>x86 ISA isn't exactly a lean architecture and instruction set. >Modern ARM can do much better with a small transistor foot print.
In which universe is the ARM instruction set "lean"?
Every instruction is 32 bits long, clogging one's instruction bandwidth. A little Huffman encoding goes a long way. Gates are cheap, IO bandwidth is not. The benefits of the regularity of RISC instruction sets were quickly lost as gates got smaller and the compute/IO bandwidth tradeoff changed in favour of compute.
One day, editors will catch their mistakes before posting. Or I'll RTFM and see if the mistake is in the source. But that day is not today. Well done, editors!
Like the one dimensional motorbikes? "already as many as 2,500 motorbikes per kilometre".
This whole laptop ban thing was a front to get countries to accept the remote American security points in their airports. If you don't - laptop ban. If you do - no laptop ban.
In general, using the remote ones (I've the one on Canada) is much better than going the passport and security points at international arrivals in an American airport. So that's a marginal improvement. But best of all would be having passport and security controls that didn't suck.
Have you ever tried to dictate jargon or anything detail oriented? "Connect the 2m SM LC/LC fiber jumper to router cent-m3 port xe-1/3/0 and to sonet node NEX23 port 1-3-10." Good luck even getting that past autocorrect.
I tried. I'm writing a book. Speech to text and latex do not mix.
>The reviews on the 2016 MBP keyboard have been generally quite favorable.
They seemed slightly bi-model. Some people including me and my wife hate the short key travel and general 'dead' feel of the keys. I kept my existing fully loaded MBP complete with ESC key and a decent enough keyboard. .
I thought there were export controls on security/encryption software, specifically to prevent this technology from falling into the hands of international rivals.
You file paperwork with the government and get permission, per product. This is normal.
neither works anywhere near as good as progressively loading a barbell with weights and engaging in a strength based training routine consisting of squats, deadlifts, and presses.
This. I'm generally a slob, but if I start getting back pains or other physical issues, I start with the barbells and squats and avoiding the elevator and within a couple of weeks, it's all fixed. If I was into it, I'd do it all the time, but I'm not.
>For many people, buying clothing online is not worth the hassle of getting a pair of pants or a shirt that does not fit.
For me it's ok. If I walk into a clothing store, E.G. Nordstom, there's maybe a 20% chance I'll find something that fits and is shaped reasonably and doesn't cost a stupid amount of money. However having found some fitting clothes at M&S and fitting clothes at Nordstom, I certainly can look up the clothes online, filter by size, brand and price and have a close to 100% chance of finding shirts and trousers that are likely to fit. The occasional misfit will cost me maybe $35, but that's a lot better than schlepping to the other side of town multiple times to find one item of clothing and probably blowing more than $35 feeding the family or them buying ancillary mall crap.
For whatever reason, M&S in the UK make trousers that fit and Nordstrom in the USA makes shirts that fit. So when an item starts to wear out, I start looking online and swap it out when I find and buy a replacement.
This is so much better than how clothes shopping used to be.
I bet he could talk Justice Alito into voting for installing a transgender bathroom in the building.
assuming classical party-lines, Republicans would have no issue with a 'Trans-specific' bathroom, it would be liberals that would find it offensive.
As a reminder, the issue that this country obsessed about an embarrassingly long time was with the requirement that transgender individuals to use bathrooms that conform with what's between their legs...
Bathrooms don't have to be gender specific. Like in almost every bathroom in every residential house or apartment everywhere.
One of the mild annoyances of using macOS/OS X is the littering of the dot underbar (i.e., "._foobar") files. Does this go away with APFS? Thanks in advance.
Also, does High Sierra fix any of the myriad of problems macOS has with mounting NFS? Have they added support for NFSv4 yet?
>1. Siri everywhere! No thanks. It's helpful to turn speech-to-text when I'm driving two tons of car. If I'm at a computer, I have a keyboard. Don't get me wrong, good speech-to-text (and in reverse) is awesome when it helps somebody. But as an ordinary able-bodied computer user, I don't trust any corporation that is recording everything you say to their device.
I'm writing a book. It's technical so has quite a lot of mathematics in it, but also a lot of normal text. I'm using Latex. I figured it might be a good time to try speech input since I'll be doing it for 2 years and the technology has probably improved somewhat over the last 20 years. I tried every speech-to-text system available to me and it's hopeless. The attempts of the computer to hear jargon correctly are laughable. Trying to enter equations is a lost cause. There is no way known to mankind to get it to correctly put in $ instead of 'dollar' when I say dollar. I can type in equations 1000% times faster.
But most users had employer provided BlackBerries and you couldn't run shit on an employer provided BlackBerry other than the mail client. The iPhone was perfectly timed to get everyone in every corporation from middle managers upwards to say "screw it, I'm buying my own iPhone", simply out of frustration at not being able to run useful applications like maps and browsers, not because they didn't exist, but because the phone was locked down.
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>x86 ISA isn't exactly a lean architecture and instruction set.
>Modern ARM can do much better with a small transistor foot print.
In which universe is the ARM instruction set "lean"?
Every instruction is 32 bits long, clogging one's instruction bandwidth. A little Huffman encoding goes a long way. Gates are cheap, IO bandwidth is not. The benefits of the regularity of RISC instruction sets were quickly lost as gates got smaller and the compute/IO bandwidth tradeoff changed in favour of compute.
Did you try googling it? There are plenty of people trying to sell you an electric motorbike.
I'd hazard that many of the bikes are using two stroke engines which are particularly dirty. Maybe the push should be to electric motorcycles?
So legislate the emissions requirements and let manufacturers work it out.
One day, editors will catch their mistakes before posting. Or I'll RTFM and see if the mistake is in the source. But that day is not today. Well done, editors!
