Yep. I'd be way more worried about the other way around, where someone in the future tries to remove their history from Twitter. Fortunately, that shit is going straight to the Library of Congress.
Besides, social media is like a honeypot for haters. Go look at any politician's feed... any POTUS or candidate or even game developer or corporation's Facebook page... Almost every comment is someone whining about them. In the old days of websites you'd try to moderate your blog comment stream, but nowadays they've more or less given up trying to filter out negative commenters... anyone who matters to them doesn't spend time reading the comment stream. And the haters feel like they have an "outlet" to post their negativity on someone's page where they can have a nice circle jerk with all of the other haters in plain view. I bet it comes in handy having a straightforward list of your haters collected right from your own social media stream available to you anytime into the future. Sounds very useful, especially for power-crazy political types.
The fridge is one thing... but I think this is a valid concern with the freezer. The most efficient freezers are the deep-freezer tubs that open from the top. Not really sure why more refrigerator units aren't really designed to use this... I've seen some fancy expensive ones where they put the freezer on the bottom, but even when they slide out they let all the cold go wandering.
But whatever. I'm looking forwards to the days where we all just live in high-rises above the grocery stores, and we just have little robotic mini-fridges that get stocked on demand from the stores below automatically via a series of tubes.
I'm still bitter that I only made it to Silicon in Atomas (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirnic.atomas&hl=en)... I suppose it'll be a long time before these new entries make any impact there...
1) Recovery is only possible on launches where there's enough capacity left over to compensate for the altitude/velocity of the stage at separation (it's not a simple mass issue, lighter payloads that need more delta-V end up with the first stage moving faster than heavy / low delta-V payloads).
Actually, tell me more about this! They had previously been trying to recover their first stage rockets by landing them on the sea platforms, which is understandably much harder. Has SpaceX given up on this? Or did they just backpedal a bit and send up enough extra fuel during this last launch to return to the launch site just to keep Blue Origin from sucking up the limelight and snagging a relatively "easy" stationary pad landing? Not a bad move, considering the past two failed attempts at a sea landing, but it'll still be interesting to see how hard they push the sea landing attempts in the future.
Here's one of the heavily-citationed "conspiracy theory" sites that also does a good job piecing together and presenting the story: http://stormcloudsgathering.co...
TL;DR: ISIS is doing 'Murrica's work with 'Murrican weapons. They're just the latest in a long chain of manipulated boogeymen. This is really the only practical way to drag democracies into foreign wars to keep the non-Western economies down and keep the US$ propped up as the only currency for the international oil market.
I actually take some comfort in this, because it does a great job explaining how we're #winning.
You're supposed to pre-wash the dishes to prevent food scraps blocking the machine. One reason I think dishwashers are useless.
Ugh, actually, I've heard someone claim that you're supposed to leave some food on the plates because modern dishwashers/detergent can target them with enzymes, and if you wash the food off first they can't do their magic.
I have to admit it's a cool idea, and gives me all of 2 seconds of pause while I wipe my plates down before tossing them in.
^^ This, and also the whole electric car explosion. Um... NOT pun intended, but apropos considering what would happen if we really started to increase our electrical power infrastructure to support this without more knowledgable EEs adept at transforming and inverting and conducting higher-energy electrical components around the increasingly distributed power grid.
And I realized that Agile is not for developers, but for managers. In other words, it's not designed to help developers, but to make money out of managers.
Oh, perhaps that's the version of "agile" that your managers pushed on you. Agile as specified by the original gang of four had lots of protections for developers. I can understand why most managers end up throwing all that stuff out.
* Developers are the only ones allowed to estimate the size and dependencies for each task. * The business side is only represented by the Product Owner, and they're really only allowed to interact with developers during sprint planning and a bit during sprint retrospective. They can insert and prioritize tasks in the backlog, but they are not allowed to put in more work than the developers have estimated that they can finish during the sprint cycle. * The Scrum Master is more of a mother to the team, keeping time, keeping score, and making sure all of their needs are met so they can be productive. This means breaking down blockers, shielding them from external stakeholders, the Product Owner, management, useless meetings, angry spouses, requirements and schedule changes (the sprint backlog CANNOT be changed once set in motion, the only proper abort sequence is to just cancel everything and give everyone the rest of the spint off), hunger, personal demons, indecisiveness, sexual urges, dirty laundry, etc. so developers can fully focus on their task in progress and keep their velocity up. * Developers are really left with only two responsibilities, which are admittedly extremely difficult for most nerds:
1) accurately estimate the size of each task (experience and collaboration are key)
2) get the tasks they've committed to completed during the sprint without getting distracted by OOOH SHINY! And of course there's reporting on blockers during standup, but that's, like, the least important part of agile that everyone seems to fixate on.
