Do you really want to read the source code for ssh every time you forget whether it's -p or -P to specify the port? (It's one for ssh and another for rsync...)
I had a cabbie (very nice guy) in DC yesterday tell me that the city's skimming money off of the cabbies left and right to "pay for the credit card readers". Coming from a place with a decidedly-more free enterprise mindset with the cabs, what's the deal? Shouldn't the cabs only accept credit cards if they find it in their business interests to do so, and otherwise people can just pay cash? Honestly I had no idea that any cabbies *did* take plastic.
If government doesn't want "principled" leaking of state secrets, then perhaps it should act in such a way that leaking them isn't the principled thing to do?
See below -- this was definitely not the interpretation I had in mind of the word "rack", only the things that compute nodes sit in (like the one I'm trying to repair at the moment -- damned cheap GTX480's).
Tell that to the people making these jokes, as I had absolutely nothing in mind when I wrote that -- the machine's made up of several rows of these racks, but NERSC only does the spiffy paint job on the front one.
Do people assume any use of the word "dongle" is talking about penises in articles about male computer engineers? No.
I have one of those four-seater Yarises. But I paid $12.5K for it, and it gets mid-40's on the highway -- with the aircon on (and that's going 75-80mph). They're only rated at 37? Wow.
fuel usage per average passenger-mile (accouting for actual ridership numbers) and don't ride in anything with a poor number -- ie: you never take a city bus.
I wish more people brought this up. (I'm stuck in a city full of fauxvironmentalists -- and noisy awful polluting buses which get less passenger MPG than a Yaris with two passengers.)
Don't understand why everyone's giving you grief -- as you said, the land out there is ridiculously rugged. Ten miles in the mountains is a totally different ball game than ten miles in Minnesota.
Wildfires have been a part of the Western ecosystem for gajillions of years. There are lots of plants that have seeds that only germinate after a fire, or are specialized at recolonizing previously burned areas. What's not natural is putting out fires. Since we started doing that, brush has built up, and now when things burn they *really* burn -- hot enough to kill trees that can survive the natural wildfires. It's going to take a cycle of these large fires to reset the ecology to what the plants are adapted to.
I left out a step there. What happened was that the new version of Ubuntu came out with Unity, people used it for a while, and one by one went "ugh, I can't deal with this" and found something else to use instead.
Thanks for that. I notice "airplane" isn't on the table, which is a bit noteworthy (they're very safe but not quite as safe as trains, I think). It would probably depend quite a bit (in America) on the sort of roads you were driving on; we're a country of huge distances, and I imagine the risk in driving might vary be as much as an order of magnitude between the Beltway (the horrible road surrounding Washington, DC) and I-10 in West Texas (oil wells and not much else).
Yep. This bike is definitely the wrong size for me -- it was a cheap one bought in exasperation off of Craigslist (which had a lot of things wrong with it) after my previous one got stolen. The advertisement said that the previous owner was also my height, so I guess it didn't fit her either.
It is a piece of junk, but I'm a bit reluctant to get a new one that fits me properly because this is Washington DC, where everything is 1) too damn expensive, and 2) liable to get stolen. Maybe this one will get stolen too?
That's just because fewer people bike and for shorter distances. I'd be interested to see fatalities/mile for cyclists and drivers in the same geographical area (say, DC, or NYC, or whatever).
Recently in Germany I was walking on the sidewalk, and heard a bike bell behind me. (I'm an American.) I hopped out of the way, to the left, since that was the shortest path to out of the biker's way.
He slowed down and rang his bell again, and then I realized that he was trained to only pass on the left, so I got to the *other* side of the path and he went by, and I felt bad about slowing the poor fellow down.
It's remarkable: on crowded US interstates, the left lane is often the slow one, because people think of it as the "fast lane". It's not.
Indeed: if you want to get upset at suicide (and you should, since it's a horrible thing), get upset at the sorry state of mental health care, not the means by which the decedent chose to kill himself. Here it's people jumping in front of trains, but nobody is calling for a ban on trains.
civilians shooting someone they don't recognize in their driveway, losing their temper, road rage, or incorrect assumptions? Possessing a firearm should not give people the right to behave as judge, jury and executioner.
Then the people doing the shooting are criminals in any state I know anything about. Shooting someone you don't recognize in your driveway is murder.
In some places (DC, London) you'd have to be careful about division-by-zero errors. It's entirely possible that someone drove zero miles and still managed to get shot in Anacostia.
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Do you really want to read the source code for ssh every time you forget whether it's -p or -P to specify the port? (It's one for ssh and another for rsync...)
They did help out in Japan after the earthquake...
Does "used his sysadmin privileges to mount USB media and assume the profiles" mean something like this?
snowden@nsa $ mount /dev/sdc1 /media/usb /dev/sdc1 /media/usb
Error: Not permitted on classified machines!
snowden@nsa $ sudo mount
Password: 5ky|\|37
snowden@nsa $ sudo su
root@nsa # su barackobama
I had a cabbie (very nice guy) in DC yesterday tell me that the city's skimming money off of the cabbies left and right to "pay for the credit card readers". Coming from a place with a decidedly-more free enterprise mindset with the cabs, what's the deal? Shouldn't the cabs only accept credit cards if they find it in their business interests to do so, and otherwise people can just pay cash? Honestly I had no idea that any cabbies *did* take plastic.
