Or use the language's built-in help features, or its dedicated documentation, on or offline. If you need to google everything, you're probably not the best for the job.
I'm tired of these targeted job adverts anyway. If I'm really looking for a job, then I'll probably figure out where to look myself. If they really want me, they should either contact me directly, if not, stay the fuck out of my life.
Watching other people do it has always been popular, I just never thought that applied to banal and mundane activities. What's next, live streams of the commute to the office?
I've always thought spectator sports is like porn. Guys watching other guys do physical exercise, all excited and sweating, while they could be doing it themselves, but for some reason they don't.
When I got into computers in the 1980s, the lucky few of us had dedicated computer desks in some remote corner. I guess my parents wanted it to be in some common area instead of my own room so they could see what I'm doing. Also, grownups with computers used it either for work or "work", but in a separate location likewise.
These were interesting times because cell phones had a somewhat similar life cycle. In the past, you'd call a place, but with the cell phones in the mid-90s, you could actually call a person instead, and that made so much more sense. In the mid/late 90s I was studying away from home, and I felt similarly about laptops, as they were not tied to a specific location. They were the real personal computers.
The social impact of laptops was that you could take it to a common table, instead of geeking out in a separate corner. While it obviously takes your attention, it won't block the eye contact with others in the same way desktops would. Tablets and phones are just a natural continuation of this. IMHO, this is how computers got mainstream, not so much due to computing power or networking, but by not getting in the way.
Unfortunately, the idea of going away to do some computing still makes sense. Or maybe it's just me, I want to focus on one thing at a time and do it well, be it computers or people. It's sad seeing all these young people with their phones like they're on crack.
no, the size gives the hypotenuse of a triangle with 16:10 ratio on legs, thus it specifies length of 2 orthogonal dimensions.
This may come as a shock, but there are displays/devices in other ratios besides 16:10, yet they use diagonal inches as a shorthand for their size. So simply talking about inches can be quite misleading, even if you know it's a 2D rectangle.
In fact, the largest area for a given diagonal would be a square. This must be one reason for the proliferation of widescreen displays in general computing -- they can sell more diagonal inches with less area.
While I'm picking nits, 16:10 should logically be simplified to 8:5, but it's never done in practice. I guess it's to highlight its relation to 16:9. Or perhaps to give the impression that ratios with big numbers are always better, given that 4:3 or 5:4 are so last century.
It is old news that thermal imaging cameras can be used to steal PINs. What I guess is news is that you can get a $250 phone add-on that's up to the task; I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case until quite recently.
In other old news, a lot of cameras are sensitive to infrared, and they use a blueish filter to limit themselves to the visible spectrum. Removing that and adding another filter for the higher frequencies is a cheap way to convert the phone's own camera for thermal imaging.
Yet another way for the extra paranoid: use a pen or something instead of your fingers. As a bonus, they won't get your fingerprints. But first, cover the area with tinfoil and foam. The latter is important because audible clicks might reveal the keying pattern -- it's been done with computer keyboards to some extent.
A simpler solution: press more numbers after you press "enter" on the keypad.
I thought this was old news. I usually hold some of my fingers lightly on the unused keys to warm them up without pressing, but this could be even better to keep the heating times equal.
..actually touch type numbers in any formal way. It depends on what else I'm doing. Also, when I took typing classes back in high school, numbers were given some exceptions. While you should be reading what you type, small errors can still end up in the final work. When someone else later reads that text, it's easy to guess and correct most small mistakes (natural languages are rather redundant coding schemes, with English having about 1 bit of information per letter). The same won't work with numbers, and what's worse, small changes in numbers can have huge effects in the real world. So we were advised to take extra care with numbers, and they were not included in typing speed tests.
Actually, "in der Welt" makes perfect sense in German, meaning simply "in the world". The feminine definite article "die" becomes "der" when used with the preposition "in" for this meaning.
Of course, we're using "Die Welt" as the name of the publication, and "in" in the English sense, so the parent point still stands.
Good point. I've sometimes thought of using that analogy in reverse, to advocate open source software: using closed source is like eating food with unknown ingredients. This might not work for the average joe eating at McD, but there are plenty of food-conscious hipsters around who might get it.
OT: I feel a bit paranoid about your sig... is it my ISP inserting ads there?
