Microdosing, or regular use of normal doses of LSD, is less innocent then it looks. It can lead to or amplify an heart condition.
Given enough time between doses, the heart has time to recover. Long-term microdosing does sabotage that repair process. Read https://thethirdwave.co/psyche... for more detailed information.
Also, from personal experience, i found the 'after effect' of LSD lasts for a week or two, increasing good mood. I'm not talking about the 'next day' hangover when you're still a bit tired from the experience, but the following days where the 'anti-depressant' effect of the drug becomes more obvious.
Personally, for me that's two reasons not to microdose. I rather have the full trip, than building immunity for the hallucinogen effect. Also being overweight already i rather avoid a heart condition. I didn't trip at all for over 2 decades. Nowadays i might pop 2 trips in a single month, alternated by months of not using. But i will avoid experimenting with microdosing.
Also: this is a UK survey. British people are accustomed to watching TV without ads, so it seems likely that a larger portion of them would ditch Netflix under that circumstance than people would in the United States, for example.
I'm not so sure, it could work the other way round too. Like, in my country we have public TV and ads. Since i dislike ads, this was a reason to cut the cable a long time ago. Netflix is a welcome alternative.
However, if our public channels were to be ad-free, the incentive to subscribe to Netflix would be a lot lower. One could imagine that in our country the number of Netflix subscribers that dislike ads, and have a Netflix subscription just because of that, might actually be higher than in the UK.
And you think the 78M that fortnite reports is not inflated?
After all, the game is initially free to play, so this 78M also includes me and others signing up just to check it out, never to return again. I totally agree on the conclusion that it will follow WoW once the hype is over. It looks like a nice game though if it's your thing to do.
Apart that, you are comparing apples to oranges. SL targets an entire different audience, that mostly if not solely come there for the social aspect. Bluntly put: fortnite is for younger gamers, SL is more for older people that are not interested in games.
Also, if you read the parent post better, author mentioned 600k players a year, not daily. Still it has a 50k players online at any given point. And survived for over a decade, with a flourishing microeconomy.
And coming from EA, i expect them only to do things that bring the most money in their pockets. They are not necessarily in it for the long run. History learns that EA will screw it up sooner or later, although of course for the fans i hope not so. Luckily we live in an online world with plenty choice for people how they want to spend their time and entertain themselves.
Slashdot has persisted, because of the (IMHO) amazing moderation on Slashdot had implemented from the beginning.
Unlike Reddit, it's not just a up/down bandwagon vote if you agree with the comment.
True that. I can't talk for others, but on quite an occasion i upvote comments i disagree with but are well argumented and worth considering a thought, and downvote comments i might agree with due to offensive language.
/. indeed being the only place i know where such can be observed, rest of the online world people seems to see a +/- button as an 'agree/disagree' instead of 'well-written/offensive'.
Agree. Audio/hifi equipment is of poor quality. TV's got bigger but the content did not improve (ok, we have on demand). Most household devices have a limited lifespan, and the ones that seem to last are made before 1980.
The smartphone was a predictable invention, although i had imagined it with a keyboard - and still wish they had. Computers did got faster but software got worse, resulting more often than not in a slower computer and a more annoying experience - an MS-DOS PC was very predictable, modern windows PC not so.
So, while there are improvements i don't have the feeling of 'living in the future'. The quality of many items just sucks. Partly because of low cost, partly because of an economic strategy - the 'fail by design'.
As far computer games go - it seems that people in the 90's had just as much or maybe even more fun on their nintendo consoles or MS-DOS pc's than nowadays, with spammers scammers and cheaters ruling the online platforms, and games showing off fancy graphics but do not necessarily have good game play, exceptions there. Then there seems a huge market for 'pay to play' which more resembles gambling than gaming.
Education has got worse, not better, according to many. Modern tools not help and personally i think an 'iPod' school is an horrible idea. For sure people's attention span got worse, millennials seem to think it's normal to be interrupted by an electronic device every other minute.
But the biggest issue i see in how politics are failing. I'd imagined a relative peaceful world, with smart engineered technological advances. Meanwhile we keep burning coal to waste CO2, just to mine bitcoins. Because our financial system became both big brother, unreliable and expensive. Govs like to play big brother in general. The average person is not trusted and often screwed over by the system, that itself often cannot be trusted. There is political instability even in the modern countries like France and the UK. There seem to be so much struggle that any long-time strategy is forgotten as politicians only think about their next term, not about our next generation.
