This lie again? The same guy also said only five people understood X input. I was once on a mailing list with about three hundred of those five. The lie is based on how the current version of GTK is designed to rely on fast local graphics hardware and does not support being displayed remotely so X gets the job done with a fallback. The fuckup is in GTK not X.
Some understanding? Sadly that is being optimistic. Also there are plenty of people with more than K-12 that just need a few weeks to get up to speed on some of the things where HR filter based on years of experience and somebody else doing the training.
Not as silly as assuming no gravity on the moon FFS! Of course conveyor belts will work, but more importantly it's easier to grow big crystals (such as the single crystals we use for semiconductor wafers for solar panels and electronics) when you have less gravity to fight against. As for microgravity such as in orbit - easier for some things harder than others. Back in the day a guy called Archemedies worked out an alternative for conveyors that works both against gravity and if there is no gravity at all - Archemedies Screw.
You mean I did not dumb it down enough? Sorry, I don't think I can help other than pointing out that gravity on the moon is easier to work against than gravity on earth.
Moreover, Linux does have a kernel module now for ZFS, so what's the point?
Because ZFS on linux is not yet ready for serious use. It is catching up and is fine for the home PC I'm using now but it still lags a long way behind other systems with ZFS on a lot of points, especially performance.
That's pretty well how the outsourcing goes - fill a technical position with a random person in India or somewhere and then the client of the outsourcing company has to train them on the job. Maybe we should try that at home and actually start training people again. Hire people (men and women) to do a technical job and train them to do it instead of hoping that a resume is not a lie.
A sign that half the human race doesn't want to work in an industry is a bit of a sign that things are fucked up. I've seen more women working in mines than IT lately. Quotas are an act of force feeding the situation and assuming that the only problems are in hiring, so a quick attempted fix that makes people annoyed instead of doing something about the feedback loop that has been driving women out of IT for years.
If you're hiring women solely so that the male workers have someone to date, it's just asking for trouble
It solves a few problems and I think you are adding meaning that was not actually there.
In short, monocultures suck. Having someone from outside your home town avoids the embarrassment of local slang on your website confusing the fuck out of visitors and excluding half the human race from consideration narrows perspective and can lead to fuckups. Look at how out of touch some people in politics are on occasion for an example - when only employ people from a shallow pool (cronies, relatives etc) mistakes happen that we all assume could have been stopped by "general knowledge".
However it's been a feedback loop going on for decades so why would these women want to work twelve hour days in a place like a locker room with offsite meetings in strip clubs? Why would they want to work in an industry where attempting to take a year off is a career ending move? IT people really like to pretend they are "engineers" but the workplace behaviour does not remotely resemble anything a professional engineer would call professional.
You do know that telling people about this place is going to drive more traffic to it. It's one of the few places anywhere where men don't get shamed for wanting to have sex.
Few places? Most of the internet seems to be outright porn, even the ads on relatively mainstreams sites.
There are all those high school graduates who think they deserve the title due to being able to cut and paste other people's PHP. That bunch and those with an actual degree, but not in engineering, leads to a pile of social myths and stigmas about engineers. For one thing there are a greater percentage of women among engineering graduates than in CS and related degrees so engineers are better socialised than IT types in general. As for the second point directly above, also true.
There's an Indian breakfast similar to that called "poha" - one variant is green chilli and onion with rice flakes, lemon juice and coconut. Nice hot or cold.
You sell those electrons as ingots of titanium or whatever. Or better still use that stuff to do other things offplanet and avoid having to drag so much mass up from Earth.
As a single piece it makes almost zero sense but as one of many projects it does.
One thing "Space 1999" actually got right (passing comment in ep1) was assembling large spacecraft on the moon to avoid dragging structural parts up from Earth.
One thing most people miss is with less gravity the zone refining of silicon to make cells of that type would be a bit easier than on Earth. Also there are other processes that require less infrastructure than you need to make great big ingots of pure silicon, but those ingots are very useful to make electronics etc.
