This really makes me wish it was the norm for employers to provide standing desks. It seems like the evidence is mounting that traditional desks are killing us.
There is absolutely zero evidence that standing desks are any better. And they cause their own set of problems.
I'm not sure it would be a bad thing for OSHA to require employers to provide adjustable desks for office workers.
So, because you're not sure it would be a bad thing, they should do it???
When the Black man does it, everyone starts screaming bloody murder.
Bingo!
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Well Mac OS X doesn't kill applications when you press the "close" button, it only kills/detaches/hides/whatever the window So I think what he thinks is residual inactive memory is probably used memory from any "closed" application.
Actually, there's some weird stuff going on in Yosemite.
1) They now name the per-page webkit processes with the url of the page. So if you look at your processes, you can see which pages are hogging CPU and/or RAM. You'll also see that in many cases, long after you close a page, the process is still running.
2) Starting way back, I noticed that when you close a document in Preview, the file is still kept open by preview. But in Yosemite it's worse, fucking *quit* Preview, then run lsof, and you'll see the files still open in some preview process.
Also, an unused application with all windows closed should not slow down the machine. Prior to Mavericks I would have stated "will not", but now I have to say "should not, but may well do so, considering how badly Apple seems to have fucked up the performance of virtual memory."
And, WTF is "slugginesh"? If you meant sluggishness, try rebooting.
He may be referring to Mavericks/Yosemite. They've fucked up something with virtual memory, so if you run memory-intensive apps things get slower & slower, regardless of whether the apps have memory leaks or not.
There also seems to be something wrong with the window server, such that it is prone to sluggishness, confusion, and ultimately locking up.
The only time I get sluggishness is when poorly written apps don't exit well and leave residual inactive memory allocations.
What exactly is a "residual inactive memory allocation"??? Oh, that's right, there is no such thing--it's just a phrase you pulled out of your ass to shift blame for an OS bug which you do not understand onto apps. It's a UNIX variant, app quits, allocated memory is reclaimed.
I've got a nice reproducible case here--memory-intensive command-line utility dealing with image data, run it once it takes 1.5 minutes, run it a second time, it takes 2.5 minutes. No shared memory or semaphores or anything exotic, just malloc, use memory, free memory, exit.
i like messing with Joe from "The windows corporation". last time he called i wasn't even sitting at a computer and tried to see how long i could play along with them. even described the event viewer screen to them from memory so they could verify i was on the right screen. Only hung up on them because i ran out of time and had to go somewhere.
I've considered firing up a VM and going along until the point where they want money, then saying "nah, I think I'll just delete this VM image instead";-)
you know you can hang up on them at any time. you don't have to listen to their sales pitch.
I usually do, immediately. But every once in a while if I'm bored, or like in this case they're taking a novel approach, I just want to see how far they will go.
Sort of like the shouting/cursing match with Joe from "the Windows Corporation" who wanted to alert me to my virus problem and help me solve it;-) Seriously, after multiple calls per day for a while from different numbers, I decided to see how much abuse those scammers would take before giving up, and it turns out that if you don't hang up they'll just keep going, no matter what you say. (And, FYI, I opened with "I understand how this scam works"!)
Report them to http://donotcall.gov/ [donotcall.gov] anyway.
Oh, I did. He called at a time when I was totally fed up with people ignoring the do-not-call list, and he added to my frustration by refusing to take "no" for an answer and getting borderline belligerent.
I've already had cold sales calls (from a person, not a robocall) where they ask for a non-existent person, I tell them they have a wrong number, and they launch into "oh, I'm sorry, but as long as I've got you on the phone, let me tell about the great deal we're offering on replacement windows..."
It's just that the pacing and tone of voice made it clear to me that the whole thing was scripted in advance to go that way, that the "oops, sorry, wrong number" was simply a lie told in the hopes that I would not report them for violating the do not call list.
just answer with "it looks like you have cancer and should get it checked" or "i may be non-impaired, but i can't identify things that small without a microscope"
Or "oh god, oh I'm so sorry, just a second, OK, I'll be OK, oh god BLAAAWAAAUUURRRRRRGH!"
