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Think of it like the MSDN membership, which gives you a *lot* of free, advanced releases of Microsoft software, plus lots of educational tools. You pay for that too. In fact, I think you pay a lot more for that than Apple's fees.
And yet I can't recall any device that didn't work happily with the 1.2v supplied by a rechargeable NiMH.
To add to this good statement: Alkaline batteries have high internal resistance, so when they are highly loaded, their voltage drops dramatically (and therefore become useless to the device they are powering). NiMH have low internal resistance and can delivery drastically more amperage before their voltage drops. Many devices completely work with 1.2v just fine, but alkaline batteries drop below that too easily.
I built a generic piece of a larger system that I thought would be a good thing as open source. I convinced my boss that since we were using open source software as part of our big system, we should give back to the community, and he agreed. I organized the source with proper licensing into a package and my boss handed it off to the lawyers - explaining the above - for review. A few days later, they came back and said "no problem, post it". And I did. That was the end.
I suppose some of this depends on how prick-ish your company/boss is, but mine, thankfully, is pretty laid back about this sort of thing.
Here in Seattle they keep raising taxes and adding tolls in high traffic areas. Yet, the money just disappears into the void. I haven't studied where it goes but I *know* they make more than enough money to fund schools and teachers. And still, my kid who goes to Redmond high school has class sizes that are too big, has a couple of classes in temporary structures that have been there for a few years, and a science teacher that can't answer questions to the stuff she teaches because she's not even remotely a scientist. This same science teacher also has a workload far higher than normal teachers; She has no planning period and therefore is never prepared for class. As a result, my kid hates science when I think she would otherwise enjoy it. I do my best to re-teach what she should have been taught in the first place. It doesn't help that her science book is an incomprehensible piece of shit.
Legitimate question: Does https://www.random.org/ seem to be a good place to get *really* random numbers? I'm curious if it's suitable for reliable random number generation. Based on the site it seems so, but I was wondering if somebody smarter than me could answer that with some degree of confidence.
This was written by some guys that really don't know how computers work. Seriously. They have not studied algorithms nor understand how Java/Python works under the hood, nor how the operating system I/O subsystem works (specifically caching). How this wound up on/. I just don't get it. If you are doing string concatenation, at least try to do it the right way.
The Macs with Retina displays are second-to-none. Visually spectacular that nothing comes close to. Get a model that has the memory/processor you want and put VirtualBox on it for Linux and run it full-screen. I don't do physics, but I spend most of my time in the Linux VM. It's wonderful. I'm not a fan-boy, but the Apple hardware is worth it.
I know you're saying that to be funny, but... As this story points out, Windows is a horrible, horrible magnet for scams like this, and it's all too easy for scammers to take control over your machine. Plus, I generally find that Windows is more-or-less unusable. My wife and kid both have Macs, and my kid has a Windows laptop that our school district gives all the students. The students are trained on how to use Windows, and my daughter can't understand why "Windows makes it so hard to do stuff". So, Macs at home - I'm not scammed - they are superior machines in every way, and really not much more expensive than comparable computers. I also run Linux on a Mac Book Pro, because it's a better computer than 99% of the stuff out there.
Fully agree - properly built studios are crazy quiet, but most I have been in are what I call "average quiet". Good enough for the task at hand, as most musical instruments are pretty loud. But for 99 percent of the stuff recorded these days, your bedroom is good enough unless you are near a noisy road or something. I've been in an anechoic chamber a couple of times and they practically suck the life out of you. I also agree that nature most certainly does have an ambient noise, but on a clear summer day with no wind and no water, it's nearly like an anechoic chamber.
The summary is pretty much the entire contents of the linked article, except for a relatively low-resolution map of the US with colors indicating what's loud and quiet. You guessed it - cities are loud, wilderness is quiet.
I'm a part-time musician and audio engineer. Because of this, I have a more sensitive perception of noise than probably most people. I have lived in urban/suburban areas most of my adult life and I can hardly stand it. Even quiet recording studios don't really get it as quiet as I'd like. I try to get out to the wilderness whenever I can which is every couple of months - I mean way out there where you will find very few people nearby. It is difficult to find words to describe how nice and peaceful it is when it's so quiet - not to hear noise of any kind, except from nature. We are surrounded by air-conditioning and cars, and people and civilization - and it frankly takes a toll on my sanity (the sound is all I'm talking about). Much to my wife's chagrin, I regularly wear earplugs to restaurants, and always carry them with me. It's really amazing how loud things are.
That seems pretty quick to me. Whenever I setup a new machine it takes me at least a full day to get configured the way I like (admittedly I don't use LAMP, but still). What exactly is the problem with this?
The people that want to know what goes on in the computer - systems level stuff
The people that want to get something done - application developers
The first people would do good to learn straight-up C, and graduate to C++. The latter group should learn Python/Java/C#/Javascript/HTML/CSS/SQL. Though I don't use Python regularly, I think it's a good starter language.
I was lucky enough to be hired by a company that lets me work remotely. I get paid what I expect/deserve, and I didn't have to move to San Francisco. I go there about 3~4 times a year just to get face-time with the people I work with. They like it because they don't have to find a space for me, and I like it because I didn't want to move to California.