A final thing is that it makes less sense to export energy than to export things made using that energy. Getting things back down to Earth is not going to cost a vast amount in energy, it's all downhill and the energy required to slow down instead of going splat is not enormous.
It turns out this one (it's an Onyx Boox) has something like that and calls it OnyxScribbler, and the previous model has an SD card slot (not sure about this one).
They recognised the viability years ago but the patent holders decided they would try to make a killing and priced themselves out of the market. No e-ink monitor for us as a consequence of that.
The downside with the small devices only really hits when there are illustrations or diagrams in the text or if what you want to read is a PDF. I started reading Greg Egan's "The Clockwork Rocket" on a Kobo but then switched to the Kobo app on an android device when I found it had a few diagrams that looked like blurred postage stamps on the Kobo. Similarly with things like "Roughing It" by Mark Twain with illustrations. That's why I have a small device to carry around (Kobo Pocket) and a larger one to lug around on occasion.
From looking up what this really is (Onyx Boox) it already has FBreader on it without having to download it. The "WAY too much" bit comes from having an e-ink screen. Sucks but that's the way the patent holders have licensed it.
If you'd seen the state of colour e-ink I doubt you or anyone else desiring colour would still seriously consider it. Since there's no backlight and for a variety of other reasons it looks like faded newsprint. Also eink IS priced at a premium, the licensing costs appear to be insane, pricing it out of a lot of markets and creating a situation where only major players getting a bulk deal (eg. Amazon) and those hanging on in tiny niches can operate. Check out the price of e-ink displays that work with the raspberry pi for an example of how insane it is.
Following the links above it's the new larger model of the existing Onyx Boox ereaders with the same software as the smaller model (which I have and use daily) and apart from the larger screen very similar hardware.
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This lie again? The same guy also said only five people understood X input. I was once on a mailing list with about three hundred of those five.
The lie is based on how the current version of GTK is designed to rely on fast local graphics hardware and does not support being displayed remotely so X gets the job done with a fallback. The fuckup is in GTK not X.
Yes. There are far more women in the heavy industries than sitting inside typing doing what grandpa called the "women's work" of IT. Insane isn't it?
Some understanding? Sadly that is being optimistic.
Also there are plenty of people with more than K-12 that just need a few weeks to get up to speed on some of the things where HR filter based on years of experience and somebody else doing the training.
Not as silly as assuming no gravity on the moon FFS!
Of course conveyor belts will work, but more importantly it's easier to grow big crystals (such as the single crystals we use for semiconductor wafers for solar panels and electronics) when you have less gravity to fight against.
As for microgravity such as in orbit - easier for some things harder than others.
Back in the day a guy called Archemedies worked out an alternative for conveyors that works both against gravity and if there is no gravity at all - Archemedies Screw.
The short story is that growing big single crystals is a fight against gravity (among other things).
You mean I did not dumb it down enough?
Sorry, I don't think I can help other than pointing out that gravity on the moon is easier to work against than gravity on earth.
Because ZFS on linux is not yet ready for serious use. It is catching up and is fine for the home PC I'm using now but it still lags a long way behind other systems with ZFS on a lot of points, especially performance.
It sounds like a hobby to me by this stage and not a search for a a potential partner.
That's pretty well how the outsourcing goes - fill a technical position with a random person in India or somewhere and then the client of the outsourcing company has to train them on the job.
Maybe we should try that at home and actually start training people again. Hire people (men and women) to do a technical job and train them to do it instead of hoping that a resume is not a lie.
A sign that half the human race doesn't want to work in an industry is a bit of a sign that things are fucked up. I've seen more women working in mines than IT lately.
Quotas are an act of force feeding the situation and assuming that the only problems are in hiring, so a quick attempted fix that makes people annoyed instead of doing something about the feedback loop that has been driving women out of IT for years.
It solves a few problems and I think you are adding meaning that was not actually there.
