Someone who is mining bitcoins on a GPU is either losing money or stealing electricity off of someone. Bitcoin is way past the point where it's economically feasible to mine them on a GPU.
I'm sure the is a reaction to "metrosexual". I wonder how different it is from a "bear" in the same community? Perhaps more focused on attire than physique?
I recently was working on a machine with no internet connectivity trying to visualize some data with gnuplot. Only I discovered that some distros (won't name names here, but it's not an obscure one) by default install gnuplot with no bitmapped graphics support. I thought I was up a creek until I noticed that gnuplot has support for xterms's tektronics graphics mode. While it still has limitations (no color!), it got the job done. I'd like to see your fancy semitransparent Gnome Terminal handle hideously obsolete vector graphics.
Yeah, this smells like some crazy thing someone brought up in committee and will go nowhere. You get these kinds of stories from the US all the time too. State legislature votes to declare Pi to be exactly 3! But really it was one stupid thing one person said and went nowhere.
It's the internet, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Here is a mirror if you're having trouble. I can re-compress it if necessary to get around content aware filtering.
As a longtime user of NoScript, this has not even come close to happening yet. I'm not even against ads, but I'm not going to let them run Javascript. If they want to show a banner then be my guest, if they want fingerprint my browser so they can track me across different websites then no thanks.
This presupposes that Apple even wants to be in the game console business. I think Microsoft is still in the red overall for the XBox franchise, and the Ooya is a stark reminder that nonportable microconsoles are of limited appeal. If all it lets you do is play the same games you can play on your phone why bother? Sure the screen is bigger, but the graphics aren't much better and you're monopolizing the TV.
Microcenter gave me a free 32GB thumb drive just for showing up in their store. 5GB is getting into "Why bother?" territory. That's so little storage that even people who just casually take photos and upload them to the cloud are going to bump into the limit in relatively short order. It looks like Microsoft is basically killing off the service by making it worse than the competition. They already started on this when they dumped the OS integration they had in Win8 and made Win10 users go through the app to move their files back and forth.
I'm saying that those kind of people never touch the AM/FM switch on their radio, if they even listen to radio anymore. It's reputation as a place for preaching and whackos keeps them out.
It's the same way you can send messages to people but avoid having the lion's share of the youth see it by simply publishing in the newspaper and not putting it in the online edition. Young people wonder why they should get their hands dirty reading day old news and op-eds from the out of touch.
Willingness to partake in somewhat expensive and likely ignored propaganda is a winning long term strategy? Or it is just because they don't broadcast their political power struggles to the world?
The FCC operates on a complaint driven model. They don't tend to notice until someone writes a letter. They don't have the budget to hire airwave cops to drive around looking for violations all over the country. As far as the FCC was concerned this was just another properly licensed radio station until someone complained.
Anybody who thinks time is easy to get right has never looked too closely at it. There are a million complications, many of which are political or historical. Leap Seconds are only part of it. There are also Leap Years (quick, is the year 4000 a leap year?), changes in the calendar system (what happens when you try to display September 3, 1752? What if you change your locale to the US? What if you change it to France?), politicians deciding to screw around with Daylight Savings Time (thank you George W. Bush), Time Zones, politicians deciding to screw around with time zones (thank you Kim Jong Un), etc...
Modern timekeeping is a nightmare. Even if you have a library dedicated to getting it right, they usually don't ask enough information to get it 100% correct because 99.9% of the time said inputs would be annoying and irrelevant. It's like asking for a library that just magically makes your code support Unicode. It's impossible because the implications extend into your own code as well. You have to think about the thousands of weird edge cases to get it completely right, there's no magic bullet. Oh, and virtually no program in the world gets it right. Not even huge ones that have thousands of professional developers. For example: Firefox and Chrome have issues with the RTL indicator, one of the first and most obvious pitfalls of Unicode development.
The classic case is when you have a computer with an event loop and the leap second causes the timing to get messed up on the loop causing a double event or sometimes freezing it entirely. There were a number of websites that crashed during the 2012 leap second, including some airline ticketing systems. The 2015 event seemed less dramatic overall, but there were still a few reports of crashes.
Google implemented an interesting strategy in 2015. They simply drifted their clocks over a 12 hour period instead of making the jump at once. This avoided the potential crash issues at the cost of being less than a second out of sync for half a day. Overall it seemed like a success and I kind of hope the IEEE mandates it for all clocks for the next leap second.
Yeah, I mean if that woman had married a steel worker or a baker or pretty much any other professional on the planet she should expect to be set for life even if he dies at 20 with no insurance right?
Seems like Google makes a ton of money for the music industry too. Pulling all of the content just brings us back to the late 90s when everybody just sent bootleg MP3s everywhere because there was no legitimate alternative.
Why not simply stop answering their calls? What are they going to do? Double fire you? I'd like to see them take you to court over not providing work for free.
It should be pointed out however that Microsoft carefully designed their POSIX subsystem to be almost completely useless in the real world. It was missing just enough critical (but not technically POSIX spec) parts to make it worthless.
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I can run Minesweeper just fine on my 8 year old Intel graphics card. Buying a video card for games is stupid!
Someone who is mining bitcoins on a GPU is either losing money or stealing electricity off of someone. Bitcoin is way past the point where it's economically feasible to mine them on a GPU.