-- someone who had some CSM training way back when And yes, Ops and therefore DevOps is way different, much more schedule and exploration and interrupt-driven. That's why they tend to use the simpler planning-less Kanban-style stuff.
Yep, this. And those programmers will only be writing a handful of malformed TDD test cases and toss them over the fence to a foreign shop to search stackexchange for random bits of code that makes those test cases pass without much understanding of what the original problem was.
This could work in the Middle East's favor... If they terrorize Western Governments into mandatory encryption backdoors for all communications, all of the multinational corporations are going to have to move their trade secret data centers and business transactions elsewhere. Sensitive business will be conducted in countries that allow strong encryption, and are have lots of shrewd businessmen... which sounds like what many countries in the ME are setting themselves up for.
This has happened before.... jews are pretty prominent in business and banking because most countries didn't allow them to own land, and for ages christians and muslims were forbidden to charge interest on loans. This created conditions that practically handed the entire middleman and long distance transaction business to jews. Perhaps... perhaps the Middle East, longing for the old days when they were a business empire powerhouse, has become desperate to find a niche to diversify their economy in the coming post-oil production years, and this may be a way to carve themselves a competitive business advantage on the world stage again.
Yeah, I see it as such a waste. It's amazing how well that groups like al-quaida and ISIS can motivate people to give themselves completely to their tasks. The world could be such a wonderful place if we could only figure out how to harness their talents to recruit fanatics for al-jebra and other pursuits.
Is browsing Slashdot a requirement? Even my main gaming machine struggles with/. nowadays... Each Slashdot tab in Chrome consumes over 2GB of RAM, so having a few discussions open brings my machine to its knees. This happening to anyone else? Or is there something I have to update in Chrome's embedded flash player?:P
Yep, I still have an old EeePC901 running Linux Mint from an SD card. It's connected to my kids' Casio digital piano, so it can record and playback using Rosegarden. It's a bit too sluggish for web browsing or other music software such as LMMS, but most else is fine.
My current server system is still a shoebox nVidia ION box with 4GB RAM and an SSD, which makes it snappy enough for web browsing with Chromium in addition to its server duties. I bought it from Craigslist a while ago to replace my tower, and it's much better with power usage for 24x7 operation. The last guy who had it was trying to turn it into a HTPC, but I guess that endeavor didn't go great.
I have a $85 HP Stream 7 running Windows 10... it's actually quite nice once you get a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for it (the touchscreen UI still has a poor adaptation for fingers compared to iOS and Android and is quite frustrating). I'm about to get a couple of those $35 Amazon Fire 7 tablets running Linux, and that's probably the best you can get for a cheap computer, provided you can get the Linux-Installer running on it. Some people have managed to boot it up with a non-Android distro, but the hardware support is still getting there... but the chroot Linux environments have tended to provide the best of both worlds, IMHO.
yep, I have a headset with a 2.5mm connector that includes stereo and microphone channels. I use it with a breakout splitter to separate 3.5mm jacks nowadays. But that kind of stuff is too cheap... I buy handfuls of earbuds for my kids' devices from Daiso, and they're happy with them. There's no way for big companies to make money off them anymore.
But this is fine, unbalanced analog signal wires suck. It's about time for Bluetooth audio to finally catch on or something, despite the annoyances.
Yep, but it's a 100TX USB adapter. The guy in the link that I forgot to include plugged in a GbE USB adapter and manage to push 220Mbps http://www.midwesternmac.com/b...
Not bad, compared to, say, the odroid C1 which has a built-in GbE port but people have reported only being able to push ~270Mbps through it.
So cutting the crappy 100TX USB adapter integrated in the Raspberry Pi A to get it to the $5 price point is probably for the best, since now you just throw on exactly whatever USB NIC you really need, whether it's a GbE dongle, or a wifi dongle, or an LTE dongle, a straight host-to-host usbnet cable, or whatever.
I'm just surprised there aren't more usbnet switches out there, even if they're just a bunch of "normal" switches with a usbnet dongle built in to each port.
