Which distribution are you using? KDE on Fedora Linux has been a disaster for me for Fedora 21, 22, and 23. When I use Fedora Linux, I end up with GNOME or Xfce for my desktop. I think that's just a result of the particular focus of the Fedora developers on GNOME, and not inherent to KDE or Plasma.
So instead, if you haven't done it already I respectfully suggest trying one of the desktops that has Plasma as its default desktop: OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, KaOS, or maybe Arch.
I think the fundamental problem with Perl 6 is nothing in the language itself, but the choice of name. Perl 5 and Perl 6 both suffered because a lot of people took a "wait and see" status on whether to adopt either language. If Perl 6 had been Flooby or Rara or something else, Perl 5 users and adopters could have continued on their merry way and Perl 5 would be more popular today.
In terms of performance, Perl 6 sacrificed a lot of performance at launch by being created as a standard instead of an implementation. But there are already several implementations, and there will be plenty of pressure on the Perl 6 community to optimize for speed. However, I think it's also important to remember that Python is dog slow and wildly popular because most computing tasks people want accomplished can accept a two orders of magnitude performance hit for a solution you can deliver tomorrow versus a C++ solution that nobody will ever bother to write because it's not cost effective. I don't hate Python, mind - I'm just saying that if Perl 6 is just a 'better' (subjectively) Python with similar performance characteristics, that's plenty.
If you host your own sandstorm instance on your own server, they give you a wildcard certificate. I have one running right now.
I keep reading criticisms of Mongo, so its use bothers me a little. On the other hand, at work we're ditching Postgres. We've found Postgres to be ironclad and bulletproof, but the open source high availability options we've tried for it sucked - the logs are littered with dropped connections. From our internal testing, MySQL + Percona works better - at least so far. (I have no formal affiliation with Postgres, MySQL, or Percona.)
I have five computers at home and share them with my wife and kids. So being able to access my files from a browser window instead of monkeying with rsync is nice.
Plus, of course, you can access your content from any device with a browser and an internet connection, instead of only on devices that have a suitable office suite and a copy of your files.
The nice thing about the web-based version is that - if it's done well - it's easy to share documents with others and you can access your documents from anywhere.
I don't do anything fancy with Word/Excel/Powerpoint or their LibreOffice equivalents Writer/Calc/Impress, so this would be fine for me - except my itch has already been scratched by the open source web-hosted equivalents Etherpad/Ethercalc/Hacker Slides running on the open source Sandstorm platform (sandstorm.io).
I guess the killer feature the LibreOffice web-hosted versions would have is interoperability with the Microsoft Office and Libre Office versions - I don't need that, but for someone trying to convince a company to ditch Office 365 for hosted Libre Office, I guess it's a critical requirement. (For all I know, Etherpad, Ethercalc, and Hacker Slides have that interoperability. I never checked.)
First, these penalties were for things like driving without a seatbelt on, or having an expired vehicle registration, or parking in a no-parking zone. We're not speaking of felony acts or even misdemeanors.
Second, many thousands of people protested the Ferguson shootings without breaking any laws. Every looter and arsonist should be prosecuted and jailed, but you're blind - or racist - if you think that the actions of fifty or a hundred black criminals make it moral for Ferguson police to mistreat forty thousand other black residents in the town. That's especially true since many of the criminal looters didn't even live in Ferguson, they just used the tension as an excuse to come to the town and stir up trouble.
Three reasons to target poor blacks:
1. They're racist and prefer targeting blacks. (See for further example that the Ferguson police had sent attack dogs on unarmed blacks as young as fourteen several times per year since 2005, and had not ever sent attack dogs on a white suspect, armed or not.)
2. If a victim can't afford the whole fine, they added repeat fines. A middle class target, black or otherwise, would only pay once and then another reason for a penalty would need to found.
3. A middle class target, black or otherwise, is more likely to have the money or just the political connections to challenge an unlawful fine in court.
You're right, of course. He claimed the suspension had nothing to do with alcohol and was from some other bureaucratic nonsense, but of course I have no idea if he was telling the truth.
But my point is, suspending driver's licenses in rural and even some suburban areas does nothing, because the person - whether a victim of police abuse of power or a repeat drunk driver with a body count - is going to keep driving because they have no other economic option.
If your boss deserves a manager position, he or she should never make you feel like you need to hide an error.
Too bad that's a rare thing. Too many managers think their job is to be the overseer wielding the whip on the backs of the field workers instead of the person whose biggest role is running interference against the bureaucratic garbage that stop the team from being productive.
Someone put it brilliantly on Twitter: GPL is free as in freedom. BSD/MIT/Apache is free as in labor.
The Free Software Foundation has been open from day one that their exact goal is to make proprietary software illegal. The GPL and AGPL and to a lesser extent MPL and EPL are means to that end. The other means is lobbying developers to create copyleft code and convincing everyone to only get and use open source code. Proprietary software enables snooping, embedded malware, and digital rights management.
