I remember his first year when it was a 'hoax'. Then the next year he went all in and made it real. As ugly as his website should be I hope some version exists in archive.org, he's been a christmas tradition since early 2000s when I first heard about him on Fark or Slashdot.
The point isn't the number of lights he has. The point is how interactive his site has always at least seemed to be.
I wish they would had put their efforts into Debian's kFreeBSD. It can't move to systemd and they downgraded it from an 'official' Jessie release.
Personally it's a bit of the best of FreeBSD and the best of Debian (apt-get) in a nice package. There's no problem with ZFS being 'in' the kernel. The latest versions of FreeNAS and FreeBSD both have ZFS booting.
Plus it still has all the debian server admin tools.
Someone on Reddit pointed out that the author may be using the wrong character.
Are we certain—certain—that this is about the use of hyphenated words, and not the misuse of hyphen (-), en-dash (–), and em-dash (—) characters? Like, the way an en-dash is used where an em-dash should be used three times in this paragraph:
I wonder what it would take for Dish to just start their own channels and programming.
Netflix has done it. Amazon has done it. Yahoo is doing it with Community. I would actually subscribe to dish if they had new original programming and not Fox News.
Having members and actually having power are two different things, the person you replied to was saying unions don't exist with the teeth that they used to.
We have unions in name only. Every single time the UAW contract comes up at my company they rabble back and forth and then "hurray, we reached an agreement." Union bosses and contractor get their cut for the 'negotiation'. Employees don't really get anything and the people at top win.
The standard of living for a lot of the US would improve if more people unionized (like programmers) and actually demanded a fair wage instead of getting worked to death by EA and the likes.
NK also had the opportunity to do it against a non-government entity. If they hacked into the US or any other country it would be grounds for war or even more sanctions.
NK gets to flex their hacking ability against multinational corporation without risking war. Sony gets egg on their face. Big brother China is probably pleased since Sony is a Japanese company.
With as cheap as you can get memory these days why doesn't someone put 16 or 32 GB on the same board and a way to TFTP boot and stop making me deal with SD cards.
I decided to build a NAS, so I got 5-2TB (raidz2) drives and 4-3TB (raidz) drives.
Out of the original lot there are still 4 drives running. All but 2 got replaced under the warranty. Out of the ones that got replaced only 1 is still running.
I've sinced switched back to WD. (I went to seagate back in the 200 GB days... my 200 GB seagate still runs).
It's terrible. Seagate has cost me a large chunk of money and time for what (I thought) would be a bullet proof home NAS.
It means that schools will start teaching actual programming again instead of 'coaching to a language'. Colleges are cranking out Python/Javascript coders like they used to turn out Java coders. If every company is different maybe they'll teach the logic so that people can learn any language.
The problem with busses is that anybody of means doesn't like taking them. Too many other people's stops and what not.
But with a bus you could enter your destination (as would everyone else on the bus) and it would pick a few key optimal stops. Have the phone buzz when it is your turn to exit.
Have a large party? It wouldn't cost a ton to just schedule a pick up and a bus comes over 1 block, picks you up and then continues down town or wherever else it was head.
You could optimize bus routes on the fly. Big sporting event get out? You could easily re-route a ton of busses and then put them back on normal routes.
You can easily make busses full electric, NG-hybrid, diesel-hybrid, etc which makes it more efficient. If it works I can see cities like London and NYC going completely driverless. Rail into the city. Automated busses and subway in the city.
All programming now inherently a death march because unskilled "coders" most senior members of any team, cannot be fired and also direct architecture.
You do realize that you can create your own union however you want. Make it easy to fire bad coders. The problems you listed are pretty specific to the UAW and government job unions. Look at German Unions. Everyone is in a union over there.
Model the union however you want when you create it.
I don't want to switch to *BSD..... and buy a Mac.