Let me add a legit complain. They only have one USB port, and ethernet/harddisk will have to share it. It means it would suck as an NAS server. For $5 it would be a cool throwaway card for various projects though, like you know a intelligent garden lighting or whatever.
Exactly. The Pi is not a replacement for a computer (though the fact that you can manage to use it as a cheap replacement for a computer is a bonus). It's job is to get the bits there. That's all. Say you were just using the Pi to serve stuff straight from RAM, so your USBHDD / USBNIC contention wouldn't be an issue. Even at the $5 price point, and assuming you could use all 512MB of RAM to serve memcached, it would still be cheaper to just add a 2GB of RAM to your server for $15. It does not make sense to use any Pi to replace a desktop, tablet, or server. They can all do it better for cheaper (once you factor in the cost of all of the Pi's "necessary accessories").
Think, instead, of the Pi as a way to put a USB port on anything, and report back to your server cluster. Log to rsyslog when your garage door opens or closes, when the doorbell rings, when someone flushes the toilet. Maybe add a $15 USB webcam to snag a picture or video snippet of the event. That kind of thing. But the first thing you should ask yourself is: "Would this application be better served by a $35 Amazon Fire Tablet or Chromecast dongle or a $15 Arduino clone or a "real" mini-ITX PC with exactly the RAM/GPU/SDD you need for your application which is actually more price/performance competitive with the Pi than you might think".
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That's nice, but the real question is why do losers take that shit?
I once stood up a friend in college because I forgot about our appointment because I was playing Quake. That makes me a bad person. FACT.
/ Still friends with this person.
I swear I might snap at any moment, though.... rawr!
Yep. I'd be way more worried about the other way around, where someone in the future tries to remove their history from Twitter. Fortunately, that shit is going straight to the Library of Congress.
Besides, social media is like a honeypot for haters. Go look at any politician's feed... any POTUS or candidate or even game developer or corporation's Facebook page... Almost every comment is someone whining about them. In the old days of websites you'd try to moderate your blog comment stream, but nowadays they've more or less given up trying to filter out negative commenters... anyone who matters to them doesn't spend time reading the comment stream. And the haters feel like they have an "outlet" to post their negativity on someone's page where they can have a nice circle jerk with all of the other haters in plain view. I bet it comes in handy having a straightforward list of your haters collected right from your own social media stream available to you anytime into the future. Sounds very useful, especially for power-crazy political types.
Do mathematicians not scribble out their thoughts on whiteboards / blackboards anymore? Bonus for gridded sections.
The fridge is one thing... but I think this is a valid concern with the freezer. The most efficient freezers are the deep-freezer tubs that open from the top. Not really sure why more refrigerator units aren't really designed to use this... I've seen some fancy expensive ones where they put the freezer on the bottom, but even when they slide out they let all the cold go wandering.
But whatever. I'm looking forwards to the days where we all just live in high-rises above the grocery stores, and we just have little robotic mini-fridges that get stocked on demand from the stores below automatically via a series of tubes.
So how long until the periodic table app on my smartphone shows them?
The one I use already seems to have them listed https://play.google.com/store/...
but is there a nicer one around? I think I might try https://play.google.com/store/...
I'm still bitter that I only made it to Silicon in Atomas (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirnic.atomas&hl=en) ... I suppose it'll be a long time before these new entries make any impact there...
I want to reiterate that agreeing with Lucas on anything leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
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The Force Awakens, by contrast, looks like it was made by someone raiding old Star Wars sets and randomly assembling parts from the old scripts.
Let me just leave these here, for all of you Lucas fans...
Star Wars: Episode VII Trailer - George Lucas' Special Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Binks Awakens (and hang around for Trailer #2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not really, for a number of reasons.
1) Recovery is only possible on launches where there's enough capacity left over to compensate for the altitude/velocity of the stage at separation (it's not a simple mass issue, lighter payloads that need more delta-V end up with the first stage moving faster than heavy / low delta-V payloads).
Actually, tell me more about this! They had previously been trying to recover their first stage rockets by landing them on the sea platforms, which is understandably much harder. Has SpaceX given up on this? Or did they just backpedal a bit and send up enough extra fuel during this last launch to return to the launch site just to keep Blue Origin from sucking up the limelight and snagging a relatively "easy" stationary pad landing? Not a bad move, considering the past two failed attempts at a sea landing, but it'll still be interesting to see how hard they push the sea landing attempts in the future.
Thanks for that! Good reading.
