From experience, mine properly displays the draw of things to 0.1 W, its measurement is at least that precise, and it's accurate enough for errors to not cause noticeable discrepancy on the scale of months.
The most recent tests on low power devices I've done were in the last couple of months, with an Intel NUC and an APC battery backup unit. The NUC drew 12 W with the CPU pegged and under 5 when idle (but active - not in standby). The battery backup unit sat at 0.2 W after completing its full charge, which ran at the rated draw and filled up the rated capacity in only a bit longer than expected (seemed to be pretty efficient). The thing has 5 or 6 of the world's most obnoxiously bright LEDs on it, and it continually keeps the battery topped off. I have every reason to believe the 0.2 W is an accurate representation of a draw that's from [0.15 W to 0.25 W). It also accurately jumps up when I connect a phone to its USB ports to charge.
If you're saying the Kill-A-Watt isn't good enough to measure the waste of 6 "vampire" devices behind a surge protector, please provide some evidence.
I doubt even the $300 million figure is true. I can't remember the last charger type device that I've seen drain any measurable power when not in use.
I ran a kill-a-watt behind my surge protector. The surge protector had the following: Nintendo DS charger, Nintendo DSi charger. Nintendo DS Lite charger. Proprietary cell phone charger. Mini USB charger. Micro USB charger.
After a week, these alleged "vampire" devices had consumed a flat fucking 0.00 kWh. The idea that we need to do something about these "vampires" is ridiculous and a prime example of "penny wise, pound foolish". It makes even less sense than telling Californians to conserve water at home while they grow fucking almonds and grapes in the fields.
I do believe there are shitty devices which drain power needlessly, but that's the problem of whoever buys it, and it's a self-correcting problem. Let them pay for it on their power bill, or let them choose to buy something better. If you believe people are idiots and that will never happen, do it directly:
1: Stop burning coal. 2: Tax burning coal. 3: Stop burning coal to generate electricity. 4: Tax burning coal to generate electricity. 5: Tax burning coal to deliver electricity.... 467: Legislate power efficiency ratings and requirements for trivial, drop-in-the ocean shit like this.
No, verification is trivial. I have no idea why he wouldn't verify the result.
Mining pools use a similar scheme to distribute work, sending each miner what amounts to a partial problem only, while checking answers to see if they're valid before submitting to the network and awarding any bounty to the miner. This was done so that miners with varying hardware could all effectively help the pool without their tasks expiring and so that miners couldn't submit work to the pool and then submit any blocks found to the network directly, thus getting the pool rewards from every other pool member's found blocks and not sharing any blocks they find.
This jackhole is suggesting to just skip verifying the result and instead spam the network with trash. No idea if he has gotten any significant improvement over what already has been done, but I seriously doubt it.
Surely you weren't saying sizes shrink by half every two years is guaranteed. Intel is already saying they won't be able to reach the process shrink goal in 2 years this time around. Around 5nm the shrink will turn into a research project just as challenging as the clock frequency issue. You can't pack carbon atoms closer than ~0.2nm nevermind features. A small protein molecule is 3nm in diameter. A significant drought of Moore's law is coming.
They could simply go back to the larger die areas we had only 10 years ago. It just means performance won't be "free" as time goes on. If you want a better chip you need a bigger chip and it'll cost more because you get less out of a wafer. There's plenty of fucking room on ATX boards and micro ATX boards and even mini ITX boards. And if you want to stick with tiny footprints like the Intel NUCs or the Google/Amazon/Intel "stick it in your HDMI port" shits, you can stack vertically or incorporate your RAM into the die.
I have a suspicion AMD will produce a part with HBM 2 incorporated into the APU die, resulting in a product that is literally a system on a chip, and finally realizes the shit they've been harping on about with regards to HSA. The GPU and the CPU have buckets of memory and all live together holding hands, sharing resources, talking to each other openly, helping each other build a deck or patch some drywall or whatever else the program asks them to do. Mayb we'll see something at E3 2017.
Impossible. The universe was created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
good luck proving this isn't true.
Impossible. The universe was created last Friday with the appearance of {being created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970}. Therefore, the universe was not created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
How long will it take to drain completely on a full charge for the newest iPhones? Can you keep the screen on while it's in this state, or is it locked into a screen off, not doing anything, and barely touching the battery state?
Why does a battery pull fix a software issue that a forced reboot (holding power button I presume) can't?
The ground line gives you a true ground, isolated from any shit that bad devices (or bad utility power) might shit out onto the neutral line, making it NOT a neutral line. And anyone who's ever dealt with audio equipment knows what hell it can be when you can't get a real ground. Do you like audible 60 Hz sine waves? Because improperly grounding shit is how you get them.