So yes, in overall, it doesn't feel the world improved a lot. Yes, there is promising technology. Yes, we can go into space and build fast computers. But the average person still works 40 hours a week for a shitty salary and a lot of stress and the average lifespan did not increase over the last 2 decades. And our food got worse. And the internet is a great invention.
I (as european) find it much easier to convert from metric to imperial than the other way around.
For example, a mile is about 1.6km. Multiplying by 1.6 is much easier than dividing by 1.6. A pound is close enough to our traditional 'metric' pound (1/2 kg) to not cause any significant confusion (btw, we are legally not allowed to use the word 'pound' in my country). A gallon is close to 4L (3.8), and a quart is roughly a liter. From Celsius to Fahrenheit is pretty easy too, once you have one or two 'setpoints' and round 9/5 to 2. The other way around is way more confusing. Also, in a way Fahrenheit is more intuitive - 100 is hot and below 50 is cold, and has a better resolution (0.5C difference is noticeable but weather reports will round to integer numbers).
It got to the point where at work i occasionally and by accident use inches instead of cm. My co-worker is nerdy enough to have no problem with it. 'About 5 inch' is just way more practical than '12 or 13cm'. With any construction, inches are just practical and cm are often overly precise and harder to `guess` correctly.
Having had to work with both units, i can totally see why the USA sticks to imperial units. Simply put, they are more intuitive and the scale is usually more practical for the human mind to parse. Metric is too 'artificial' and misses practical units like feet, ounce, pint, pound and gallon. Humans are just not good with (large) numbers, and changing to an appropriate unit fixes this.
Welcome to europe where i pay about 6ct for one kWh, 3 cent per kWh transport/grid costs and a whopping 14 cent per kWh tax.
Those taxes go straight into politicians' pet projects, not towards investments in renewables.
My country is not as green as they pretend to be. For example, our politicians are trying to convince the public that driving a 2500kg electric car is `greener` than driving a small and efficient 800kg gasoline car. They promote solar panels but fail to properly insulate old houses. It's all populist politics that has really nothing do to with actually caring about CO2 emissions or the environment.
No, the main purpose is to sell you stuff or make money from you by other means.
Spying is not a goal in itself. And [company] will weigh in factors like public opinion, satisfied customers and long term relationship to maximize profit. Spying is actually counter beneficial to this goal of profit. Besides, they already know more than enough about you without dialing in on your private conversations.
It's the best affordable and f*-proof durable keyboard, and comes with USB for the mouse. It has all keys at the normal place.
Nothing more nothing less, it has media keys and gamers may like to install the macro software. It's just rocksolid. I don't even know if they are still available since they last that long....
Currently, the "whole brain" simulators that exist can't simulate whole human brains. They could certainly simulate the relevant structures in an avian brain, though.
Ehm no, not by far. There is some progress in the field when it comes to simulating the neurons from insects and worms.
However, (mapping out and) simulating an avian brain is several magnitudes more complex. It's not that our supercomputers cannot do that, cause maybe they could - especially since no-one said the simulation had to be real-time. It's that it is almost impossible to functionally describe and consequently emulate a brain due to it's sheer complexity.
To put shortly: we still have no f*g clue how complex brains work. We can try to assign regions to certain progresses - regions that are more active during certain tasks. However, it already turned out that 'all brain' talks to 'all brain' all the time and that those regions are no more than an indicator.
To add to the difficulty of such endeavor, it is very hard to study a brain in working order. To examine it on microscopic level, the animal generally is no longer alive. For the rest of it workings we have to rely on indirect observations and measurements and theory craft.
I don't want a another desktop environment when i already got one and don't need one. And i never said 'development' although there it gots is uses too. I said 'gnu tools'.
WSL is actually what makes using W10 a bearable experience. I'd almost say it's a game changer. I would prefer using gnu/linux altogether. But when stuck on windows 10 it's just great to have all the command line tools available as fast as native. (and if you bother to set up a x server even a lot of gui tools). I don't get all the hate on WSL.
Why are people stuck in this 'we must virtualize everything'. And then virtualize the virtualization. And virtualize anything within the virtualization. I'm not even kidding, you run a web os in a vm with a sandboxed browser that runs javascript to virtualize an online X86 emulator written in js to boot linux so you can etc... But you always have to question yourself: who will virtualize the virtualizers.