How f'ing dumb are they? They must've worked at M$ before the NSA.
NOTHING in the article says that it actually worked, and in fact there is NO FUCKING WAY the NSA is going to say one way or another. If the answer is not in the files Snowden took, we'll never know for sure. (But I rather suspect that it did not work.)
The only unequivocal point is that they did surrender. If they had truly believed in fighting until the last Japanese person died in a ditch, they would have.
No, it is not the only unequivocal point. There are records of the high command's meetings.
Not really responding to the overarching point of your post, but the consensus of the allied commanders at the time of the A-bomb attacks was that Japan was ready to surrender very soon, if not immediately, and that if a ground invasion even proved necessary, Japan would fold immediately.
Bullshit. After the first bomb the military command was unanimous that they should continue fighting. After the second bomb they were divided. After Stalin declared war on them from the northern front, they surrendered. "Ready to surrender very soon" my ass. It took two atomic bombs, an impending invasion by the US from the south, and an impending invasion from the USSR from the north to convince them to surrender.
Can you name one? Being an immigrant myself I have not heard of this so called foreign companies sending folks here to study so that they can misuse them later. DO you know of any specific cases where that has happened. If you do than I will back you to complain USCIS about such illegal practices and have it stopped.
1) You can't complain about it to anyone because there's absolutely nothing illegal about it. And yes, somewhere around here I have a (virtual) pile of the resumes.
2) Just advertise a paid internship on MonsterTrak (now MonsterCollege I guess)--you'll be flooded with lame-ass resumes from students at these "colleges". They're really distinctive: limited coursework in C# or SQL Server, work experience that's a joke, and a "thesis" subject that might pass muster for a high-school AP class but is not even remotely appropriate for master's level work.
you're...you're claiming that employers are laying out large sums of money to set up diploma mills to intentionally hire foreign nationals?
Actually, no, that's not what I was claiming--sorry about being too brief. What happens, currently, is that the Indian body shops send them here for a degree, then bring them back to India, and then tell prospective clients that "x% of our programmers hold master's degrees from US colleges." So it's not US employers spending large sums of money in order to hire foreign nationals, it's foreign companies spending middling sums of money to find yet one more way to deceive clients about their capabilities and competence. Anyway, my point was that the mills are already here.
the Dept. of Homeland Security has a pretty high standard on what they deem a valid higher ed institution. they rely on AACRAO standards [aacrao.org] in their determinations. that weeds out a lot of the diploma mills.
And, if this no-cap on advanced degrees passes, just watch the next logical step unfold--legislation removing the accreditation standards. Bet on it:-(
Why don't you link one or two of these diploma mills? I might as well go get my masters degree so I can compete on equal footing with the H1bs.
I don't remember the names. I advertised paid internship positions on MonsterTrak (now MonsterCollege), and kept getting these resumes, from second-year master's candidates, with experience that would be more appropriate for a bright high-school student, and names that made the ethnicity obvious. Then later I read about the diploma mills, and recognized what had happened.
Great. It's bad enough that the Indian body shops have set up diploma mills in the US handing out master's degrees for a little C# work and writing some database queries so that they can brag "x% of our programmers earned master's degrees in the US". Now that bullshit will get them around the H1-B cap as well.
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Beginners. I would suggest vanilla BASIC, at GCSE level (~15 years old)
Excellent advice, for a programming course intended to taught in the 1960s and maybe 1970s.
Hopelessly outdated advice for the 1980s and on.
Such an antiquated concept...
True. I should have written "Uhm, in order to receive SnapChats?" ;-)
Why does your phone have to be on all the time anyway?
Uhm, in order to receive calls???
This really makes me wish it was the norm for employers to provide standing desks. It seems like the evidence is mounting that traditional desks are killing us.
There is absolutely zero evidence that standing desks are any better. And they cause their own set of problems.
I'm not sure it would be a bad thing for OSHA to require employers to provide adjustable desks for office workers.
