have threatened to take on Intel in the data center for some time but not much has materialized
Counterpoint: since May 2016, a French hosting company called OVH has been offering ARM-based servers under the brand Scaleway. I've been happy with it, mainly because of the price: EUR. 2,99 per month (US$ 3,41). I mainly use it to host my personal websites, a self-hosted TT-RSS instance, a private wiki, that sort of stuff. You get an ARM board with four cores and 2 gigs of memory. And no worrying about the latest Intel problems like Spectre, Meltdown and Management Engine holes.
Anonymous Coward already gave an answer and I pretty much agree with it. The Culture novels are much more paced, there are more characters and they are described more thoroughly and the scenarios more encompassing. The Polity novels have more up and close action, more humor (sorry humour), the storyline is more to the point. However since there are more Polity books, the world feels bigger to me.
Seriously, they're both pretty awesome. If you like Banks, you like Asher.
This is hardcore science fiction: basically a paradise of a million planets called the Polity, where humans are ruled by AI. When shit hits the fan, problems get solved by boosted humans working together with good-natured war drones and humongous space ships captained by AI.
Do not use words like crash, hang, bug, or problem, employees are told
Actually I think this isn't a bad thing. I'm a software engineer. When me and the missus have dinner and talk about the work day, I'd say for example, "there was a problem with the app but I was able to figure it out". She sometimes responds with "why does your job consist of so much problems?"
It's gotten in my lingo to just call everything a problem. It's not a bad thing, my job is fixing those and delivering a working end product. But I think it makes it more understandable to regular people to not call it a problem/crash/etc.
Personally, I think the whole point is moot. We've reached the point where the powers-that-be have pretty much succeeded in disrupting The Pirate Bay off of the web. And it doesn't matter to the minority: they use Tor browser to visit the site, and once they have the magnet link, VPN to download the torrents.
For the last ten years, I've held RSI at bay by using split keyboards (and judicious use of break reminder software). I've used the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic in the past. I'm now using the Kinesis Freestyle2 and quite like it. I've set it up such that there's a trackpad in between the left and right part. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C...
It sounds that in general you make a good impression, if there is a fit with the job itself. In this case, I'd consider 5 applications not much. Continue to rack up interviews until you're ~25-30 in.
This. And to add to that, President Xi Jinping is well known for saying what everybody wants to hear and then turning around and do exactly the opposite. If you're a company and dare say something about it, expect to get all sorts of weird investigations and licenses retracted for vague and made-up reasons.
In this particular area, things are slowly turning around now that Trump is saying something about it, and not budging. At least, that's what economists like Kees de Kort are saying. I don't think anybody in The Netherlands is a fan of Trump, but the fact that he points out these Chinese hypocracies is well received.
But every time I've tried to work for the bigger places
Hmm, how many times did you? I found when I wanted to move to a different subfield within IT, it took me almost 50 e-mails (handcrafted, mind you) over the course of a year to get two interviews.
I stopped caring about this. The hardware retains its value quite well. When I want to upgrade, I simply sell the machine and get a new one with the specs I want.
I think whoever was responsible for this keyboard screw-up is reluctant to admit it, and Tim Cook is not man enough to call them out.
I think what happened, is that after the keyboard debuted (in the 12" MacBook, in 2015), they thought they could get the reliability up. They figured they'd simply chip away at the problem until they're near the original keyboard its reliability numbers. But that turns out to be a lot harder.
I have the feeling that is happening elsewhere as well. Look at how the CPUs are developing, or the RAM size. SSDs seem to keep improving in Apple laptops, but progress on other components is a bit... lackluster.
If you're using a Mac on the desktop, and use Homebrew Cask to install software with a quick terminal command, know that I've just submitted a pull request so this new version can be quickly installed.
Anyway -- I did not expect them to keep living, but I'm really happy that these guys keep on chugging along, and getting ready for the next version. A couple of years ago it seemed that Chrome was the be-all and end-all of browsers. However, lately Google is turning up the profiling dial and I moved to Firefox and when I need the engine, Vivaldi.
It basically allows you to darkify (is that a word?) all websites. ALL of them. It has a slider if you want to play with the intensity of the darkifying. You can exclude certain sites, of course. With a whitelist. Yea no, I'm not kidding, it's called a whitelist.
Please, let me stay ignorant of what a "memoji" is
I'm going to tell you anyway, because I think you'll be pretty interested, plus you're my favorite old man on Slashdot.
As the term memoji implies, it's about memes. Let's take memes here on slashdot we all know and love. Siri now knows about these and can deal with those. If you've upgraded to iOS 12, you can now say: "hey Siri, send goatse to my wife". Or: "hey Siri, go GNAA on my boss", which will result in crapflooding his inbox.
