I think you seriously underestimate the ability and staffing of engineering groups doing this stuff. I would bet 99% aren't aware of it. Has any big huge revelation come from these releases? It looks like a pretty boring code release, technically.
It's why companies like the BSD. And history shows it's not that they don't give back (Look at FreeBSD's commits from corporations) it's that they don't like being strong armed into nothing.
And that portion of it still needs work. My home directory is on another drive, snap refuses to let me do anything because 'permission denied'. Despite all the bits being set correctly.
"Coding" is a trade at this point as well. Coders could learn a lot from the way the apprenticeships are setup. You learn the basics (bootcamp) then 'train' under a master and do everything hands on.
Rail museums are fascinating once you realize all the bits that humans had to do. Prior to the self lubricator being invented it was someones job to go around and make sure all N hundred points were properly lubricated. You had to have people physically down on each switch. The locomotives themselves had a 50% duty cycle.
All of it has been 'automated'. No one is pining over not being able to fire a tinder box. A modern locomotive may take a handful of people to do what used to take hundreds if not thousands.
The same goes for every other industry from food production to transportation. Humans are industrious creatures in that we'll find something else to do and new ways to be lazy. 50 years ago making your living in eSport or drone racing would have been unheard of.
Yours and the parent comment are the two most insightful comments I've seen on here for a while.
You can always browse Slashdot at +5. Something not possible right now with Reddit. They only start hiding comments when they hit -2 or there are a lot of replies. A taxonomical moderation system like Slashdot where you can filter comments would be a massive improvement to Reddit's readability.
Browsing/r/funny at +5 Funny and/r/hardware or/r/cscarreerquestions at +5 informative would all but eliminate the downsides of Reddit. And for those that use shit posting as a badge of honour you could browse 4Chan at <-2 Troll and roll in the mud with the pigs. Same 'site'. Same comments and let each user decide what they want to read.
Slashdot's Karma also makes it easier to put certain commenters at the top without waiting on basic moderation. Someone that has excellent 'Informative' Karma shouldn't be buried in a comment chain simply because they're the 20th comment.
There's also a 'sweet spot' of subreddit size. Below a certain number you never generate enough content. Above a certain threshold and it's noise. I'm subscribed to all subreddits that have 5-6 topics *per day* and >20 comments per thread. But it takes a lot of leg work to get to point.
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Hi there, and welcome to Slashdot, where admitting that fucking HTML is too hard for you to handle is something that you really don'twanttodo
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Assume 200 characters per minute. 112.8s vs 143.7s. Nobody got time to waste typing out HTML.
The only thing Usenet lacked was decent moderation. Either extend NNTP with moderation bits or come up with a secondary protocol and application to support it.
No reason they couldn't exist on the same site and just allow you to moderate what comments you want to see.
Some sort of Borda count mechanism where when you get mod points the site remembers how you moderated, how others that moderate the post and how they moderate other posts.
You could have a slider to drag the same discussion from "leftist circle jerk" to "right leaning conspiracy nuts" and read the exact same discussion with the exact same people moderated an entirely different way. Let people decide how much of an echo chamber to live in while filtering out the echo chamber they don't want.
If anyone out there is interested in making money from the users and not their data, I'm constantly looking for new sites. I would *pay money* for a site that had the benefits of each that you outlined.
HTML was cute when I was 18 and on Slashdot but Markdown won. It's just so much easier to type and easier for non tech people. The Moderation of Slashdot is hands down the best I've seen of any website. Randomly distributed points to actual users limits bandwagoning and the taxonomy of voting separates the +5 Funnies from the +5 Informatives or the elusive +5 Trolls.
I want a place that isn't newspaper comments section or Facebook to discuss not just "News for Nerds" but other stuff in the news. The technology exists to do an automatic first round moderation. Something that auto moderated posts with below 10th grade reading level down would go a far in making a forum readable.
And sometimes I just think about going back to Usenet and adding some moderation protocol and server. Let me subscribe to a filtered Usenet moderation service for $5/month and let existing infrastructure handle the post storage.
We're intelligent enough to have made it through med school and engineering school and you think we haven't been doing our due diligence in researching giving up our US citizenship?
Please, continue to go on about all of the issues that may come up.
open a practice
She's not in private practice. There are more doctors than outpatient. Underserved communities in Canada look a lot like the underserved communities in the US.
your heard and dreams set
God no. For the same reason we don't go to NY, California, or Seattle. We honeymooned around Georgian Bay, in November.
You'll also have to re-take engineering certification tests here in Canada.
And? Do you think that this is some novel and new piece of information?
The means of death aren't as randomly distributed nor do they target those that weren't doing anything at all.
Until vending machines randomly start killing 59 people minding their own business listening to music or students in a classroom using statistics is a false equivalence.
You seem like high income individuals, you cant afford your own?
