Once in a blue moon I try a GUI editor (like gedit, geany) or an IDE (like Eclipse or Netbeans), and I always find myself going back to vim, because everything else slows me down
What I would very much want is a fucking GUI editor for Android apps, because editing XML files from scratch is getting on my nerves.
So you dislike GUI's but secretly desire one?
I'd posit that your anti-IDE/GUI experience is based around tools that don't meet your needs, and your XML editing desires show that you are looking for tools that meet your needs.
I'd also posit that having the right tools would make you much more productive than bare bones editors (compared to a fully fledged IDE)
Pity that they are talking about the country in Eurasia and not the US state. Or that when the state of Georgia seceded from the US it referred to itself as the "Republic of Georgia".
Methinks you should pay more attention to the world around you.
The EPA emissions factor for electricity is about 0.69 tons of CO2 per megawatt hour, so producing the electricity used by this datacenter is, on average, dumping into the atmosphere 331 tons of CO2 per day or about 120,000 tons of CO2 per year
Given that the data center is in the Republic of Georgia and not the US state of Georgia I don't think that the EPA estimates really have any relevance. If anything the numbers are probably much much worse.
As an actual engineer as well, this sort of inflating of titles is a peeve of mine right now. It makes job searches nigh impossible as every position out there has the word engineer in them, and all recruiters seem to be doing nowadays is matching keywords - sort I keep getting emails about 'engineer this' and 'engineer that', when they are totally irrelevant to any sort of genuine engineering position.
Python has emerged a juggernaut to contend with in RESTful coding environments.
Putting aside the whole whitespace debate(*), I'm pretty sure that python has its own list of issues. Maybe not to the same extent as PHP, but they exist.
* For which I personally do have trouble with python - I want the computer to bend to my will, not the other way around.
A car's primary purpose is to advertise the size of a guy's dick(*), in order to facilitate picking up chicks. Getting around is just a by-product of its intended function.
FTFY
* Although an inverse function is typically applied here, for some reason the chicks in question don't seem to notice or care.
I saw a story last week of an AirBnB "issue" Palm Springs Airbnb 'squatter' protected under law. In CA, if a person stays in your house for longer than 30 days they are recognized as a tenant. At which point all sorts of tenant protection laws kick in, and the only way to remove them is to start a lengthy legal process.
I'd say its nigh on impossible to circumvent laws like this in CA while still keeping your house as a private home. So I see jumping into AirBnB arrangements without understanding the legal framework of what you are doing as the equivalent of skipping through a minefield - regardless of the "good" intentions of this disaster preparedness scheme.
But then you could also buy your coffee at costco, and a nice flask, and you get your cheapest caffeine every day and less disposable cups going to landfills.
You could also live in a country where you could grow and roast your own coffee beans. There is always a price vs convenience tradeoff.
Though, another point worth mentioning is that coffee's stimulant effect on the body wears off after a while as the body learns to adapt.
Which is great reason to kick the caffeine addiction habit in the first place.
Some athletes will give up coffee so that their caffeine gels are a bit more effective on race day.
There was an Australian Modern Pentathlon competitor who was sent home from the 1988 Soul olympics due to excess caffeine levels (but was later cleared).
It's kind of a gateway drug, in that once you open the Red Bull gate you are entering a world where you pay triple for the equivalent energy of a banana, and the equivalent caffeine of a cup of coffee. It's kind of like a gateway to a world of dummies.
Unless of course you shop for Red Bull at Costco vs buying your Double Mocha Lattes from Starbucks. In which case your Red Bull caffeine price will be less than a quarter than that of the Starbucks content.
Silly question on a nerd site, you don't "prove" anything with science, and Jurassic park was a movie, not a scientific model.
Years and years ago I saw some academic research that modeled bird flocking with a simple "Try and keep a constant distance from my neighbors" algorithm. The video (vector graphics with the birds rendered as simple triangles) of the animations produced a very lifelike behavior of a flock of birds flying around and through groups of fixed objects. I'd say if anything that the animators of Jurassic park were probably aware of such techniques.
All slurs aside, buss was all over the place on schematics for all sorts systems at the time. It was not an isolated occurrence. So you don't get to invalidate my experience.
Redundancy should only be necessary when and where it makes sense. I don't think this is one of those cases.
Though I am a bit surprised that it would take a week to get and install replacement parts...
From someone posting the link below and reading TFA, there has been no indications to what the actual problem was.
But given that it effected the whole building in order to enact a repair it might have taken a bunch of upstream switching of large capacity power systems. Co-ordinating, doing arc-flash assessment, safety plans, organizing labor and proper tools etc could easily take a couple of days in itself. Let alone performing the work, doing proper testing and then reversing all of the up stream switching.
