Not "one week" just a constant low level hummm... Yeah listening to customers who want every feature is the way to fuck up your products, no one should listed to that kind of vauge "More cowbell like company x" input. Any company allowing that kind of feature creep and product fragmentation is just asking for trouble... References: history.
Then "borrow" a shopping trolley and go get a free crt tv from a rubish tip.
... seriously though, if you can't afford $70 for a usable Pi i'm not sure how you eat and live... unless you are a hippy trying to live in a forest, in which case i would have thought you'd consider computer to be an evil un-environmentally friendly product of consumerism, capitalism and human greed. But perhaps you can use twigs and crabs to create a rudimentary computer, there was a slashdot post a while ago about people creating adders with crabs. Btw what are you accessing slashdot with ? telepathy and fruit juice?
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Another case of people making non news out of misinterpreting statistics. The statistics are from hospital admissions of cycling related injuries "per 100,000 persons" NOT 100,000 cyclist persons. This is no different to saying roads are getting more dangerous because there are more people driving and thus proportionally more driving injuries, get your base line right.
If you were such a fucking whizz kid why didn't you sort out the mess you made yourself?
I'm guessing you're one of those people who doesn't get sarcasm... that was implied by my double quotes in the last paragraph but i guess that was lost on you. My point was that i didn't consider myself to be very apt at scripting or coding in any way at the time. Also i didn't do the privileged escalation... that was all down to the admins own foolery.
Go back to your cubical you arrogant self righteous fuck tard.
Having been a pupil in UK public schools (although some time ago) your description feels very familiar, so i guess it hasn't changed much.
Probably the closest thing to something sort of useful i learned on computers at school was wetting my feet with writing scripts, (without any useful input from a "teacher" of course who's knowledge and interest didn't seem to extend beyond what microsoft told them). It was just a windows batch script... probably the only thing i ever wrote specifically windows, and all it did was shut down the computer, so not even programming. I placed it on the network and named it something click-batey for some harmless amusement - a prank any kid would do. The stupid network admins muddled themselves up somehow and managed to fuck up the permissions making it have a fairly permanent presence resulting in weeks of self induced rebooting fun around the school.
I almost got expelled for it and treated like some kind of terrorist or witch in the middle ages, someone so "advanced" and "malicious" that they could write a one line batch script to shut down a computer, i must have been 12 or something and got some real shit thrown at me by that head master... fuck... if i could be there now i'd give that asshole a right telling off.
So yeah... please teach these ignorant people about computers if only to alleviate their rain of ignorance on the students.
:P Then i guess by "BitZtream's" definition: your quad copter isn't "worth a shit"
This really has nothing much to do with drones or technology though, and everything to do with mass and stupidity... or is it mass stupidity?
Replace "drone" with "heavy object" and "flight" with one or more of various other mechanisms available to give heavy objects gravitational potential energy and or momentum. This can be an idiot throwing rocks at people, a psychopath dropping pennies off the Eiffel Tower or a clumsy buffoon flying a heavy drone around in public... you can replace the things but not the people.
Also learning ASM gives you a better feel for how the hardware sees your higher level code, so it helps to build instincts about what is likely to work well and what will drag ass.
Fully agree with this, and beyond to the hardware level, memory, caches etc.
However... i don't know how to write ASM at all. And i primarily code in JavaScript! *hides behind monitor from elitists*.
I read some books on optimisation out of interest and inevitably about assembly, i found Michael Abrash's books particularly interesting combined with the historical context: "Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book" and "Zen of Assembly Language". Although at the time i couldn't always follow the ASM code line for line, the concepts were very clear and i have found them very useful even in my pitifully high level language... and anyone who has read them should understand why.
I was thinking something similar, and to be fair it is called "NextBSD" but as far as i can tell from the GitHub repo it's some combination of FreeBSD and Darwin, the open-source base system that OS X runs on top of. I think the Next name just fit well.
Maybe this one will be more successful than the previous short lived attempts to make the Darwin sources into something useful... I'm not sure what exactly they are doing that is different though.
I had a look. I like the thinking behind the design more than the design itself...
Not that i'm qualified to say so, but I do feel others are conceptually doing it wrong by trying to sustain pressures and conditions in a star, it makes more sense to find a natural fit for a small scale fusion reaction. Another way of looking at it is trying to use the nature of materials and mechanics to do the work instead of brute forcing it...
Might seem like a strange analogy but: the biomechanics of a fish allow it to swim upstream even if it's dead, If upstream is fusion then tokamaks and such are like trying to push a brick upstream, but there have to be better solutions that think about fusion without brute-force, a quirk of nature, not tons of supercooled electromagnets.
we have no reason to believe that any sort of consciousness exists in it.
