I've had exactly the same experience. Every linux install I've had has eventually eaten itself within 2 years.
I wouldn't care too much, I usually refresh my windows installs every few years, except that whenever I go the the internet for help on the linux problems I generally get attacked by people who perceive asking for help on weird problems as trashing their OS.
Apparently I'm supposed to spend my weekends reading and researching in detail all of the notes on every single update that comes through before installing it. Except that I don't actually have to do that because I don't need all of those updates and should only install them if I'm having an issue. Except that I'm a retard for not having kept up with all of the updates and that's why my installation bricked itself after running the annual all-inclusive update.
And that's not counting the other random things that made my system completely unusable in the most annoying way. One of the best examples being back during college I dual booted linux and windows on my laptop. After getting linux up and running with all components working (wifi and video being the usual pain in the ass) I had a stable system for all of 4 weeks. One of my programming classes required using logisim for homework assignments. I was trying to use linux for as much as possible, so opted to run the manually downloaded.jar file in linux. It worked for a few weeks, then suddenly decided that it would no longer display symbols in the main window. Nothing I did fixed it, from re-downloading a new.jar file to clearing out all of the settings caches I could find to rolling back and reinstalling the video drivers. I booted back to windows to finish the assignment and that was the last I used linux for that semester.
Intentional mispellings put you right back where you started ("did I spell it piece or peice?" instead of "did I replace the a with @ or was it just the o with 0"). Also, the average english speaking adult has a vocabulary of some 20k words. I'd take a password consisting of 8 words over a password consisting of 8 characters any day.
"choose multiple random words"
"using 4 random words from a list of 500 common words is shit"
Getting mixed messages here.
I might be completely failing at math here, but 4 random words from a 500 word list has more entropy than 4 random characters from a list of 100 upper/lower/numbers/symbols. Considering that the average active vocabulary of an english speaking adult is on the order of 20k words, even a 5 word long password has a lot of entropy.
And if you decide to make the words not quite random, consider that the average english sentence can be on the order of 10-20 words. It wouldn't be hard to construct a sentence structure with a pattern significant to you that can be easily modified on a per-website basis.
It's a little bit of both tbh. When I was doing my time in IT as desktop support, I was responsible for about 300-500 in a small cluster of buildings. I was really big on user education, and always tried to actually go to peoples desks and explain to them what I was doing and what they could do in the future to prevent the problem from happening again. I'd even encourage people to call me preemptively if they weren't sure about something, as I'd rather spend 2 minutes telling them how to do it right rather than 2 hours fixing something they broke.
That said, we drew a line at training users on software. If people had questions about sending emails or formatting word documents, that was on them. We had full management backing to (politely) point them to google. Whenever I had to do that, I always made it a point to tell them that I didn't really know the answer either and that googling it themselves would be cutting out the middleman.
All of that said, this was at a company that did largely R&D engineering stuff, so there was a higher than usual concentration of people who were smarter than your average office drone writing tps reports.
To be fair, "left wingers" have a history of not being able to tell the difference between groups seeking to commit genocide and groups that are against affirmative action or for enforcing our immigration process, so I can see where the confusion is coming from.
I really hope that pure inside out tracking doesn't become the new thing unless it improves significantly. I have a lenovo explorer WMR headset, and the tracking is horrible compared to my friends vive. It's especially annoying playing beatsaber when I lose tracking on a controller while swinging behind/to the side and it teleports into a mine. The controllers also jitter horribly, to the point that shooting games are near impossible to play with any kind of precision.
Could those with more expensive video cards also have researched or pay for an ISP with less latency?
Even assuming you could get the latency numbers, good luck having any choice in the matter of what ISP you use.
Could those with more expensive video cards also have high quality surround sound*?
A pair of $10 earbuds will do you better than an expensive surround sound setup. No crosstalk between ears means you might as well have a radar on your screen pointing at sounds.
I think that the reality is that once it's past a "reasonable" amount, having a smoother framerate is more important. If a video card is pushing 120fps to your 60hz monitor, you're not going to notice when a gunfight suddenly makes it dip to 90fps. You will notice that 30 fps drop though if you're running at a constant 50 otherwise.
