They're more secure, especially compared to physical card payments in the US, which are just antediluvian.
What are you talking about? Credit card security is great in the US! By law, I am not liable for fraudulent charges past $50. If my card's credential get stolen, it is the bank's problem, not mine. Can't do much better than that as far as I care.
Much better than in France, where I used to live. There, all charges were my liability even if the charges were not mine.
Some times I watch Youtube on my phone where I don't have an adblocker (maybe should get one). And it is unbearable. I end up watching no more than a couple of videos before doing something else.
Actually it is not. I graduate a PhD student that does data science. When looking for job he realized that "data scientist" essentially means anything from "I need someone to key some form on the computer" to "I need someone to develop new machine learning model", going through "I need an engineer to set up a data lake", and including "I need an excel guru to prototype models and do some regressions". Salaries naturally range from barely-more-than-minimum-wage to six-digit-salaries. And the mess is not going to get better with degrees in Data Science that pops everywhere. How do you call a job which primary requirement is to have a BS in Data Science, it really is a Data Scientist position. But it can mean a million different things.
I remeber doing the test myself. Encode from a CD to flac, and MP3 at different resolution from 64kbps up to 420kbps. Play the files in random orders and decide whether it is compressed or not. I did not have good speakers at the time. And my ears have never been very good. 64kbps and 128 kbps I could tell always was compressed almost always. 256kbps, I could tell on some songs. 320 kbps and up, got pretty much the same guess as FLAC.
The difference in file size between 320kbps and FLAC isn't huge, about a factor of 2 if my memory serves me right. So I had decided to encode everything to FLAC in case I could tell the difference once I get better speakers. I wonder if I should redo the test now.
I've been house hunting for like 2 years in these places, but my search filters for only single family homes with yards. I think a 900 sq ft townhome for 400k+ is ridiculous, but I guess I'm just too choosy... or maybe a little bitter from being priced out of my home town.
Yeah, I understand that. I have been house hunting in Charlotte, NC. It is a much cheaper place than Seattle. But I understand the feeling of not necessarily finding what you are looking for at a price that make sense. I ended up pulling the trigger because rent has been going up like crazy.
The cities that are getting the moneys focus are all deep tech forest and VERY upscale. Microsofts main campus is in Redmond, and has satellites in each city named. Those cities also all share a border with at least another named. Microsoft is forced to pay their army of contractors more because its just to expensive to live anywhere near those places.
Yeah, that's how it seems. I guess one could claim that they try to give back to their local community. But most like it is a tax optimization, coupled with trying to keep prices down a little to make their work force cheap, while making them appear that good guys.
Internet is a decentralized platform. It is currently centralized (minitel 2.0 kind of thing) not because of technical problems. It is easy to run your own blog, your own webserver, etc.. The problem is mostly social. Device makers are allowed to keep their platform closed. So if you want something iPhone compatible, it pretty much has to play ball with Apple; and if they don't like it you are screwed. But the issue of running stuff on the iPhone is not a technical issue, but a social (legal) one. It is legal for Apple to shutdown any attempt at opening the iPhone.
Similarly, one can only play PS4 games online on Sony's platform. It is not that we don't have the technical knowledge to make PS4 online games compatible with Xbox's, PC's, or smartphone's. The fundamental problem is social: Sony can force you to play through their network alone and can mess with you if you don't play ball.
I could go on for other platforms, but that is typically where the centralization actually comes from.
Aquaman was probably one of the better DC movies. (Haven't seen WonderWoman yet). The acting was alright. The plot wasn't without holes, but which super hero movie has an ironclad plot. The CGI was sometimes terrible: DC really need to stop the "fight while flying" scenes that look straight out of a bad live action dragon ball z. They were terrible in Justice League and the under water duel in Aquaman had similar problems.
Overall, it entertained me for a couple of hours and I'll probably rewatch it at some point. But as some people put it, while it is a top-tier DC super hero movie, it would be bottom tier if it were a marvel movie.
I see, it is some particular cities in the Seattle metro. Still, I just looked at the map, and the median is way below $1M in most of these areas. Much closer to $600K according to the map. And low-income housing almost by definition will have a cost under the median.
Just checked on zilloz, Issaquah, 1+beds (but most entries are 2+), under $700K for a house, condo, town home, there are 3 pages of results, in Sammamish, there is a page, in Bellevue, there is about 3 pages.
And the loans are to build which is cheaper typically.
So my $400K mark was for the whole region rather than these particular cities in the metro, but still it is below $1M
We are talking Seattle, Washington, right? If so, you are clearly wrong. Accordign to trulia ( https://www.trulia.com/real_es... ) There is only one district of Seattle proper where the median housing price is over 1M. Most of the south the the city seems to have a median around 400K.