Performing work in large scale systems does get paperwork intensive. However that has come about as a means to combat workplace injury and/or death. So I'd rather do the paperwork.
A fool's drivel repeated often enough will some day end up in the lexicon, especially in the moden age of instant mass communications, but that does not make it correct.
"Buss" is not a word, but because there was an electrical manufacturing company called "Bussman" that makes fuses, and people would often shorten it to "Buss Fuses", other illiterates have created a spurious spelling that uses "buss" instead of "bus". It's still incorrect however, in spite of the illiterates repeating it on the internet.
This holds true within the electrical trade, as many old-timers frequently write (not type!) "buss" -- I often see it on equipment labels, one-line drawings, etc.
Thats funny, because in my EE degree back 30 years, and in another country, we learnt that buss was the term used for a collection of signals being routed in a signal direction. From my point of view, *your* definition as to the origin of buss is apocryphal.
I'm supposed to give an oppressive government details on how to crack a piece of software, and they'll give me (pinky to mouth) $100,000?
This is the same government that plays around with nuclear tipped umbrellas isn't it? That likes to shoot down civilian planes? If so what guarantees do I have that 1) I'll get the money, or 2) that I'll live to tell the tale?
I was amused to see that TFA was a front page BBC article. For comparison I went to CNN and FOX to see what was reported there. Didn't find anything on either of those 2 sites.
So maybe the real solution is complaining about it on Slashdot. That gets things done.
That depends on what the actual problem is that he is trying to solve. If it is trying to fix the phone, or his experience.. then no, it won't change much. But if it is simply to create a click-bait article masquerading as an editorial (and one that a lot of people will complain and bitch about as well) - well then, the solution works just fine and dandy.
Slashdot Mirror
Once in a blue moon I try a GUI editor (like gedit, geany) or an IDE (like Eclipse or Netbeans), and I always find myself going back to vim, because everything else slows me down
What I would very much want is a fucking GUI editor for Android apps, because editing XML files from scratch is getting on my nerves.
So you dislike GUI's but secretly desire one?
I'd posit that your anti-IDE/GUI experience is based around tools that don't meet your needs, and your XML editing desires show that you are looking for tools that meet your needs.
I'd also posit that having the right tools would make you much more productive than bare bones editors (compared to a fully fledged IDE)
What other uses of energy do you disapprove of?
Obviously not /.
First of all, here in Georgia, we are a State in the US of Fucking A!
Secondly, what the fucking Hell does Athletic shoes have to do with Bitcoin?
Pity that they are talking about the country in Eurasia and not the US state. Or that when the state of Georgia seceded from the US it referred to itself as the "Republic of Georgia".
Methinks you should pay more attention to the world around you.
The EPA emissions factor for electricity is about 0.69 tons of CO2 per megawatt hour, so producing the electricity used by this datacenter is, on average, dumping into the atmosphere 331 tons of CO2 per day or about 120,000 tons of CO2 per year
Given that the data center is in the Republic of Georgia and not the US state of Georgia I don't think that the EPA estimates really have any relevance. If anything the numbers are probably much much worse.
So Toss his ass into Gitmo and wait 15 years to bring him to trial ..
What?!?!?! The people in Gitmo actually gets chance to go to trial???? /sarcasm
Facebook engineer and PHP core contributor....
My father in law in an actual engineer
As an actual engineer as well, this sort of inflating of titles is a peeve of mine right now. It makes job searches nigh impossible as every position out there has the word engineer in them, and all recruiters seem to be doing nowadays is matching keywords - sort I keep getting emails about 'engineer this' and 'engineer that', when they are totally irrelevant to any sort of genuine engineering position.
Python has emerged a juggernaut to contend with in RESTful coding environments.
Putting aside the whole whitespace debate(*), I'm pretty sure that python has its own list of issues. Maybe not to the same extent as PHP, but they exist.
* For which I personally do have trouble with python - I want the computer to bend to my will, not the other way around.
A car's primary purpose is to advertise the size of a guy's dick(*), in order to facilitate picking up chicks. Getting around is just a by-product of its intended function.
FTFY
* Although an inverse function is typically applied here, for some reason the chicks in question don't seem to notice or care.
I saw a story last week of an AirBnB "issue" Palm Springs Airbnb 'squatter' protected under law. In CA, if a person stays in your house for longer than 30 days they are recognized as a tenant. At which point all sorts of tenant protection laws kick in, and the only way to remove them is to start a lengthy legal process.
I'd say its nigh on impossible to circumvent laws like this in CA while still keeping your house as a private home. So I see jumping into AirBnB arrangements without understanding the legal framework of what you are doing as the equivalent of skipping through a minefield - regardless of the "good" intentions of this disaster preparedness scheme.
