Doesn't everyone try to pick up every skill that might be useful in a disaster situation, given the slightest opportunity?
I've helped built houses, I've done plumbing and electricity - I can build a generator, but I forgot how to build a radio - I've done basic car mechanics work. This is just from things I needed to do while helping out, or because I didn't have time or money (or could be bothered) to hire someone to do it for me. To me it seems like most people with a brain could pick up that quickly, maybe not be good at it at once, but still.
I'm training Aikido and medieval swordfighting. That might be useful, but I really hope not.
I can't lift heavy things, due to a disc that doesn't want to stay put. That is not so good.
My current profession is embedded programmer/software architect. That will be utterly useless, I think.
But, in the end, I think the most useful skill I might try to use is to get people together to help each other.
(For something interesting on the line of what you can do with very little at hand, I recommend the BBC/Open University series Rough Science, especially the first season.)
It's enormously less work to trust that the upstream and packet system know what needs to be packed and restarted than to keep track on all the patches yourself. How many sysadmins have the _time_ to do source code reviews on _everything_ that needs to go into a complex system? How easy is it to accidentally put in a patch with a deliberate security hole?
(But, apparently the openssl people don't do code reviews either. I'd consider this a good reason to use something else.)
I find this very interesting. I was looking for an easy way of setting up always-on microphones with speech synthesis for intelligent home use. I didn't plan on using a Pi though, but a few of the always-on full blown linux pc I have around.
Drones do not drop out of the sky because they get hacked. They can - or should - balance themselves stationary even if the control is lost or taken over. It would have to be A) hacked and B) driven into the ground by the hacker...?
Regardless, the drone operator - or the insurance of the drone operator - should pay up. If they want to find someone else to pay up, that's their problem.
The first lesson learned here is that giving money to block things like gay rights and equality will haunt your career.
The second lesson learned here is that if you are a big corporation, you now need to be very careful not to hire someone that has spent money on blocking gay rights.
All in all this means that a lot less money will be spent on blocking gay rights, and probably a lot less money in blocking a lot of other good things as well.
It might suck for Eich, but meddling like that with peoples life might bite you in the end, even if he's ok now (is he?). Things shouldn't be without consequences just because your rich and in the CEO-sphere, quite the opposite, I would say.
I believe female programmers are at an advantage. It makes me very sad, I think that not only do female programmers do a good job, but it's so wasteful that not more girls have followed this path, when so many would be so good at it.
Although I tend to avoid game programming myself; it seems to be full of stress, hurt and stupid management decisions.
House M.D. and Bones was initially interesting because they focused on the mystery. It didn't take long for the shows to devolve into the typical drama series where the "political" obstacles engulfs the entire programming - someone gets fired, budget gets dropped, problems arise in a way that has nothing to do with the initial premise of the program; in this case the mystery.
All TV Shows seems to asymptotically go towards the same show. And I don't know anyone that likes that show.
Mythbusters managed to fire the producer, and save the show. I don't know of any other.
(And maybe the world of TV Shows will be saved by BBC?)
Why aren't they using libre office or latex, if they are worried about big companies? It's also free, but gives you 100% control over the programs - if you want and/or need.
It's not like it's hard to find open source'd tools for those uses these days.
I want my car infotainment system to run Android, so that I can use my favourite car-adapted apps to run the radio, show me the map, play movies, whatever Android can do. (Change music depending on where I am? Why not. Use voice commands? Why not. Future application I didn't think of? Why not, it's Android.)
Then whoever feels like running interfaces like this, can do that, just download the app.
But then the car stereo shouldn't be on a more important CAN bus that it can possibly control the AAC, far from any driving control or unlocking of the car.
You can't say you were surprised by that. Waze from the start up seemed to be created as a data collection tool without any possible point of profit other than being sold to another bigger company that were interested in the data.
What I would like to see is a Waze-like collection of data that's anonymized but open. That is, contain speeds for roads for various hours, keep data about accidents, construction and roadblocks, and reports problems to OSM in the back.
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Interestingly enough, my browser (firefox) doesn't let me access https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/, complaining about the security certificate...?
Doesn't everyone try to pick up every skill that might be useful in a disaster situation, given the slightest opportunity?
I've helped built houses, I've done plumbing and electricity - I can build a generator, but I forgot how to build a radio - I've done basic car mechanics work. This is just from things I needed to do while helping out, or because I didn't have time or money (or could be bothered) to hire someone to do it for me. To me it seems like most people with a brain could pick up that quickly, maybe not be good at it at once, but still.
I'm training Aikido and medieval swordfighting. That might be useful, but I really hope not.
I can't lift heavy things, due to a disc that doesn't want to stay put. That is not so good.
My current profession is embedded programmer/software architect. That will be utterly useless, I think.
But, in the end, I think the most useful skill I might try to use is to get people together to help each other.
(For something interesting on the line of what you can do with very little at hand, I recommend the BBC/Open University series Rough Science, especially the first season.)