So, because you're not sure it would be a bad thing, they should do it???
What am I supposed to do about this?
Question the studies and the motivation behind their being pushed so hard ;-)
Question why studies that reach contrary conclusions get no publicity.
Question why, even though there is absolutely zero evidence that stationary standing is better for you, standing desks are being pushed so hard.
Then go for a run.
But are you sure your issue is related to virtual memory and not to the CPU clocking itself down because of heat.
Good question. 99% sure.
When the Black man does it, everyone starts screaming bloody murder.
Bingo!
Well Mac OS X doesn't kill applications when you press the "close" button, it only kills/detaches/hides/whatever the window
So I think what he thinks is residual inactive memory is probably used memory from any "closed" application.
Actually, there's some weird stuff going on in Yosemite.
1) They now name the per-page webkit processes with the url of the page. So if you look at your processes, you can see which pages are hogging CPU and/or RAM. You'll also see that in many cases, long after you close a page, the process is still running.
2) Starting way back, I noticed that when you close a document in Preview, the file is still kept open by preview. But in Yosemite it's worse, fucking *quit* Preview, then run lsof, and you'll see the files still open in some preview process.
Also, an unused application with all windows closed should not slow down the machine. Prior to Mavericks I would have stated "will not", but now I have to say "should not, but may well do so, considering how badly Apple seems to have fucked up the performance of virtual memory."
And, WTF is "slugginesh"? If you meant sluggishness, try rebooting.
He may be referring to Mavericks/Yosemite. They've fucked up something with virtual memory, so if you run memory-intensive apps things get slower & slower, regardless of whether the apps have memory leaks or not.
There also seems to be something wrong with the window server, such that it is prone to sluggishness, confusion, and ultimately locking up.
The only time I get sluggishness is when poorly written apps don't exit well and leave residual inactive memory allocations.
What exactly is a "residual inactive memory allocation"??? Oh, that's right, there is no such thing--it's just a phrase you pulled out of your ass to shift blame for an OS bug which you do not understand onto apps. It's a UNIX variant, app quits, allocated memory is reclaimed.
I've got a nice reproducible case here--memory-intensive command-line utility dealing with image data, run it once it takes 1.5 minutes, run it a second time, it takes 2.5 minutes. No shared memory or semaphores or anything exotic, just malloc, use memory, free memory, exit.
i like messing with Joe from "The windows corporation". last time he called i wasn't even sitting at a computer and tried to see how long i could play along with them. even described the event viewer screen to them from memory so they could verify i was on the right screen. Only hung up on them because i ran out of time and had to go somewhere.
I've considered firing up a VM and going along until the point where they want money, then saying "nah, I think I'll just delete this VM image instead" ;-)
I will debate any statist on any argument whatsoever...
And yet, you posted anonymously, thus destroying your own credibility.
you know you can hang up on them at any time. you don't have to listen to their sales pitch.
I usually do, immediately. But every once in a while if I'm bored, or like in this case they're taking a novel approach, I just want to see how far they will go.
Sort of like the shouting/cursing match with Joe from "the Windows Corporation" who wanted to alert me to my virus problem and help me solve it ;-) Seriously, after multiple calls per day for a while from different numbers, I decided to see how much abuse those scammers would take before giving up, and it turns out that if you don't hang up they'll just keep going, no matter what you say. (And, FYI, I opened with "I understand how this scam works"!)
Report them to http://donotcall.gov/ [donotcall.gov] anyway.
Oh, I did. He called at a time when I was totally fed up with people ignoring the do-not-call list, and he added to my frustration by refusing to take "no" for an answer and getting borderline belligerent.
I've already had cold sales calls (from a person, not a robocall) where they ask for a non-existent person, I tell them they have a wrong number, and they launch into "oh, I'm sorry, but as long as I've got you on the phone, let me tell about the great deal we're offering on replacement windows..."