There are plenty of reasons we added the third prong, and it's not because Khyber is smarter than the dumb scientists, engineers, and electricians.
We already know for a fact keystroke data is sent to MS, under the guise of improving spell checking etc. The user has no knowledge of when or where it happens or what is actually sent.
It's there for lip service only, like Obama's "we The People" site where you could petition the white house for stuff and they would respond after x signatures.
With no power and the door closed, you cannot open the door in a Corvette without knowing about a small latch near the bottom of your seat. The average person expects a door handle to be on the door where you use your hand to push the door open. The average person also expects levers hidden away near your seat to be for adjusting the seat.
There are dumb users and then there are dumb designs. This is a case of dumb design. It's like Apple and Google's shit where scrollbars and control icons are invisible until you mouse over them. It's super simple once you know about it, but there's zero indication of it otherwise, and you absolutely cannot expect someone to find it on their own without instruction, especially when they're elderly and baking to death in the hot car.
Plenty of people submit worthwhile things that just sit at the firehose, while plenty of shilled crap gets front paged.
I dare you to explain how it is decided which things are front paged, including the names of the people who make the decisions. And I defy you to directly state that you still work for Slashdot and that advertising or other promotional deals do not affect what is posted to the front page.
Corvette owner dying in the car because he didn't know about the mechanical release levers on the floor, the targa latches on the roof or the hatch release in the rear...
To be fair the most recent case I heard about involved an elderly man and his dog. The man was found with the owner's manual in his lap, trying to find out how to open the door without a functioning electrical system. The mention of the latch location is buried somewhere on page 67 or some shit. It should be in the first few pages.
For the arithmetic mean (the most common operation used to find averages), that's only true if you assume an even distribution. You're looking for the median person.
I wrote a grease monkey user script that nuked all the bennett haselton shit from orbit. Should be trivial to do the same for forbes.
(I switched machines and browsers recently - I didn't bother to bring the bennett haselton nuker with me because as far as I know his shit has stopped.)
I believe the AC is complaining about the general lack of quality, substance, documentation, reliability, and function of many of the new and popular "languages" (which are really frameworks). The examples of Ruby on Rails and Node.js are indeed "fucking awful" from the standpoint of getting worthwhile shit done, especially considering the amount of things you have to seek out and bolt on in order to get them to function as you would expect any other framework to (see the references to gems and npm). The "hipster" label seems to fit. These things are popular not because of their quality or utility, but because of their lack of quality and utility. And despite being popular, the people using them think they're unique for doing so. As soon as the users and developers see that they are no longer unique, they abandon ship and look for the next niche thing to claim as their own.
NoSQL is trash through and through. I have yet to meet a dataset worth looking through, ever, that didn't fit into a relational model of some sort. The anti relational model for data is a joke. If there is any information in data it can be modeled, and if any dataset contains more than one piece of the same type of data then you can develop useful relationships. NoSQL literally throws completeness, correctness, and consistency out the window. "Big data" people love NoSQL and the crazy variants used by Google, Amazon, etc. because they just want to dump data in and sell access to it. They don't care if it's correct, complete, or meaningful. Of course, even Google realizes they need ACID for data that matters, and have basically thrown the non-relational model out the window for their own purposes.
I sure as shit am glad I don't know what Docker is. I've heard references to it before (and I think there was a story on Slashdot about "one weird trick to make Docker take 99% less storage space!!1"), but I simply don't care. As for Git, I fail to see why it's needed when other version control systems already exist and work. My guess is that it gained popularity because of how brain dead simple it is to throw something up on github (which has its own problems, as was discussed on Slashdot recently).
Hipster software IS a fucking problem. Shit like RoR and Node.js fucking suck for most things, but idiots try to shoehorn it and adapt it to do what they need instead of using something better-suited to the task. Ruby (and RoR) is good for certain things, and I presume Node.js may have some sort of valid use case, but certainly not what people usually end up using them for. NoSQL is shit, and Git may be useful but the things people use it for rarely are. The bottom line is that there are people who will scream from the top of the mountain about their new project using Node.js and a non-relational database model that's hosted on github by developers using agile and trending on Twitter, but they won't be able to tell you what their project is or does, or why it's better than the existing solutions.
When the process becomes the project, the project becomes pointless.
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From experience, mine properly displays the draw of things to 0.1 W, its measurement is at least that precise, and it's accurate enough for errors to not cause noticeable discrepancy on the scale of months.
