If you can roll back, it's not a brick. Can we stop inappropriately using the term brick? Brick means no reasonable way of installing working software as an end user.
When something is bricked you need to JTAG flash it using extra hardware, or it's simply dead.
How to know something will not be bricked in 2018: it says it'll be bricked on/.
I've noticed my AMD FX hex-core desktop at home hard locking but I got it second hand from a friend. Still not really sure if it's just in need of some adjustment. The CPU itself runs cool as a cucumber.
Hard-locking only started happening after the update but that may be a co-incidence.
It happened once when my cat for some reason decided it was a smart idea to chace something between the case and the wall and wobbled the whole thing by jumping up on top of it.
I don't use spinning-magneto-rust anymore but maybe a cable is loose.:)
It's hard to see myself tiring of making new things when I'm still in my 30s.
I do a lot of things.
I make digital and traditional art. I model in 3D. I play around in Unity. I make tiny apps to organize my life. I've written fiction. (No manuals yet.)
I don't ever see that stopping entirely.
I still find it hard to see an end to that.
I suspect it creeps in slowly. Each new technology might begin to sound tiring. They all promise to solve one problem or another and not many of them ever solve the human problems that are usually the biggest failings in any kind of human-readable computer language. So maybe you skip out on learning the new things. Just keep hacking away at the old stuff. Sooner or later your skills are mostly in dead languages.
But I still find it hard to imagine myself doing that. Even if I give it a few years before hopping on to a new programming language, having such a depth and breadth of knowledge in languages already it's super easy to grok new ones. If some prospective employer wants me to code in "latestHotness.js" or something, I'll just read up on it.
Seems like the only things getting "insightful" upvotes are "centrist" dudes who can't seem to understand the difference between boy's clubs and clubs for minorities.
WTF guys. Is it really that difficult?
When someone tries to put together a boy's club, it's invariably because they want to keep the status quo. They're afraid of losing power they already have.
When someone tries to create a private place for women or minorities to meet, they're trying to avoid being shouted down by angry mouthpieces for once in their goddamned lives.
The difference is power, and raison d'etre.
When someone creates a women-only space, for example, others need not worry that they're going to miss out on any job opportunities or the ability to make ends meet. It's just a space where they want to be alone and speak. Period.
So why anyone needs to take it personally I'll never understand. Yeah, they want to talk without you in the room. It's a rare treat. Let them have it. Everyone needs therapy some time. Especially those who have to live with -your- sanctimonious BS.
Gee, I sure do like the fact that I can negotiate when I get a new job. I never sign arbitration clauses or indemnity clauses as they are presented. At very least I'll strike parts I don't want out and initial them. Usually the lawyer gives me a call if the company wants me bad enough or if they don't, well I don't want to work for them anyway if that's how they deal.
But I can make that negotiation. I think in the US they should be incapable of signing away that right. It should be codified in law. That's just silly.
If I want to see something, I pay close to $20 CAD to watch it in comfortable seats with a beer in my hand.
I don't even bother pirating. If it's not worth paying for, I don't watch it.
So for many people like me, I'd say this study is even a bit too harsh on piracy. The reality for many of us is that we are simply not interested in your "save the cat" garbage plots.
The new McDonalds ordering terminals seem to make sure the restaurant is FULL all the time of people waiting now. It's more convenient and you confirm your own order, so you know it's not going to be screwed up. (At least the order, who knows about what they make to fill it.)
All this is to say the actual purchase experience is better. So more people go, and the staff seem to have increased in number in the kitchen. (You can see right into the kitchen.)
Data point of one, but it seems at least in this case automation reduced the annoyance with low-wage workers taking your order correctly, and increased staff and volume.
Someone who actually works as a manager for one of these places can probably elaborate.
In many of the cases I'm seeing here, the following probably happened:
The designer was given very little time to come up with something, even fewer requirements, and...
Infinite revision hell probably molded it into what you see today. So the project manager and client are probably to blame as well.
The designer can give good consultation on what works and what doesn't, but ultimately the people paying the bill will make the decision.
Many people on/. seem to think UI/UX designer means someone who randomly slaps shit together.
No, UX is ALL ABOUT TESTING YOUR WORK.
User testing is probably the best part of the process. Getting to know how real people react to designs is really rewarding.
Problem is, you pay for that. So convincing a cheapskate boss to pay for it doesn't always go well. In that case all you can do is follow design trends and hope it all comes out in the wash. Try A/B testing which is cheaper as well.
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There ARE people who go into design also tend to dislike the idea that UI concepts have to be tested and follow rigid guidelines, but that's another matter.
It could be a terawatt-scale version of Hellisheiði:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
AS a bonus, it could supply hot water for the entire northern tier of states. No more mortgaging your soul for each winter's supply of heating oil in the Northeast.