The other factor is smoothness. If there's fast movement on the screen, objects will be jumping around more between frames. The further they teleport, the harder it is for my brain to interpolate the movement and predict where they'll be 300ms into the future
If I only reacted by clicking on the pixels corresponding to the other players head, I'd never be able to hit anybody half competent at dodging. Aiming in an FPS is much much more than simply clicking on the pixels coresponding to an enemies head. There's a continual integration between eye->brain image processing->brain motor planning->hand->mouse, as well error correction based on proprioceptive feedback from my mouse hand compared to what my eye is seeing.
If I see another player begin to move in a direction, I don't aim where I see them, I calculate where they're going to be and track across that probability cone of where they're going to be a quarter second into the future. The more accurately I can predict where they're going to be, the more likely I am to hit them. The worse the framerate is, the more processing I need to do in order to integrate the series of images into an accurate motion vector. So for me it's not the actual delay, but the fact that the increased amount of movement between frames makes it harder to pick up the fine details of what my target is doing.
I was being slightly sarcastic with that comment, but you actually have me curious now.
For instance if a certain demographic typically performs worse in standardized testing then their ability would otherwise suggest then you should scale that appropriately when assessing the best candidate.
How exactly would you compensate for that? How many points is being an underrepresented minority worth on the standardized test? What if I'm not underrepresented but had a shitty kindergarten teacher who instilled a hatred of learning that took years to overcome, do you factor that in too?
I guess what I'm getting at here is that by looking at the race instead of the individual, you're committing exactly the problem (making judgments based on race) that you're trying to fix. It may be true that statistically group A performs different on a given standardized test than group B, but those statistics go out the window when you're evaluating an individual who may or may not fit that mold.
If however the reason for your demographics being under represented is a surprising number of people leaving after your annual Christmas party at hooters no amount of hiring will fix it.
Isn't the requirement to report on actual employees, not applicants? So there is no need to ask until after you decide to hire them.
But how is that going to help if they're one of the overrepresented demographics? You'd need to know the race before making the hiring decision in order to make sure you're able to meet the diversity numbers.
The fake furniture thing would be funny but I don't think a Hololens could really do a very realistic job of erasing something that was actually there... at the very least it would be a pretty bad design to try.
Ever seen a little kid try to interact with a non-touchscreen laptop and conclude that it's broken because the screen isn't responding as they smear their fingers all over it?
Hololens wouldn't have to erase the TV, just get the user used to interacting with screens that aren't physically present. Then one day a real screen gets mistaken for a fake one and bam!
Since an AI is effectively a magical black box, that kind of testing isn't really practical at all. It would more than likely have to go through some kind of examination process like we do for people who work in important jobs.
Nobody pays much for labor for the telephone work, and people are gonna say whatever they can sneak past their supervisors if they think it'll get more sales and boost their metrics for a possible raise.
Comcast absolutely does suck. I'm a customer.... I know. But not everything is because corporate trains their people to lie to you.
They're not "sneaking it by their supervisors", they're saying this stuff while their supervisor stands over their shoulder whistling and pointedly looking the other way; ready to beat them if they don't meet a set of self-contradictory metrics with rules impossible to comply with without lieing to customers.
How does telling someone they MUST write five paragraphs of five to seven sentences help any of that?
As someone who was writing challenged all through high school, it helped me tremendously when I was introduced to it in college. It broke down this giant overwhelming thing into manageable parts. All I had to do was think of a thesis, think of three supporting points, and the essay was basically written. Thesis sentence, point 1, point 2, point 3, summary. First paragraph done. "Thesis" for point 1, supporting fact, supporting fact, supporting fact, conclusion. Second paragraph done, and so on. Once I was able to actually experience writing in a way that wasn't painful, I was able to actually get a handle on the basics and move on with my life.
That said, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with any of your other points. The way it was taught to us wasn't forced. We weren't docked points if a paragraph was 4 sentences or 6 sentences. It also was only for a single semester long class, not years and years of schooling.
Sure, he's a sleezeball. I've not met a politician who wasn't. Tell us something we don't already know.
wants to trample over trans rights
Hyperbole.
is a racist "birther"
I personally think the birther thing is kinda dumb, but does believing a conspiracy theory make one a racist?
who called Nazis "very fine people"
I'm not familiar with that one, but I feel like it's safe to assume it's as misquoted as your "he called Latin Americans racist" claim.
and then put children in cages
Thanks Obama!
wants to rip away healthcare
One mans "rip away healthcare" is another mans fixing healthcare. I was one of those people who didn't get to keep my doctor despite liking him.
insulted veterans, muslims and gold star parents
Still less people insulted than literally insulting half the country.
put in a VP who believes you can "pray away the gay"
Having actually looked into some of that, most of the "mike pence wants to kill all the gays" stuff is pure sensationalist hyperbole. As a guy who currently has a boyfriend, I have no issues with Pence.