We absolutely can afford our own. But we can't guarantee our descendants will be in the same financial situation. If they don't end up in the same high paying jobs we want them to be able to get health care.
Universal health care means government run health care which means you have bureaucrats making decisions.
Yeah, because the capitalistic "Are we sure curing people is long term profitable" is working so well.
trashing God, morality, the bible, religion, respect and loyalty to our country, personality responsibility
Oh fuck off. Northern Europe is mostly agnostic and doesn't seem to have the issues the US has. The most religious regions, the South, seems to have the most issues. Rural Alabama looks like a 3rd world country, hook worms and all.
Go to Google. Type "Emigrate to [country]". They all have their own nuances.
With a MS in engineering and an MD we both qualify as skilled workers. She additionally speaks French, or enough to qualify for points. We also have more than enough saved up to meet the requirements of countries that have 'savings' requirements.
Everyone is looking to move up to do the best for their family. Indians to America. Syrians to Europe. Americas to Canada. Americans to Europe. The people first to move are the well educated with the capital to make such a move.
I have my MS and my wife has her MD. As a whole we've debated what countries would be best for our kids and their kids. Universal health care, fewer school shoots, treating mental health like a mental and not judicial problem and a host of other differences. Yeah, it reflects our politics. But it's pretty apparent the US isn't going to be what we want for our grand kids and their grand kids.
And you can save your breath, yelling at people on Facebook hasn't done anything either. I respect your opinion and your right to have your opinion, I want to live with people, like those in Canada or the Nordic states that share my opinion.
Braess's paradox is a proposed explanation for the situation where an alteration to a road network to improve traffic flow actually has the reverse effect and impedes traffic through it. The paradox was postulated in 1968 by German mathematician Dietrich Braess, who noticed that adding a road to a congested road traffic network could increase overall journey time, and it has been used to explain instances of improved traffic flow when existing major roads are closed.
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Anyone remember when Postal came out?
I'll buy. [One time license, none of this 'subscription crap']
I'm currently using Thunderbird and have been since Eudora. I mean, it's better than Webmail.
But I would absolutely jump ship to a better, modern mail client.
I think you seriously underestimate the ability and staffing of engineering groups doing this stuff. I would bet 99% aren't aware of it. Has any big huge revelation come from these releases? It looks like a pretty boring code release, technically.
It's why companies like the BSD. And history shows it's not that they don't give back (Look at FreeBSD's commits from corporations) it's that they don't like being strong armed into nothing.
Snaps sound more like an OS X .app than a Windows app.
And that portion of it still needs work. My home directory is on another drive, snap refuses to let me do anything because 'permission denied'. Despite all the bits being set correctly.
Do many of them have analog components to them.
Unless you're clicking out bits pretty sure the audio is still analog.
A recent survey of AOL users suggests that they are still loyal to Usenet.
Tragedy of the commons, nod and move on.
And quit confusing me for him.
beowulf cluster. Seriously Slashdot, you're slipping.
So basically distcc, icecc, ore any of a number of other tools?
I never left the midwest and worked up to $140k. Having never had to deal with any housing crises or the congestion that comes with a metro area.
"Coding" is a trade at this point as well. Coders could learn a lot from the way the apprenticeships are setup. You learn the basics (bootcamp) then 'train' under a master and do everything hands on.
Rail museums are fascinating once you realize all the bits that humans had to do. Prior to the self lubricator being invented it was someones job to go around and make sure all N hundred points were properly lubricated. You had to have people physically down on each switch. The locomotives themselves had a 50% duty cycle.
All of it has been 'automated'. No one is pining over not being able to fire a tinder box. A modern locomotive may take a handful of people to do what used to take hundreds if not thousands.
The same goes for every other industry from food production to transportation. Humans are industrious creatures in that we'll find something else to do and new ways to be lazy. 50 years ago making your living in eSport or drone racing would have been unheard of.
Yours and the parent comment are the two most insightful comments I've seen on here for a while.
You can always browse Slashdot at +5. Something not possible right now with Reddit. They only start hiding comments when they hit -2 or there are a lot of replies. A taxonomical moderation system like Slashdot where you can filter comments would be a massive improvement to Reddit's readability.
Browsing /r/funny at +5 Funny and /r/hardware or /r/cscarreerquestions at +5 informative would all but eliminate the downsides of Reddit. And for those that use shit posting as a badge of honour you could browse 4Chan at <-2 Troll and roll in the mud with the pigs. Same 'site'. Same comments and let each user decide what they want to read.
Slashdot's Karma also makes it easier to put certain commenters at the top without waiting on basic moderation. Someone that has excellent 'Informative' Karma shouldn't be buried in a comment chain simply because they're the 20th comment.
