a shit about Turkey, either (Turkey is a NATO member).
If yes, this could potentially be interesting. Microsoft has thoroughly turdified Windows since Windows 8.0. Windows 10 is a huge putrid bag of Don't Want.
In every academic institution I studied or worked, every professor of mathematics and electronics-related subject acknowledged Boole as the founder of digital logic.
I am not sure Pegida would have anything to do with having or not having a basic income in Germany. The anti-immigration stance and the social progressive stance are, as strange as it may sound, not mutually exclusive. Take... Finland, for example: in my country the True Finns, a far-right party from an immigration point of view, is now very powerful and indeed part of the government (indeed the government that is going to implement basic income). True Finns, at the same time, has a strong socially progressive platform which advocates for more social benefits and higher taxes for the rich. Now I didn't vote for True Finns myself, but as a socialist, I see no issue with their social platform.
Take Poland, as another example: the Law and Justice party is against immigration and for control of the borders. They, also, have a relatively OK social platform - they support universally available social services, tax rebates based on number of children and state-supported universal healthcare. But Law and Justice is socially regressive when it comes to gay rights.
This sounds great, until you realize that once the rich pay all the taxes and the rest of us pay virtually no taxes, the rich will effectively own the government.
No, they won't. Your argument is a non-sequitur, i.e. it only works in your own head thanks to a lot of handwavium. Adding more handwavium doesn't help.
is the battery user-replaceable? How many screws do I have to remove? How many flat cables detach? The answers I want to hear are: yes, 0, 0. Acceptable answers are: kind of, 6, 0.
Plus the quality of components in a 1978 machine is likely to be higher. The real problems with aluminum electrolytics started with the race-to-the-bottom PC clone market that came later.
I really thought that 1980's vintage caps were just as good as 1970's.
Regarding the Amiga switching power supply: this thread, I thought, wasn't really concerned about that very specific case, but the electrolytic capacitors on the boards themselves? Maybe I should re-read the whole thread. I mean, even if the elkos in the Amiga switching PSU go puff, it's the easiest component to replace - we have all kinds of PSUs for peanuts, nowadays.
That's... not entirely correct. I have a wooden-cased NorthStar Horizon (with massive linear PSU including massive electrolytic caps) which works perfectly when I fire it up. That machine was made in 1978.
Chromebooks will still have voice recognition - and it's system-wide, too. So for blind people (and I am getting there) Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are a good choice.
I very much agree. There's a lot of people with knowledge, will and means - and a bit of madness, but somehow we are supposed to listen to can't-doers. Robots are nice, they can collect some scientific data. Humans are harder to put on planets and moons, but it's way more FUN! As a bonus, humans aren't too shabby at doing research on-site. As another bonus, putting humans on moon and mars will bring about some technical innovations that we can't even foresee right now.
CxO's who run "big business" have only one allegiance, and that's their own profit, nothing else. They don't give a shit about firing thousands, tens of thousands of engineers (Carly Fiorina), the state of the US tech industry, the US as a country or its people... they only care about their own bonuses and then fuck the hell off once the company is screwed. Or the country is screwed.
Please read up about corporate psychopaths. "Snakes in suits" is a good book.
I believe mine is bound to get cheaper - my contract with the utility is for 100% wind power electricity. That doesn't mean that my electricity comes directly from wind power plants, but it does mean that my electricity bill follows the fluctuations of the price of wind-generated electrical energy. In fact, I have been paying less and less in the last 5 years, but never by an appreciable amount. I hope for the best, once the wind power plants get expanded.
For the record, I didn't do it to save money but to save the world. Call me an idealist.
This post makes it 100% clear that the context of those comments was friendly. My friends and colleagues (we're a bunch of researchers) have the same kind of exchanges, and it's the friendliest work atmosphere anywhere ever. It takes a lot of malice to misinterpret it as "toxic."
I think Sarah Sharp is a jerk, and I don't mean that in a nice way.
I found throughout the decades that the best computer security is provided by using common sense and being informed on things related to computers. While security updates are mandatory for most people (I guess), I think there are people who can get by just using their knowledge of IT and common sense. In any case, this has worked for me my whole 40+ years long life, more than half of it involved with computer tech.
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My context is widely different from a US-living IT worker: I live in Finland and am a post-doc researcher in a field related to chemistry. I work very close to exactly 40 hours/week, even though sometimes I could get away with less. It's just that I really enjoy what I do. But even so, I never let myself work more than 40 hrs/week because family.
Executives do the most generic job in the fucking galaxy. You can take any executive and drop it into any company's executive position and he/she wll perform identically badly.
He's able to get away with what he's doing in Syria because there are no boots on the ground and so hardly any risk to Russian soldiers. The chance of a shoot down at the altitude Russian sorties are being flown at is pretty negligible.
First of all, let me stress very strongly that I agree 100% wit everything you said, except the quote above. The thing is, Putin can get away with bombing Syrian rebels because he is very effective (compared to allied sorties) also against ISIS targets. The thing is that UK and EU public opinion is very much in favor of Russian airstrikes in Syria. I have seen BBC News stories where the comment section was flooded with messages in support of the Russian attacks (it was a story about Turkey warning Russia not to interfere in its air space). And practically all the highest-voted comments were pro-Russian strikes.
