Vapor going to liquid needs to ditch heat... where do you think it is going? It isn't just the temperature differential either it is that there is a state change so you's got to pay the cost of the heat of vaporization too.
Mah closer to 200. There is rural and then there is Canada rural. My understanding is that northern territories and north part of BC is largely RCMP territory. There are low population areas of Ontario that are ~500mi from the border but as far as I know they still have regional/provincal police. Basically it is up to the province whether or not they end up policing themselves or contracting RCMP do it for them. Probably not a bad thing but I'm not really sure why contracting was an option: local policing is a local issue and protection of the people is the reason for a government monopoly of force so you'd think that the level of policing would match the level of government controlling the territory but... mah.
I don't get extremists maybe that is a good thing: but you have a couple nut jobs that want to blow stuff up... okay. So why can't they keep their mouths shut until they do? I can see if they got caught trying to get supplies or someone to help them but running off their mouths about their plans is just silly. Good thing they do but just saying dumb as door knobs. I agree though the Muslim community deserves to share the credit for their help as they definitely (and wrongly) get their share of the blame every time a problem comes up involving a Muslim.
Also I agree RCMP != FBI though I guess I kind of get the mistake since the RCMP is often compared as the Canadian version of the FBI. It is quite different though in that a lot of rural areas have the RCMP as their primary law enforcement so they do have federal powers but sometimes are doing local policing too.
Would be cool. I have just bought an iPad and have a iMac but use windows since I develop for the evil empire. Anyways: the iMac apparently doesn't support > 500mW of draw (late 2009 model so no USB 3) in BootCamp you have to use OSX if you want to charge the iPad with a Mac. Nice. I wonder if the same crap will happen with it being part of the USB standard. Hopefully not. I'd really like to know what made it technically difficult to implement this feature in BootCamp. Apparently in OSX it gets requests for more power draw and keeps track of sharing the up to 1.1W across devices on the bus.
A related thing: why doesn't it at least charge a bit? Voltage is the same I get that 500mW might not be enough to make up for the power draw of the device when it is on but it should at least extend the battery length (and since you can connect it when powered off to iTunes I'd think you could charge it when powered off too.Argh. Anyways on cable to rule them all will make life a lot easier and can't come too soon.
Here's hoping that the small tiles is a path to letting the desktop be a side by side app. Metro wouldn't be so bad if you could make it 1/4th the screen or whatever with little icons like an iPhone to launch stuff. There is no point in having a 1" square icon for a "live" tile that you've disabled updates for or doesn't really make a lot of sense to have updates (example games). A lot of the live tiles use cases are seller geared not customer. Some dev decides they want to show you the latest high scores or when your friend last logged in: yeah so who cares what you want to tell me? Anyways I think the end result might end up looking more and more like Mac: an App store on a slideable Spaces and the desktop for all real work.
You've got it Amdahl's vs Moore and it has always been there. Density is roughly doubling as per Moore. Amdahl pretty much means we have a limited opportunity to find more work to parallelize so we need to find more different things to do. You won't be able to parallelize the heck out of everything if for no other reason than some logic is inherently serial and waiting on slower I/O. So They split off to multicore but still doesn't create more parallel work. At some point silly things like predictive branching or computing both sides of a branch ahead of time and then keeping the winner only gets you so far especially since in the first case you can be wrong sometimes, and the second you are guaranteed that you won't need one side of the calculation (so you are creating extra work just to be sure you have the result when needed and to avoid idle hardware).
Yeah but we all know that foreign casualties don't count, that is why it is only American deaths that get reported. It isn't non-zero I agree but there is often a lot of info about who is controlling the botnet. Example it is highly likely the US is responsible for Stuxnet. They'd have to have very convincing intelligence that they've found the source since it would be an act of war they are committing in taking out the foreign citizens but I don't see why only enemies with guns are fair game when lives and livelihoods can be just as affected with a keyboard.
A hacker working under orders by a nation state for the purposes of attacking the state's enemies is a combatant and a completely worthy target. What is the alternative? An arms race of nerds doing offensive and defensive cyber attacks knocking out peoples' livelihoods, taking down power systems, stealing inventions that someone has worked years to create etc with no repercussions other than the occasional "naughty, naughty, China we know it was you"?