The most recent tests on low power devices I've done were in the last couple of months, with an Intel NUC and an APC battery backup unit. The NUC drew 12 W with the CPU pegged and under 5 when idle (but active - not in standby). The battery backup unit sat at 0.2 W after completing its full charge, which ran at the rated draw and filled up the rated capacity in only a bit longer than expected (seemed to be pretty efficient). The thing has 5 or 6 of the world's most obnoxiously bright LEDs on it, and it continually keeps the battery topped off. I have every reason to believe the 0.2 W is an accurate representation of a draw that's from [0.15 W to 0.25 W). It also accurately jumps up when I connect a phone to its USB ports to charge.
If you're saying the Kill-A-Watt isn't good enough to measure the waste of 6 "vampire" devices behind a surge protector, please provide some evidence.
I doubt even the $300 million figure is true.
I can't remember the last charger type device that I've seen drain any measurable power when not in use.
I ran a kill-a-watt behind my surge protector. The surge protector had the following:
Nintendo DS charger, Nintendo DSi charger. Nintendo DS Lite charger. Proprietary cell phone charger. Mini USB charger. Micro USB charger.
After a week, these alleged "vampire" devices had consumed a flat fucking 0.00 kWh. The idea that we need to do something about these "vampires" is ridiculous and a prime example of "penny wise, pound foolish". It makes even less sense than telling Californians to conserve water at home while they grow fucking almonds and grapes in the fields.
I do believe there are shitty devices which drain power needlessly, but that's the problem of whoever buys it, and it's a self-correcting problem. Let them pay for it on their power bill, or let them choose to buy something better. If you believe people are idiots and that will never happen, do it directly:
1: Stop burning coal. ...
2: Tax burning coal.
3: Stop burning coal to generate electricity.
4: Tax burning coal to generate electricity.
5: Tax burning coal to deliver electricity.
467: Legislate power efficiency ratings and requirements for trivial, drop-in-the ocean shit like this.
I made a mistake that got 17 people killed, and I got a promotion!
-Future Google Autonomous Car "Engineer"
The stuff they talk about at TED doesn't apply to anyone's life. TED is hot air, fluff, and pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's a fucking joke!
No, verification is trivial. I have no idea why he wouldn't verify the result.
Mining pools use a similar scheme to distribute work, sending each miner what amounts to a partial problem only, while checking answers to see if they're valid before submitting to the network and awarding any bounty to the miner. This was done so that miners with varying hardware could all effectively help the pool without their tasks expiring and so that miners couldn't submit work to the pool and then submit any blocks found to the network directly, thus getting the pool rewards from every other pool member's found blocks and not sharing any blocks they find.
This jackhole is suggesting to just skip verifying the result and instead spam the network with trash.
No idea if he has gotten any significant improvement over what already has been done, but I seriously doubt it.
That's guaranteed.
Surely you weren't saying sizes shrink by half every two years is guaranteed. Intel is already saying they won't be able to reach the process shrink goal in 2 years this time around. Around 5nm the shrink will turn into a research project just as challenging as the clock frequency issue. You can't pack carbon atoms closer than ~0.2nm nevermind features. A small protein molecule is 3nm in diameter. A significant drought of Moore's law is coming.
They could simply go back to the larger die areas we had only 10 years ago. It just means performance won't be "free" as time goes on. If you want a better chip you need a bigger chip and it'll cost more because you get less out of a wafer. There's plenty of fucking room on ATX boards and micro ATX boards and even mini ITX boards. And if you want to stick with tiny footprints like the Intel NUCs or the Google/Amazon/Intel "stick it in your HDMI port" shits, you can stack vertically or incorporate your RAM into the die.
I have a suspicion AMD will produce a part with HBM 2 incorporated into the APU die, resulting in a product that is literally a system on a chip, and finally realizes the shit they've been harping on about with regards to HSA. The GPU and the CPU have buckets of memory and all live together holding hands, sharing resources, talking to each other openly, helping each other build a deck or patch some drywall or whatever else the program asks them to do. Mayb we'll see something at E3 2017.
Impossible. The universe was created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
good luck proving this isn't true.
Impossible. The universe was created last Friday with the appearance of {being created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970}.
Therefore, the universe was not created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
Good luck proving this isn't true.
How long will it take to drain completely on a full charge for the newest iPhones? Can you keep the screen on while it's in this state, or is it locked into a screen off, not doing anything, and barely touching the battery state?
Why does a battery pull fix a software issue that a forced reboot (holding power button I presume) can't?
I hold the trigger and press the nozzle in myself the whole time.
I don't need no crutch.
Does it bother you when people call it like it is and don't listen to goobers or their sock puppets?
FTL violates causality.
You might want to look up "brain wallet". Anyone using a "brain wallet" is an idiot.
The ground line gives you a true ground, isolated from any shit that bad devices (or bad utility power) might shit out onto the neutral line, making it NOT a neutral line. And anyone who's ever dealt with audio equipment knows what hell it can be when you can't get a real ground. Do you like audible 60 Hz sine waves? Because improperly grounding shit is how you get them.
