Two restaurants I really liked in Berlin, I talked to the owners about TripAdvisor: Neither was listed. I wanted to add them and tell others about how nice they were.
They asked that I didn't put them (back) on TripAdvisor. Apparently people use sites like that to blackmail restaurants into service.
That's why we can't have anything nice.
Either TripAdvisor owns up and starts cleaning up false reviews, or it will get completely useless.
Maybe the "star" rating system needs to go, and only allow reviews. Rate restaurants on how well-written the reviews are, and people can read for themselves. It should make it a lot more work to actually sink a restaurant.
A lot of problems want to have a solution that is very close to the hardware. C is an excellent macro assembler, but you need to remember to treat it as such.
It seems like very many programmers don't know, or don't want to think over the lower level implications of everything you do in C.
C is relevant because as long as we use computers, we need to tell them what to do, and C (and fuzzy bloated C like C++) does that for us.
Most people and most programmers don't need to touch computers on that level, and then other programming languages should be used. Those languages are often written at least partly in C. As usual, use the right programming language for the problem.
I would even go as far as saying that you shouldn't do C++ if you can't do C, and you should probably not do C if you don't know how assembler (and machine code) works. Then you should stick to all the protective layers that you can, like in Python.
(Any good programmer should be able to program on any level from assembler to C and C++ to Python and shell-scripts and up.)
I get a cross-site challenge; it usually switches over to my bank site where I have to reply to a challenge. A SMS sounds like an ok backup solution (two-factor).
Actually I found gaming on the big screen ("TV") with surround sound quite comfortable. Having a problem with my back, the laptop seems to make it slightly worse. Neck is definitely in a better position with the big screen. That said, I've been gaming on the laptop for years before I upgraded my gaming rig to a decent standard again.
I don't know what it is with the self-sacrificial slashdotters telling OP to grow up and stop gaming either. I don't think you should give up your hobbies. Even better would be to share them - I game with my significant other. (And we've been sharing space for about 10 years.)
I have a MSI GS70 gaming laptop. It's seriously un-silent when gaming.
I also have an Asus ultrabook. It's whiny just from running firefox.
Not sure what laptops you have, but I haven't encountered any lately that's silent under any sort of load (>5%). It does bother me, so if you have any pro tips...?
18mm MDF. The stuff you build heavy, DIY speakers out of. Density slightly lighter than water. And glass. And heavy 20mm foam. (Plus heavy components like a 8x 3.5" disks, copper waterblocks...)
You want heavy stuff though. It dampens noise and vibrations just because it's heavy.
I was also quite surprised how heavy it ended up, although I thought it would be closer to 30kg. I put wheels and handles on it to be able to lug it around.
10 years ago I built a box using MDF and glass for my computer, using noise dampening foam and watercooling, space for two motherboards. (I had a lot of problems with headaches - noise made it worse, and I wanted to game.)
It was upgraded this summer to a GTX 780 hydro copper, new motherboard (z97) and the latest i7 that fitted, M.2 disk and windows 8.1. The other motherboard is running my Linux server, XBMC and the RAID.
It's about as big as a small fridge (55x70x50cm) and it weights about 55kg (10 liters of water) (it has wheels), but the noise level is below 10dB(A) (@1m); the pump and the disks are the loudest. It's more silent than the cats' water fountain - and it's more silent than this laptop on idle (well, firefox is heating it up as usual).
It's not impossible. It just takes some effort. The expensive part of watercooling is the water blocks, which you need a new one or two for every upgrade since CPU and GPU changes shape. (This time I went for the hydro copper so I wouldn't have to do the GPU watercooling myself.) Building a case is fun and will allow you to buy nice tools, useful for any craft.
Later on Zalman came out with the Reserator, allowing people to cool any system passively and very quietly. Are they still around? That is, I hear, a rather good solution.
I'd been using computers for around 15 years before I learned to touch type in the late 90s, and that only happened because I explicitly learned to do so. I'd got pretty good at "hunt and peck" (**), but I would never have picked up touch typing skills from that alone."
Interestingly enough, I started with computers and piano at about the same time, which led to the interesting style of typing that's crossing the "middle line" used in touch typing (you do that when you play the piano). It frustrated my touch typing teacher quite a bit.
That said, in the 80s Swedish schools had touch typing and programming in 7th grade, as well as "advanced" math. I wonder what happened after that. Probably budget cuts.
Like Sweden did in the 70s, inventing a horrible new handwriting ("SÖ-stilen"); people of that generation can't read the old handwriting, and the new handwriting is really, really ugly. 10 years after forcing that handwriting they let other styles be taught as well, again.
I'm surprised Finland still did cursive handwriting. I'm sure you can add it as extra credit still, and not all schools give it up.
