Already, computers are waaay more powerful than human minds, we just haven't figured out how to steer all this power towards actual intelligence
In terms of number of switches, not really (we're getting close though). In terms of interconnect, you're orders of magnitude off. The big difference between a brain and a microprocessor is the number of interconnects between discrete components. Neurons in a human brain have as many as 7,000 connections to other neurons. The state of the art for hardware neural network simulations have 700. And don't expect that to scale linearly - doubling the number of connections is really hard. Latency goes up dramatically.
There are 4k (3840x2160 pixels for a 16:9 aspect ratio) monitors out there although you will pay for them
You won't pay much. We're now buying them as our default monitor because reasonable ones are down to about £300 - if you're using the machine for work, that's a negligible cost.
640KB is enough for some things. Every time you increase it by an order of magnitude, it becomes enough for more things. Eventually, the set of things that it's not enough for becomes too small a market to justify the R&D investment.
The main reason for doing it with mattresses is that it lets brick and mortar stores compete with online and makes price comparisons hard. I looked at some mattresses in a shop, where I could try lying on them, and then tried to check the price online and see if the local store was competitive (I'd accept some premium for being able to try it, but not an extra 100% markup). Not only could I not find the same model online, I couldn't find it in other brick and mortar stores either. I've no idea whether the two that were priced differently were the same, or just nearly the same.
The first amendment says that the government can't stop you from saying things they don't like. Free speech in general says that someone in a position of power can't stop you from saying things that they don't like. No matter how much free speech you have, the rest of society is still free to think you're an idiot when you open your mouth...
Most of the explanations of what 'modern feminism' is that I've seen have come from its detractors. Actual modern feminists seem pretty rare and, when you do meet them, far more rational than either their detractors or their portrayal by their detractors.
Yes, I use it (I don't use Firefox on the desktop, and haven't since around 2002). It has fine-grained cookie control, which seems to be something other Android browsers try to avoid, and with the self-destructing cookies plugin is the first browser to actually do what I want with cookies (delete them aggressively unless I explicitly ask for them to be kept). The UI is clean and it runs very smoothly on my Moto G (Cortex A7, cheap phone aimed at cheapskates and developing countries)
Older Android has a different WebKit-based browser. I installed Firefox when they tried to push Chrome: I was quite surprised, as I'd been unimpressed with earlier versions. It has a nicer UI and better privacy settings than Chrome on my phone. I'm very happy with the self-destructing cookies plugin.
He doesn't submit articles, he submits thousand-word incoherent ramblings. Other people submit a paragraph with a link to the real story, Bennett uses Slashdot as his personal blog.
Same here, I remember finding the line in the savegame files that contained the inventory and set the number of missiles to 0xff. The game became a lot less fun after that, but it was the first time I'd used a hex editor and it was very useful experience for later life.
It might be different if Bennet were a frequent poster and would be actively engaged in discussions, but he's not. He's just some guy who once heard that brevity is the soul of wit and went off to write ten thousand words explaining what it meant.
I really enjoyed the miniseries and the first two full seasons. By then you could tell that, although the Cylons had a plan, the writers didn't. Season 3 (according to Wikipedia numbering - it says 'Season 4 on my boxed set') started okay, but the boxing episode reminded me of TKO from Babylon 5, which was the worst episode of the entire 5-year run, and it went downhill from there. The whole 'God did it' ending was almost as bad as 'they woke up and it was all a dream'. I watched most of Season 4 thinking 'the next episode is going to be better, right? The writers are just having a bad day...week...year...'
The addition of the scene with Jabba was because the original looked old?
The scene with Jabba was in the novelisation that George Lucas wrote in 1977. I was under the impression that it was filmed, but didn't make it into the original because they couldn't make it look anything other than terrible with the special effects at the time.
I really enjoyed the series, but I watched it aged about 9-12. I've avoided watching it again, because I think I was probably in the right age demographic the first time. Knight Rider, on the other hand, I re-watched recently and still enjoyed.
The reason that Apple disabled this is that a lot of SSDs have really buggy TRIM implementations. This observation wasn't unique to Apple: Microsoft and the Linux kernel defaulted to TRIM being off until quite recently. Apple could afford to turn it on for their own SSDs because they did extensive compatibility testing of those before shipping them.
Now, it doesn't really make sense, but enabling it automatically would likely burn some users, and bug reports about data loss lead to a lot more anger than bug reports about lower performance.