I rather go native especially if the job already took 20 mins on 8 cores in the first place. And where my interaction time with the machine is reduced to 12 seconds instead of 12 minutes.
Exactly. Installing VirtualBox with any of the great Linux distros works like a charm. I almost don't understand why would someone pay for this crippled solution.
Because it's faster and better in certain scenario's to do it like this.
Faster because: A. To start it up, it's one click or one word away from a CLI. Virtualbox needs to be installed, spun up, wait till it's booted or restored, and taking up a truckload of RAM and CPU power. Just for running a simple command line tool. VB is total overkill when all you need is a simple CLI tool. B. The executable runs natively. There's no virtualization overhead. This means full or better speed for execution and network (and other i/o) access.
Also, it works right on your own filesystem. No need for a 'shared folder' with you VM. Your drives are available as-is. And so are your gnu tools. So i can do anything with my files i want, no matter where they reside, without the hassle of copying them around to this shared-with-VM-folder.
Then, as far as security goes.. A VM not really adds any security here, i trust my ubuntu (or whatever) distro the same as on any native linux box. Why would i want to virtualize my gnu/linux environment.
There's other reasons as well, probably others will fill you in here. But to me just the ease and the speed are saving my sanity. Running anything in a VM still sux, even in 2018.
You can also reverse the argument, and compare it with using wine on gnu/linux. That's a pretty fair comparison as WSL and wine actually work in a very similar way. Yes, you could run anything you run with wine in a VM. Sometimes you even have to. But you'd rather not, for various reasons, but mostly because wine usually performs better and is less hassle.
It takes hardly an hour to write a decent PDO wrapper that provides the old mysql interface.
Been there, done that, but there's a (big) performance penalty doing so.
The old mysql* interface was fine, functional and elegant in itself, the issues mostly because people not knowing how to use it correctly (being spoiled by all needless OOPS a.k.a. object oriented spaghetti) , and not because of a significant limitation of the api itself.
Writing a wrapper sort-of works but is never 100% optimal, plus the whole website needs to be evaluated. Rewriting *everything* is simply out of the question for the obvious reasons and usually only leads to more and new bugs or new security issues.
Breaking what's not broken in the sake of 'security' instead of directing people to RTFM is just ignorant. I totally agree with GP.
Moreover, electric cars have very long potential lifespans since they contain few moving parts
While that statement in itself may be true, they do need the battery pack replaced every so often. And the production of those batteries is actually one of the most polluting aspects.
Our best bets still are: converting to more renewable sources for the 'normal' grid, and limiting the steel and concrete industries. There's more environmental gains to win from reforming the construction industry - even if only so partially - than from converting the automobile industry entirely.
You can count pretty fast then, must be my age. If i count one number each second, it would take me around 66 years to count 2 billion bits. I hope i'll live that long but if i'd start now, i doubt i'll complete the task. And that's without adding some time to sleep each day.
What a strange use of the world `only`. 256MB is a lot, really a lot.
We could run our desktop computers with 256MB RAM at ease if we wanted to. As comparison: When windows 2000 was released (around 2000...) most computers only had around 64MB of memory, and that would already be a reasonable beefy computer. Windows 2000 liked a bit more, around 128, but would run on this 64MB just fine albeit a bit slow. And this same windows 2000 offered a desktop experience not much different from the (windows) desktops we are using today, including proper plug and play support, multimedia and whatever fancy you liked. When XP came a couple of years later, most people still hadn't updated to 256MB of memory.
Now, compare that to an embedded computer that does not have to waste any memory on fancy graphics, user interfaces and what more, and you will notice that 256MB is a lot. Really a lot. Try writing code to fill that up - a single human couldn't, even a whole team can't. Obviously it'll need some memory to store images etc, but this 2GB of flash is also a lot and comparable to what the first digital camera's came with..
And for those saying 'long time ago long time ago' - even today it's pretty common to write software that has no more than a single kilobyte of RAM memory available, for embedded purposes. With all the modern webcrap using gigabytes of memory for trivial tasks people seem to have lost the feeling for quantity. 256MB are more bits than i can count in my lifetime..
Do you know where those people work now? How do you feel about those companies?
Any long term/. reader will know that most big companies are frown upon. How Apple went from nerd's favorite to fanboys. How Google is almost synonym for Big Bro. How IBM went from markt leader to small boy.
