It doesn't help that a lot of the people going crazy for node.js are also want to offload the work the meet dependencies on the admin/superuser, and yet still want to do a rapid-release-cycle schedule. They can't even meet their own internal dependencies right.
I was working with an educational classroom management project. They theoretically use Debian or Ubuntu, but require so many third-party repositories that it's impossible to just install and have it work. They also rely on specific versions of some of these third-party modules, such that one has to be mindful of the version of Debian or Ubuntu one uses for a starting point (ie, 14-anything won't work) and one has to be careful with these repositories as they themselves will install wrong versions of things (including node.js itself). Then there's the dependencies relying on MySQL, while the package that one actually is tryng to use requiring PostgreSQL, so there ends up being a whole lot of garbage to do something that shouldn't be all that complicated.
My point is, node.js might itself be fine, but when the software that relies on it is so badly broken as this, it does not come across as a professional product. The amateurish approach to the software using it taints it. Every time I see github or node.js or anything with "ppa:" I now assume that it's crap.
So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?
I like that my native command shell has everything local too, not just for network access. I sometimes have to serial-console into devices. I also like that I have immediate access to my entire filesystem from the terminal window, unlike when cygwin runs in its own separate thing.
I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure so every time I ssh to another server I'm prompted to type "yes" and it never caches keys.
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatible things open in separate programs; they all have some variant of Firefox and of Chrome and of unbranded Chromium plus other browsers), and I need functionally good package management to keep the box up-to-date easily, which many, but not all have.
This is part why I'm disappointed with Debian-based distros with Network Manager, and now Systemd, when what they've had for ever and ever worked just fine for my needs.
Except that in both cases, evidence of civilization in both places has been established prior to satellites and aircraft, and anthropologists and archeologists have provided evidence, and climate scientists have provided us with theories for the end of that civilization in what's now the Sahara, in the form of the Sahara Pump Theory.
Sure, aerial survey techniques can be used to help, and might even be able to establish evidence in other places, but for the moment it isn't quite as influential as the summary makes it out to be.
I'm wondering, for a given amount of destructive power, how much the shells for battleships' guns cost, versus how much bombs cost, versus how much cruise missiles cost.
I'm then wondering how much the delivery devices cost. Ship (with integrated guns), vs ship with airplanes, vs ship with launch platform.
Lastly I'm wondering how much crewing those delivery systems costs. Crew of battleship, vs crew of Aircraft Carrier, vs crew of ship with launch platform.
Without thinking about the delivery systems, the shell for a battleship's guns is probably the cheapest, but once one pays for the ship and the crew that cost advantage is probably negated. On the other hand, the cruise missile is extremely expensive, but can be fired from a Corvette or Destroyer with a minimal crew compliment.
Yep. This is not a 3d printing application, at least based on current 3d printing technology. This is an application for machining a negative mold on a mill, then hydroforming a hollow shape in that mold similar to how modern light truck frames are hydroformed, and filling the hollow core of that part with the correct material. Bones need to be both extremely strong and fairly light weight, and they need to be completely medically sanitary and built in such a way that the body will accept them.
I'm mildly curious if the military would like to put repaired service personnel back into action if such six-million-dollar-man repairs prove practical in the long term.
That's why you have two budgets- one you tell the contractors about, and one that has enough money to deal with the cost-overruns.
It's like inviting people over. Some people are chronically late, while others are always too early. If you want everyone there at 7pm then you tell the late people to be there by 5:30pm, and the early people to be there by 7:30pm, and it all works out.
I don't even think that's necessarily the issue, there are private schools where the kids are not allowed to slack off and where they have to do physical work (I'm thinking the Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona), but the biggest problem with both small schools and small school districts, public or private, is that unless they're specifically catering to the needs of students with different needs, they probably don't fulfill those needs terribly well.
For a student with some form of Autism, a either a large school district (that has a sufficient number of Autistic students to have specific programs for Autism) or a specialty school for the condition itself would probably be the best options. But for this, especially the latter, one has to be very careful that the school isn't simply a dumping-ground for difficult conditions where pallative care or babysitting, rather than actual instruction, is the norm.
Just a guess, but if you want one-way communication you jettison a few uplink modules throughout the mission and they relay data to the orbiting probe that delivered the sub. If you want bidirectional communication you either tow an antenna cable strung out behind, or you run a buoy line up to the surface.
