That employees a lot of people. And those people give like 20-30% of what paid back. Probably tried to keep the contract to keep those people their jobs, until they could maybe find something else to work on, or already were on something needed and underfunded, just under the spacesuit contract. The latter happens a lot.
Wouldn't that require an 8.005624549-bit integer type?
No. log2(116) + 1 (because first bit is 0/1, every other is 2^n where n>1 = 7.85798099513. Then, you floor the value because the 7 is the highest-order bit needed, and the remainder is made up as a subset (i.e. 1 doesn't require another bit to represent, can be represented in combination of lower bits). So 7 bits. So even using 8-bit bytes, signed or unsigned, her age would be fine..
"non-essential" means that the building won't blow up if they don't come into work, not that their work contributes to the organizational goal. essential are folks like basic skeleton security, some facilities folk, etc.
30 whole seconds? My 4 year old linux laptop goes from power button to fully booted gnome with wifi loaded in 2.91 seconds. And that's comparing to "done everything, all services loaded" (mine) to "ready to take some basic input and wait another 4 minutes to load bloatware" (winblows)
There's just as many people doing nothing in government as in private sector.. I've worked for both. Big difference is that in government, those people end up isolated and ignored as far as things go, whereas most of my experience in private shows that they get promoted to a critical gate and end up slowing everything way down. Also, in my experience, generally folks working in the federal space are smarter and better trained.
I personally think the solution isn't to get rid of the good people in Federal positions, for the most part everyone is doing something and something important for society at that. What we need to do is to rethink how we approach public issues and better manage Federal growth. Stop creating new boards and agencies and better utilize what we have. Think about how problems can be addressed without yet another agency / task force.
Why federal government work is important is that it is non-profit work dedicated toward public good (or at least that's the intent for most of the work). Private companies are about lock-in and profits. Like would you rather NIH cure something and it be public domain or monsanto patent the cure and charge $5000 a minute just to look at it? Would you rather have a private company nickle-and-dime everything related to transportation (moreso than we've already introduced with bridge bonds and private roads, etc), only pay for building/expanding the most profitable roads, etc., or would you rather have a government organization whose sole mission is to support such things?
Sure, you pay for it either way, via taxes or via private sale. The difference is that 100% of the money that goes into government comes out as public assets, whereas companies are only there to make more and more profit on you.
Their update made is to instead of apps talking directly to webcams, they instead now all go through a central microsoft-provided service. So it broke all the apps that talked directly to webcams and used certain codecs which I assume were too hard to intercept and decode at the driver level realtime AND keep the video playing realtime. You need to offload into a service so it's one constantly recorded stream instead of one direct stream and one side-channel recorded to do that. And that's what they did.
That's right. You can bring in whatever you want, you just can't hook it up to the network. And depending on how important the scientist is, you can break any and all the rules that gets them sciencing faster. They are the customer. Their work is the mission. You may have to clean up a lot afterwards, and what's why you create guidelines and don't let any ol' person with a degree do whatever they want, but in the end your job working IT in such jobs is supporting the scientists in their work (the primary goal of the institution/lab/whatever) NOT imposing your knowledge of best practices onto them.
.they see an interface that looks a little different from the Windows they're used to, and they're paralyzed
What? Absolute bullshit. I hand novice users my laptop all the time. I show them how to move the mouse to the top-left corner so they can click firefox. Nobody has a problem or even further questions. If they wanna open something else, they do the one step I taught them: Move the mouse to the top-left corner, and if it's not a button in the left pane, they look around. Within a second because the upper-left corner gives an overlay such that everything past it is somewhat-opaque gray, their eyes focus toward the button they click to access ALL graphical applications.
Literally I've given gnome3 to 90 year old women who can't use windows and show them the 'one way to access stuff' and they have no problem..
That's crazy. Updates that don't just require their dependent services be restarted? You're one of those crazy leenaux nuts aren't ya? What'll you tell me next, that every time I install a new application I shouldn't have to restart either?
That's very obvious if it were programmers writing most of these simulations/calculations/farm jobs. In reality, it's mostly scientists who happen to know a bit of programming who write the "driver" application which uses other minor libs that go sometimes up to 100 levels deep, all developed in the same situation. Even if the end-point scientist was forced to add checkpoints or otherwise saveable and restorable state in some form, if 40% of the work happens 52 levels deep in that chain, and 40% happens 64 levels deep in the other direction, your only choices are really "Save at beginning" or "Save at done." Oh, and you also can't modify those deep levels because they constantly change and have to be completely rewritten (and thus not patchable) because... again, they're written by non-developers.