It is likely true for several large population poor countries, Brazil, India, China, and Nigeria for example. But the thing is the countries where the really power people are often have low computer ownership. People are accessing the internet using phones I'm not sure if they'll pay $20 for a 20Mbps hookup when they can get a cell phone plan for ~$6 a month and $50 for the phone and that is the device they'll be using anyways.
It is a matter of economic need I think. Would people like $20 internet? Sure. But they get enough value that it is worth more than that to them. For a starters it pretty much replaces the need for long distance phone calls. Then if you are open to being a pirate also replaces spending on movies, music and TV. Add to that that it is extremely hard if not impossible to search for jobs, do interviews etc without a web connected computer and it becomes a necessary service one peg down from the hydro bill. Sure you can go to the library but unless you live close it will cost you more in gas than the internet at home costs not to mention the lack of privacy for "entertainment".
I get 150Mbps for ~$100 from Rogers which works out cheaper per bandwidth than 20 for $20. That said past a certain point it doesn't matter, once you can stream 1080p torrents (yeah I know not raw but compressed) in real time your needs go away quite quickly. It then becomes a matter of how many simultaneous downloads do you really need. I'd pay $100 for 20Mbps with no cap though.
From the Ted talk about this though it sounded more of a play on the guilty of we did it so we need to undo it kind of thing. With global warming being a boogieman you can use to explain anything we might feel the need to bring everything back doing our damnedest to prevent evolution from ever leading to extinction. Then these uncompetitive creatures need to be protected (especially since we probably pissed away thousands per original creature in the population), land needs to be reserved for this, etc etc. Sometimes doing nothing is a valid solution.
I'm tired of the motha-fuckin saber-tooth tigers on the motha-fuckin golf course!
This is pretty old news (not surprising for/. I guess) but there was a Ted talk I think on Monday and it was filmed in February. I disagree with some of the ad hoc de-extinctions they propose. Lets bring back the wooly mammoth. Okay, so how well is things working out for normal elephants? Do you really thing asia won't go apeshit for some mammoth tusks?
Lets say we clearly know it was humans fault that a particular animal went extinct. Even then there are a lot of issues. The ecosystem has now changed if you add the animal again it might just go back to being extinct because it might be poorly adapted (wrong colour to camouflage in urban environment for example), might still be of interest to poachers so as quick as you bring them back they get hunted right back down to extinction, and finally they might put other "invasive species" or ones that were already part of the ecosystem but grew due to lack of competition at risk as they come back and displace them.
That is just the ones that we feel guilty about but nothing will stop the tree huggers from wanting to get us to bring back everything even if it went extinct for its own good reasons or will have huge adverse effects in systems we already have trouble maintaining: ex. bringing back dinosaurs into jungles we are already cutting down for lumber. Not every species deserves or needs to thrive that is how evolution works. If you are too slow and too tasty you die.
Yeah but she's taking 2 hours. Her first hour is just waking up and getting showered/dressed. The next is breakfast and getting the kids ready. So that is two hours before even stepping out the door. I agree on the want to be awake bit. I get up about an hour before I leave. 20min to shower. 40min for breakfast and watching last nights daily show. I leave the dishes for when I get home so while I wait for my supper to cook I do the mornings dishes if they'll be too many for one batch or leave it till after supper and get it all done in one go.
Yeah but she says she spends another hour with the kids for breakfast. So this 1hr isn't even feeding her. So two hours to get ready and eat with the kids. There has to be room to squeeze this.
For example is one of the kids old enough to help out? I'm 2 years younger than my sister. When I was in kindergarten my sister who was 7 thought it was the coolest thing in the world to make sure I picked out some appropriate clothes and got ready in the morning which of course freed my mother up to be packing our lunches and getting breakfast ready.