First, the author of the article. Only an idiot would think normal consumers would actually buy this car. It's going to be pay-by-ride, almost like a taxi but without a driver.
Second, HughPickens, who thinks people actually like what he has to say - and repeats the idiot author - which makes him just as much of an idiot.
I used to use a clicky keyboard for many years, the UniComp one, but I don't really use it much anymore. I also have a friend that had a nice cherry keyboard and I got to use it for a while. When I got a Mac a number of years ago, I got the Apple "chicklet" full-size keyboard with a number-pad. I love it. Practically silent operation, and the tactile feedback is quite sufficient. I feel like I always know when the key has been pressed, it never ghosts or misses a stroke. I play a few video games on it (not many) and never had issue with it. Lastly, it's not huge. Very low profile, and I really like that.
It just seems the clicky keyboards are really just clunky to me.
I really don't get it. XML wasn't designed for things like this, and yet people still want to use it as a database. It's one of the most goofy things I've come across in my years as a developer. I've been working in this industry since before XML was even an idea, and it's still a bad one (well, for things like this anyway). Admittedly it's good to get data from one system to another *in small chunks*, but don't try to move so much data in one block.
why not just flood the execution chamber with nitrogen or some other inert gas?
I think it's even easier and I'm not sure why nobody does this: Drain the blood from the person. I gave blood (once) and passed out. It was not very scary, a very short window of "oh, that's weird" and I was gone. I came-to several minutes later and was fine. No gas or dangerous environment, no pain, just drain the blood out.
I remember when the color-coded scare-o-meter played at the airports: "The current threat level is Orange". And every time I heard it I thought to myself, "... and it will never change". Turns out I was right.
I think it really requires all of the above (Passion, Education, Practice) to be a real expert. Those that really love a particular subject tend to do the other two automatically. Whether it's fixing cars, botany, math, or computer programming. I look for people with passion to work with. If they do what they do just because it's a job, I don't really want to work with drones.
I really like Scala, but I only use a small subset of all the crazy (and what I consider a bunch of superfluous) language features. Simpler Java with Closures is what is should be. Granted I'm not a language expert/theorist, but most of us that code for a living aren't. Trying to read some of the more esoteric features of Scala leaves me with "I thought it was supposed to make my life easier". When I have to spend an hour looking up syntax to describe what the code is doing - well, that doesn't work for me.
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Think of it like the MSDN membership, which gives you a *lot* of free, advanced releases of Microsoft software, plus lots of educational tools. You pay for that too. In fact, I think you pay a lot more for that than Apple's fees.
They probably won't support enabling it forever, but for now it's a workaround.
Yes, that's exactly what the OP was saying: They are discontinuing support for this.
And yet I can't recall any device that didn't work happily with the 1.2v supplied by a rechargeable NiMH.
To add to this good statement: Alkaline batteries have high internal resistance, so when they are highly loaded, their voltage drops dramatically (and therefore become useless to the device they are powering). NiMH have low internal resistance and can delivery drastically more amperage before their voltage drops. Many devices completely work with 1.2v just fine, but alkaline batteries drop below that too easily.
I built a generic piece of a larger system that I thought would be a good thing as open source. I convinced my boss that since we were using open source software as part of our big system, we should give back to the community, and he agreed. I organized the source with proper licensing into a package and my boss handed it off to the lawyers - explaining the above - for review. A few days later, they came back and said "no problem, post it". And I did. That was the end.
I suppose some of this depends on how prick-ish your company/boss is, but mine, thankfully, is pretty laid back about this sort of thing.
Here in Seattle they keep raising taxes and adding tolls in high traffic areas. Yet, the money just disappears into the void. I haven't studied where it goes but I *know* they make more than enough money to fund schools and teachers. And still, my kid who goes to Redmond high school has class sizes that are too big, has a couple of classes in temporary structures that have been there for a few years, and a science teacher that can't answer questions to the stuff she teaches because she's not even remotely a scientist. This same science teacher also has a workload far higher than normal teachers; She has no planning period and therefore is never prepared for class. As a result, my kid hates science when I think she would otherwise enjoy it. I do my best to re-teach what she should have been taught in the first place. It doesn't help that her science book is an incomprehensible piece of shit.
How about something that prods me to stop reading /. all the time?
Legitimate question: Does https://www.random.org/ seem to be a good place to get *really* random numbers? I'm curious if it's suitable for reliable random number generation. Based on the site it seems so, but I was wondering if somebody smarter than me could answer that with some degree of confidence.
What about the sites that restrict the length of the password? The only thing I have to say to them is, "You're doing it wrong".
This was written by some guys that really don't know how computers work. Seriously. They have not studied algorithms nor understand how Java/Python works under the hood, nor how the operating system I/O subsystem works (specifically caching). How this wound up on /. I just don't get it. If you are doing string concatenation, at least try to do it the right way.
The Macs with Retina displays are second-to-none. Visually spectacular that nothing comes close to. Get a model that has the memory/processor you want and put VirtualBox on it for Linux and run it full-screen. I don't do physics, but I spend most of my time in the Linux VM. It's wonderful. I'm not a fan-boy, but the Apple hardware is worth it.