So which is it? I got introduced to Linux because I had a Mac. I first started messing around with Terminal.app and it's gone from there. After a botch attempt at Linux on a generic laptop and hating having to deal with finding GNU Tools for Windows I'm thinking of going back.
It has a UI that "just works" and I don't have to dick around with settings. Even IPv6 is very easy to set up with a lot of brokers straight from the Network settings. But it also has gcc, clang, make, etc that makes life easier for doing development.
They are natural gasses but they are not Natural Gas: Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and even a lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulfide.
You wouldn't be able to run the same car on that.
Why not? I make my living on large engines that run natural gas just fine. If you can run a car on propane you can run it on natural gas. You just have to account for knock and energy density. At which point Natural Gas runs better than propane. Methane has a Octane rating of 120. Propane has an octane rating of 112. (Most cars run on 87-93 in the US).
> That should be enough to charge a decent battery in a few minutes.
Gasoline density is 32.4 MJ/L.
Assume a 60L tank (~16 gallons).
Assume you can fill up your vehicle in 10 minutes.
60 L/10 min * 34.4 MJ/L = 3.4 MW
That's nearly 7 times faster than your 500 kW charger. Assume a 475 mile (30 mpg * 60 L) / 765 km (60 L / (7.84 L / 100 km)) range from that gasoline fill up.
That means your "quick and speedy" 10 minute 500 kW fill up can provide all of 70 miles of range.
That's why I don't get why they're pushing Hydrogen.
With CNG I can fill up at home. It'd be like installing a high current plug except I'd pipe NG to a compressor and let it fill up my car.
Natural Gas is already flowing through hundreds (thousands?) of pipelines across the US. There are already filling stations. Honda has offered a CNG fleet vehicle for ages.
Get the price of a home compressor down to a Level 2 charger ($1000) and let me by a CNG car.
Split Comcast down the middle. Internet on one side. Cable TV on the other. Ma'Bell style.
Apply what ever laws for DSL to have dry loop DSL to Coax so that you have dry loop COAX.
Then you could have separate companies competing for your coax internet. Comcast wants to charge their prices? Fine. Some local startup (operating over the dry loop coax) could offer unlimited data. Maybe another offers a "Netflix" package since they have a local NetFlix mirror at their offices. They could pay any of the local fiber providers for backhaul to Netflix. Everyone wins (except for Comcast's internet division).
It will also force the Comcast Cable TV to innovate because they can't trap cord cutters by raising internet rates.
> Oh, god, don't make me support those people's code.
Why? Do we make engineers 'support' the welds from a welder. Do we make engineers 'support' the plumbing from a plumber?
There is a huge gap between hiring a full engineer and hiring a technician. There should be an analogous range for software. Right now that gap is being filled by cheap Indian and Chinese programmers.
Which is what the US sorely needs. We stopped telling people to go into trades because EVERYONE HAS TO GO TO COLLEGE. I was told in high school I couldn't take welding because I was "going to college." Guess what jobs are in short supply these days? Welding, plumbing, etc.
Sometimes you just need a trade to do a job. Do I need someone that understands coupled classes or a hashtable to build me a website or implement an idea in C? No. If you put 5-10 good coders under a good software engineer I'd trust the output more than trying to hire 3-4 software engineers.
Companies don't hire all engineers, they hire techs as well. We don't need to hire all CS or SE majors but there is a place for them just like there is a place for someone that took a 19-week course on programming.
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I remember his first year when it was a 'hoax'. Then the next year he went all in and made it real. As ugly as his website should be I hope some version exists in archive.org, he's been a christmas tradition since early 2000s when I first heard about him on Fark or Slashdot.
The point isn't the number of lights he has. The point is how interactive his site has always at least seemed to be.
I wish they would had put their efforts into Debian's kFreeBSD. It can't move to systemd and they downgraded it from an 'official' Jessie release.
Personally it's a bit of the best of FreeBSD and the best of Debian (apt-get) in a nice package. There's no problem with ZFS being 'in' the kernel. The latest versions of FreeNAS and FreeBSD both have ZFS booting.
