This is OT, but is the Slashdot redesign an April Fool's joke? It used to be grey but now all of the sudden everything is orange. Is this a new design after so many years or a prank?
The date on the linked article is March 30th, so even taking different time zones and daylight savings etc into account, it was not published on April 1st. Unless they modified the date stamp to fool us.
It is a well-known pseudo-scientific trope, I think even xkcd has made fun of this "theory". I am guessing slashdot included it today to troll physicists, since this tends to piss them off.
people in charge of speed limits and saftey standards wont be happy until your driving powerwheels to work. top speed 5mph! soo safe! wait, we still need a new nerf bumper design.
Speed limits in the US are way lower than in Europe (dispite having lower population density), but the US still has an order of magnitude more traffic accidents and fatalities. The low speed-limits might actually be making it worse, as people get bored and unfocused.
Ummm, have you seen an airport with train tracks through it?
Yes, most major airports in Europe and Asia has train tracks. One of the problem is often being adjecent to both highway, trains, open land for the runways and close to a major population center.
A computer doesn't give a shit if the runway is straight or curved, because it can handle a little more left (or whatever) while it's managing dozens of other things. But a human can't do that. You want to make pilots have to account for bank and curvature in addition to everything else? That's obviously a shit idea.
I don't think it is that hard. Then again I am not a pilot, and I am guessing you are neither, but I know of a few mountain airports where some fine navigation is required to land safely, and that appears to work.
I love how he places his drawning in the middle of nowhere with no roads or train tracks, or even neighby restraints on the layout of the land. Sure you can pull all that underground, but he seems to just ignore it.
Yeah, that's one of the gaps. I'd love to see local news and weather without the commercials. Though, even Netflix couldn't do much about the news/weather people acting like idiots.:p
I would just love to be able to get the 5 minute headlines on demand, instead of waiting for it on a news network, and then be able to choose which story to hear about in detail.
I think it is an option. Journaled metadata is the default, but you can choose journaled data too. It is just not very well performing. The B-tree structure of writing new entries and switching atomically works much better that way.
So far having solid state cache for a hard drive is an idea which looks great on a paper, but practically everything that has been offered shows the performance - and we're talking about the real workload and the real user experiences - closer to the hard drive than to the solid state device. IMHO, since, apparently, we have a fairly large number of cache misses or some other anomalies, having the solid state cache which is 1000 faster than the traditional NAN-based one won't make too much difference.
You can get SSD-like boot times, but that is about it, the rest is HDD like
In the UK, red means DO NOT CROSS the line of the traffic light. If you're already past the line by the time it goes red, you're on your own (e.g. traffic jam in front but no yellow box forcing you to keep the junction clear and nothing moves for a whole phase) but it's not an offence.
The problem is the latter. The cameras check if you are in the intersection on red, so if you cross on yellow, and don't get out (easy if the yellow is too short).
Btw, you are not supposed to enter the intersection unless you can pass all the way through, if you end up being stuck due to a traffic jam you are also breaking the law.
Why the hell would anything be in the CPU's memory when you're rendering the screen? All of this should be happening on the GPU, without any bitting of things from CPU memory.
Because that is how most 2D rendering works and how Chrome works (which this product uses). It is rendered with CPU based rasterization to tiles which are uploaded to the GPU and then composited by the GPU.Unless the you disable GPU compositing, then there is also a CPU based fallback.
Note, my base assumption is still that they are doing it wrong and stupidly. Rerendering the entire screen on CPU 60fps. That would fit with 12% CPU. A smart CPU rerendering would only rerender the pixels changing (which is easy on CPU based algorithms because there is no double buffering) and use 0.1% CPU, a smart GPU based rerendering would rerender the entire screen but still use less than 0.1% CPU because only GPU instructions would be issued.
Why the hell would anything be in the CPU's memory when you're rendering the screen? All of this should be happening on the GPU, without any bitting of things from CPU memory.
Because that is how most 2D rendering works and how Chrome works (which this product uses). It is rendered with CPU based rasterization to tiles which are uploaded to the GPU and then composited by the GPU.Unless the you disable GPU compositing, then there is also a CPU based fallback.
No, as the C/C++ programmer, 0.13% of the CPU should be enough to render the entire screen at 60fps.
Depends on the screen resolution and speed of your memory. 13% of "CPU" doesn't sound too far off, though almost all of that time would be waiting on memory. Let's say you can blit 1080p in about 2ms (first in CPU memory and then to GPU memory), that would be 120ms per second for 60FPS or 12%
Why change the red light grace period? Red light is red light.
Because red lights means get out of the intersection. The grace period should be a hell of a lot longer or the automatic ticketing should just be abolished.
Why not just use the orange light and red light as intended? Orange means stop unless you need to break hard, and early red means get out of the intersection if you are still there. This idiocy about automatic tickets on red is the entire problem. It is like they don't understand hard traffic lights are supposed to work.
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This is OT, but is the Slashdot redesign an April Fool's joke? It used to be grey but now all of the sudden everything is orange. Is this a new design after so many years or a prank?
Slacker News? Yes it is a joke.
The date on the linked article is March 30th, so even taking different time zones and daylight savings etc into account, it was not published on April 1st. Unless they modified the date stamp to fool us.
It is a well-known pseudo-scientific trope, I think even xkcd has made fun of this "theory". I am guessing slashdot included it today to troll physicists, since this tends to piss them off.
That is new for an April Fool's prank :D
people in charge of speed limits and saftey standards wont be happy until your driving powerwheels to work. top speed 5mph! soo safe! wait, we still need a new nerf bumper design.