Fencing lead to thinking of sword fighting lead to sex:) That is how my mind works. But anyways: sex it is a good workout. Assuming you have a partner that is willing do more of the work and more frequently. 20+ minutes of active sex is a good full body exercise. When/if it gets easy do things that are harder like picking her up while standing or doing sort of tiger pushups rather than thrusting with your hips. I'll find a way to fit (at least) 3X a week of that into my week without any complaints from me of those around me:)
Good points. Not sure about the caffeine I don't have a problem because I can stop whenever I want;)
But will power definitely has to be there. I'm lucky that my work is fairly flexible but I still had to push back a bit. If it is a workout day and someone tries to schedule a meeting for early in the morning I just say no. If they really push it I tell them I have an appointment I had to schedule weeks ago (technically true since I know every Mon, Wed Fri from ~10-11:30am I'm in the gym). In terms of extra work creeping into your personal life/responsibilities you just go to say no until you can at least do the minimum needed to take care of yourself. I really push back on this kind of thing: why should you leave every spare moment free just in case the boss wants you to work a couple hours unplanned? If it is a true honest to God emergency fine. But if it is just not bothering to check first before scheduling a meeting or something I couldn't give two shits.
Agree. Things like this is often a choice. People decide they must own their own vehicle, home etc then have to settle remaining at a job 2hrs away and essentially trade their time and health for the money they need to pay for the vehicle/transport. Assuming you have to stay at the job I'd try to change the schedule if possible. But I'd seriously consider dropping the job. If they are paying well enough that 10hr days are truly worth it you should be able to afford to live near the job. If you can't afford a city property then the job isn't paying enough. It is costing 14 hrs of your day and 10hrs of real work and you can't afford to live? That's crazy.
Say could you talk them into letting you do your >8hrs from home on a Saturday? Could you do 12hrs every other day and then just 8 the following so every other day you have the extra couple hours you need for a workout? Speaking of weekends, and this is a common one: what are you doing then? A lot of people use their busy work week as an excuse to not do anything including on weekends.
Other things come to mind but it is all a matter of how she wants to live: cook bigger meals you can eat over a few days. 20min to reheat and 20min to eat every other day rather than an hour everyday. Knock out the impulse choirs/shopping: clean the bathroom and kitchen when the laundry is running not do laundry because you are out of things and then tomorrow do the bathroom etc. Do what you can to push the homework off onto weekends. My Korean co-worker sends his kids to school every Saturday for a full day, that is essentially what 1hr a night homework time means that she is doing right now. Why push everything into an already busy day?
I realize I'm not a women but it shouldn't take 1hr to wake up and get dressed it just shouldn't. Even accounting for having to do makeup and more complicated hair and such you just are getting too dressed up if you are spending an hour everyday to get ready. Everyone at work knows what you look like you aren't impressing anyone by looking like you are going to a fancy dinner every day.
It is a matter of discipline I have a friend that needs an hour to get out of bed he just lays there for an hour will 4 alarmclocks staggered throughout the room go off in 15 min intervals gradually forcing him out of bed. People are different I admit but it is amazing how for example during WWII they were able to draft pretty much everyone and they all managed to get into the same schedule. You just have to do it.
It sucks if you are single parent but if not take turns. Nothing wrong with you taking care of the kids every other day for 2hrs while your significant other gets in their exercise and then you getting your workout in on the other day. Or find a gym that has daycare (most big chains do). I think a lot of them even include it with the membership. So pick the kids up and instead of heading right home go to the gym and fire off a workout your still home by 5 and they can eat by 6. There are ways around almost any problem. Usually the I can't = I won't. Likely culprits:
- too many activities for the kids and none for the parents. Mom is too busy dragging kids around to soccer practice to get any exercise herself. - artificial schedule: we simply must have supper by 6pm. (why?). Can't miss the football game (why?) - living beyond means/in the wrong place: 2hr commutes, working 10+hrs a day just to pay the bills etc. If work costs you your health it isn't worth it. No matter how much your work pays you "still breathing" is a better compensation package.
Get up and go for a walk every 1-2hrs. Don't feel guilty about it just do it. Getting a bit of blood circulation going helps you think more clearly. You can wait till you get a bit of a sticky problem or a point were you really want to think a bit ("designing" part of work even if agile at some point you have to think about the how and why not just the what) and go do it. No reason why you have to sit at a desk to think.
