They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade. They paint little pyramid looking things on the road that cause drivers to slow down. It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
The bottom line is that they are both blazingly fast, especially for multi-threaded workloads. So when building a workstation there are more important things to worry about than a few percent in this benchmark or that benchmark.
Threadripper has more PCIe lanes, a definite bonus. Not only useful now for things like NVMe SSDs and RAID cards, but in future for adding a USB 4.0 card or whatever. If you want your system to last longer then expandability is key.
Threadripper motherboards also seem to be a bit cheaper, and of course the CPUs themselves are. For the longer term, AMD tend to stick by their sockets for longer so chances are if there is a major CPU upgrade option available (unlikely) you will be able to drop it in.
For example, your continuous assertion that the environment is responsible for the difference between the sexes
Ah, okay. I'm not arguing that at all, that isn't my position. I've stated that there are biological differences between the sexes more than once on Slashdot.
What I'm saying is that the biological component doesn't account for things like girls preferring pink and boys preferring blue. As recently as 100 years ago, it was the opposite, and I don't think there is a compelling biological explanation for that, but there is a sociological ones.
Sociology is not evidence free. It's just that it is impossible to reproduce circumstances exactly, so people dismiss it.
There are lots of other useful sciences where the same is true. Medicine, for example. We can't exactly reproduce specific cancers, but that doesn't stop us developing effective treatments because we accept trials with statistical significance. Same with psychology, we learned how to treat things like PTSD and depression despite the lack of hard evidence or even a deep understanding of how the brain works.
Look, obviously we need to be cautious with social sciences, but dismissing them entirely is silly. Especially as your argument appears to be "social sciences can't know this, but somehow I can". Oh, you have some statistics... But those are soft and non-reproducible. So what, should we just not even try? What exactly are you arguing for here?
There are several firewall apps on Play and FDroid. They work by creating a local VPN connection which they can filter. As a bonus you get ad blocking too in some of them. I like DNS66.
It's probably more to do with not running into other stuff buried underground than safety or environmental issues.
The industry I work in (water) obviously has a lot of buried infrastructure, mostly pipes. They don't know exactly where a lot of it is... There are maps, many of them more than a century old, hand drawn and based on landmarks that don't exist any more. Probably weren't drafted with any great accuracy anyway.
Okay, so you go deeper. Everyone is deeper than the last project.... Well, that doesn't really work either. And in any case, if you dig a tunnel under a building, you might affect that building in some way. Depends how tall it is, what the foundations are made of, what the ground under it is made of etc.
That's why there are regulations. We found out the hard way that digging tunnels under cities carries some risks that we really need to try to mitigate.
Mr. Day has a history of fabricating things and not posting corrections when errors are pointed out. Of course, if he changes his ways we can re-evaluate his performance, but as it stands I think it's reasonable not to rely on him as a single source.
I mean, in the current climate people demand multiple sources even for stuff from the BBC and NHK. And then those same people are usually the ones posting a single Vox Day link.
A quick google confirms that it's pretty much just him on this one.
It is possible that men are different than women, society has no problems when it goes against men, for example there are more men in jail than women.
Have you not noticed all the groups working to keep men out of jail and demanding change, demanding that there is less institutional bias against the worst affected groups like black men? It's mentioned on the TV news every now and then.
Feminist academics have also done a huge amount of working trying to understand why so many men end up in jail and what can be done to reduce it.
I was merely pointing out that the proposed experiment was flawed, because it did not control for environmental influences and thus could not discount them.
However, the question of how much human behaviour is instinctive vs. learned is still the subject of much debate and study. Most experts accept that there are elements of both. Obviously if you reject all the "soft" sciences like biology and sociology, you can't claim to know that the answer to this question because you just said that it's unknowable.
The other issue is that even if it was 100% hormones, we expect people to overcome their hormonal responses. In fact, we see things like self control as positive character traits.
What about Finland? Much higher percentage of women graduating in CS courses than the US, although not a majority. Finland has very strong rights for women.
Also, as I pointed out in another post, it's not that Iranian women are being forced to study STEM subjects. They choose to study those things because those relatively new subjects have not become traditionally male yet and they were able to stake out a space for themselves there, which they find liberating and a driver of social change. Of course the down side is that Iranian men may now face barriers in those fields, but overall the change is likely to be positive for everyone in the long run.
See, I do listen, I just don't agree. You could at least do me the courtesy of assuming good faith. I do try to read most of the relies to my posts, especially yours and a few others who I put on my friend list in order to make more visible.
No? The suspension was due to possibly justified paranoia.
While it's possible that these apps are phoning home, there are legitimate reasons for doing so, e.g. updating no-fly zone maps that prevent the user from entering airport boundaries or flying over military installations. You know, the stuff that the government wants them to implement.