In short, monocultures suck. Having someone from outside your home town avoids the embarrassment of local slang on your website confusing the fuck out of visitors and excluding half the human race from consideration narrows perspective and can lead to fuckups. Look at how out of touch some people in politics are on occasion for an example - when only employ people from a shallow pool (cronies, relatives etc) mistakes happen that we all assume could have been stopped by "general knowledge".
However it's been a feedback loop going on for decades so why would these women want to work twelve hour days in a place like a locker room with offsite meetings in strip clubs? Why would they want to work in an industry where attempting to take a year off is a career ending move? IT people really like to pretend they are "engineers" but the workplace behaviour does not remotely resemble anything a professional engineer would call professional.
You do know that telling people about this place is going to drive more traffic to it. It's one of the few places anywhere where men don't get shamed for wanting to have sex.
Few places? Most of the internet seems to be outright porn, even the ads on relatively mainstreams sites.
There are all those high school graduates who think they deserve the title due to being able to cut and paste other people's PHP.
That bunch and those with an actual degree, but not in engineering, leads to a pile of social myths and stigmas about engineers. For one thing there are a greater percentage of women among engineering graduates than in CS and related degrees so engineers are better socialised than IT types in general.
As for the second point directly above, also true.
Used to make stuff on the other hand (eg. titanium) is a different story, especially if it's to use offplanet.
There's an Indian breakfast similar to that called "poha" - one variant is green chilli and onion with rice flakes, lemon juice and coconut. Nice hot or cold.
Fusion energy was seen as 20 years off decades ago, but since then barely five years of the sort of effort anticipated has happened.
You sell those electrons as ingots of titanium or whatever. Or better still use that stuff to do other things offplanet and avoid having to drag so much mass up from Earth.
As a single piece it makes almost zero sense but as one of many projects it does.
One thing "Space 1999" actually got right (passing comment in ep1) was assembling large spacecraft on the moon to avoid dragging structural parts up from Earth.
One thing most people miss is with less gravity the zone refining of silicon to make cells of that type would be a bit easier than on Earth.
Also there are other processes that require less infrastructure than you need to make great big ingots of pure silicon, but those ingots are very useful to make electronics etc.
A final thing is that it makes less sense to export energy than to export things made using that energy. Getting things back down to Earth is not going to cost a vast amount in energy, it's all downhill and the energy required to slow down instead of going splat is not enormous.
Symptom not cause - isn't it obvious?
It turns out this one (it's an Onyx Boox) has something like that and calls it OnyxScribbler, and the previous model has an SD card slot (not sure about this one).
They recognised the viability years ago but the patent holders decided they would try to make a killing and priced themselves out of the market. No e-ink monitor for us as a consequence of that.
The downside with the small devices only really hits when there are illustrations or diagrams in the text or if what you want to read is a PDF. I started reading Greg Egan's "The Clockwork Rocket" on a Kobo but then switched to the Kobo app on an android device when I found it had a few diagrams that looked like blurred postage stamps on the Kobo. Similarly with things like "Roughing It" by Mark Twain with illustrations.
That's why I have a small device to carry around (Kobo Pocket) and a larger one to lug around on occasion.
From looking up what this really is (Onyx Boox) it already has FBreader on it without having to download it.
The "WAY too much" bit comes from having an e-ink screen. Sucks but that's the way the patent holders have licensed it.
If you'd seen the state of colour e-ink I doubt you or anyone else desiring colour would still seriously consider it. Since there's no backlight and for a variety of other reasons it looks like faded newsprint.
Also eink IS priced at a premium, the licensing costs appear to be insane, pricing it out of a lot of markets and creating a situation where only major players getting a bulk deal (eg. Amazon) and those hanging on in tiny niches can operate. Check out the price of e-ink displays that work with the raspberry pi for an example of how insane it is.
Following the links above it's the new larger model of the existing Onyx Boox ereaders with the same software as the smaller model (which I have and use daily) and apart from the larger screen very similar hardware.