I ride UIer about three times a week. I live just far enough from the office, and I have to pay for parking downtown that it's right at the tipping point where riding my bike or taking an uber boils down to the weather.
That said, over half the drivers I talk to have been driving for over six months, and it's their primary source of income. None of them seem particularly malnourished. Right now it's about $4 for a ride in my city, I would imagine if you cut the driver out of the equation the cost will drop significantly. Especially if you can get bulk rate on electricity and switch to electric cars, where you strip out most of the mechanical failure.
If Uber doesn't offer some sort of Owner Operated ride share program (they already finance car loans), then someone else will come behind them and do it.
There's not really much overhead for Uber, uber runs a couple of servers in the cloud, employs a small army of developers, and then operates a field office in each market. Eventually the army of developers will dwindle to a skeleton maintenance staff, and field offices are simply required for how things work, but their overhead long term is going to be very, very low.
Yeah I'm not super keen on renting out my Toyota Corolla or VW whatever car, but I would be willing to buy a car designed and maintained by uber, but I could take on road trips/extended whatever simply by turning "off" the taxi mode an hour or two ahead of when I need to use it, like going camping for the weekend or whatever.
To avoid getting crappy uber users, just set your car to only accept fares from users with at least 100 rides and an average of 4.8 stars or higher (out of 5 = 96%). Yeah on that rare occasion you will get a drunken 5 star rider who barfs in your car, but just send the car over to the Uber service center to get it cleaned up at a minimal cost. Small, almost inconsequential price to pay for basically a free car, maybe even make a profit renting your car out while you sleep/work.
I just shoot my stuff off to one of the many, many dye-sublimation online printers if I need something larger than 8x10 (or it can wait a week). Shutterfly, Snapfish, etc all print 4x6 prints for under $0.25 each and I think I was paying under $2 for 8x10 prints. Send it off, it arrives in a box a couple of days later. Owning a multi-hundred dollar printer, doing my own maintenance, keeping up with the ink is a huge hassle. And dye-sublimation is such a better technology than inkjet. I've been using onine print services since at least 2005.
Maybe ink jets are useful for doing proofs? I can't imagine being a prosumer and printing on ink in 2015.
It is about 70-85% perfect with all callers, and about 97% perfect with people who regularly leave voicemails like family members. In either case it's good enough for me to know what's going on and if I need to call back in the next 15 minutes or not. If there are four sentences and it picks up 3 out of 4 nouns and verbs generally you can figure it out. And that's all I really care about. If I save 30 minutes per week not listening to voicemail, that's a huge win for me. Listening to voicemail ranks up there with getting a root canal for me.
Google bought Titan Aerospace after their prototype flew for one solid year. In 2014. That was a drone... And then recently there was a 120 hour manned flight from Japan to Hawaii in a manned solar powered plane. They've flown about halfway around the world and plan on finishing the full round the world trip with the plane. 4 days flying time is not even notable at this point manned or drone. Airbus is already building and flying prototype 4 person consumer jets across the english channel.
No, this is like bringing up abortion in an economics discussion. It's intentionally inflammatory and only tangentially related at best. Maybe we should be discussing animal rights too, I just have to put it behind a bullet point and a well reasoned argument and it's ok to derail the whole discussion to advance my agenda, right? No. That's stupid. Let him start a newsletter about his issues and people can subscribe to it if they want, there's no reason to drag that topic in here today.
What would it cost to buy out slashdot, presuming it was running at a profit with a skeleton crew before it was sold to dice? Form a non profit, buy the site, rights, etc etc. $2 million? Is slashdot even worth that much? Would they take $300,000 in return for perpetual dice.com banner ads or something? Their tax lawyers would be able to write it off as a loss/capital gain and shareholders could swallow it due to the perpetual advertising presence. We could keep the existing staff and just turn it back in to the independent walled garden it was at one point.
If dice.com, an IT jobs site, could not turn a profit with this, and weren't able to monetize slashdot without destroying what little value it had, I doubt the market value is much more than 95% of the current ad revenue they're getting. These sorts of sites aren't really geared towards being sold to the highest bidder, as the community is ready to walk at any point so you're kind of stuck with the revenue it's already generating via banner ads.
Maybe they could just gift it to the community with the advertising condition? We all knew the buyout was a terrible idea, maybe it's time to just give back the site.
Yeah you're right, an acknowledged bug directly reproducible by using one of Google's core revenue-generating products (YouTube, you may not have heard of it, it's kind of new) is mostly irrelevant and won't cause issues for anyone else. Sorry to make such a fuss.