It's just that the pacing and tone of voice made it clear to me that the whole thing was scripted in advance to go that way, that the "oops, sorry, wrong number" was simply a lie told in the hopes that I would not report them for violating the do not call list.
just answer with "it looks like you have cancer and should get it checked" or "i may be non-impaired, but i can't identify things that small without a microscope"
Or "oh god, oh I'm so sorry, just a second, OK, I'll be OK, oh god BLAAAWAAAUUURRRRRRGH!"
How f'ing dumb are they? They must've worked at M$ before the NSA.
NOTHING in the article says that it actually worked, and in fact there is NO FUCKING WAY the NSA is going to say one way or another. If the answer is not in the files Snowden took, we'll never know for sure. (But I rather suspect that it did not work.)
Yes... I'm very cynical about human nature; I think it's unfortunately very likely some impaired person will be taken advantage of by some scumbag.
More likely, the non-impaired volunteers are going to be asked to describe an awful lot of penises...
The only unequivocal point is that they did surrender. If they had truly believed in fighting until the last Japanese person died in a ditch, they would have.
No, it is not the only unequivocal point. There are records of the high command's meetings.
Not really responding to the overarching point of your post, but the consensus of the allied commanders at the time of the A-bomb attacks was that Japan was ready to surrender very soon, if not immediately, and that if a ground invasion even proved necessary, Japan would fold immediately.
Bullshit. After the first bomb the military command was unanimous that they should continue fighting. After the second bomb they were divided. After Stalin declared war on them from the northern front, they surrendered. "Ready to surrender very soon" my ass. It took two atomic bombs, an impending invasion by the US from the south, and an impending invasion from the USSR from the north to convince them to surrender.
Can you name one? Being an immigrant myself I have not heard of this so called foreign companies sending folks here to study so that they can misuse them later. DO you know of any specific cases where that has happened. If you do than I will back you to complain USCIS about such illegal practices and have it stopped.
1) You can't complain about it to anyone because there's absolutely nothing illegal about it. And yes, somewhere around here I have a (virtual) pile of the resumes.
2) Just advertise a paid internship on MonsterTrak (now MonsterCollege I guess)--you'll be flooded with lame-ass resumes from students at these "colleges". They're really distinctive: limited coursework in C# or SQL Server, work experience that's a joke, and a "thesis" subject that might pass muster for a high-school AP class but is not even remotely appropriate for master's level work.
you're...you're claiming that employers are laying out large sums of money to set up diploma mills to intentionally hire foreign nationals?
Actually, no, that's not what I was claiming--sorry about being too brief. What happens, currently, is that the Indian body shops send them here for a degree, then bring them back to India, and then tell prospective clients that "x% of our programmers hold master's degrees from US colleges." So it's not US employers spending large sums of money in order to hire foreign nationals, it's foreign companies spending middling sums of money to find yet one more way to deceive clients about their capabilities and competence. Anyway, my point was that the mills are already here.
the Dept. of Homeland Security has a pretty high standard on what they deem a valid higher ed institution. they rely on AACRAO standards [aacrao.org] in their determinations. that weeds out a lot of the diploma mills.
And, if this no-cap on advanced degrees passes, just watch the next logical step unfold--legislation removing the accreditation standards. Bet on it :-(
Why don't you link one or two of these diploma mills? I might as well go get my masters degree so I can compete on equal footing with the H1bs.
I don't remember the names. I advertised paid internship positions on MonsterTrak (now MonsterCollege), and kept getting these resumes, from second-year master's candidates, with experience that would be more appropriate for a bright high-school student, and names that made the ethnicity obvious. Then later I read about the diploma mills, and recognized what had happened.
...except that's not what the law says. it's an advanced STEM degree from a U.S. institution. to qualify for the H-1B cap exemption...
The Indian body shops already have set up diploma mills in the US to rubber-stamp master's degrees.
Great. It's bad enough that the Indian body shops have set up diploma mills in the US handing out master's degrees for a little C# work and writing some database queries so that they can brag "x% of our programmers earned master's degrees in the US". Now that bullshit will get them around the H1-B cap as well.
Well, much like dish soap, concentrated bullshit is better than regular-strength bullshit!