I guess I'm lucky, I haven't been in environments where "cheating" were a possibility - I assume you mean copying stuff and modifying it. The last years I've been doing embedded programming (ECU software, etc), which the few girls I worked with are really good at.
You seem to have had really bad experiences, if you drop the swearing for a bit it would be interesting to hear the stories and in which environments those people are.
My experience is that girls are more commonly better programmers than boys (I've worked with programming for 30+ years). The solutions are more thorough and well-thought in general, and they tend to be better at teamwork, and better at seeking help when they are stuck (instead of being stuck for four weeks until someone pokes them about it).
I've always been sad there are so few girls in programming, since they would do an excellent job.
And, for that matter, engineering in general.
That said, not sure what this study was about and if it gives any conclusion on the matter other than what we already knew - girls and boys have similar brains that can solve complex, abstract problems, and gender difference is overlapped by individual difference...?
Anyway, girls, if you want to become a programmer, please become a programmer.
So, what have they found that emits less than diesel?
Modern diesels (= last 20 years) with particle filters doesn't emit much. HIgh compression gasoline motors is starting to generate the same particles. It seems like you will get those particles if you have an efficient motor.
Any pure fuel will emit less, since it's easier to optimize the engine for it.
But can France produce enough ethanol (and the needed E100 cars) for that?
Gnome3, systemd, wayland, pulseaudio etc might (or might not) be good ideas. But they should probably not be introduced before they are completely bug-free -- or at least more bug-free then the thing they will replace. (And they should be better designed than the thing they are trying to replace.)
This has not always been the case. Actually, this has rarely been the case. They have been introduced as the new hip thing despite bugs and design flaws.
And considering that the *ix world is full of people who don't like change - it's one of the main selling points - changing things because it's hip, doesn't solve the problem, introduces new bugs and introduces the well known problem of update-your-legacy-system-or-don't-update-your-machine-ever-again doesn't really sit well with everyone.
For instance, I have my tea kettle turn on when I usually get up (different depending if it's a workday or not). It also turns on when I approach home from leaving it a longer time. Of course it's still stupid and all that's controlled (and measured) is the power, so I still have to fill it with water and turn off the relay. But the rest is scripted using razberry, linux and android stuff.
I have lights coming on on motion sensors. Which lights turn on depends on the ambient light level (they don't turn on if the room is in bright sunlight). They don't turn off if I just pushed the button to keep them off, and they don't turn off quickly if I used the button to turn them on (60 minutes timeout before resuming normality).
I have a radiator maintaining the bedroom temperature within ±0.1C. It was quite tricky to get that slow feedback system to work properly, but fun. Which temperature is the goal temperature vary over the day and my sleep cycle.
I have a XMBC, a receiver and a TV where the two later ones are turned on and off depending on the screensaver state of the XMBC. The subwoofer/bass level is lowered on a timer to not to disturb neighbours. I will hook that into the lighting as well, but haven't done that yet.
I wanted to install a door and motion sensor so the system would know when noone was home, but the daft sensor from Philio didn't work with neither the razberry nor the aeon labs stick. That's for some other day.
What I mainly want from a smart home is 1. scriptability (duh) 2. security. Neither z-wave nor tellstick/nexa is secure. Anyone could easily control or read anything. A little trickier with z-wave, but not very. 3. privacy. I don't do "live" or "net" stuff. My stuff stays here. 4. expandability. I want everything to be able to trigger everything. The location of my phone should be able to be scripted to trigger the kettle. The temperature in the living room can alter the state of the rice cooker. The moisture level of my strawberry plant can trigger a warning SMS. The motion detector in the kitchen can raise the bar for when the smoke detector in the kitchen goes off. But everything would need to talk, and they should talk in all ways they can talk.
5. reliability. Things that need to work should work without the network. The smoke detector settings could be altered from the network, but if the network isn't there it still needs to go off. Timer-relays should still trigger on the time set by the network. Thermostats should still trigger on the temperature set by the network. And above all, things shouldn't randomly hang and not do what they are supposed to do. (I haven't had a single digital thing that hasn't hanged at some point. That include frost guard thermostats and timers. Every single piece of z-wave equipment has hanged at some point. Not smart.)
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Two restaurants I really liked in Berlin, I talked to the owners about TripAdvisor:
Neither was listed. I wanted to add them and tell others about how nice they were.
They asked that I didn't put them (back) on TripAdvisor. Apparently people use sites like that to blackmail restaurants into service.
That's why we can't have anything nice.
Either TripAdvisor owns up and starts cleaning up false reviews, or it will get completely useless.
Maybe the "star" rating system needs to go, and only allow reviews. Rate restaurants on how well-written the reviews are, and people can read for themselves. It should make it a lot more work to actually sink a restaurant.
