> When the ACA passed, nearly 100% of all college loans became federal loans and the interest is needed to make the ACA "deficit neutral" when it passed.
And the interest is 8 fucking percent. For a loan that has a government guarantee and therefore should be around 2%.
We just (yesterday) transmuted an offspring's student loan into a line of credit on the house with half the percentage. Presumably if everyone did that, the available interest money to the feds would be reduced by 100%.
I use Visio for chip circuit diagrams. The is no comparable tool. In Visio you can make a template with smart shapes that fits right in the document, enforces a consistent grid and the smart shapes can be programmed to do useful shit, like maintain an arrow head shape while the shape is stretched, or clear out the crossing line in an abutting bus tee or scale and position the text so it fits cleanly with the bus, or scales a gate automatically to fit the number of inputs (that land on the grid).
Visio used to be made by Shapeware and it had all these features back then before Microsoft brought them. Microsoft added nothing of use. The smart shapes and libraries shipped with the tool were never useful. But you can make your own libraries that do what you need and that is what makes it a very good tool.
To me Vizio means low-grade, crap TV that all of the sports bars use because they are cheap.
Visio on the other hand means a flowchart planner.
Odd that. I though Visio was the only drawing package with both decent scriptable shapes and a half decent UI. It is the only thing in the Microsoft suite that gives me a reason to use Windows. All other things (coding, designing chips, simulating, serving internet things, writing documents) I can use Linux based tools more effectively.
You could plan flowcharts in it, but that wouldn't achieve anything useful.
The article tries to wow us with the hugeness of the database, like this is a reason for the issues.
Yet the numbers quoted are not that big. Any modern PC isn't going to get too upset handling 75 million things. A real data center is going to sit there wondering what to do with the remaining 500TB of storage.
I don't doubt that there is some horrible flaw in the way the system was conceived that rendered it fragile, but whatever it is, it's nothing to do with the enormity of the problem, because it isn't very enormous.
This. I'm waiting for someone to make it easy for me by providing a link to something that explains what corner-case of a corner-case is actually stimulating this bug to buzz its wings.
If he built gcc like git, each compiler would have it's own local language that other compilers could mix and match with the languages from other gccs.
They have excellent goals, mostly scientific in nature.
The moon shots were a dumbed down jock goal. Who's got the biggest rocket?
The problems in space science are almost completely different to the problems in education. In both cases, money could help if they spent it on the right things.
I'd be setting it up to keep a running backup of the data in the cloud, with the aforementioned 'keeping it ready' to serve from that data when the cloud gives way to sunshine.
I can fix any current Mac OS. Just go into the apps folder (flower-shift-a is the shortcut), then into utilities, then run shell application. Enlarge the window to full screen. Bingo, you're in a bash shell where you can talk to a proper unixy command line interface.
I thought it sucked donkey balls. Maybe I lack natural talent at sticking bloody pixellated stickers on badly rendered cars rather than racing them in a game with hopeless physics.
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I'm fully aware of that. I used Visio before Microsoft brought Shapeware/Visio corp.
I suspect we have differing interpretations of what is cool.
> When the ACA passed, nearly 100% of all college loans became federal loans and the interest is needed to make the ACA "deficit neutral" when it passed.
And the interest is 8 fucking percent. For a loan that has a government guarantee and therefore should be around 2%.
We just (yesterday) transmuted an offspring's student loan into a line of credit on the house with half the percentage. Presumably if everyone did that, the available interest money to the feds would be reduced by 100%.
Actually it will evolve into an intelligent boring machine, like Veeger did.
Except the ones explicitly designed not to need such fripperies.
I use Visio a fair amount for network diagrams.
I use Visio for chip circuit diagrams. The is no comparable tool. In Visio you can make a template with smart shapes that fits right in the document, enforces a consistent grid and the smart shapes can be programmed to do useful shit, like maintain an arrow head shape while the shape is stretched, or clear out the crossing line in an abutting bus tee or scale and position the text so it fits cleanly with the bus, or scales a gate automatically to fit the number of inputs (that land on the grid).
Visio used to be made by Shapeware and it had all these features back then before Microsoft brought them. Microsoft added nothing of use. The smart shapes and libraries shipped with the tool were never useful. But you can make your own libraries that do what you need and that is what makes it a very good tool.
I use Visio. It is excellent.
To me Vizio means low-grade, crap TV that all of the sports bars use because they are cheap.
Visio on the other hand means a flowchart planner.
Odd that. I though Visio was the only drawing package with both decent scriptable shapes and a half decent UI.
It is the only thing in the Microsoft suite that gives me a reason to use Windows. All other things (coding, designing chips, simulating, serving internet things, writing documents) I can use Linux based tools more effectively.
You could plan flowcharts in it, but that wouldn't achieve anything useful.
Safari percentage is a function of how many mac users switch to Chrome. I did.
>if you do not see chrome gaining share when the stats show something else, then you are just denying reality (no matter how cruel it might be).
B.S.
The stats are B.S. Therefore so is your argument.
It's not like hotel door locks are secure. You're just trading off one big fail for another.
Ahh, Non free software. So I guess the FlexLM server went on the blink and is holding everything else up.
The article tries to wow us with the hugeness of the database, like this is a reason for the issues.
Yet the numbers quoted are not that big. Any modern PC isn't going to get too upset handling 75 million things. A real data center is going to sit there wondering what to do with the remaining 500TB of storage.
I don't doubt that there is some horrible flaw in the way the system was conceived that rendered it fragile, but whatever it is, it's nothing to do with the enormity of the problem, because it isn't very enormous.
It's hard to buy something when you don't know it exists.
Perhaps they should have tried advertising.
It's not the OS, it's the closed office file formats you insensitive dolt!
The AES-NI, PCLMULLQLQDQ and RdRand instructions take 15% longer on LLVM?
This. I'm waiting for someone to make it easy for me by providing a link to something that explains what corner-case of a corner-case is actually stimulating this bug to buzz its wings.
If he built gcc like git, each compiler would have it's own local language that other compilers could mix and match with the languages from other gccs.
They have excellent goals, mostly scientific in nature.
The moon shots were a dumbed down jock goal. Who's got the biggest rocket?
The problems in space science are almost completely different to the problems in education. In both cases, money could help if they spent it on the right things.
I'd be setting it up to keep a running backup of the data in the cloud, with the aforementioned 'keeping it ready' to serve from that data when the cloud gives way to sunshine.
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Boom Boom!
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I've used macs since 1984. Back then there were lots of users who called it the flower key.
Of course you can use ImageMagick if you want to manipulate pictures from the command line.
I can fix any current Mac OS. Just go into the apps folder (flower-shift-a is the shortcut), then into utilities, then run shell application. Enlarge the window to full screen. Bingo, you're in a bash shell where you can talk to a proper unixy command line interface.
Interesting.
I thought it sucked donkey balls. Maybe I lack natural talent at sticking bloody pixellated stickers on badly rendered cars rather than racing them in a game with hopeless physics.