I suspect many tribal people would rather not be diagnosed at all.
Exactly. They have not grown up being educated as the causes of disease and its spread. During the outbreak, people were hiding sick relatives from aid workers because they observed that once your name was put on the list, you got taken away and died. Cause and effect in their minds, because they lack the knowledge to understand the real cause, and the likely outcomes of different actions. This is not a problem that can be solved overall in the midst of an epidemic--it's something that requires a generation or two of effective universal public education, which is a big project.
Definition #5 is pretty open. That is ironic, don't you think?
No. In fact my point was that submitter was probably thinking of #5, but it is, in my opinion, blatantly moronic to find anything "unexpected" about google buying any large industrial building that fits its needs. In fact, I'd call it blatantly moronic to pull out the "how ironic" attitude for any purchaser of a defunct power plant. Plants of all kinds reach the end of their useful life and get de-commissioned. Then they get bought, and either re-purposed with some renovation or razed. Nothing unexpected there--commercial real estate changes owners & uses, big deal.
Now it's fine to post this to/. because we might find it interesting that a former power plant is well-suited to become a massive data center. But the drooling mouth-breathing "ZOMG HOW IRONIC" attitude is an annoying sideshow detracting from whatever real information there is to learn here.
...dunno if the RAM ugprade did something or it wanted just one more reboot...
RAM. I went through this recently building Windows 7 VMs from an orginal/early ISO. With 2GB RAM, it stalled and would never finish the updates. With 3GB it got further, but still stalled and showed no further progress after being left running overnight. With 4GB, no problem, you can actually update the OS!
noun, plural ironies. 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. 2. Literature. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. (especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion. 3. Socratic irony. 4. dramatic irony. 5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. 6. the incongruity of this. 7. an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
Exactly. If people want to move to the middle of nowhere, they need to take on the expense of protecting their homes themselves. There's absolutely no reason the rest of us should need to subsidize the lifestyle of people already rich enough to move to those places.
Right you are! And there's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live near the coasts and risk hurricane damage. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live in tornado-prone areas. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live too close to rivers in flood-prone areas. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live in earthquake-prone areas.
The argument that "we got together and had a vote and you don't get this right" is pretty much garbage.
Last night, on the news, they had one of our troglodyte legislators saying, basically "well, people need to realize that if the Supreme Court does strike down our ban on gay marriage, it may take us a few weeks to figure out how to write a new law to get around that."
I am not kidding. Sigh. They've lost the war, but it will be decades yet before the ones who refuse to admit this have all died off...
No, they're supermarkets. The person to whom I responded was literally claiming that because many of the mass-produced breads in the supermarkets contain (too much) sugar, he was unable to find healthy food there. As though the scent of over-sugared bread drew him uncontrollably, causing him to shuffle blindly past the fruits, vegetables, meats and so on, and fill his cart with nothing but bad bread.
But that one has more than a day's amount of salt in each slice.
But the currently-recommended day's amount of salt was literally pulled out of someone's ass, it has no basis in evidence. (You should still avoid hugely excessive amounts, but the commonly-recommended, almost impossible to achieve, amount is just bullshit.)
That was not the case here — as written, the law clearly only allows subsidies for residents of those states, that have set up "health exchanges" of their own.
That's simply not true. There is ONE SINGLE CLAUSE TAKEN IN ISOLATION WHICH SAYS "ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE", but there are other clauses which clearly spell out in more detail the requirements of the exchanges and the relationship between state and federal, but the nutjob right-wing desperadoes who have failed in every other attempt to overturn ACA chose to pin their hopes on SCOTUS taking a single clause out of context...
Considering he is a known fan of constitutional amendments where "state" means "federal government". Of course, here it doesn't matter because.... well, whatever.
Exactly. If you take this challenge to ACA completely literally, it would mean that if a state hired a contractor to build an exchange for them, the exchange would not qualify...
