You know what would be even better? What would be even better is if you didn't need an app to find your own fucking earbuds.
The lack of an earphone jack is one key reason that I'd never buy an iPhone. Mostly I like Apple gear, but this "fuck the users, we'll do what we want" attitude is just unbearable. Branding the "fuck you" attitude as "courage" is even more insulting.
Think of why a maglev train is expensive... Think of the control problem of vehicle suspension at such high speeds. Think of the turning forces. Think of the stopping forces. Think of the turning radii. Think of the dimensional precision necessary for a track that handles 300 mph traffic.
Now double the speed and pack it all into a vacuum tube.
Exactly. It's a fantasy project that will never be built. But the hyperloop whores will never admit that the whole thing is an impractical joke with no chance of success. Mark my words, this thing will never, ever go into production.
I'm not sure maintaining such low pressure all the way down the tube is feasible even for LA-San Francisco, let alone interstate distances.
It's not feasible.
The whole hyperloop thing is a circle-jerking load of bullshit that will never be built. Maintaining any significant vacuum in such enormous spaces is extremely difficult. Mark my words, it's pie-in-the-sky bullshit and it will never go into production, nor will it ever be used in any practical manner (especially not for transporting people).
Those were the good old days... when setting the all the IRQ, IO port, DMA and address jumpers for the the expansion cards in a decked-out PC was like solving a soduku puzzle.
Good times.....I used a plug-in card called the Discovery Card to wrestle with IRQs. Best gadget ever back then...it had a bunch of LEDs that would light to help you determine what IRQ was in use for a given slot.
I've still got it in a drawer but there's nothing with ISA slots still around that you could plug it into.
"Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error"
No, it's just as deadly as it always was, it's just being measured more accurately now. The perception of the mortality value changed, but nothing else.
The headline would have you believe that scientists changed a physical property of the universe because they moved a decimal point or something.
Why do you feel the need to look down your nose at them?
I'm not, but if that's how you want to interpret it, that's fine.
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I think you're not as confident about your life situation as you are trying to pretend to be.
No pretending here, I feel very fortunate to have spent most of my life in the PNW and I have no real complaints. Different strokes for different folks.
Now I could spout off about how I cannot comprehend how someone would want to live in a place where the housing is cheap because it mostly sucks there, but I won't.
You won't? Because you just did.
Anyway, like I said in my original post, if you feel some dire need to live in a place with a reputation for being trendy and popular then be prepared to pay dearly for it. If you want to spend a huge chunk of your income to live in a specific place, feel free, I'm not stopping you.
Not lately. Usually it doesn't rain at all (not a drop) between April and November, not even in San Francisco.
I've been there a ton of times over the last 25+ years and the weather has been fine about 95% of the time. When it's warm it's not too warm, and when it's cool it's just that- cool, not cold.
I'd be the first one to say that the weather there on the whole is great, I wish we had weather like that here in the Northwest.
You're a liar. You've never actually been to San Francisco.
My first trip there was probably while you were still in diapers. My last trip was about 3 weeks ago. You may still have been in diapers. But the weather was okay while I was there. Some hotel on Eddy street caught fire that night, I could almost see it from the 25th floor of the Parc 55 Hilton where I was staying.
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Also, why do you think it's worth your time to pontificate on why you don't understand why someone else likes something that you don't?
I spend my time as I see fit, and I've no need to explain or justify it to you.:)
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I mean if you're really "just another old guy" surely you've gathered enough wisdom in your time on earth to realize that a lot of different people like a lot of different things,
I've surely gathered enough wisdom in my time on Earth to realize that people like you will whine about anyone that doesn't fit your preconceived notions of how other people should behave.
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and if you can't understand why someone likes something, the reason is probably NOT because they are deluded
But it might be, and frequently is. You'd be surprised what peer pressure and prevailing opinions can make people do. I'll bet you wear the same exact style of clothes as all your peers or buddies or whatever, amirite? It's because you want to be different, just like everyone else.