Now, they are talking about low-income housing, so certainly houses in the lower end of the curve. Also, they are talking about the Seattle region, not Seattle proper, which is likely to be cheaper. But even at 400K, you are talking about 1250 houses.
According to seattle pi, Seattle see about 19000 application for low income housing( https://www.seattlepi.com/seat... ), so we are talking about dealing with 7% of the problem.
I am no Microsoft chill, but this isn't negligible. That's not going to solve the whole problem, but that will make a difference.
I have a Rumba. It does its jobs and keeps my floor clean, but it isn't as good as if I were to do it myself. As I can vacuum my whole house in about 30 minutes, while the Rumba just does the first floor in about an hour (and misses spots). But what it is good at is the fact that it does this scheduled daily. Where I only have the time to do this weekly.
My Roomba broke recently (and I'll be getting a new one). And that is exactly why Roomba (and probably other brands or robotic vacuum cleaner) is awesome. It does not do the job perfectly, but it can do it twice a day and take ME only about 2 minutes of my time. So my floor is (well, was) perfectly cleaned at any time because any spot had been vacuumed in the previous 48 hours. I don't have time to do this myself. And I won't be paying someone to vacuum my entire house every other day.
Regarding the robots that they were using; it sounds like the robots were badly built, weren't waterproof and the robots were not equipped to operate in that particular hotel, and had not been tested in real operating conditions. It is a problem of bad engineering and not a problem with the underlying robot technology. There is no fundamental problem with a robot cart you put luggage in, push room number in, and that drives there.
TFA says 24 processors as well. And you are right, it is clearly wrong. It is clearly 24 cores. My students would not get away with calling them processors:)
So the police haven't even considered that he might have spoofed his MAC address? Or that he used a burner device? Nice police work.
Well, maybe they have considered it. But maybe the bomber isn't very tech savvy and doe not know how to do that or got sloppy. The MAC address seems like a reasonable lead to follow.
Or do you prefer the following scenario: Inspector, we found fingerprints on the murder weapon. They can be lifted from a glass and reproduced, we can trust it. Inspector, we also found DNA. Forget it, someones DNA can be easily found anywhere and planted. Inspector, the murder victim wrote a name on the wall in her own blood. There is no way to know the victim really wrote that. Inspector, they all belong to the husband of the victim who made reported to beat her before, should we talk to him or arrest him? No need, it could be an expert frame job. We will never know who committed this murder!
Yes, but can we call some of these degrees "education"? Feminist studies? Auctioneering? Bagpiping?
I could be convinced of the "taxes for college education" angle, but only if we restrict the degrees pursued to an agreed upon list of useful degrees for professions society actually needs. You want to follow your dream of professional bagpipping, fine, but you do it on your own dime.
I do not have a beef with people wanting a degree in Auctioneering or Bagpiping. Even on my tax dollars. That's fine as long as you don't produce 50,000 bag pipers a year. That would be a waste of resources. But I want to live in a world with bagpipers and covering the education of some reasonable number of them seems ok to me.
I think most countries that pay for education through income taxes (France for sure, but most of Europe I assume) have caps on how many students can be in particular majors. That way you still train some people in art history, but much more in physics or computing.
That would be nice... Or passing the savings onto better equipment, more TAs, higher staff/instructor salaries,...
But university rankings has created the arm race. Some rankings use completely absurd metrics such as the amount of money spent on basic infrastructure. In some places this has lead to a roundabout being rebuilt every other year because it is a non-disruptive way to spend on basic infrastructure. They have beautiful round abouts...
Shouldn't all legitimate travel expenses be paid by the employer? Isn't going to a X-science conference a legitimate travel expense for an X scientist? I don't see what is wrong with that. Here the employer happens to be the government.
I bought a house in Charlotte, NC about a year and a half ago. Public transit in this city is terribly under scaled. There are essentially two lightrail lines both going to uptown, one recent from the university, and one older from the rich neighborhood in the south. I work for the university, so naturally, I tried to find a location where I could leverage the rail (which had not opened yet at the time). And what found is that the last mile is a real issue in Charlotte. If you are not on the rail path, getting to the rail is difficult. People in the south of the city park and ride to go uptown. And the university has readjusted its local buses to account for the rail. But for all other locations you are essentially on your own to get to the rail. So really the rail is useful for the financial worker leaving in the south who park and ride. And for the students to do their evening/night week-end internships uptown.