I know you're saying that to be funny, but...
As this story points out, Windows is a horrible, horrible magnet for scams like this, and it's all too easy for scammers to take control over your machine. Plus, I generally find that Windows is more-or-less unusable. My wife and kid both have Macs, and my kid has a Windows laptop that our school district gives all the students. The students are trained on how to use Windows, and my daughter can't understand why "Windows makes it so hard to do stuff". So, Macs at home - I'm not scammed - they are superior machines in every way, and really not much more expensive than comparable computers. I also run Linux on a Mac Book Pro, because it's a better computer than 99% of the stuff out there.
Fully agree - properly built studios are crazy quiet, but most I have been in are what I call "average quiet". Good enough for the task at hand, as most musical instruments are pretty loud. But for 99 percent of the stuff recorded these days, your bedroom is good enough unless you are near a noisy road or something. I've been in an anechoic chamber a couple of times and they practically suck the life out of you. I also agree that nature most certainly does have an ambient noise, but on a clear summer day with no wind and no water, it's nearly like an anechoic chamber.
The summary is pretty much the entire contents of the linked article, except for a relatively low-resolution map of the US with colors indicating what's loud and quiet. You guessed it - cities are loud, wilderness is quiet.
I'm a part-time musician and audio engineer. Because of this, I have a more sensitive perception of noise than probably most people. I have lived in urban/suburban areas most of my adult life and I can hardly stand it. Even quiet recording studios don't really get it as quiet as I'd like. I try to get out to the wilderness whenever I can which is every couple of months - I mean way out there where you will find very few people nearby. It is difficult to find words to describe how nice and peaceful it is when it's so quiet - not to hear noise of any kind, except from nature. We are surrounded by air-conditioning and cars, and people and civilization - and it frankly takes a toll on my sanity (the sound is all I'm talking about). Much to my wife's chagrin, I regularly wear earplugs to restaurants, and always carry them with me. It's really amazing how loud things are.
That seems pretty quick to me. Whenever I setup a new machine it takes me at least a full day to get configured the way I like (admittedly I don't use LAMP, but still). What exactly is the problem with this?
The first people would do good to learn straight-up C, and graduate to C++. The latter group should learn Python/Java/C#/Javascript/HTML/CSS/SQL. Though I don't use Python regularly, I think it's a good starter language.
I was lucky enough to be hired by a company that lets me work remotely. I get paid what I expect/deserve, and I didn't have to move to San Francisco. I go there about 3~4 times a year just to get face-time with the people I work with. They like it because they don't have to find a space for me, and I like it because I didn't want to move to California.
First, the author of the article. Only an idiot would think normal consumers would actually buy this car. It's going to be pay-by-ride, almost like a taxi but without a driver.
Second, HughPickens, who thinks people actually like what he has to say - and repeats the idiot author - which makes him just as much of an idiot.
Please, for the love of $DEITY, go away
I used to use a clicky keyboard for many years, the UniComp one, but I don't really use it much anymore. I also have a friend that had a nice cherry keyboard and I got to use it for a while. When I got a Mac a number of years ago, I got the Apple "chicklet" full-size keyboard with a number-pad. I love it. Practically silent operation, and the tactile feedback is quite sufficient. I feel like I always know when the key has been pressed, it never ghosts or misses a stroke. I play a few video games on it (not many) and never had issue with it. Lastly, it's not huge. Very low profile, and I really like that.
It just seems the clicky keyboards are really just clunky to me.
I really don't get it. XML wasn't designed for things like this, and yet people still want to use it as a database. It's one of the most goofy things I've come across in my years as a developer. I've been working in this industry since before XML was even an idea, and it's still a bad one (well, for things like this anyway). Admittedly it's good to get data from one system to another *in small chunks*, but don't try to move so much data in one block.
why not just flood the execution chamber with nitrogen or some other inert gas?
I think it's even easier and I'm not sure why nobody does this: Drain the blood from the person. I gave blood (once) and passed out. It was not very scary, a very short window of "oh, that's weird" and I was gone. I came-to several minutes later and was fine. No gas or dangerous environment, no pain, just drain the blood out.
I remember when the color-coded scare-o-meter played at the airports: "The current threat level is Orange". And every time I heard it I thought to myself, "... and it will never change". Turns out I was right.
I think it really requires all of the above (Passion, Education, Practice) to be a real expert. Those that really love a particular subject tend to do the other two automatically. Whether it's fixing cars, botany, math, or computer programming. I look for people with passion to work with. If they do what they do just because it's a job, I don't really want to work with drones.
As of now, Swift *is* native tools. And it's a far more elegant language than Objective-C.
I really like Scala, but I only use a small subset of all the crazy (and what I consider a bunch of superfluous) language features. Simpler Java with Closures is what is should be. Granted I'm not a language expert/theorist, but most of us that code for a living aren't. Trying to read some of the more esoteric features of Scala leaves me with "I thought it was supposed to make my life easier". When I have to spend an hour looking up syntax to describe what the code is doing - well, that doesn't work for me.