TRIM says 'I won't read back from this sector, so you can erase it whenever you want'. That makes it a bit easier for the wear levelling to work. It isn't essential though. An SSD controller can remap sectors at will. Typically, it will keep track of the age (number of erase cycles) of each cell and the time of the last erase. Once a cell reaches a certain age it will write some old (and therefore hopefully infrequently changing) data onto it. Current SSDs, because of the low reliability of individual flash cells, over provision by quite a lot, so it's relatively easy to structure the writes so that everything is a copy. This doesn't even affect performance, as the reads and writes can happen in parallel. The only thing that hurts performance is if you need to block a write waiting for an erase to finish.
that might work in most places around the world where everyone lives on top of each other
Although the mean population density when you average across land mass is pretty low in the US, the modal and median population densities (averaged across people) are actually compared to most places in the western world. The problem is the batshit insane zoning policies of US cities that insist that people live on top of each other in one place and then work on top of each other somewhere far away, and shop on top of each other in a third place.
the entire build for amd64 and x86 has moved to the llvm compiler and clang
We flipped the default switch in 10.0, but 9.x shipped with a src.conf option to build with clang instead of gcc. We found quite a few LLVM bugs during this time and didn't flip the switch until we were confident that it would work.
Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs.
A good example of this is Netflix. Because their infrastructure is designed to support server failures, they're quite happy to deploy random patches against -CURRENT on machines that saturate their network and disk bandwidth pretty much full time and report performance numbers. This has been a really good way of stress testing network and storage stack improvements recently.
The pf in FreeBSD is not just a copy of the OpenBSD code that was then forgotten about. It has been worked on since it was imported, for example adding significantly better SMP scaling in the 10.0 release.
Use the same one. Report every single Conservative Party web site (including candidate web sites in the run up to the next election) as inappropriate content. If enough people do it then some are bound to accidentally slip in to the censor list...
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Yes. Although in that case it's to make cutting remarks about their fashion sense.
Already, computers are waaay more powerful than human minds, we just haven't figured out how to steer all this power towards actual intelligence
In terms of number of switches, not really (we're getting close though). In terms of interconnect, you're orders of magnitude off. The big difference between a brain and a microprocessor is the number of interconnects between discrete components. Neurons in a human brain have as many as 7,000 connections to other neurons. The state of the art for hardware neural network simulations have 700. And don't expect that to scale linearly - doubling the number of connections is really hard. Latency goes up dramatically.
There are 4k (3840x2160 pixels for a 16:9 aspect ratio) monitors out there although you will pay for them
You won't pay much. We're now buying them as our default monitor because reasonable ones are down to about £300 - if you're using the machine for work, that's a negligible cost.
640kB ought to be enough for anyone
640KB is enough for some things. Every time you increase it by an order of magnitude, it becomes enough for more things. Eventually, the set of things that it's not enough for becomes too small a market to justify the R&D investment.
The main reason for doing it with mattresses is that it lets brick and mortar stores compete with online and makes price comparisons hard. I looked at some mattresses in a shop, where I could try lying on them, and then tried to check the price online and see if the local store was competitive (I'd accept some premium for being able to try it, but not an extra 100% markup). Not only could I not find the same model online, I couldn't find it in other brick and mortar stores either. I've no idea whether the two that were priced differently were the same, or just nearly the same.
The first amendment says that the government can't stop you from saying things they don't like. Free speech in general says that someone in a position of power can't stop you from saying things that they don't like. No matter how much free speech you have, the rest of society is still free to think you're an idiot when you open your mouth...
so does the modern feminism coming from the left
Most of the explanations of what 'modern feminism' is that I've seen have come from its detractors. Actual modern feminists seem pretty rare and, when you do meet them, far more rational than either their detractors or their portrayal by their detractors.
To be fair, the book is pretty much like real life - the only difference is that the boss in the story is more likely to be male too...
The 3D filesystem viewer was real and shipped with IRIX. There's a Linux port now - it was open sourced a few years back.
Yes, I use it (I don't use Firefox on the desktop, and haven't since around 2002). It has fine-grained cookie control, which seems to be something other Android browsers try to avoid, and with the self-destructing cookies plugin is the first browser to actually do what I want with cookies (delete them aggressively unless I explicitly ask for them to be kept). The UI is clean and it runs very smoothly on my Moto G (Cortex A7, cheap phone aimed at cheapskates and developing countries)
Older Android has a different WebKit-based browser. I installed Firefox when they tried to push Chrome: I was quite surprised, as I'd been unimpressed with earlier versions. It has a nicer UI and better privacy settings than Chrome on my phone. I'm very happy with the self-destructing cookies plugin.