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I think your entire post was just to make yourself fell better about your house payment. That's how it reads anyway.
Oh sonny, I don't need you being all angsty to make me feel wonderful about my offensively low house payment, that just comes naturally every time I look at rental prices in San Francisco: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/s...
I mean, who wouldn't swoon at getting 720 whole square feet of 'living' space for only $3490 a month? Or $6800 a month for 1165 square feet? Hell, my rec room is almost that big. Or $9500 for 2500 square feet- that's about the size of my place but at ten times the cost and that's for renting, not owning.
That's kind of the point of freedom of movement, isn't it?
Sure, but unless you're making a shitload of money that "freedom" only works one way, which is "moving farther and farther away until you can afford to live".
As for me, I'll continue to live happily in Seattle where my house payment is about 1/4 of what some crappy little 600 square foot apartment near San Francisco costs.
I've been to San Francisco many, many times over the last 30 years and I've never understood why so many people want to live there. It's crowded, noisy, and expensive.
If I had to guess why so many people want to live there I'd have to say it's because they've been told that "everyone wants to live there" - that it's the cool place to be.
As far as I'm concerned it's one of the most expensive and impractical places to live that I've ever seen (and I've traveled the US extensively).
Yes, the weather is generally nice, but there are quite a few places with nice weather. Yes they have a good nightlife and culture, but so do lots of other places.
FFS, San Francisco is not the center of the universe. If you feel some dire need to live in a place with a reputation for being trendy and popular, be prepared to pay out the ass for it.
Most of the people living in craptastic little studio apartments in San Francisco are paying double what my house payment is, sometimes triple. I hope that whatever you're getting for that money is worth it.
"the current Critical Patch Update, released this week, which included a whopping 270 security fixes,"
Remember when Java was touted as the super-secure language that was supposed to be nearly impossible to exploit? I do.
It was gonna be the "write-once, compile anywhere" language that was going to make all other languages obsolete. It was basically going to take over the world and *everything* was going to be written in Java, "Everything, you'll see!" they said.It was going to be the Uber Language for all time, the Final Solution.
Oh, the Java early adopters sneered at anyone who didn't jump on the Java Train and they kept crowing about how it was going to be the end of sloppy programming and uncertain coding, and vulnerable executables would be a thing of the past...
I didn't believe it then and I (obviously) don't believe it now.
Like I said, this is rarely a problem in practice.
In some languages it never happens at all, ever, which frankly seems like a good thing to me.
And why should it- it's called "whitepace" for a reason, and that generally means it shouldn't matter. Why should a missing (or extra) space crash your program?
If you like whitespace so much, why not program in it?
It's true that a bad copy and paste or accidentally deleting some spaces in the wrong place can break things badly and potentially lead to subtle bugs.
Well there's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one.
I prefer {} instead of tabs/spaces to define my code blocks. It's the only part of Python I don't like.
Same here. I confess I like the "syntactical sugar" of curly braces. I think it improves readability by an order of magnitude. The whole deal with using whitespace as code block delimiters seems retarded to me.
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Wow, an app to help you find your earbuds!
You know what would be even better? What would be even better is if you didn't need an app to find your own fucking earbuds.
The lack of an earphone jack is one key reason that I'd never buy an iPhone. Mostly I like Apple gear, but this "fuck the users, we'll do what we want" attitude is just unbearable. Branding the "fuck you" attitude as "courage" is even more insulting.
"He says that Microsoft is failing to respect the decisions made by users"
I simply cannot believe that a giant, greedy, faceless, amoral corporation like Microsoft would pay so little attention to what their users want.
Gosh, it's almost like they were fibbing...
Alternate facts are doubleplusgood for those who use it. Remember: we have always been at war with Eurasia.
And don't forget, "Arbeit macht frei". That's doubledoubleplusgood.
Think of why a maglev train is expensive...
Think of the control problem of vehicle suspension at such high speeds.
Think of the turning forces.
Think of the stopping forces.
Think of the turning radii.
Think of the dimensional precision necessary for a track that handles 300 mph traffic.