Any big company should be observed with skepticism and reservation, not only the tech sector, but the tech sector simply has a big influence on our daily lives and the future to come. That's why they are under a microscope. It's also why they are not expected to change fast.
But when it comes to Microsoft it's also why 2 decades of bad behavior is not suddenly forgotten after one decade of being 'OS friendly' or 'no longer OS hostile', especially if you see how they treat their customers with win10 when it comes to privacy.
But any day Microsoft fanboys take over/. is a sad day, and today is one.
People like you really need to get over your irrational Microsoft hate and take a leaf out of Torvald's book and go and get some professional help. You're exactly the sort of toxic open source community member he was talking about, because even when you've got literally everything you wanted from a formerly proprietary company - i.e. a complete open sourcing of one of their key products, you STILL bitch and moan at them and imply they shouldn't have done it. You're exactly the sort of person the OSS community doesn't need because you're exactly the sort of no-life vermin that pushes organisations and individuals away from contributing to it.
With these kind of rants, i'd also suggest you are exactly the person the 'OSS community' (if such exists) does not need.
It's also very interesting to see the amount of brainwash being done to you, to conclude that 'if you don't like MS you are not a good civilian/OSS member/technician/bla'.
By the way. the reason people don't trust MS is most likely because they are a decade or 2 older than you, and actually remember what MS has done in the past first-hand, and also observe how most 'changes' from MS are actually double-bottomed party tricks. Open-sourcing some code will not erase such memories. Live with it - cause those 'unbelievers' are likely right and if not, have the right for their viewpoints as much as you - just you don't realize it.
With headphones? As you blissfully bike along not listening to traffic noise?
Ironically the law also covers (`mobile`) music devices. They are probably thinking ipods, or phones used for the music or whatever, but listening to an mp3 player (or more precisely: controlling the mp3 player) is also being forbidden, in effect also outlawing a 1980's walkman.
I have double feelings about this law. Yes, some people bicycle while looking constant at their phone. But i bet people are getting fined for just checking the time, or making a normal phone call. I'm totally fine with people making phone calls on their bicycle, because it means they keep their eyes on the road. It's texting and chatting (or is that called 'apping' these days?) that's the issue, not phoning or casual screen use or interaction.
As European, i say labor costs are the primary factor why repairs are often infeasible.
It's not like our salary is that high. It's all the added taxes - starting with sales tax (also on repairs and other services) and not ending with labor taxes.
To bring home a $15 salary a technician would have to charge at least $65 / hour. And that's excluding the costs he or she might have for the shop, shipping, components etc. In effect it means that even a small 20-minute repair on, say, a smartphone will put you down at least a $120.
Any repair that is labor intensive will be costly. Component costs are only a fraction of the repair costs. And it happens that repairs are inherently labor intensive. Fix the tax system and repairs would get more affordable. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
Facebook has become noise. And they did it themselves.
They send e-mails so frequently that it resulted in me ignoring them all. Any page is filled up with ads. Real interesting things rarely get posted.
I check fb maybe once every 2 weeks. I might actually browse it a bit when i'm bored, but last time i did that was months ago.
The only good usage of fb these days is to get in contact with companies. Companies that choose to ignore e-mails and phone calls (or just promise yes and do no) - for whatever reason it works better if the request or issue is made public on fb. It's a modern name-and-shame game.
Apart that, the initial goal of 'get in touch with your friends' seem to be less the case and less fb's mission. Well, i use messenger if someone else wishes so. Personally i prefer e-mail over any messenger.
It takes a decade to build a nuclear power plant. Including planning and legal permits etc you're more looking at two decades to build a plant.
Meanwhile, a wind mill can be placed in a matter of months. A large scale off-shore wind park takes maybe 2-3 year to build, and has more capacity than a nuclear multi-reactor plant would have. Go ask the Danish, the Dutch or the Germans.
While i don't oppose nuclear energy per-se, it's obvious that's its more economic, faster, cheaper, easier to build wind- and solar farms. And safer too, also after decommissioning.
Your plan might have worked in the 80's. When climate change was known by scientists, and totally ignored by almost anyone else. In 2018 we have better alternatives.
Non-programmers should learn some patience, persistence, more eye for details and most important: learn that even the most basic stuff is not done auto-magically.
Analytic skill set only comes last. In my experience it boils down to the first skill: patience.
It's akin to saying you probably don't need to wear a seat belt
No, no and no.