Why is Russia so much more effective than the allies (chiefly the US)? I thin because the allied sorties amount to little more than pitter-patter, as they're super-careful to not offend the Saudis and Turkey, both of whom are strong supporters of Syrian rebel groups, including Al-Nusra and apparently even ISIS. Russia doesn't give a shit about Saudi Arabia since they have their own oil and gas. They don't give much of a shit about Turkey, either (Turkey is a NATO member).
If yes, this could potentially be interesting. Microsoft has thoroughly turdified Windows since Windows 8.0. Windows 10 is a huge putrid bag of Don't Want.
In every academic institution I studied or worked, every professor of mathematics and electronics-related subject acknowledged Boole as the founder of digital logic.
I am not sure Pegida would have anything to do with having or not having a basic income in Germany. The anti-immigration stance and the social progressive stance are, as strange as it may sound, not mutually exclusive. Take... Finland, for example: in my country the True Finns, a far-right party from an immigration point of view, is now very powerful and indeed part of the government (indeed the government that is going to implement basic income). True Finns, at the same time, has a strong socially progressive platform which advocates for more social benefits and higher taxes for the rich. Now I didn't vote for True Finns myself, but as a socialist, I see no issue with their social platform.
Take Poland, as another example: the Law and Justice party is against immigration and for control of the borders. They, also, have a relatively OK social platform - they support universally available social services, tax rebates based on number of children and state-supported universal healthcare. But Law and Justice is socially regressive when it comes to gay rights.
So.... it's complicated.
This sounds great, until you realize that once the rich pay all the taxes and the rest of us pay virtually no taxes, the rich will effectively own the government.
No, they won't. Your argument is a non-sequitur, i.e. it only works in your own head thanks to a lot of handwavium. Adding more handwavium doesn't help.
Seriously, this news made my day much nicer.
is the battery user-replaceable? How many screws do I have to remove? How many flat cables detach? The answers I want to hear are: yes, 0, 0. Acceptable answers are: kind of, 6, 0.
And this, ladies and gents, is the most informative post of the whole story. Thank you good sir.
Could you briefly explain why a 1 GW reactor would need 10.000 tons of Lithium?
thanks in advance
Plus the quality of components in a 1978 machine is likely to be higher. The real problems with aluminum electrolytics started with the race-to-the-bottom PC clone market that came later.
I really thought that 1980's vintage caps were just as good as 1970's.
Regarding the Amiga switching power supply: this thread, I thought, wasn't really concerned about that very specific case, but the electrolytic capacitors on the boards themselves? Maybe I should re-read the whole thread. I mean, even if the elkos in the Amiga switching PSU go puff, it's the easiest component to replace - we have all kinds of PSUs for peanuts, nowadays.
That's... not entirely correct. I have a wooden-cased NorthStar Horizon (with massive linear PSU including massive electrolytic caps) which works perfectly when I fire it up. That machine was made in 1978.
Chromebooks will still have voice recognition - and it's system-wide, too. So for blind people (and I am getting there) Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are a good choice.
I very much agree. There's a lot of people with knowledge, will and means - and a bit of madness, but somehow we are supposed to listen to can't-doers. Robots are nice, they can collect some scientific data. Humans are harder to put on planets and moons, but it's way more FUN! As a bonus, humans aren't too shabby at doing research on-site. As another bonus, putting humans on moon and mars will bring about some technical innovations that we can't even foresee right now.
CxO's who run "big business" have only one allegiance, and that's their own profit, nothing else. They don't give a shit about firing thousands, tens of thousands of engineers (Carly Fiorina), the state of the US tech industry, the US as a country or its people... they only care about their own bonuses and then fuck the hell off once the company is screwed. Or the country is screwed.
Please read up about corporate psychopaths. "Snakes in suits" is a good book.
Your account reminded me of this little sketch.
I believe mine is bound to get cheaper - my contract with the utility is for 100% wind power electricity. That doesn't mean that my electricity comes directly from wind power plants, but it does mean that my electricity bill follows the fluctuations of the price of wind-generated electrical energy. In fact, I have been paying less and less in the last 5 years, but never by an appreciable amount. I hope for the best, once the wind power plants get expanded.
For the record, I didn't do it to save money but to save the world. Call me an idealist.
Terse, yes. Contains the word "fuckwad", no. Personal insults are neither professional nor efficient.
I fully agree. You should not use the word "fuckwad" in a professional environment! Unless, of course, someone is actually a fuckwad.
It's not "violence" to berate someone or use colorful language or anything else.
It must be pointed out that nobody was berated in those mailing list exchanges. Absolutely nobody!
This post makes it 100% clear that the context of those comments was friendly. My friends and colleagues (we're a bunch of researchers) have the same kind of exchanges, and it's the friendliest work atmosphere anywhere ever.
It takes a lot of malice to misinterpret it as "toxic."
I think Sarah Sharp is a jerk, and I don't mean that in a nice way.
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This entire post is nothing but virtue signaling.
It is also a gigantic Ad Hominem. Why not try to analyze whether his statements have some merit, rather than just fuel the culture of outrage?
First off, If there's no reason not to upgrade other than FUD,
FUD? ARS Technica is not known for publishing FUD.
And here's a nice traffic analysis of what Windows 10 sends to Microsoft in its IP packets.
I found throughout the decades that the best computer security is provided by using common sense and being informed on things related to computers. While security updates are mandatory for most people (I guess), I think there are people who can get by just using their knowledge of IT and common sense. In any case, this has worked for me my whole 40+ years long life, more than half of it involved with computer tech.