Sorry, I really needed to put that up for discussion. Whenever Akonadi is mentioned I go berserk as I am reminded of stuff like it being a requisite for the standard clock.
To truly hate akonadi, you need to be logging in with $HOME on an nfs mount. And shutting down the box from time to time.
What happens is that KDE issues telinit 6 without waiting for akonadi and mysqld to terminate, which means that your nfs mount is still active at shutdown, so when the system forces the unmount the database is not coherent. Thus you get the dreaded "akonadi could not start" error on next login. Well, that's easy enough to solve by just whiffing $HOME/.local/share/akonadi -- as long as you don't have anything useful stored in there.
Which the KDE team is making harder to do all the time. Good thing the system backs up that akonadi database on a regular basis.
... it's incorporated into a whole-body gaming suit. The old "feeling on the back of the neck" when you're being watched (at least above level 6) and the "something evil this way comes" chill in the 'nads for approaching undead...
Here in Los Angeles, a TV station got ahold of the records, and in most cases, accidents *increase* at camera intersections.
That's a predictable consequence of shortening the yellow interval to generate more revenue.
There's too much potential upside.
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As always, defining the business as though the only question that matters is, "how much can I milk the market for?"
Apparently, the "consumers" are like grass: just an infinite [1] supply of fodder to be exploited, with all the decisions being made for us up the food chain.
[1] I live in the West, and see on a regular basis how infinite that "sea of grass" really wasn't.
"Consensus" seems to be a % vote on the results of THEORY, where 51% is allowed to be defined as calling THEORY = FACT.
I suppose you could define it that way locally, but in general "consensus-driven" processes (for instance standards work) require supermajorities. The ones I'm familiar with start with "2/3 of the votes" and then require that all opposing views be addressed. In extreme cases, it's defined as "no substantive objections," or in other words practically unanimous. The only reason they're not "everyone gets a veto" is because that's just too open to abuse, so you get the "all objections fairly addressed."
Now, the question is how close the "climate science consensus" is to the latter vs. your 50% + 1 vote. Do you have anything to add on that point?
When a bum off the street demands access to the data that was produced by research funded by his tax dollars, he damn well deserves access to it.
Fine idea. In fact, the data sets are publicly available for download from multiple sources. Which raises the fascinating question of "why an FOIA request?"
However, let's assume that sending a letter with an FOIA request by snail mail has some practical merit (or even just satisfies a fetish). Who funds the process of replying? FOIA requires quite a bit of paperwork, if nothing else. "Here are some Google search terms, download it yourself" doesn't cut it. I suppose you could demand that those same tax dollars have a blank check attached for replying to FOIA requests, but if not then you're in "unfunded mandate" territory.
People don't realize that lead is mildly radioactive
That is an important consideration for old computers (prior to 2005 or so.) The newer ones are pretty much lead-free.
Very old processed lead, such as that used for the roofs of some European cathedrals, has been used to build supercomputers since more of the radioactivity has decayed.
Billions of years in the ground, and only a few centuries on the roof and all of the radioactivity is gone! Wow!
I recall reading that in the early solid state memory days, they had problems with this. I don't remember what the solution was, but I thought it was to make the circuit somewhat resilient to it, as it was impossible to get 100% neutral epoxy,
The worst problem was with ceramic DIP packages -- the really good ones for when you needed reliability (partly because the plastic ones tended to allow moisture to get in, and then condensation on thermal cycling.) The standard ceramic packaging material contained trace amounts of thorium, which is an alpha emitter. The alpha bombardment was enough to flip bits.
There have been several fixes since then. Using materials that don't contain radioactive species was one. The one you're probably remembering is that the manufacturers apply a polymer coating to the surface of the die, which is enough to stop a lot of alpha particles and a fair number of electrons. Getting rid of lead in packaging is also good, because lead tends to contain some radioactive traces.
On the other hand, there's flat nothing to be done about cosmic rays and damn little to be done about X-rays and thermal noise (you do keep your memory cold, don't you? Thermal noise is proportional to KT/qe after all.) So at some point we get to where there are too many bits which need minimal energy to flip them -- and then you have errors.
Pity that so few mobos actually support ECC, though.
And where pray tell does he propose to get the necessary water for this project?
From the Colorado River -- Nevada has been trying to get a greater allocation for a long time and this would get the Feds in on their side. Or, of course, there's all the sewage from Las Vegas. Whenever the wind is headed out of state they can just use that for coolant.
I don't pretend to any knowledge on the subject, but wouldn't the Yellowstone Caldera be the picture perfect place for the development of geothermal energy?
Or central New Mexico (the Socorro Seismic Anomaly), where there's another honking huge magma chamber. Or pretty near anywhere in the Cascades, or any of Arizona's volcanic fields, or anywhere near Pacific subduction zone, or...
Transistors in weak inversion have higher higher transconductance/current ratios than transistors in strong inversion do. Using MOS devices in that mode is standard operating practice for a whole host of applications.
Notable among those applications are... wristwatch chips. Eric Vittoz has made a career of this mode of operation. You can't set foot in the subject without running across patents, books, articles -- Hell, probably recipes by him going back 40 years.
It would be a shame if geek-ness was TREATED to eliminate it.
First off, there are plenty of parents who do "treat" autism with shit like Lupron and chelation. It doesn't work, but it's still hell for the victims.
Secondly, a test gets us closer to a root cause and thus less credibility for the "vaccines cause autism" idiots like Andrew Wankfield and Jenny McCarthy -- who have managed to run vaccination rates down enough that measles and mumps are once again endemic in the UK and we're getting large outbreaks in the USA.
Finally, please understand that "geekishness" is at the very shallow end of the autistic spectrum -- at the other end, it's pretty much crippling.
