I moved from Cygwin to WSL when the latter came out. Not sure what the permission quirks are in Cygwin, but the bad news is there are permission quirks in WSL (everything looks like 777). The good news is those will be fixed in the next regular update (and are currently fixed, I'm told, in the Insider Build). Read more here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c....
I believe another advantage over Cygwin is that you can install Linux apps directly from the distro's app install, rather than waiting for the Cygwin-specific exe's to be built. I also installed the Linux version of TeXLive direct from tug.
Correct, if you go to the blog of the Ms developers (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/), that's been their comment all along. They knew people (including themselves) wanted a keystroke-based copy-paste in addition to the existing mouse-based copy-paste, they just didn't have the dev cycles to implement it until now.
I'm not disagreeing with you, what you describe is certainly the most common outcome. But some people are different. My mother's ability to transfer short-term memories to long-term memory went away; the result was that she could tell you about things that happened a few minutes ago, or things that happened fifty years ago, but lost the ability to tell you what happened an hour or a day or a year ago. Believe it or not, there was actually an upside to that. My sister would take mom out to a coffee shop, and suggested that my mom order the caramel latte. When mom tasted it, she'd say, "Wow, that's good! I've never had one of those before!" Her enjoyment was new every time, and I'm sure my sister got a kick out of it.
But as I say, that's not a common experience, and I know that mom knew her memory was not good, and it frustrated her; but she found ways to work around it, rather than rolling in despair. I hope if/when my time comes, I can cope as well as she did. (Or better, this cure is real.)
"people will still have to face that after decades, their bodies are getting worn down" Speak for yourself, you young whipper-snapper. I'm approaching the start of my 8th decade (I'm nearly 68), and I intend to keep going for awhile.
Enlighten me...or endarken me. IIUC, the mass of the galaxy can be inferred in two ways: from the number (and mass) of the visible stars it contains, and from the speed with which stars in galaxies orbit the center of the galaxy. The two numbers are an order of magnitude different, and the existence of dark matter is an inference from this difference. But if black holes were much more common in galaxies than we think, could they be the entire explanation for the discrepancy?
As someone who has been using the Linux-in-Windows for a year or more, perhaps I can answer your question. I do all my software development using the Linux sub-system: Python, finite state transducers, as well as TeX stuff. I could perhaps install Linux instead of Windows; the main reason I don't is that for nearly 30 years I've been using a keyboard remapper that is (afaict) unavailable in vanilla Linux. I've tried various Linux key mapping programs, and none does what my program does in Windows. Needless to say, my fingers are very used to this way of working.
I'm probably the only person in the world who has that particular reason for using Windows, but there are apparently lots of people who prefer Windows for every day things, but Linux for software development.
Actually, Win10 introduced one useful feature that made me update both my computers for: the Linux subsystem. I use it all the time for Python and (La)TeX. Yes, Python and LaTeX run under Windows, but having the Linux utilities (grep, sed, make,...) just makes it so much easier. I used to use CygWin, but this is just better.
"Gasoline engines are an order of magnitude less efficient than battery powered cars." I don't think so, although I admit I could be wrong. In terms of thermodynamic efficiency, an ICE running a car is 25-50% efficient (wikipedia article on engine efficiency). In order to be an order of magnitude less efficient than battery-powered cars, the latter would have to be 250-500% efficient, an obvious thermodynamic impossibility. When you take into account losses in electrical generation, transmission (unless you use solar panels, in which case your transmission losses are minimal, but your conversion losses are probably significant), charging and discharging the battery, and losses in the motor, I doubt that electric cars are more efficient than gas cars, maybe less.
Of course Locke2005 wasn't talking about efficiency, he was talking about energy capacity per weight. Which has very little to do with efficiency. (If the battery were heavy, then the car would be heavy, making it less efficient; but again, that's probably not the major issue, loss of energy to heat is.)
The numbers I've seen (like in the wikipedia article on methane in the atmosphere) are more like 8-10 years on the average, rather than 30. A long time, but not that long.
Not sure what you mean by this. That was their test set, not their training (nor dev) set. I don't think that's an unreasonable amount of data for a test set.
"Imagine, then, a situation where, at one given instant every single traffic light on this congested island turns green and STAYS green." From "To Invade New York....", by Irwin Lewis, in Analog SF 1963. Available at https://www.gutenberg.org/file...
I have one, and as long as it does what I need (which it does), I'm keeping it.
Besides, what are my choices? Android, where there are never updates or even security fixes (unless you buy from Google, or install some other OS). Apple, which costs an arm and a leg. At least my Windows 10 phone gets security fixes.
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I moved from Cygwin to WSL when the latter came out. Not sure what the permission quirks are in Cygwin, but the bad news is there are permission quirks in WSL (everything looks like 777). The good news is those will be fixed in the next regular update (and are currently fixed, I'm told, in the Insider Build). Read more here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c....
I believe another advantage over Cygwin is that you can install Linux apps directly from the distro's app install, rather than waiting for the Cygwin-specific exe's to be built. I also installed the Linux version of TeXLive direct from tug.
A little biased, eh? Your comment reminds me of Spock's reply to a similar comment: Is there something wrong with the mind I have?
The article is a little unclear on this, but the improvement is that you will be able to use the keyboard, rather than (just) the mouse.