Defining consciousness is an endless philosophical debate... but forget all that, it's a brain - something we know to exhibit the properties that everyone uses to define consciousness, how can you possibly say there is no reason to believe it is concious? what arbitrary metrics are you using to call it unconscious? because craniometry is pseudo-science.
I'm not sure how i feel about this either, and maybe it's fine... maybe we can prove it to be effectively brain dead but useful enough to observe chemical processes in the brain... that doesn't mean we can conveniently sweep conciousness under the rug though.
This is the best way to study the human brain without actually stealing one from an unwilling donor.
I don't know how we reconcile the fact that some people have a religious objection to messing with the parts that we're made of and the fact that there's huge benefits to be gained.
You don't have to be religious to have a problem with this. I don't care where the brain comes from, it can be a willing donor or grown in the lab, the issue people are going to have is empathy with a potentially concious organism... i'd even extend that to sufficiently advanced synthetic neural networks, and i think most non-religious people would agree that conciousness is not bound to us "special" naturally grown humans for all time, it applies to any kind of brain.
The point is: it's a brain - not a kidney, that doesn't mean you can't do experiments, it just means you can't dismiss ethical considerations (do not confuse this with religious ones).
I have some love for SVG... at least the sane parts of the spec, and it's quite a big part of my day job... But i have a lot of hate for inkscape:
A significant part of that is because it's really shitty at generating SVG. It might "use" SVG as it's format, but it does not treat it natively, it uses it's own name-space, litters files with it's name-space even when you request it to save plain SVGs. It converts much of it's data into SVG while saving the original "inkscape" data embeded in it's sodipodi namespaced XML embedded in the same file... really not very different from illustrator, SVG is it's output not it's internal format.
I don't touch files intended for the web with inkscape, but make them by hand, using inkscape to generate path data but that's it... Creating web safe SVGs with inkscape is just too much pain.
No, cosmological expansion is not selective, it does not only pick old stars, and nether are new stars limited to being bourn centred around our galaxy... We will see less of EVERYTHING, which means... less.
The decline in galaxies’ energy output coincides with the universe’s ever-increasing rate of expansion, which is due to a mysterious, anti-gravity force referred to as dark energy.
So yeah, but no... it's just that you can't see as much of the newer stuff... ever, cos > speed of light. Not an entirely accurate headline but makes no difference i guess, the point is that cosmological expansion guarantees that everything we see will become less and less, that's before even bothering to consider start birth rate / death rate.
but we still need to teach our students how to extract images from a PSD template. The industry format for graphic designs is PSD so The Gimp (XCF) is not really an option
Really? Sure i'd chose photoshop over gimp, but i'd choose nether for web design... manipulating rasters for anything more than tweaking images should not be part of modern web design, slicing up images is 1990, don't teach this, design with grid systems, use pen and paper or a wireframing tool, teach typography, the rest is code.
Eliminating it artificially will not make a diet healthy and CocaCola will never be part of a healthy diet unless they completely change their product. Skinny unhealthy people is not a solution to anything.
Forgot to say, my point was even though this will make an excellent replacement for NAND in SSDs, it's not good enough for cache or system memory, these must tollerate far higher write endurance at the lowest level without and magic of remapping memory space (unless maybe this falls in line with hardened BSD O_o)
It honestly depends on how they measure endurance. If it's measured as 1000x the 3 million writes, then no. If it's 1000x the three-year estimated wear-out time under consumer conditions, then that's phenomenal.
It doesn't make sense to quote endurance form an consumers perspective when it's not a product yet (as either write cycle or life span) - that's all highly dependent on what the size of the device is, how well the controller is designed and how much it utilises high endurance caches to reduce wear, NAND or not - it still has an endurance where these factors will play a role.
Worst possible case TLC NAND is 1,000 cycles on the page level, that would make this memory 1,000,000 at worst which is at least 10 times better than the highest quality SLC SSD you can buy.
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Not "one week" just a constant low level hummm... Yeah listening to customers who want every feature is the way to fuck up your products, no one should listed to that kind of vauge "More cowbell like company x" input. Any company allowing that kind of feature creep and product fragmentation is just asking for trouble... References: history.
Then "borrow" a shopping trolley and go get a free crt tv from a rubish tip.
... seriously though, if you can't afford $70 for a usable Pi i'm not sure how you eat and live... unless you are a hippy trying to live in a forest, in which case i would have thought you'd consider computer to be an evil un-environmentally friendly product of consumerism, capitalism and human greed. But perhaps you can use twigs and crabs to create a rudimentary computer, there was a slashdot post a while ago about people creating adders with crabs. Btw what are you accessing slashdot with ? telepathy and fruit juice?
