That's because those still reading Slashdot have gotten old, conservative and grumpy. The Slashdot community used to love throwing out bath water full of babies to fix underlying architectural problems. Like if you complained about a kernel or X11 update breaking your Nvidia driver you were just a whiny baby who were just too stupid to appreciate the value of some reduced spinlocking in some thing that never affected you. We were proud of cleaning up shit for the long term even when it caused short term pain. Nowadays, it's just the opposite.
Yes. A lot faster. A lot lot faster. Subjectively, the 57 nightlies feel even more responsive than Opera, which has been my primary browser for several years. I have been using the FF 57 nightlies for little over a week and I love it. Firefox has always been sluggish as hell compared to Chrome and especially Opera, including the last stable Firefox version 54. Firefox 57 beats them both. Let the next phase of the browser performance rally begin.
Just because it's possible to write linearly scaling highly concurrent large applications in C or C++ does not mean that it is not cumbersome compared to writing them in languages whose paradigm and conventions are scalable and concurrency safe by default. With C and C++ you have to really go out of your way to make your application make efficient use of all your 24 CPU cores (or even just 4), but with some languages fine-grained concurrency comes naturally. The natural, streamlined way to write C and C++ applications leads to single threaded or one-thread-per-major-task programs.
It's not unnecessary if you want seamless support for things like bluetooth headsets, network speakers (Airplay etc), audio from more than one application at a time, and more. If your audio playing needs are trivial and old school, then yes, it may be unnecessary for you. Some of these thing can be done with plain ALSA but far from seamless and transparent for non-technical end users with MacOS/Windows backgrounds. I have done my fair share of.asoundrc editing and magic dmix hacks and I love the simplicity that PulseAudio brought.
Once it stabilized, PulseAudio is one of the best things that ever happened to Linux audio. Yes, it was buggy in the beginning and some distros made it the default a bit prematurely. Also, it depends on good ALSA drivers that fully implements the API. For a long time, PulseAudio was plagued by buggy and partially implemented ALSA drivers that lied about timings and other things and had only stubs for many functions. As PulseAudio exposed many driver bugs, it was often unfairly blamed by nontechnical people. Also, many distributions (Ubuntu was particularly bad) failed to make the default configuration of the applications/games/emulators/etc in their package repositories work with PulseAudio out of the box, creating an even worse user experience that PulseAudio was blamed for.
Nowadays, pretty much all common audio cards have good enough ALSA drivers and distributions have fixed their default configurations so this is no longer a problem and PulseAudio is working flawlessly.
You haven't paid attention lately then. Graphics cards and SSDs are the few computer components where lots of innovation still happen and where there still is need for, and room for, improvements. They have long been held back by the 1920x1080@60Hz plateau of affordable display panels and the bandwidth limits of HDMI/DVI/DP interfaces but now with the 4K panel boom, FreeSync/G-Sync and DisplayPort 1.3, things are moving again because now once again the graphics card has become the bottleneck. Not even tripple SLI of the very expensive Titan X is enough to run the latest AAA games at 3840x2160@120Hz with all settings at max. You are correct that the past half decade has been fairly boring in this area though, even though some great things have been brewing during this time (G/FreeSync, Mantle/Vulcan, HBM, etc).
The DBA probably gets paid a lot because the company is desperate for someone to come in and fix the database after the developers thought they could do the job themselves.
You actually kind of proved the point because you are not an engineer/admin anymore, you are now a manager.
It's a pretty sad cultural quirk that the target of every so called "career path" always tend to be some kind of management, removing the best engineers from what they do best if they want to have a good salary.
As someone with small hands (glove size 7), the best mouse I have ever used is the Roccat Kone Pure. The 8200 dpi laser version require a good mouse mat for good precision (I have the Roccat Raivo and I love it) but there's also a 4000 dpi optical version that can be used on any surface. I have tried a lot of mice and for me they are either too large to be comfortable, or just crappy for other reasons (build quality, dpi, etc).
Same thing for me when I hit around 30, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was 36. In Swedish I have what is called "hidden squint" because you are not actually squinting, but you eyes' resting position is non-parallel. It's easy to diagnose by looking at something, covering one of your eyes for a few seconds, then when you remove your hand you see two pictures that quickly move together to form a single picture again. This means that your eye muscles must constantly use some force to not see double. This happens automatically and you usually don't notice it until the eye muscles get tired. The solution is prismatic glasses. It takes a couple of weeks for your brain to adjust (during this time the whole world looks extremely psychedelic and you feel like two feet tall), but after that it is a wonderful feeling!
