Seriously, there's no good reason not to start with PostgreSQL and only add MongoDB...
Although I've never needed MongoDB myself, I can see situations where it would be appropriate. I see ***NO*** situations where the ass-backward inside-out semantic model of Node.js is actually appropriate. There are ways to scale to serving high activity loads (actually, higher than Node has any chance of serving), with obfuscating control flow and making it so godawful difficult to be sure that you've handled all combinations of normal completion and errors thrown.
Who wants to be Nate Silver will be able to make sense of the polls?
Still some interesting points, and yes we may reach a point where polls actually have no predictive value. But I doubt we've gone from "100% accurate if you know how to interpret them" to 0% in 4 years;-)
Yes, it is unfair, because the PLACEBO EFFECT (which is essentially what homeopathy relies upon) is ever closer to scientific validation right now.
It most certainly is NOT unfair when weighed against the wild claims made by proponents of homeopathy. If they debate was over the placebo effect, you'd have a point--but that is not the debate at all, and your "point" is utterly irrelevant to the discussion.
Placebo effect, fine. Multi-billion dollar industry based on pure bullshit, and that also in some cases drags people with serious disease away from effective treatment, not so fine.
Assuming she's for real in this respect, I appreciate her concern for her comrades in the industry. However, She's pulled her music from Spotify, and now she's pulling it from iTunes. So...she's living off Pandora royalties and CD sales? I mean, the album has been out for quite some time, so she's made most of her millions off it at this point anyway and this is more grandstanding than anything else...but if it were a new release, would she really be this adamant about giving up iTunes revenue, even if it spent a bit too much time in the 'Accounts Receivable' column?
Unless she has a super-special deal (which, who knows, with her market power she might), she makes way more off touring and related merchandising than she does the pitiful royalties from album (both physical & virtual) sales.
This really marks the triumph of the newish and competent committee over the prior boneheads who wasted years trying to shove XHTML down our throats while adding features that were so poorly designed as to be nearly worthless. (ES5 marked the transition, the first cleanup after the prior mess, and ES7 will finally get us to where the language should have been 10+ years ago if not for all the time wasted by wankers with no clue about actual software development.)
My biggest worry is that the people behind these scams, like spammers, will hire copywriters who can fool many more people.
Nope. Same as with spam. They need gullible idiots. If the initial pitch is more believable, they'l just waste more time with people of normal intelligence, who might get through a few minutes' of a pitch, but will ultimately balk at giving out all their personal info to a cold caller about their supposed account, or at rushing out to buy a Green Dot card to pay the IRS right now, etc.
That's totally untrue. There's a kind of butterfly which loves to sit on the trunks of birch trees...
At this point, even speciation (in plants) has been directly observed. Too bad the post to which you were responding stated that the Big Bang was never directly observed, not evolution;-)
You're right about the credit cards, but the inability to discharge a federally-guaranteed student loan is a large part of why the loans are issued at 4-8% instead of the 17-30% that you see on credit cards.
Then why were they issued at low rates for decades before they made non-dischargeable???
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Nope! You need to pay them to do that, and there's a limit to how many devices your organization can install apps to. I'm not sure what the limit is for the base plan since I only have ever used the Apple developer program through my employer. But there's a whole process to get a device "provisioned" to be able to run apps you're developing and there's a limit based on your plan with Apple.
If you're in the "enterprise" program for large companies, I'm pretty sure there is no limit on the number of devices to which you can install.
There is a limit to "ad-hoc" installs. But the reasoning there is that those are really only intended for beta testing and so on, not real distribution. If you happen to have a situation where your need to distribute fits under that cap, well then cool for you, but it's not what that part of the program is really meant for.
Agreed, and I'd never do that. I asked it OP was sure that they weren't hardware problems on his own computer and not something more widespread. I did that because I haven't seen any of those problems myself and hadn't heard of them before now.
Fair enough. I've seen them all. On my machine and on clients' and they all started with Mavericks. The last two releases have been awful for stability.
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-Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?
Sure, that's easy. Never use a network share. Not ever.
Maybe we just can't afford to do everything that would be nice to do? Health care costs continue to rise exponentially.
ALL COSTS rise exponentially;-)
And, BTW, the growth of health care costs in the U.S. has actually leveled off a little in recent years. (I imply no claims here about the cause, nor whether this will continue.)
Unlike most loans which have assets (home, car, etc) that can be confiscated a student loan doesn't result in a physical resource but in knowledge held in the students mind which cannot be taken.
Bullshit. You keep posting this tired incorrect argument all over this thread. Most debt discharged in bankruptcy is unsecured. (In fact, if people didn't have unsecured debt, they wouldn't even qualify for bankruptcy.)
How exactly do credit card companies confiscate "assets" from vacations taken and meals eaten out? How exactly do drs and hospitals confiscate medical care previously provided? (Which is one the biggest causes of bankruptcy in this country.) Well of course they can't.
No, it wasn't the first, no matter how many capitals you use, Elon.
Oh, bullshit! From the article you linked: The DC-X was never designed to achieve orbital altitudes or velocity, but instead to demonstrate the concept...