I searched for a place on the rail to stop driving my car. And I could not find one at the time that was close enough to a station that I could take the rail, and affordable (even when factoring I could mostly stop driving my car). I did not even drive before I moved to the US, so I really tried to be able to use the public transit, I could not find a practical option for me.
Well, European cities have grown with public transportation in mind. I have never been to Stockholm, but I assume it is similar to other European cities I have visited. A large backbone of high density, high speed public transit (typically subway and trains), and many more flexible option to cover last mile (typically buses). That was made possible by the relative density of European cities at the end of the 19th century. North American cities were typically built assuming people would own car and so the backbone was never really built.
We have seen in the last few years many advances of Computer Vision and Machine Learning tools to do segmentation, anime drawing colorization, night picture to day picture conversion, changing meteo conditions, and so on. Do the GIMP developpers intend to include tools of that sort in the project?
I don't understand what you are saying. I just changed my phone. When I bought it, I made sure there was a headphone jack on it. I had no problem finding what I wanted. (I ended up picking an LG Q7+ if you wonder.)
Jackless phones tend to be the tech high end ones. There I am not surprised not having a jack isn't much of a problem. These phones are pretty much only purchased by tech enthusiast who probably have different wireless headset for their different devices.
The only thing I meant is that the renaming is a lot older than the discussion in python. And in practice Master/Slave is not a term very used by the community to denote that organization. Master/Worker is the term that I hear the most. I hear Manager-Worker mostly as a side notes ("sometimes people call that manager-worker") I was actually surprised when Hadoop chose to call the non-master nodes 'slaves' since the parallel computing community had pretty much moved to calling them 'worker'.
The parallel computing community was never that happy about calling the paradigm master/slave. Most references use the terminology master/worker these days. We can find references to manager/worker which sound a lot more neutral that date back decades. ( A PACT 2001 paper as a proof https://link.springer.com/chap... )
Lots of term in parallel computing ended up being renamed to make the term more accurate or more neutral. Famously, we no longer talk about "embarrassingly parallel" applications, but about "pleasingly parallel" applications because there is nothing embarrassing about the application being very parallel.
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thanks for the tip. I'll check it out!
They're more secure, especially compared to physical card payments in the US, which are just antediluvian.
What are you talking about? Credit card security is great in the US! By law, I am not liable for fraudulent charges past $50. If my card's credential get stolen, it is the bank's problem, not mine. Can't do much better than that as far as I care.
Much better than in France, where I used to live. There, all charges were my liability even if the charges were not mine.
Some times I watch Youtube on my phone where I don't have an adblocker (maybe should get one). And it is unbearable. I end up watching no more than a couple of videos before doing something else.
Exactly!
Stop the presses! "We have no reason to stop the presses!"
In other news, the sun is currently rising somewhere on earth!
(Why am I still reading slashdot???)
Actually it is not. I graduate a PhD student that does data science.
When looking for job he realized that "data scientist" essentially means anything from "I need someone to key some form on the computer" to "I need someone to develop new machine learning model", going through "I need an engineer to set up a data lake", and including "I need an excel guru to prototype models and do some regressions".
Salaries naturally range from barely-more-than-minimum-wage to six-digit-salaries.
And the mess is not going to get better with degrees in Data Science that pops everywhere. How do you call a job which primary requirement is to have a BS in Data Science, it really is a Data Scientist position. But it can mean a million different things.
I remeber doing the test myself. Encode from a CD to flac, and MP3 at different resolution from 64kbps up to 420kbps. Play the files in random orders and decide whether it is compressed or not. I did not have good speakers at the time. And my ears have never been very good.
64kbps and 128 kbps I could tell always was compressed almost always.
256kbps, I could tell on some songs.
320 kbps and up, got pretty much the same guess as FLAC.
The difference in file size between 320kbps and FLAC isn't huge, about a factor of 2 if my memory serves me right. So I had decided to encode everything to FLAC in case I could tell the difference once I get better speakers. I wonder if I should redo the test now.
I've been house hunting for like 2 years in these places, but my search filters for only single family homes with yards. I think a 900 sq ft townhome for 400k+ is ridiculous, but I guess I'm just too choosy... or maybe a little bitter from being priced out of my home town.
Yeah, I understand that. I have been house hunting in Charlotte, NC. It is a much cheaper place than Seattle. But I understand the feeling of not necessarily finding what you are looking for at a price that make sense. I ended up pulling the trigger because rent has been going up like crazy.
The cities that are getting the moneys focus are all deep tech forest and VERY upscale. Microsofts main campus is in Redmond, and has satellites in each city named. Those cities also all share a border with at least another named. Microsoft is forced to pay their army of contractors more because its just to expensive to live anywhere near those places.