And with Siri Shortcuts, this can be automated so you could say: "hey Siri, invite all my contacts to GNAA and send them ponies on April 1st".
"The command killall [procname...] is sorry to inform all procname involved that regrettably, the sudo group has made recent strategic decisions. Implementing these as soon as possible means that this Linux system has to continue without procname. As per our obligations to our shareholders, we will have to let procname go. But procname, be assured that your hard work over the last 2356 ms has been appreciated but that is now coming to an end."
The summary left out a pretty important point from the article, in my opinion:
The USB Type-C display mode alternate driver was merged to the mainline kernel for stepping up the DP Type-C support, but more work on integrating with the DRM drivers is still being tackled.
So what this means, is that you have a dongle or monitor cable with USB-C on one end, and DisplayPort on the other end.
This is important, because I expect to see new laptops coming out, that only have USB-C/Thunderbolt 3. The obvious existing ones are from Apple, but I expect that more laptops will come out with no other ports except USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.
Around the iPhone 4, I found out that my earbuds were often stuttering and failing due to the cable strands breaking. I switched to Bluetooth. It hasn't been flawless to be sure, but the comfort of cordless/wireless sound is so awesome that I also want it everywhere else.
To be sure, I'd call it pretty good but not great. For instance, while there's plenty of choice among earbuds, I'm still looking for a bluetooth version of the Sennheiser HD 558. The ear cups are easily the biggest (inside diameter 2.75" or 7 cm) and I haven't found a $100 replacement of those.
Another problem is that all this Bluetooth stuff requires micro-USB. While great at its time, I now really want USB-C to charge.
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have threatened to take on Intel in the data center for some time but not much has materialized
Counterpoint: since May 2016, a French hosting company called OVH has been offering ARM-based servers under the brand Scaleway. I've been happy with it, mainly because of the price: EUR. 2,99 per month (US$ 3,41). I mainly use it to host my personal websites, a self-hosted TT-RSS instance, a private wiki, that sort of stuff. You get an ARM board with four cores and 2 gigs of memory. And no worrying about the latest Intel problems like Spectre, Meltdown and Management Engine holes.
Anonymous Coward already gave an answer and I pretty much agree with it. The Culture novels are much more paced, there are more characters and they are described more thoroughly and the scenarios more encompassing. The Polity novels have more up and close action, more humor (sorry humour), the storyline is more to the point. However since there are more Polity books, the world feels bigger to me.
Seriously, they're both pretty awesome. If you like Banks, you like Asher.
I haven't seen him mentioned so far, but this year I'm reading the books from Neal Asher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is hardcore science fiction: basically a paradise of a million planets called the Polity, where humans are ruled by AI. When shit hits the fan, problems get solved by boosted humans working together with good-natured war drones and humongous space ships captained by AI.
if Apple says their dick tastes like shit but it's normal, there will still be people lining up to suck it.
Hahaha, no man, not me! Heehee funny joke, lining up, haha. I'd never do that!
tries to order dick online at apple.com
I like your style :)
Must've felt good. You have a job lined up yet, or was it really on an impulse (fine by me, if you have some money stashed)?
I wonder what is defined as a "user". Does it mean the holder of the account? I don't actually think it means USING the bitcoins to pay for something.
The link doesn't work, but this one does: https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
Anyway, totally agree with you. USB-C has made it extremely easy to run your laptop longer.
Do not use words like crash, hang, bug, or problem, employees are told
Actually I think this isn't a bad thing. I'm a software engineer. When me and the missus have dinner and talk about the work day, I'd say for example, "there was a problem with the app but I was able to figure it out". She sometimes responds with "why does your job consist of so much problems?"
It's gotten in my lingo to just call everything a problem. It's not a bad thing, my job is fixing those and delivering a working end product. But I think it makes it more understandable to regular people to not call it a problem/crash/etc.
Personally, I think the whole point is moot. We've reached the point where the powers-that-be have pretty much succeeded in disrupting The Pirate Bay off of the web. And it doesn't matter to the minority: they use Tor browser to visit the site, and once they have the magnet link, VPN to download the torrents.
For the last ten years, I've held RSI at bay by using split keyboards (and judicious use of break reminder software). I've used the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic in the past. I'm now using the Kinesis Freestyle2 and quite like it. I've set it up such that there's a trackpad in between the left and right part.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C...
It will now allow employees to take these types of claims to court
Oh my goshm, thank you so much, corporate overlord!
Seriously, something along the way went very, very wrong here. We allowed the company we work for, take away basic civil rights.
It sounds that in general you make a good impression, if there is a fit with the job itself. In this case, I'd consider 5 applications not much. Continue to rack up interviews until you're ~25-30 in.