At that point, they (much like Twitter), should be treated as a "utility" in legal terms and forced to allow all speech,
Unfortunately it's come up several times, and actions by regulated utilities are NOT acts of state, and thus aren't bound to the restrictions placed on the govt at large.
Insanity is said to be trying the same thing and expecting a different result.
That's an awful and very wrong quote. It sounds cool, I guess, unless you read it, and simplify it to "If at first you don't succeed, give up." So if I shoot a basketball once, it doesn't go in the net, if I shoot it again from the same spot with the same form I'm crazy? Nah. That's called practice and determination.
And now I have to check multiple folders when I'm expecting an email instead of just one... Password reset? Let's see, will gmail automatically put that in inbox? (unlikely) How about Spam? Maybe. "Social"? Maybe. Not come at all because that same email text is sent to multiple people? Maybe. Who knows.
I find if I make such a mistake, it's usually because I'm typing the phonetics, as I would speak it in conversation, and not focusing on writing. But maybe you're not so personable...
I still have a flip. And everybody at work notices, when I pull out my phone to actually make a call or text (and can do both without even looking at it.) Some are amazed that with a career in computers I don't want to be constantly connected/enslaved to a small-screen computer, and actually want to look up or at trees, or have conversations with friends using my mouth. I'm amazed that they DO want to ignore the world and exist only in their small, digital, impersonal realm. (BTW, Yes I know there's a computer in the flip phone, I'm not using the term in that way).
For me, at least, there's a difference between "anonymous" and "name not released" or "redacted." Like if I make an anonymous tip, it's different than if I make a tip on the condition of anonymity. It's generally reported on differently too when they list the source. Maybe I'm just trusting the summary writer in their use of terms too much though; this is slashdot after all.. you wouldn't actually expect me to verify the summary with TFA would you??
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That employees a lot of people. And those people give like 20-30% of what paid back. Probably tried to keep the contract to keep those people their jobs, until they could maybe find something else to work on, or already were on something needed and underfunded, just under the spacesuit contract. The latter happens a lot.
A tomahawk costs about 1.5 - 1.8 million.
Sounds like you think that Shawn Kemp's can only be found at collages..
(i.e. 1 doesn't require another bit
Should have read "less than 1 doesn't require another bit" but slashey ate my <
Wouldn't that require an 8.005624549-bit integer type?
No. log2(116) + 1 (because first bit is 0/1, every other is 2^n where n>1 = 7.85798099513. Then, you floor the value because the 7 is the highest-order bit needed, and the remainder is made up as a subset (i.e. 1 doesn't require another bit to represent, can be represented in combination of lower bits). So 7 bits. So even using 8-bit bytes, signed or unsigned, her age would be fine..
"non-essential" means that the building won't blow up if they don't come into work, not that their work contributes to the organizational goal. essential are folks like basic skeleton security, some facilities folk, etc.
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30 whole seconds? My 4 year old linux laptop goes from power button to fully booted gnome with wifi loaded in 2.91 seconds. And that's comparing to "done everything, all services loaded" (mine) to "ready to take some basic input and wait another 4 minutes to load bloatware" (winblows)
There's just as many people doing nothing in government as in private sector.. I've worked for both. Big difference is that in government, those people end up isolated and ignored as far as things go, whereas most of my experience in private shows that they get promoted to a critical gate and end up slowing everything way down. Also, in my experience, generally folks working in the federal space are smarter and better trained.
I personally think the solution isn't to get rid of the good people in Federal positions, for the most part everyone is doing something and something important for society at that. What we need to do is to rethink how we approach public issues and better manage Federal growth. Stop creating new boards and agencies and better utilize what we have. Think about how problems can be addressed without yet another agency / task force.
Why federal government work is important is that it is non-profit work dedicated toward public good (or at least that's the intent for most of the work). Private companies are about lock-in and profits. Like would you rather NIH cure something and it be public domain or monsanto patent the cure and charge $5000 a minute just to look at it? Would you rather have a private company nickle-and-dime everything related to transportation (moreso than we've already introduced with bridge bonds and private roads, etc), only pay for building/expanding the most profitable roads, etc., or would you rather have a government organization whose sole mission is to support such things?
Sure, you pay for it either way, via taxes or via private sale. The difference is that 100% of the money that goes into government comes out as public assets, whereas companies are only there to make more and more profit on you.