Sometime in the last five releases it feels like the number of memory leaks in Chrome have just skyrocketed. Maybe I'm not the normal use case, but I typically leave Chrome and various tabs open for days or weeks at a time, and eventually causes Windows to panic and close Chrome to recover that memory. My wild-ass-guess is that it's related to HTML5 video but maybe it's something else. I freakin' love chrome, but the memory leaks are seriously making me consider something a little more stable.
Chrome is the only application I use that ever, ever has memory leaks now in 2015.
You can't avoid second hand smoke either, but you don't have to pay the clerk at the corner store $10 every two days for a pack of cigarettes. Will you reduce your chances of lung cancer to 0? No. Are you less likely to die of it than a "pack a day" smoker? Yes.
Yes to #1, take your TV, throw it out the window. Tune your radio to NPR, install Ad Block, Flash Block, uBlock, Ghostery, etc. on your web browser. You will be shocked - SHOCKED - to find out from your friends when the latest summer blockbuster movies are coming out.
When I moved out of the house at 19 I did not take a TV with me, and I did not miss it. Only at 29 did I buy a TV, and only then so I could watch Netflix on a larger screen, in my living room.
You can buy a used food truck/UPS van for just a few thousand. You can buy a LOT of truck used for twenty large. Independent delivery vehicles typically aren't bought new. If you're in that market as an independent contractor, you're lucky to have a dedicated consumer Garmin unit. There exists a market outside of the new 18 wheeler semitractor, which don't really fit inside of a city as dense as NYC.
Delaware is still effective $400/yr. + contracting out a Delaware mailing address ($75/yr?). Texas (I think) does not require any taxes if your corporation's income is below $1000 but their corporation protection laws are not (nearly) as strong as Delaware or Nevada's.
Their website says 10 Years or 150TBW for the 256GB model and 10 Years or 300TBW for the 1TB model. TBW is "terabytes written". Which isn't the "2 petabytes to failure" marathon test that took 6 months to complete, but 0.3 petabytes written on a 1TB drive is still a lot and way beyond normal consumer usage. My unofficial opinion is that only about 128gb is "hot" and the rest of the storage on a 1TB drive is typically "cold". Even a professional video editor is going to have trouble topping out their warranty.
First and second gen SSDs were garbage, people are reporting 2 petabyte write lifecycles on them. Samsung just announced 10 year warranties on their consumer models. Intel has been offering 10 year warranties on their enterprise models for a few years now.
That said, if you bought anything other than Samsung prior to about 2013, the "old" OCZ in particular (the "new" OCZ is using the corpse of their brand name for Toshiba manufactured drives now) had failure rates in the 15-20% real world return rate numbers reported by retailers. Failure/return rates for all brands are below 5% for all manufacturers now. There was a dark period from 2011-2013 where a ton of terrible drivers and bad hardware shipped, but they're generally very reliable now. Everyone I know has moved to SSD for their primary drive, and are only using rotational drives for medium length local archival purposes.
I can hardly wait until they start manufacturing these with a USB Type-C connector for use with my USB Type-C equipped Laptop/Cellphone/Tablet and this is no longer a newsworthy item.
More specifically, Powershell is getting native SSH support. They didn't announce PS 5.0 will get it, but it's possible 5.1 or 6.0 will see it, version releases have been getting more frequent. A major change like full SSH support would warrant jumping a whole version number, I would think. Maybe released with the next version of Windows Server, sometime next year? That would be great news.
In my office "Working from home" is code for "I have more important things to do today, like open the door for the plumber to come fix my leaky faucet" and "I will answer email, in less than 30 minutes, but I don't expect to get anything worthwhile done today" and "Haha I don't have to take a PTO day for this! Genius!!"
Managers who are on multiple conference calls a day and spend most of their day talking and making decisions can actually be somewhat effective working from home, but unless you're doing "headphones on, cranking out brand new prototype code" I don't think working from home is particularly effective. Especially if you are on the maintenance/operations side of things. Those people/that mindset, their productivity is slightly above that of a corpse. At least a company doesn't have to pay for a corpse's health insurance.
I think you grossly overestimate the power consumption of a modern desktop. Modern PCs only use a couple of watts at idle, under 20. In most cases the display backlight is using more power than the PC. You would have to raise electric taxes to incredible rates for companies to change their policies.Not to mention the fact that power overnight is off-peak generation which is effectively free.
If you look at US power consumption, it's been flat for the last 15 years. This is due to advances in power savings in all electronics. The days of a PC that burns up 100+ watts and people who leave their 250 watt 19" CRT monitors on all day and all night with the screensaver running are over.
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I ride UIer about three times a week. I live just far enough from the office, and I have to pay for parking downtown that it's right at the tipping point where riding my bike or taking an uber boils down to the weather.
