If you pray, you're basically circumventing drug access controls. Also, cerebrospinal fluid should be banned due to its DMT content (not to mention vision problems in space).
Also, consider that the AES instructions are called AES-NI (new instructions) in Intel parlance. So I wonder if these new chips feature something like Knights-NI.
When I was an undergrad, the university was more worried about wasting the capacity of overseas links than what you used it for. It makes more sense to share stuff within the academic network than for each user to stream their own copy of the same thing. A lot of students realized this a long time ago, but today we care more about being legit than conserving resources.
I have a Bluetooth keyboard that I can use w/ any of my phones or tablets
I also got one back in the day, but I now wonder why. A separate keyboard ruins the whole idea of a phone that's always with you as a single, small package. It's also hard to use unless you're sitting down. Nokia got it right with the N900 and its slide keyboard, which BTW is considerably smaller and more "pocketable" than today's thin but wide slabs.
Ah, I remember the particle wind idea from my undergrad days. A more recent favourite of mine is structure formation, which doesn't propose any new physics. As matter is clumped into galaxies etc., we observe matter being pulled into these centres of attraction, so the rarefied spaces in between appear to be stretching.
https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.236...
Work gives one a sense of pride in accomplishment and soaks up our time. It is a social activity that matures us through forced interaction with many other different people. It gives a sense of belonging and inclusion. It stabilizes us.
If you're lucky enough to have all this from work, then good for you. Hopefully, you'll also have some energy left to do other fun things in your spare time, with all the extra money from work.
In practice, many people are working soul-crushing jobs only to (1) stay alive, and possibly (2) fund the thing that really gives them the aforementioned great things, for example art or team sports. In fact, a lot of people are already getting paid for things like basic scientific research, which does not generate any immediate economic value, but we value it as a society anyway. The same goes for art, for a few lucky ones at least. With UBI, I predict a flood of new science and art, as people of such tendencies no longer have to waste their talent on McJobs.
90% of the work we're doing now (and probably closer to 100% of slashdotters' work) doesn't *need* to be done, but we do it anyway.
That's because the alternative is to just give them the things they need to live, which bothers a lot of people who like to take the position that the only moral way to survive is to work.
This. Politicians talk about full employment as if that were an economic necessity, whereas it's really just a moral choice. You can think of today's economy as a more efficient engine that survives on much less fuel than it used to. But to a lot of people, the moral thing is to burn out all the fuel.
In practice, there's also the inertia in our system being set up as it is. I could easily live on 10..20 hours of work a week (one time I was teaching 16 h/week for half a year, and it was awesome), but the offers are generally all or nothing. It's partly explained by fixed per-employee costs, but fundamentally it's a moral/cultural issue that is hard to change.
You must live in a country which has a nice '[' key on the keyboard. Most keyboards in the world access those symbols with Alt-Gr.
(Sucks to be them, I know...but this will make it suck even worse)
Most of my keyboards have the Alt Gr stuff. That doesn't mean I have to use the stupid localized layout that's printed on the keys. I use UK or US layouts because I want to enjoy programming and Unix shells without tying my fingers in a granny knot. http://iki.fi/teknohog/rants/k...
God I hate this flat button craze that is infecting all software, let me see what is a button, if it looks like a button, I know I can click on it.
Good point. Skeuomorphism is fine if it actually works on a computer, such as buttons you can click on. A worse example would be a rotary knob on music software, since you cannot actually grab and turn it. It's somewhat OK with a mouse wheel, because you have some kind of rotation going on, but even that's stretching it.
IMHO, the point of doing things in software is that you can escape some of the limitations of hardware. But since a lot of software is designed to act like old-fashioned hardware, you also get a lot of the same old limitations.
There's this programmable cryptocurrency called Ethereum you may have heard of. It has multiple official implementations, including C++ and Python, but the recommended one is written in Go.
Hard work has almost no correlation to success, I've found. The ability to convince people you work hard is more important than actually working hard.
As witnessed by everyone who has to apply for grants -- composing a decent application is work in itself. Which is silly, because that energy and time could have been used for the actual work. OTOH, it's also a good way to convince yourself of your choices, and help organize your work.
The idea of a "work ethic" is nothing more than left-over propaganda from the Protestant assholes that first settled this country. We're supposed to see "hard work" as somehow morally superior to idleness. It's just a way that the people in the very top economic strata convince the rest of us to kill ourselves for their benefit. I'm glad I was able to see through that bullshit early on. My life was much nicer due to that revelation, and I was still able to accomplish a full and happy existence and even be able to leave something to my kid without really breaking a sweat. Luck, and the ability to know which corners to cut.