Here's one of the heavily-citationed "conspiracy theory" sites that also does a good job piecing together and presenting the story:
http://stormcloudsgathering.co...
TL;DR: ISIS is doing 'Murrica's work with 'Murrican weapons. They're just the latest in a long chain of manipulated boogeymen. This is really the only practical way to drag democracies into foreign wars to keep the non-Western economies down and keep the US$ propped up as the only currency for the international oil market.
I actually take some comfort in this, because it does a great job explaining how we're #winning.
You're supposed to pre-wash the dishes to prevent food scraps blocking the machine. One reason I think dishwashers are useless.
Ugh, actually, I've heard someone claim that you're supposed to leave some food on the plates because modern dishwashers/detergent can target them with enzymes, and if you wash the food off first they can't do their magic.
I have to admit it's a cool idea, and gives me all of 2 seconds of pause while I wipe my plates down before tossing them in.
^^ This, and also the whole electric car explosion. Um... NOT pun intended, but apropos considering what would happen if we really started to increase our electrical power infrastructure to support this without more knowledgable EEs adept at transforming and inverting and conducting higher-energy electrical components around the increasingly distributed power grid.
close... kt is speed. nmi is distance.
And I realized that Agile is not for developers, but for managers.
In other words, it's not designed to help developers, but to make money out of managers.
Oh, perhaps that's the version of "agile" that your managers pushed on you. Agile as specified by the original gang of four had lots of protections for developers. I can understand why most managers end up throwing all that stuff out.
* Developers are the only ones allowed to estimate the size and dependencies for each task.
* The business side is only represented by the Product Owner, and they're really only allowed to interact with developers during sprint planning and a bit during sprint retrospective. They can insert and prioritize tasks in the backlog, but they are not allowed to put in more work than the developers have estimated that they can finish during the sprint cycle.
* The Scrum Master is more of a mother to the team, keeping time, keeping score, and making sure all of their needs are met so they can be productive. This means breaking down blockers, shielding them from external stakeholders, the Product Owner, management, useless meetings, angry spouses, requirements and schedule changes (the sprint backlog CANNOT be changed once set in motion, the only proper abort sequence is to just cancel everything and give everyone the rest of the spint off), hunger, personal demons, indecisiveness, sexual urges, dirty laundry, etc. so developers can fully focus on their task in progress and keep their velocity up.
* Developers are really left with only two responsibilities, which are admittedly extremely difficult for most nerds:
1) accurately estimate the size of each task (experience and collaboration are key)
2) get the tasks they've committed to completed during the sprint without getting distracted by OOOH SHINY!
And of course there's reporting on blockers during standup, but that's, like, the least important part of agile that everyone seems to fixate on.
-- someone who had some CSM training way back when
And yes, Ops and therefore DevOps is way different, much more schedule and exploration and interrupt-driven. That's why they tend to use the simpler planning-less Kanban-style stuff.
Yep, this. And those programmers will only be writing a handful of malformed TDD test cases and toss them over the fence to a foreign shop to search stackexchange for random bits of code that makes those test cases pass without much understanding of what the original problem was.
With a gesture-based interface connected to my fishing rod.
Is that a euphemism for something? Yeah, I think I've seen that interface in Sex & Zen 2
This could work in the Middle East's favor... If they terrorize Western Governments into mandatory encryption backdoors for all communications, all of the multinational corporations are going to have to move their trade secret data centers and business transactions elsewhere. Sensitive business will be conducted in countries that allow strong encryption, and are have lots of shrewd businessmen... which sounds like what many countries in the ME are setting themselves up for.
This has happened before.... jews are pretty prominent in business and banking because most countries didn't allow them to own land, and for ages christians and muslims were forbidden to charge interest on loans. This created conditions that practically handed the entire middleman and long distance transaction business to jews. Perhaps... perhaps the Middle East, longing for the old days when they were a business empire powerhouse, has become desperate to find a niche to diversify their economy in the coming post-oil production years, and this may be a way to carve themselves a competitive business advantage on the world stage again.
Yeah, I see it as such a waste. It's amazing how well that groups like al-quaida and ISIS can motivate people to give themselves completely to their tasks. The world could be such a wonderful place if we could only figure out how to harness their talents to recruit fanatics for al-jebra and other pursuits.