Plus it still has all the debian server admin tools.
Someone on Reddit pointed out that the author may be using the wrong character.
Are we certain—certain—that this is about the use of hyphenated words, and not the misuse of hyphen (-), en-dash (–), and em-dash (—) characters? Like, the way an en-dash is used where an em-dash should be used three times in this paragraph:
XBMC is now Kodi.
Plex was OSXBMC renamed. The sources got quite divergent when Plex went more commercial.
I wonder what it would take for Dish to just start their own channels and programming.
Netflix has done it. Amazon has done it. Yahoo is doing it with Community. I would actually subscribe to dish if they had new original programming and not Fox News.
They could strike like they do in Montreal by not wearing Standard issue uniforms.
Having members and actually having power are two different things, the person you replied to was saying unions don't exist with the teeth that they used to.
We have unions in name only. Every single time the UAW contract comes up at my company they rabble back and forth and then "hurray, we reached an agreement." Union bosses and contractor get their cut for the 'negotiation'. Employees don't really get anything and the people at top win.
The standard of living for a lot of the US would improve if more people unionized (like programmers) and actually demanded a fair wage instead of getting worked to death by EA and the likes.
NK also had the opportunity to do it against a non-government entity. If they hacked into the US or any other country it would be grounds for war or even more sanctions.
NK gets to flex their hacking ability against multinational corporation without risking war. Sony gets egg on their face. Big brother China is probably pleased since Sony is a Japanese company.
If there is anything I learned in college it's that you can walk into about anywhere with a stack of pizzas.
Just walk towards a door and fumble with it and someone will badge you in.
With as cheap as you can get memory these days why doesn't someone put 16 or 32 GB on the same board and a way to TFTP boot and stop making me deal with SD cards.
Seagate tanked my ZFS pools as well.
It takes a special kind of terrible hard drive to trip up ZFS. I'm glad I didn't have any of them by themselves or even in a hardware RAID-1
I decided to build a NAS, so I got 5-2TB (raidz2) drives and 4-3TB (raidz) drives.
Out of the original lot there are still 4 drives running. All but 2 got replaced under the warranty. Out of the ones that got replaced only 1 is still running.
I've sinced switched back to WD. (I went to seagate back in the 200 GB days... my 200 GB seagate still runs).
It's terrible. Seagate has cost me a large chunk of money and time for what (I thought) would be a bullet proof home NAS.
This is a good thing.
It means that schools will start teaching actual programming again instead of 'coaching to a language'. Colleges are cranking out Python/Javascript coders like they used to turn out Java coders. If every company is different maybe they'll teach the logic so that people can learn any language.
The problem with busses is that anybody of means doesn't like taking them. Too many other people's stops and what not.
But with a bus you could enter your destination (as would everyone else on the bus) and it would pick a few key optimal stops. Have the phone buzz when it is your turn to exit.
Have a large party? It wouldn't cost a ton to just schedule a pick up and a bus comes over 1 block, picks you up and then continues down town or wherever else it was head.
You could optimize bus routes on the fly. Big sporting event get out? You could easily re-route a ton of busses and then put them back on normal routes.
You can easily make busses full electric, NG-hybrid, diesel-hybrid, etc which makes it more efficient. If it works I can see cities like London and NYC going completely driverless. Rail into the city. Automated busses and subway in the city.
All programming now inherently a death march because unskilled "coders" most senior members of any team, cannot be fired and also direct architecture.
You do realize that you can create your own union however you want. Make it easy to fire bad coders. The problems you listed are pretty specific to the UAW and government job unions. Look at German Unions. Everyone is in a union over there.
Model the union however you want when you create it.
I don't want to switch to *BSD..... and buy a Mac.
So which is it? I got introduced to Linux because I had a Mac. I first started messing around with Terminal.app and it's gone from there. After a botch attempt at Linux on a generic laptop and hating having to deal with finding GNU Tools for Windows I'm thinking of going back.