Speed limits in the US are way lower than in Europe (dispite having lower population density), but the US still has an order of magnitude more traffic accidents and fatalities. The low speed-limits might actually be making it worse, as people get bored and unfocused.
Wait Why is the overall rate of traffic deaths _growing_?
Jesus Christ America, you suck!
Who lives in San Francisco and only has rent of $775.45? Unless that's a weekly rate, then it's way off.
Makes sense per week. But who can get from SF to their tech job in the valley in 33minutes?
Ummm, have you seen an airport with train tracks through it?
Yes, most major airports in Europe and Asia has train tracks. One of the problem is often being adjecent to both highway, trains, open land for the runways and close to a major population center.
A computer doesn't give a shit if the runway is straight or curved, because it can handle a little more left (or whatever) while it's managing dozens of other things. But a human can't do that. You want to make pilots have to account for bank and curvature in addition to everything else? That's obviously a shit idea.
I don't think it is that hard. Then again I am not a pilot, and I am guessing you are neither, but I know of a few mountain airports where some fine navigation is required to land safely, and that appears to work.
I love how he places his drawning in the middle of nowhere with no roads or train tracks, or even neighby restraints on the layout of the land. Sure you can pull all that underground, but he seems to just ignore it.
Yeah, that's one of the gaps. I'd love to see local news and weather without the commercials. Though, even Netflix couldn't do much about the news/weather people acting like idiots. :p
I would just love to be able to get the 5 minute headlines on demand, instead of waiting for it on a news network, and then be able to choose which story to hear about in detail.
"US Top Court"
Because "supreme" just doesn't quite cut it.
Supreme like Hawaii are just Pizza adjectives.
The patent trolls already did. Tyler, TX has buildings "occupied" by lots of companies, except that there is never anyone in the office.
Also it has more "offices" that the building has rooms, or square meters.
Space weapons platform.
Glorious orange leader can destroy his enemies from space!
That's right a Star Wars sequel, by a new retarded TV president. It is about time.
ë isn't part of the german alphabet
Neither are ü ;)
German accented letter are not separate letters and thus not in the alphabet. More importantly: ë isn't used in German.
Ext4 doesn't have user data checksums, only metadata: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/i...
I think it is an option. Journaled metadata is the default, but you can choose journaled data too. It is just not very well performing. The B-tree structure of writing new entries and switching atomically works much better that way.
All Netflix needs now is a news and weather show, and they can kill TV as we know it.
So far having solid state cache for a hard drive is an idea which looks great on a paper, but practically everything that has been offered shows the performance - and we're talking about the real workload and the real user experiences - closer to the hard drive than to the solid state device. IMHO, since, apparently, we have a fairly large number of cache misses or some other anomalies, having the solid state cache which is 1000 faster than the traditional NAN-based one won't make too much difference.
You can get SSD-like boot times, but that is about it, the rest is HDD like
This is 99% about TAXES. No more cash between friends. Tax everything 3, 4 and 5 times.
That is even dumber and more paranoid. Those transactions are already either taxed or tax-exempt, plus there are a rounding error in taxing.
Really?
In the UK, red means DO NOT CROSS the line of the traffic light. If you're already past the line by the time it goes red, you're on your own (e.g. traffic jam in front but no yellow box forcing you to keep the junction clear and nothing moves for a whole phase) but it's not an offence.
The problem is the latter. The cameras check if you are in the intersection on red, so if you cross on yellow, and don't get out (easy if the yellow is too short).
Btw, you are not supposed to enter the intersection unless you can pass all the way through, if you end up being stuck due to a traffic jam you are also breaking the law.
Why the hell would anything be in the CPU's memory when you're rendering the screen? All of this should be happening on the GPU, without any bitting of things from CPU memory.
Because that is how most 2D rendering works and how Chrome works (which this product uses). It is rendered with CPU based rasterization to tiles which are uploaded to the GPU and then composited by the GPU.Unless the you disable GPU compositing, then there is also a CPU based fallback.
Note, my base assumption is still that they are doing it wrong and stupidly. Rerendering the entire screen on CPU 60fps. That would fit with 12% CPU. A smart CPU rerendering would only rerender the pixels changing (which is easy on CPU based algorithms because there is no double buffering) and use 0.1% CPU, a smart GPU based rerendering would rerender the entire screen but still use less than 0.1% CPU because only GPU instructions would be issued.
Why the hell would anything be in the CPU's memory when you're rendering the screen? All of this should be happening on the GPU, without any bitting of things from CPU memory.
Because that is how most 2D rendering works and how Chrome works (which this product uses). It is rendered with CPU based rasterization to tiles which are uploaded to the GPU and then composited by the GPU.Unless the you disable GPU compositing, then there is also a CPU based fallback.
Um, doesn't the operating system do that?
The Chrome browser IS an operating system, or at least it is intentionally written as one, so even outside of ChromeOS it acts as one.
No, as the C/C++ programmer, 0.13% of the CPU should be enough to render the entire screen at 60fps.
Depends on the screen resolution and speed of your memory. 13% of "CPU" doesn't sound too far off, though almost all of that time would be waiting on memory. Let's say you can blit 1080p in about 2ms (first in CPU memory and then to GPU memory), that would be 120ms per second for 60FPS or 12%
Why change the red light grace period? Red light is red light.
Because red lights means get out of the intersection. The grace period should be a hell of a lot longer or the automatic ticketing should just be abolished.
Why not just use the orange light and red light as intended? Orange means stop unless you need to break hard, and early red means get out of the intersection if you are still there. This idiocy about automatic tickets on red is the entire problem. It is like they don't understand hard traffic lights are supposed to work.