They've continued GNOME2 in MATE DE along with the GNOME3 fork Cinnamon.
I've personally transitioned to FreeBSD for my desktop & server needs but if a friend wants to get into Linux with a decent GUI I point them to Mint. Ubuntu has gone full "Windows 8.1" in trying to appease the lowest common denominator when most people just want a desktop they recognize.
You know Cable TV started on the premise of "no ads", right? Now they have nothing but ad channels. The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
That is why stories like Gamersgate touch a raw nerve and can't be wished away
Gamergate touched a raw nerve because it was forced down our throats. Most people I know don't care. I personally find both sides to be idiots yelling at each other over different stuff.
It doesn't help that "Gamergate" has no clear definition.
And you can remain completely walled off and just talk about tech.
What radiologists do today is not what radiologists will do in 20 years. As the pattern
Do you seriously think that medicine is nothing more than a process of matching wall paper?
Yes. My wife is a hospital internist and she says that 80% of her job could be done by someone with less education or automated. Doctors need to spend their time on the other 20%. DeepBlue/Watson is going to replace a large amount of what specialists do because it'll do it better and more accurately.
There will always be a niche for the human brain with 10+ years of post high school education but it won't be doing what doctors are doing now. It'
Well. You could get a Networked tuner card like those from SiliconDust.
Or you could do away with them. Rather than fiddling with tuning cards and editing of commercials it's much easier to just use SickBeard/SickRage
My FreeNAS server downloads them in the background and they just show up. As much fun as fiddling with TV Tuner cards sounds I'd just get the 720p rip from a group that does this all the time.
HTPC
The primary purpose of a Home Theater Personal Computer is to run a home theater.
And when all you're doing is trying to communicate a few ideas with links. I shouldn't have to remember the full HREF specification to link out or ul,ol,li to make a list. For short terse online discussion it's a perfectly cromulent language.
I've taken a look at Slashdot's homepage with no adblock or anything - completely filled with flashing banner ads, video ads for cosmetics, clickbait links from Taboola, etc.
Are you comparing 1999 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit or 2015 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit?
Slashdot even used to reward you for not making shit posts. There was a simple checkbox to turn all of that off if you had enough Karma. They actually valued your posts so much to drive people to/. that they allowed you to turn off all ads.
I used to hate that I never knew what my Karma was. But now I'm glad I didn't. It just turns people into narcissists as they try and go for more link and post karma. "Excellent" is all I needed to know.
timeliness, factual accuracy, the degree to which it's on topic, and several other characteristics all factor in.
Factual accuracy and degree on topic hasn't stopped Slashdot from trying to shoehorn a SJW narrative in or other stuff that would have never been relevant on slashdot a decade ago.
This isn't Reddit, quit trying to shove what ever narrative Dice is pushing and leave it about tech. You're certainly not going to lure any teens and 20 somethings to Slashdot and all you're doing is pissing off all the Slashdotters here that would stay if it wasn't for shit like this.
The tail end of GenX/Initial GenYs that originally ran Slashdot have moved on with their lives. They sold out (no problem with that, I would have too). Dice put a bunch of kids that grew up on Reddit in charge so you see Slashdot trying to mirror Reddit's content, 'messege', tone & look and it's showing to old hat/.ers.
If anyone is bored and looking for a place to lure my 30s year old self. Redo slashdot, allow markdown, bbedit, html, LaTeX.. editing. Keep the -2 to +5 moderation system because it limits band-wagoning and group think. Now that everyone can have an opinion it shows. I used to revel in the days that little 19 year old me was bestowed with 5 points to vote with (and tried to ration them accordingly).
Design a proper responsive layout (It was not Beta) and keep it about tech
I'm looking for a good place to discuss stuff that is relevant to me like Slashdot used to be. Reddit is good for certain things. Long drawn out posts with actual information isn't one of them. Everyone wants a tl;dr:.
[And this message took longer to type than one in Markdown because HTML is pretty slow now that I use markdown for everything, blog and all. Not that I don't know but ** is easier, ~~~~, ]
Radiologists are already on their way to being obsolete. There's a simple chain of events that leads up to automation:
First it's hard and nobody can do it but a few PhDs
Then it's difficult and it requires a BS or MS.
Then it's a trade.
Then it's unskilled labor
Then it's automated
Wait until all these 12 year olds that started learning Python hit college and industry. There are a lot of stupid for loops that will eventually turn into big code.