There are plenty of reasons we added the third prong, and it's not because Khyber is smarter than the dumb scientists, engineers, and electricians.
Interesting, SuperKendall spouted off about some shit he knew nothing about and got caught, yet again.
In 2016 releasing actual patch notes and actual READMEs warrants a fucking ticker tape parade.
We already know for a fact keystroke data is sent to MS, under the guise of improving spell checking etc.
The user has no knowledge of when or where it happens or what is actually sent.
It's there for lip service only, like Obama's "we The People" site where you could petition the white house for stuff and they would respond after x signatures.
With no power and the door closed, you cannot open the door in a Corvette without knowing about a small latch near the bottom of your seat.
The average person expects a door handle to be on the door where you use your hand to push the door open. The average person also expects levers hidden away near your seat to be for adjusting the seat.
There are dumb users and then there are dumb designs. This is a case of dumb design. It's like Apple and Google's shit where scrollbars and control icons are invisible until you mouse over them. It's super simple once you know about it, but there's zero indication of it otherwise, and you absolutely cannot expect someone to find it on their own without instruction, especially when they're elderly and baking to death in the hot car.
Plenty of people submit worthwhile things that just sit at the firehose, while plenty of shilled crap gets front paged.
I dare you to explain how it is decided which things are front paged, including the names of the people who make the decisions.
And I defy you to directly state that you still work for Slashdot and that advertising or other promotional deals do not affect what is posted to the front page.
Corvette owner dying in the car because he didn't know about the mechanical release levers on the floor, the targa latches on the roof or the hatch release in the rear...
To be fair the most recent case I heard about involved an elderly man and his dog. The man was found with the owner's manual in his lap, trying to find out how to open the door without a functioning electrical system. The mention of the latch location is buried somewhere on page 67 or some shit. It should be in the first few pages.
safe and secure platform for users to express themselves freely and safely
As long as your free expression doesn't piss off any of the 40 busybody groups, of course.
systemd has electrolytes?
For the arithmetic mean (the most common operation used to find averages), that's only true if you assume an even distribution.
You're looking for the median person.
I wrote a grease monkey user script that nuked all the bennett haselton shit from orbit.
Should be trivial to do the same for forbes.
(I switched machines and browsers recently - I didn't bother to bring the bennett haselton nuker with me because as far as I know his shit has stopped.)
They probably have an existing contract in place that they can't just kill off without being sued.
I believe the AC is complaining about the general lack of quality, substance, documentation, reliability, and function of many of the new and popular "languages" (which are really frameworks). The examples of Ruby on Rails and Node.js are indeed "fucking awful" from the standpoint of getting worthwhile shit done, especially considering the amount of things you have to seek out and bolt on in order to get them to function as you would expect any other framework to (see the references to gems and npm). The "hipster" label seems to fit. These things are popular not because of their quality or utility, but because of their lack of quality and utility. And despite being popular, the people using them think they're unique for doing so. As soon as the users and developers see that they are no longer unique, they abandon ship and look for the next niche thing to claim as their own.
NoSQL is trash through and through. I have yet to meet a dataset worth looking through, ever, that didn't fit into a relational model of some sort. The anti relational model for data is a joke. If there is any information in data it can be modeled, and if any dataset contains more than one piece of the same type of data then you can develop useful relationships. NoSQL literally throws completeness, correctness, and consistency out the window. "Big data" people love NoSQL and the crazy variants used by Google, Amazon, etc. because they just want to dump data in and sell access to it. They don't care if it's correct, complete, or meaningful. Of course, even Google realizes they need ACID for data that matters, and have basically thrown the non-relational model out the window for their own purposes.
I sure as shit am glad I don't know what Docker is. I've heard references to it before (and I think there was a story on Slashdot about "one weird trick to make Docker take 99% less storage space!!1"), but I simply don't care. As for Git, I fail to see why it's needed when other version control systems already exist and work. My guess is that it gained popularity because of how brain dead simple it is to throw something up on github (which has its own problems, as was discussed on Slashdot recently).
Hipster software IS a fucking problem. Shit like RoR and Node.js fucking suck for most things, but idiots try to shoehorn it and adapt it to do what they need instead of using something better-suited to the task. Ruby (and RoR) is good for certain things, and I presume Node.js may have some sort of valid use case, but certainly not what people usually end up using them for. NoSQL is shit, and Git may be useful but the things people use it for rarely are. The bottom line is that there are people who will scream from the top of the mountain about their new project using Node.js and a non-relational database model that's hosted on github by developers using agile and trending on Twitter, but they won't be able to tell you what their project is or does, or why it's better than the existing solutions.
When the process becomes the project, the project becomes pointless.