When I used to eat like shit it was weird, there would be some unhealthy food that I thought tasted gross (such as certain kind of donuts, candy, etc) but if I ate it and didnt like it.. for some reason I was still compelled to continue eating it. Even though I knew it tasted gross, I was addicted...
It's not that easy. At QFC and Safeway, EVERY bread they sell is overly sweetened. The only bread I've found without too much sugar is Trader Joe's rye.
So what??? Bread should be a TINY portion of your diet. At QFC and Safeway it is trivially easy to find whole-food products: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meats, dairy...
The interesting question is how long can this last before we reach a level that is not affordable to the majority of the demographic that is being serviced.
Care to guess what happens at that point? New construction doesn't sell, developers go bankrupt, new construction is sold at auction for lower prices. Then the new units available at lower prices push down prices of other housing, which makes purchase more affordable, which results in renters buying, which curbs rent prices.
No matter what part of the cycle you're in, no matter what part of the country, one thing can be counted to be constant: idiots proclaiming that the current trend is the new reality and will last forever!
Places like that do exist, but they are becoming rarer and rarer.
In the big companies. In smaller companies, I'm seeing more and more job ads that promise work/life balance and/or unlimited PTO. So I think the pendulum has started to swing back at least a little.
In Washington state where I am, the current value is $9.47 (pretty high in the country and our economy is great, thanks). This current cutoff is the salary equivalent of making a little over $11 an hour, IF they only work you 40 hours a week. That's...pretty low. It also means that if they work you something like nine and a half hours a day on average, you're making less than minimum wage by hour. There's a lotta low grade QA jobs in the tech industry with hours like that and pretty low pay...
It's illegal to pay below minimum wage, no matter how you structure it. Of course, those $11/hour workers have no idea, so an employer can indeed get away with what you describe--but it's not legal.
Sunday night I rsync everything with an external usb drive. I used to have it scripted...
Using rsync instead of manual drag-copy qualifies as what *I* meant by "scripted". I didn't mean scheduled and always-on, just simply not completely manual...
So the first thought I had on reading the title was the predictable joke about MacKeeper being malware. But from reading the article, it sounds to me like MacKeeper installs a custom URL handler, which directs to a process that they installed which parses a command script from the URL and executes it. So, a component which allows any web site to run code outside your browser. That's malware, not in the sarcastic "less-than-useless" sense, but in the literal "actively installs attack vectors" sense.
Probably because computers don't bite you in the ass merely because you write about them without knowing about them; while most other computer-related jobs have built-in punishments, exacted somewhat more capriciously but almost as inevitably as a hot surface burning your hand when you touch it, for not knowing what you are doing.
Him having a backup on the same machine is almost as bad as not having one at all, IMO.
That was bad, but holy fuck, his backup "strategy" was manual drag-copy!!! It sounds like the "backup" drive was fine, but just didn't have all the data he needed to recover, because it was never copied there.
Well, for queries on structured data, no, not often at all. Practically never if properly configured.
SQL engines have problems with massive parallelism (i.e often at around 12 CPUs you stop gaining much at all by adding addition CPU).
Maybe MySQL does, I don't know. PostgreSQL does not. And the big expensive proprietary brands certainly scale well.
SQL engines have problems with complex in document (i.e. in blob) searches
Finally, a kernel of truth. Of course blobs are often an excuse to be lazy and not figure out the actual structure of the data, but in cases where blobs are truly appropriate, there are better solutions than SQL, for the blob parts at least.
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I suspect many tribal people would rather not be diagnosed at all.
Exactly. They have not grown up being educated as the causes of disease and its spread. During the outbreak, people were hiding sick relatives from aid workers because they observed that once your name was put on the list, you got taken away and died. Cause and effect in their minds, because they lack the knowledge to understand the real cause, and the likely outcomes of different actions. This is not a problem that can be solved overall in the midst of an epidemic--it's something that requires a generation or two of effective universal public education, which is a big project.