Another simple thing that can help: both control the amount of food you bring to work (even if you are going to eat potato chips bring a small snack bag not the whole costco need a forklift sized thing) and put them away from your desk in the fridge or break room for example. Gives you a reason to get a little exercise AND not to snack literally every minute of the day (you'll feel guilty getting up every few minutes to go get something). If you must have emergency snacks around (I do since I can have problems that keep me a few hours later than planned on an already 10hr work day) make sure they are healthy. A tub of protein powder and an anti-oxidient fruit shake say Rather than again the whole Costco crate of chocolate and a case of Tab.
Lastly, don't be afraid to give up some of that "precious commodity" your time. You likely won't stay healthy without some effort outside of the few miles a day you can walk while at work. Why do we feel guilty about taking care of ourselves? Spending 5 hrs a week on an FOSS project is "giving back" or "learning". Running the kids around to THEIR activities is considered being a good parent and helping them stay socially and physicially healthy. Somehow parents (or single adults) feel selfish if they take that same 1hr for their own health. Crazy. Exactly who is going to take care of your kids when you are so bloody fat that you have to get a scooter to pick up more pop at Walmart or you are diabetic and start missing all kinds of work because of medical complications?
Who rights the algorithm and manages the server?:) Trusting a computer system not to be abused by nerds capable in not responsible for building the system is a bit silly. It is just that the support cost is so much higher (and you are in a visible place so you might grab 1 extra set of headphones but not one for everyone in your family) that it works out in FB's favor.
Absolutely right about HPC users. Unless you are a gluten for punishment generally you need to get results fast before you know what is next. So users will avoid your cluster nodes because they can get 2-3X the speed from a modern desktop. What you will get is the people that have an endless queue of serial jobs (been there my last computational project was about 250,000 CPU hours of serial work) but generally you'll have a lot of idle time. People will fire off a job and it will finish part way through the night. Your system is so slow they won't bother to login to submit new jobs until the morning etc.
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Vapor going to liquid needs to ditch heat ... where do you think it is going? It isn't just the temperature differential either it is that there is a state change so you's got to pay the cost of the heat of vaporization too.
Laws are federal but law enforcement is constitutionally a provincial matter.
Mah closer to 200. There is rural and then there is Canada rural. My understanding is that northern territories and north part of BC is largely RCMP territory. There are low population areas of Ontario that are ~500mi from the border but as far as I know they still have regional/provincal police. Basically it is up to the province whether or not they end up policing themselves or contracting RCMP do it for them. Probably not a bad thing but I'm not really sure why contracting was an option: local policing is a local issue and protection of the people is the reason for a government monopoly of force so you'd think that the level of policing would match the level of government controlling the territory but ... mah.
I don't get extremists maybe that is a good thing: but you have a couple nut jobs that want to blow stuff up ... okay. So why can't they keep their mouths shut until they do? I can see if they got caught trying to get supplies or someone to help them but running off their mouths about their plans is just silly. Good thing they do but just saying dumb as door knobs. I agree though the Muslim community deserves to share the credit for their help as they definitely (and wrongly) get their share of the blame every time a problem comes up involving a Muslim.
Also I agree RCMP != FBI though I guess I kind of get the mistake since the RCMP is often compared as the Canadian version of the FBI. It is quite different though in that a lot of rural areas have the RCMP as their primary law enforcement so they do have federal powers but sometimes are doing local policing too.
Would be cool. I have just bought an iPad and have a iMac but use windows since I develop for the evil empire. Anyways: the iMac apparently doesn't support > 500mW of draw (late 2009 model so no USB 3) in BootCamp you have to use OSX if you want to charge the iPad with a Mac. Nice. I wonder if the same crap will happen with it being part of the USB standard. Hopefully not. I'd really like to know what made it technically difficult to implement this feature in BootCamp. Apparently in OSX it gets requests for more power draw and keeps track of sharing the up to 1.1W across devices on the bus.
A related thing: why doesn't it at least charge a bit? Voltage is the same I get that 500mW might not be enough to make up for the power draw of the device when it is on but it should at least extend the battery length (and since you can connect it when powered off to iTunes I'd think you could charge it when powered off too.Argh. Anyways on cable to rule them all will make life a lot easier and can't come too soon.