I was a lazy 8th grader years ago that learned to program my TI-83. Then my TI-89. My 'studying' for my engineering tests was writing TI-Basic in the basement library. Technically I probably cheated on most tests I took in undergraduate but my "Studying" was trying to figure out how to get [Routh-Hurwitz Theorem](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Routh-HurwitzTheorem.html) into for loops on a 160×100 display. It sucked but during the tests I had debugged so many different scenarios I knew the equations by heart and just used the programs to double check my math. (And saved me when I missed carrying a 1 early on). Now I'm automating away engineers. People that sat at a keyboard and put it into the computer. They're the modern day equivalent of punch card operators. It doesn't mean they're going to get fired, they're just going to work on a task worthy of a human brain.
Arduino is going into small farms. People are programming their chicken coops. We're about to automate away 'big farming' for a lot of niche markets. A small CSA and farm will be able to automate a lot of boring repetitive 'farm tasks'.
Radiologists will be replaced by Chicken Sexers on Amazon Mechanical Turk if an algorithm doesn't get there first.
Swipe left for compound fracture, swipe right for non-compound fracture. Get a good set of training data and pay everyone $0.01 to guess. Pay the top 20% of them $.10 to guess on harder questions. Repeat the cycle until you're paying $100.00 to get an X-ray read by a few thousand people. The Government has taken to crowd sourcing people to guess events Turns out if you ask a lot of people a question the average ends up being correct.
Is that Dice? Little Registry Cleaner now installs a ton of crap by default. Look at the latest reviews. You can still get a clean install by reading each of the dialog boxes but the point is it comes bundled with crap in the first place.
Use what makes sense for the application. I'd never try to run my *entire* house on DC. But between my modem, router, access point and VOIP box I have 5 separate 120V -> 12V rectifiers. I would love if I could just plug them into a separate 12V plug.
I have a 8 port USB charger to charge all the different things in my house that run on 5V. I've replaced a few outlets in my house with 4-Port USB outlets. I've seen bars and restaurants put them in because people charge things with 5V these days.
I'd say half of my house could run on DC without a problem. AC Generation->AC->DC->Use is still more efficient than AC Generation->AC->DC->AC->DC-> Use. And for people off grid you can get by with DC Generation-> Use
While you can do neat things with a cheap board programmed by block diagrams, that's not going to cut it in my job, where we control machines that cost in six figures.
I make my living by addressing the hard parts of getting processes automated. I've only been in industry for 10 years and I've already automated away a few internships. I'm learning Python explicitly for the purpose of automating dSpace + Matlab + hardware and reducing the need for 2-3 full time people.
Programming is one of them.
Programming is a tool. Engineers use programming to automate away their engineering. Photographers use programming to automate away their photography. Farmers use programming to automate away their farming.
Your job isn't programming, it is automating what ever task you are trying to complete. What would have taken Hugin a few minutes to complete can now be done in a cell phone.
I've met a few people who had Masters degrees but were terrible coders... which means they were useless as coders, and somehow expected to have a job in which they could just think of cool things. And I don't think that's a real thing. Those people generally serve no purpose in industry.
It is, and that is where industry is going. I work with PhD and MS Engineers that couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. Coding is a tool, not a profession. Engineers use coding to automate something else. Now we're designing entire control systems for vehicles with Simulink.
Cost of entry has come WAY down. Now you can buy a $12 board that interacts with the real world that can be programmed with block diagrams. People that don't or can't learn C can now make their "cool things" that they think of without having to learn C.
"Programming" is not a profession any more than a "hammer" is a profession. It's a tool to get something done faster and more efficiently.
If you asked a normal 5 year old to print out the string "Hello World" 5000 times they might actually type it out 5000 times. If you teach a 5 year old how to program they will make a program to print it and then focus on "something cool".
The cost of entry to program has come down since it required a separate employee to enter your punch cards. Kids that grow up with programming will take that skill set into where ever they go in the future. My wife works with doctors that don't know how to use a keyboard because "You're going to be a doctor, doctors won't type". Now all doctors type. Now doctors enter all of their own notes. In 20 years Doctors will be programming their own disease identification.
And as the cost of entry comes down so does the salary. A job that a 10 year old could do isn't going to garner 6 figures.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been a Debian user for a long time but for my wife's laptop or Linux installs on friends machines I almost always turn to Mint.
They're still going to support Upstart & Systemd. The LMDE release was always a rolling release locked to Debian Testing.
They've continued GNOME2 in MATE DE along with the GNOME3 fork Cinnamon.
I've personally transitioned to FreeBSD for my desktop & server needs but if a friend wants to get into Linux with a decent GUI I point them to Mint. Ubuntu has gone full "Windows 8.1" in trying to appease the lowest common denominator when most people just want a desktop they recognize.
cable tv you see ads.
You know Cable TV started on the premise of "no ads", right? Now they have nothing but ad channels. The 80s were a glorious, ad free, time all supported by your monthly payment.
