I miss jobs all the time because of "IT Recruitment Firm" - I don't have a degree, I never finished my MSc. I do any programming language with 30+ years of experience or programming (started at 9) and I'm focused on C - I've done a lot of embedded. I can learn any new language and/or library and/or framework (at least if it's not completely stupid) in a few weeks.
I never have the right things on my resume. The people with the correct courses on their CV that doesn't know the difference between recursive and JIT-compiler gets the job.
So far I've only been getting jobs by contacts in the companies pushing from the other direction. Good, well-paying jobs where everyone is happy - but not and never through "IT Recruitment Firm".
The "IT recruitment firm" usually really have no clue whatsoever. My recommendation for big companies is not to use them, it's better to take a few random CVs from the pile and let your devs interview them.
The moon wasn't worth going for. We don't really need to put satellites in space. Books gives the wrong ideas and kill people. How did the discovery of the fire help us closer to mars? That's completely the wrong thing, and so many people have died in fires.
You can't say that whatever virgin galactic is developing isn't bringing us closer to space, or making civilization a little bit better. Obviously their goal is to make space flight cheap enough for space tourists to use. How can you think that cheap space flight wouldn't have side effects for space flight in general?
Besides, it's the same thing that Orbital and SpaceX is trying to achieve - cheap space flight. Although they try to go for "commercial" level of cheap, not "tourism" level of cheap.
And the side effects might not be Mars. It might be a new material for clothes. Or a new type of energy storage for your car. It's not that easy to predict all the useful things you get from pouring down billions into research to solve really strange problems.
I don't mind if you still want to live in a perfect version of the 50s and not bring civilization forward from that point. But please stop being loud about it. Just stay in your gated community and stop using the internet, for the sake of the rest of us.
Can we have some crash test dummies reflecting taller people too? *NCAP tests with 180cm/6' dolls (I asked them). I want to know which cars will kill me because the ceiling is too low for a 6'4" (193cm).
If you fixed the laws instead, so it would be a different level for crimes on the internet, there wouldn't be many people breaking the law. Make it legal to download and share intellectual property between individuals. No problem, no lawbreakers that you need to check up on.
It's like introducing a law that you can't go out between 12:00 and 12:01 every day and then say that you need to tighten down the streets with gates and armed guards, and have automatic locks on all doors that doesn't open outwards starting at 11:30, to protect people from breaking the laws.
Sadly, England might not be far from introducing license-only websites. (Scotland, why didn't you run while there were time?)
So they couldn't do this from satellite fotos from Google or Bing? Or just normal, you know, the photos taken anyway from flights for planning? What is the benefit of drones, better pictures of the topless people at the pools? (Pay your taxes, or our drone photos will hit the internet!)
Are you sure the/. system have a good reputation system? It seems to me it's really hard to come in as a new user and get good enough reputation to actually be listened to these days. Stack Overflow seems to have these problems too. Early adopter with good reputation, on the other hand, will not have any problems.
Two restaurants I visited in Berlin did not have a Tripadvisor post. When I asked about this, they asked to please not add them to Tripadvisor because of extortion.
...I didn't know you could hand-pick the computers you searched on gnutella. Isn't it a p2p search-tree (or a broadcast) that you can't limit to any geographic area or ip range other than filtering the end-results?
I tried to run backups to ZFS on a crypted USB disk. It worked for a while, but if something fails (like the backup disk going to sleep), the entire chain hangs. I can't disconnect the crypt device, and I can't disconnect the ZFS pool, zpool and zfs hangs. What I do with the USB cable and hardware no longer has any impact. I stopped doing that. (I didn't have better luck with btrfs.) Although I don't really blame ZFS that much other than it can't handle hanged devices. USB on Linux is still flaky.
The other problem I have is that it after a while happily uses up 30GB of my 32GB on the computer, and extremely reluctantly gives them away again. I can't seem to be able to control how much ZFS will use. And the rest of the system isn't really happy with just 2GB to run programs in (several virtual machines of 8GB RAM each, for instance).
The big difference from raid+filesystem to zfs or brtfs is that the new ones have a checksum on the raid blocks. That means that if you get bit errors (or more than bit errors) on one of the blocks on the raid, you can rebuild that block from the others.
WIth a normal RAID there is no way of telling which bit is wrong, just that the blocks don't match up anymore. You're protected against one disk failing, but not the random errors.