Here's hoping that the small tiles is a path to letting the desktop be a side by side app. Metro wouldn't be so bad if you could make it 1/4th the screen or whatever with little icons like an iPhone to launch stuff. There is no point in having a 1" square icon for a "live" tile that you've disabled updates for or doesn't really make a lot of sense to have updates (example games). A lot of the live tiles use cases are seller geared not customer. Some dev decides they want to show you the latest high scores or when your friend last logged in: yeah so who cares what you want to tell me? Anyways I think the end result might end up looking more and more like Mac: an App store on a slideable Spaces and the desktop for all real work.
Speaking of touch: how a technology can survive that is no good for browsing porn (sticky fingers) is beyond me.
You've got it Amdahl's vs Moore and it has always been there. Density is roughly doubling as per Moore. Amdahl pretty much means we have a limited opportunity to find more work to parallelize so we need to find more different things to do. You won't be able to parallelize the heck out of everything if for no other reason than some logic is inherently serial and waiting on slower I/O. So They split off to multicore but still doesn't create more parallel work. At some point silly things like predictive branching or computing both sides of a branch ahead of time and then keeping the winner only gets you so far especially since in the first case you can be wrong sometimes, and the second you are guaranteed that you won't need one side of the calculation (so you are creating extra work just to be sure you have the result when needed and to avoid idle hardware).
Yeah but we all know that foreign casualties don't count, that is why it is only American deaths that get reported. It isn't non-zero I agree but there is often a lot of info about who is controlling the botnet. Example it is highly likely the US is responsible for Stuxnet. They'd have to have very convincing intelligence that they've found the source since it would be an act of war they are committing in taking out the foreign citizens but I don't see why only enemies with guns are fair game when lives and livelihoods can be just as affected with a keyboard.
A hacker working under orders by a nation state for the purposes of attacking the state's enemies is a combatant and a completely worthy target. What is the alternative? An arms race of nerds doing offensive and defensive cyber attacks knocking out peoples' livelihoods, taking down power systems, stealing inventions that someone has worked years to create etc with no repercussions other than the occasional "naughty, naughty, China we know it was you"?
Couldn't they then just say it is a training program?
It is likely true for several large population poor countries, Brazil, India, China, and Nigeria for example. But the thing is the countries where the really power people are often have low computer ownership. People are accessing the internet using phones I'm not sure if they'll pay $20 for a 20Mbps hookup when they can get a cell phone plan for ~$6 a month and $50 for the phone and that is the device they'll be using anyways.
It is a matter of economic need I think. Would people like $20 internet? Sure. But they get enough value that it is worth more than that to them. For a starters it pretty much replaces the need for long distance phone calls. Then if you are open to being a pirate also replaces spending on movies, music and TV. Add to that that it is extremely hard if not impossible to search for jobs, do interviews etc without a web connected computer and it becomes a necessary service one peg down from the hydro bill. Sure you can go to the library but unless you live close it will cost you more in gas than the internet at home costs not to mention the lack of privacy for "entertainment".
I get 150Mbps for ~$100 from Rogers which works out cheaper per bandwidth than 20 for $20. That said past a certain point it doesn't matter, once you can stream 1080p torrents (yeah I know not raw but compressed) in real time your needs go away quite quickly. It then becomes a matter of how many simultaneous downloads do you really need. I'd pay $100 for 20Mbps with no cap though.
From the Ted talk about this though it sounded more of a play on the guilty of we did it so we need to undo it kind of thing. With global warming being a boogieman you can use to explain anything we might feel the need to bring everything back doing our damnedest to prevent evolution from ever leading to extinction. Then these uncompetitive creatures need to be protected (especially since we probably pissed away thousands per original creature in the population), land needs to be reserved for this, etc etc. Sometimes doing nothing is a valid solution.
I'm tired of the motha-fuckin saber-tooth tigers on the motha-fuckin golf course!