You're making things overly complicated. "What for", while also incorrect, can be simplfiied by a three-letter word which already exists: "Why"
Equivalent to .com? What, we can't say TLD here? Slashdot: catering to the LCD :(
Their update made is to instead of apps talking directly to webcams, they instead now all go through a central microsoft-provided service. So it broke all the apps that talked directly to webcams and used certain codecs which I assume were too hard to intercept and decode at the driver level realtime AND keep the video playing realtime. You need to offload into a service so it's one constantly recorded stream instead of one direct stream and one side-channel recorded to do that. And that's what they did.
That's right. You can bring in whatever you want, you just can't hook it up to the network. And depending on how important the scientist is, you can break any and all the rules that gets them sciencing faster. They are the customer. Their work is the mission. You may have to clean up a lot afterwards, and what's why you create guidelines and don't let any ol' person with a degree do whatever they want, but in the end your job working IT in such jobs is supporting the scientists in their work (the primary goal of the institution/lab/whatever) NOT imposing your knowledge of best practices onto them.
.they see an interface that looks a little different from the Windows they're used to, and they're paralyzed
What? Absolute bullshit. I hand novice users my laptop all the time. I show them how to move the mouse to the top-left corner so they can click firefox. Nobody has a problem or even further questions. If they wanna open something else, they do the one step I taught them: Move the mouse to the top-left corner, and if it's not a button in the left pane, they look around. Within a second because the upper-left corner gives an overlay such that everything past it is somewhat-opaque gray, their eyes focus toward the button they click to access ALL graphical applications.
Literally I've given gnome3 to 90 year old women who can't use windows and show them the 'one way to access stuff' and they have no problem..
That's crazy. Updates that don't just require their dependent services be restarted? You're one of those crazy leenaux nuts aren't ya? What'll you tell me next, that every time I install a new application I shouldn't have to restart either?
That's very obvious if it were programmers writing most of these simulations/calculations/farm jobs. In reality, it's mostly scientists who happen to know a bit of programming who write the "driver" application which uses other minor libs that go sometimes up to 100 levels deep, all developed in the same situation. Even if the end-point scientist was forced to add checkpoints or otherwise saveable and restorable state in some form, if 40% of the work happens 52 levels deep in that chain, and 40% happens 64 levels deep in the other direction, your only choices are really "Save at beginning" or "Save at done." Oh, and you also can't modify those deep levels because they constantly change and have to be completely rewritten (and thus not patchable) because... again, they're written by non-developers.
Source: Years working in such fields.
nail on the head.
At that point, they (much like Twitter), should be treated as a "utility" in legal terms and forced to allow all speech,
Unfortunately it's come up several times, and actions by regulated utilities are NOT acts of state, and thus aren't bound to the restrictions placed on the govt at large.
Here's a related supreme court case on the matter, from that funky year of 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Insanity is said to be trying the same thing and expecting a different result.
That's an awful and very wrong quote. It sounds cool, I guess, unless you read it, and simplify it to "If at first you don't succeed, give up." So if I shoot a basketball once, it doesn't go in the net, if I shoot it again from the same spot with the same form I'm crazy? Nah. That's called practice and determination.
And now I have to check multiple folders when I'm expecting an email instead of just one... Password reset? Let's see, will gmail automatically put that in inbox? (unlikely) How about Spam? Maybe. "Social"? Maybe. Not come at all because that same email text is sent to multiple people? Maybe. Who knows.
I find if I make such a mistake, it's usually because I'm typing the phonetics, as I would speak it in conversation, and not focusing on writing. But maybe you're not so personable...
I still have a flip. And everybody at work notices, when I pull out my phone to actually make a call or text (and can do both without even looking at it.) Some are amazed that with a career in computers I don't want to be constantly connected/enslaved to a small-screen computer, and actually want to look up or at trees, or have conversations with friends using my mouth. I'm amazed that they DO want to ignore the world and exist only in their small, digital, impersonal realm. (BTW, Yes I know there's a computer in the flip phone, I'm not using the term in that way).
It also codified a lot of extensions (like intel's SSE and SSE2) as part of the core.
For me, at least, there's a difference between "anonymous" and "name not released" or "redacted." Like if I make an anonymous tip, it's different than if I make a tip on the condition of anonymity. It's generally reported on differently too when they list the source. Maybe I'm just trusting the summary writer in their use of terms too much though; this is slashdot after all.. you wouldn't actually expect me to verify the summary with TFA would you??