I wonder why this hasn't been done before? Besides being a national park, are there any logistical concerns people haven't mentioned?
Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?
They do. Pot bellied men get leading roles all over the place. Or dad bod men. Where a relatively similar shape woman would be passed over.
Usually if I bother to look at the comments on/. for a question like this I'd expect a tire fire.
Other than that one "Anonymous" woman claiming to be every woman. (Be careful how you word things. I know that's maybe not what you meant, but it's what you said.)
Regardless, as many others have said, affirmative action is useful in cases where there's a systemic problem keeping certain groups out of a field. (be it women or other classifications of people)
Where a true meritocracy would see a distribution which roughly matches the population, a false meritocracy (a boy's club or clique) often over-represents one group. Here it is usually men, as they advertised the first personal computers mostly at boys when we were kids in the 70s or 80s.
Numbers of women in computing roughly matched men right up until the personal computing boom, when it became a bit of a boy's club.
If you grew up a boy, chances were that there were a nerdy group of lads at school you could talk computer stuff about. You'd challenge each other and encourage each other.
Girls didn't see the same encouragement. They were often met with scorn, or encouraged to do other things with their time. Any accomplishments they did achieve in computing were probably diminished by their peers or their parents.
Girls in computing either had to be friends with the boys, which can seem insurmountable for nerdy women who are attractive, as the boys often fail to believe you can be smart, or they had to go it alone. (Also the other nerdy girls probably don't think you want to hang out with them.)
Fast-forward to college and you're left with a lot less experience tinkering with focus, and probably big gaps in your knowledge.
Imagine you had to do 12th grade algebra having missed grade 9-11. That'd be pretty harsh, no matter how smart you are.
This is the particular problem we're trying to solve here. It's a systematic problem. Encouragement at every stage is the only answer. (By encouragement I mean removing barriers as well.)
In the work-place it can be a similar problem in that a subconscious bias encourages women less in the field. The ones who did make it through the extra hurdles to even get to the job interview aren't always weighed equally. You can see this in the difference between numbers of grads versus new workforce.
I am starting to think of an upgrade now that my AMD M5A97 motherboard is starting to show signs of age I'm thinking of an upgrade.
This summary and article gave me the kind of information I can use. These "synthetic benchmarks" are actually my intended workload. Games don't benefit greatly from multi-cores over about 3 or 4 these days, and in the future I think they'll start to take advantage of the newer platforms.
My Phenom II 1055T has served me well, but I'm thinking something a bit more high end might be a good upgrade.
All that said, is there something I'm missing? Can someone suggest an even better upgrade? At home I'm mostly playing around in Unity3D/Blender3D and making videos.
System specs:
AMD Phenom II 1055T
16GB @ 1333Mhz
GeForce GTS 650
Crucial MX300 750GB
Some WD Red NAS drive for junk storage that I don't care about losing.
(Off-site backups and on-site backups to other machines, of course!)
That's not a UX designer if they're acting like that.
Seems people on Slashdot don't actually know what UX is, or they've worked with designers who got shoehorned into the job with no training and no clue.
I suppose the solution you hinted at is a good one. In common browsers, maybe the user could be warned that the certificate is an automatically authenticated one.
That way they can make an informed choice. I think that kind of transparency is good here, so long as that doesn't start affecting search result ranking. Or as long as that doesn't suddenly stop your site from being seen at all on some networks because of an overzealous IT admin.
Here's the problem, Cramer. I don't need quite that degree of trust for someone to visit my site.
I understand why we need HTTPS. To prevent people from seeing what you're reading, at a base level, to protect your users' privacy.
What exactly about my public blog posts about web and game development is really going to be a concern here? What kind of MITM attack are they going to perform? There's nothing for the user to trust.
There is no login process for users other than myself. If someone trashes my whole webserver, I have an off-site backup.
Worst case is I need to spin up a new instance.
Why, then, do my users need me to pay for a legit certification just so they can browse my site? I just want to continue to appear favorably in search results, and not pay a fortune for the privilege.
Slashdot Mirror
If you can roll back, it's not a brick. Can we stop inappropriately using the term brick? Brick means no reasonable way of installing working software as an end user.
When something is bricked you need to JTAG flash it using extra hardware, or it's simply dead.
How to know something will not be bricked in 2018: it says it'll be bricked on /.
smh
I've noticed my AMD FX hex-core desktop at home hard locking but I got it second hand from a friend. Still not really sure if it's just in need of some adjustment. The CPU itself runs cool as a cucumber.
:)
Hard-locking only started happening after the update but that may be a co-incidence.
It happened once when my cat for some reason decided it was a smart idea to chace something between the case and the wall and wobbled the whole thing by jumping up on top of it.
