Reproduction is pretty much baked into most humans, otherwise we would not exist. On average, most people will have children, not much of a choice so much as an eventuality. Technology may help, but we're no there quite yet. Physically, the best time to have children is mid twenties to early thirties, but it's not great for your carrier. But if you don't mind being tired, stressed, much increased risks of genetic abnormalities, and a child that won't leave the house until your 65, then wait until your 40s.
There is an unspoken assumption by "sensitive" people that they deserve your time, or that their ideas need to be heard irrespective of merit.
Disagreeing with them, correcting them, or challenging them is _offensive_ to them.
You've put my thoughts into words! I myself cannot stand being mean to other people, but I've been on the receiving end of well deserved criticism and it helped me. I felt a bit butt hurt for a few hours, but then I calmed down and realized it was for my own good. The other person eventually apologized for being so stern with me, but I told them it was fine and to let me know right away next time.
I wonder if it can be reported as harassment and get the local police involved. Might not be able to get them fined, but you might be able to get a single party to stop calling.
There is a distinct difference between being an asshole and letting your opinion to be known without sugar coating it. It's a dangerous line to walk, but studies have shown being politically correct reduces one's ability to communicate, which can waste time and chance the message.
Linus is nearly always correct. He has a set of rules and requires a certain amount of quality. If you mess up, he'll correct you. Kind of like a parent being strict with their child for good reason. I don't mind "jerks", as long as they have a valid reason, most don't, but a rare few do.
An example is I have been benched for some boss fights because I'm not good at them. My read leader gave me a fair chance, but then I had to wait around for several hours until they finally got it down. I could have thought he was a jerk or an asshole, but he was doing what was required to get the job done. That is Linus.
8/10ths of a degree increase of the average is like a +10 increase during the summer and a -10 during the winter. The difference between 100f and 110f can be quite annoying, but the next 8/10ths increase might push us into 120f summer temps. Sounds great!
When you're working with a team of "brilliant" people, you don't want anyone to slow you down. Be it someone not as smart or is not putting in enough hours to keep up, it doesn't matter, they're holding you back.
the time until their 5 is precious, and you only get to go around once.
And since many people have two children a few years apart, that means about 6-10 years missing during the woman's most productive years. Definitely hurts their chances at higher jobs.
It is only an anecdote, but it proves that it's profitable for rural 1gb fiber, even if not offering 1gb speed, to people in some of the least optimal locations of the USA.
I've case studies of places in the USA where under 200 people lived in forest spread over hundreds of square miles. Their school house was about the size of my garage and had only a single class room. They couldn't get an ISP to come out there at all, so they all pitched in what little money they had and installed fiber themselves. These were very poor people primarily driving 20 year old vehicles, their short school bus looked like something form the 70s with the round edges. They were able to get something like a 10gb trunk and their schoolhouse had 1gb Internet.
The case study topped it off with a picture of the "town". Because it was in a forest, they had to get above the trees with an aerial shot. You could not even see any buildings, just forest all the way to horizon. Looked like a national park.
If these people can afford fiber on their own dime, why can't everyone else have it?! I can't come up with any reason other than complete incompetence or greed.
I have family in areas that can't get cable or DSL because of distance issues, but fiber works just fine. They'll run a fiber through several miles of empty farm land, and sell your 30/30 for $80. My brother can't see his neighbor, but he gets a very stable 30/30. He has a bit more jitter than me, but it's still very stable. He drives about 1 hour to his University because he doesn't want to get an apartment in the city, because his connection is better out in the sticks.
Don't worry, I'm seeding for you. I have a monthly average of 7Mb/s up. I'm getting 100Mb upload soon, not that it'll make a difference since most ISO torrent downloaders only peak around 10Mb/s. About once a week, someone can actually make use of my connection, and will actually run my link at max. The main issue seems to be Linux ISOs are seeder heavy, except when they first are released.
A dedicated OC3 is 155 Mbps (149 Mbps usable) and costs about $30,000/mo, or about $200/mo per Mbps.
Depreciated technology. OC3 for $30k/month or a 10Gb Ethernet connection for $20k/month?
Same things with T1s. My phone company will gladly sell me a T1 for $300/month, but they're just as willing to sell me a 200/200 dedicated fiber connection for $200/month. Before you ask about over-subscription, all bandwidth is dedicated within the ISP and they use Level 3 and maintain 2x trunk bandwidth over daily peak and have 6x of peak worth of emergency links to Level 3 that can be activated.