As you may know, risk = damage x chance.
When i don't wear a seat belt and get in a crash, i might die or suffer severe injuries. That's big damage.
When i loose a file, i lost a few bits. I usually couldn't care less. It might be a photo or mp3 file. It might be a failed backup. Worst case it's a fortune worth of bitcoin. But i won't die from it.
Don't make analogies that just aren't true. Don't pretend a lost bit is the same as a broken body part. And to be on-topic - i usually just `yank` my thumb drive out whenever i want. When i feel it's really important i might once in a blue moon go the official way. I'm perfectly capable of calculating the risk that i take. Saving many seconds on repeated actions weigh up against that one time i was to quick and spend a minute re-copying a file.
It's just the next episode of FUD - same as the 'experts' done with passwords. Just so now they have an excuse to blame the user if a flash storage fails (which they do): 'you probably yanked it out'.
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Microdosing, or regular use of normal doses of LSD, is less innocent then it looks. It can lead to or amplify an heart condition.
Given enough time between doses, the heart has time to recover. Long-term microdosing does sabotage that repair process. Read https://thethirdwave.co/psyche... for more detailed information.
Also, from personal experience, i found the 'after effect' of LSD lasts for a week or two, increasing good mood. I'm not talking about the 'next day' hangover when you're still a bit tired from the experience, but the following days where the 'anti-depressant' effect of the drug becomes more obvious.
Personally, for me that's two reasons not to microdose. I rather have the full trip, than building immunity for the hallucinogen effect. Also being overweight already i rather avoid a heart condition. I didn't trip at all for over 2 decades. Nowadays i might pop 2 trips in a single month, alternated by months of not using. But i will avoid experimenting with microdosing.
Also: this is a UK survey. British people are accustomed to watching TV without ads, so it seems likely that a larger portion of them would ditch Netflix under that circumstance than people would in the United States, for example.
I'm not so sure, it could work the other way round too. Like, in my country we have public TV and ads. Since i dislike ads, this was a reason to cut the cable a long time ago. Netflix is a welcome alternative.
However, if our public channels were to be ad-free, the incentive to subscribe to Netflix would be a lot lower. One could imagine that in our country the number of Netflix subscribers that dislike ads, and have a Netflix subscription just because of that, might actually be higher than in the UK.
And you think the 78M that fortnite reports is not inflated?
After all, the game is initially free to play, so this 78M also includes me and others signing up just to check it out, never to return again. I totally agree on the conclusion that it will follow WoW once the hype is over. It looks like a nice game though if it's your thing to do.
Apart that, you are comparing apples to oranges. SL targets an entire different audience, that mostly if not solely come there for the social aspect. Bluntly put: fortnite is for younger gamers, SL is more for older people that are not interested in games.
Also, if you read the parent post better, author mentioned 600k players a year, not daily. Still it has a 50k players online at any given point. And survived for over a decade, with a flourishing microeconomy.
And coming from EA, i expect them only to do things that bring the most money in their pockets. They are not necessarily in it for the long run. History learns that EA will screw it up sooner or later, although of course for the fans i hope not so. Luckily we live in an online world with plenty choice for people how they want to spend their time and entertain themselves.
Slashdot has persisted, because of the (IMHO) amazing moderation on Slashdot had implemented from the beginning.
True that. I can't talk for others, but on quite an occasion i upvote comments i disagree with but are well argumented and worth considering a thought, and downvote comments i might agree with due to offensive language.
Agree. Audio/hifi equipment is of poor quality. TV's got bigger but the content did not improve (ok, we have on demand). Most household devices have a limited lifespan, and the ones that seem to last are made before 1980.
The smartphone was a predictable invention, although i had imagined it with a keyboard - and still wish they had. Computers did got faster but software got worse, resulting more often than not in a slower computer and a more annoying experience - an MS-DOS PC was very predictable, modern windows PC not so.
So, while there are improvements i don't have the feeling of 'living in the future'. The quality of many items just sucks. Partly because of low cost, partly because of an economic strategy - the 'fail by design'.
As far computer games go - it seems that people in the 90's had just as much or maybe even more fun on their nintendo consoles or MS-DOS pc's than nowadays, with spammers scammers and cheaters ruling the online platforms, and games showing off fancy graphics but do not necessarily have good game play, exceptions there. Then there seems a huge market for 'pay to play' which more resembles gambling than gaming.