Is browsing Slashdot a requirement? Even my main gaming machine struggles with /. nowadays... Each Slashdot tab in Chrome consumes over 2GB of RAM, so having a few discussions open brings my machine to its knees. This happening to anyone else? Or is there something I have to update in Chrome's embedded flash player? :P
Yep, I still have an old EeePC901 running Linux Mint from an SD card. It's connected to my kids' Casio digital piano, so it can record and playback using Rosegarden. It's a bit too sluggish for web browsing or other music software such as LMMS, but most else is fine.
My current server system is still a shoebox nVidia ION box with 4GB RAM and an SSD, which makes it snappy enough for web browsing with Chromium in addition to its server duties. I bought it from Craigslist a while ago to replace my tower, and it's much better with power usage for 24x7 operation. The last guy who had it was trying to turn it into a HTPC, but I guess that endeavor didn't go great.
I have a $85 HP Stream 7 running Windows 10... it's actually quite nice once you get a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for it (the touchscreen UI still has a poor adaptation for fingers compared to iOS and Android and is quite frustrating). I'm about to get a couple of those $35 Amazon Fire 7 tablets running Linux, and that's probably the best you can get for a cheap computer, provided you can get the Linux-Installer running on it. Some people have managed to boot it up with a non-Android distro, but the hardware support is still getting there... but the chroot Linux environments have tended to provide the best of both worlds, IMHO.
yep, I have a headset with a 2.5mm connector that includes stereo and microphone channels. I use it with a breakout splitter to separate 3.5mm jacks nowadays. But that kind of stuff is too cheap... I buy handfuls of earbuds for my kids' devices from Daiso, and they're happy with them. There's no way for big companies to make money off them anymore.
But this is fine, unbalanced analog signal wires suck. It's about time for Bluetooth audio to finally catch on or something, despite the annoyances.
Yep, but it's a 100TX USB adapter. The guy in the link that I forgot to include plugged in a GbE USB adapter and manage to push 220Mbps
http://www.midwesternmac.com/b...
Not bad, compared to, say, the odroid C1 which has a built-in GbE port but people have reported only being able to push ~270Mbps through it.
So cutting the crappy 100TX USB adapter integrated in the Raspberry Pi A to get it to the $5 price point is probably for the best, since now you just throw on exactly whatever USB NIC you really need, whether it's a GbE dongle, or a wifi dongle, or an LTE dongle, a straight host-to-host usbnet cable, or whatever.
I'm just surprised there aren't more usbnet switches out there, even if they're just a bunch of "normal" switches with a usbnet dongle built in to each port.
Let me add a legit complain. They only have one USB port, and ethernet/harddisk will have to share it. It means it would suck as an NAS server. For $5 it would be a cool throwaway card for various projects though, like you know a intelligent garden lighting or whatever.
Exactly. The Pi is not a replacement for a computer (though the fact that you can manage to use it as a cheap replacement for a computer is a bonus). It's job is to get the bits there. That's all. Say you were just using the Pi to serve stuff straight from RAM, so your USBHDD / USBNIC contention wouldn't be an issue. Even at the $5 price point, and assuming you could use all 512MB of RAM to serve memcached, it would still be cheaper to just add a 2GB of RAM to your server for $15. It does not make sense to use any Pi to replace a desktop, tablet, or server. They can all do it better for cheaper (once you factor in the cost of all of the Pi's "necessary accessories").
Think, instead, of the Pi as a way to put a USB port on anything, and report back to your server cluster. Log to rsyslog when your garage door opens or closes, when the doorbell rings, when someone flushes the toilet. Maybe add a $15 USB webcam to snag a picture or video snippet of the event. That kind of thing. But the first thing you should ask yourself is: "Would this application be better served by a $35 Amazon Fire Tablet or Chromecast dongle or a $15 Arduino clone or a "real" mini-ITX PC with exactly the RAM/GPU/SDD you need for your application which is actually more price/performance competitive with the Pi than you might think".
Meh, USB ethernet is faster than the built-in 100TX port on the Pi B+ / Pi 2. So buy a USB ethernet adapter.
I'm actually a bit surprised no one has started selling USB network switches without CAT5 or RJ-45 connectors (well, maybe one for the uplink).
Oh, I meant to include a link with that... http://www.midwesternmac.com/b...
Meh, USB ethernet is faster than the built-in 100TX port on the Pi B+ / Pi 2. So buy a USB ethernet adapter.
I'm actually a bit surprised no one has started selling USB network switches without CAT5 or RJ-45 connectors (well, maybe one for the uplink).