Postgres-XC's main focus is OLTP workloads. Buzzword: Web Scale.
Postgres-XL's main focus is OLAP workloads. Buzzword: Big Data.
They both borrow code from each other. At some time in the future it's entirely possible that the two will merge.
This is one of the ugliest cars I've seen in a while. It looks like they took a nice car and pumped it up like a balloon. It looks short and obese and no rear doors makes it impractical for day-to-day use. The interior looks great though but Tesla Model S has a much much nicer exterior! The car I'm looking forward to is the Fisker Atlantic.
What markus said. My car (European 2012 Honda Civic, not to be mixed up with the quite different American 2012 Honda Civic) has a 150hp/350nm diesel engine and does 0-60 MPH in 8.3 seconds (with about 50 MPG on the highway and 40 MPG in town). It's not sports car performance of course but the oomph is very much comparable to non-sports car gasoline engines. Also, the turbo is almost completely seamless.
This app didn't have anything to do with pirated ebooks. The whole fuzz is about a feature that let users add custom ebook sources instead of restricting it to one or a few pre-approved sources. Then someone found out that some users added pirate sites as sources so they could download pirated ebooks inside the reader app instead of just using the web browser. Then they blame the ebook reader app...
It doesn't matter how insignificant the modifications are. As long as there are any at all, most stations won't lift a finger until there is an actual (as in not hypothetical) consumer demand for it. Which creates a chicken-and-egg problem because not many people will buy the car (pay the extra price for the new engine vs a proven old petrol/diesel engine) until the filling station coverage is at least 90%. Of course, with political pressure things could happen faster but the core business of car makers like Citroën/Peugeot is to sell cars to people. They do that by designing cars according to the wishes of the majority of those wealthy enough to buy brand new cars.
Another significant difference is that your solution requires modifying filling stations whereas this hybrid air engine doesn't. Therefore, in the short term, air wins.
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That's because those still reading Slashdot have gotten old, conservative and grumpy. The Slashdot community used to love throwing out bath water full of babies to fix underlying architectural problems. Like if you complained about a kernel or X11 update breaking your Nvidia driver you were just a whiny baby who were just too stupid to appreciate the value of some reduced spinlocking in some thing that never affected you. We were proud of cleaning up shit for the long term even when it caused short term pain. Nowadays, it's just the opposite.
Lake Eat-a-lot.
Wait for Firefox 57 to be released in November. Try the nightly builds if you can't wait. It's worth it.
Will it be faster?
Yes. A lot faster. A lot lot faster. Subjectively, the 57 nightlies feel even more responsive than Opera, which has been my primary browser for several years. I have been using the FF 57 nightlies for little over a week and I love it. Firefox has always been sluggish as hell compared to Chrome and especially Opera, including the last stable Firefox version 54. Firefox 57 beats them both. Let the next phase of the browser performance rally begin.
Just right-click it and select "remove from address bar". There, saved you a trip to California.
It 2017 now. Uninformed gut-instinct opinions have never mattered more.
Just because it's possible to write linearly scaling highly concurrent large applications in C or C++ does not mean that it is not cumbersome compared to writing them in languages whose paradigm and conventions are scalable and concurrency safe by default. With C and C++ you have to really go out of your way to make your application make efficient use of all your 24 CPU cores (or even just 4), but with some languages fine-grained concurrency comes naturally. The natural, streamlined way to write C and C++ applications leads to single threaded or one-thread-per-major-task programs.
It's not unnecessary if you want seamless support for things like bluetooth headsets, network speakers (Airplay etc), audio from more than one application at a time, and more. If your audio playing needs are trivial and old school, then yes, it may be unnecessary for you. Some of these thing can be done with plain ALSA but far from seamless and transparent for non-technical end users with MacOS/Windows backgrounds. I have done my fair share of .asoundrc editing and magic dmix hacks and I love the simplicity that PulseAudio brought.
Once it stabilized, PulseAudio is one of the best things that ever happened to Linux audio. Yes, it was buggy in the beginning and some distros made it the default a bit prematurely. Also, it depends on good ALSA drivers that fully implements the API. For a long time, PulseAudio was plagued by buggy and partially implemented ALSA drivers that lied about timings and other things and had only stubs for many functions. As PulseAudio exposed many driver bugs, it was often unfairly blamed by nontechnical people. Also, many distributions (Ubuntu was particularly bad) failed to make the default configuration of the applications/games/emulators/etc in their package repositories work with PulseAudio out of the box, creating an even worse user experience that PulseAudio was blamed for. Nowadays, pretty much all common audio cards have good enough ALSA drivers and distributions have fixed their default configurations so this is no longer a problem and PulseAudio is working flawlessly.
