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  1. Re:I use this, and it's crap on US Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS's Mail Scanning Service (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Amazon tells me if I have packages.

    This tells me if it's worth my time to walk to the mailbox.

  2. I built a Quake map of my high school (pre-Columbine) and we would play it all the time.

    Hell depending on what the architects used you could probably just export it to Unity these days.

  3. More specifically it was the AltiVec instructions.

    a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector) — the AIM alliance

  4. Re:Convergence is Coming on New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance To 2018 15" MacBook Pro in Benchmarks (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple's done this multiple times.

    68k -> PPC -> X86

  5. Re:Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    You can execute shell commands from within a notebook with !

    !git commit -am "Commit message"

  6. In the case of the Laptop I can't find never Laptops that perform as well

    In the case of the laptop I can't even find laptops that perform as well.

    Apparently I had a stroke mid comment.

  7. Re:Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have the excuse that they weren't shown a better way.

  8. Most things have been 'good enough' for a while on People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My laptop (M6700) was released in 2012, my phone (Note 4) is from 2014 and my desktop (4770k) is from 2013. They're all sufficient, even in late 2018.

    In the case of the Laptop I can't find never Laptops that perform as well or have as much room to expand for anywhere near the price I paid.

  9. Re:Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 1
    1. I've had no problem putting notebooks in version control. There's even a diff/merge tool available now to operate on Notebooks: https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/...
    2. That can be an issue, but in reality you can enforce it by having a git-commit hook that executes the notebooks. I just make it habit to regularly reset the kernel and run all.
    3. I don't know why you think that. I always use Jupyter for my exploratory and early "enterprise" development. I'll start out with some unorganized code and then refine the notebook until I have a class developed, with test cases. Then I'll convert it to a .py. You can develop OOP in Notebooks.

    The other issues you list, that's a training issue. I have the same issues with engineers. Most are mechanical or electrical, and while they are subject matter experts their code leaves a lot to be desired.

  10. Re:Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks exactly like it would on paper, but if you plan on printing it I don't know if it handles the page break stuff. It does make a great PDF.

    I know that you can integrate LaTeX templates.

    The nice part about it is you don't have to deal with 99% of LaTeX and can just focus on writing the equations.

    There's a free online way to try it: https://jupyter.org/try

  11. Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anecdotal, but I do 90% of my python 'development' in Jupyter Notebooks.

    For work I can make a nice notebook and have it generate a PDF for archiving. It'll output to LaTeX, html, .py and a number of other formats.

    Now you can include multiple languages in the same notebook including R and Matlab, both popular in their own niches of use.

  12. Re:be nice to have 10-gig swtichs come down in pri on Mac Mini Receives First Overhaul in Four Years; New iPad Pro With No Home Button Announced (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    At those prices you're almost better off just building your own router/switch.

    You can pick up off lease 10GB 2 port cards for $20.

  13. Re:be nice to have 10-gig swtichs come down in pri on Mac Mini Receives First Overhaul in Four Years; New iPad Pro With No Home Button Announced (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If history of Apple including things has been any indication, they will.

    USB hubs and devices used to be rare and expensive, until Jobs rolled out the iMac and told Apple users to deal with it.

    The computer I took to college in 2001 had a gigabit port and switches finally came down in price to use the full gig.

    "Airport" was pretty revolutionary at the time, now there's 802.11 everywhere. Prices for PC components started coming down, most using the same Atheros(?) chipsets as the first airport devices.

  14. A carpenters tools equivalent of doors would be a brick for a hammer and what ever they could dig out of the dumpster.

    DOORS quality and pricing is on par with Craftsmen these days. Both now made in the same hemisphere too.

    That's cheaper than our Mathworks licenses but we actually get decent value out of them, unlike DOORS.

  15. Once again. You have the wrong binary UID.

    I live in a rural area. I'm not the other guy.

    See also:

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

  16. Re:why? on FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It depends if you think the Rural Electrification Act had a net positive or negative on industry and commerce in the country.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:Damn. on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If so, please explain it here.

    IBM Rational DOORS: Starting at $5,460.00 USD
    IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation: Starting at $164.00 USD per user per month

    And that's pricing I can find. I don't even want to know what we're paying for IBM ClearCase.

    IBM buys companies (Like Rational) and milks by exorbitant fees. They're only slightly 'better' than Oracle.

    I expect anyone that doesn't have an IBM RedHat Certification(tm) won't have the 'full warranty'. Here let us direct you to one of our training centers.

  18. Oh Pottering. on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?

    tmpfiles: R! /dir/.* destroys root

    Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder which tool permitted you to create it in the first place. Note that not permitting numeric first characters is done on purpose: to avoid ambiguities between numeric UID and textual user names.

    So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here. I understand this is annoying, but still: the username is clearly not valid.

    systemd can't handle the process previlege that belongs to user name startswith number, such as 0day

    I tested Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris, 0day is a perfectly valid username.

    How did anyone that lacked that much understanding about UNIX get in charge of the init system?

  19. Still broken. on Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I have my $HOME on another partition and snaps don't work. Something something about permissions and I haven't dug any deeper than that.

    Congratulations on linux implementing the .app setup from OS X.

  20. Re:That's what the USA has become now... a joke. on Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You made

    Numerically most of us didn't. We just have a system that allows that.

  21. Re:PLEASE!!!!! on Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as they stop going back in time.

    Just address the rebooted Movies and everything after voyager as an alternate universe or some dream sequence.

    I want to see what happens in the quadrants after DS9 and Voyager, I don't want to see a rehash of every character I already know.

    Get Worf to be some pencil pusher at HQ and explore outside of the 4 known quadrants.

  22. Re:Is anyone using OpenBSD on the desktop? on OpenBSD 6.4 Released (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    NAS

    Is there a list of file systems it supports?

  23. Re:Went back to Debian on Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I still use Ubuntu (Mate LTS) for most of my 'user' machines because there *has* been work put into getting the basics working out of the box. I used to use Debian/FreeBSD and while everything would work, it didn't do it out of the box. FreeBSD and Debian both required a lot of configuration.

    Sometimes because of Debian's ideology on free. Shimming in drivers on install felt like Windows at times.

    Second, because of Debian's transient nature a lot of companies are releasing for LTS (Nvidia CUDA repos), which makes it easier to maintain.
     

  24. Re:Good luck with that! on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The low margin depends on the customer traversing the "last mile" shifting the last mile problem from supplier to consumer.

    At this point, it's been optimized to the point where the grocery store is obsolete. "Milk Men" are going to come back, which is more or less what this is.

    Right now the current method by Shipt is unbelievably worse. You're paying someone to go shop in a store for you, to pay a store to pay people to put stuff on shelves and make them straight, etc.

    Look at how much 'dead weight' is sitting around a grocery store. Not to mention all of the overhead of a parking lot, power, prime real estate taxes, a CD and DVD section ... because.

    You could build a pick'n'pull factory in the middle of nowhere to only sell non-perishables. Give me a barcode scanner to scan stuff as it's getting empty, let me schedule a drop off time (or pickup location) and I'll never grocery shop again. Our farmers market is good enough to actually eat from (vs the 'art fair lite' farmers markets some towns have).

  25. Re:Python advantages? on Python is a Hit With Hackers, Report Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ecosystem.