True, and lead isn't the only problem. I have family in a small midwestern town that occasionally still has "boil orders". Coming from the 'burbs it was somewhat shocking to realize, no, the US does NOT in fact have consistent universal potable water supplies to all of its citizens after all...
But poor people definitely get the same public education.
Not even remotely true. Income inequality resulting in public educational inequality is one of the biggest problems in the US today.
But I think your point was that Internet access should be a basic utility (more like electricity or water, which as long as you don't live in Flint, are much less variable than education) which I totally agree with.
How do you know? It's entirely possible that the same vulnerabilities exist in different software doing very similar things. How do you know it's in the rendering engine and not one of the common libraries they use, etc? You don't, because no one has made the exploits available to you.
The real question is, if Mozilla has "already received" this information, why would they not share it with the other browser developers in the name of security?
Is one of Wikileaks' terms that they not disclose "secret information"? That would be pretty fucking hypocritical...
"Starting in 2014, Intel introduced "Refresh" cycles after a tock in form of a smaller update to the microarchitecture. It is said that this is done because of the expanding times to the next tick... In March 2016 in a Form 10-K report, Intel announced that it had deprecated the Tick-Tock cycle in favor of a three-step "process-architecture-optimization" model..."
Two excellent points in this comment - the obvious one about breakthroughs not being a planned project, and the other, also important: there just isn't a huge financial motivation for a company like Intel to make a chip an order of magnitude faster right now.
That's especially true if you look at the inevitable tradeoffs - if they could make a chip 10x faster using 10x more power, would they bother? Or 10x more power with 10x cost? Probably not, since the market would be so limited. These days - both in mobile devices/laptops and datacenters - most consumers would prefer a chip with the same performance and 1/10 the power usage and/or cost. Performance is only one of many optimizations being worked on, and today it's not really even the most important one.
You know what, I think we are basically in agreement.
Stupid/. filter showed your response as being to mine when it was in fact a reply to the AC after mine. I am assuming your comment "you have yet to provide even a weak argument to the contrary." was not actually directed at my post, and if not, I apologize.
Ok, good idea, I did. Commonly accepted stats are approx 65-80% of servers now run Linux, 20-35% run Windows, and FreeBSD comes in at a magical rounding error of 1-2%.
Claiming an argument is a logical fallacy by appeal to authority does not *make* an argument, it (possibly) refutes one. You can not *make* an argument with it any more than an eraser can make a sentence.
On the other hand, invalidating a poor attempt to refute a real argument is in itself supporting the original argument. Thus I was making the argument. In the end the result of the last 3 posts is clearly that Linus has a point that should be considered.
One thing everyone can agree, on at least, is that you have contributed absolutely ZERO to the argument either way.
"Appeal to authority" is not a logical fallacy when the authority is actually an expert in the field. You'd have to be a moron not to value the opinion of a highly accomplished programmer over an AC troll on slashdot.
the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved
Though it basically contradicts that with:
it created an algorithm that eliminated left turns from drivers’ routes even if meant a longer journey
Interestingly, the quoted a Mythbusters experiment which confirmed the latter:
TV show Mythbusters tested the UPS theory by eliminating as many left turns from their route as possible. They found that an 8.3km journey became 30 percent longer (10.9km), but still consumed roughly 40 percent less fuel.
So, 2 conclusions:
1) you clearly did not RTFA. 2) the empyrical answer is "longer distance, less fuel".
And the OP's question remains - the why does the article claim distance was reduced as well?
Have the finally embraced a reasonable thread model every other console adopted a decade ago?!?
(Last I saw the WiiU still uses yield() with cooperative threads, making it nigh impossible to do a straight port from anything that made reasonable use of a pthread-like API).
You have obviously never seen a USENET flamewar from 35 years ago. I have seen no evidence that people are any ruder today.
Bullshit - and you know it. The worst of the flamewars from 30+ years ago are better than the AVERAGE post from our current President. And the worst of Twitter is an order of magnitude more horrible than anything seen even 5 years ago, let alone 35.