It's enormously less work to trust that the upstream and packet system know what needs to be packed and restarted than to keep track on all the patches yourself. How many sysadmins have the _time_ to do source code reviews on _everything_ that needs to go into a complex system? How easy is it to accidentally put in a patch with a deliberate security hole?
(But, apparently the openssl people don't do code reviews either. I'd consider this a good reason to use something else.)
I find this very interesting. I was looking for an easy way of setting up always-on microphones with speech synthesis for intelligent home use.
I didn't plan on using a Pi though, but a few of the always-on full blown linux pc I have around.
Aziz, light!
And here I feared for a second that Facebook killed VR.
This is good news.
This. I'm confused as well. And I never knew about their "free hostname" stuff.
How does this effect me as Free For Life user of dyndns?
Because I still seem to be.
Bugs are not hackers.
Twice the same day tells me something bugged.
Drones do not drop out of the sky because they get hacked. They can - or should - balance themselves stationary even if the control is lost or taken over.
It would have to be A) hacked and B) driven into the ground by the hacker...?
Regardless, the drone operator - or the insurance of the drone operator - should pay up. If they want to find someone else to pay up, that's their problem.
That seems like a mistake.
I'd be much more likely to buy a Tesla - or any specific brand - if I *could* modify the infotainment system, and especially if it was encouraged.
No, it's two lessons.
The first lesson learned here is that giving money to block things like gay rights and equality will haunt your career.
The second lesson learned here is that if you are a big corporation, you now need to be very careful not to hire someone that has spent money on blocking gay rights.
All in all this means that a lot less money will be spent on blocking gay rights, and probably a lot less money in blocking a lot of other good things as well.
It might suck for Eich, but meddling like that with peoples life might bite you in the end, even if he's ok now (is he?). Things shouldn't be without consequences just because your rich and in the CEO-sphere, quite the opposite, I would say.
I believe female programmers are at an advantage. It makes me very sad, I think that not only do female programmers do a good job, but it's so wasteful that not more girls have followed this path, when so many would be so good at it.
Although I tend to avoid game programming myself; it seems to be full of stress, hurt and stupid management decisions.
(My SO is a female embedded programmer.)
House M.D. and Bones was initially interesting because they focused on the mystery. It didn't take long for the shows to devolve into the typical drama series where the "political" obstacles engulfs the entire programming - someone gets fired, budget gets dropped, problems arise in a way that has nothing to do with the initial premise of the program; in this case the mystery.
All TV Shows seems to asymptotically go towards the same show. And I don't know anyone that likes that show.
Mythbusters managed to fire the producer, and save the show. I don't know of any other.
(And maybe the world of TV Shows will be saved by BBC?)
Why do you think shows need drama?
Is drama the single, the only interesting thing in the world?
The amount of pick and mix the religious people do is kind of incredible.
So why did they pick creationism, when it conflicts with everything? Why not skip that part, as well as the genocide and slavery?
Does anyone know?
It seems very easy to see the description of the creation of the universe as symbolic.
I'm interested in the steam box. Games would be the only reason for me to keep Windows around.
And possibly IAR Workbench. But since they don't want to support Linux, I'm trying to move my development team away from that...
This is my conclusion too. And this is a few days after Steam released their DirectX-to-OpenGL source.
Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer
Why aren't they using libre office or latex, if they are worried about big companies? It's also free, but gives you 100% control over the programs - if you want and/or need.
It's not like it's hard to find open source'd tools for those uses these days.
Does that mean I can take one single code base, and then run this program, natively, on a number of devices, thanks to OpenFL and Haxe?
Or is this mainly thanks to Haxe?
Interesting. So WB rather lose $804895 + 22997 times customer service cost and banking fee than to put up a download site for a few thousand dollars?
Why?
I feel there should be a follow-the-money reason to this, but I can't spot it.
Ah, that's actually annoying. A Linux client would have been a complete win.
So is it a good game to roleplay in?
Or is LoTRO _still_ sadly best for that aspect?
Why is this surprising? They need a lot more games for SteamOS.
I want my car infotainment system to run Android, so that I can use my favourite car-adapted apps to run the radio, show me the map, play movies, whatever Android can do. (Change music depending on where I am? Why not. Use voice commands? Why not. Future application I didn't think of? Why not, it's Android.)
Then whoever feels like running interfaces like this, can do that, just download the app.
But then the car stereo shouldn't be on a more important CAN bus that it can possibly control the AAC, far from any driving control or unlocking of the car.
You can't say you were surprised by that. Waze from the start up seemed to be created as a data collection tool without any possible point of profit other than being sold to another bigger company that were interested in the data.
What I would like to see is a Waze-like collection of data that's anonymized but open. That is, contain speeds for roads for various hours, keep data about accidents, construction and roadblocks, and reports problems to OSM in the back.
That would be about 10kWh. For your gaming rig: 10 hours. ;)
(Sucrose energy content 17MJ/kg; 2.2kg ~= 10kWh)