Besides hard work per se, having a huge salary or a high position in whatever hierarchy is no guarantee of personal happiness. I'd say the idea of working hard (more like perseverence, which may or may not be developed through so-called hard work) is still useful, as long as you work hard for yourself, not for others.
The sad part is that those Nokia devices may well be the origin for what is plaguing the Linux world these days.
Because various DE and "middleware" devs worked on them, and drew the wrong conclusions about what was wrong about Linux...
I doubt that they were ever popular enough for such a wide impact. Nokia bet its manufacturing and marketing on Symbian, and the GNU/Linux line was basically a skunk works project. They didn't even get to add phone capabilities to the Linux tablets until a few years after start.
OTOH, the GNokia/Linux line showed all the classic symptoms of what's still wrong with the ARM ecosystem. Things like bootloaders and device discovery are standardized across x86 (IBM PC) but it's a mess with all the different ARM boards out there.
This. Bringing back Nokia's GNU/Linux tablets and phones from the noughties (with modern hardware, of course) would be a good start. Imagine a phone with a real QWERTY keyboard that actually fits in your pocket, unlike today's thin and wide slabs -- that's the good old N900.
Pretty much the Note 7's display - as long as it's not on fire.
If it's prone to catching fire, then that just makes it even more like paper:D
Seriously, though, this fad with phones is getting ridiculous. I'm trying to do real work on a real computer, which involves things like a keyboard and displays you don't want to carry around everywhere. Yet all the nicest computing tech is going into phones, which don't even have keyboards, despite most people using them more for writing text than talking.
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the clown war has.
If you pray, you're basically circumventing drug access controls. Also, cerebrospinal fluid should be banned due to its DMT content (not to mention vision problems in space).
You need root to run anything from Microsoft. They must have all possible permissions to make your user experience super easy and smooth.
The reason stated for the QFN package was to achieve clock higher frequencies (160MHz) but really, 50MHz is enough.
If you're into this stuff, you probably already have a suitable FPGA board that gets closer to 160 than 50 MHz.
Under Trump's regime, the remaining 1% will be CO2. But it will be the clean kind of CO2, so not to worry.
Also, consider that the AES instructions are called AES-NI (new instructions) in Intel parlance. So I wonder if these new chips feature something like Knights-NI.
When I was an undergrad, the university was more worried about wasting the capacity of overseas links than what you used it for. It makes more sense to share stuff within the academic network than for each user to stream their own copy of the same thing. A lot of students realized this a long time ago, but today we care more about being legit than conserving resources.
I have a Bluetooth keyboard that I can use w/ any of my phones or tablets
I also got one back in the day, but I now wonder why. A separate keyboard ruins the whole idea of a phone that's always with you as a single, small package. It's also hard to use unless you're sitting down. Nokia got it right with the N900 and its slide keyboard, which BTW is considerably smaller and more "pocketable" than today's thin but wide slabs.
Ah, I remember the particle wind idea from my undergrad days. A more recent favourite of mine is structure formation, which doesn't propose any new physics. As matter is clumped into galaxies etc., we observe matter being pulled into these centres of attraction, so the rarefied spaces in between appear to be stretching. https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.236...
Melanoma _is_ dark matter -- the bad kind.
We just elected a psychopath by a landslide.
FTFY. A lot of political and economic leaders are actual psychopaths, so there's no need for extra political correctness.
Work gives one a sense of pride in accomplishment and soaks up our time. It is a social activity that matures us through forced interaction with many other different people. It gives a sense of belonging and inclusion. It stabilizes us.
If you're lucky enough to have all this from work, then good for you. Hopefully, you'll also have some energy left to do other fun things in your spare time, with all the extra money from work.
In practice, many people are working soul-crushing jobs only to (1) stay alive, and possibly (2) fund the thing that really gives them the aforementioned great things, for example art or team sports. In fact, a lot of people are already getting paid for things like basic scientific research, which does not generate any immediate economic value, but we value it as a society anyway. The same goes for art, for a few lucky ones at least. With UBI, I predict a flood of new science and art, as people of such tendencies no longer have to waste their talent on McJobs.
90% of the work we're doing now (and probably closer to 100% of slashdotters' work) doesn't *need* to be done, but we do it anyway.
That's because the alternative is to just give them the things they need to live, which bothers a lot of people who like to take the position that the only moral way to survive is to work.
