I grew up in Indiana (when they didn't observe) and it was glorious. The only thing we ever noticed was that all our summer TV shows were 'central time'.
This whole twice a year thing is jarring. We ate dinner at 9 tonight because we're used to looking outside to judge when to start stuff.
Plus all the studies of morbidity in hospitals and traffic accidents.
But each year on the Monday after the springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart-attack visits around the US.
Then again, I'm sort of a diehard UTC person. College caught me that who cares what time you wake up on the clock. Especially with the global economy I know business meetings across 4 timezones and all their nuances would go a lot smoother if we just set UTC meeting times.
How long until we have some HTML5/CSS/JS hardware accelerated chip to do the actual rendering and just pass the display information to a 'thin client'?
At some point it's going to be faster to x11 forwarding/VNC to a bigger machine somewhere else to handle the latest JS framework.
You can't go back and forge early documents at a later point.
You can't go into the DB and just decide to edit a port of origin as all of the metadata that goes into a record also depends on all of the metadata prior to it.
Give me root access to your databases and I'll make your products show up from anywhere in the world. What happens when Orange company gets sold and Orange2, Inc wants to scrub any incriminating data showing Oranges from region X caused cancer? Edit the database.
If you can figure out how to Edit the blockchain you'll be richer doing that than bothering with oranges.
If you absolutely need it there's even a Opera browser.
Charge it about twice a month. Used it to crack open pistachios that weren't precracked enough. Still available used and for use on the Sprint network (or Ting). Costs about ~$15-20/month.
Has some nice headset options as well, plus bluetooth.
In Europe I know they get a lot of other fancy feature phones. You can get the Nokia 3310, but not sure about the frequencies compared with the US.
This post is what I still love about Slashdot over Reddit and Facebook. This post exists. Unlike Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, et al. it won't get deleted. [Not sure if the list of owners has changed the policy, but I think the Scientology post through legal action was the only one. Any lurking 2-4 digit users remember?]
AC is hands down the best user on Slashdot and why I keep coming back. I've seen some amazing +5 Informative posts. Laughed at +5 Funny. And thankfully not had to ever deal with [pronoun]'s Troll posts, and most users, especially logged out lurkers, will never know. No one is ranting about Slashdot hosting what ever this rant was (I certainly didn't bother reading it). It'l get modded troll and disappear. Maybe it'll get a legendary -5 Troll from being +5 Interesting but still a Troll post.
Slashdot has persisted, because of the (IMHO) amazing moderation on Slashdot had implemented from the beginning.
Unlike Reddit, it's not just a up/down bandwagon vote if you agree with the comment.
Unlike Facebook, it's not a quinary 'reaction' of how I feel about the comment. 'Like, love, laugh, sad, wow, and mad' aren't even worth registering for something like this.
Unlike Twitter, it's not a numerical count of how many people agree with it or a reply.
Unlike the former Imzy, it's not a bunch of people trying not to offend a single person in a room of thousands.
Unlike 4Chan.... I have no clue the appeal of 4Chan. I was in my 20s and didn't get it. Any younger millenials comment?
Reddit is just a bunch of forums band-aided together with the same userbase./r/The_Donald,/r/HumansBeingBros,/r/trees and/r/gonewild just all in one place.
Facebook is just some poorly designed poll about how something makes me feel.
Twitter is a bunch of idiots standing around shouting. With some idiots giving other idiots megaphones. And a million little side shouting matches.
Imzy was trying to be an online kumbaya circle. I just commented about "Anonymous Coward" vs their RandomUserName method and got an earful about the 'connotation' of Coward and how it makes others feel. And that was the end of that. The attitude of every user just wanted me to never post. It appears it made others feel the same way.
4Chan appeared to be the online version of The Aristocrats. With everyone thinking they were Gilbert Gottfried version after the 9/11 joke.
Slashdot may have its problems and I may not always agree with its registered userbase, but Jesus, have you seen where those people
hangout online?
Whiplash, if you're serious about improving the site and want to attract a huge raft of migrants from Reddit upset over the Facebook-ization of the redesign:
This downtime was just unacceptable for a site targeted towards professionals like Slashdot was.
Can we please use Markdown? When I wrote HTML daily in the late 90s posting here was second nature. Markdown has sort of become lingua fraqua of formats. It's short and descriptive enough.
You don't even have to force the same front end on users. Register a new domain with a fancy TLD. Do the translation on the backend.
Fucking Unicode.