You can also add deduplication, compression and snapshots if you want. Don't know how LVM+raid works with that.
Denmark uses about 34TWh/year. EU has about 500M citizen. A vacuum cleaner is using about 2kW. That gives about 30 vacuum-hours per year per citizen, or about 1h per 10 days (rounding in different directions).
Seems remarkably reasonable.
I don't understand the meddling of capping the power though. Just make sure everything needs to be marked with how much !/W you get from the items. I'm sure most consumers are interested in the actual work performed by the vacuum, not how much you put in. But the sellers are of course interested in hiding it.
(. Soon they will cap your hifi at 40W and tapwater taps at 1dl/minute..)
My heatsink losened from my laptop (MSI GT683R, i7-2630QM?), one of the nuts that was supposed to be soldered to the board stopped being soldered to the board. I couldn't figure out why it was throttling.
It was throttling at 95C and hit temperatures up to 102C.
Gaming on it gave a full framerate for 10-15 seconds, then no frames for about 5 seconds, repeat. Still runs fine now after resoldering the nut to the board. And it never turned off, just throttled down to 200MHz or so and cooled down.
(If I remember correct my P4 happily ran at 85C too. But I might misremember. After that my stationaries have been watercooled and it's hard to get them over 55C.)
But with the foam you would use a lot less copper, at least. It'll be cheaper (if it has the same production cost). Not sure how to produce metal foam, though?
Foam has another drawback: Isn't it tricky to transport the heat all the way to the actual airflow, given the thin filaments and probably longer distances?
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I miss jobs all the time because of "IT Recruitment Firm" - I don't have a degree, I never finished my MSc. I do any programming language with 30+ years of experience or programming (started at 9) and I'm focused on C - I've done a lot of embedded. I can learn any new language and/or library and/or framework (at least if it's not completely stupid) in a few weeks.
I never have the right things on my resume. The people with the correct courses on their CV that doesn't know the difference between recursive and JIT-compiler gets the job.
So far I've only been getting jobs by contacts in the companies pushing from the other direction. Good, well-paying jobs where everyone is happy - but not and never through "IT Recruitment Firm".
The "IT recruitment firm" usually really have no clue whatsoever. My recommendation for big companies is not to use them, it's better to take a few random CVs from the pile and let your devs interview them.
The moon wasn't worth going for. We don't really need to put satellites in space. Books gives the wrong ideas and kill people. How did the discovery of the fire help us closer to mars? That's completely the wrong thing, and so many people have died in fires.
You can't say that whatever virgin galactic is developing isn't bringing us closer to space, or making civilization a little bit better. Obviously their goal is to make space flight cheap enough for space tourists to use. How can you think that cheap space flight wouldn't have side effects for space flight in general?
Besides, it's the same thing that Orbital and SpaceX is trying to achieve - cheap space flight. Although they try to go for "commercial" level of cheap, not "tourism" level of cheap.
And the side effects might not be Mars. It might be a new material for clothes. Or a new type of energy storage for your car. It's not that easy to predict all the useful things you get from pouring down billions into research to solve really strange problems.
I don't mind if you still want to live in a perfect version of the 50s and not bring civilization forward from that point. But please stop being loud about it. Just stay in your gated community and stop using the internet, for the sake of the rest of us.
Can we have some crash test dummies reflecting taller people too? *NCAP tests with 180cm/6' dolls (I asked them).
I want to know which cars will kill me because the ceiling is too low for a 6'4" (193cm).
Is this an attempt from mathematicians to try to tell engineers they have been doing it wrong?
This seems to be a very easy conclusion if you don't have to think of all the other things you need to think of when you do things in the real world.
And I can't see any problems solved with the conclusion of this paper.
I'm guessing they blasted the screens with several kW in the spectrum that is around radar and wi-fi, and they blanked out?
It's probably a problem being directly in front of a radar transmitter, but wifi is just in the right spectrum, much much weaker...
If you fixed the laws instead, so it would be a different level for crimes on the internet, there wouldn't be many people breaking the law. Make it legal to download and share intellectual property between individuals. No problem, no lawbreakers that you need to check up on.
It's like introducing a law that you can't go out between 12:00 and 12:01 every day and then say that you need to tighten down the streets with gates and armed guards, and have automatic locks on all doors that doesn't open outwards starting at 11:30, to protect people from breaking the laws.