How is this different than having that one guy who "knows tech" that everyone calls when they have a problem or a question?
I'm sure the is a reaction to "metrosexual". I wonder how different it is from a "bear" in the same community? Perhaps more focused on attire than physique?
I recently was working on a machine with no internet connectivity trying to visualize some data with gnuplot. Only I discovered that some distros (won't name names here, but it's not an obscure one) by default install gnuplot with no bitmapped graphics support. I thought I was up a creek until I noticed that gnuplot has support for xterms's tektronics graphics mode. While it still has limitations (no color!), it got the job done. I'd like to see your fancy semitransparent Gnome Terminal handle hideously obsolete vector graphics.
Yeah, this smells like some crazy thing someone brought up in committee and will go nowhere. You get these kinds of stories from the US all the time too. State legislature votes to declare Pi to be exactly 3! But really it was one stupid thing one person said and went nowhere.
It's the internet, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Here is a mirror if you're having trouble. I can re-compress it if necessary to get around content aware filtering.
As a longtime user of NoScript, this has not even come close to happening yet. I'm not even against ads, but I'm not going to let them run Javascript. If they want to show a banner then be my guest, if they want fingerprint my browser so they can track me across different websites then no thanks.
This presupposes that Apple even wants to be in the game console business. I think Microsoft is still in the red overall for the XBox franchise, and the Ooya is a stark reminder that nonportable microconsoles are of limited appeal. If all it lets you do is play the same games you can play on your phone why bother? Sure the screen is bigger, but the graphics aren't much better and you're monopolizing the TV.
Microcenter gave me a free 32GB thumb drive just for showing up in their store. 5GB is getting into "Why bother?" territory. That's so little storage that even people who just casually take photos and upload them to the cloud are going to bump into the limit in relatively short order. It looks like Microsoft is basically killing off the service by making it worse than the competition. They already started on this when they dumped the OS integration they had in Win8 and made Win10 users go through the app to move their files back and forth.
I'm saying that those kind of people never touch the AM/FM switch on their radio, if they even listen to radio anymore. It's reputation as a place for preaching and whackos keeps them out.
It's the same way you can send messages to people but avoid having the lion's share of the youth see it by simply publishing in the newspaper and not putting it in the online edition. Young people wonder why they should get their hands dirty reading day old news and op-eds from the out of touch.
Willingness to partake in somewhat expensive and likely ignored propaganda is a winning long term strategy? Or it is just because they don't broadcast their political power struggles to the world?
Right wing nutcases thrive on AM radio. The format helps filter out anybody with opposing viewpoints or unfortunate access to factual information.
The FCC operates on a complaint driven model. They don't tend to notice until someone writes a letter. They don't have the budget to hire airwave cops to drive around looking for violations all over the country. As far as the FCC was concerned this was just another properly licensed radio station until someone complained.
I assume you don't do leap seconds at all.
Anybody who thinks time is easy to get right has never looked too closely at it. There are a million complications, many of which are political or historical. Leap Seconds are only part of it. There are also Leap Years (quick, is the year 4000 a leap year?), changes in the calendar system (what happens when you try to display September 3, 1752? What if you change your locale to the US? What if you change it to France?), politicians deciding to screw around with Daylight Savings Time (thank you George W. Bush), Time Zones, politicians deciding to screw around with time zones (thank you Kim Jong Un), etc...
Modern timekeeping is a nightmare. Even if you have a library dedicated to getting it right, they usually don't ask enough information to get it 100% correct because 99.9% of the time said inputs would be annoying and irrelevant. It's like asking for a library that just magically makes your code support Unicode. It's impossible because the implications extend into your own code as well. You have to think about the thousands of weird edge cases to get it completely right, there's no magic bullet. Oh, and virtually no program in the world gets it right. Not even huge ones that have thousands of professional developers. For example: Firefox and Chrome have issues with the RTL indicator, one of the first and most obvious pitfalls of Unicode development.
The classic case is when you have a computer with an event loop and the leap second causes the timing to get messed up on the loop causing a double event or sometimes freezing it entirely. There were a number of websites that crashed during the 2012 leap second, including some airline ticketing systems. The 2015 event seemed less dramatic overall, but there were still a few reports of crashes.
Google implemented an interesting strategy in 2015. They simply drifted their clocks over a 12 hour period instead of making the jump at once. This avoided the potential crash issues at the cost of being less than a second out of sync for half a day. Overall it seemed like a success and I kind of hope the IEEE mandates it for all clocks for the next leap second.
Yeah, I mean if that woman had married a steel worker or a baker or pretty much any other professional on the planet she should expect to be set for life even if he dies at 20 with no insurance right?
Seems like Google makes a ton of money for the music industry too. Pulling all of the content just brings us back to the late 90s when everybody just sent bootleg MP3s everywhere because there was no legitimate alternative.
Why not simply stop answering their calls? What are they going to do? Double fire you? I'd like to see them take you to court over not providing work for free.
I suggest they shorten it to RedTube.
Pretty much. POSIX was kind of a minimal set of features that were common to the major Unix vendors at the time.
It should be pointed out however that Microsoft carefully designed their POSIX subsystem to be almost completely useless in the real world. It was missing just enough critical (but not technically POSIX spec) parts to make it worthless.
That book is what I was reading (and linked to in my post).
Well, I guess we can't be too hard on the Rust developers for not solving the halting problem.