Yeah, that's how it seems. I guess one could claim that they try to give back to their local community. But most like it is a tax optimization, coupled with trying to keep prices down a little to make their work force cheap, while making them appear that good guys.
Internet is a decentralized platform. It is currently centralized (minitel 2.0 kind of thing) not because of technical problems. It is easy to run your own blog, your own webserver, etc..
The problem is mostly social. Device makers are allowed to keep their platform closed. So if you want something iPhone compatible, it pretty much has to play ball with Apple; and if they don't like it you are screwed. But the issue of running stuff on the iPhone is not a technical issue, but a social (legal) one. It is legal for Apple to shutdown any attempt at opening the iPhone.
Similarly, one can only play PS4 games online on Sony's platform. It is not that we don't have the technical knowledge to make PS4 online games compatible with Xbox's, PC's, or smartphone's. The fundamental problem is social: Sony can force you to play through their network alone and can mess with you if you don't play ball.
I could go on for other platforms, but that is typically where the centralization actually comes from.
Aquaman was probably one of the better DC movies. (Haven't seen WonderWoman yet). The acting was alright. The plot wasn't without holes, but which super hero movie has an ironclad plot. The CGI was sometimes terrible: DC really need to stop the "fight while flying" scenes that look straight out of a bad live action dragon ball z. They were terrible in Justice League and the under water duel in Aquaman had similar problems.
Overall, it entertained me for a couple of hours and I'll probably rewatch it at some point. But as some people put it, while it is a top-tier DC super hero movie, it would be bottom tier if it were a marvel movie.
I see, it is some particular cities in the Seattle metro. Still, I just looked at the map, and the median is way below $1M in most of these areas. Much closer to $600K according to the map. And low-income housing almost by definition will have a cost under the median.
Just checked on zilloz, Issaquah, 1+beds (but most entries are 2+), under $700K for a house, condo, town home, there are 3 pages of results, in Sammamish, there is a page, in Bellevue, there is about 3 pages.
And the loans are to build which is cheaper typically.
So my $400K mark was for the whole region rather than these particular cities in the metro, but still it is below $1M
You are right, I do not live in Seattle. I just looked at the map.
Trulia's data is based on the last 3 month. Are they lying? Is the data inaccurate?
$500 million is about 500 houses here.
We are talking Seattle, Washington, right?
If so, you are clearly wrong.
Accordign to trulia ( https://www.trulia.com/real_es... ) There is only one district of Seattle proper where the median housing price is over 1M. Most of the south the the city seems to have a median around 400K.
Now, they are talking about low-income housing, so certainly houses in the lower end of the curve. Also, they are talking about the Seattle region, not Seattle proper, which is likely to be cheaper. But even at 400K, you are talking about 1250 houses.
According to seattle pi, Seattle see about 19000 application for low income housing(
https://www.seattlepi.com/seat... ), so we are talking about dealing with 7% of the problem.
I am no Microsoft chill, but this isn't negligible. That's not going to solve the whole problem, but that will make a difference.
I have a Rumba. It does its jobs and keeps my floor clean, but it isn't as good as if I were to do it myself. As I can vacuum my whole house in about 30 minutes, while the Rumba just does the first floor in about an hour (and misses spots). But what it is good at is the fact that it does this scheduled daily. Where I only have the time to do this weekly.
My Roomba broke recently (and I'll be getting a new one). And that is exactly why Roomba (and probably other brands or robotic vacuum cleaner) is awesome. It does not do the job perfectly, but it can do it twice a day and take ME only about 2 minutes of my time. So my floor is (well, was) perfectly cleaned at any time because any spot had been vacuumed in the previous 48 hours.
I don't have time to do this myself. And I won't be paying someone to vacuum my entire house every other day.
Regarding the robots that they were using; it sounds like the robots were badly built, weren't waterproof and the robots were not equipped to operate in that particular hotel, and had not been tested in real operating conditions. It is a problem of bad engineering and not a problem with the underlying robot technology. There is no fundamental problem with a robot cart you put luggage in, push room number in, and that drives there.
TFA says 24 processors as well. And you are right, it is clearly wrong. It is clearly 24 cores. My students would not get away with calling them processors :)
So the police haven't even considered that he might have spoofed his MAC address? Or that he used a burner device? Nice police work.
Well, maybe they have considered it. But maybe the bomber isn't very tech savvy and doe not know how to do that or got sloppy. The MAC address seems like a reasonable lead to follow.
Or do you prefer the following scenario:
Inspector, we found fingerprints on the murder weapon.