Now double the speed and pack it all into a vacuum tube.
Exactly. It's a fantasy project that will never be built. But the hyperloop whores will never admit that the whole thing is an impractical joke with no chance of success. Mark my words, this thing will never, ever go into production.
I'm not sure maintaining such low pressure all the way down the tube is feasible even for LA-San Francisco, let alone interstate distances.
It's not feasible.
The whole hyperloop thing is a circle-jerking load of bullshit that will never be built. Maintaining any significant vacuum in such enormous spaces is extremely difficult. Mark my words, it's pie-in-the-sky bullshit and it will never go into production, nor will it ever be used in any practical manner (especially not for transporting people).
Can cloud backups be encrypted by local server infection of ransomeware?
The short answer is "yes".
If it's not literally offline (disconnected) then it's susceptible to corruption, period.
I keep three sets of backup drives, rotating through them periodically with the last two drives stored in a safety deposit box at a local bank.
COM1 and COM3 both shared IRQ4.
That triggered me into a hideous flashback. I must go lay down on my fainting couch now....
Those were the good old days... when setting the all the IRQ, IO port, DMA and address jumpers for the the expansion cards in a decked-out PC was like solving a soduku puzzle.
Good times.....I used a plug-in card called the Discovery Card to wrestle with IRQs. Best gadget ever back then...it had a bunch of LEDs that would light to help you determine what IRQ was in use for a given slot.
I've still got it in a drawer but there's nothing with ISA slots still around that you could plug it into.
"Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error"
No, it's just as deadly as it always was, it's just being measured more accurately now. The perception of the mortality value changed, but nothing else.
The headline would have you believe that scientists changed a physical property of the universe because they moved a decimal point or something.
Why do you feel the need to look down your nose at them?
I'm not, but if that's how you want to interpret it, that's fine.
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I think you're not as confident about your life situation as you are trying to pretend to be.
No pretending here, I feel very fortunate to have spent most of my life in the PNW and I have no real complaints. Different strokes for different folks.
Now I could spout off about how I cannot comprehend how someone would want to live in a place where the housing is cheap because it mostly sucks there, but I won't.
You won't? Because you just did.
Anyway, like I said in my original post, if you feel some dire need to live in a place with a reputation for being trendy and popular then be prepared to pay dearly for it. If you want to spend a huge chunk of your income to live in a specific place, feel free, I'm not stopping you.
It takes a special kind of asshole to attack a library; a place where people go to learn and access the internet.
^^^^^^^^^^THIS.
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Why go after one of the poorest resources and attack those that have the least to give?
Because the people that do this are scumbag losers without a shred of self-awareness. Sadly, some people just like to break things and fuck shit up.
This is an IRQ conflict... they should move the headset to COM1 and the cellular modem to COM3.
It might also be that QEMM is causing a conflict.
Not lately. Usually it doesn't rain at all (not a drop) between April and November, not even in San Francisco.
I've been there a ton of times over the last 25+ years and the weather has been fine about 95% of the time. When it's warm it's not too warm, and when it's cool it's just that- cool, not cold.
I'd be the first one to say that the weather there on the whole is great, I wish we had weather like that here in the Northwest.
You're a liar. You've never actually been to San Francisco.
My first trip there was probably while you were still in diapers. My last trip was about 3 weeks ago. You may still have been in diapers. But the weather was okay while I was there. Some hotel on Eddy street caught fire that night, I could almost see it from the 25th floor of the Parc 55 Hilton where I was staying.
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Also, why do you think it's worth your time to pontificate on why you don't understand why someone else likes something that you don't?
I spend my time as I see fit, and I've no need to explain or justify it to you. :)
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I mean if you're really "just another old guy" surely you've gathered enough wisdom in your time on earth to realize that a lot of different people like a lot of different things,
I've surely gathered enough wisdom in my time on Earth to realize that people like you will whine about anyone that doesn't fit your preconceived notions of how other people should behave.