Blair has already demonstrated that he's both.
If government doesn't want "principled" leaking of state secrets, then perhaps it should act in such a way that leaking them isn't the principled thing to do?
See below -- this was definitely not the interpretation I had in mind of the word "rack", only the things that compute nodes sit in (like the one I'm trying to repair at the moment -- damned cheap GTX480's).
Tell that to the people making these jokes, as I had absolutely nothing in mind when I wrote that -- the machine's made up of several rows of these racks, but NERSC only does the spiffy paint job on the front one.
Do people assume any use of the word "dongle" is talking about penises in articles about male computer engineers? No.
... so we've named a supercomputer after her:
http://www.top500.org/system/176952
It's a pretty giant beastie. There are some pretty awesome pictures of the front rack floating around:
http://news.techgenie.com/files/Hopper-Supercomputer.jpg
It's not exactly analogous. She didn't get a degree in computer science. She helped create the field.
I have one of those four-seater Yarises. But I paid $12.5K for it, and it gets mid-40's on the highway -- with the aircon on (and that's going 75-80mph). They're only rated at 37? Wow.
Great car.
fuel usage per average passenger-mile (accouting for actual ridership numbers) and don't ride in anything with a poor number -- ie: you never take a city bus.
I wish more people brought this up. (I'm stuck in a city full of fauxvironmentalists -- and noisy awful polluting buses which get less passenger MPG than a Yaris with two passengers.)
Don't understand why everyone's giving you grief -- as you said, the land out there is ridiculously rugged. Ten miles in the mountains is a totally different ball game than ten miles in Minnesota.
Minnesota is substantially flatter than the Sierras.
No, it's probably not.
Wildfires have been a part of the Western ecosystem for gajillions of years. There are lots of plants that have seeds that only germinate after a fire, or are specialized at recolonizing previously burned areas. What's not natural is putting out fires. Since we started doing that, brush has built up, and now when things burn they *really* burn -- hot enough to kill trees that can survive the natural wildfires. It's going to take a cycle of these large fires to reset the ecology to what the plants are adapted to.
I don't know how it gets such *bad* mileage. My '08 four-door Yaris ($12.5k) gets 44 highway (75mph, A/C on, my own measurements).
As an American who likes to drive on the highway, I agree.
As an American who is currently stuck in an urban shithole where 40mph is a pipe dream, I might want one of these.
I left out a step there. What happened was that the new version of Ubuntu came out with Unity, people used it for a while, and one by one went "ugh, I can't deal with this" and found something else to use instead.
This isn't science; it's personal preference.
Thanks for that. I notice "airplane" isn't on the table, which is a bit noteworthy (they're very safe but not quite as safe as trains, I think). It would probably depend quite a bit (in America) on the sort of roads you were driving on; we're a country of huge distances, and I imagine the risk in driving might vary be as much as an order of magnitude between the Beltway (the horrible road surrounding Washington, DC) and I-10 in West Texas (oil wells and not much else).
Yep. This bike is definitely the wrong size for me -- it was a cheap one bought in exasperation off of Craigslist (which had a lot of things wrong with it) after my previous one got stolen. The advertisement said that the previous owner was also my height, so I guess it didn't fit her either.
It is a piece of junk, but I'm a bit reluctant to get a new one that fits me properly because this is Washington DC, where everything is 1) too damn expensive, and 2) liable to get stolen. Maybe this one will get stolen too?
That's just because fewer people bike and for shorter distances. I'd be interested to see fatalities/mile for cyclists and drivers in the same geographical area (say, DC, or NYC, or whatever).
Recently in Germany I was walking on the sidewalk, and heard a bike bell behind me. (I'm an American.) I hopped out of the way, to the left, since that was the shortest path to out of the biker's way.
He slowed down and rang his bell again, and then I realized that he was trained to only pass on the left, so I got to the *other* side of the path and he went by, and I felt bad about slowing the poor fellow down.
It's remarkable: on crowded US interstates, the left lane is often the slow one, because people think of it as the "fast lane". It's not.
Indeed: if you want to get upset at suicide (and you should, since it's a horrible thing), get upset at the sorry state of mental health care, not the means by which the decedent chose to kill himself. Here it's people jumping in front of trains, but nobody is calling for a ban on trains.
civilians shooting someone they don't recognize in their driveway, losing their temper, road rage, or incorrect assumptions? Possessing a firearm should not give people the right to behave as judge, jury and executioner.
Then the people doing the shooting are criminals in any state I know anything about. Shooting someone you don't recognize in your driveway is murder.
In some places (DC, London) you'd have to be careful about division-by-zero errors. It's entirely possible that someone drove zero miles and still managed to get shot in Anacostia.
That's Iraq.
They're different countries.