This is pretty old news (not surprising for /. I guess) but there was a Ted talk I think on Monday and it was filmed in February. I disagree with some of the ad hoc de-extinctions they propose. Lets bring back the wooly mammoth. Okay, so how well is things working out for normal elephants? Do you really thing asia won't go apeshit for some mammoth tusks?
Lets say we clearly know it was humans fault that a particular animal went extinct. Even then there are a lot of issues. The ecosystem has now changed if you add the animal again it might just go back to being extinct because it might be poorly adapted (wrong colour to camouflage in urban environment for example), might still be of interest to poachers so as quick as you bring them back they get hunted right back down to extinction, and finally they might put other "invasive species" or ones that were already part of the ecosystem but grew due to lack of competition at risk as they come back and displace them.
That is just the ones that we feel guilty about but nothing will stop the tree huggers from wanting to get us to bring back everything even if it went extinct for its own good reasons or will have huge adverse effects in systems we already have trouble maintaining: ex. bringing back dinosaurs into jungles we are already cutting down for lumber. Not every species deserves or needs to thrive that is how evolution works. If you are too slow and too tasty you die.
Yeah but she's taking 2 hours. Her first hour is just waking up and getting showered/dressed. The next is breakfast and getting the kids ready. So that is two hours before even stepping out the door. I agree on the want to be awake bit. I get up about an hour before I leave. 20min to shower. 40min for breakfast and watching last nights daily show. I leave the dishes for when I get home so while I wait for my supper to cook I do the mornings dishes if they'll be too many for one batch or leave it till after supper and get it all done in one go.
Yeah but she says she spends another hour with the kids for breakfast. So this 1hr isn't even feeding her. So two hours to get ready and eat with the kids. There has to be room to squeeze this.
For example is one of the kids old enough to help out? I'm 2 years younger than my sister. When I was in kindergarten my sister who was 7 thought it was the coolest thing in the world to make sure I picked out some appropriate clothes and got ready in the morning which of course freed my mother up to be packing our lunches and getting breakfast ready.
Fencing lead to thinking of sword fighting lead to sex :) That is how my mind works. But anyways: sex it is a good workout. Assuming you have a partner that is willing do more of the work and more frequently. 20+ minutes of active sex is a good full body exercise. When/if it gets easy do things that are harder like picking her up while standing or doing sort of tiger pushups rather than thrusting with your hips. I'll find a way to fit (at least) 3X a week of that into my week without any complaints from me of those around me :)
Good points. Not sure about the caffeine I don't have a problem because I can stop whenever I want ;)
But will power definitely has to be there. I'm lucky that my work is fairly flexible but I still had to push back a bit. If it is a workout day and someone tries to schedule a meeting for early in the morning I just say no. If they really push it I tell them I have an appointment I had to schedule weeks ago (technically true since I know every Mon, Wed Fri from ~10-11:30am I'm in the gym). In terms of extra work creeping into your personal life/responsibilities you just go to say no until you can at least do the minimum needed to take care of yourself. I really push back on this kind of thing: why should you leave every spare moment free just in case the boss wants you to work a couple hours unplanned? If it is a true honest to God emergency fine. But if it is just not bothering to check first before scheduling a meeting or something I couldn't give two shits.
Agree. Things like this is often a choice. People decide they must own their own vehicle, home etc then have to settle remaining at a job 2hrs away and essentially trade their time and health for the money they need to pay for the vehicle/transport. Assuming you have to stay at the job I'd try to change the schedule if possible. But I'd seriously consider dropping the job. If they are paying well enough that 10hr days are truly worth it you should be able to afford to live near the job. If you can't afford a city property then the job isn't paying enough. It is costing 14 hrs of your day and 10hrs of real work and you can't afford to live? That's crazy.
Say could you talk them into letting you do your >8hrs from home on a Saturday? Could you do 12hrs every other day and then just 8 the following so every other day you have the extra couple hours you need for a workout? Speaking of weekends, and this is a common one: what are you doing then? A lot of people use their busy work week as an excuse to not do anything including on weekends.