You haven't paid attention lately then. Graphics cards and SSDs are the few computer components where lots of innovation still happen and where there still is need for, and room for, improvements. They have long been held back by the 1920x1080@60Hz plateau of affordable display panels and the bandwidth limits of HDMI/DVI/DP interfaces but now with the 4K panel boom, FreeSync/G-Sync and DisplayPort 1.3, things are moving again because now once again the graphics card has become the bottleneck. Not even tripple SLI of the very expensive Titan X is enough to run the latest AAA games at 3840x2160@120Hz with all settings at max. You are correct that the past half decade has been fairly boring in this area though, even though some great things have been brewing during this time (G/FreeSync, Mantle/Vulcan, HBM, etc).
The DBA probably gets paid a lot because the company is desperate for someone to come in and fix the database after the developers thought they could do the job themselves.
This.
Sincerely, a DBA.
You actually kind of proved the point because you are not an engineer/admin anymore, you are now a manager. It's a pretty sad cultural quirk that the target of every so called "career path" always tend to be some kind of management, removing the best engineers from what they do best if they want to have a good salary.
As someone with small hands (glove size 7), the best mouse I have ever used is the Roccat Kone Pure. The 8200 dpi laser version require a good mouse mat for good precision (I have the Roccat Raivo and I love it) but there's also a 4000 dpi optical version that can be used on any surface. I have tried a lot of mice and for me they are either too large to be comfortable, or just crappy for other reasons (build quality, dpi, etc).
It IS possible to delete from the Git history, though. Instructions here.
Same thing for me when I hit around 30, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was 36. In Swedish I have what is called "hidden squint" because you are not actually squinting, but you eyes' resting position is non-parallel. It's easy to diagnose by looking at something, covering one of your eyes for a few seconds, then when you remove your hand you see two pictures that quickly move together to form a single picture again. This means that your eye muscles must constantly use some force to not see double. This happens automatically and you usually don't notice it until the eye muscles get tired. The solution is prismatic glasses. It takes a couple of weeks for your brain to adjust (during this time the whole world looks extremely psychedelic and you feel like two feet tall), but after that it is a wonderful feeling!
Don't worry, you can probably rotate this screen also.
Postgres-XC's main focus is OLTP workloads. Buzzword: Web Scale.
Postgres-XL's main focus is OLAP workloads. Buzzword: Big Data.
They both borrow code from each other. At some time in the future it's entirely possible that the two will merge.
Not updated in Debian Squeeze yet, though.
Something something Live Wire.
i don't really see any feminist activities these days, only people blaming feminism for stuff.
Yes, it's currently in the "then they fight you" stage.
This is one of the ugliest cars I've seen in a while. It looks like they took a nice car and pumped it up like a balloon. It looks short and obese and no rear doors makes it impractical for day-to-day use. The interior looks great though but Tesla Model S has a much much nicer exterior! The car I'm looking forward to is the Fisker Atlantic.
What markus said. My car (European 2012 Honda Civic, not to be mixed up with the quite different American 2012 Honda Civic) has a 150hp/350nm diesel engine and does 0-60 MPH in 8.3 seconds (with about 50 MPG on the highway and 40 MPG in town). It's not sports car performance of course but the oomph is very much comparable to non-sports car gasoline engines. Also, the turbo is almost completely seamless.
This app didn't have anything to do with pirated ebooks. The whole fuzz is about a feature that let users add custom ebook sources instead of restricting it to one or a few pre-approved sources. Then someone found out that some users added pirate sites as sources so they could download pirated ebooks inside the reader app instead of just using the web browser. Then they blame the ebook reader app...
It doesn't matter how insignificant the modifications are. As long as there are any at all, most stations won't lift a finger until there is an actual (as in not hypothetical) consumer demand for it. Which creates a chicken-and-egg problem because not many people will buy the car (pay the extra price for the new engine vs a proven old petrol/diesel engine) until the filling station coverage is at least 90%. Of course, with political pressure things could happen faster but the core business of car makers like Citroën/Peugeot is to sell cars to people. They do that by designing cars according to the wishes of the majority of those wealthy enough to buy brand new cars.
Another significant difference is that your solution requires modifying filling stations whereas this hybrid air engine doesn't. Therefore, in the short term, air wins.