Gentoo. systemd-free by default, but to prevent any dependencies from sneaking it in: echo sys-apps/systemd >>/etc/portage/package.mask echo sys-fs/udev >>/etc/portage/package.mask sed -i '/^USE=/s/"$/ -systemd"/'/etc/portage/make.conf
So what are we up to in speed reduction? I guess for most around 10 to 20 % if everything is enabled.
Average speed reduction is uninteresting. What matters is how much the bottlenecks that hurts you the most, now or in the future, are going to be affected. To know that, you need to look at the worst case numbers, not "most".
Because this is slashdot, the obligatory car analogy is that if a car manufacturer installed a top speed limiter of 75 mph as a firmware update, and then said it would not affect most users much, given that the average speed is 35 mph.
It's correct math. Measured numbers are not like cardinal or rational numbers.
My daily walk with the dog is typically around 2.3-2.4 miles, depending on whether we cut corners or not. That rounds to 2 miles. In two days, we will have walked twice that, or 4.6-4.8 miles. That rounds to 5 miles.
But you don't even need that additional information. 2 as a measured quantity without qualifying further is 2 +- 0.5, and 5 is within twice that.
When you drive, do you feel a bunch of donkey kicks as your speed increase instantly from 40 mph to 41 mph to 42 mph...? Or do you call Ford and bitch because it never tells you that your speed is 41.37593122205 mph?
There are three branches to the government, and none of them were exclusive to DNC. Even if you mistake DNC for the Democratic Party, it's patently false.
Does any top tier ISP provide really, truly, honest "Unlimited" service? Anyone?
AT&T and most of the Baby Bells do - you can order a T1/T2/T3 or frame relay with a committed information rate. Of course, it's going to cost you, but it's going to be unlimited at max throughput, with no throttling.
At $40/month? No.
Hell, I get that with bridged DSL from my ISP. 1536/384 may be slow as hell, but it is never throttled, with no port blocks nor restrictions on what I can use it for.
This is going to be like the TSA bullshit. A 95% accuracy rate. 600 million passengers. 30 million false positives. Zero actual terrorists. But God help you if you're one of those 30 million false positives.
Yes, lawmakers and voters not understanding even basic mathematics and statistics is a big problem. They look at the accuracy rate for positives and praise a high one, but not the ratio of false positives, which makes the high accuracy rate completely irrelevant. You don't hear them present it like "if someone is flagged, chances are better than 99.999% that he or she is not a terrorist".
It's easy to create a method with 100% positive accuracy rate. Just flag everyone.
Indeed. When a person's whole future life is on the scales, the weight needed can't just be "upon preponderance of evidence" or "beyond reasonable doubt". Even a 100,000:1 risk of a false positive, when combined with the data that around 3.8 million Americans will obtain a university degree this year, that means that dozens of them will trigger false positives and risk their degree taken away from them by machines and the machine-like humans who operate them. When faced with science that says it's only a 1 in 100,000 chance that you're innocent, good luck convincing enough review board members that you're an exceptional case and innocent.
Much like we say nuts about things that aren't nuts (including peanuts, pecans, walnuts, almonds, cashews and macadamians), we may write "nuts" with quotes when the uncertainty of what is meant makes a difference.
For fish, It's likewise because fish isn't a phylogenic classification, but a common term. Just because your great-great-N-grandfather was a fish, and you're closer related to a trout than a trout is to a shark, I don't consider you a fish. So the quotes around "fish" are useful precisely to convey that there's uncertainty of what is meant, just like when writing "nuts".
People who are allergic to pollen don't have others saying "there are all kinds of 'pollen' and you gotta specify". Down with the allergy racism;-)
People who have pollen allergy don't live under the assumption that they need to avoid "pollen" (note the quotes). They generally know which pollens to avoid, and don't stay indoors or carry antihistamines during birch pollination if they're allergic to timothy, like my brother is. He has a pollen allergy, and is allergic to timothy pollen, not to pollen. Just like you have a fish allergy, but you're not allergic to fish. In both cases the "a" is significant.