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and if you can't understand why someone likes something, the reason is probably NOT because they are deluded
But it might be, and frequently is. You'd be surprised what peer pressure and prevailing opinions can make people do. I'll bet you wear the same exact style of clothes as all your peers or buddies or whatever, amirite? It's because you want to be different, just like everyone else.
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I think your entire post was just to make yourself fell better about your house payment. That's how it reads anyway.
Oh sonny, I don't need you being all angsty to make me feel wonderful about my offensively low house payment, that just comes naturally every time I look at rental prices in San Francisco: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/s...
I mean, who wouldn't swoon at getting 720 whole square feet of 'living' space for only $3490 a month? Or $6800 a month for 1165 square feet? Hell, my rec room is almost that big. Or $9500 for 2500 square feet- that's about the size of my place but at ten times the cost and that's for renting, not owning.
That's kind of the point of freedom of movement, isn't it?
Sure, but unless you're making a shitload of money that "freedom" only works one way, which is "moving farther and farther away until you can afford to live".
As for me, I'll continue to live happily in Seattle where my house payment is about 1/4 of what some crappy little 600 square foot apartment near San Francisco costs.
I've been to San Francisco many, many times over the last 30 years and I've never understood why so many people want to live there. It's crowded, noisy, and expensive.
If I had to guess why so many people want to live there I'd have to say it's because they've been told that "everyone wants to live there" - that it's the cool place to be.
As far as I'm concerned it's one of the most expensive and impractical places to live that I've ever seen (and I've traveled the US extensively).
Yes, the weather is generally nice, but there are quite a few places with nice weather. Yes they have a good nightlife and culture, but so do lots of other places.
FFS, San Francisco is not the center of the universe. If you feel some dire need to live in a place with a reputation for being trendy and popular, be prepared to pay out the ass for it.
Most of the people living in craptastic little studio apartments in San Francisco are paying double what my house payment is, sometimes triple. I hope that whatever you're getting for that money is worth it.
I assume you don't bother with indentation at all, right?
You assume incorrectly.
I love indenting; it's near and dear to my heart. In fact sometimes all I do is indent without actually writing any code.
"the current Critical Patch Update, released this week, which included a whopping 270 security fixes,"
Remember when Java was touted as the super-secure language that was supposed to be nearly impossible to exploit? I do.
It was gonna be the "write-once, compile anywhere" language that was going to make all other languages obsolete. It was basically going to take over the world and *everything* was going to be written in Java, "Everything, you'll see!" they said.It was going to be the Uber Language for all time, the Final Solution.
Oh, the Java early adopters sneered at anyone who didn't jump on the Java Train and they kept crowing about how it was going to be the end of sloppy programming and uncertain coding, and vulnerable executables would be a thing of the past...
I didn't believe it then and I (obviously) don't believe it now.
Like I said, this is rarely a problem in practice.
In some languages it never happens at all, ever, which frankly seems like a good thing to me.
And why should it- it's called "whitepace" for a reason, and that generally means it shouldn't matter. Why should a missing (or extra) space crash your program?
If you like whitespace so much, why not program in it?
Whitespace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Whitespace
Unispace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Unispace
The language that's easy to read is the one you know well.
That may be, but I admit I find syntactic sugar like braces and semicolons help me significantly in visualizing the code blocks, functions, etc.
I get calls daily from shitbags promising "0 percent interest rates" and would love to hunt them down and administer a fatal ass-kicking.
First they want to know what kind of card, then the expiration date, and then they want the whole card number to "verify" my credit history.
Usually I fuck with them and waste their time, but what I'd really like to do is mount one or more of their heads on a spike outside my home.
It's true that a bad copy and paste or accidentally deleting some spaces in the wrong place can break things badly and potentially lead to subtle bugs.
Well there's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one.
I prefer {} instead of tabs/spaces to define my code blocks. It's the only part of Python I don't like.
Same here. I confess I like the "syntactical sugar" of curly braces. I think it improves readability by an order of magnitude. The whole deal with using whitespace as code block delimiters seems retarded to me.