They can be lifted from a glass and reproduced, we can trust it.
Inspector, we also found DNA.
Forget it, someones DNA can be easily found anywhere and planted.
Inspector, the murder victim wrote a name on the wall in her own blood.
There is no way to know the victim really wrote that.
Inspector, they all belong to the husband of the victim who made reported to beat her before, should we talk to him or arrest him?
No need, it could be an expert frame job. We will never know who committed this murder!
Yes, but can we call some of these degrees "education"? Feminist studies? Auctioneering? Bagpiping?
I could be convinced of the "taxes for college education" angle, but only if we restrict the degrees pursued to an agreed upon list of useful degrees for professions society actually needs. You want to follow your dream of professional bagpipping, fine, but you do it on your own dime.
I do not have a beef with people wanting a degree in Auctioneering or Bagpiping. Even on my tax dollars. That's fine as long as you don't produce 50,000 bag pipers a year. That would be a waste of resources. But I want to live in a world with bagpipers and covering the education of some reasonable number of them seems ok to me.
I think most countries that pay for education through income taxes (France for sure, but most of Europe I assume) have caps on how many students can be in particular majors. That way you still train some people in art history, but much more in physics or computing.
That would be nice... ...
Or passing the savings onto better equipment, more TAs, higher staff/instructor salaries,
But university rankings has created the arm race. Some rankings use completely absurd metrics such as the amount of money spent on basic infrastructure. In some places this has lead to a roundabout being rebuilt every other year because it is a non-disruptive way to spend on basic infrastructure. They have beautiful round abouts...
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Shouldn't all legitimate travel expenses be paid by the employer? Isn't going to a X-science conference a legitimate travel expense for an X scientist? I don't see what is wrong with that. Here the employer happens to be the government.
I bought a house in Charlotte, NC about a year and a half ago. Public transit in this city is terribly under scaled. There are essentially two lightrail lines both going to uptown, one recent from the university, and one older from the rich neighborhood in the south.
I work for the university, so naturally, I tried to find a location where I could leverage the rail (which had not opened yet at the time). And what found is that the last mile is a real issue in Charlotte. If you are not on the rail path, getting to the rail is difficult. People in the south of the city park and ride to go uptown. And the university has readjusted its local buses to account for the rail. But for all other locations you are essentially on your own to get to the rail.
So really the rail is useful for the financial worker leaving in the south who park and ride. And for the students to do their evening/night week-end internships uptown.
I searched for a place on the rail to stop driving my car. And I could not find one at the time that was close enough to a station that I could take the rail, and affordable (even when factoring I could mostly stop driving my car).
I did not even drive before I moved to the US, so I really tried to be able to use the public transit, I could not find a practical option for me.
Well, European cities have grown with public transportation in mind. I have never been to Stockholm, but I assume it is similar to other European cities I have visited. A large backbone of high density, high speed public transit (typically subway and trains), and many more flexible option to cover last mile (typically buses).
That was made possible by the relative density of European cities at the end of the 19th century. North American cities were typically built assuming people would own car and so the backbone was never really built.
We have seen in the last few years many advances of Computer Vision and Machine Learning tools to do segmentation, anime drawing colorization, night picture to day picture conversion, changing meteo conditions, and so on.
Do the GIMP developpers intend to include tools of that sort in the project?
I don't understand what you are saying. I just changed my phone. When I bought it, I made sure there was a headphone jack on it. I had no problem finding what I wanted. (I ended up picking an LG Q7+ if you wonder.)
Jackless phones tend to be the tech high end ones. There I am not surprised not having a jack isn't much of a problem. These phones are pretty much only purchased by tech enthusiast who probably have different wireless headset for their different devices.
The only thing I meant is that the renaming is a lot older than the discussion in python. And in practice Master/Slave is not a term very used by the community to denote that organization. Master/Worker is the term that I hear the most. I hear Manager-Worker mostly as a side notes ("sometimes people call that manager-worker")
I was actually surprised when Hadoop chose to call the non-master nodes 'slaves' since the parallel computing community had pretty much moved to calling them 'worker'.
Lets not forget their getting triggered over master/slave -- https://github.com/python/cpyt...
The parallel computing community was never that happy about calling the paradigm master/slave. Most references use the terminology master/worker these days. We can find references to manager/worker which sound a lot more neutral that date back decades. ( A PACT 2001 paper as a proof https://link.springer.com/chap... )
Lots of term in parallel computing ended up being renamed to make the term more accurate or more neutral. Famously, we no longer talk about "embarrassingly parallel" applications, but about "pleasingly parallel" applications because there is nothing embarrassing about the application being very parallel.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!