Definition #5 is pretty open. That is ironic, don't you think?
No. In fact my point was that submitter was probably thinking of #5, but it is, in my opinion, blatantly moronic to find anything "unexpected" about google buying any large industrial building that fits its needs. In fact, I'd call it blatantly moronic to pull out the "how ironic" attitude for any purchaser of a defunct power plant. Plants of all kinds reach the end of their useful life and get de-commissioned. Then they get bought, and either re-purposed with some renovation or razed. Nothing unexpected there--commercial real estate changes owners & uses, big deal.
Now it's fine to post this to /. because we might find it interesting that a former power plant is well-suited to become a massive data center. But the drooling mouth-breathing "ZOMG HOW IRONIC" attitude is an annoying sideshow detracting from whatever real information there is to learn here.
...dunno if the RAM ugprade did something or it wanted just one more reboot...
RAM. I went through this recently building Windows 7 VMs from an orginal/early ISO. With 2GB RAM, it stalled and would never finish the updates. With 3GB it got further, but still stalled and showed no further progress after being left running overnight. With 4GB, no problem, you can actually update the OS!
noun, plural ironies.
1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
2. Literature. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
3. Socratic irony.
4. dramatic irony.
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.
7. an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ironic about this.
Exactly. If people want to move to the middle of nowhere, they need to take on the expense of protecting their homes themselves. There's absolutely no reason the rest of us should need to subsidize the lifestyle of people already rich enough to move to those places.
Right you are! And there's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live near the coasts and risk hurricane damage. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live in tornado-prone areas. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live too close to rivers in flood-prone areas. There's no reason we should subsidize people who choose to live in earthquake-prone areas.
Uhhh...
Where the fuck should we all live???
The argument that "we got together and had a vote and you don't get this right" is pretty much garbage.
Last night, on the news, they had one of our troglodyte legislators saying, basically "well, people need to realize that if the Supreme Court does strike down our ban on gay marriage, it may take us a few weeks to figure out how to write a new law to get around that."
I am not kidding. Sigh. They've lost the war, but it will be decades yet before the ones who refuse to admit this have all died off...
Are these American variants of KFC and Subway?
No, they're supermarkets. The person to whom I responded was literally claiming that because many of the mass-produced breads in the supermarkets contain (too much) sugar, he was unable to find healthy food there. As though the scent of over-sugared bread drew him uncontrollably, causing him to shuffle blindly past the fruits, vegetables, meats and so on, and fill his cart with nothing but bad bread.
Surely you mean figuratively?
I mean literally, in the figurative sense ;-)
But that one has more than a day's amount of salt in each slice.
But the currently-recommended day's amount of salt was literally pulled out of someone's ass, it has no basis in evidence. (You should still avoid hugely excessive amounts, but the commonly-recommended, almost impossible to achieve, amount is just bullshit.)
That was not the case here — as written, the law clearly only allows subsidies for residents of those states, that have set up "health exchanges" of their own.
That's simply not true. There is ONE SINGLE CLAUSE TAKEN IN ISOLATION WHICH SAYS "ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE", but there are other clauses which clearly spell out in more detail the requirements of the exchanges and the relationship between state and federal, but the nutjob right-wing desperadoes who have failed in every other attempt to overturn ACA chose to pin their hopes on SCOTUS taking a single clause out of context...
Considering he is a known fan of constitutional amendments where "state" means "federal government". Of course, here it doesn't matter because .... well, whatever.
Exactly. If you take this challenge to ACA completely literally, it would mean that if a state hired a contractor to build an exchange for them, the exchange would not qualify...
When I used to eat like shit it was weird, there would be some unhealthy food that I thought tasted gross (such as certain kind of donuts, candy, etc) but if I ate it and didnt like it.. for some reason I was still compelled to continue eating it. Even though I knew it tasted gross, I was addicted...
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It's not that easy. At QFC and Safeway, EVERY bread they sell is overly sweetened. The only bread I've found without too much sugar is Trader Joe's rye.