If they show it, and then something happens at one theatre, they will still get sued for millions.
I bet they would show it if there wasn't a huge culture of suing everything out of everything.
So how long until we scrap DNS for something both secure and P2P?
So what is so interesting in those documents, that Sony cares that much?
Did they chop down any anonymity sites/TOR nodes in the process?
Yes, Assange is just Swedish bureaucracy-follow-the-rules at it's absolute worst.
A lot of problems want to have a solution that is very close to the hardware. C is an excellent macro assembler, but you need to remember to treat it as such.
It seems like very many programmers don't know, or don't want to think over the lower level implications of everything you do in C.
C is relevant because as long as we use computers, we need to tell them what to do, and C (and fuzzy bloated C like C++) does that for us.
Most people and most programmers don't need to touch computers on that level, and then other programming languages should be used. Those languages are often written at least partly in C.
As usual, use the right programming language for the problem.
I would even go as far as saying that you shouldn't do C++ if you can't do C, and you should probably not do C if you don't know how assembler (and machine code) works. Then you should stick to all the protective layers that you can, like in Python.
(Any good programmer should be able to program on any level from assembler to C and C++ to Python and shell-scripts and up.)
I get a cross-site challenge; it usually switches over to my bank site where I have to reply to a challenge. A SMS sounds like an ok backup solution (two-factor).
Actually I found gaming on the big screen ("TV") with surround sound quite comfortable. Having a problem with my back, the laptop seems to make it slightly worse. Neck is definitely in a better position with the big screen. That said, I've been gaming on the laptop for years before I upgraded my gaming rig to a decent standard again.
I don't know what it is with the self-sacrificial slashdotters telling OP to grow up and stop gaming either. I don't think you should give up your hobbies. Even better would be to share them - I game with my significant other. (And we've been sharing space for about 10 years.)
I have a MSI GS70 gaming laptop. It's seriously un-silent when gaming.
I also have an Asus ultrabook. It's whiny just from running firefox.
Not sure what laptops you have, but I haven't encountered any lately that's silent under any sort of load (>5%). It does bother me, so if you have any pro tips...?
18mm MDF. The stuff you build heavy, DIY speakers out of. Density slightly lighter than water. And glass. And heavy 20mm foam. (Plus heavy components like a 8x 3.5" disks, copper waterblocks...)
You want heavy stuff though. It dampens noise and vibrations just because it's heavy.
I was also quite surprised how heavy it ended up, although I thought it would be closer to 30kg. I put wheels and handles on it to be able to lug it around.
I just measured (it's on an UPS): It's using a little over 400W at top effect (Valley benchmark). It peaks at only 55 degrees water temperature.
An alternative solution is of course steam stream. I'm surprised noone mentioned this. Then a NUC or so in the livingroom would be enough.
10 years ago I built a box using MDF and glass for my computer, using noise dampening foam and watercooling, space for two motherboards. (I had a lot of problems with headaches - noise made it worse, and I wanted to game.)
It was upgraded this summer to a GTX 780 hydro copper, new motherboard (z97) and the latest i7 that fitted, M.2 disk and windows 8.1. The other motherboard is running my Linux server, XBMC and the RAID.
It's about as big as a small fridge (55x70x50cm) and it weights about 55kg (10 liters of water) (it has wheels), but the noise level is below 10dB(A) (@1m); the pump and the disks are the loudest. It's more silent than the cats' water fountain - and it's more silent than this laptop on idle (well, firefox is heating it up as usual).
It's not impossible. It just takes some effort. The expensive part of watercooling is the water blocks, which you need a new one or two for every upgrade since CPU and GPU changes shape. (This time I went for the hydro copper so I wouldn't have to do the GPU watercooling myself.) Building a case is fun and will allow you to buy nice tools, useful for any craft.
Later on Zalman came out with the Reserator, allowing people to cool any system passively and very quietly. Are they still around? That is, I hear, a rather good solution.
Interestingly enough, I started with computers and piano at about the same time, which led to the interesting style of typing that's crossing the "middle line" used in touch typing (you do that when you play the piano). It frustrated my touch typing teacher quite a bit.
That said, in the 80s Swedish schools had touch typing and programming in 7th grade, as well as "advanced" math. I wonder what happened after that. Probably budget cuts.
Like Sweden did in the 70s, inventing a horrible new handwriting ("SÖ-stilen"); people of that generation can't read the old handwriting, and the new handwriting is really, really ugly. 10 years after forcing that handwriting they let other styles be taught as well, again.
I'm surprised Finland still did cursive handwriting. I'm sure you can add it as extra credit still, and not all schools give it up.
Thanks. This needs to be upmodded.
Exactly this. See the Barbie spectactle recently...
I'm male. Interesting attack.
