>And yet, this whole guy might have been avoided by employing something like asynchronous logic.
No, no and no again. Asynchronous logic looks great on paper. It is not great in silicon. It's been tried many times and everyone who tries concludes it's not just the lack of tools - It's that async logic is not a tractable solution. It will always be slower and bigger than synchronous. It's impossible to validate.
Modern CPUs are synchronous islands in an async fabric. This is normal and is a good engineering tradeoff.
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
I've flown on one of the Lufthansa 747-800is, and it is a glorious bird. (Of course, it helped that I splurged and spent 90,000 points on a first class seat). Even business class and economy was really nice on them, much more spacious than other aircraft I've been on. It's really too bad the economics of these don't work any more.
Earlier in 2017, I took my family to Europe upstairs in business class on a United 747, because it was the last week that 747 was going to be in service and probably the last chance my family would have to fly upstairs in a 747. I've been upstairs in a 747 a few times but the rest of my family never had.
I've flown business class on long trans-pacific flights both on the 787 and A380. The A380 was a much nicer ride. It's roomy, quieter and smoother, with a better seat.
both of my grandparents were very heavy drinkers and lived to be over 95.
Last night my wife and I helped an old lady up. She had literally fallen and couldn't get up. My nose soon detected that her problem wasn't that she was old, but that she was drunk as a skunk.
This morning we found out that this is normal for her and she's been a lifetime alcoholic. So you could argue that she won the alcoholics lottery. She's well over 80 and she got to spend here life drinking. Most of us would die of cancer or liver failure before we got to the retirement community.
>If, however, I want to simply execute a shell command (that does not have a Python/Perl/whatever builtin analog), capture it's output to a variable, and check the exit status, BASH is pretty damn simple. Those last two requirements are the biggest killer of Python as that forces you to use subprocess which makes it much more complex than BASH (especially if you want to capture stdout and stderr).
I have a healthy dislike for subprocess in python, although my primary language has been python in the past few years because I find it productive for the work I do. Instead of subprocess, where interaction with bash is needed, I tend to write python to generate bash commands that write their results to a file which is then read by a python program. This leaves a record of the commands executed and the results, which turns out to be a heck of a lot simpler than wrestling with subprocess.
I live in a medium city. I've lived in several places. I drive every day. I've had my car run into twice, but I wasn't driving it at the time.
I attribute not crashing to paying attention and driving defensively. But shit happens and I don't expect my odds are any better than any other moderately defensive driver. I just got lucky. Statistics is like that.
No, that was 10 years ago. Now we're back to stereorails, but they're made of vinyl because it makes the ride "warmer"
You're not kidding. My offspring requested and received a record player for Christmas. She's using my Wharfedales that I dug out from the back of the garage along with a radio shack hifi amp that was similarly buried. It's the modern equivalent of a train set I suppose.
When I was in Vegas it was almost always further to walk to and from the monorail than it was to just walk down the strip to where you wanted to go. It needed to be build on the strip, not behind the resorts.
This.
Also you are able to start walking whenever you like. When you finally get to the monorail and after you've paid, you wait another 10 minutes for the train to arrive.
It isn't. When I was at college, a long, long time ago, some friends did a model and simulation of flow breakdown on a highway and showed that it followed exactly the same equations as for coax ethernet (which was the norm at the time).
Knowing these, we can understand that cars behave much like packets in a network when it comes to flow efficiency and the math has all be done. In networks however, we can increase the speed limit and number of lanes until we are at the easy point in the curve. With switched ethernet, everyone gets their own road and the congestion is at the junction.
Maybe that's why Elon Musk took Ted Steven's technically illiterate "Series of Tubes" comments literally and decided to start boring tubes.
The sweet spot is well known - it's around 50-60. That's why insurance companies offer people in that age bracket the lowest rates - they have the fewest accidents.
Well I'm 1 year away from 50 and I haven't crashed yet. I guess I will crash a negative number of times between 50 and 60.
XUL and related stuff came along and I completely ignored it and hoped that it would go away. I pined for a simpler time when you wrote your programs, plugins, extensions and add-ons in a normal programming language.
Which one? The javascript/RSS bug was only recently discovered during a security audit, and the Direct3D one was fixed in Firefox with the most recent patch on December 7.
Why is Thunderbird using Direct3D? It's an email client.
> I know of exactly zero entities using this software.
I've used it for many years.
> Am I missing out on anything? Can someone more knowledgeable advise me of why I should use Thunderbird over Outlook or GMail?
It should not matter. If you are serving your mail from a functioning imap service, you should be able to have multiple views onto that service from different programs on multiple machines. You don't need the gmail web mail client to view email hosted by Google. You can use either or both of a client program and the web interface.