Because anyone putting a sign on their lawn or wearing a MAGA hat is saying "I'm fine with all that!"
If you actually believe even half the claims you just made are the full and unbiased/unsensationalized truth, then I don't blame you. I would humbly suggest though, that the problem might be with your perceptions rather than the average american with a MAGA sign.
One difference between the US and the UK is that in the UK we have letterboxes in our doors that are owned by the householder and can be used by any delivery service. The americans have mailboxes at the end of their garden which are owned by and can only be used by the postal service. I suspect this results in a greater proportion of packages being left outdoors.
As an american, I've had deliveries from non-UPS entities left in my mailbox. It's mostly just that there's not a lot of stuff I order online that ships in a package small enough to fit in the mailbox.
That assumes that people always act 100% rationally. They don't.
I'd hypothesize that the only reason people who don't steal are underrepresented in higher economic classes and overrepresented in lower economic classes is because that tendency to steal, if discovered, will generally limit ones potential for upwards economic growth in the sort of way that actually generates real wealth.
Why would you log mis-scanned labels as packages? If the driver scans a barcode and it returns an error like "this is a valid label but we have no record of it so return it to the warehouse", then sure. But there are plenty of other failure modes as well: scanning an invalid label (e.g. one that's being used by some other entity), scanning a label that was misprinted into some invalid data (it's readable, matches the expected format, but it's some kind of error or test pattern like 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF), or scanning a damaged label that's just not readable. If you log all of those as packages, I could see a bored, curious, or malicious driver accidentally wrecking havoc on your system by trying to see if his scanner works on some random barcodes he comes across.
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I've had exactly the same experience. Every linux install I've had has eventually eaten itself within 2 years.
.jar file in linux. It worked for a few weeks, then suddenly decided that it would no longer display symbols in the main window. Nothing I did fixed it, from re-downloading a new .jar file to clearing out all of the settings caches I could find to rolling back and reinstalling the video drivers. I booted back to windows to finish the assignment and that was the last I used linux for that semester.
I wouldn't care too much, I usually refresh my windows installs every few years, except that whenever I go the the internet for help on the linux problems I generally get attacked by people who perceive asking for help on weird problems as trashing their OS.
Apparently I'm supposed to spend my weekends reading and researching in detail all of the notes on every single update that comes through before installing it. Except that I don't actually have to do that because I don't need all of those updates and should only install them if I'm having an issue. Except that I'm a retard for not having kept up with all of the updates and that's why my installation bricked itself after running the annual all-inclusive update.
And that's not counting the other random things that made my system completely unusable in the most annoying way. One of the best examples being back during college I dual booted linux and windows on my laptop. After getting linux up and running with all components working (wifi and video being the usual pain in the ass) I had a stable system for all of 4 weeks. One of my programming classes required using logisim for homework assignments. I was trying to use linux for as much as possible, so opted to run the manually downloaded
Intentional mispellings put you right back where you started ("did I spell it piece or peice?" instead of "did I replace the a with @ or was it just the o with 0"). Also, the average english speaking adult has a vocabulary of some 20k words. I'd take a password consisting of 8 words over a password consisting of 8 characters any day.
"choose multiple random words" "using 4 random words from a list of 500 common words is shit"
Getting mixed messages here.
I might be completely failing at math here, but 4 random words from a 500 word list has more entropy than 4 random characters from a list of 100 upper/lower/numbers/symbols. Considering that the average active vocabulary of an english speaking adult is on the order of 20k words, even a 5 word long password has a lot of entropy.
And if you decide to make the words not quite random, consider that the average english sentence can be on the order of 10-20 words. It wouldn't be hard to construct a sentence structure with a pattern significant to you that can be easily modified on a per-website basis.
It's a little bit of both tbh. When I was doing my time in IT as desktop support, I was responsible for about 300-500 in a small cluster of buildings. I was really big on user education, and always tried to actually go to peoples desks and explain to them what I was doing and what they could do in the future to prevent the problem from happening again. I'd even encourage people to call me preemptively if they weren't sure about something, as I'd rather spend 2 minutes telling them how to do it right rather than 2 hours fixing something they broke.
