My stereo headset becomes the active, default output once I plug it in, and the speakers assume that role as soon as I unplug it.
Back in the day, this used to be a hardwired thing, using tiny switch elements in the socket. In my current systems, the ALSA driver presents an auto-mute feature for when you plug in the headset. (The headset will go mute again when you unplug it, using a different kind of magic.) Now if you need a userspace daemon to do this, does it mean the kernel driver should become a lot simpler?
This. For video and audio on the web, there are much better tools. I basically youtube-dl | mplayer so I can watch the fscking video instead of watching a browser. I'm old enough to remember sharing fun videos online before Youtube, and I guess we can all go back to a decent web again.
Als[ao], those who do not understand ALSA (with dmix) are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
Google Chat? (that thing before Hangouts and Voice), also XMPP.
I use Google Hangouts over XMPP. I've specifically chosen Hangouts as most of my contacts already use Google accounts, and I can use it with a proper client.
A few decades ago, simply being homosexual made you a sex criminal. Laws change as do individual ethics. I'm sure here on Slashdot we could point out a few things in current legislation that shouldn't be there.
Dude, leave your bedroom, stop jerking off to porn, and learn what the fuck everyone else does with their lives. Fucking around with some half baked OS is not one of them.
I'll tell that to my students in my next workshop later this week. Fortunately, the local school uses Linux, so I don't have to carry around LiveCDs to get an OS that comes with real programming and graphing tools by default.
I'm not complaining. I switched from DOS/Windows to Linux in 1999. But in my experience, most people don't want to hear about alternatives. Sometimes when they see my X terminals they say I must be some kind of a hacker, so I guess the whole Linux thing is somehow intimidating. As if that's the only way to use Linux, but I guess people are used to one single OS looking exactly alike on different users' machines.
It's basically the same Stockholm syndrome you see in failed relationships. People fear stepping out of the familiar territory, even if it would be better for them in the long run. Complaining about Windows or your spouse to your friends or cow-orkers is a shared experience.
Daylight Savings Time is good. We need to stop turning it off in the winter.
But then you will have noon at 1pm every day, and midnight at 1 am. That's the silly bit about trying to redefine time, which used to have some connection to natural cycles. If you throw away that connection, you might as well rename things from A o'clock to Z o'clock.
I agree we should keep the same time all year, just like we should keep the same definitions for other physical measurements (think of making the meter shorter in the winter). But if you want DST all year, then what you really want is a shift in work hours etc. in relation to natural cycles. That is something you can fix without ruining time itself.
Also, if some people just want to go to work earlier than others, they should find a job that allows such a thing, instead of mandating such a shift for everyone. Moreover, if you're an early bird, do you really need to get to work first thing in the morning, or can you just wake up early and do other useful things before work?
Think of all the jobs he is creating! With that kind of spending, he could employ the entire world for a while. After all, having jobs is more important than getting things done or doing them efficiently. Besides, when you're not being conservative in the physical sense, it means you're being progressive — progressing steadily down the drain.
It didn't help that people kept tombstoning off it despite fences and signs saying please don't because it's fragile and you're wearing it away by doing so.
I still have a piece of it in my necklace, but fortunately I'm far up North now, so you might say I'm wearing it away. Not to be pendantic or anything.
Looking into it more, I discovered that Intel does this a *lot*, with sprinkles of support for this and that across a huge range of chipsets. With AMD, I haven't found a chip without AMD-V/VT-x in forever.
Now this was a bit of an older CPU for sure, but it seems that even newer Intel CPU's one has to be very careful that options like VT-D and others aren't neutered out.
I sometimes pay a little extra to make things easier for me. But with Intel, they make CPU selection harder even when you pay more >.<
IIRC, one reason behind the invention of integrated circuits was the constant unreliability of interconnects. Imagine all the wiring in a room-sized computer made of vacuum tubes or discrete transistors; to replace it all with a single block of silicon would make a technician's life a lot easier. So with multi-socket mobos it's the same problem all over again, with the same solution.
Most languages have followed the sequential model of Fortran, executing one operation after another, he said. 'That's not how the world works anymore. We now have lots of cores available to us, which all want to be running at the same time.'"
That's pretty ironic, considering Fortran (at least F90 and up) has native parallel programming features. Namely vector/matrix math syntax, which decent compilers can turn into hardware-level parallelism.
I must say that FPGA design (using Verilog) helped me understand multithreaded programming enormously. The physically parallel circuit design is unforgivable, compared to multithreaded code that might work despite lacking the proper rigour.
OTOH, as a physicist I was already used to languages with inherent parallel math. For example Fortran has native vector/matrix math that proper compilers can parallelize automatically. I guess the physics background also helps to think about vectors as inherently parallel beings, because nature does not loop over dimensions.