Eating unnatural foods is murder. Look at all the damage unnatural and plant based fats have done in the Western diet, leading to oxidized LDL and the associated heart disease and cancers.
Lard and tallow and chickens and beef and pork and fish and escargo for me, consistent with healthier ratios of saturated and unsaturated fats.
I'm British and an atheist and it's ludicrous for a Christian to tell me I'm not allowed to engage in Christmas traditions. It's normal to celebrate Christmas in the UK on the 25th. It's a national holiday in the US and most European countries and a number of other countries. Having a secular celebration where you buy your kids presents and have a big meal is perfectly fine.
A year end, mid winter celebration is common in many cultures, especially in northern countries where there is a big difference between winter and summer, unlike equatorial countries. However having just come back from Malaysia I can report that there was a lot of Christmas paraphernalia in the stores, during the 28C/80F weather and it's a country where Islam, Buddhism and a few other religions are more prevalent than christianity.
The christian churches just adopted this time or year because it was an existing celebration, long before biblical times.
Back on topic - In the UK, I've only ever heard "Yule Log" used in the context of a cake. I now live in the US and this Slashdot story is the first time I've heard it used to refer to a log on a fire during Christmas.
Two days ago I got my wife's store provisioned with a Comcast business internet (there was no other provider) with 5 static addresses. They provided an envelope with the static address range hand written on it for *only for IPv4*. They also got the addresses wrong and the they had not set the routes up, so nothing can route to those addresses anyway.
The installer who came said a couple of things that were obviously untrue about the address range available on the router's switch and then admitted to not understanding anything about networking.
>Comcast did it right
Bullshit. They can't even set up a static address range.
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>And yet, this whole guy might have been avoided by employing something like asynchronous logic.
No, no and no again.
Asynchronous logic looks great on paper. It is not great in silicon. It's been tried many times and everyone who tries concludes it's not just the lack of tools - It's that async logic is not a tractable solution. It will always be slower and bigger than synchronous. It's impossible to validate.
Modern CPUs are synchronous islands in an async fabric. This is normal and is a good engineering tradeoff.
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
I've flown on one of the Lufthansa 747-800is, and it is a glorious bird. (Of course, it helped that I splurged and spent 90,000 points on a first class seat). Even business class and economy was really nice on them, much more spacious than other aircraft I've been on. It's really too bad the economics of these don't work any more.
Earlier in 2017, I took my family to Europe upstairs in business class on a United 747, because it was the last week that 747 was going to be in service and probably the last chance my family would have to fly upstairs in a 747. I've been upstairs in a 747 a few times but the rest of my family never had.
I've flown business class on long trans-pacific flights both on the 787 and A380. The A380 was a much nicer ride. It's roomy, quieter and smoother, with a better seat.
I still have all my organs. Learn to ride safely.
Capitalism can be anything you want it to be, use your imagination.
Like the means of production being owned by the people?
both of my grandparents were very heavy drinkers and lived to be over 95.
Last night my wife and I helped an old lady up. She had literally fallen and couldn't get up. My nose soon detected that her problem wasn't that she was old, but that she was drunk as a skunk.
This morning we found out that this is normal for her and she's been a lifetime alcoholic. So you could argue that she won the alcoholics lottery. She's well over 80 and she got to spend here life drinking. Most of us would die of cancer or liver failure before we got to the retirement community.
>If, however, I want to simply execute a shell command (that does not have a Python/Perl/whatever builtin analog), capture it's output to a variable, and check the exit status, BASH is pretty damn simple. Those last two requirements are the biggest killer of Python as that forces you to use subprocess which makes it much more complex than BASH (especially if you want to capture stdout and stderr).
I have a healthy dislike for subprocess in python, although my primary language has been python in the past few years because I find it productive for the work I do. Instead of subprocess, where interaction with bash is needed, I tend to write python to generate bash commands that write their results to a file which is then read by a python program. This leaves a record of the commands executed and the results, which turns out to be a heck of a lot simpler than wrestling with subprocess.
I live in a medium city. I've lived in several places. I drive every day.
I've had my car run into twice, but I wasn't driving it at the time.
I attribute not crashing to paying attention and driving defensively. But shit happens and I don't expect my odds are any better than any other moderately defensive driver. I just got lucky. Statistics is like that.
No, that was 10 years ago. Now we're back to stereorails, but they're made of vinyl because it makes the ride "warmer"
You're not kidding. My offspring requested and received a record player for Christmas. She's using my Wharfedales that I dug out from the back of the garage along with a radio shack hifi amp that was similarly buried. It's the modern equivalent of a train set I suppose.