Interesting to see how they went with similar legs in the front that are on the back, as opposed to the reversed legs on Big Dog. Reminds me of how some animals have long feet, where the 'heel' ankle are more like a reversed knee, and the actual knee is almost concealed up against the body.
I wonder if they're going to at some point combine the two with the leg designs, based on their efforts to date.
But after seeing that they only have 6 qualified CS teachers, I have to change my tune. Something is very, very wrong if a state of 3 million people only has 6 CS teachers.
Assuming that they have roughly the same student:population ratio as we have around here, they should have closer to 60 CS teachers than six.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have one CS teacher per high school, if that CS teacher is also qualified to teach mathematics or non-programming computer usage or computer journalism classes where the total enrollment in CS might be too low to justify a completely full-time CS teacher.
My 2000-student high school had one qualified CS teacher back in the nineties. My friends that went to other high schools in the same school district also had CS courses taught by real-live teachers at their schools, presumably qualified as well. That meant we were 5/6 of the way to where Arkansas is now.
The school district that I lived in for awhile has six high schools, and I was acquainted with all six computer science teachers through various social functions. That meant they are 100% of the way to Arkansas' coverage, even though they're only covering a city of around 350,000 people, with about 68,000 children enrolled in the K-12 public school district.
Arkansas should rightly feel ashamed of itself for letting its CS program get this far behind.
It probably works like Siri or Cortana or any of a number of voice-process things, where they send the voice command data back to a more powerful computer to process what it actually meant.
And if that's how it works as I expect, that's why I don't use it for anything that I'm not already sending over the Internet. As in, I'll use it for entering addresses in Google Maps because I'm already sending the address to Google anyway, but I'm not inclined to dictate text messages because the voice processor people have no business with that information.
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It doesn't help that a lot of the people going crazy for node.js are also want to offload the work the meet dependencies on the admin/superuser, and yet still want to do a rapid-release-cycle schedule. They can't even meet their own internal dependencies right.
I was working with an educational classroom management project. They theoretically use Debian or Ubuntu, but require so many third-party repositories that it's impossible to just install and have it work. They also rely on specific versions of some of these third-party modules, such that one has to be mindful of the version of Debian or Ubuntu one uses for a starting point (ie, 14-anything won't work) and one has to be careful with these repositories as they themselves will install wrong versions of things (including node.js itself). Then there's the dependencies relying on MySQL, while the package that one actually is tryng to use requiring PostgreSQL, so there ends up being a whole lot of garbage to do something that shouldn't be all that complicated.
My point is, node.js might itself be fine, but when the software that relies on it is so badly broken as this, it does not come across as a professional product. The amateurish approach to the software using it taints it. Every time I see github or node.js or anything with "ppa:" I now assume that it's crap.
So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?
I like that my native command shell has everything local too, not just for network access. I sometimes have to serial-console into devices. I also like that I have immediate access to my entire filesystem from the terminal window, unlike when cygwin runs in its own separate thing.
I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure so every time I ssh to another server I'm prompted to type "yes" and it never caches keys.
Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatible things open in separate programs; they all have some variant of Firefox and of Chrome and of unbranded Chromium plus other browsers), and I need functionally good package management to keep the box up-to-date easily, which many, but not all have.
This is part why I'm disappointed with Debian-based distros with Network Manager, and now Systemd, when what they've had for ever and ever worked just fine for my needs.
Except that in both cases, evidence of civilization in both places has been established prior to satellites and aircraft, and anthropologists and archeologists have provided evidence, and climate scientists have provided us with theories for the end of that civilization in what's now the Sahara, in the form of the Sahara Pump Theory.
Sure, aerial survey techniques can be used to help, and might even be able to establish evidence in other places, but for the moment it isn't quite as influential as the summary makes it out to be.
A lot of things are much easier for individuals to judge in hindsight than at the time they make those decisions.
Everything from teenage angst to pornography would be entirely different if more people foresaw the personal ramifications of their decisions.
I'm wondering, for a given amount of destructive power, how much the shells for battleships' guns cost, versus how much bombs cost, versus how much cruise missiles cost.
I'm then wondering how much the delivery devices cost. Ship (with integrated guns), vs ship with airplanes, vs ship with launch platform.
Lastly I'm wondering how much crewing those delivery systems costs. Crew of battleship, vs crew of Aircraft Carrier, vs crew of ship with launch platform.
