True story, my parents decided I shouldn't grow up staring at a TV all day, so they put it in the garage when I was a baby. My older brothers didn't like it much, so they'd just go out with their friends.
It wasn't until I was 5 that they decided it was time. I'd never seen one before. They brought it in, turned it on and I'm told I was pretty freaked out.:-)
Don't know how long I was afraid of it, but I quickly got over that.
Still I can't sit there all day like my nieces and nephews, after an hour or two I've had enough.
I can't get wire shark reliably working with my wifi card, so here's how I sniff iphone app access.
Share the wifi from the laptop, sniff the wired connection to the router. With enough playing around you can get filters for exactly what you're interested in. But for simple monitoring app access it's good enough.
You wouldn't believe the stuff that gets sent around in plain text.
In other words... For databases that fit in memory GPU makes a lot of sense. For really large data sets the limit is how fast you can get the data off the hard disk.
But what "io bottleneck" people may be missing is that an io bound server could still benefit from this if the freed up CPU time can be used for other things when it's not shuttling data to and from the GPU. It also could end up saving a lot of energy, and that's money.
Yeah my old boss used to ignore maintenance on non-critical things and let them break pretty much on schedule. That way the bosses saw us as "busy".
Used to drive me nuts, I'd rather do preventative maintenance and use the extra time to improve things.
Sadly I suspect much of IT operates under the broken window fallacy for this reason. Imagine what a non-disfunctional IT policy could do for a company's productivity.
I've seen many claim that these medicines are turning kids into zombies. It gets tied with the issue of misdiagnosis.
My question is... If these medications are stimulants, doesn't "zombification" mean a correct diagnosis which needs a dosage adjustment? After all if the kid doesn't have the problem then wouldn't stimulants make then more active? Coffee calms me down but has the opposite effect on others. Shouldn't it be obvious if a kid is wrongly given stimulants?
I showed this to 4 kids, 2 girls and 2 boys aged 6 to 12. They all had a great time with it and one girl is already doing the extended lessons drawing geometrical figures.
Maybe none of them will become programmers but they all got that exposure and have the seed planted that they COULD if they worked at it. More importantly, they were motivated to learn something on their own.
Up until now when I've been driving and needed directions I'd keep an eye out for the first subway platform, park the car, walk downstairs, get on the first train I see and ask someone for directions.
I'm amazed how quickly everyone forgot the old "NSAKey" debacle years ago. I wasn't convinced then, but now I see why people assume Microsoft was first.
That reminds me of the time I was fooling around on a child-sized off-road quad. It had a little thumb throttle and was so light I could whip it around just twisting my hips.
So of course I start trying to make snake tracks with it and end up flipping it over and it went right over me. Fortunately it was so light and I was in full gear so no damage was done. Reminded me to stop being an idiot for a while.
They find out hell isn't being burned up and tortured, you're just stuck in a room with the same people for thousands of years.
You know what's really sad about that?
It's only true if you're a jerk.
I spent a good part of my life being completely disinterested in others unless I saw something of value in them. What it was that changed it for me I'm not sure, but I started to see value in everyone, I started to care what they thought and felt.
You don't have to fake it, I can say to myself "I'm not terribly interested in that, but it's important to you and you're important to me, so tell me why you enjoy it". It turns out a lot of "stupid" things are actually kind of cool. Maybe I decided one day I wanted to make people feel better when they were around me instead of worse. Maybe I just grew up.
If you're jaded and angry at the world, don't take it out on the people around you. Don't say "I'm having a bad day" because after so many of those, it's just who you are.
I have a lot more friends now, some of whom I would have considered useless idiots in the past. They're actually really cool people once you get to know them. But first you have to get to know them.
Hey thanks. How does one make the transition from developer to designer? As it is I have no input and have to implement some horrible designs.
My favorite so far is the media player with 3 button controls at the top. Play, Pause, Stop... which is *facepalm* enough. Except that in the song list below each track has play controls of it's own, a single play/stop button. 3 states and 2 states had to be kept in sync. IT MADE. NOT. SENSE.
As I watched several users go through a few of my apps, an interesting behavior became apparent.
Many people as soon as they see a new screen on a mobile app instinctively flick up or down attempting to scroll. If the page doesn't bounce or in any way give them visual feedback they think that it's frozen and start to tap around looking for a response.