Instead of asking Slashdot, this person needs to set up Wireshark to capture the packets. Might need to install a custom certificate on the phone in order to MITM the HTTPS stream too, if their security meets that basic level.
Thanks. There is a lot of troll moderation against me. Similar comments below got an easy +5 insightful, but because my name is on it my comment attracts a lot of offtopic, troll, flamebait and overrated votes too.
That's a great question. The answer is complex, but a lot of it is to do with men there being pressured to go into other fields and with women supporting each other because education is seen as a way to change and escape the patriarchal nature of their society.
Perhaps you could clarify... Because it sounds like you are saying I want to murder people for fun, and that's why I support the efforts on diversity that Google is making.
You keep attacking me with blame for stuff I didn't do. You seem to think I'm a member, maybe even the leader of the official Social Justice Warrior club.
What do you want from me? An apology? I don't even know enough about the situation to know if your complaint has merit.
He is saying that trying to claim that 50% of the population, more than 3 billion people, think it act a certain way is both ridiculous and causes problems.
Are we really still having this debate? I thought that even the anti-feminists had adopted "not all men" as a slogan, but it seems that they think such broad statements as you just made are fine.
Didn't make Eich unemployable, and I'm sure this guy will either continue at Google or quickly find somewhere else to go.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. It never has been.
It's always been the case the unpopular opinions can make it harder to get a job. That's why anonymous speech is so important.
What you are really complaining about here is that this guy's opinion is now so far from the mainstream and so distasteful too many people that there are consequences to attaching his name to it.
That's a reasonable complaint to make, but it's not a deliberate silencing tactic.
It's an article by Vox Day, with a heavy anti-SJW slant and no evidence that the keys are genuine or representative of what it claims they are. I'll wait for a more reliable source to confirm.
Why are there more women graduating with tech degrees than men in Iran? If there was something inherent about women not liking tech, it would be the same regardless of culture.
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They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade. They paint little pyramid looking things on the road that cause drivers to slow down. It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
I wonder if fake speed bumps are as effective.
The bottom line is that they are both blazingly fast, especially for multi-threaded workloads. So when building a workstation there are more important things to worry about than a few percent in this benchmark or that benchmark.
Threadripper has more PCIe lanes, a definite bonus. Not only useful now for things like NVMe SSDs and RAID cards, but in future for adding a USB 4.0 card or whatever. If you want your system to last longer then expandability is key.
Threadripper motherboards also seem to be a bit cheaper, and of course the CPUs themselves are. For the longer term, AMD tend to stick by their sockets for longer so chances are if there is a major CPU upgrade option available (unlikely) you will be able to drop it in.
What you said was that society is the reason for females being more submissive.
I definitely did not write that. Link to the post where I make that statement please.
You seem to be reading more into what I say than just what I wrote. I thought we were talking about choice of toy.
For example, your continuous assertion that the environment is responsible for the difference between the sexes
Ah, okay. I'm not arguing that at all, that isn't my position. I've stated that there are biological differences between the sexes more than once on Slashdot.
What I'm saying is that the biological component doesn't account for things like girls preferring pink and boys preferring blue. As recently as 100 years ago, it was the opposite, and I don't think there is a compelling biological explanation for that, but there is a sociological ones.
Sociology is not evidence free. It's just that it is impossible to reproduce circumstances exactly, so people dismiss it.
There are lots of other useful sciences where the same is true. Medicine, for example. We can't exactly reproduce specific cancers, but that doesn't stop us developing effective treatments because we accept trials with statistical significance. Same with psychology, we learned how to treat things like PTSD and depression despite the lack of hard evidence or even a deep understanding of how the brain works.
Look, obviously we need to be cautious with social sciences, but dismissing them entirely is silly. Especially as your argument appears to be "social sciences can't know this, but somehow I can". Oh, you have some statistics... But those are soft and non-reproducible. So what, should we just not even try? What exactly are you arguing for here?
There are several firewall apps on Play and FDroid. They work by creating a local VPN connection which they can filter. As a bonus you get ad blocking too in some of them. I like DNS66.
It's probably more to do with not running into other stuff buried underground than safety or environmental issues.
The industry I work in (water) obviously has a lot of buried infrastructure, mostly pipes. They don't know exactly where a lot of it is... There are maps, many of them more than a century old, hand drawn and based on landmarks that don't exist any more. Probably weren't drafted with any great accuracy anyway.
Okay, so you go deeper. Everyone is deeper than the last project.... Well, that doesn't really work either. And in any case, if you dig a tunnel under a building, you might affect that building in some way. Depends how tall it is, what the foundations are made of, what the ground under it is made of etc.
That's why there are regulations. We found out the hard way that digging tunnels under cities carries some risks that we really need to try to mitigate.