Without thinking about the delivery systems, the shell for a battleship's guns is probably the cheapest, but once one pays for the ship and the crew that cost advantage is probably negated. On the other hand, the cruise missile is extremely expensive, but can be fired from a Corvette or Destroyer with a minimal crew compliment.
Yep. This is not a 3d printing application, at least based on current 3d printing technology. This is an application for machining a negative mold on a mill, then hydroforming a hollow shape in that mold similar to how modern light truck frames are hydroformed, and filling the hollow core of that part with the correct material. Bones need to be both extremely strong and fairly light weight, and they need to be completely medically sanitary and built in such a way that the body will accept them.
I'm mildly curious if the military would like to put repaired service personnel back into action if such six-million-dollar-man repairs prove practical in the long term.
That's why you have two budgets- one you tell the contractors about, and one that has enough money to deal with the cost-overruns.
It's like inviting people over. Some people are chronically late, while others are always too early. If you want everyone there at 7pm then you tell the late people to be there by 5:30pm, and the early people to be there by 7:30pm, and it all works out.
Is, "the spark," a positive thing? In the Dilbert universe, "the knack," is not necessarily a positive thing.
In Dilbert parlance, he has, "the knack."
I don't even think that's necessarily the issue, there are private schools where the kids are not allowed to slack off and where they have to do physical work (I'm thinking the Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona), but the biggest problem with both small schools and small school districts, public or private, is that unless they're specifically catering to the needs of students with different needs, they probably don't fulfill those needs terribly well.
For a student with some form of Autism, a either a large school district (that has a sufficient number of Autistic students to have specific programs for Autism) or a specialty school for the condition itself would probably be the best options. But for this, especially the latter, one has to be very careful that the school isn't simply a dumping-ground for difficult conditions where pallative care or babysitting, rather than actual instruction, is the norm.
And now Musk can relocate it to Baja and set up his secret lair on it.
I'll be mighty surprised if you live at Cape Canaveral.
Yeah, well, I won't be happy until Control is back where it belongs, to the left of the letter A!
Just a guess, but if you want one-way communication you jettison a few uplink modules throughout the mission and they relay data to the orbiting probe that delivered the sub. If you want bidirectional communication you either tow an antenna cable strung out behind, or you run a buoy line up to the surface.
Simple. Declare war on Titan and justify it that Titan's hydrocarbon revenue will cover the cost of it!
Plus it finally gets us away from falling victim to one of the classic blunders, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
So, kind of like the books then?
And if it was as bad as claimed, it probably was an ending too.
Doesn't help that Slashdot was broken for several hours today, and the article was the top link with only two comments for something like six hours.
Looks like someone dusted-off the plans for the nearly fifty-year-old X-23...
Interesting to see how they went with similar legs in the front that are on the back, as opposed to the reversed legs on Big Dog. Reminds me of how some animals have long feet, where the 'heel' ankle are more like a reversed knee, and the actual knee is almost concealed up against the body.
I wonder if they're going to at some point combine the two with the leg designs, based on their efforts to date.
Assuming that they have roughly the same student:population ratio as we have around here, they should have closer to 60 CS teachers than six.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have one CS teacher per high school, if that CS teacher is also qualified to teach mathematics or non-programming computer usage or computer journalism classes where the total enrollment in CS might be too low to justify a completely full-time CS teacher.
My 2000-student high school had one qualified CS teacher back in the nineties. My friends that went to other high schools in the same school district also had CS courses taught by real-live teachers at their schools, presumably qualified as well. That meant we were 5/6 of the way to where Arkansas is now.
The school district that I lived in for awhile has six high schools, and I was acquainted with all six computer science teachers through various social functions. That meant they are 100% of the way to Arkansas' coverage, even though they're only covering a city of around 350,000 people, with about 68,000 children enrolled in the K-12 public school district.
Arkansas should rightly feel ashamed of itself for letting its CS program get this far behind.
It probably works like Siri or Cortana or any of a number of voice-process things, where they send the voice command data back to a more powerful computer to process what it actually meant.
And if that's how it works as I expect, that's why I don't use it for anything that I'm not already sending over the Internet. As in, I'll use it for entering addresses in Google Maps because I'm already sending the address to Google anyway, but I'm not inclined to dictate text messages because the voice processor people have no business with that information.