They took a bunch of samples and tested for correlation across the lot. They found some correlations -- which is exactly what they would find if everything was totally random, assuming you ran enough different comparisons.
Validation comes when they take a bunch of blind samples in another set of test subjects and, using this test, try to determine whether the subjects are autistic -- without knowing in advance. If, and only if, that kind of test turns up positive, will it even be worth further study.
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The last thing Ballmer needs is for Apple to define another market that Microsoft doesn't control.
Translation: "Stop buying iPads until we come out with something, or at least until we can get enough press saying that they're not cool any more."
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244250
To truly hate akonadi, you need to be logging in with $HOME on an nfs mount. And shutting down the box from time to time.
What happens is that KDE issues telinit 6 without waiting for akonadi and mysqld to terminate, which means that your nfs mount is still active at shutdown, so when the system forces the unmount the database is not coherent. Thus you get the dreaded "akonadi could not start" error on next login. Well, that's easy enough to solve by just whiffing $HOME/.local/share/akonadi -- as long as you don't have anything useful stored in there.
Which the KDE team is making harder to do all the time. Good thing the system backs up that akonadi database on a regular basis.
Oh, wait ...
... it's incorporated into a whole-body gaming suit. The old "feeling on the back of the neck" when you're being watched (at least above level 6) and the "something evil this way comes" chill in the 'nads for approaching undead ...
No, you can turn off compositing. Unlike akonadi, which already makes KDE unusable.
I wonder how many David Weber has sold on Baen?
That's a predictable consequence of shortening the yellow interval to generate more revenue.
Apparently, the "consumers" are like grass: just an infinite [1] supply of fodder to be exploited, with all the decisions being made for us up the food chain.
[1] I live in the West, and see on a regular basis how infinite that "sea of grass" really wasn't.
I suppose you could define it that way locally, but in general "consensus-driven" processes (for instance standards work) require supermajorities. The ones I'm familiar with start with "2/3 of the votes" and then require that all opposing views be addressed. In extreme cases, it's defined as "no substantive objections," or in other words practically unanimous. The only reason they're not "everyone gets a veto" is because that's just too open to abuse, so you get the "all objections fairly addressed."
Now, the question is how close the "climate science consensus" is to the latter vs. your 50% + 1 vote. Do you have anything to add on that point?
Fine idea. In fact, the data sets are publicly available for download from multiple sources. Which raises the fascinating question of "why an FOIA request?"
However, let's assume that sending a letter with an FOIA request by snail mail has some practical merit (or even just satisfies a fetish). Who funds the process of replying? FOIA requires quite a bit of paperwork, if nothing else. "Here are some Google search terms, download it yourself" doesn't cut it. I suppose you could demand that those same tax dollars have a blank check attached for replying to FOIA requests, but if not then you're in "unfunded mandate" territory.
How do you feel about unfunded mandates?
An HIV researcher's take on the news.
The obvious problem is having a wife and an ex-girlfriend. That's backwards: girlfriend and ex-wife works much better.
That is an important consideration for old computers (prior to 2005 or so.) The newer ones are pretty much lead-free.
Billions of years in the ground, and only a few centuries on the roof and all of the radioactivity is gone! Wow!
The worst problem was with ceramic DIP packages -- the really good ones for when you needed reliability (partly because the plastic ones tended to allow moisture to get in, and then condensation on thermal cycling.) The standard ceramic packaging material contained trace amounts of thorium, which is an alpha emitter. The alpha bombardment was enough to flip bits.
There have been several fixes since then. Using materials that don't contain radioactive species was one. The one you're probably remembering is that the manufacturers apply a polymer coating to the surface of the die, which is enough to stop a lot of alpha particles and a fair number of electrons. Getting rid of lead in packaging is also good, because lead tends to contain some radioactive traces.
On the other hand, there's flat nothing to be done about cosmic rays and damn little to be done about X-rays and thermal noise (you do keep your memory cold, don't you? Thermal noise is proportional to KT/qe after all.) So at some point we get to where there are too many bits which need minimal energy to flip them -- and then you have errors.
Pity that so few mobos actually support ECC, though.
From the Colorado River -- Nevada has been trying to get a greater allocation for a long time and this would get the Feds in on their side. Or, of course, there's all the sewage from Las Vegas. Whenever the wind is headed out of state they can just use that for coolant.
Or central New Mexico (the Socorro Seismic Anomaly), where there's another honking huge magma chamber. Or pretty near anywhere in the Cascades, or any of Arizona's volcanic fields, or anywhere near Pacific subduction zone, or ...
is that unlike wind and solar, it's always on. This makes it much more difficult to explain why it won't meet baseline demand.
is anything to do with discovering your predictive algorithm fails.
Notable among those applications are ... wristwatch chips. Eric Vittoz has made a career of this mode of operation. You can't set foot in the subject without running across patents, books, articles -- Hell, probably recipes by him going back 40 years.
Oh, wait.
No? Even though a biomarker gets us closer to a root cause?
First off, there are plenty of parents who do "treat" autism with shit like Lupron and chelation. It doesn't work, but it's still hell for the victims.
Secondly, a test gets us closer to a root cause and thus less credibility for the "vaccines cause autism" idiots like Andrew Wankfield and Jenny McCarthy -- who have managed to run vaccination rates down enough that measles and mumps are once again endemic in the UK and we're getting large outbreaks in the USA.
Finally, please understand that "geekishness" is at the very shallow end of the autistic spectrum -- at the other end, it's pretty much crippling.
Validation comes when they take a bunch of blind samples in another set of test subjects and, using this test, try to determine whether the subjects are autistic -- without knowing in advance. If, and only if, that kind of test turns up positive, will it even be worth further study.
After all, how many national emergencies have happened in our lifetimes and how long have they lasted?