Stereorails are what's needed.
(Someone had to say it).
The new kids have moved onto 5.1 rails.
When I was in Vegas it was almost always further to walk to and from the monorail than it was to just walk down the strip to where you wanted to go. It needed to be build on the strip, not behind the resorts.
This.
Also you are able to start walking whenever you like. When you finally get to the monorail and after you've paid, you wait another 10 minutes for the train to arrive.
>This isn't even a new thing to study.
It isn't. When I was at college, a long, long time ago, some friends did a model and simulation of flow breakdown on a highway and showed that it followed exactly the same equations as for coax ethernet (which was the norm at the time).
Knowing these, we can understand that cars behave much like packets in a network when it comes to flow efficiency and the math has all be done. In networks however, we can increase the speed limit and number of lanes until we are at the easy point in the curve. With switched ethernet, everyone gets their own road and the congestion is at the junction.
Maybe that's why Elon Musk took Ted Steven's technically illiterate "Series of Tubes" comments literally and decided to start boring tubes.
The sweet spot is well known - it's around 50-60. That's why insurance companies offer people in that age bracket the lowest rates - they have the fewest accidents.
Well I'm 1 year away from 50 and I haven't crashed yet. I guess I will crash a negative number of times between 50 and 60.
XUL and related stuff came along and I completely ignored it and hoped that it would go away. I pined for a simpler time when you wrote your programs, plugins, extensions and add-ons in a normal programming language.
XUL has gone away.
So I saved a whole bunch of effort. Yay.
Which one? The javascript/RSS bug was only recently discovered during a security audit, and the Direct3D one was fixed in Firefox with the most recent patch on December 7.
Why is Thunderbird using Direct3D? It's an email client.
> I know of exactly zero entities using this software.
I've used it for many years.
> Am I missing out on anything? Can someone more knowledgeable advise me of why I should use Thunderbird over Outlook or GMail?
It should not matter. If you are serving your mail from a functioning imap service, you should be able to have multiple views onto that service from different programs on multiple machines. You don't need the gmail web mail client to view email hosted by Google. You can use either or both of a client program and the web interface.
Yes, but reading papers is not "doing science."
If you're not reading papers, you are severely limiting your ability to do science.
Perhaps you've heard of Hanukkah which start the exact same day?
What a coincidence! Was the Jewish improbable deity born on the 25th too?
Meat is murder and must be abolished.
Eating unnatural foods is murder. Look at all the damage unnatural and plant based fats have done in the Western diet, leading to oxidized LDL and the associated heart disease and cancers.
Lard and tallow and chickens and beef and pork and fish and escargo for me, consistent with healthier ratios of saturated and unsaturated fats.
>Running servers from your residential internet connection
It's a business account. They don't sell static on residential accounts.
> - that certainly is not what its intended for.
Says who? It's my business what my packets do.
I'm British and an atheist and it's ludicrous for a Christian to tell me I'm not allowed to engage in Christmas traditions. It's normal to celebrate Christmas in the UK on the 25th. It's a national holiday in the US and most European countries and a number of other countries. Having a secular celebration where you buy your kids presents and have a big meal is perfectly fine.
A year end, mid winter celebration is common in many cultures, especially in northern countries where there is a big difference between winter and summer, unlike equatorial countries. However having just come back from Malaysia I can report that there was a lot of Christmas paraphernalia in the stores, during the 28C/80F weather and it's a country where Islam, Buddhism and a few other religions are more prevalent than christianity.
The christian churches just adopted this time or year because it was an existing celebration, long before biblical times.
Back on topic - In the UK, I've only ever heard "Yule Log" used in the context of a cake. I now live in the US and this Slashdot story is the first time I've heard it used to refer to a log on a fire during Christmas.
Two days ago I got my wife's store provisioned with a Comcast business internet (there was no other provider) with 5 static addresses. They provided an envelope with the static address range hand written on it for *only for IPv4*. They also got the addresses wrong and the they had not set the routes up, so nothing can route to those addresses anyway.
The installer who came said a couple of things that were obviously untrue about the address range available on the router's switch and then admitted to not understanding anything about networking.
>Comcast did it right
Bullshit. They can't even set up a static address range.
And it's not Christmas. That's tomorrow.
Don't the editors check anything?
There's a fireplace and cookies and milk and Jeff Kaplan.
There is no Yule Log. A Yule Log is a cake that looks like a log, decorated in a Christmassy theme.
Jesus H F Christ.
Clearly this was a joke yet it was moderated as "Informative". Moderation humor?
I am pretty sure that "PSA" in this context means Public Service Announcement.
Yup. It was intended to be humorous.