That said, we drew a line at training users on software. If people had questions about sending emails or formatting word documents, that was on them. We had full management backing to (politely) point them to google. Whenever I had to do that, I always made it a point to tell them that I didn't really know the answer either and that googling it themselves would be cutting out the middleman.
All of that said, this was at a company that did largely R&D engineering stuff, so there was a higher than usual concentration of people who were smarter than your average office drone writing tps reports.
To be fair, "left wingers" have a history of not being able to tell the difference between groups seeking to commit genocide and groups that are against affirmative action or for enforcing our immigration process, so I can see where the confusion is coming from.
I really hope that pure inside out tracking doesn't become the new thing unless it improves significantly. I have a lenovo explorer WMR headset, and the tracking is horrible compared to my friends vive. It's especially annoying playing beatsaber when I lose tracking on a controller while swinging behind/to the side and it teleports into a mine. The controllers also jitter horribly, to the point that shooting games are near impossible to play with any kind of precision.
So make yourself an account and mod down the political posts.
Could those with more expensive video cards also have researched or pay for an ISP with less latency?
Even assuming you could get the latency numbers, good luck having any choice in the matter of what ISP you use.
Could those with more expensive video cards also have high quality surround sound*?
A pair of $10 earbuds will do you better than an expensive surround sound setup. No crosstalk between ears means you might as well have a radar on your screen pointing at sounds.
I think that the reality is that once it's past a "reasonable" amount, having a smoother framerate is more important. If a video card is pushing 120fps to your 60hz monitor, you're not going to notice when a gunfight suddenly makes it dip to 90fps. You will notice that 30 fps drop though if you're running at a constant 50 otherwise.
The other factor is smoothness. If there's fast movement on the screen, objects will be jumping around more between frames. The further they teleport, the harder it is for my brain to interpolate the movement and predict where they'll be 300ms into the future
If I only reacted by clicking on the pixels corresponding to the other players head, I'd never be able to hit anybody half competent at dodging. Aiming in an FPS is much much more than simply clicking on the pixels coresponding to an enemies head. There's a continual integration between eye->brain image processing->brain motor planning->hand->mouse, as well error correction based on proprioceptive feedback from my mouse hand compared to what my eye is seeing.
If I see another player begin to move in a direction, I don't aim where I see them, I calculate where they're going to be and track across that probability cone of where they're going to be a quarter second into the future. The more accurately I can predict where they're going to be, the more likely I am to hit them. The worse the framerate is, the more processing I need to do in order to integrate the series of images into an accurate motion vector. So for me it's not the actual delay, but the fact that the increased amount of movement between frames makes it harder to pick up the fine details of what my target is doing.
For instance if a certain demographic typically performs worse in standardized testing then their ability would otherwise suggest then you should scale that appropriately when assessing the best candidate.
How exactly would you compensate for that? How many points is being an underrepresented minority worth on the standardized test? What if I'm not underrepresented but had a shitty kindergarten teacher who instilled a hatred of learning that took years to overcome, do you factor that in too?
I guess what I'm getting at here is that by looking at the race instead of the individual, you're committing exactly the problem (making judgments based on race) that you're trying to fix. It may be true that statistically group A performs different on a given standardized test than group B, but those statistics go out the window when you're evaluating an individual who may or may not fit that mold.
If however the reason for your demographics being under represented is a surprising number of people leaving after your annual Christmas party at hooters no amount of hiring will fix it.
Agreed.
Isn't the requirement to report on actual employees, not applicants? So there is no need to ask until after you decide to hire them.
But how is that going to help if they're one of the overrepresented demographics? You'd need to know the race before making the hiring decision in order to make sure you're able to meet the diversity numbers.
The fake furniture thing would be funny but I don't think a Hololens could really do a very realistic job of erasing something that was actually there... at the very least it would be a pretty bad design to try.
Ever seen a little kid try to interact with a non-touchscreen laptop and conclude that it's broken because the screen isn't responding as they smear their fingers all over it?
Hololens wouldn't have to erase the TV, just get the user used to interacting with screens that aren't physically present. Then one day a real screen gets mistaken for a fake one and bam!
This is literally Christians acting like Muslim fundamentalists...
Wait, did the studio receive multiple credible death threats after announcing it?