They aren't very cost effective for existing homes, but for new construction they can save you tons on money on heating and cooling, giving you up to a 5x multiplier for the energy you put in. All new construction should have them.
1) I've been looking into this recently, and there's something you may not be aware of. There are absolutely VAST differences in what you'd be charged for the same in-ground loop in different areas of the country. Note, there are legitimate big differences in how much the in-ground loop will cost based on your local geology. I'm not talking about that--I'm talking 3-5x differences in pricing for the SAME conditions and type of loop. As you can imagine, that greatly influences whether or not geothermal is a good financial move.
2) Cost effectiveness varies for existing homes. 2.1) I suspect what you were thinking of is that ducting is often undersized wrt to what geothermal needs. (Lower output temps, need to move more air for same heating.) Indeed, if you have to redo your duct work, that's a huge additional expense. But hey, it's always worth checking, because some homes hav eoversized ducts to begin with. 2.2) If you have baseboard (or radiator) heating, you're screwed. You'll never get hot enough water out of a water-to-water geothermal heat pump, not even close. 2.3) But those water-to-water units work great for radiant-floor heat, so if you're already thinking about switching to radiant floors (exactly my situation) then providing your hot water from geothermal can be a great option.
3) There are now some plain old air-to-air heat pumps that keep putting out heat down to -15F, so for areas where winter temps are mostly well above 0F, they can be a good option. Very efficient for 95% of your heating, and not so efficient but still working through a few very cold days.
The 7KWh pack could work for solar storage but frankly they are not cost effective no storage method is cost effective except maybe hydro storage.
Actually, at a time-of-day cost differential of about $0.22/kWh they are break-even. So, not cost effective in most areas, but very very close. Bump up the peak prices of power in CA a bit, or bring the PowerWall cost down or capacity up a bit, and you're there.
I can see not far in the future DRAM will be replaced with flash. Not some fancy dram+flash combo, just a simple flash storage, since the cpu has enough fast on die already.
That's a horrible idea--flash memory write characteristics just don't match that use at all.
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Seriously, there's no good reason not to start with PostgreSQL and only add MongoDB...
Although I've never needed MongoDB myself, I can see situations where it would be appropriate. I see ***NO*** situations where the ass-backward inside-out semantic model of Node.js is actually appropriate. There are ways to scale to serving high activity loads (actually, higher than Node has any chance of serving), with obfuscating control flow and making it so godawful difficult to be sure that you've handled all combinations of normal completion and errors thrown.
Who wants to be Nate Silver will be able to make sense of the polls?
Still some interesting points, and yes we may reach a point where polls actually have no predictive value. But I doubt we've gone from "100% accurate if you know how to interpret them" to 0% in 4 years ;-)
Yes, it is unfair, because the PLACEBO EFFECT (which is essentially what homeopathy relies upon) is ever closer to scientific validation right now.
It most certainly is NOT unfair when weighed against the wild claims made by proponents of homeopathy. If they debate was over the placebo effect, you'd have a point--but that is not the debate at all, and your "point" is utterly irrelevant to the discussion.
Placebo effect, fine. Multi-billion dollar industry based on pure bullshit, and that also in some cases drags people with serious disease away from effective treatment, not so fine.
...but picking on homeopathy is unfair.
No, it's not unfair at all...
They are placebos as well yet no one seems to want those banned?
Wrong way of comparing...
Medications have to be effective to be allowed, but not more effective than older cheaper medications.
And it's really easy to demonstrate that connecting your speakers with Monster cables produces way better sound than not connecting them at all ;-)
Assuming she's for real in this respect, I appreciate her concern for her comrades in the industry. However, She's pulled her music from Spotify, and now she's pulling it from iTunes. So...she's living off Pandora royalties and CD sales? I mean, the album has been out for quite some time, so she's made most of her millions off it at this point anyway and this is more grandstanding than anything else...but if it were a new release, would she really be this adamant about giving up iTunes revenue, even if it spent a bit too much time in the 'Accounts Receivable' column?
Unless she has a super-special deal (which, who knows, with her market power she might), she makes way more off touring and related merchandising than she does the pitiful royalties from album (both physical & virtual) sales.
This really marks the triumph of the newish and competent committee over the prior boneheads who wasted years trying to shove XHTML down our throats while adding features that were so poorly designed as to be nearly worthless. (ES5 marked the transition, the first cleanup after the prior mess, and ES7 will finally get us to where the language should have been 10+ years ago if not for all the time wasted by wankers with no clue about actual software development.)
My biggest worry is that the people behind these scams, like spammers, will hire copywriters who can fool many more people.
Nope. Same as with spam. They need gullible idiots. If the initial pitch is more believable, they'l just waste more time with people of normal intelligence, who might get through a few minutes' of a pitch, but will ultimately balk at giving out all their personal info to a cold caller about their supposed account, or at rushing out to buy a Green Dot card to pay the IRS right now, etc.
That's totally untrue. There's a kind of butterfly which loves to sit on the trunks of birch trees...