It has high GPU clock and really high memory clock.
The base and boost clocks are almost equal in the 750 Ti and the 950. The memory clock does seem somewhat higher on the 950, but that shouldn't account for too many watts.
According to Wikipedia, the 950 consumes 90 watts while the 750 Ti consumes 60 watts.
Also, it has 768 CUDA cores vs. 640 of the 750 Ti. That means 1.2x cores for 1.5x the power consumption, which doesn't sound great. I think I've seen this before with GPUs that have some of their cores disabled, such as AMD's 5830 vs. 5870 -- for best efficiency, stay away from the crippled parts.
As for the passive cooling, I used to have fanless HD 5770 with a TDP of 108 W, so 90 W is definitely possible. However, with such wattages you generally need some forced air circulation anyway; the 5770 was fine as long as there was a case fan next to it. In general, I've found that with strong discrete GPUs, it's much easier to make fanned cooling almost dead silent than go completely fanless. I currently have two 750s with their stock fans, and I haven't bothered with cooling mods as they are indistinguishable from background hum anyway.
IMHO, the nerd stereotype has traditionally been skinny -- someone who lacks the muscular bulk for rough team sports, but whose higher metabolic rate translates into quicker thinking, and possibly attention disorders. The chubby image is a more recent phenomenon, likely related to changes in food culture, such as energy drinks, and everything with HFCS. Of course, being an outlier of any kind is a good starting point for being a nerd, but you only need to look at the population at large to see how the weight distribution has shifted in the past few decades.
- We should need a lot less people working for the public sector handing out benefits.
So the idea is to... lessen bureaucracy.
This is one of the most interesting points about basic income. If you're against it because you don't want to support others with your tax money, chances are you're also against our morbidly obese public sector. IMHO, basic income is a more libertarian and free-market solution to the problems of the job market than the current nannying of the unemployed.
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Or use the language's built-in help features, or its dedicated documentation, on or offline. If you need to google everything, you're probably not the best for the job.
I'm tired of these targeted job adverts anyway. If I'm really looking for a job, then I'll probably figure out where to look myself. If they really want me, they should either contact me directly, if not, stay the fuck out of my life.
Watching other people do it has always been popular, I just never thought that applied to banal and mundane activities. What's next, live streams of the commute to the office?
I've always thought spectator sports is like porn. Guys watching other guys do physical exercise, all excited and sweating, while they could be doing it themselves, but for some reason they don't.
Not to mention his mastery of the puppetses... oh, sorry, wrong Henson.
When I got into computers in the 1980s, the lucky few of us had dedicated computer desks in some remote corner. I guess my parents wanted it to be in some common area instead of my own room so they could see what I'm doing. Also, grownups with computers used it either for work or "work", but in a separate location likewise.
These were interesting times because cell phones had a somewhat similar life cycle. In the past, you'd call a place, but with the cell phones in the mid-90s, you could actually call a person instead, and that made so much more sense. In the mid/late 90s I was studying away from home, and I felt similarly about laptops, as they were not tied to a specific location. They were the real personal computers.
The social impact of laptops was that you could take it to a common table, instead of geeking out in a separate corner. While it obviously takes your attention, it won't block the eye contact with others in the same way desktops would. Tablets and phones are just a natural continuation of this. IMHO, this is how computers got mainstream, not so much due to computing power or networking, but by not getting in the way.
Unfortunately, the idea of going away to do some computing still makes sense. Or maybe it's just me, I want to focus on one thing at a time and do it well, be it computers or people. It's sad seeing all these young people with their phones like they're on crack.
Agreed. Touchscreen keyboards drive me insane...
*puts on sunglasses*
Well you can have my cold fusion when you pry it from my glowing plasma hands!
or it didn't happen.
The song just wouldn't work with "It was 24 years ago today" so I'll just keep posting this every year. http://iki.fi/teknohog/music/c...
I just use "n" with a big-ass font size.
no, the size gives the hypotenuse of a triangle with 16:10 ratio on legs, thus it specifies length of 2 orthogonal dimensions.
This may come as a shock, but there are displays/devices in other ratios besides 16:10, yet they use diagonal inches as a shorthand for their size. So simply talking about inches can be quite misleading, even if you know it's a 2D rectangle.