Since an AI is effectively a magical black box, that kind of testing isn't really practical at all. It would more than likely have to go through some kind of examination process like we do for people who work in important jobs.
Nobody pays much for labor for the telephone work, and people are gonna say whatever they can sneak past their supervisors if they think it'll get more sales and boost their metrics for a possible raise.
Comcast absolutely does suck. I'm a customer.... I know. But not everything is because corporate trains their people to lie to you.
They're not "sneaking it by their supervisors", they're saying this stuff while their supervisor stands over their shoulder whistling and pointedly looking the other way; ready to beat them if they don't meet a set of self-contradictory metrics with rules impossible to comply with without lieing to customers.
How does telling someone they MUST write five paragraphs of five to seven sentences help any of that?
As someone who was writing challenged all through high school, it helped me tremendously when I was introduced to it in college. It broke down this giant overwhelming thing into manageable parts. All I had to do was think of a thesis, think of three supporting points, and the essay was basically written. Thesis sentence, point 1, point 2, point 3, summary. First paragraph done. "Thesis" for point 1, supporting fact, supporting fact, supporting fact, conclusion. Second paragraph done, and so on. Once I was able to actually experience writing in a way that wasn't painful, I was able to actually get a handle on the basics and move on with my life.
That said, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with any of your other points. The way it was taught to us wasn't forced. We weren't docked points if a paragraph was 4 sentences or 6 sentences. It also was only for a single semester long class, not years and years of schooling.
Holy crap! A reasonable and well thought through political philosophy on slashdot! And of course I don't have mod points this week :(
To be fair, even the failed landings back when they'd had zero successes were news as well.
Just remember to check the voltages on the spare batteries every so often if you're letting them sit rather than rotating them all.
Trump called Latin Americans rapists
Nope.
insulted women
Sure, he's a sleezeball. I've not met a politician who wasn't. Tell us something we don't already know.
wants to trample over trans rights
Hyperbole.
is a racist "birther"
I personally think the birther thing is kinda dumb, but does believing a conspiracy theory make one a racist?
who called Nazis "very fine people"
I'm not familiar with that one, but I feel like it's safe to assume it's as misquoted as your "he called Latin Americans racist" claim.
and then put children in cages
Thanks Obama!
wants to rip away healthcare
One mans "rip away healthcare" is another mans fixing healthcare. I was one of those people who didn't get to keep my doctor despite liking him.
insulted veterans, muslims and gold star parents
Still less people insulted than literally insulting half the country.
put in a VP who believes you can "pray away the gay"
Having actually looked into some of that, most of the "mike pence wants to kill all the gays" stuff is pure sensationalist hyperbole. As a guy who currently has a boyfriend, I have no issues with Pence.
Because anyone putting a sign on their lawn or wearing a MAGA hat is saying "I'm fine with all that!"
If you actually believe even half the claims you just made are the full and unbiased/unsensationalized truth, then I don't blame you. I would humbly suggest though, that the problem might be with your perceptions rather than the average american with a MAGA sign.
Scuba tanks also require an annual visual inspection, and must be shipped off for a hydrostatic test every 5 years.
One difference between the US and the UK is that in the UK we have letterboxes in our doors that are owned by the householder and can be used by any delivery service. The americans have mailboxes at the end of their garden which are owned by and can only be used by the postal service. I suspect this results in a greater proportion of packages being left outdoors.
As an american, I've had deliveries from non-UPS entities left in my mailbox. It's mostly just that there's not a lot of stuff I order online that ships in a package small enough to fit in the mailbox.
That assumes that people always act 100% rationally. They don't.
I'd hypothesize that the only reason people who don't steal are underrepresented in higher economic classes and overrepresented in lower economic classes is because that tendency to steal, if discovered, will generally limit ones potential for upwards economic growth in the sort of way that actually generates real wealth.
Why would you log mis-scanned labels as packages? If the driver scans a barcode and it returns an error like "this is a valid label but we have no record of it so return it to the warehouse", then sure. But there are plenty of other failure modes as well: scanning an invalid label (e.g. one that's being used by some other entity), scanning a label that was misprinted into some invalid data (it's readable, matches the expected format, but it's some kind of error or test pattern like 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF), or scanning a damaged label that's just not readable. If you log all of those as packages, I could see a bored, curious, or malicious driver accidentally wrecking havoc on your system by trying to see if his scanner works on some random barcodes he comes across.
Way underrated comment. Wish I had mod points today.