He doesn't submit articles, he submits thousand-word incoherent ramblings. Other people submit a paragraph with a link to the real story, Bennett uses Slashdot as his personal blog.
Same here, I remember finding the line in the savegame files that contained the inventory and set the number of missiles to 0xff. The game became a lot less fun after that, but it was the first time I'd used a hex editor and it was very useful experience for later life.
It might be different if Bennet were a frequent poster and would be actively engaged in discussions, but he's not. He's just some guy who once heard that brevity is the soul of wit and went off to write ten thousand words explaining what it meant.
I really enjoyed the miniseries and the first two full seasons. By then you could tell that, although the Cylons had a plan, the writers didn't. Season 3 (according to Wikipedia numbering - it says 'Season 4 on my boxed set') started okay, but the boxing episode reminded me of TKO from Babylon 5, which was the worst episode of the entire 5-year run, and it went downhill from there. The whole 'God did it' ending was almost as bad as 'they woke up and it was all a dream'. I watched most of Season 4 thinking 'the next episode is going to be better, right? The writers are just having a bad day...week...year...'
The addition of the scene with Jabba was because the original looked old?
The scene with Jabba was in the novelisation that George Lucas wrote in 1977. I was under the impression that it was filmed, but didn't make it into the original because they couldn't make it look anything other than terrible with the special effects at the time.
I really enjoyed the series, but I watched it aged about 9-12. I've avoided watching it again, because I think I was probably in the right age demographic the first time. Knight Rider, on the other hand, I re-watched recently and still enjoyed.
And the cylons with the red LED scanner, just like that Knight Rider car thing
At least this wasn't copied from someone else, as Glen A. Larson was the creator of both.
The reason that Apple disabled this is that a lot of SSDs have really buggy TRIM implementations. This observation wasn't unique to Apple: Microsoft and the Linux kernel defaulted to TRIM being off until quite recently. Apple could afford to turn it on for their own SSDs because they did extensive compatibility testing of those before shipping them.
Now, it doesn't really make sense, but enabling it automatically would likely burn some users, and bug reports about data loss lead to a lot more anger than bug reports about lower performance.
TRIM says 'I won't read back from this sector, so you can erase it whenever you want'. That makes it a bit easier for the wear levelling to work. It isn't essential though. An SSD controller can remap sectors at will. Typically, it will keep track of the age (number of erase cycles) of each cell and the time of the last erase. Once a cell reaches a certain age it will write some old (and therefore hopefully infrequently changing) data onto it. Current SSDs, because of the low reliability of individual flash cells, over provision by quite a lot, so it's relatively easy to structure the writes so that everything is a copy. This doesn't even affect performance, as the reads and writes can happen in parallel. The only thing that hurts performance is if you need to block a write waiting for an erase to finish.
that might work in most places around the world where everyone lives on top of each other
Although the mean population density when you average across land mass is pretty low in the US, the modal and median population densities (averaged across people) are actually compared to most places in the western world. The problem is the batshit insane zoning policies of US cities that insist that people live on top of each other in one place and then work on top of each other somewhere far away, and shop on top of each other in a third place.
the entire build for amd64 and x86 has moved to the llvm compiler and clang
We flipped the default switch in 10.0, but 9.x shipped with a src.conf option to build with clang instead of gcc. We found quite a few LLVM bugs during this time and didn't flip the switch until we were confident that it would work.
Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs.
A good example of this is Netflix. Because their infrastructure is designed to support server failures, they're quite happy to deploy random patches against -CURRENT on machines that saturate their network and disk bandwidth pretty much full time and report performance numbers. This has been a really good way of stress testing network and storage stack improvements recently.
The pf in FreeBSD is _seriously_ outdated
The pf in FreeBSD is not just a copy of the OpenBSD code that was then forgotten about. It has been worked on since it was imported, for example adding significantly better SMP scaling in the 10.0 release.
Use the same one. Report every single Conservative Party web site (including candidate web sites in the run up to the next election) as inappropriate content. If enough people do it then some are bound to accidentally slip in to the censor list...