This. And to add to that, President Xi Jinping is well known for saying what everybody wants to hear and then turning around and do exactly the opposite. If you're a company and dare say something about it, expect to get all sorts of weird investigations and licenses retracted for vague and made-up reasons.
In this particular area, things are slowly turning around now that Trump is saying something about it, and not budging. At least, that's what economists like Kees de Kort are saying. I don't think anybody in The Netherlands is a fan of Trump, but the fact that he points out these Chinese hypocracies is well received.
But every time I've tried to work for the bigger places
Hmm, how many times did you? I found when I wanted to move to a different subfield within IT, it took me almost 50 e-mails (handcrafted, mind you) over the course of a year to get two interviews.
When he finally drops dead you can debate things with his successor all you like.
Linus will not just "drop dead". He will turn into one of those nasty zombie processes that you can't even kill -9.
I stopped caring about this. The hardware retains its value quite well. When I want to upgrade, I simply sell the machine and get a new one with the specs I want.
I think whoever was responsible for this keyboard screw-up is reluctant to admit it, and Tim Cook is not man enough to call them out.
I think what happened, is that after the keyboard debuted (in the 12" MacBook, in 2015), they thought they could get the reliability up. They figured they'd simply chip away at the problem until they're near the original keyboard its reliability numbers. But that turns out to be a lot harder.
I have the feeling that is happening elsewhere as well. Look at how the CPUs are developing, or the RAM size. SSDs seem to keep improving in Apple laptops, but progress on other components is a bit... lackluster.
If you're using a Mac on the desktop, and use Homebrew Cask to install software with a quick terminal command, know that I've just submitted a pull request so this new version can be quickly installed.
Anyway -- I did not expect them to keep living, but I'm really happy that these guys keep on chugging along, and getting ready for the next version. A couple of years ago it seemed that Chrome was the be-all and end-all of browsers. However, lately Google is turning up the profiling dial and I moved to Firefox and when I need the engine, Vivaldi.
If you have Firefox on the mac, check out this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
It basically allows you to darkify (is that a word?) all websites. ALL of them. It has a slider if you want to play with the intensity of the darkifying. You can exclude certain sites, of course. With a whitelist. Yea no, I'm not kidding, it's called a whitelist.
Please, let me stay ignorant of what a "memoji" is
I'm going to tell you anyway, because I think you'll be pretty interested, plus you're my favorite old man on Slashdot.
As the term memoji implies, it's about memes. Let's take memes here on slashdot we all know and love. Siri now knows about these and can deal with those. If you've upgraded to iOS 12, you can now say: "hey Siri, send goatse to my wife". Or: "hey Siri, go GNAA on my boss", which will result in crapflooding his inbox.
And with Siri Shortcuts, this can be automated so you could say: "hey Siri, invite all my contacts to GNAA and send them ponies on April 1st".
Then we can think layoffs
"The command killall [procname ...] is sorry to inform all procname involved that regrettably, the sudo group has made recent strategic decisions. Implementing these as soon as possible means that this Linux system has to continue without procname. As per our obligations to our shareholders, we will have to let procname go. But procname, be assured that your hard work over the last 2356 ms has been appreciated but that is now coming to an end."
Amen, brother.
*lazily sips coffee from fresh-roasted beans*
I watch all of my browsing as shot on 35mm film, it's the only way I surf the internet nowadays.
*pushes black-rimmed glasses further up my hipster nose*
*adjusts suspenders*
*checks 4th gen. Apple watch*
The summary left out a pretty important point from the article, in my opinion:
The USB Type-C display mode alternate driver was merged to the mainline kernel for stepping up the DP Type-C support, but more work on integrating with the DRM drivers is still being tackled.
So what this means, is that you have a dongle or monitor cable with USB-C on one end, and DisplayPort on the other end.
This is important, because I expect to see new laptops coming out, that only have USB-C/Thunderbolt 3. The obvious existing ones are from Apple, but I expect that more laptops will come out with no other ports except USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.
Around the iPhone 4, I found out that my earbuds were often stuttering and failing due to the cable strands breaking. I switched to Bluetooth. It hasn't been flawless to be sure, but the comfort of cordless/wireless sound is so awesome that I also want it everywhere else.
To be sure, I'd call it pretty good but not great. For instance, while there's plenty of choice among earbuds, I'm still looking for a bluetooth version of the Sennheiser HD 558. The ear cups are easily the biggest (inside diameter 2.75" or 7 cm) and I haven't found a $100 replacement of those.
Another problem is that all this Bluetooth stuff requires micro-USB. While great at its time, I now really want USB-C to charge.