This. Politicians talk about full employment as if that were an economic necessity, whereas it's really just a moral choice. You can think of today's economy as a more efficient engine that survives on much less fuel than it used to. But to a lot of people, the moral thing is to burn out all the fuel.
In practice, there's also the inertia in our system being set up as it is. I could easily live on 10..20 hours of work a week (one time I was teaching 16 h/week for half a year, and it was awesome), but the offers are generally all or nothing. It's partly explained by fixed per-employee costs, but fundamentally it's a moral/cultural issue that is hard to change.
Welcome to the future of false promises. I also wanted a humanoid robot, but all I got was a stupid phone.
You must live in a country which has a nice '[' key on the keyboard. Most keyboards in the world access those symbols with Alt-Gr.
(Sucks to be them, I know...but this will make it suck even worse)
Most of my keyboards have the Alt Gr stuff. That doesn't mean I have to use the stupid localized layout that's printed on the keys. I use UK or US layouts because I want to enjoy programming and Unix shells without tying my fingers in a granny knot. http://iki.fi/teknohog/rants/k...
This. True black vs. true white would be an infinite contrast ratio. If your mere mortal display cannot represent that, too bad.
God I hate this flat button craze that is infecting all software, let me see what is a button, if it looks like a button, I know I can click on it.
Good point. Skeuomorphism is fine if it actually works on a computer, such as buttons you can click on. A worse example would be a rotary knob on music software, since you cannot actually grab and turn it. It's somewhat OK with a mouse wheel, because you have some kind of rotation going on, but even that's stretching it.
IMHO, the point of doing things in software is that you can escape some of the limitations of hardware. But since a lot of software is designed to act like old-fashioned hardware, you also get a lot of the same old limitations.
(More on this in my keyboard/mouse and GUI rants)
I also don't understand why an Apple product needs a charger. By the time the battery runs out, it's already obsolete and you should buy a new model.
There's this programmable cryptocurrency called Ethereum you may have heard of. It has multiple official implementations, including C++ and Python, but the recommended one is written in Go.
Hard work has almost no correlation to success, I've found. The ability to convince people you work hard is more important than actually working hard.
As witnessed by everyone who has to apply for grants -- composing a decent application is work in itself. Which is silly, because that energy and time could have been used for the actual work. OTOH, it's also a good way to convince yourself of your choices, and help organize your work.
The idea of a "work ethic" is nothing more than left-over propaganda from the Protestant assholes that first settled this country. We're supposed to see "hard work" as somehow morally superior to idleness. It's just a way that the people in the very top economic strata convince the rest of us to kill ourselves for their benefit. I'm glad I was able to see through that bullshit early on. My life was much nicer due to that revelation, and I was still able to accomplish a full and happy existence and even be able to leave something to my kid without really breaking a sweat. Luck, and the ability to know which corners to cut.
Besides hard work per se, having a huge salary or a high position in whatever hierarchy is no guarantee of personal happiness. I'd say the idea of working hard (more like perseverence, which may or may not be developed through so-called hard work) is still useful, as long as you work hard for yourself, not for others.
The sad part is that those Nokia devices may well be the origin for what is plaguing the Linux world these days.
Because various DE and "middleware" devs worked on them, and drew the wrong conclusions about what was wrong about Linux...
I doubt that they were ever popular enough for such a wide impact. Nokia bet its manufacturing and marketing on Symbian, and the GNU/Linux line was basically a skunk works project. They didn't even get to add phone capabilities to the Linux tablets until a few years after start.
OTOH, the GNokia/Linux line showed all the classic symptoms of what's still wrong with the ARM ecosystem. Things like bootloaders and device discovery are standardized across x86 (IBM PC) but it's a mess with all the different ARM boards out there.
This. Bringing back Nokia's GNU/Linux tablets and phones from the noughties (with modern hardware, of course) would be a good start. Imagine a phone with a real QWERTY keyboard that actually fits in your pocket, unlike today's thin and wide slabs -- that's the good old N900.
Pretty much the Note 7's display - as long as it's not on fire.
If it's prone to catching fire, then that just makes it even more like paper :D
Seriously, though, this fad with phones is getting ridiculous. I'm trying to do real work on a real computer, which involves things like a keyboard and displays you don't want to carry around everywhere. Yet all the nicest computing tech is going into phones, which don't even have keyboards, despite most people using them more for writing text than talking.
There's no need to have the whole path covered. Just outline the path so that people can see where it's going.
Not to mention that the paint makes it more slippery. I'm sure the cyclists will be delighted, especially during or after rain.