In fact, the largest area for a given diagonal would be a square. This must be one reason for the proliferation of widescreen displays in general computing -- they can sell more diagonal inches with less area.
While I'm picking nits, 16:10 should logically be simplified to 8:5, but it's never done in practice. I guess it's to highlight its relation to 16:9. Or perhaps to give the impression that ratios with big numbers are always better, given that 4:3 or 5:4 are so last century.
18'' is a one-dimensional measure. If you're assuming it means the diagonal of some higher-dimensional shape, why limit yourself to two?
It is old news that thermal imaging cameras can be used to steal PINs. What I guess is news is that you can get a $250 phone add-on that's up to the task; I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case until quite recently.
In other old news, a lot of cameras are sensitive to infrared, and they use a blueish filter to limit themselves to the visible spectrum. Removing that and adding another filter for the higher frequencies is a cheap way to convert the phone's own camera for thermal imaging.
Yet another way for the extra paranoid: use a pen or something instead of your fingers. As a bonus, they won't get your fingerprints. But first, cover the area with tinfoil and foam. The latter is important because audible clicks might reveal the keying pattern -- it's been done with computer keyboards to some extent.
A simpler solution: press more numbers after you press "enter" on the keypad.
I thought this was old news. I usually hold some of my fingers lightly on the unused keys to warm them up without pressing, but this could be even better to keep the heating times equal.
we've been testing if whiskey can make you weightless.
I want to know if it can replace the people in the mall that make the pretty handmade hummingbirds and butterflies.
Now that would be neat to own!
You must not be in the US. Molten glass in a shopping mall in the US would draw a pack of salivating lawyers in seconds!
While the GP is talking about replacing people with tech, why not start with lawyers.
Actually, "in der Welt" makes perfect sense in German, meaning simply "in the world". The feminine definite article "die" becomes "der" when used with the preposition "in" for this meaning.
Of course, we're using "Die Welt" as the name of the publication, and "in" in the English sense, so the parent point still stands.
Good point. I've sometimes thought of using that analogy in reverse, to advocate open source software: using closed source is like eating food with unknown ingredients. This might not work for the average joe eating at McD, but there are plenty of food-conscious hipsters around who might get it.
OT: I feel a bit paranoid about your sig... is it my ISP inserting ads there?
It has high GPU clock and really high memory clock.
The base and boost clocks are almost equal in the 750 Ti and the 950. The memory clock does seem somewhat higher on the 950, but that shouldn't account for too many watts.
As I mentioned in another post, this has 20% more CUDA cores for 50% more power consumption, so it's a step backwards in efficiency.
According to Wikipedia, the 950 consumes 90 watts while the 750 Ti consumes 60 watts.
Also, it has 768 CUDA cores vs. 640 of the 750 Ti. That means 1.2x cores for 1.5x the power consumption, which doesn't sound great. I think I've seen this before with GPUs that have some of their cores disabled, such as AMD's 5830 vs. 5870 -- for best efficiency, stay away from the crippled parts.
As for the passive cooling, I used to have fanless HD 5770 with a TDP of 108 W, so 90 W is definitely possible. However, with such wattages you generally need some forced air circulation anyway; the 5770 was fine as long as there was a case fan next to it. In general, I've found that with strong discrete GPUs, it's much easier to make fanned cooling almost dead silent than go completely fanless. I currently have two 750s with their stock fans, and I haven't bothered with cooling mods as they are indistinguishable from background hum anyway.
IMHO, the nerd stereotype has traditionally been skinny -- someone who lacks the muscular bulk for rough team sports, but whose higher metabolic rate translates into quicker thinking, and possibly attention disorders. The chubby image is a more recent phenomenon, likely related to changes in food culture, such as energy drinks, and everything with HFCS. Of course, being an outlier of any kind is a good starting point for being a nerd, but you only need to look at the population at large to see how the weight distribution has shifted in the past few decades.
Not only that, but servers that implemented every calculation in floats.
- We should need a lot less people working for the public sector handing out benefits.
So the idea is to ... lessen bureaucracy.
This is one of the most interesting points about basic income. If you're against it because you don't want to support others with your tax money, chances are you're also against our morbidly obese public sector. IMHO, basic income is a more libertarian and free-market solution to the problems of the job market than the current nannying of the unemployed.