I've been thinking of setting up a Nazi party, because people sometimes call me a nazi due to my attention to detail and willingness to maintain order and sense. The party would have nothing to do with national socialists, right wing extremists etc. as it would be all about logic and reason. We would base our decisions on science rather than semi-religious feelgood arguments, which seem to be common in politics.
I guess things would be better if people knew how email works. First you inflate the file size by some funky encoding, then you store and forward the message on all those servers. But who cares in an age where email = webmail anyway...
You'll be a paid in NZ Dollars, (currently US$0.71)
News flash: sovereign countries have their own currencies.
and a lower amount than if you were working in the USA, Australia or Canada.
This is completely meaningless without an idea of the general level of prices. There are places where you can live like a king on an average Western salary. I'm guessing your idea of an opportunity is amassing a pile of money in a short time and returning home, instead of actually living out there in the world.
I'm not a huge fan of panspermia in general, as it seems to add an additional step to a problem, but really just pushes the question back.
Surely it's more likely that life developed at all, compared to life developing on one particular planet. I agree there's the additional probability/step of getting life from there to here, but that would balance it out to some extent.
I also wonder how similar life elsewhere turns out in case there's no panspermia. For example, the handedness of molecules in Earthly life is related to CP violation of physics, which I expect to be the same all around.
Those are not skills that you need, they are skills experts simply can't avoid acquiring as part of working in a field for many years.
Good point. The problem is that a good candidate isn't necessarily the same thing as a seasoned expert in that field. Sometimes the best people come from outside the field, with new ways of thinking about old problems. Even within a specific IT field, for example, a decent programmer is supposed to be learning new languages and tools every now and then. If you're expected to work for years with the same static skillset, it doesn't exactly look like a great place to work.
You're laughing over market-speak logic, but here's a question for you... why did marketers go from "2K" to "4K" television screens when they could have been both more accurate and more impressive by going from (1920x1080=) "2MP" to (3840x2160=) "8MP" screens?
Duh, megapixels are for digital cameras, that's got nothing to do with displays.
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I'm trying to make a joke about Nestle here, but I'm afraid my brain is rotten after eating everything they produce.
My stereo headset becomes the active, default output once I plug it in, and the speakers assume that role as soon as I unplug it.
Back in the day, this used to be a hardwired thing, using tiny switch elements in the socket. In my current systems, the ALSA driver presents an auto-mute feature for when you plug in the headset. (The headset will go mute again when you unplug it, using a different kind of magic.) Now if you need a userspace daemon to do this, does it mean the kernel driver should become a lot simpler?
This. For video and audio on the web, there are much better tools. I basically youtube-dl | mplayer so I can watch the fscking video instead of watching a browser. I'm old enough to remember sharing fun videos online before Youtube, and I guess we can all go back to a decent web again.
Als[ao], those who do not understand ALSA (with dmix) are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
Google Chat? (that thing before Hangouts and Voice), also XMPP.
I use Google Hangouts over XMPP. I've specifically chosen Hangouts as most of my contacts already use Google accounts, and I can use it with a proper client.
Sex crime by definition means you're a pervert.
A few decades ago, simply being homosexual made you a sex criminal. Laws change as do individual ethics. I'm sure here on Slashdot we could point out a few things in current legislation that shouldn't be there.
Dude, leave your bedroom, stop jerking off to porn, and learn what the fuck everyone else does with their lives. Fucking around with some half baked OS is not one of them.
I'll tell that to my students in my next workshop later this week. Fortunately, the local school uses Linux, so I don't have to carry around LiveCDs to get an OS that comes with real programming and graphing tools by default.
I'm not complaining. I switched from DOS/Windows to Linux in 1999. But in my experience, most people don't want to hear about alternatives. Sometimes when they see my X terminals they say I must be some kind of a hacker, so I guess the whole Linux thing is somehow intimidating. As if that's the only way to use Linux, but I guess people are used to one single OS looking exactly alike on different users' machines.
It's basically the same Stockholm syndrome you see in failed relationships. People fear stepping out of the familiar territory, even if it would be better for them in the long run. Complaining about Windows or your spouse to your friends or cow-orkers is a shared experience.
So it's like inflation, but more of it? Does it mean that regular meters also inflate their readings, though not as much?
Daylight Savings Time is good. We need to stop turning it off in the winter.
But then you will have noon at 1pm every day, and midnight at 1 am. That's the silly bit about trying to redefine time, which used to have some connection to natural cycles. If you throw away that connection, you might as well rename things from A o'clock to Z o'clock.