There's also a 'sweet spot' of subreddit size. Below a certain number you never generate enough content. Above a certain threshold and it's noise. I'm subscribed to all subreddits that have 5-6 topics *per day* and >20 comments per thread. But it takes a lot of leg work to get to point.
a daily Reddit and Slashdot user.
There are literally dozens of us.
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Hi there, and welcome to Slashdot, where admitting that fucking HTML is too hard for you to handle is something that you really don't want to do
479 characters.
Assume 200 characters per minute. 112.8s vs 143.7s. Nobody got time to waste typing out HTML.
The only thing Usenet lacked was decent moderation. Either extend NNTP with moderation bits or come up with a secondary protocol and application to support it.
No reason they couldn't exist on the same site and just allow you to moderate what comments you want to see.
Some sort of Borda count mechanism where when you get mod points the site remembers how you moderated, how others that moderate the post and how they moderate other posts.
You could have a slider to drag the same discussion from "leftist circle jerk" to "right leaning conspiracy nuts" and read the exact same discussion with the exact same people moderated an entirely different way. Let people decide how much of an echo chamber to live in while filtering out the echo chamber they don't want.
If anyone out there is interested in making money from the users and not their data, I'm constantly looking for new sites. I would *pay money* for a site that had the benefits of each that you outlined.
HTML was cute when I was 18 and on Slashdot but Markdown won. It's just so much easier to type and easier for non tech people. The Moderation of Slashdot is hands down the best I've seen of any website. Randomly distributed points to actual users limits bandwagoning and the taxonomy of voting separates the +5 Funnies from the +5 Informatives or the elusive +5 Trolls.
I want a place that isn't newspaper comments section or Facebook to discuss not just "News for Nerds" but other stuff in the news. The technology exists to do an automatic first round moderation. Something that auto moderated posts with below 10th grade reading level down would go a far in making a forum readable.
And sometimes I just think about going back to Usenet and adding some moderation protocol and server. Let me subscribe to a filtered Usenet moderation service for $5/month and let existing infrastructure handle the post storage.
We're intelligent enough to have made it through med school and engineering school and you think we haven't been doing our due diligence in researching giving up our US citizenship?
Please, continue to go on about all of the issues that may come up.
open a practice
She's not in private practice. There are more doctors than outpatient. Underserved communities in Canada look a lot like the underserved communities in the US.
your heard and dreams set
God no. For the same reason we don't go to NY, California, or Seattle. We honeymooned around Georgian Bay, in November.
You'll also have to re-take engineering certification tests here in Canada.
And? Do you think that this is some novel and new piece of information?
Grandparents, cousins, family. The same reasons holding most other people back from leaving.
The means of death aren't as randomly distributed nor do they target those that weren't doing anything at all.
Until vending machines randomly start killing 59 people minding their own business listening to music or students in a classroom using statistics is a false equivalence.
And you can save your breath
You really didn't read the whole thing?
You seem like high income individuals, you cant afford your own?
We absolutely can afford our own. But we can't guarantee our descendants will be in the same financial situation. If they don't end up in the same high paying jobs we want them to be able to get health care.
Universal health care means government run health care which means you have bureaucrats making decisions.
Yeah, because the capitalistic "Are we sure curing people is long term profitable" is working so well.
trashing God, morality, the bible, religion, respect and loyalty to our country, personality responsibility
Oh fuck off. Northern Europe is mostly agnostic and doesn't seem to have the issues the US has. The most religious regions, the South, seems to have the most issues. Rural Alabama looks like a 3rd world country, hook worms and all.
Go to Google. Type "Emigrate to [country]". They all have their own nuances.
With a MS in engineering and an MD we both qualify as skilled workers. She additionally speaks French, or enough to qualify for points. We also have more than enough saved up to meet the requirements of countries that have 'savings' requirements.
Read the usernames. Nat all members of the 10100 Digit (binary) UID Club are the same.
Everyone is looking to move up to do the best for their family. Indians to America. Syrians to Europe. Americas to Canada. Americans to Europe. The people first to move are the well educated with the capital to make such a move.
I have my MS and my wife has her MD. As a whole we've debated what countries would be best for our kids and their kids. Universal health care, fewer school shoots, treating mental health like a mental and not judicial problem and a host of other differences. Yeah, it reflects our politics. But it's pretty apparent the US isn't going to be what we want for our grand kids and their grand kids.
And you can save your breath, yelling at people on Facebook hasn't done anything either. I respect your opinion and your right to have your opinion, I want to live with people, like those in Canada or the Nordic states that share my opinion.
Braess's paradox
Braess's paradox is a proposed explanation for the situation where an alteration to a road network to improve traffic flow actually has the reverse effect and impedes traffic through it. The paradox was postulated in 1968 by German mathematician Dietrich Braess, who noticed that adding a road to a congested road traffic network could increase overall journey time, and it has been used to explain instances of improved traffic flow when existing major roads are closed.