First, 45MB library to parse XML is a stupid false (I really wanted to say "stupid fucking") argument. I personally hate XML but it's trivially easy to use at this point. Second, who the fuck cares is it WAS 45MB (which it wasn't) on the server side if it solves a generic problem like parsing all XML. Third, what's that "ASCII format"? You want to define your own format, then? And that's somehow more maintainable than XML?
And addendum - I don't think Sqlite is needed for most projects, but I have used it and if it is, it's a really small library that uses a tiny (and appropriate) amount of RAM and storage.
Except that there are companies who bring in low-salary H-1Bs and contract them out, and clearly the existing system is not doing enough to prevent it.
Do you have any recent examples of this (facts not anecdotes)? I'd be interested in seeing that, but I just won't believe it until then since that's not the reality in Silicon Valley right now.
The companies that pay $40K for an H-1B don't care about anyone else's need for talent
What's with this $40K number you keep using? The H-1B minimum salary is $60K and has been for decades. I assume you have not hired H-1B employees before? I have several working for me now. All are making > $150K, at roughly equivalent levels to their coworkers, though they transferred their H-1B from another company, it wasn't new. Clearly even that $60K number is low in today's market (the number was established in 1989, in fact, when it was fairly decent) - which is the whole point of raising it, something I totally agree with. Whether it will go to $130K as some have proposed is yet to be seen, but it will be raised significantly.
The problem was "our revenue is in danger of dropping and we need an entirely new device in the Apple ecosystem with over 100% profit margin". The solution was the Apple Watch. Boom, problem solved!
That said, I got my wife one and she totally loves it, uses it for fitness tracking (after returning 2 dead Fitbits) and as an accessory. It was an anniversary gift. Boom, problem solved!
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True, and lead isn't the only problem. I have family in a small midwestern town that occasionally still has "boil orders". Coming from the 'burbs it was somewhat shocking to realize, no, the US does NOT in fact have consistent universal potable water supplies to all of its citizens after all...
But poor people definitely get the same public education.
Not even remotely true. Income inequality resulting in public educational inequality is one of the biggest problems in the US today.
But I think your point was that Internet access should be a basic utility (more like electricity or water, which as long as you don't live in Flint, are much less variable than education) which I totally agree with.
How do you know? It's entirely possible that the same vulnerabilities exist in different software doing very similar things. How do you know it's in the rendering engine and not one of the common libraries they use, etc? You don't, because no one has made the exploits available to you.
Because it's open source?
The real question is, if Mozilla has "already received" this information, why would they not share it with the other browser developers in the name of security?
Is one of Wikileaks' terms that they not disclose "secret information"? That would be pretty fucking hypocritical...
Except my link already said just that:
"Starting in 2014, Intel introduced "Refresh" cycles after a tock in form of a smaller update to the microarchitecture. It is said that this is done because of the expanding times to the next tick... In March 2016 in a Form 10-K report, Intel announced that it had deprecated the Tick-Tock cycle in favor of a three-step "process-architecture-optimization" model..."
Did you even read it?
Two excellent points in this comment - the obvious one about breakthroughs not being a planned project, and the other, also important: there just isn't a huge financial motivation for a company like Intel to make a chip an order of magnitude faster right now.
That's especially true if you look at the inevitable tradeoffs - if they could make a chip 10x faster using 10x more power, would they bother? Or 10x more power with 10x cost? Probably not, since the market would be so limited. These days - both in mobile devices/laptops and datacenters - most consumers would prefer a chip with the same performance and 1/10 the power usage and/or cost. Performance is only one of many optimizations being worked on, and today it's not really even the most important one.
In fact, process improvements are critical as a valid source of performance gains.
That's pretty much Intel's entire chip development model...
You know what, I think we are basically in agreement.
Stupid /. filter showed your response as being to mine when it was in fact a reply to the AC after mine. I am assuming your comment "you have yet to provide even a weak argument to the contrary." was not actually directed at my post, and if not, I apologize.
Ok, good idea, I did. Commonly accepted stats are approx 65-80% of servers now run Linux, 20-35% run Windows, and FreeBSD comes in at a magical rounding error of 1-2%.
Workhorse, indeed.
Claiming an argument is a logical fallacy by appeal to authority does not *make* an argument, it (possibly) refutes one. You can not *make* an argument with it any more than an eraser can make a sentence.