My personal choice to not eat meat is irrelevant (to you)?
No, what is irrelevant is any argument you make for vitamin D supplements based on your circumstances, because your circumstances being due to a personal choice.
Surprise, surprise, I had bone issues until I took Vitamin D.
That's due to your personal choice of not eating meat and is irrelevant. If I were jabbing myself with a fork every day, I would not use that as a justification for people needing to buy more band-aids.
And "allergic to fish"? "Fish" isn't a specific protein or other complex molecule that you can be allergic to. Nor do "fish" contain any such "fish" molecule that's present in all fish but not present in fish descendants like pigs. If you're allergic to one specific protein that specific fishes has, you will be fine by eating anything not containing that protein.
A quick google turns up a bunch of briefcase looking items. Certainly man-purse IMHO, was just wondering if I was missing anything special about them.
The size. They are primarily used for papers, and are slimmer than most briefcases, flat, and in a fairly uniform size that allowed them to be stacked. Air planes used to have a special rack for attache cases back when they were ubiquitous among business travellers.
There's plenty of space - that folds when you sit - unless maybe you can't pull your pants up to where they are supposed to be.
How does that work? When I sit or bend forward, I get more space in my front pockets, as the bend frees up room behind the pocket without taking away anything in the front. I get less room in my back pockets only. (BMI of a healthy 20, no problems pulling my pants up...)
Swedish. The full name is Hennes & Mauritz, where the Hennes part is because it means "Hers" in Swedish, and was a women's only clothing store before it merged with Mauritz Wildforss, a hunting clothes store.
I love the evolutionary just-so stories how they so neatly explain the exact status quo right now, not e.g. a few hundred years ago.
Except that this one explains the past better than the present. Women were both gatherers and carried children, while things like shields and papooses are much newer inventions.
That there are skeletal differences between the genders isn't controversial. The wider hips of human females is the primary means of guessing the gender of a skeleton, but shoulders and elbows are also useful markers.
I imagine the inchage of jeans is measured along the beltline, and the body is wider somewhere below that.
A good guess, but incorrect. The belt line is longer than what you get with a honest measuring tape for the same circumference.
Just one inch discrepancy might be explained by people wanting a loose fit, or possible future shrinkage (although that's generally not the direction jeans shrink), but for some jeans, the difference between real and advertised measurements can be 3-4". When 32" on the tab on the back is really 36", there's a different reason. To me, the simplest suggestion is that it sells more - people would rather have a tab that displays 32 than 36, and if two pairs of jeans were identical except for the tabs saying different, might be more drawn to wear (and buy) the one with the lowest number.
Here in the US, there are probably ten women's clothing stores for each men's clothing store. That leads to much more variety for women, and both more expensive and less expensive clothing, simply because there's much more to choose from.
I'm a man and the only way I could carry my smartphone in a jeans pocket is via the cargo pocket of a pair of cargo jeans. If you put it in the front pocket, it is likely going to snap in half when you sit.
Carrying a phone in the front pocket is never a problem for me, even with skinny jeans. There's oodles of space. Are you fat?
I can't think of any reason men don't typically carry purses.
My SWAG is that men have a genetic instinct for keeping both hands free to aid in survival, while women are more accustomed to carrying something on their arm. If I remember correctly, there are also some minor differences in the elbow of the two types of humans, making static carrying with a bent elbow easier for the XX variety.
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Gentoo. systemd-free by default, but to prevent any dependencies from sneaking it in:
/etc/portage/make.conf
echo sys-apps/systemd >>/etc/portage/package.mask
echo sys-fs/udev >>/etc/portage/package.mask
sed -i '/^USE=/s/"$/ -systemd"/'
"We hold ourselves to a higher standard, knowing that our products and services help maintain democracy in the jurisdictions we service."
Yeah, right. This is Diebold of former infamy, first changing their name to Premier Election Solutions, and then again merging with Election Systems & Software (ESS).
Same shit, different wrapper. Why would any state give them a third chance after the first screw-ups? The canapés must be very tall and the drinks very big.