I guess I'm lucky, I haven't been in environments where "cheating" were a possibility - I assume you mean copying stuff and modifying it. The last years I've been doing embedded programming (ECU software, etc), which the few girls I worked with are really good at.
You seem to have had really bad experiences, if you drop the swearing for a bit it would be interesting to hear the stories and in which environments those people are.
So when are you switching to chip+pin so it's at least less meaningful to steal data?
My experience is that girls are more commonly better programmers than boys (I've worked with programming for 30+ years). The solutions are more thorough and well-thought in general, and they tend to be better at teamwork, and better at seeking help when they are stuck (instead of being stuck for four weeks until someone pokes them about it).
I've always been sad there are so few girls in programming, since they would do an excellent job.
And, for that matter, engineering in general.
That said, not sure what this study was about and if it gives any conclusion on the matter other than what we already knew - girls and boys have similar brains that can solve complex, abstract problems, and gender difference is overlapped by individual difference...?
Anyway, girls, if you want to become a programmer, please become a programmer.
So, what have they found that emits less than diesel?
Modern diesels (= last 20 years) with particle filters doesn't emit much.
HIgh compression gasoline motors is starting to generate the same particles. It seems like you will get those particles if you have an efficient motor.
Any pure fuel will emit less, since it's easier to optimize the engine for it.
But can France produce enough ethanol (and the needed E100 cars) for that?
Or are they hoping for electrical cars?
Dear Slashdot, this has been known for almost 200 years.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Newton also knew this 350 years go but forgot to write it down.
The HAT sounds very much like it would become very, very useful. Automatically installed avanced I/O cards under Linux.
Easier than Groove or similar under Arduino.
I can't complain.
(I currently use two Raspberry - one Razberry and one Raspbmc. One for controlling LED strips would be great.)
Gnome3, systemd, wayland, pulseaudio etc might (or might not) be good ideas. But they should probably not be introduced before they are completely bug-free -- or at least more bug-free then the thing they will replace. (And they should be better designed than the thing they are trying to replace.)
This has not always been the case. Actually, this has rarely been the case. They have been introduced as the new hip thing despite bugs and design flaws.
And considering that the *ix world is full of people who don't like change - it's one of the main selling points - changing things because it's hip, doesn't solve the problem, introduces new bugs and introduces the well known problem of update-your-legacy-system-or-don't-update-your-machine-ever-again doesn't really sit well with everyone.
I want my smart home to be clever.
For instance, I have my tea kettle turn on when I usually get up (different depending if it's a workday or not). It also turns on when I approach home from leaving it a longer time. Of course it's still stupid and all that's controlled (and measured) is the power, so I still have to fill it with water and turn off the relay. But the rest is scripted using razberry, linux and android stuff.
I have lights coming on on motion sensors. Which lights turn on depends on the ambient light level (they don't turn on if the room is in bright sunlight). They don't turn off if I just pushed the button to keep them off, and they don't turn off quickly if I used the button to turn them on (60 minutes timeout before resuming normality).
I have a radiator maintaining the bedroom temperature within ±0.1C. It was quite tricky to get that slow feedback system to work properly, but fun. Which temperature is the goal temperature vary over the day and my sleep cycle.
I have a XMBC, a receiver and a TV where the two later ones are turned on and off depending on the screensaver state of the XMBC. The subwoofer/bass level is lowered on a timer to not to disturb neighbours. I will hook that into the lighting as well, but haven't done that yet.
I wanted to install a door and motion sensor so the system would know when noone was home, but the daft sensor from Philio didn't work with neither the razberry nor the aeon labs stick. That's for some other day.
What I mainly want from a smart home is
1. scriptability (duh)
2. security. Neither z-wave nor tellstick/nexa is secure. Anyone could easily control or read anything. A little trickier with z-wave, but not very.
3. privacy. I don't do "live" or "net" stuff. My stuff stays here.
4. expandability. I want everything to be able to trigger everything. The location of my phone should be able to be scripted to trigger the kettle. The temperature in the living room can alter the state of the rice cooker. The moisture level of my strawberry plant can trigger a warning SMS. The motion detector in the kitchen can raise the bar for when the smoke detector in the kitchen goes off. But everything would need to talk, and they should talk in all ways they can talk.
5. reliability. Things that need to work should work without the network. The smoke detector settings could be altered from the network, but if the network isn't there it still needs to go off. Timer-relays should still trigger on the time set by the network. Thermostats should still trigger on the temperature set by the network. And above all, things shouldn't randomly hang and not do what they are supposed to do. (I haven't had a single digital thing that hasn't hanged at some point. That include frost guard thermostats and timers. Every single piece of z-wave equipment has hanged at some point. Not smart.)
How environmental it is is up to the user.