That said, over half the drivers I talk to have been driving for over six months, and it's their primary source of income. None of them seem particularly malnourished. Right now it's about $4 for a ride in my city, I would imagine if you cut the driver out of the equation the cost will drop significantly. Especially if you can get bulk rate on electricity and switch to electric cars, where you strip out most of the mechanical failure.
If Uber doesn't offer some sort of Owner Operated ride share program (they already finance car loans), then someone else will come behind them and do it.
There's not really much overhead for Uber, uber runs a couple of servers in the cloud, employs a small army of developers, and then operates a field office in each market. Eventually the army of developers will dwindle to a skeleton maintenance staff, and field offices are simply required for how things work, but their overhead long term is going to be very, very low.
Yeah I'm not super keen on renting out my Toyota Corolla or VW whatever car, but I would be willing to buy a car designed and maintained by uber, but I could take on road trips/extended whatever simply by turning "off" the taxi mode an hour or two ahead of when I need to use it, like going camping for the weekend or whatever.
To avoid getting crappy uber users, just set your car to only accept fares from users with at least 100 rides and an average of 4.8 stars or higher (out of 5 = 96%). Yeah on that rare occasion you will get a drunken 5 star rider who barfs in your car, but just send the car over to the Uber service center to get it cleaned up at a minimal cost. Small, almost inconsequential price to pay for basically a free car, maybe even make a profit renting your car out while you sleep/work.
I just shoot my stuff off to one of the many, many dye-sublimation online printers if I need something larger than 8x10 (or it can wait a week). Shutterfly, Snapfish, etc all print 4x6 prints for under $0.25 each and I think I was paying under $2 for 8x10 prints. Send it off, it arrives in a box a couple of days later. Owning a multi-hundred dollar printer, doing my own maintenance, keeping up with the ink is a huge hassle. And dye-sublimation is such a better technology than inkjet. I've been using onine print services since at least 2005.
Maybe ink jets are useful for doing proofs? I can't imagine being a prosumer and printing on ink in 2015.
It is about 70-85% perfect with all callers, and about 97% perfect with people who regularly leave voicemails like family members. In either case it's good enough for me to know what's going on and if I need to call back in the next 15 minutes or not. If there are four sentences and it picks up 3 out of 4 nouns and verbs generally you can figure it out. And that's all I really care about. If I save 30 minutes per week not listening to voicemail, that's a huge win for me. Listening to voicemail ranks up there with getting a root canal for me.
Google bought Titan Aerospace after their prototype flew for one solid year. In 2014. That was a drone... And then recently there was a 120 hour manned flight from Japan to Hawaii in a manned solar powered plane. They've flown about halfway around the world and plan on finishing the full round the world trip with the plane. 4 days flying time is not even notable at this point manned or drone. Airbus is already building and flying prototype 4 person consumer jets across the english channel.
No, this is like bringing up abortion in an economics discussion. It's intentionally inflammatory and only tangentially related at best. Maybe we should be discussing animal rights too, I just have to put it behind a bullet point and a well reasoned argument and it's ok to derail the whole discussion to advance my agenda, right? No. That's stupid. Let him start a newsletter about his issues and people can subscribe to it if they want, there's no reason to drag that topic in here today.
You need to find a new hobby, dude. Like, take up kites or something.
What would it cost to buy out slashdot, presuming it was running at a profit with a skeleton crew before it was sold to dice? Form a non profit, buy the site, rights, etc etc. $2 million? Is slashdot even worth that much? Would they take $300,000 in return for perpetual dice.com banner ads or something? Their tax lawyers would be able to write it off as a loss/capital gain and shareholders could swallow it due to the perpetual advertising presence. We could keep the existing staff and just turn it back in to the independent walled garden it was at one point.
If dice.com, an IT jobs site, could not turn a profit with this, and weren't able to monetize slashdot without destroying what little value it had, I doubt the market value is much more than 95% of the current ad revenue they're getting. These sorts of sites aren't really geared towards being sold to the highest bidder, as the community is ready to walk at any point so you're kind of stuck with the revenue it's already generating via banner ads.
Maybe they could just gift it to the community with the advertising condition? We all knew the buyout was a terrible idea, maybe it's time to just give back the site.
2. Nope not even going to touch this, go home. Adults have better things to do with their time.
Yeah you're right, an acknowledged bug directly reproducible by using one of Google's core revenue-generating products (YouTube, you may not have heard of it, it's kind of new) is mostly irrelevant and won't cause issues for anyone else. Sorry to make such a fuss.
Sometime in the last five releases it feels like the number of memory leaks in Chrome have just skyrocketed. Maybe I'm not the normal use case, but I typically leave Chrome and various tabs open for days or weeks at a time, and eventually causes Windows to panic and close Chrome to recover that memory. My wild-ass-guess is that it's related to HTML5 video but maybe it's something else. I freakin' love chrome, but the memory leaks are seriously making me consider something a little more stable.