I have sub 1ms of jitter from my home to Europe. I've ran pings for 30 days, during which time my minimum and average ping were less than 1ms apart, my standard deviation was less than 0.5ms my maximum ping was less than 10% over my average, and about 0.00015% packet-loss. That kind of "dedicated". Want something cheaper than $200/month? 70/70 for $70. No data caps, get a/29 static block for $10/month.
Don't forget your connection is over a self-healing fiber ring that can handle a single cut without interruption. Well, kind of. Leaving my house is a single fiber, but once it gets back to the bundle, it's in the ring. This is not an enterprise setup. This is what every residential and business customer gets. If crap hits the fan, enterprise customers get fixed first, and all use regular folk get is "best effort". but with downtime measured in single digit hours over the past several years, I'm not complaining. All of which was during maintenance windows between 3a-5a.
At least with government laws, I have an expectation of privacy, but not with private corps. Most of our rights dictate what the government can or cannot do, but says nothing about what others can or cannot do. My state is more willing to fight the feds than a private corp.
3 neighbors in 20 acres? That's nothing. That's 32 customers per square mile. Small ISPs are running fiber in areas with 2 customers per square mile(640 acres), over thousands of square miles, and selling 30/30 for $60/month. That was from 5 years ago, I assume the speeds have gone up.
Compared to copper, fiber is nearly free. with this same fiber that they're selling 30/30, they'll be able to upgrade in the near future to 10g/2.5g. Per customer... Those optic ports are good for 320Gb/s full-duplex. The 2.5g on the upload is because 10g lasers are expensive to put in customer ONTs.
The government didn't "ban" anyone, they just didn't let competition get "free access" to right of ways, in most cases. ISPs are allowed to go door-to-door and ask each property owner permission to dig up their lawn. If anything, private land owners are the issue for not giving free access to competition.
As you can tell, there is a minor sarcastic tone. Essentially I am saying the issue is you need the government to be an ISP because being an ISP requires access to private property, which no private person will give up without being "compensated".
I can get a good connection, but what about people I connect to? I want them to also have a good connection.
or realize that you can't work out in the middle of nowhere
I can get faster, cheaper, more reliable connections in the middle of no where than in most cities because incumbents have a stranglehold. You can get 200/200 internet to your cabin in the woods for under $100, but you can't get a stable 30mb connection down town.
You don't need to actually program in ASM to gain benefits, just looking simple code and reading what it does gains you much insight. Very few problems of CPU bound, but many problems are cache or memory access bound. Data-compactness and memory access patterns are still very important.
There are also other problems that really play into multi-threading, where reducing the number of dirty cache-lines you need to access is important, which means understanding memory alignment and many other things.
Diminishing returns on cache misses
Higher latency of larger caches
Higher latency of more layers of cache
Poor transistor scaling of fully associate caches or increased rate of false evictions for n-way caches.
Increased power usage. It's very difficult to turn off part of your cache to save power, but it's very easy to turn off a core
Not all problems scale well with more cache
The "Market" RARELY expands into rural areas and never into poor rural areas.
Funny thing. A lot of my family live in rural areas around the country, and many of these areas are gaining faster fiber than what's available in the cities. The common pattern that I'm seeing is the metro areas are taken over by incumbents and the incumbents are staying or running away from rural like the plague. Even with little to no competition in rural areas, they're starting to see faster, cheaper, more reliable internet because these areas are being serviced by ISPs less greedy than incumbents.
4K video stream could revolutionize remote work. Having a meeting on a phone does not cut it and even seeing a "low quality" 1080p video stream doesn't cut it. When me or the other person is white-boarding, I need it to be crystal clear. Nothing more annoying that hearing "sorry, I can't see that", then I have to re-draw. It interrupts the flow.
Rule of thumb, it's not good enough until you forget it's even there. I don't want to look at a screen and say "that's looks better", I want to forget there is a screen in the first place.
Of course they'll have another great new version of Visual Studio that I'll have to fork out $$$
You don't have an MSDN sub? You may also want to look into a proper printer, like one with network and PS support. When I was student employee, we had laser printers that where nearly as old as me, and they worked just as well with the exact same drivers as the brand-new laser printers.
We haven't had a single project since, that has had so many technological break through. Ignoring power generation, engines or pharmaceuticals, nearly everything we use in our daily life is because of NASA trying to go to the Moon. Batteries, computers, communications. Name almost technology, and you can trace it back to NASA.
Technology naturally progresses at an exponential rate, but NASA jumped us forward 20-30 years.