No one said there wasn't.
However, MMMV. I hate using the mouse, much prefer keystrokes, which don't require me to take my hands off the keyboard.
So now we will have the best of both worlds: mouse clicks for people who like that, and keystrokes for people who like that.
Correct, if you go to the blog of the Ms developers (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/), that's been their comment all along. They knew people (including themselves) wanted a keystroke-based copy-paste in addition to the existing mouse-based copy-paste, they just didn't have the dev cycles to implement it until now.
A comment that makes sense, at last. Mod this up.
(And yes, I have been a user of this linux-in-Windows since the first regular release.)
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this brain is too small to contain.
I'm not disagreeing with you, what you describe is certainly the most common outcome. But some people are different. My mother's ability to transfer short-term memories to long-term memory went away; the result was that she could tell you about things that happened a few minutes ago, or things that happened fifty years ago, but lost the ability to tell you what happened an hour or a day or a year ago. Believe it or not, there was actually an upside to that. My sister would take mom out to a coffee shop, and suggested that my mom order the caramel latte. When mom tasted it, she'd say, "Wow, that's good! I've never had one of those before!" Her enjoyment was new every time, and I'm sure my sister got a kick out of it.
But as I say, that's not a common experience, and I know that mom knew her memory was not good, and it frustrated her; but she found ways to work around it, rather than rolling in despair. I hope if/when my time comes, I can cope as well as she did. (Or better, this cure is real.)
"people will still have to face that after decades, their bodies are getting worn down" Speak for yourself, you young whipper-snapper. I'm approaching the start of my 8th decade (I'm nearly 68), and I intend to keep going for awhile.
Of course my body may disagree...
Enlighten me...or endarken me. IIUC, the mass of the galaxy can be inferred in two ways: from the number (and mass) of the visible stars it contains, and from the speed with which stars in galaxies orbit the center of the galaxy. The two numbers are an order of magnitude different, and the existence of dark matter is an inference from this difference. But if black holes were much more common in galaxies than we think, could they be the entire explanation for the discrepancy?
IIUC, we don't *see* black holes, we infer their presence. Which I assume is not affected by ghost imaging.
As someone who has been using the Linux-in-Windows for a year or more, perhaps I can answer your question. I do all my software development using the Linux sub-system: Python, finite state transducers, as well as TeX stuff. I could perhaps install Linux instead of Windows; the main reason I don't is that for nearly 30 years I've been using a keyboard remapper that is (afaict) unavailable in vanilla Linux. I've tried various Linux key mapping programs, and none does what my program does in Windows. Needless to say, my fingers are very used to this way of working.
I'm probably the only person in the world who has that particular reason for using Windows, but there are apparently lots of people who prefer Windows for every day things, but Linux for software development.
"Xiaolce can more quickly predict what the person it is speaking to will say". Who needs to listen?
Same experience here, but I grow clovers. The four leaf kind.
Actually, Win10 introduced one useful feature that made me update both my computers for: the Linux subsystem. I use it all the time for Python and (La)TeX. Yes, Python and LaTeX run under Windows, but having the Linux utilities (grep, sed, make,...) just makes it so much easier. I used to use CygWin, but this is just better.
"Gasoline engines are an order of magnitude less efficient than battery powered cars." I don't think so, although I admit I could be wrong. In terms of thermodynamic efficiency, an ICE running a car is 25-50% efficient (wikipedia article on engine efficiency). In order to be an order of magnitude less efficient than battery-powered cars, the latter would have to be 250-500% efficient, an obvious thermodynamic impossibility. When you take into account losses in electrical generation, transmission (unless you use solar panels, in which case your transmission losses are minimal, but your conversion losses are probably significant), charging and discharging the battery, and losses in the motor, I doubt that electric cars are more efficient than gas cars, maybe less.
Of course Locke2005 wasn't talking about efficiency, he was talking about energy capacity per weight. Which has very little to do with efficiency. (If the battery were heavy, then the car would be heavy, making it less efficient; but again, that's probably not the major issue, loss of energy to heat is.)
The numbers I've seen (like in the wikipedia article on methane in the atmosphere) are more like 8-10 years on the average, rather than 30. A long time, but not that long.
I believe air resistance scales as the square of velocity, which is to say quadratic. Not linear, of course, but far from exponential.
Oh. Yes, I've heard that joke, but I didn't get the connection... thanks for pointing it out.
1 (nautical) mile / 20 seconds = 0.05 miles/ second = 180mph (about 90 m/s), about Mach 0.23 at sea level.
Not sure what you mean by this. That was their test set, not their training (nor dev) set. I don't think that's an unreasonable amount of data for a test set.
"Imagine, then, a situation where, at one given instant every single traffic light on this congested island turns green and STAYS green." From "To Invade New York....", by Irwin Lewis, in Analog SF 1963. Available at https://www.gutenberg.org/file...
No, I can't. More importantly, why should I, when the Windows phone I have works just fine?
Outdated apps in what sense? They were good enough in 2017, why will they suddenly become not good enough in 2018?
I have one, and as long as it does what I need (which it does), I'm keeping it.
Besides, what are my choices? Android, where there are never updates or even security fixes (unless you buy from Google, or install some other OS). Apple, which costs an arm and a leg. At least my Windows 10 phone gets security fixes.