Chrome is the only application I use that ever, ever has memory leaks now in 2015.
You can't avoid second hand smoke either, but you don't have to pay the clerk at the corner store $10 every two days for a pack of cigarettes. Will you reduce your chances of lung cancer to 0? No. Are you less likely to die of it than a "pack a day" smoker? Yes.
I think you mean the memo from 2002, and so others can find it, here's a link to it.
Yes to #1, take your TV, throw it out the window. Tune your radio to NPR, install Ad Block, Flash Block, uBlock, Ghostery, etc. on your web browser. You will be shocked - SHOCKED - to find out from your friends when the latest summer blockbuster movies are coming out.
When I moved out of the house at 19 I did not take a TV with me, and I did not miss it. Only at 29 did I buy a TV, and only then so I could watch Netflix on a larger screen, in my living room.
You can buy a used food truck/UPS van for just a few thousand. You can buy a LOT of truck used for twenty large. Independent delivery vehicles typically aren't bought new. If you're in that market as an independent contractor, you're lucky to have a dedicated consumer Garmin unit. There exists a market outside of the new 18 wheeler semitractor, which don't really fit inside of a city as dense as NYC.
Delaware is still effective $400/yr. + contracting out a Delaware mailing address ($75/yr?). Texas (I think) does not require any taxes if your corporation's income is below $1000 but their corporation protection laws are not (nearly) as strong as Delaware or Nevada's.
Their website says 10 Years or 150TBW for the 256GB model and 10 Years or 300TBW for the 1TB model. TBW is "terabytes written". Which isn't the "2 petabytes to failure" marathon test that took 6 months to complete, but 0.3 petabytes written on a 1TB drive is still a lot and way beyond normal consumer usage. My unofficial opinion is that only about 128gb is "hot" and the rest of the storage on a 1TB drive is typically "cold". Even a professional video editor is going to have trouble topping out their warranty.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/warranty.html
First and second gen SSDs were garbage, people are reporting 2 petabyte write lifecycles on them. Samsung just announced 10 year warranties on their consumer models. Intel has been offering 10 year warranties on their enterprise models for a few years now.
That said, if you bought anything other than Samsung prior to about 2013, the "old" OCZ in particular (the "new" OCZ is using the corpse of their brand name for Toshiba manufactured drives now) had failure rates in the 15-20% real world return rate numbers reported by retailers. Failure/return rates for all brands are below 5% for all manufacturers now. There was a dark period from 2011-2013 where a ton of terrible drivers and bad hardware shipped, but they're generally very reliable now. Everyone I know has moved to SSD for their primary drive, and are only using rotational drives for medium length local archival purposes.
I can hardly wait until they start manufacturing these with a USB Type-C connector for use with my USB Type-C equipped Laptop/Cellphone/Tablet and this is no longer a newsworthy item.
More specifically, Powershell is getting native SSH support. They didn't announce PS 5.0 will get it, but it's possible 5.1 or 6.0 will see it, version releases have been getting more frequent. A major change like full SSH support would warrant jumping a whole version number, I would think. Maybe released with the next version of Windows Server, sometime next year? That would be great news.
In my office "Working from home" is code for "I have more important things to do today, like open the door for the plumber to come fix my leaky faucet" and "I will answer email, in less than 30 minutes, but I don't expect to get anything worthwhile done today" and "Haha I don't have to take a PTO day for this! Genius!!"
Managers who are on multiple conference calls a day and spend most of their day talking and making decisions can actually be somewhat effective working from home, but unless you're doing "headphones on, cranking out brand new prototype code" I don't think working from home is particularly effective. Especially if you are on the maintenance/operations side of things. Those people/that mindset, their productivity is slightly above that of a corpse. At least a company doesn't have to pay for a corpse's health insurance.
Is there a video/paper on this experiment? Sounds interesting. How big is the resulting crystal?
Just 30-90 days to determine if an IP address is used in a legacy system the size of GE stretching back 35 years? You're mad, MAD.
I think you grossly overestimate the power consumption of a modern desktop. Modern PCs only use a couple of watts at idle, under 20. In most cases the display backlight is using more power than the PC. You would have to raise electric taxes to incredible rates for companies to change their policies.Not to mention the fact that power overnight is off-peak generation which is effectively free.
If you look at US power consumption, it's been flat for the last 15 years. This is due to advances in power savings in all electronics. The days of a PC that burns up 100+ watts and people who leave their 250 watt 19" CRT monitors on all day and all night with the screensaver running are over.