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Reproduction is pretty much baked into most humans, otherwise we would not exist. On average, most people will have children, not much of a choice so much as an eventuality. Technology may help, but we're no there quite yet. Physically, the best time to have children is mid twenties to early thirties, but it's not great for your carrier. But if you don't mind being tired, stressed, much increased risks of genetic abnormalities, and a child that won't leave the house until your 65, then wait until your 40s.
There is an unspoken assumption by "sensitive" people that they deserve your time, or that their ideas need to be heard irrespective of merit.
Disagreeing with them, correcting them, or challenging them is _offensive_ to them.
You've put my thoughts into words! I myself cannot stand being mean to other people, but I've been on the receiving end of well deserved criticism and it helped me. I felt a bit butt hurt for a few hours, but then I calmed down and realized it was for my own good. The other person eventually apologized for being so stern with me, but I told them it was fine and to let me know right away next time.
I wonder if it can be reported as harassment and get the local police involved. Might not be able to get them fined, but you might be able to get a single party to stop calling.
There is a distinct difference between being an asshole and letting your opinion to be known without sugar coating it. It's a dangerous line to walk, but studies have shown being politically correct reduces one's ability to communicate, which can waste time and chance the message.
Linus is nearly always correct. He has a set of rules and requires a certain amount of quality. If you mess up, he'll correct you. Kind of like a parent being strict with their child for good reason. I don't mind "jerks", as long as they have a valid reason, most don't, but a rare few do.
An example is I have been benched for some boss fights because I'm not good at them. My read leader gave me a fair chance, but then I had to wait around for several hours until they finally got it down. I could have thought he was a jerk or an asshole, but he was doing what was required to get the job done. That is Linus.
The earth has been much warmer in the past
Exactly, Earth used to be a molten ball of lava and here we are. Obviously we can handle much warmer temperatures.
8/10ths of a degree increase of the average is like a +10 increase during the summer and a -10 during the winter. The difference between 100f and 110f can be quite annoying, but the next 8/10ths increase might push us into 120f summer temps. Sounds great!
When you're working with a team of "brilliant" people, you don't want anyone to slow you down. Be it someone not as smart or is not putting in enough hours to keep up, it doesn't matter, they're holding you back.
the time until their 5 is precious, and you only get to go around once.
And since many people have two children a few years apart, that means about 6-10 years missing during the woman's most productive years. Definitely hurts their chances at higher jobs.
I was under the impression that IQ is age normalized, such that people have roughly the same IQ throughout their lives.
It is only an anecdote, but it proves that it's profitable for rural 1gb fiber, even if not offering 1gb speed, to people in some of the least optimal locations of the USA.
I've case studies of places in the USA where under 200 people lived in forest spread over hundreds of square miles. Their school house was about the size of my garage and had only a single class room. They couldn't get an ISP to come out there at all, so they all pitched in what little money they had and installed fiber themselves. These were very poor people primarily driving 20 year old vehicles, their short school bus looked like something form the 70s with the round edges. They were able to get something like a 10gb trunk and their schoolhouse had 1gb Internet.
The case study topped it off with a picture of the "town". Because it was in a forest, they had to get above the trees with an aerial shot. You could not even see any buildings, just forest all the way to horizon. Looked like a national park.
If these people can afford fiber on their own dime, why can't everyone else have it?! I can't come up with any reason other than complete incompetence or greed.
make nice network applicances
It only takes one word to counter your suggestion... RealTek
I have family in areas that can't get cable or DSL because of distance issues, but fiber works just fine. They'll run a fiber through several miles of empty farm land, and sell your 30/30 for $80. My brother can't see his neighbor, but he gets a very stable 30/30. He has a bit more jitter than me, but it's still very stable. He drives about 1 hour to his University because he doesn't want to get an apartment in the city, because his connection is better out in the sticks.
Don't worry, I'm seeding for you. I have a monthly average of 7Mb/s up. I'm getting 100Mb upload soon, not that it'll make a difference since most ISO torrent downloaders only peak around 10Mb/s. About once a week, someone can actually make use of my connection, and will actually run my link at max. The main issue seems to be Linux ISOs are seeder heavy, except when they first are released.
A dedicated OC3 is 155 Mbps (149 Mbps usable) and costs about $30,000/mo, or about $200/mo per Mbps.
Depreciated technology. OC3 for $30k/month or a 10Gb Ethernet connection for $20k/month?
/29 static block for $10/month.
Same things with T1s. My phone company will gladly sell me a T1 for $300/month, but they're just as willing to sell me a 200/200 dedicated fiber connection for $200/month. Before you ask about over-subscription, all bandwidth is dedicated within the ISP and they use Level 3 and maintain 2x trunk bandwidth over daily peak and have 6x of peak worth of emergency links to Level 3 that can be activated.