Sadly, England might not be far from introducing license-only websites. (Scotland, why didn't you run while there were time?)
So they couldn't do this from satellite fotos from Google or Bing? Or just normal, you know, the photos taken anyway from flights for planning?
What is the benefit of drones, better pictures of the topless people at the pools? (Pay your taxes, or our drone photos will hit the internet!)
It's not FIXED in countless of devices (phones, modems, routers) that will not receive an update.
How do android/ios run DHCP?
How do cheap all-in-one ADSL modems run DHCP?
I think that will tell us how bad this is. That's where the worms will live.
Are you sure the /. system have a good reputation system? It seems to me it's really hard to come in as a new user and get good enough reputation to actually be listened to these days. Stack Overflow seems to have these problems too. Early adopter with good reputation, on the other hand, will not have any problems.
Two restaurants I visited in Berlin did not have a Tripadvisor post. When I asked about this, they asked to please not add them to Tripadvisor because of extortion.
This is why we can't have nice things.
...I didn't know you could hand-pick the computers you searched on gnutella. Isn't it a p2p search-tree (or a broadcast) that you can't limit to any geographic area or ip range other than filtering the end-results?
is this something I should think of for the mysql databases?
I tried to run backups to ZFS on a crypted USB disk. It worked for a while, but if something fails (like the backup disk going to sleep), the entire chain hangs. I can't disconnect the crypt device, and I can't disconnect the ZFS pool, zpool and zfs hangs. What I do with the USB cable and hardware no longer has any impact. I stopped doing that. (I didn't have better luck with btrfs.) Although I don't really blame ZFS that much other than it can't handle hanged devices. USB on Linux is still flaky.
The other problem I have is that it after a while happily uses up 30GB of my 32GB on the computer, and extremely reluctantly gives them away again. I can't seem to be able to control how much ZFS will use. And the rest of the system isn't really happy with just 2GB to run programs in (several virtual machines of 8GB RAM each, for instance).
The big difference from raid+filesystem to zfs or brtfs is that the new ones have a checksum on the raid blocks.
That means that if you get bit errors (or more than bit errors) on one of the blocks on the raid, you can rebuild that block from the others.
WIth a normal RAID there is no way of telling which bit is wrong, just that the blocks don't match up anymore. You're protected against one disk failing, but not the random errors.
You can also add deduplication, compression and snapshots if you want. Don't know how LVM+raid works with that.
I can't find the original survey. Anyone that was able to dig it up?
How did the other 34 countries do?
Denmark uses about 34TWh/year. EU has about 500M citizen. A vacuum cleaner is using about 2kW.
That gives about 30 vacuum-hours per year per citizen, or about 1h per 10 days (rounding in different directions).
Seems remarkably reasonable.
I don't understand the meddling of capping the power though. Just make sure everything needs to be marked with how much !/W you get from the items. I'm sure most consumers are interested in the actual work performed by the vacuum, not how much you put in. But the sellers are of course interested in hiding it.
(. Soon they will cap your hifi at 40W and tapwater taps at 1dl/minute. .)
69.7% of the time the answer is "yes"?
Mind, most Europeeans don't like censorship either.
England doesn't like the ruling either.
That explains why kodi.com, kodi.net nor kodi.org didn't work.
I find this the most interesting comment in the thread so far. I was wondering, how are driverless buses within 4 _decades_ unlikely?
Of course they are unlikely, because the union will stop them.
My heatsink losened from my laptop (MSI GT683R, i7-2630QM?), one of the nuts that was supposed to be soldered to the board stopped being soldered to the board. I couldn't figure out why it was throttling.
It was throttling at 95C and hit temperatures up to 102C.
Gaming on it gave a full framerate for 10-15 seconds, then no frames for about 5 seconds, repeat. Still runs fine now after resoldering the nut to the board. And it never turned off, just throttled down to 200MHz or so and cooled down.
(If I remember correct my P4 happily ran at 85C too. But I might misremember. After that my stationaries have been watercooled and it's hard to get them over 55C.)
But with the foam you would use a lot less copper, at least. It'll be cheaper (if it has the same production cost). Not sure how to produce metal foam, though?
Foam has another drawback: Isn't it tricky to transport the heat all the way to the actual airflow, given the thin filaments and probably longer distances?
To remember the launch code? :)
...only if it's in Google's interest to block services like this instead of asking the victim to pay more money.