Reminds me of a story from a few years back. Homeless guy in San Francisco was sleeping in the doorway to an Apple store. People walking by assumed that it was the beginning of a line for a product release and stood in a line behind him.
To an extent, your brain compensates for variations in ambient lighting. With reduced blue wavelengths, you will still perceive white paper as white. And reading is more dependent on contrast anyway. White paper vs black ink (or blue ink, which will look black) under red night vision lighting is still readable.
We're not sure. I don't think anyone on Slashdot has ever seen the sky and reported back. We ought to mount an expedition out of our parents' basements. For research purposes.
Depends on how low they fly. During WWII, one tactic for knocking down torpedo bombers was to aim ships' artillery ahead of them and knock them down with the resulting column of spray.
Also catalytic converter heat shields. When my car reached 25 years old and I deleted the cat (no more emissions tests) the asbestos pad sandwiched between sheet metal was disintegrating.
I wonder how much of this stuff gets blown out onto the roadside for cyclists to huff as they ride?
Copying and pasting, cloning, free software is a perfectly acceptable form of work.
Unless your customer prohibits this as a part of your contract terms. Possibly wanting to sell their product in the proprietary market. But then you go and copy anyway. And that fact is discovered by the copyright owners of the GPL (for example) code. And they sue your customer, who then turns around and sues you.
By definition a free lancer is not the person to create something original.
Really? I'd like to see where this definition is written.
But this is in the case of when you do the work and the client _doesn't_ pay.
I get requirements and deliver working code. I just need some repository that third party experts can review to verify that the various bits of the contract have been satisfied. I suppose if I bid a job to produce half a million keystrokes, this system would help. But a monkey could probably hit the keyboard faster than I could.
... I was discussing this very subject with my wife. The toaster interjected to state that our fears were unfounded and we had no reason to avoid Apple products.
That's like an eighth of a millisecond. 1/8ms. Not noticeable.
To you or me, no. But to specialized HFT trading systems with optimized hardware and networking stacks, that is ages. Particularly if you are trying to beat some other HFT system to a trade.
The climate crisis is nigh. Never mind the fires and drowning polar bears. It's affecting the bottom line of rich people. Put up those windmills and solare panels now!
running a Real-Tiime OS (which none of these Windows-using traders run)
Windows is only the HMI. The lower level network stacks and trading apps are running on highly customized and stripped down networking stacks. Linux was hot some years ago. But I imagine that some trading systems have gone to FPGAs/ASICs. So a 16 microsecond latency represents thousands of instructions on some of the more mainstream architectures. More on the really high performance stuff.
who would bag groceries and serve coffee at starbucks?
Liberal arts majors. The people who thought that art history was a viable profession rather than a part of a curriculum meant to round out one's education.
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It's subcontractors all the way down.
Reminds me of a story from a few years back. Homeless guy in San Francisco was sleeping in the doorway to an Apple store. People walking by assumed that it was the beginning of a line for a product release and stood in a line behind him.
like taking their cat convert apart.
It's taking itself apart.
There was an upside to electing a president with orange hair! Who knew?
Are you going to stop looking at white paper?
To an extent, your brain compensates for variations in ambient lighting. With reduced blue wavelengths, you will still perceive white paper as white. And reading is more dependent on contrast anyway. White paper vs black ink (or blue ink, which will look black) under red night vision lighting is still readable.
Wait!? Someone replaced toobs? I never got the memo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the sky blue?
We're not sure. I don't think anyone on Slashdot has ever seen the sky and reported back. We ought to mount an expedition out of our parents' basements. For research purposes.
Depends on how low they fly. During WWII, one tactic for knocking down torpedo bombers was to aim ships' artillery ahead of them and knock them down with the resulting column of spray.
Any idea what's in your brake linings?
Also catalytic converter heat shields. When my car reached 25 years old and I deleted the cat (no more emissions tests) the asbestos pad sandwiched between sheet metal was disintegrating.
I wonder how much of this stuff gets blown out onto the roadside for cyclists to huff as they ride?
make a small incision and wire me up for the upgrade.
Wire you up to what? A programmer that has been compromised?
Your TV set has better end-to-end security to ensure unauthorized Mickey Mouse movies aren't being viewed on unapproved hardware.
Never mind the damned uniforms. There will be co-ed showers.
Let the Space Force handle space.
ASAT weapon launched from a carrier-based fighter. We're going to need someone from the JCS to push the fire button.
Copying and pasting, cloning, free software is a perfectly acceptable form of work.
Unless your customer prohibits this as a part of your contract terms. Possibly wanting to sell their product in the proprietary market. But then you go and copy anyway. And that fact is discovered by the copyright owners of the GPL (for example) code. And they sue your customer, who then turns around and sues you.
By definition a free lancer is not the person to create something original.
Really? I'd like to see where this definition is written.
But this is in the case of when you do the work and the client _doesn't_ pay.
I get requirements and deliver working code. I just need some repository that third party experts can review to verify that the various bits of the contract have been satisfied. I suppose if I bid a job to produce half a million keystrokes, this system would help. But a monkey could probably hit the keyboard faster than I could.
registering his podcast with the normal services which delineate podcasts
Which services are these? Where can I find one?
Quite frankly I'm against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution.
Every single one of us needs to switch off our computers, go outside, plant some beans and chard,
go outside and build nukes
FTFY
That's like an eighth of a millisecond. 1/8ms. Not noticeable.
To you or me, no. But to specialized HFT trading systems with optimized hardware and networking stacks, that is ages. Particularly if you are trying to beat some other HFT system to a trade.
The climate crisis is nigh. Never mind the fires and drowning polar bears. It's affecting the bottom line of rich people. Put up those windmills and solare panels now!
running a Real-Tiime OS (which none of these Windows-using traders run)
Windows is only the HMI. The lower level network stacks and trading apps are running on highly customized and stripped down networking stacks. Linux was hot some years ago. But I imagine that some trading systems have gone to FPGAs/ASICs. So a 16 microsecond latency represents thousands of instructions on some of the more mainstream architectures. More on the really high performance stuff.
Microsoft already tried
I heard that it was an abject failure. They ended up with an O/S with no bugs.
Life is like an analogy.
Good points.
Now pardon me while I put on some Wagner.
who would bag groceries and serve coffee at starbucks?
Liberal arts majors. The people who thought that art history was a viable profession rather than a part of a curriculum meant to round out one's education.