I have sub 1ms of jitter from my home to Europe. I've ran pings for 30 days, during which time my minimum and average ping were less than 1ms apart, my standard deviation was less than 0.5ms my maximum ping was less than 10% over my average, and about 0.00015% packet-loss. That kind of "dedicated". Want something cheaper than $200/month? 70/70 for $70. No data caps, get a
Don't forget your connection is over a self-healing fiber ring that can handle a single cut without interruption. Well, kind of. Leaving my house is a single fiber, but once it gets back to the bundle, it's in the ring. This is not an enterprise setup. This is what every residential and business customer gets. If crap hits the fan, enterprise customers get fixed first, and all use regular folk get is "best effort". but with downtime measured in single digit hours over the past several years, I'm not complaining. All of which was during maintenance windows between 3a-5a.
Charter is bleeding customers around here.
At least with government laws, I have an expectation of privacy, but not with private corps. Most of our rights dictate what the government can or cannot do, but says nothing about what others can or cannot do. My state is more willing to fight the feds than a private corp.
3 neighbors in 20 acres? That's nothing. That's 32 customers per square mile. Small ISPs are running fiber in areas with 2 customers per square mile(640 acres), over thousands of square miles, and selling 30/30 for $60/month. That was from 5 years ago, I assume the speeds have gone up.
Compared to copper, fiber is nearly free. with this same fiber that they're selling 30/30, they'll be able to upgrade in the near future to 10g/2.5g. Per customer... Those optic ports are good for 320Gb/s full-duplex. The 2.5g on the upload is because 10g lasers are expensive to put in customer ONTs.
The government didn't "ban" anyone, they just didn't let competition get "free access" to right of ways, in most cases. ISPs are allowed to go door-to-door and ask each property owner permission to dig up their lawn. If anything, private land owners are the issue for not giving free access to competition.
As you can tell, there is a minor sarcastic tone. Essentially I am saying the issue is you need the government to be an ISP because being an ISP requires access to private property, which no private person will give up without being "compensated".
or realize that you can't work out in the middle of nowhere
I can get faster, cheaper, more reliable connections in the middle of no where than in most cities because incumbents have a stranglehold. You can get 200/200 internet to your cabin in the woods for under $100, but you can't get a stable 30mb connection down town.
You don't need to actually program in ASM to gain benefits, just looking simple code and reading what it does gains you much insight. Very few problems of CPU bound, but many problems are cache or memory access bound. Data-compactness and memory access patterns are still very important.
There are also other problems that really play into multi-threading, where reducing the number of dirty cache-lines you need to access is important, which means understanding memory alignment and many other things.
Diminishing returns on cache misses
Higher latency of larger caches
Higher latency of more layers of cache
Poor transistor scaling of fully associate caches or increased rate of false evictions for n-way caches.
Increased power usage. It's very difficult to turn off part of your cache to save power, but it's very easy to turn off a core
Not all problems scale well with more cache
I'm sure there are many other reasons.
The "Market" RARELY expands into rural areas and never into poor rural areas.
Funny thing. A lot of my family live in rural areas around the country, and many of these areas are gaining faster fiber than what's available in the cities. The common pattern that I'm seeing is the metro areas are taken over by incumbents and the incumbents are staying or running away from rural like the plague. Even with little to no competition in rural areas, they're starting to see faster, cheaper, more reliable internet because these areas are being serviced by ISPs less greedy than incumbents.
4K video stream could revolutionize remote work. Having a meeting on a phone does not cut it and even seeing a "low quality" 1080p video stream doesn't cut it. When me or the other person is white-boarding, I need it to be crystal clear. Nothing more annoying that hearing "sorry, I can't see that", then I have to re-draw. It interrupts the flow.
Rule of thumb, it's not good enough until you forget it's even there. I don't want to look at a screen and say "that's looks better", I want to forget there is a screen in the first place.
ISPs do not exist without a gun. You can thank the government for Right Of Way access.
Of course they'll have another great new version of Visual Studio that I'll have to fork out $$$
You don't have an MSDN sub? You may also want to look into a proper printer, like one with network and PS support. When I was student employee, we had laser printers that where nearly as old as me, and they worked just as well with the exact same drivers as the brand-new laser printers.
We haven't had a single project since, that has had so many technological break through. Ignoring power generation, engines or pharmaceuticals, nearly everything we use in our daily life is because of NASA trying to go to the Moon. Batteries, computers, communications. Name almost technology, and you can trace it back to NASA.
Technology naturally progresses at an exponential rate, but NASA jumped us forward 20-30 years.