I find the idea of an iPad "pro" stupid enough as it is, but the joke used to be about how predictably Microsoft copied Apple's moves.
So much product fragmentation that is feels a lot like the John Scully years before Jobs came back... ah well they did some good things i guess.
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From their very own reference: https://jama.jamanetwork.com/a...
Another case of people making non news out of misinterpreting statistics. The statistics are from hospital admissions of cycling related injuries "per 100,000 persons" NOT 100,000 cyclist persons. This is no different to saying roads are getting more dangerous because there are more people driving and thus proportionally more driving injuries, get your base line right.
If you were such a fucking whizz kid why didn't you sort out the mess you made yourself?
I'm guessing you're one of those people who doesn't get sarcasm... that was implied by my double quotes in the last paragraph but i guess that was lost on you. My point was that i didn't consider myself to be very apt at scripting or coding in any way at the time. Also i didn't do the privileged escalation... that was all down to the admins own foolery.
Go back to your cubical you arrogant self righteous fuck tard.
Having been a pupil in UK public schools (although some time ago) your description feels very familiar, so i guess it hasn't changed much.
Probably the closest thing to something sort of useful i learned on computers at school was wetting my feet with writing scripts, (without any useful input from a "teacher" of course who's knowledge and interest didn't seem to extend beyond what microsoft told them). It was just a windows batch script... probably the only thing i ever wrote specifically windows, and all it did was shut down the computer, so not even programming. I placed it on the network and named it something click-batey for some harmless amusement - a prank any kid would do. The stupid network admins muddled themselves up somehow and managed to fuck up the permissions making it have a fairly permanent presence resulting in weeks of self induced rebooting fun around the school.
I almost got expelled for it and treated like some kind of terrorist or witch in the middle ages, someone so "advanced" and "malicious" that they could write a one line batch script to shut down a computer, i must have been 12 or something and got some real shit thrown at me by that head master... fuck... if i could be there now i'd give that asshole a right telling off.
So yeah... please teach these ignorant people about computers if only to alleviate their rain of ignorance on the students.
It weighs less than one pound.
:P Then i guess by "BitZtream's" definition: your quad copter isn't "worth a shit"
This really has nothing much to do with drones or technology though, and everything to do with mass and stupidity... or is it mass stupidity?
Replace "drone" with "heavy object" and "flight" with one or more of various other mechanisms available to give heavy objects gravitational potential energy and or momentum. This can be an idiot throwing rocks at people, a psychopath dropping pennies off the Eiffel Tower or a clumsy buffoon flying a heavy drone around in public... you can replace the things but not the people.
Also learning ASM gives you a better feel for how the hardware sees your higher level code, so it helps to build instincts about what is likely to work well and what will drag ass.
Fully agree with this, and beyond to the hardware level, memory, caches etc.
However... i don't know how to write ASM at all. And i primarily code in JavaScript! *hides behind monitor from elitists*.
I read some books on optimisation out of interest and inevitably about assembly, i found Michael Abrash's books particularly interesting combined with the historical context: "Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book" and "Zen of Assembly Language". Although at the time i couldn't always follow the ASM code line for line, the concepts were very clear and i have found them very useful even in my pitifully high level language... and anyone who has read them should understand why.
... but that name was taken
I was thinking something similar, and to be fair it is called "NextBSD" but as far as i can tell from the GitHub repo it's some combination of FreeBSD and Darwin, the open-source base system that OS X runs on top of. I think the Next name just fit well.
Maybe this one will be more successful than the previous short lived attempts to make the Darwin sources into something useful... I'm not sure what exactly they are doing that is different though.
You seem to have completely missed my point.
Yes, lets all hail the mathematical achievements of 'Sexconker' instead, rofl.
Indeed!
Did you see Sexconkers recent mathematical publication "Game Theory, Trolling and Mockery"? It's well worth a read.
I had a look. I like the thinking behind the design more than the design itself...
Not that i'm qualified to say so, but I do feel others are conceptually doing it wrong by trying to sustain pressures and conditions in a star, it makes more sense to find a natural fit for a small scale fusion reaction. Another way of looking at it is trying to use the nature of materials and mechanics to do the work instead of brute forcing it...
Might seem like a strange analogy but: the biomechanics of a fish allow it to swim upstream even if it's dead, If upstream is fusion then tokamaks and such are like trying to push a brick upstream, but there have to be better solutions that think about fusion without brute-force, a quirk of nature, not tons of supercooled electromagnets.
... So that's the seed of her paranoia then eh.
we have no reason to believe that any sort of consciousness exists in it.