At this point, even speciation (in plants) has been directly observed. Too bad the post to which you were responding stated that the Big Bang was never directly observed, not evolution ;-)
You're right about the credit cards, but the inability to discharge a federally-guaranteed student loan is a large part of why the loans are issued at 4-8% instead of the 17-30% that you see on credit cards.
Then why were they issued at low rates for decades before they made non-dischargeable???
Nope! You need to pay them to do that, and there's a limit to how many devices your organization can install apps to. I'm not sure what the limit is for the base plan since I only have ever used the Apple developer program through my employer. But there's a whole process to get a device "provisioned" to be able to run apps you're developing and there's a limit based on your plan with Apple.
If you're in the "enterprise" program for large companies, I'm pretty sure there is no limit on the number of devices to which you can install.
There is a limit to "ad-hoc" installs. But the reasoning there is that those are really only intended for beta testing and so on, not real distribution. If you happen to have a situation where your need to distribute fits under that cap, well then cool for you, but it's not what that part of the program is really meant for.
Agreed, and I'd never do that. I asked it OP was sure that they weren't hardware problems on his own computer and not something more widespread. I did that because I haven't seen any of those problems myself and hadn't heard of them before now.
Fair enough. I've seen them all. On my machine and on clients' and they all started with Mavericks. The last two releases have been awful for stability.
-Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?
Sure, that's easy. Never use a network share. Not ever.
A big point for ios was that it didn't come with a user's manual...
Actually it did come with a guide explaining basic navigation & gestures.
Well, Germans should learn English, as should everyone else.
Yeah, seems to be a lot of people on here who've never been to former west Germany--they pretty much all speak English.
Maybe we just can't afford to do everything that would be nice to do? Health care costs continue to rise exponentially.
ALL COSTS rise exponentially ;-)
And, BTW, the growth of health care costs in the U.S. has actually leveled off a little in recent years. (I imply no claims here about the cause, nor whether this will continue.)
Unlike most loans which have assets (home, car, etc) that can be confiscated a student loan doesn't result in a physical resource but in knowledge held in the students mind which cannot be taken.
Bullshit. You keep posting this tired incorrect argument all over this thread. Most debt discharged in bankruptcy is unsecured. (In fact, if people didn't have unsecured debt, they wouldn't even qualify for bankruptcy.)
How exactly do credit card companies confiscate "assets" from vacations taken and meals eaten out? How exactly do drs and hospitals confiscate medical care previously provided? (Which is one the biggest causes of bankruptcy in this country.) Well of course they can't.
Sheesh. Nothing PV about them. (There are separate PV panels which provide power, but they are completely unrelated to the sail.)
Really. That last sentence proves it. They have no fucking idea what different languages are good for, or not.
I'm not aware of any aircraft larger than a duck that uses this technique...
pGeese, eagles, condors... So there!
No, it wasn't the first, no matter how many capitals you use, Elon.
Oh, bullshit! From the article you linked: The DC-X was never designed to achieve orbital altitudes or velocity, but instead to demonstrate the concept...
They aren't very cost effective for existing homes, but for new construction they can save you tons on money on heating and cooling, giving you up to a 5x multiplier for the energy you put in. All new construction should have them.
1) I've been looking into this recently, and there's something you may not be aware of. There are absolutely VAST differences in what you'd be charged for the same in-ground loop in different areas of the country. Note, there are legitimate big differences in how much the in-ground loop will cost based on your local geology. I'm not talking about that--I'm talking 3-5x differences in pricing for the SAME conditions and type of loop. As you can imagine, that greatly influences whether or not geothermal is a good financial move.
2) Cost effectiveness varies for existing homes. 2.1) I suspect what you were thinking of is that ducting is often undersized wrt to what geothermal needs. (Lower output temps, need to move more air for same heating.) Indeed, if you have to redo your duct work, that's a huge additional expense. But hey, it's always worth checking, because some homes hav eoversized ducts to begin with. 2.2) If you have baseboard (or radiator) heating, you're screwed. You'll never get hot enough water out of a water-to-water geothermal heat pump, not even close. 2.3) But those water-to-water units work great for radiant-floor heat, so if you're already thinking about switching to radiant floors (exactly my situation) then providing your hot water from geothermal can be a great option.
3) There are now some plain old air-to-air heat pumps that keep putting out heat down to -15F, so for areas where winter temps are mostly well above 0F, they can be a good option. Very efficient for 95% of your heating, and not so efficient but still working through a few very cold days.
it's just a battery.. I never understood the tesla fanbois who started claiming that we can power everything with the batteries..
It costs about 1/4 as much as the currently-available alternatives with the same capacity.
The 7KWh pack could work for solar storage but frankly they are not cost effective no storage method is cost effective except maybe hydro storage.
Actually, at a time-of-day cost differential of about $0.22/kWh they are break-even. So, not cost effective in most areas, but very very close. Bump up the peak prices of power in CA a bit, or bring the PowerWall cost down or capacity up a bit, and you're there.
I can see not far in the future DRAM will be replaced with flash. Not some fancy dram+flash combo, just a simple flash storage, since the cpu has enough fast on die already.
That's a horrible idea--flash memory write characteristics just don't match that use at all.