After that, I started making every single screen in my apps scrollable, even if it just bounces content smaller than the screen. That tiny little change makes users feel like the app is faster and more stable.
I only saw the movie, but already sadly had the ending spoiled before I watched it. Even so when Ender was tricked I didn't immediately notice it and like him thought it was part of the training up until they got to the home world. Then I realized it was for real and it did resonate emotionally with me. (Sadly I figured it out by the length of the simulation battles, you don't spend 20 minutes simulating a battle and then redo it for reals)
However. There's a pretty big plot hole in my mind, and I'm curious if it's from the book or a result of trimming for movie length.
The rules of the gravity training game are obviously written by the author to get Ender to intuitively figure out how to protect the "missile" and get it through a well fortified position. As soon as they described the rules to the game it was obvious that idiots would focus on scoring points but the real strategy was to get someone through to the base.
That means the adults who planned out the training rules already had in their mind the weapon they planned to bring to the home world, and they knew it would be heavily fortified by a swarm of enemies. It took years to develop those weapons. The adults already knew exactly which tactics were needed and in fact trained the children to do just that.
So why use children?
Putting troops into a pointed shape and plowing through lines of enemies is only a few thousand years old and well understood. Protecting the payload and delivering it behind enemy lines is routine. Was Orson Scott Card just indulging in Messiah parallels?
Oh yeah for years the community college I went to would use SSN for student IDs. They'd pass around an "anonymized" roll sheet where everyone would sign next to their SSN. At the end of the semester your grades would be posted next to your SSN instead of your name.
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True story, my parents decided I shouldn't grow up staring at a TV all day, so they put it in the garage when I was a baby. My older brothers didn't like it much, so they'd just go out with their friends.
It wasn't until I was 5 that they decided it was time. I'd never seen one before. They brought it in, turned it on and I'm told I was pretty freaked out. :-)
Don't know how long I was afraid of it, but I quickly got over that.
Still I can't sit there all day like my nieces and nephews, after an hour or two I've had enough.
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No problem bro, I got you covered.
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It's like peeing in a pool. A few kids do it and nobody notices... but once EVERYBODY is doing it you'll want to stay out of that water.
I guess the denialists have larger pools than most of us.
I can't get wire shark reliably working with my wifi card, so here's how I sniff iphone app access.
Share the wifi from the laptop, sniff the wired connection to the router. With enough playing around you can get filters for exactly what you're interested in. But for simple monitoring app access it's good enough.
You wouldn't believe the stuff that gets sent around in plain text.
In other words... For databases that fit in memory GPU makes a lot of sense. For really large data sets the limit is how fast you can get the data off the hard disk.
But what "io bottleneck" people may be missing is that an io bound server could still benefit from this if the freed up CPU time can be used for other things when it's not shuttling data to and from the GPU. It also could end up saving a lot of energy, and that's money.
Sounds like the plot to Moneyball.
Pay millions for narrow speciality A players, or 1/10th for all around good at everything B players.
The greater overall average wins... In the long run.
If their videos are VC-1 then how do they play back on iOS devices without killing the battery?
If they're already H.264 for iOS devices, then why is transitioning needed?
Several possible answers, none of which I've been able to verify.
Yeah my old boss used to ignore maintenance on non-critical things and let them break pretty much on schedule. That way the bosses saw us as "busy".
Used to drive me nuts, I'd rather do preventative maintenance and use the extra time to improve things.
Sadly I suspect much of IT operates under the broken window fallacy for this reason. Imagine what a non-disfunctional IT policy could do for a company's productivity.
Do you still remember that terrible thing?
Yeah, I don't see that ever changing.
BZZZZzzzZzzZZZZZZZZTTTTT!!!!
Oh wow! I think you've done it! I'm cured! I feel SOOO much better!! ..
People say all kinds of things when tortured.
I've seen many claim that these medicines are turning kids into zombies. It gets tied with the issue of misdiagnosis.
My question is... If these medications are stimulants, doesn't "zombification" mean a correct diagnosis which needs a dosage adjustment? After all if the kid doesn't have the problem then wouldn't stimulants make then more active? Coffee calms me down but has the opposite effect on others. Shouldn't it be obvious if a kid is wrongly given stimulants?
I showed this to 4 kids, 2 girls and 2 boys aged 6 to 12. They all had a great time with it and one girl is already doing the extended lessons drawing geometrical figures.