You the individual may see BSD/MIT/Apache as "do whatever the hell I want with the code, and let others do the same". But in practice, permissive license open source software is the foundation modern technology companies are using to build their proprietary software empires.
Plus the penalties for crack - more frequently used by blacks - were literally ten times higher than the penalties for using cocaine. So it got to be abusive of power, legalized theft, and racist too!
The problem is that for many people outside major cities, there is no alternative way to get to work. When I worked a manufacturing job in college one of my coworkers was a guy who was driving without a license to and from work each day because his choices were "drive without a legal license" or "be unemployed".
If you read the report on Ferguson, it's worse than that. Someone is issued a fine, and when they fail to pay by a certain date they receive no second or third notice and are instead jailed for three days and then released and issued an additional fine for failing to pay the first fine on time. Then the person pays off the first fine and part of the second but can't scrape together the money to pay the rest of the second fine, so they're jailed again and issued a third fine.
But the Ferguson police would only target people with black skin for that kind of fundraising.
Agreed. For $50 you can probably get a used machine with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM, and 500GB of spinning platter storage. That's tremendously faster than a Pi. Way less energy efficient, but unless you keep it next to your bed you'll never notice the difference.
That's good bargain shopping there. But I suspect an even better option is looking for used computers on Craigslist, Ebay, etc... That same $120 might get you a Core i5 or AMD A10-6700 or something with 8GB of RAM and so forth. Just get a cheap SSD and reformat the original 1TB spinning platter drive to use as extra storage, and you're all set.
I wonder what went wrong - I have roughly equivalent hardware and Ubuntu 14.04 ran just fine on it. I kept having problems with the screen locker, though, so I switched distributions.
Actually, one of the cheapest forms of energy storage is plain compressed air. You use your excess energy generated while the wind blows or the sun shines to power machinery to compress air, and then when the sun goes down or the wind slows you release the air slowly and use it to power a turbine and generate electricity. It's relatively expensive to set up, but your maintenance costs for renewable energy source equipment maintenance plus compressed air equipment maintenance is still lower than maintenance costs for fossil fuel equipment maintenance plus the fuel itself.
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At the very least, a monoculture for anything is bad. So any competitors to V8 are good, especially open source competitors.
Which distribution are you using? KDE on Fedora Linux has been a disaster for me for Fedora 21, 22, and 23. When I use Fedora Linux, I end up with GNOME or Xfce for my desktop. I think that's just a result of the particular focus of the Fedora developers on GNOME, and not inherent to KDE or Plasma.
So instead, if you haven't done it already I respectfully suggest trying one of the desktops that has Plasma as its default desktop: OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, KaOS, or maybe Arch.
Perl 6 supports both. You can use U+00AB or (that's "less than", "less than", if the ASCII characters get swallowed by Slashdot). No time wasted.
I wrote the same thing further up thread. Agreed on all counts.
I think the fundamental problem with Perl 6 is nothing in the language itself, but the choice of name. Perl 5 and Perl 6 both suffered because a lot of people took a "wait and see" status on whether to adopt either language. If Perl 6 had been Flooby or Rara or something else, Perl 5 users and adopters could have continued on their merry way and Perl 5 would be more popular today.
In terms of performance, Perl 6 sacrificed a lot of performance at launch by being created as a standard instead of an implementation. But there are already several implementations, and there will be plenty of pressure on the Perl 6 community to optimize for speed. However, I think it's also important to remember that Python is dog slow and wildly popular because most computing tasks people want accomplished can accept a two orders of magnitude performance hit for a solution you can deliver tomorrow versus a C++ solution that nobody will ever bother to write because it's not cost effective. I don't hate Python, mind - I'm just saying that if Perl 6 is just a 'better' (subjectively) Python with similar performance characteristics, that's plenty.
If you host your own sandstorm instance on your own server, they give you a wildcard certificate. I have one running right now.
I keep reading criticisms of Mongo, so its use bothers me a little. On the other hand, at work we're ditching Postgres. We've found Postgres to be ironclad and bulletproof, but the open source high availability options we've tried for it sucked - the logs are littered with dropped connections. From our internal testing, MySQL + Percona works better - at least so far. (I have no formal affiliation with Postgres, MySQL, or Percona.)
Actually, I use sandstorm.io + Etherpad, Ethercalc, and Hacker Slides.
I have five computers at home and share them with my wife and kids. So being able to access my files from a browser window instead of monkeying with rsync is nice.
Plus, of course, you can access your content from any device with a browser and an internet connection, instead of only on devices that have a suitable office suite and a copy of your files.
If you didn't know, Google's "alphabet" name is a joke for finance nerds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The nice thing about the web-based version is that - if it's done well - it's easy to share documents with others and you can access your documents from anywhere.