But then you could also buy your coffee at costco, and a nice flask, and you get your cheapest caffeine every day and less disposable cups going to landfills.
You could also live in a country where you could grow and roast your own coffee beans. There is always a price vs convenience tradeoff.
Though, another point worth mentioning is that coffee's stimulant effect on the body wears off after a while as the body learns to adapt.
Which is great reason to kick the caffeine addiction habit in the first place.
Some athletes will give up coffee so that their caffeine gels are a bit more effective on race day.
There was an Australian Modern Pentathlon competitor who was sent home from the 1988 Soul olympics due to excess caffeine levels (but was later cleared).
It's kind of a gateway drug, in that once you open the Red Bull gate you are entering a world where you pay triple for the equivalent energy of a banana, and the equivalent caffeine of a cup of coffee. It's kind of like a gateway to a world of dummies.
Unless of course you shop for Red Bull at Costco vs buying your Double Mocha Lattes from Starbucks. In which case your Red Bull caffeine price will be less than a quarter than that of the Starbucks content.
Can this claim even be proven or disproven?
Silly question on a nerd site, you don't "prove" anything with science, and Jurassic park was a movie, not a scientific model.
Years and years ago I saw some academic research that modeled bird flocking with a simple "Try and keep a constant distance from my neighbors" algorithm. The video (vector graphics with the birds rendered as simple triangles) of the animations produced a very lifelike behavior of a flock of birds flying around and through groups of fixed objects. I'd say if anything that the animators of Jurassic park were probably aware of such techniques.
Maybe your EE lecturer had a crush on you?
All slurs aside, buss was all over the place on schematics for all sorts systems at the time. It was not an isolated occurrence. So you don't get to invalidate my experience.
Redundancy should only be necessary when and where it makes sense. I don't think this is one of those cases.
Though I am a bit surprised that it would take a week to get and install replacement parts...
From someone posting the link below and reading TFA, there has been no indications to what the actual problem was.
But given that it effected the whole building in order to enact a repair it might have taken a bunch of upstream switching of large capacity power systems. Co-ordinating, doing arc-flash assessment, safety plans, organizing labor and proper tools etc could easily take a couple of days in itself. Let alone performing the work, doing proper testing and then reversing all of the up stream switching.
Performing work in large scale systems does get paperwork intensive. However that has come about as a means to combat workplace injury and/or death. So I'd rather do the paperwork.
A fool's drivel repeated often enough will some day end up in the lexicon, especially in the moden age of instant mass communications, but that does not make it correct.
"Buss" is not a word, but because there was an electrical manufacturing company called "Bussman" that makes fuses, and people would often shorten it to "Buss Fuses", other illiterates have created a spurious spelling that uses "buss" instead of "bus". It's still incorrect however, in spite of the illiterates repeating it on the internet.
This holds true within the electrical trade, as many old-timers frequently write (not type!) "buss" -- I often see it on equipment labels, one-line drawings, etc.
Thats funny, because in my EE degree back 30 years, and in another country, we learnt that buss was the term used for a collection of signals being routed in a signal direction. From my point of view, *your* definition as to the origin of buss is apocryphal.
It looks like that HHGTG is also being treated as a manual rather than as a warning.
I'm supposed to give an oppressive government details on how to crack a piece of software, and they'll give me (pinky to mouth) $100,000?
This is the same government that plays around with nuclear tipped umbrellas isn't it? That likes to shoot down civilian planes? If so what guarantees do I have that 1) I'll get the money, or 2) that I'll live to tell the tale?
I was amused to see that TFA was a front page BBC article. For comparison I went to CNN and FOX to see what was reported there. Didn't find anything on either of those 2 sites.
I forgot to mention .. Pretty well at Sea level as well.
I guess because the air is warmer it's less dense, making this kind of record "easier"?
The record was set about 100k SW of Melbourne (Actually the Australian Automotive Research Centre near Anglesea) in Victoria, in Winter.
The temps there in the last week were around 12 Deg C (55 F)
So much for 'less dense' air
Tank Girl for the win!
The big advantage is that all my computers are reachable through the internet
Depending on your point of view, that may also be considered as a down-side.
Slashdot can't be far behind, right?
I've heard that you can only get ipv6 connections if your comments are in uni-code.
So maybe the real solution is complaining about it on Slashdot. That gets things done.
That depends on what the actual problem is that he is trying to solve. If it is trying to fix the phone, or his experience .. then no, it won't change much. But if it is simply to create a click-bait article masquerading as an editorial (and one that a lot of people will complain and bitch about as well) - well then, the solution works just fine and dandy.
Given human nature I can see this ending up not so happy for everyone.