So what??? Bread should be a TINY portion of your diet. At QFC and Safeway it is trivially easy to find whole-food products: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meats, dairy...
The interesting question is how long can this last before we reach a level that is not affordable to the majority of the demographic that is being serviced.
Care to guess what happens at that point? New construction doesn't sell, developers go bankrupt, new construction is sold at auction for lower prices. Then the new units available at lower prices push down prices of other housing, which makes purchase more affordable, which results in renters buying, which curbs rent prices.
No matter what part of the cycle you're in, no matter what part of the country, one thing can be counted to be constant: idiots proclaiming that the current trend is the new reality and will last forever!
When you have an influx of people who are delusional, then conflict is to be expected.
Places like that do exist, but they are becoming rarer and rarer.
In the big companies. In smaller companies, I'm seeing more and more job ads that promise work/life balance and/or unlimited PTO. So I think the pendulum has started to swing back at least a little.
In Washington state where I am, the current value is $9.47 (pretty high in the country and our economy is great, thanks). This current cutoff is the salary equivalent of making a little over $11 an hour, IF they only work you 40 hours a week. That's...pretty low. It also means that if they work you something like nine and a half hours a day on average, you're making less than minimum wage by hour. There's a lotta low grade QA jobs in the tech industry with hours like that and pretty low pay...
It's illegal to pay below minimum wage, no matter how you structure it. Of course, those $11/hour workers have no idea, so an employer can indeed get away with what you describe--but it's not legal.
France has already proven the technology to do so has already existed for a long time.
Exists, yes, but at a substantially higher cost than what we in the U.S. are used to paying, therefore involving substantial economic disruption.
France didn't go to nuclear initially because it was cleaner, nor cheaper; they did it because they don't have fossil fuel resources.
Sunday night I rsync everything with an external usb drive. I used to have it scripted...
Using rsync instead of manual drag-copy qualifies as what *I* meant by "scripted". I didn't mean scheduled and always-on, just simply not completely manual...
So the first thought I had on reading the title was the predictable joke about MacKeeper being malware. But from reading the article, it sounds to me like MacKeeper installs a custom URL handler, which directs to a process that they installed which parses a command script from the URL and executes it. So, a component which allows any web site to run code outside your browser. That's malware, not in the sarcastic "less-than-useless" sense, but in the literal "actively installs attack vectors" sense.
That is basically what I do. I copy over all the important files and my data to a external HD.
OK.
A) Do you actually manually drag-copy, or have you scripted it?
B) Do you actually, unlike the pathetic author of that pathetic article, have a fucking clue what you need to copy?
I suspect your answers to those questions will reveal a difference between you and him ;-)
Probably because computers don't bite you in the ass merely because you write about them without knowing about them; while most other computer-related jobs have built-in punishments, exacted somewhat more capriciously but almost as inevitably as a hot surface burning your hand when you touch it, for not knowing what you are doing.
That's a really good point.
Him having a backup on the same machine is almost as bad as not having one at all, IMO.
That was bad, but holy fuck, his backup "strategy" was manual drag-copy!!! It sounds like the "backup" drive was fine, but just didn't have all the data he needed to recover, because it was never copied there.
Why is this guy writing about computers???
If you don't know about copy constructors, when & why to use them, you're not even a beginner.
SQL engines are often slower.
Well, for queries on structured data, no, not often at all. Practically never if properly configured.
SQL engines have problems with massive parallelism (i.e often at around 12 CPUs you stop gaining much at all by adding addition CPU).
Maybe MySQL does, I don't know. PostgreSQL does not. And the big expensive proprietary brands certainly scale well.
SQL engines have problems with complex in document (i.e. in blob) searches
Finally, a kernel of truth. Of course blobs are often an excuse to be lazy and not figure out the actual structure of the data, but in cases where blobs are truly appropriate, there are better solutions than SQL, for the blob parts at least.