I don't use spinning-magneto-rust anymore but maybe a cable is loose.
Just a lot of bros in the comments who choose to take offence instead of own the fact that our old ways were wrong.
Yeah... real "manly" there guys. Sidestepping responsibility and being whiny pissbabies.
I guess that is manly. I guess that's what being a man is about.
I came to the comments to verify my cynicism on this exact issue. :)
The fact that this is only a 2 (downvoted or only upvoted once) doesn't bode well.
FFS you're all falling all over each other to make a martyr out of this fool.
Fact of the matter is that he was full of shit.
Now that he's throwing fellow people with autism under the bus as a cop-out is really crass.
What an awful person...
Oh neat! The WayBack Machine has a few archives of it starting in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/201...
It's hard to see myself tiring of making new things when I'm still in my 30s.
I do a lot of things.
I make digital and traditional art. I model in 3D. I play around in Unity. I make tiny apps to organize my life. I've written fiction. (No manuals yet.)
I don't ever see that stopping entirely.
I still find it hard to see an end to that.
I suspect it creeps in slowly. Each new technology might begin to sound tiring. They all promise to solve one problem or another and not many of them ever solve the human problems that are usually the biggest failings in any kind of human-readable computer language. So maybe you skip out on learning the new things. Just keep hacking away at the old stuff. Sooner or later your skills are mostly in dead languages.
But I still find it hard to imagine myself doing that. Even if I give it a few years before hopping on to a new programming language, having such a depth and breadth of knowledge in languages already it's super easy to grok new ones. If some prospective employer wants me to code in "latestHotness.js" or something, I'll just read up on it.
Or people are seeking you out.
Seems like the only things getting "insightful" upvotes are "centrist" dudes who can't seem to understand the difference between boy's clubs and clubs for minorities.
WTF guys. Is it really that difficult?
When someone tries to put together a boy's club, it's invariably because they want to keep the status quo. They're afraid of losing power they already have.
When someone tries to create a private place for women or minorities to meet, they're trying to avoid being shouted down by angry mouthpieces for once in their goddamned lives.
The difference is power, and raison d'etre.
When someone creates a women-only space, for example, others need not worry that they're going to miss out on any job opportunities or the ability to make ends meet. It's just a space where they want to be alone and speak. Period.
So why anyone needs to take it personally I'll never understand. Yeah, they want to talk without you in the room. It's a rare treat. Let them have it. Everyone needs therapy some time. Especially those who have to live with -your- sanctimonious BS.
Gee, I sure do like the fact that I can negotiate when I get a new job. I never sign arbitration clauses or indemnity clauses as they are presented. At very least I'll strike parts I don't want out and initial them. Usually the lawyer gives me a call if the company wants me bad enough or if they don't, well I don't want to work for them anyway if that's how they deal.
But I can make that negotiation. I think in the US they should be incapable of signing away that right. It should be codified in law. That's just silly.
If I want to see something, I pay close to $20 CAD to watch it in comfortable seats with a beer in my hand.
I don't even bother pirating. If it's not worth paying for, I don't watch it.
So for many people like me, I'd say this study is even a bit too harsh on piracy. The reality for many of us is that we are simply not interested in your "save the cat" garbage plots.
Even failed passwords from PassGAN seemed pretty realistic: saddracula, santazone, coolarse18.
Dammit! Now I have to change my password. Thanks PassGAN!
They don't give two poopie butts about us. They're all meanies! :'(
The new McDonalds ordering terminals seem to make sure the restaurant is FULL all the time of people waiting now. It's more convenient and you confirm your own order, so you know it's not going to be screwed up. (At least the order, who knows about what they make to fill it.)
All this is to say the actual purchase experience is better. So more people go, and the staff seem to have increased in number in the kitchen. (You can see right into the kitchen.)
Data point of one, but it seems at least in this case automation reduced the annoyance with low-wage workers taking your order correctly, and increased staff and volume.
Someone who actually works as a manager for one of these places can probably elaborate.
In many of the cases I'm seeing here, the following probably happened:
The designer can give good consultation on what works and what doesn't, but ultimately the people paying the bill will make the decision.
Many people on /. seem to think UI/UX designer means someone who randomly slaps shit together.
No, UX is ALL ABOUT TESTING YOUR WORK.
User testing is probably the best part of the process. Getting to know how real people react to designs is really rewarding.
Problem is, you pay for that. So convincing a cheapskate boss to pay for it doesn't always go well. In that case all you can do is follow design trends and hope it all comes out in the wash. Try A/B testing which is cheaper as well.
---
There ARE people who go into design also tend to dislike the idea that UI concepts have to be tested and follow rigid guidelines, but that's another matter.