On the other hand, invalidating a poor attempt to refute a real argument is in itself supporting the original argument. Thus I was making the argument. In the end the result of the last 3 posts is clearly that Linus has a point that should be considered.
One thing everyone can agree, on at least, is that you have contributed absolutely ZERO to the argument either way.
I don't see what is so hard to understand...
Nothing about your statement makes *any* sense. "Appeal to authority" in itself is not an argument, weak or strong.
Citation?
"Appeal to authority" is not a logical fallacy when the authority is actually an expert in the field. You'd have to be a moron not to value the opinion of a highly accomplished programmer over an AC troll on slashdot.
This is the first good point made to explain the seeming contradiction.
Many modern vehicles turn the engine off while stopped, eliminating idling.
Doesn't really matter what "modern vehicles" do, though, just what UPS trucks do.
The article was very specific about that:
the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved
Though it basically contradicts that with:
it created an algorithm that eliminated left turns from drivers’ routes even if meant a longer journey
Interestingly, the quoted a Mythbusters experiment which confirmed the latter:
TV show Mythbusters tested the UPS theory by eliminating as many left turns from their route as possible. They found that an 8.3km journey became 30 percent longer (10.9km), but still consumed roughly 40 percent less fuel.
So, 2 conclusions:
1) you clearly did not RTFA.
2) the empyrical answer is "longer distance, less fuel".
And the OP's question remains - the why does the article claim distance was reduced as well?
Have the finally embraced a reasonable thread model every other console adopted a decade ago?!?
(Last I saw the WiiU still uses yield() with cooperative threads, making it nigh impossible to do a straight port from anything that made reasonable use of a pthread-like API).
You have obviously never seen a USENET flamewar from 35 years ago. I have seen no evidence that people are any ruder today.
Bullshit - and you know it. The worst of the flamewars from 30+ years ago are better than the AVERAGE post from our current President. And the worst of Twitter is an order of magnitude more horrible than anything seen even 5 years ago, let alone 35.
First, 45MB library to parse XML is a stupid false (I really wanted to say "stupid fucking") argument. I personally hate XML but it's trivially easy to use at this point.
Second, who the fuck cares is it WAS 45MB (which it wasn't) on the server side if it solves a generic problem like parsing all XML.
Third, what's that "ASCII format"? You want to define your own format, then? And that's somehow more maintainable than XML?
And addendum - I don't think Sqlite is needed for most projects, but I have used it and if it is, it's a really small library that uses a tiny (and appropriate) amount of RAM and storage.
Too cerebral. You need to think like Trump's nicknames to get it to stick - "Nasty Peter Thiel."
I'm from Texas.
"Porn," in this context, would have been a soothing VR experience of a tin roof and porn down rain.
If you say so. Though from my understanding golden showers were more of interest to (certain) New Yorkers...
So, this idea would have been really helpful, especially if the VR was porn and stuff.
I'm pretty sure porn is the one thing you don't want to watch while getting a vasectomy. (Maybe the other would be botched vasectomy surgeries)
Except that there are companies who bring in low-salary H-1Bs and contract them out, and clearly the existing system is not doing enough to prevent it.
Do you have any recent examples of this (facts not anecdotes)? I'd be interested in seeing that, but I just won't believe it until then since that's not the reality in Silicon Valley right now.
The companies that pay $40K for an H-1B don't care about anyone else's need for talent
What's with this $40K number you keep using? The H-1B minimum salary is $60K and has been for decades. I assume you have not hired H-1B employees before? I have several working for me now. All are making > $150K, at roughly equivalent levels to their coworkers, though they transferred their H-1B from another company, it wasn't new. Clearly even that $60K number is low in today's market (the number was established in 1989, in fact, when it was fairly decent) - which is the whole point of raising it, something I totally agree with. Whether it will go to $130K as some have proposed is yet to be seen, but it will be raised significantly.
The problem was "our revenue is in danger of dropping and we need an entirely new device in the Apple ecosystem with over 100% profit margin". The solution was the Apple Watch. Boom, problem solved!
That said, I got my wife one and she totally loves it, uses it for fitness tracking (after returning 2 dead Fitbits) and as an accessory. It was an anniversary gift. Boom, problem solved!