I agree we should keep the same time all year, just like we should keep the same definitions for other physical measurements (think of making the meter shorter in the winter). But if you want DST all year, then what you really want is a shift in work hours etc. in relation to natural cycles. That is something you can fix without ruining time itself.
Also, if some people just want to go to work earlier than others, they should find a job that allows such a thing, instead of mandating such a shift for everyone. Moreover, if you're an early bird, do you really need to get to work first thing in the morning, or can you just wake up early and do other useful things before work?
Think of all the jobs he is creating! With that kind of spending, he could employ the entire world for a while. After all, having jobs is more important than getting things done or doing them efficiently. Besides, when you're not being conservative in the physical sense, it means you're being progressive — progressing steadily down the drain.
Some people are saying that @realDonaldTrump is definitely a bot. But I wouldn't want to tell you that, you'll have to make your own mind up about it.
yup http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...
It didn't help that people kept tombstoning off it despite fences and signs saying please don't because it's fragile and you're wearing it away by doing so.
I still have a piece of it in my necklace, but fortunately I'm far up North now, so you might say I'm wearing it away. Not to be pendantic or anything.
Looking into it more, I discovered that Intel does this a *lot*, with sprinkles of support for this and that across a huge range of chipsets. With AMD, I haven't found a chip without AMD-V/VT-x in forever.
Now this was a bit of an older CPU for sure, but it seems that even newer Intel CPU's one has to be very careful that options like VT-D and others aren't neutered out.
I sometimes pay a little extra to make things easier for me. But with Intel, they make CPU selection harder even when you pay more >.<
IIRC, one reason behind the invention of integrated circuits was the constant unreliability of interconnects. Imagine all the wiring in a room-sized computer made of vacuum tubes or discrete transistors; to replace it all with a single block of silicon would make a technician's life a lot easier. So with multi-socket mobos it's the same problem all over again, with the same solution.
Most languages have followed the sequential model of Fortran, executing one operation after another, he said. 'That's not how the world works anymore. We now have lots of cores available to us, which all want to be running at the same time.'"
That's pretty ironic, considering Fortran (at least F90 and up) has native parallel programming features. Namely vector/matrix math syntax, which decent compilers can turn into hardware-level parallelism.
I must say that FPGA design (using Verilog) helped me understand multithreaded programming enormously. The physically parallel circuit design is unforgivable, compared to multithreaded code that might work despite lacking the proper rigour.
OTOH, as a physicist I was already used to languages with inherent parallel math. For example Fortran has native vector/matrix math that proper compilers can parallelize automatically. I guess the physics background also helps to think about vectors as inherently parallel beings, because nature does not loop over dimensions.
I've been thinking of setting up a Nazi party, because people sometimes call me a nazi due to my attention to detail and willingness to maintain order and sense. The party would have nothing to do with national socialists, right wing extremists etc. as it would be all about logic and reason. We would base our decisions on science rather than semi-religious feelgood arguments, which seem to be common in politics.
I guess things would be better if people knew how email works. First you inflate the file size by some funky encoding, then you store and forward the message on all those servers. But who cares in an age where email = webmail anyway...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
You'll be a paid in NZ Dollars, (currently US$0.71)
News flash: sovereign countries have their own currencies.
and a lower amount than if you were working in the USA, Australia or Canada.
This is completely meaningless without an idea of the general level of prices. There are places where you can live like a king on an average Western salary. I'm guessing your idea of an opportunity is amassing a pile of money in a short time and returning home, instead of actually living out there in the world.
I'm not a huge fan of panspermia in general, as it seems to add an additional step to a problem, but really just pushes the question back.
Surely it's more likely that life developed at all, compared to life developing on one particular planet. I agree there's the additional probability/step of getting life from there to here, but that would balance it out to some extent.
I also wonder how similar life elsewhere turns out in case there's no panspermia. For example, the handedness of molecules in Earthly life is related to CP violation of physics, which I expect to be the same all around.
Those are not skills that you need, they are skills experts simply can't avoid acquiring as part of working in a field for many years.
Good point. The problem is that a good candidate isn't necessarily the same thing as a seasoned expert in that field. Sometimes the best people come from outside the field, with new ways of thinking about old problems. Even within a specific IT field, for example, a decent programmer is supposed to be learning new languages and tools every now and then. If you're expected to work for years with the same static skillset, it doesn't exactly look like a great place to work.
and I don't know what "truth" means. I look up things like "democracy" and "separation of powers". I don't do riddles.
You're laughing over market-speak logic, but here's a question for you... why did marketers go from "2K" to "4K" television screens when they could have been both more accurate and more impressive by going from (1920x1080=) "2MP" to (3840x2160=) "8MP" screens?
Duh, megapixels are for digital cameras, that's got nothing to do with displays.
Would you say that "50% more" is the same as "50% as much"?