That is why stories like Gamersgate touch a raw nerve and can't be wished away
Gamergate touched a raw nerve because it was forced down our throats. Most people I know don't care. I personally find both sides to be idiots yelling at each other over different stuff.
It doesn't help that "Gamergate" has no clear definition.
And you can remain completely walled off and just talk about tech.
What radiologists do today is not what radiologists will do in 20 years. As the pattern
Do you seriously think that medicine is nothing more than a process of matching wall paper?
Yes. My wife is a hospital internist and she says that 80% of her job could be done by someone with less education or automated. Doctors need to spend their time on the other 20%. DeepBlue/Watson is going to replace a large amount of what specialists do because it'll do it better and more accurately.
There will always be a niche for the human brain with 10+ years of post high school education but it won't be doing what doctors are doing now. It'
Well. You could get a Networked tuner card like those from SiliconDust.
Or you could do away with them. Rather than fiddling with tuning cards and editing of commercials it's much easier to just use SickBeard/SickRage
My FreeNAS server downloads them in the background and they just show up. As much fun as fiddling with TV Tuner cards sounds I'd just get the 720p rip from a group that does this all the time.
HTPC
The primary purpose of a Home Theater Personal Computer is to run a home theater.
Thanks. I haven't browsed unprotected in a long time.
And when all you're doing is trying to communicate a few ideas with links. I shouldn't have to remember the full HREF specification to link out or ul,ol,li to make a list. For short terse online discussion it's a perfectly cromulent language.
I've taken a look at Slashdot's homepage with no adblock or anything - completely filled with flashing banner ads, video ads for cosmetics, clickbait links from Taboola, etc.
Are you comparing 1999 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit or 2015 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit?
Slashdot even used to reward you for not making shit posts. There was a simple checkbox to turn all of that off if you had enough Karma. They actually valued your posts so much to drive people to /. that they allowed you to turn off all ads.
I used to hate that I never knew what my Karma was. But now I'm glad I didn't. It just turns people into narcissists as they try and go for more link and post karma. "Excellent" is all I needed to know.
could only have come from Sourceforge downloads.
Well I guess it's one way to cash out before you lose all market share to GitHub.
timeliness, factual accuracy, the degree to which it's on topic, and several other characteristics all factor in.
Factual accuracy and degree on topic hasn't stopped Slashdot from trying to shoehorn a SJW narrative in or other stuff that would have never been relevant on slashdot a decade ago.
This isn't Reddit, quit trying to shove what ever narrative Dice is pushing and leave it about tech. You're certainly not going to lure any teens and 20 somethings to Slashdot and all you're doing is pissing off all the Slashdotters here that would stay if it wasn't for shit like this.
They rebranded as Kodi a while ago Kodi.
If you're still using a media center PC I would suggest getting an Amazon Fire or other small Arm box. Ours handles everything just fine.
It's just the Nth 'eternal September'.
It's also happening to Little Registry Cleaner. If you don't read every dialog box very, very carefully you end up with crapware (look at the reviews).
The tail end of GenX/Initial GenYs that originally ran Slashdot have moved on with their lives. They sold out (no problem with that, I would have too). Dice put a bunch of kids that grew up on Reddit in charge so you see Slashdot trying to mirror Reddit's content, 'messege', tone & look and it's showing to old hat /.ers.
If anyone is bored and looking for a place to lure my 30s year old self. Redo slashdot, allow markdown, bbedit, html, LaTeX.. editing. Keep the -2 to +5 moderation system because it limits band-wagoning and group think. Now that everyone can have an opinion it shows. I used to revel in the days that little 19 year old me was bestowed with 5 points to vote with (and tried to ration them accordingly).
Design a proper responsive layout (It was not Beta) and keep it about tech
I'm looking for a good place to discuss stuff that is relevant to me like Slashdot used to be. Reddit is good for certain things. Long drawn out posts with actual information isn't one of them. Everyone wants a tl;dr:.
[And this message took longer to type than one in Markdown because HTML is pretty slow now that I use markdown for everything, blog and all. Not that I don't know but ** is easier, ~~~~, ]
I would trust 2 separate AIs from 2 separate companies tasked with checking and if they don't agree then use a pharmacist.
Radiologists are already on their way to being obsolete. There's a simple chain of events that leads up to automation:
Wait until all these 12 year olds that started learning Python hit college and industry. There are a lot of stupid for loops that will eventually turn into big code.
I was a lazy 8th grader years ago that learned to program my TI-83. Then my TI-89. My 'studying' for my engineering tests was writing TI-Basic in the basement library. Technically I probably cheated on most tests I took in undergraduate but my "Studying" was trying to figure out how to get [Routh-Hurwitz Theorem](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Routh-HurwitzTheorem.html) into for loops on a 160×100 display. It sucked but during the tests I had debugged so many different scenarios I knew the equations by heart and just used the programs to double check my math. (And saved me when I missed carrying a 1 early on). Now I'm automating away engineers. People that sat at a keyboard and put it into the computer. They're the modern day equivalent of punch card operators. It doesn't mean they're going to get fired, they're just going to work on a task worthy of a human brain.