Mr. Day has a history of fabricating things and not posting corrections when errors are pointed out. Of course, if he changes his ways we can re-evaluate his performance, but as it stands I think it's reasonable not to rely on him as a single source.
I mean, in the current climate people demand multiple sources even for stuff from the BBC and NHK. And then those same people are usually the ones posting a single Vox Day link.
A quick google confirms that it's pretty much just him on this one.
It is possible that men are different than women, society has no problems when it goes against men, for example there are more men in jail than women.
Have you not noticed all the groups working to keep men out of jail and demanding change, demanding that there is less institutional bias against the worst affected groups like black men? It's mentioned on the TV news every now and then.
Feminist academics have also done a huge amount of working trying to understand why so many men end up in jail and what can be done to reduce it.
I was merely pointing out that the proposed experiment was flawed, because it did not control for environmental influences and thus could not discount them.
However, the question of how much human behaviour is instinctive vs. learned is still the subject of much debate and study. Most experts accept that there are elements of both. Obviously if you reject all the "soft" sciences like biology and sociology, you can't claim to know that the answer to this question because you just said that it's unknowable.
The other issue is that even if it was 100% hormones, we expect people to overcome their hormonal responses. In fact, we see things like self control as positive character traits.
What about Finland? Much higher percentage of women graduating in CS courses than the US, although not a majority. Finland has very strong rights for women.
Also, as I pointed out in another post, it's not that Iranian women are being forced to study STEM subjects. They choose to study those things because those relatively new subjects have not become traditionally male yet and they were able to stake out a space for themselves there, which they find liberating and a driver of social change. Of course the down side is that Iranian men may now face barriers in those fields, but overall the change is likely to be positive for everyone in the long run.
See, I do listen, I just don't agree. You could at least do me the courtesy of assuming good faith. I do try to read most of the relies to my posts, especially yours and a few others who I put on my friend list in order to make more visible.
No? The suspension was due to possibly justified paranoia.
While it's possible that these apps are phoning home, there are legitimate reasons for doing so, e.g. updating no-fly zone maps that prevent the user from entering airport boundaries or flying over military installations. You know, the stuff that the government wants them to implement.
Instead of asking Slashdot, this person needs to set up Wireshark to capture the packets. Might need to install a custom certificate on the phone in order to MITM the HTTPS stream too, if their security meets that basic level.
Slashdot: Where the truth is -1 troll.
Thanks for posting a correction, shame people neglected to mod it up while your original, inaccurate statement is at +5.
Holding a door open does not force anyone to walk through it.
Thanks. There is a lot of troll moderation against me. Similar comments below got an easy +5 insightful, but because my name is on it my comment attracts a lot of offtopic, troll, flamebait and overrated votes too.
Shame there isn't a +5 offtopic badge.
That's a great question. The answer is complex, but a lot of it is to do with men there being pressured to go into other fields and with women supporting each other because education is seen as a way to change and escape the patriarchal nature of their society.
Perhaps you could clarify... Because it sounds like you are saying I want to murder people for fun, and that's why I support the efforts on diversity that Google is making.
I... I can't even...
I did no such thing.
You keep attacking me with blame for stuff I didn't do. You seem to think I'm a member, maybe even the leader of the official Social Justice Warrior club.
What do you want from me? An apology? I don't even know enough about the situation to know if your complaint has merit.
He is saying that trying to claim that 50% of the population, more than 3 billion people, think it act a certain way is both ridiculous and causes problems.
Are we really still having this debate? I thought that even the anti-feminists had adopted "not all men" as a slogan, but it seems that they think such broad statements as you just made are fine.
Didn't make Eich unemployable, and I'm sure this guy will either continue at Google or quickly find somewhere else to go.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. It never has been.
It's always been the case the unpopular opinions can make it harder to get a job. That's why anonymous speech is so important.
What you are really complaining about here is that this guy's opinion is now so far from the mainstream and so distasteful too many people that there are consequences to attaching his name to it.
That's a reasonable complaint to make, but it's not a deliberate silencing tactic.
Unless you somehow exclude those children from society, with no TV or other outside influence, then your point doesn't really stand up.
It's an article by Vox Day, with a heavy anti-SJW slant and no evidence that the keys are genuine or representative of what it claims they are. I'll wait for a more reliable source to confirm.
The problem is that "SJW" can mean whatever you like, and no one can agree who is one... Basically they are a straw man.
I can't make a counter argument because you will just respond "but SJWs believe X".
Point to someone specific who is involved, or better still something I said and might want to defend.
Why are there more women graduating with tech degrees than men in Iran? If there was something inherent about women not liking tech, it would be the same regardless of culture.
It actually originates from observations of hens, which of course don't fly in formation, or much at all for that matter.