It could be a terawatt-scale version of Hellisheiði: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... AS a bonus, it could supply hot water for the entire northern tier of states. No more mortgaging your soul for each winter's supply of heating oil in the Northeast.
I wonder why this hasn't been done before? Besides being a national park, are there any logistical concerns people haven't mentioned?
Next question, please.
Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?
They do. Pot bellied men get leading roles all over the place. Or dad bod men. Where a relatively similar shape woman would be passed over.
I'm a bit surprised everyone!
/. for a question like this I'd expect a tire fire.
Usually if I bother to look at the comments on
Other than that one "Anonymous" woman claiming to be every woman. (Be careful how you word things. I know that's maybe not what you meant, but it's what you said.)
Regardless, as many others have said, affirmative action is useful in cases where there's a systemic problem keeping certain groups out of a field. (be it women or other classifications of people)
Where a true meritocracy would see a distribution which roughly matches the population, a false meritocracy (a boy's club or clique) often over-represents one group. Here it is usually men, as they advertised the first personal computers mostly at boys when we were kids in the 70s or 80s.
Numbers of women in computing roughly matched men right up until the personal computing boom, when it became a bit of a boy's club.
If you grew up a boy, chances were that there were a nerdy group of lads at school you could talk computer stuff about. You'd challenge each other and encourage each other.
Girls didn't see the same encouragement. They were often met with scorn, or encouraged to do other things with their time. Any accomplishments they did achieve in computing were probably diminished by their peers or their parents.
Girls in computing either had to be friends with the boys, which can seem insurmountable for nerdy women who are attractive, as the boys often fail to believe you can be smart, or they had to go it alone. (Also the other nerdy girls probably don't think you want to hang out with them.)
Fast-forward to college and you're left with a lot less experience tinkering with focus, and probably big gaps in your knowledge.
Imagine you had to do 12th grade algebra having missed grade 9-11. That'd be pretty harsh, no matter how smart you are.
This is the particular problem we're trying to solve here. It's a systematic problem. Encouragement at every stage is the only answer. (By encouragement I mean removing barriers as well.)
In the work-place it can be a similar problem in that a subconscious bias encourages women less in the field. The ones who did make it through the extra hurdles to even get to the job interview aren't always weighed equally. You can see this in the difference between numbers of grads versus new workforce.
I hope this helps clear things up.
This summary and article gave me the kind of information I can use. These "synthetic benchmarks" are actually my intended workload. Games don't benefit greatly from multi-cores over about 3 or 4 these days, and in the future I think they'll start to take advantage of the newer platforms.
My Phenom II 1055T has served me well, but I'm thinking something a bit more high end might be a good upgrade.
All that said, is there something I'm missing? Can someone suggest an even better upgrade? At home I'm mostly playing around in Unity3D/Blender3D and making videos.
System specs:
(Off-site backups and on-site backups to other machines, of course!)
The average guy who hasn't examined his place in the world things the same thing.
And you have the nerve to pretend there is no counter-argument? There is! You don't want to hear it.
Hmm, just thought about this and if someone takes out a cert and runs the auth script on your server, then they place it on theirs, what do they gain?
If they poison DNS they MIGHT be able to pretend to be your site.
If they can't poison DNS, the cert is invalidated when it's not served up from your domain.
Also: THEY HAVE ACCESS TO RUN SCRIPTS ON YOUR SERVER.
So why go to the trouble to make a cert?
That's not a UX designer if they're acting like that.
Seems people on Slashdot don't actually know what UX is, or they've worked with designers who got shoehorned into the job with no training and no clue.
I used them abroad. I feel cleaner after using them. I bought a $40 attachment for my toilet so I have one at home.
But having to use the toilets at work always feels kind-of gross.
Women don't seem to get why guys like bidets so much. Well, consider the considerably larger amount of hair they have on their butts.
Water works 10x better than wiping 20 times. No more degos!
I suppose the solution you hinted at is a good one. In common browsers, maybe the user could be warned that the certificate is an automatically authenticated one.
That way they can make an informed choice. I think that kind of transparency is good here, so long as that doesn't start affecting search result ranking. Or as long as that doesn't suddenly stop your site from being seen at all on some networks because of an overzealous IT admin.
Here's the problem, Cramer. I don't need quite that degree of trust for someone to visit my site.
I understand why we need HTTPS. To prevent people from seeing what you're reading, at a base level, to protect your users' privacy.
What exactly about my public blog posts about web and game development is really going to be a concern here? What kind of MITM attack are they going to perform? There's nothing for the user to trust.
There is no login process for users other than myself. If someone trashes my whole webserver, I have an off-site backup.
Worst case is I need to spin up a new instance.
Why, then, do my users need me to pay for a legit certification just so they can browse my site? I just want to continue to appear favorably in search results, and not pay a fortune for the privilege.