It has a UI that "just works" and I don't have to dick around with settings. Even IPv6 is very easy to set up with a lot of brokers straight from the Network settings. But it also has gcc, clang, make, etc that makes life easier for doing development.
go back to the drawing board and redesign around multicore and the architecture of GPU's
So Grand Central Dispatch available on OSX and FreeBSD?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It has F keys, you just need to press a Fn modifier. My wife has one and she loves it. It replaced a Asus Tablet and Dell laptop for her.
I want a ARM hybrid. Put android on it and make it easy to put Linux on it.
Both gasses are "natural gas"
They are natural gasses but they are not Natural Gas: Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and even a lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulfide.
You wouldn't be able to run the same car on that.
Why not? I make my living on large engines that run natural gas just fine. If you can run a car on propane you can run it on natural gas. You just have to account for knock and energy density. At which point Natural Gas runs better than propane. Methane has a Octane rating of 120. Propane has an octane rating of 112. (Most cars run on 87-93 in the US).
Honda has sold a natural gas vehicle in the US since 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the US Department of Energy is trying to get companies to make a cheaper home filling station: http://www.cngnow.com/news/pos...
> That should be enough to charge a decent battery in a few minutes.
Gasoline density is 32.4 MJ/L.
Assume a 60L tank (~16 gallons).
Assume you can fill up your vehicle in 10 minutes.
60 L/10 min * 34.4 MJ/L = 3.4 MW
That's nearly 7 times faster than your 500 kW charger. Assume a 475 mile (30 mpg * 60 L) / 765 km (60 L / (7.84 L / 100 km)) range from that gasoline fill up.
That means your "quick and speedy" 10 minute 500 kW fill up can provide all of 70 miles of range.
It's a matter of physics.
That's why I don't get why they're pushing Hydrogen.
With CNG I can fill up at home. It'd be like installing a high current plug except I'd pipe NG to a compressor and let it fill up my car.
Natural Gas is already flowing through hundreds (thousands?) of pipelines across the US. There are already filling stations. Honda has offered a CNG fleet vehicle for ages.
Get the price of a home compressor down to a Level 2 charger ($1000) and let me by a CNG car.
Split Comcast down the middle. Internet on one side. Cable TV on the other. Ma'Bell style.
Apply what ever laws for DSL to have dry loop DSL to Coax so that you have dry loop COAX.
Then you could have separate companies competing for your coax internet. Comcast wants to charge their prices? Fine. Some local startup (operating over the dry loop coax) could offer unlimited data. Maybe another offers a "Netflix" package since they have a local NetFlix mirror at their offices. They could pay any of the local fiber providers for backhaul to Netflix. Everyone wins (except for Comcast's internet division).
It will also force the Comcast Cable TV to innovate because they can't trap cord cutters by raising internet rates.
> Oh, god, don't make me support those people's code.
Why? Do we make engineers 'support' the welds from a welder. Do we make engineers 'support' the plumbing from a plumber?
There is a huge gap between hiring a full engineer and hiring a technician. There should be an analogous range for software. Right now that gap is being filled by cheap Indian and Chinese programmers.
Code Monkey == Wrench Monkey.
Which is what the US sorely needs. We stopped telling people to go into trades because EVERYONE HAS TO GO TO COLLEGE. I was told in high school I couldn't take welding because I was "going to college." Guess what jobs are in short supply these days? Welding, plumbing, etc.
Sometimes you just need a trade to do a job. Do I need someone that understands coupled classes or a hashtable to build me a website or implement an idea in C? No. If you put 5-10 good coders under a good software engineer I'd trust the output more than trying to hire 3-4 software engineers.
Companies don't hire all engineers, they hire techs as well. We don't need to hire all CS or SE majors but there is a place for them just like there is a place for someone that took a 19-week course on programming.