Defining consciousness is an endless philosophical debate... but forget all that, it's a brain - something we know to exhibit the properties that everyone uses to define consciousness, how can you possibly say there is no reason to believe it is concious? what arbitrary metrics are you using to call it unconscious? because craniometry is pseudo-science.
I'm not sure how i feel about this either, and maybe it's fine... maybe we can prove it to be effectively brain dead but useful enough to observe chemical processes in the brain... that doesn't mean we can conveniently sweep conciousness under the rug though.
This is the best way to study the human brain without actually stealing one from an unwilling donor.
I don't know how we reconcile the fact that some people have a religious objection to messing with the parts that we're made of and the fact that there's huge benefits to be gained.
You don't have to be religious to have a problem with this. I don't care where the brain comes from, it can be a willing donor or grown in the lab, the issue people are going to have is empathy with a potentially concious organism... i'd even extend that to sufficiently advanced synthetic neural networks, and i think most non-religious people would agree that conciousness is not bound to us "special" naturally grown humans for all time, it applies to any kind of brain.
The point is: it's a brain - not a kidney, that doesn't mean you can't do experiments, it just means you can't dismiss ethical considerations (do not confuse this with religious ones).
You wouldn’t steal a car
You wouldn’t steal a handbag
You wouldn’t steal a television
You wouldn’t steal a movie
Downloading pirated films is stealing, stealing is against the law, PIRACY. IT’S A CRIME
To bring these inline with the new jail term:
You wouldn’t knife a person
You wouldn’t rape a child
You wouldn’t blow up a school bus
You wouldn’t steal a movie
Downloading pirated films is murder, murder is against the law, PIRACY. IT’S A CRIME
I have some love for SVG... at least the sane parts of the spec, and it's quite a big part of my day job... But i have a lot of hate for inkscape:
A significant part of that is because it's really shitty at generating SVG. It might "use" SVG as it's format, but it does not treat it natively, it uses it's own name-space, litters files with it's name-space even when you request it to save plain SVGs. It converts much of it's data into SVG while saving the original "inkscape" data embeded in it's sodipodi namespaced XML embedded in the same file... really not very different from illustrator, SVG is it's output not it's internal format.
I don't touch files intended for the web with inkscape, but make them by hand, using inkscape to generate path data but that's it... Creating web safe SVGs with inkscape is just too much pain.
No, cosmological expansion is not selective, it does not only pick old stars, and nether are new stars limited to being bourn centred around our galaxy... We will see less of EVERYTHING, which means... less.
And what do you know: (from TFA)
The decline in galaxies’ energy output coincides with the universe’s ever-increasing rate of expansion, which is due to a mysterious, anti-gravity force referred to as dark energy.
So yeah, but no... it's just that you can't see as much of the newer stuff... ever, cos > speed of light. Not an entirely accurate headline but makes no difference i guess, the point is that cosmological expansion guarantees that everything we see will become less and less, that's before even bothering to consider start birth rate / death rate.
but we still need to teach our students how to extract images from a PSD template. The industry format for graphic designs is PSD so The Gimp (XCF) is not really an option
Really? Sure i'd chose photoshop over gimp, but i'd choose nether for web design... manipulating rasters for anything more than tweaking images should not be part of modern web design, slicing up images is 1990, don't teach this, design with grid systems, use pen and paper or a wireframing tool, teach typography, the rest is code.
Eliminating it artificially will not make a diet healthy and CocaCola will never be part of a healthy diet unless they completely change their product. Skinny unhealthy people is not a solution to anything.
Once you turn our internet into something resembling China's, maybe will people finally realise what a moron you are and vote you out.
Where is that evidence, if they are saying it's 1000x based on a consumer product then it's marketing BS.
Forgot to say, my point was even though this will make an excellent replacement for NAND in SSDs, it's not good enough for cache or system memory, these must tollerate far higher write endurance at the lowest level without and magic of remapping memory space (unless maybe this falls in line with hardened BSD O_o)
It honestly depends on how they measure endurance. If it's measured as 1000x the 3 million writes, then no. If it's 1000x the three-year estimated wear-out time under consumer conditions, then that's phenomenal.
It doesn't make sense to quote endurance form an consumers perspective when it's not a product yet (as either write cycle or life span) - that's all highly dependent on what the size of the device is, how well the controller is designed and how much it utilises high endurance caches to reduce wear, NAND or not - it still has an endurance where these factors will play a role.
Worst possible case TLC NAND is 1,000 cycles on the page level, that would make this memory 1,000,000 at worst which is at least 10 times better than the highest quality SLC SSD you can buy.