Slashdot's killer feature is the moderation. I would pay money for a politics forum with Slashdot's moderation system. Because even at $1/month it'll keep out the most people that don't even value their opinion at that, the ones that will cling to Facebook and Twitter like those that did to MySpace and Imzy.
I'd also pay for a Usenet interface. Hire some people, RFC-5537 is 10 years old and could be improved upon. Have a lessons learned pow-wow at Slashdot and I'll lower your bandwidth bill by a significant factor.
Secede. Just get some balls and do it. Colorado called the US goverment's bluff enough time and legalized pot. Then a bunch of other states followed.
Get a ballot initiative, Prop N, or what ever your state does, and stop funding the federal government. Someone's going to be first. If you guys have the spine to do it, just do it.
The big problem with software development is it has no direct future.
Why isn't it "continue to develop software"?
For most software dev jobs, nobody gets injured, dies, nor puked on no matter how bad you or your colleagues screw up.
Some, not all. Because some people do write software for the medical professionals during life-threatening emergencies, people in severe pain/duress, etc.
It's more or less a PowerPC G4 right down to the Firewire bus.
Components were billed as "COTS". However those chips were still back when they were Motorola/Freescale
The system departed from the historical use of low speed Mil-Std-1553B busses, using the high speed Fibre Channel-Avionics Environment (FC-AE) serial bus for high speed internal interconnects.
built around PowerPC RISC processors - essentially a bigger and faster cousin to the 6U VME packaged PowerPC processors now being used in F-15E, F/A-18E/F and F-111C Block C-4.
"So we have designed for technology refresh, so at the appropriate time we can stop putting in the 1 GHz processor board and swap out to the 2 GHz board without having to go back and do any redesign. We were once required to use a MIL-STD-1760 processor with Ada or other military languages; now we use commercial PowerPC with C++."
I don't care about the price. I care about the convenience.
Sign up here, login there. Hope that an app doesn't kick you off and make you log in again. Because typing in secure passwords with an on-screen keyboard is not exactly fun.
Or I can click a magnet link, from anywhere in the world, have it kick off a download and it'll pop up in Kodi as "new movie".
I moved to streaming services because, for a short time, it was straight forward and simple. If they move back to a PITA model then I'll move back to my convenient one.
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While you can compensate for a poor design in software, the best way is to not make the poor design in the first place.
There is a 'neutral' point for the engines to be located such that a large amount of thrust causes the body to remain mostly neutral.
I grew up in Indiana (when they didn't observe) and it was glorious. The only thing we ever noticed was that all our summer TV shows were 'central time'.
This whole twice a year thing is jarring. We ate dinner at 9 tonight because we're used to looking outside to judge when to start stuff.
Plus all the studies of morbidity in hospitals and traffic accidents.
Daylight-saving time is literally killing us
But each year on the Monday after the springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart-attack visits around the US.
Then again, I'm sort of a diehard UTC person. College caught me that who cares what time you wake up on the clock. Especially with the global economy I know business meetings across 4 timezones and all their nuances would go a lot smoother if we just set UTC meeting times.
LLVM has helped to blur the line.
How long until we have some HTML5/CSS/JS hardware accelerated chip to do the actual rendering and just pass the display information to a 'thin client'?
At some point it's going to be faster to x11 forwarding/VNC to a bigger machine somewhere else to handle the latest JS framework.
You can't go back and forge early documents at a later point.
You can't go into the DB and just decide to edit a port of origin as all of the metadata that goes into a record also depends on all of the metadata prior to it.
Give me root access to your databases and I'll make your products show up from anywhere in the world. What happens when Orange company gets sold and Orange2, Inc wants to scrub any incriminating data showing Oranges from region X caused cancer? Edit the database.
If you can figure out how to Edit the blockchain you'll be richer doing that than bothering with oranges.
I would like to take this high level post to point out that we are not the same users.
For what ever reason robotic vacuums are more popular in Europe.
Husqvarna has had multiple models available for a while.
Why am I bringing my phone out of my pocket to 'impress ladies'?
For other definitions of 'minimalist'.
https://www.kyoceramobile.com/...
If you absolutely need it there's even a Opera browser.
Charge it about twice a month. Used it to crack open pistachios that weren't precracked enough. Still available used and for use on the Sprint network (or Ting). Costs about ~$15-20/month.
Has some nice headset options as well, plus bluetooth.
In Europe I know they get a lot of other fancy feature phones. You can get the Nokia 3310, but not sure about the frequencies compared with the US.
https://www.nokia.com/phones/e...
First Shareware game I ever bought.
The taxonomical moderation of Slashdot allow that. Something can be Funny, Informative or Interesting even if I don't agree with it.