Maybe none of them will become programmers but they all got that exposure and have the seed planted that they COULD if they worked at it. More importantly, they were motivated to learn something on their own.
Up until now when I've been driving and needed directions I'd keep an eye out for the first subway platform, park the car, walk downstairs, get on the first train I see and ask someone for directions.
Now I know there's a better way.
I'm amazed how quickly everyone forgot the old "NSAKey" debacle years ago. I wasn't convinced then, but now I see why people assume Microsoft was first.
That reminds me of the time I was fooling around on a child-sized off-road quad. It had a little thumb throttle and was so light I could whip it around just twisting my hips.
So of course I start trying to make snake tracks with it and end up flipping it over and it went right over me. Fortunately it was so light and I was in full gear so no damage was done. Reminded me to stop being an idiot for a while.
That won't work as USB amperage is based on resister sensing.
yeah, what the heck is an "eleeto"?
Obligatory link to THE Leidenfrost effect paper.
EPIC
Do Not Try This At Home.
But if you do...
Try not to shatter your teeth.
For now. Til online stores start making 3d models of customers through their webcams or an app and then virtually sizing them. Just a matter of time.
That's from a famous play...
They find out hell isn't being burned up and tortured, you're just stuck in a room with the same people for thousands of years.
You know what's really sad about that?
It's only true if you're a jerk.
I spent a good part of my life being completely disinterested in others unless I saw something of value in them. What it was that changed it for me I'm not sure, but I started to see value in everyone, I started to care what they thought and felt.
You don't have to fake it, I can say to myself "I'm not terribly interested in that, but it's important to you and you're important to me, so tell me why you enjoy it". It turns out a lot of "stupid" things are actually kind of cool. Maybe I decided one day I wanted to make people feel better when they were around me instead of worse. Maybe I just grew up.
If you're jaded and angry at the world, don't take it out on the people around you. Don't say "I'm having a bad day" because after so many of those, it's just who you are.
I have a lot more friends now, some of whom I would have considered useless idiots in the past. They're actually really cool people once you get to know them. But first you have to get to know them.
Hey thanks. How does one make the transition from developer to designer? As it is I have no input and have to implement some horrible designs.
My favorite so far is the media player with 3 button controls at the top. Play, Pause, Stop ... which is *facepalm* enough. Except that in the song list below each track has play controls of it's own, a single play/stop button. 3 states and 2 states had to be kept in sync. IT MADE. NOT. SENSE.
As I watched several users go through a few of my apps, an interesting behavior became apparent.
Many people as soon as they see a new screen on a mobile app instinctively flick up or down attempting to scroll. If the page doesn't bounce or in any way give them visual feedback they think that it's frozen and start to tap around looking for a response.
After that, I started making every single screen in my apps scrollable, even if it just bounces content smaller than the screen. That tiny little change makes users feel like the app is faster and more stable.
I only saw the movie, but already sadly had the ending spoiled before I watched it. Even so when Ender was tricked I didn't immediately notice it and like him thought it was part of the training up until they got to the home world. Then I realized it was for real and it did resonate emotionally with me. (Sadly I figured it out by the length of the simulation battles, you don't spend 20 minutes simulating a battle and then redo it for reals)
However. There's a pretty big plot hole in my mind, and I'm curious if it's from the book or a result of trimming for movie length.
The rules of the gravity training game are obviously written by the author to get Ender to intuitively figure out how to protect the "missile" and get it through a well fortified position. As soon as they described the rules to the game it was obvious that idiots would focus on scoring points but the real strategy was to get someone through to the base.
That means the adults who planned out the training rules already had in their mind the weapon they planned to bring to the home world, and they knew it would be heavily fortified by a swarm of enemies. It took years to develop those weapons. The adults already knew exactly which tactics were needed and in fact trained the children to do just that.
So why use children?
Putting troops into a pointed shape and plowing through lines of enemies is only a few thousand years old and well understood. Protecting the payload and delivering it behind enemy lines is routine. Was Orson Scott Card just indulging in Messiah parallels?
Next time I'll add sarcasm tags. I was completely agreeing with him and mocking those who use the phrase too much.
Satire is the most dangerous form of writing.
Oh yeah for years the community college I went to would use SSN for student IDs. They'd pass around an "anonymized" roll sheet where everyone would sign next to their SSN. At the end of the semester your grades would be posted next to your SSN instead of your name.
Idiots.