Like the one dimensional motorbikes? "already as many as 2,500 motorbikes per kilometre".
This whole laptop ban thing was a front to get countries to accept the remote American security points in their airports. If you don't - laptop ban. If you do - no laptop ban.
In general, using the remote ones (I've the one on Canada) is much better than going the passport and security points at international arrivals in an American airport. So that's a marginal improvement. But best of all would be having passport and security controls that didn't suck.
ADA requirements mandate that you to use BaeuBraille you selfish clot.
I went. I saw some news. I saw area choices on the left that can be clicked on. It seems boringly ok.
Complaining about change, now that's a fine first world problem.
"I don't like change!"
Have you ever tried to dictate jargon or anything detail oriented? "Connect the 2m SM LC/LC fiber jumper to router cent-m3 port xe-1/3/0 and to sonet node NEX23 port 1-3-10." Good luck even getting that past autocorrect.
I tried. I'm writing a book. Speech to text and latex do not mix.
>The reviews on the 2016 MBP keyboard have been generally quite favorable.
They seemed slightly bi-model. Some people including me and my wife hate the short key travel and general 'dead' feel of the keys. I kept my existing fully loaded MBP complete with ESC key and a decent enough keyboard.
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I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
FYI, you can still get a Macbook Pro with a physical ESC key.
Or, if you have to have the touch bar MacBook Pro, just use the keyboard settings and remap the caps lock key to escape.
But I would map the caps lock to ctrl, to be like my Happy Hacking keyboard.
I'm confused by Kangaroos too.
Let's not jump to conclusions.
Free water?! It's not like the stuff just falls out of the sky for free. Oh wait...
I thought there were export controls on security/encryption software, specifically to prevent this technology from falling into the hands of international rivals.
You file paperwork with the government and get permission, per product. This is normal.
I get on the order of 50,000 attack probes every day. Should I be cataloging and report each one to the FBI?
What makes a ransomware attack a special snowflake attack that needs reporting compared to spyware or bot install attempts?
>A second technique that works is to put the car in neutral
What's wrong with the clutch pedal? Oh I forgot. It's probably Americans driving.
>CIA is primarily humint and SAD operations.
They use jet lag as a weapon?
No. The Planck shitload has been normalized to 1 and the Planck shit ton then normalizes to 1/4pi.
neither works anywhere near as good as progressively loading a barbell with weights and engaging in a strength based training routine consisting of squats, deadlifts, and presses.
This. I'm generally a slob, but if I start getting back pains or other physical issues, I start with the barbells and squats and avoiding the elevator and within a couple of weeks, it's all fixed. If I was into it, I'd do it all the time, but I'm not.
Planck units work much better.
C = 1
G = 1
Kb = 1
etc
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>For many people, buying clothing online is not worth the hassle of getting a pair of pants or a shirt that does not fit.
For me it's ok. If I walk into a clothing store, E.G. Nordstom, there's maybe a 20% chance I'll find something that fits and is shaped reasonably and doesn't cost a stupid amount of money. However having found some fitting clothes at M&S and fitting clothes at Nordstom, I certainly can look up the clothes online, filter by size, brand and price and have a close to 100% chance of finding shirts and trousers that are likely to fit. The occasional misfit will cost me maybe $35, but that's a lot better than schlepping to the other side of town multiple times to find one item of clothing and probably blowing more than $35 feeding the family or them buying ancillary mall crap.
For whatever reason, M&S in the UK make trousers that fit and Nordstrom in the USA makes shirts that fit. So when an item starts to wear out, I start looking online and swap it out when I find and buy a replacement.
This is so much better than how clothes shopping used to be.
I bet he could talk Justice Alito into voting for installing a transgender bathroom in the building.
assuming classical party-lines, Republicans would have no issue with a 'Trans-specific' bathroom, it would be liberals that would find it offensive.
As a reminder, the issue that this country obsessed about an embarrassingly long time was with the requirement that transgender individuals to use bathrooms that conform with what's between their legs...
Bathrooms don't have to be gender specific. Like in almost every bathroom in every residential house or apartment everywhere.
One of the mild annoyances of using macOS/OS X is the littering of the dot underbar (i.e., "._foobar") files. Does this go away with APFS? Thanks in advance.
Also, does High Sierra fix any of the myriad of problems macOS has with mounting NFS? Have they added support for NFSv4 yet?
What about the Icon\r litering my git repos?
>1. Siri everywhere! No thanks. It's helpful to turn speech-to-text when I'm driving two tons of car. If I'm at a computer, I have a keyboard. Don't get me wrong, good speech-to-text (and in reverse) is awesome when it helps somebody. But as an ordinary able-bodied computer user, I don't trust any corporation that is recording everything you say to their device.
I'm writing a book. It's technical so has quite a lot of mathematics in it, but also a lot of normal text. I'm using Latex. I figured it might be a good time to try speech input since I'll be doing it for 2 years and the technology has probably improved somewhat over the last 20 years. I tried every speech-to-text system available to me and it's hopeless. The attempts of the computer to hear jargon correctly are laughable. Trying to enter equations is a lost cause. There is no way known to mankind to get it to correctly put in $ instead of 'dollar' when I say dollar. I can type in equations 1000% times faster.
>My Curve had a full featured browser
But most users had employer provided BlackBerries and you couldn't run shit on an employer provided BlackBerry other than the mail client. The iPhone was perfectly timed to get everyone in every corporation from middle managers upwards to say "screw it, I'm buying my own iPhone", simply out of frustration at not being able to run useful applications like maps and browsers, not because they didn't exist, but because the phone was locked down.
So ... what's the next ridiculous craze that I should work to prevent my daughter from getting into?.
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