Other things come to mind but it is all a matter of how she wants to live: cook bigger meals you can eat over a few days. 20min to reheat and 20min to eat every other day rather than an hour everyday. Knock out the impulse choirs/shopping: clean the bathroom and kitchen when the laundry is running not do laundry because you are out of things and then tomorrow do the bathroom etc. Do what you can to push the homework off onto weekends. My Korean co-worker sends his kids to school every Saturday for a full day, that is essentially what 1hr a night homework time means that she is doing right now. Why push everything into an already busy day?
I realize I'm not a women but it shouldn't take 1hr to wake up and get dressed it just shouldn't. Even accounting for having to do makeup and more complicated hair and such you just are getting too dressed up if you are spending an hour everyday to get ready. Everyone at work knows what you look like you aren't impressing anyone by looking like you are going to a fancy dinner every day.
It is a matter of discipline I have a friend that needs an hour to get out of bed he just lays there for an hour will 4 alarmclocks staggered throughout the room go off in 15 min intervals gradually forcing him out of bed. People are different I admit but it is amazing how for example during WWII they were able to draft pretty much everyone and they all managed to get into the same schedule. You just have to do it.
It sucks if you are single parent but if not take turns. Nothing wrong with you taking care of the kids every other day for 2hrs while your significant other gets in their exercise and then you getting your workout in on the other day. Or find a gym that has daycare (most big chains do). I think a lot of them even include it with the membership. So pick the kids up and instead of heading right home go to the gym and fire off a workout your still home by 5 and they can eat by 6. There are ways around almost any problem. Usually the I can't = I won't. Likely culprits:
- too many activities for the kids and none for the parents. Mom is too busy dragging kids around to soccer practice to get any exercise herself.
- artificial schedule: we simply must have supper by 6pm. (why?). Can't miss the football game (why?)
- living beyond means/in the wrong place: 2hr commutes, working 10+hrs a day just to pay the bills etc. If work costs you your health it isn't worth it. No matter how much your work pays you "still breathing" is a better compensation package.
Get up and go for a walk every 1-2hrs. Don't feel guilty about it just do it. Getting a bit of blood circulation going helps you think more clearly. You can wait till you get a bit of a sticky problem or a point were you really want to think a bit ("designing" part of work even if agile at some point you have to think about the how and why not just the what) and go do it. No reason why you have to sit at a desk to think.
Another simple thing that can help: both control the amount of food you bring to work (even if you are going to eat potato chips bring a small snack bag not the whole costco need a forklift sized thing) and put them away from your desk in the fridge or break room for example. Gives you a reason to get a little exercise AND not to snack literally every minute of the day (you'll feel guilty getting up every few minutes to go get something). If you must have emergency snacks around (I do since I can have problems that keep me a few hours later than planned on an already 10hr work day) make sure they are healthy. A tub of protein powder and an anti-oxidient fruit shake say Rather than again the whole Costco crate of chocolate and a case of Tab.
Lastly, don't be afraid to give up some of that "precious commodity" your time. You likely won't stay healthy without some effort outside of the few miles a day you can walk while at work. Why do we feel guilty about taking care of ourselves? Spending 5 hrs a week on an FOSS project is "giving back" or "learning". Running the kids around to THEIR activities is considered being a good parent and helping them stay socially and physicially healthy. Somehow parents (or single adults) feel selfish if they take that same 1hr for their own health. Crazy. Exactly who is going to take care of your kids when you are so bloody fat that you have to get a scooter to pick up more pop at Walmart or you are diabetic and start missing all kinds of work because of medical complications?
Who rights the algorithm and manages the server? :) Trusting a computer system not to be abused by nerds capable in not responsible for building the system is a bit silly. It is just that the support cost is so much higher (and you are in a visible place so you might grab 1 extra set of headphones but not one for everyone in your family) that it works out in FB's favor.
Absolutely right about HPC users. Unless you are a gluten for punishment generally you need to get results fast before you know what is next. So users will avoid your cluster nodes because they can get 2-3X the speed from a modern desktop. What you will get is the people that have an endless queue of serial jobs (been there my last computational project was about 250,000 CPU hours of serial work) but generally you'll have a lot of idle time. People will fire off a job and it will finish part way through the night. Your system is so slow they won't bother to login to submit new jobs until the morning etc.