What made you assume he was talking about measurable numbers and not cardinal or rational?
Why assume? Making assumptions is bad, being open-minded is not. And there seems be a strong correlation between being open-minded and being liberal.
So what are we up to in speed reduction? I guess for most around 10 to 20 % if everything is enabled.
Average speed reduction is uninteresting. What matters is how much the bottlenecks that hurts you the most, now or in the future, are going to be affected. To know that, you need to look at the worst case numbers, not "most".
Because this is slashdot, the obligatory car analogy is that if a car manufacturer installed a top speed limiter of 75 mph as a firmware update, and then said it would not affect most users much, given that the average speed is 35 mph.
It's correct math. Measured numbers are not like cardinal or rational numbers.
My daily walk with the dog is typically around 2.3-2.4 miles, depending on whether we cut corners or not. That rounds to 2 miles.
In two days, we will have walked twice that, or 4.6-4.8 miles. That rounds to 5 miles.
But you don't even need that additional information. 2 as a measured quantity without qualifying further is 2 +- 0.5, and 5 is within twice that.
When you drive, do you feel a bunch of donkey kicks as your speed increase instantly from 40 mph to 41 mph to 42 mph ...? Or do you call Ford and bitch because it never tells you that your speed is 41.37593122205 mph?
in 2016, DNC was the US government.
There are three branches to the government, and none of them were exclusive to DNC.
Even if you mistake DNC for the Democratic Party, it's patently false.
You lefties are a hoot. It's like your brains are wired for 2+2=5.
That's because we're rational and understand measured quantities and not just countable numbers.
I walked the dog for 2 miles yesterday, and 2 miles today. We walked a total of 5 miles.
Does any top tier ISP provide really, truly, honest "Unlimited" service? Anyone?
AT&T and most of the Baby Bells do - you can order a T1/T2/T3 or frame relay with a committed information rate. Of course, it's going to cost you, but it's going to be unlimited at max throughput, with no throttling.
At $40/month? No.
Hell, I get that with bridged DSL from my ISP. 1536/384 may be slow as hell, but it is never throttled, with no port blocks nor restrictions on what I can use it for.
I get Chuck Norris to vouch for me - tough actor authentication.
He could also get an aneurysm and die.
Old, fat and ill-tempered is not a good combination.
This is going to be like the TSA bullshit. A 95% accuracy rate. 600 million passengers. 30 million false positives. Zero actual terrorists. But God help you if you're one of those 30 million false positives.
Yes, lawmakers and voters not understanding even basic mathematics and statistics is a big problem. They look at the accuracy rate for positives and praise a high one, but not the ratio of false positives, which makes the high accuracy rate completely irrelevant. You don't hear them present it like "if someone is flagged, chances are better than 99.999% that he or she is not a terrorist".
It's easy to create a method with 100% positive accuracy rate. Just flag everyone.
At least with technology we may have accountability.
How, exactly? Can we send the machine to jail so it can ponder its mistakes, and so other machines will have less desire to do bad deeds?
Indeed. When a person's whole future life is on the scales, the weight needed can't just be "upon preponderance of evidence" or "beyond reasonable doubt". Even a 100,000:1 risk of a false positive, when combined with the data that around 3.8 million Americans will obtain a university degree this year, that means that dozens of them will trigger false positives and risk their degree taken away from them by machines and the machine-like humans who operate them.
When faced with science that says it's only a 1 in 100,000 chance that you're innocent, good luck convincing enough review board members that you're an exceptional case and innocent.
By the way, what is with "fish" in quotes?
Much like we say nuts about things that aren't nuts (including peanuts, pecans, walnuts, almonds, cashews and macadamians), we may write "nuts" with quotes when the uncertainty of what is meant makes a difference.
For fish, It's likewise because fish isn't a phylogenic classification, but a common term. Just because your great-great-N-grandfather was a fish, and you're closer related to a trout than a trout is to a shark, I don't consider you a fish.
So the quotes around "fish" are useful precisely to convey that there's uncertainty of what is meant, just like when writing "nuts".