I don't do anything fancy with Word/Excel/Powerpoint or their LibreOffice equivalents Writer/Calc/Impress, so this would be fine for me - except my itch has already been scratched by the open source web-hosted equivalents Etherpad/Ethercalc/Hacker Slides running on the open source Sandstorm platform (sandstorm.io).
I guess the killer feature the LibreOffice web-hosted versions would have is interoperability with the Microsoft Office and Libre Office versions - I don't need that, but for someone trying to convince a company to ditch Office 365 for hosted Libre Office, I guess it's a critical requirement. (For all I know, Etherpad, Ethercalc, and Hacker Slides have that interoperability. I never checked.)
First, these penalties were for things like driving without a seatbelt on, or having an expired vehicle registration, or parking in a no-parking zone. We're not speaking of felony acts or even misdemeanors.
Second, many thousands of people protested the Ferguson shootings without breaking any laws. Every looter and arsonist should be prosecuted and jailed, but you're blind - or racist - if you think that the actions of fifty or a hundred black criminals make it moral for Ferguson police to mistreat forty thousand other black residents in the town. That's especially true since many of the criminal looters didn't even live in Ferguson, they just used the tension as an excuse to come to the town and stir up trouble.
Three reasons to target poor blacks:
1. They're racist and prefer targeting blacks. (See for further example that the Ferguson police had sent attack dogs on unarmed blacks as young as fourteen several times per year since 2005, and had not ever sent attack dogs on a white suspect, armed or not.)
2. If a victim can't afford the whole fine, they added repeat fines. A middle class target, black or otherwise, would only pay once and then another reason for a penalty would need to found.
3. A middle class target, black or otherwise, is more likely to have the money or just the political connections to challenge an unlawful fine in court.
You're right, of course. He claimed the suspension had nothing to do with alcohol and was from some other bureaucratic nonsense, but of course I have no idea if he was telling the truth.
But my point is, suspending driver's licenses in rural and even some suburban areas does nothing, because the person - whether a victim of police abuse of power or a repeat drunk driver with a body count - is going to keep driving because they have no other economic option.
If your boss deserves a manager position, he or she should never make you feel like you need to hide an error.
Too bad that's a rare thing. Too many managers think their job is to be the overseer wielding the whip on the backs of the field workers instead of the person whose biggest role is running interference against the bureaucratic garbage that stop the team from being productive.
Someone put it brilliantly on Twitter: GPL is free as in freedom. BSD/MIT/Apache is free as in labor.
The Free Software Foundation has been open from day one that their exact goal is to make proprietary software illegal. The GPL and AGPL and to a lesser extent MPL and EPL are means to that end. The other means is lobbying developers to create copyleft code and convincing everyone to only get and use open source code. Proprietary software enables snooping, embedded malware, and digital rights management.
You the individual may see BSD/MIT/Apache as "do whatever the hell I want with the code, and let others do the same". But in practice, permissive license open source software is the foundation modern technology companies are using to build their proprietary software empires.
Plus the penalties for crack - more frequently used by blacks - were literally ten times higher than the penalties for using cocaine. So it got to be abusive of power, legalized theft, and racist too!
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing that.
The problem is that for many people outside major cities, there is no alternative way to get to work. When I worked a manufacturing job in college one of my coworkers was a guy who was driving without a license to and from work each day because his choices were "drive without a legal license" or "be unemployed".
If you read the report on Ferguson, it's worse than that. Someone is issued a fine, and when they fail to pay by a certain date they receive no second or third notice and are instead jailed for three days and then released and issued an additional fine for failing to pay the first fine on time. Then the person pays off the first fine and part of the second but can't scrape together the money to pay the rest of the second fine, so they're jailed again and issued a third fine.
But the Ferguson police would only target people with black skin for that kind of fundraising.
Agreed. For $50 you can probably get a used machine with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM, and 500GB of spinning platter storage. That's tremendously faster than a Pi. Way less energy efficient, but unless you keep it next to your bed you'll never notice the difference.
Yes. I managed to buy $900 in components for $500 in a used gaming machine on Ebay. You just have to be patient.
That's good bargain shopping there. But I suspect an even better option is looking for used computers on Craigslist, Ebay, etc... That same $120 might get you a Core i5 or AMD A10-6700 or something with 8GB of RAM and so forth. Just get a cheap SSD and reformat the original 1TB spinning platter drive to use as extra storage, and you're all set.
I wonder what went wrong - I have roughly equivalent hardware and Ubuntu 14.04 ran just fine on it. I kept having problems with the screen locker, though, so I switched distributions.
Actually, one of the cheapest forms of energy storage is plain compressed air. You use your excess energy generated while the wind blows or the sun shines to power machinery to compress air, and then when the sun goes down or the wind slows you release the air slowly and use it to power a turbine and generate electricity. It's relatively expensive to set up, but your maintenance costs for renewable energy source equipment maintenance plus compressed air equipment maintenance is still lower than maintenance costs for fossil fuel equipment maintenance plus the fuel itself.
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