Arduino is going into small farms. People are programming their chicken coops. We're about to automate away 'big farming' for a lot of niche markets. A small CSA and farm will be able to automate a lot of boring repetitive 'farm tasks'.
Radiologists will be replaced by Chicken Sexers on Amazon Mechanical Turk if an algorithm doesn't get there first.
Swipe left for compound fracture, swipe right for non-compound fracture. Get a good set of training data and pay everyone $0.01 to guess. Pay the top 20% of them $.10 to guess on harder questions. Repeat the cycle until you're paying $100.00 to get an X-ray read by a few thousand people. The Government has taken to crowd sourcing people to guess events Turns out if you ask a lot of people a question the average ends up being correct.
It's worked for counting jelly beans in a jar for years
Go bad to Reddit.
The thieves are secretly training their replacements.
The "Study" is a sham and the 'researchers' are hitting Vegas after the study concludes.
Never underestimate what you can get away with as a white male with a clipboard.
Toss on a vest and a bump cap and walk up like you belong there.
flexible fountain pen
I'm left handed you insensitive clod.
JC Penny tried that and it failed
This is something that should have been done with any number of RTOSes. FreeRTOS is a good start, I prefer ChibiOS/RT.
Is that Dice? Little Registry Cleaner now installs a ton of crap by default. Look at the latest reviews. You can still get a clean install by reading each of the dialog boxes but the point is it comes bundled with crap in the first place.
Use what makes sense for the application. I'd never try to run my *entire* house on DC. But between my modem, router, access point and VOIP box I have 5 separate 120V -> 12V rectifiers. I would love if I could just plug them into a separate 12V plug.
I have a 8 port USB charger to charge all the different things in my house that run on 5V. I've replaced a few outlets in my house with 4-Port USB outlets. I've seen bars and restaurants put them in because people charge things with 5V these days.
I'd say half of my house could run on DC without a problem. AC Generation->AC->DC->Use is still more efficient than AC Generation->AC->DC->AC->DC-> Use. And for people off grid you can get by with DC Generation-> Use
While you can do neat things with a cheap board programmed by block diagrams, that's not going to cut it in my job, where we control machines that cost in six figures.
Right now I program 6 figure machines with block diagrams.
I make my living by addressing the hard parts of getting processes automated. I've only been in industry for 10 years and I've already automated away a few internships. I'm learning Python explicitly for the purpose of automating dSpace + Matlab + hardware and reducing the need for 2-3 full time people.
Programming is one of them.
Programming is a tool. Engineers use programming to automate away their engineering. Photographers use programming to automate away their photography. Farmers use programming to automate away their farming.
Your job isn't programming, it is automating what ever task you are trying to complete. What would have taken Hugin a few minutes to complete can now be done in a cell phone.
I've met a few people who had Masters degrees but were terrible coders ... which means they were useless as coders, and somehow expected to have a job in which they could just think of cool things. And I don't think that's a real thing. Those people generally serve no purpose in industry.
It is, and that is where industry is going. I work with PhD and MS Engineers that couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. Coding is a tool, not a profession. Engineers use coding to automate something else. Now we're designing entire control systems for vehicles with Simulink.
Cost of entry has come WAY down. Now you can buy a $12 board that interacts with the real world that can be programmed with block diagrams. People that don't or can't learn C can now make their "cool things" that they think of without having to learn C.
"Programming" is not a profession any more than a "hammer" is a profession. It's a tool to get something done faster and more efficiently.
If you asked a normal 5 year old to print out the string "Hello World" 5000 times they might actually type it out 5000 times. If you teach a 5 year old how to program they will make a program to print it and then focus on "something cool".
The cost of entry to program has come down since it required a separate employee to enter your punch cards. Kids that grow up with programming will take that skill set into where ever they go in the future. My wife works with doctors that don't know how to use a keyboard because "You're going to be a doctor, doctors won't type". Now all doctors type. Now doctors enter all of their own notes. In 20 years Doctors will be programming their own disease identification.
And as the cost of entry comes down so does the salary. A job that a 10 year old could do isn't going to garner 6 figures.
I do the same thing with sha256.
echo -n "myseed+username+website" | sha256 | cut -c1-20
echo -n "myseed+0100010001010011+slashdot.org" | sha256 | cut -c1-20
I'm thinking about writing a base65 encode function for websites that require !@#$%^&*().