Something can be Informative even if it offends me. Way too many people can't separate the content from how it makes them feel
This post is what I still love about Slashdot over Reddit and Facebook. This post exists. Unlike Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, et al. it won't get deleted. [Not sure if the list of owners has changed the policy, but I think the Scientology post through legal action was the only one. Any lurking 2-4 digit users remember?]
AC is hands down the best user on Slashdot and why I keep coming back. I've seen some amazing +5 Informative posts. Laughed at +5 Funny. And thankfully not had to ever deal with [pronoun]'s Troll posts, and most users, especially logged out lurkers, will never know. No one is ranting about Slashdot hosting what ever this rant was (I certainly didn't bother reading it). It'l get modded troll and disappear. Maybe it'll get a legendary -5 Troll from being +5 Interesting but still a Troll post.
Slashdot has persisted, because of the (IMHO) amazing moderation on Slashdot had implemented from the beginning.
Slashdot may have its problems and I may not always agree with its registered userbase, but Jesus, have you seen where those people
hangout online?
Whiplash, if you're serious about improving the site and want to attract a huge raft of migrants from Reddit upset over the Facebook-ization of the redesign:
Slashdot's killer feature is the moderation. I would pay money for a politics forum with Slashdot's moderation system. Because even at $1/month it'll keep out the most people that don't even value their opinion at that, the ones that will cling to Facebook and Twitter like those that did to MySpace and Imzy.
I'd also pay for a Usenet interface. Hire some people, RFC-5537 is 10 years old and could be improved upon. Have a lessons learned pow-wow at Slashdot and I'll lower your bandwidth bill by a significant factor.
Fox takes out a Poll during the primaries on Republicans, people want to join the 'winning team', so they take those results into consideration.
Yes.
You get hyper local representatives, you get 1 person summarizing the opinion of 30k people instead of 600k.
There's zero reason for them to be in the exact same area all the time with modern technology.
Divide lobbying dollars by 20 and it suddenly becomes a lot harder to buy a politician.
Has no one studied the history of any technology? How did the first internal combustion engines work compared to modern ones?
ssh [mac ip]
Did that on OS X in 2001. Has something changed?
Secede. Just get some balls and do it. Colorado called the US goverment's bluff enough time and legalized pot. Then a bunch of other states followed.
Get a ballot initiative, Prop N, or what ever your state does, and stop funding the federal government. Someone's going to be first. If you guys have the spine to do it, just do it.
The big problem with software development is it has no direct future.
Why isn't it "continue to develop software"?
For most software dev jobs, nobody gets injured, dies, nor puked on no matter how bad you or your colleagues screw up.
Some, not all. Because some people do write software for the medical professionals during life-threatening emergencies, people in severe pain/duress, etc.
Git has its own meaning in UK English.
So what are you using to compile all the self driving vehicle code?
There's C++ in there, they bill it as such.
We were once required to use a MIL-STD-1760 processor with Ada or other military languages; now we use commercial PowerPC with C++."
source
Here's their toolchain: https://www.ghs.com/AerospaceD...
From RTOS to IDE to Compiler, GHS the only name in this space.
It's more or less a PowerPC G4 right down to the Firewire bus.
Components were billed as "COTS". However those chips were still back when they were Motorola/Freescale
The system departed from the historical use of low speed Mil-Std-1553B busses, using the high speed Fibre Channel-Avionics Environment (FC-AE) serial bus for high speed internal interconnects.
built around PowerPC RISC processors - essentially a bigger and faster cousin to the 6U VME packaged PowerPC processors now being used in F-15E, F/A-18E/F and F-111C Block C-4.
"So we have designed for technology refresh, so at the appropriate time we can stop putting in the 1 GHz processor board and swap out to the 2 GHz board without having to go back and do any redesign. We were once required to use a MIL-STD-1760 processor with Ada or other military languages; now we use commercial PowerPC with C++."
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA...
https://www.militaryaerospace....
Have a well defined military specification.
I don't care about the price. I care about the convenience.
Sign up here, login there. Hope that an app doesn't kick you off and make you log in again. Because typing in secure passwords with an on-screen keyboard is not exactly fun.
Or I can click a magnet link, from anywhere in the world, have it kick off a download and it'll pop up in Kodi as "new movie".
I moved to streaming services because, for a short time, it was straight forward and simple. If they move back to a PITA model then I'll move back to my convenient one.
You mean just like how they can't lock postal drop boxes?
They sell mailboxes that operate the same way. You put the mail in, it drops down to a place that you can unlock.