People who are allergic to pollen don't have others saying "there are all kinds of 'pollen' and you gotta specify". Down with the allergy racism ;-)
People who have pollen allergy don't live under the assumption that they need to avoid "pollen" (note the quotes). They generally know which pollens to avoid, and don't stay indoors or carry antihistamines during birch pollination if they're allergic to timothy, like my brother is. He has a pollen allergy, and is allergic to timothy pollen, not to pollen.
Just like you have a fish allergy, but you're not allergic to fish.
In both cases the "a" is significant.
My personal choice to not eat meat is irrelevant (to you)?
No, what is irrelevant is any argument you make for vitamin D supplements based on your circumstances, because your circumstances being due to a personal choice.
Surprise, surprise, I had bone issues until I took Vitamin D.
That's due to your personal choice of not eating meat and is irrelevant.
If I were jabbing myself with a fork every day, I would not use that as a justification for people needing to buy more band-aids.
And "allergic to fish"? "Fish" isn't a specific protein or other complex molecule that you can be allergic to. Nor do "fish" contain any such "fish" molecule that's present in all fish but not present in fish descendants like pigs. If you're allergic to one specific protein that specific fishes has, you will be fine by eating anything not containing that protein.
A quick google turns up a bunch of briefcase looking items. Certainly man-purse IMHO, was just wondering if I was missing anything special about them.
The size. They are primarily used for papers, and are slimmer than most briefcases, flat, and in a fairly uniform size that allowed them to be stacked. Air planes used to have a special rack for attache cases back when they were ubiquitous among business travellers.
There's plenty of space - that folds when you sit - unless maybe you can't pull your pants up to where they are supposed to be.
How does that work? When I sit or bend forward, I get more space in my front pockets, as the bend frees up room behind the pocket without taking away anything in the front. I get less room in my back pockets only.
(BMI of a healthy 20, no problems pulling my pants up...)
H&M (a dutch brand)
Swedish. The full name is Hennes & Mauritz, where the Hennes part is because it means "Hers" in Swedish, and was a women's only clothing store before it merged with Mauritz Wildforss, a hunting clothes store.
I love the evolutionary just-so stories how they so neatly explain the exact status quo right now, not e.g. a few hundred years ago.
Except that this one explains the past better than the present. Women were both gatherers and carried children, while things like shields and papooses are much newer inventions.
That there are skeletal differences between the genders isn't controversial. The wider hips of human females is the primary means of guessing the gender of a skeleton, but shoulders and elbows are also useful markers.
I imagine the inchage of jeans is measured along the beltline, and the body is wider somewhere below that.
A good guess, but incorrect. The belt line is longer than what you get with a honest measuring tape for the same circumference.
Just one inch discrepancy might be explained by people wanting a loose fit, or possible future shrinkage (although that's generally not the direction jeans shrink), but for some jeans, the difference between real and advertised measurements can be 3-4". When 32" on the tab on the back is really 36", there's a different reason. To me, the simplest suggestion is that it sells more - people would rather have a tab that displays 32 than 36, and if two pairs of jeans were identical except for the tabs saying different, might be more drawn to wear (and buy) the one with the lowest number.
Here in the US, there are probably ten women's clothing stores for each men's clothing store. That leads to much more variety for women, and both more expensive and less expensive clothing, simply because there's much more to choose from.
Why this discrepancy?
I'm a man and the only way I could carry my smartphone in a jeans pocket is via the cargo pocket of a pair of cargo jeans. If you put it in the front pocket, it is likely going to snap in half when you sit.
Carrying a phone in the front pocket is never a problem for me, even with skinny jeans. There's oodles of space. Are you fat?
I can't think of any reason men don't typically carry purses.
My SWAG is that men have a genetic instinct for keeping both hands free to aid in survival, while women are more accustomed to carrying something on their arm.
If I remember correctly, there are also some minor differences in the elbow of the two types of humans, making static carrying with a bent elbow easier for the XX variety.
Surely, I can't be the only one who misses attache cases.