Education has got worse, not better, according to many. Modern tools not help and personally i think an 'iPod' school is an horrible idea. For sure people's attention span got worse, millennials seem to think it's normal to be interrupted by an electronic device every other minute.
But the biggest issue i see in how politics are failing. I'd imagined a relative peaceful world, with smart engineered technological advances. Meanwhile we keep burning coal to waste CO2, just to mine bitcoins. Because our financial system became both big brother, unreliable and expensive. Govs like to play big brother in general. The average person is not trusted and often screwed over by the system, that itself often cannot be trusted. There is political instability even in the modern countries like France and the UK. There seem to be so much struggle that any long-time strategy is forgotten as politicians only think about their next term, not about our next generation.
So yes, in overall, it doesn't feel the world improved a lot. Yes, there is promising technology. Yes, we can go into space and build fast computers. But the average person still works 40 hours a week for a shitty salary and a lot of stress and the average lifespan did not increase over the last 2 decades. And our food got worse. And the internet is a great invention.
I (as european) find it much easier to convert from metric to imperial than the other way around.
For example, a mile is about 1.6km. Multiplying by 1.6 is much easier than dividing by 1.6.
A pound is close enough to our traditional 'metric' pound (1/2 kg) to not cause any significant confusion (btw, we are legally not allowed to use the word 'pound' in my country). A gallon is close to 4L (3.8), and a quart is roughly a liter. From Celsius to Fahrenheit is pretty easy too, once you have one or two 'setpoints' and round 9/5 to 2. The other way around is way more confusing. Also, in a way Fahrenheit is more intuitive - 100 is hot and below 50 is cold, and has a better resolution (0.5C difference is noticeable but weather reports will round to integer numbers).
It got to the point where at work i occasionally and by accident use inches instead of cm. My co-worker is nerdy enough to have no problem with it. 'About 5 inch' is just way more practical than '12 or 13cm'. With any construction, inches are just practical and cm are often overly precise and harder to `guess` correctly.
Having had to work with both units, i can totally see why the USA sticks to imperial units. Simply put, they are more intuitive and the scale is usually more practical for the human mind to parse. Metric is too 'artificial' and misses practical units like feet, ounce, pint, pound and gallon. Humans are just not good with (large) numbers, and changing to an appropriate unit fixes this.
Welcome to europe where i pay about 6ct for one kWh, 3 cent per kWh transport/grid costs and a whopping 14 cent per kWh tax.
Those taxes go straight into politicians' pet projects, not towards investments in renewables.
My country is not as green as they pretend to be. For example, our politicians are trying to convince the public that driving a 2500kg electric car is `greener` than driving a small and efficient 800kg gasoline car. They promote solar panels but fail to properly insulate old houses. It's all populist politics that has really nothing do to with actually caring about CO2 emissions or the environment.
whose MAIN PURPOSE IS TO SPY ON YOU.
No, the main purpose is to sell you stuff or make money from you by other means.
Spying is not a goal in itself. And [company] will weigh in factors like public opinion, satisfied customers and long term relationship to maximize profit. Spying is actually counter beneficial to this goal of profit. Besides, they already know more than enough about you without dialing in on your private conversations.
It's the best affordable and f*-proof durable keyboard, and comes with USB for the mouse. It has all keys at the normal place.
Nothing more nothing less, it has media keys and gamers may like to install the macro software. It's just rocksolid. I don't even know if they are still available since they last that long....
Currently, the "whole brain" simulators that exist can't simulate whole human brains. They could certainly simulate the relevant structures in an avian brain, though.
Ehm no, not by far. There is some progress in the field when it comes to simulating the neurons from insects and worms.
However, (mapping out and) simulating an avian brain is several magnitudes more complex. It's not that our supercomputers cannot do that, cause maybe they could - especially since no-one said the simulation had to be real-time. It's that it is almost impossible to functionally describe and consequently emulate a brain due to it's sheer complexity.
To put shortly: we still have no f*g clue how complex brains work. We can try to assign regions to certain progresses - regions that are more active during certain tasks. However, it already turned out that 'all brain' talks to 'all brain' all the time and that those regions are no more than an indicator.
To add to the difficulty of such endeavor, it is very hard to study a brain in working order. To examine it on microscopic level, the animal generally is no longer alive. For the rest of it workings we have to rely on indirect observations and measurements and theory craft.
I don't want a another desktop environment when i already got one and don't need one. And i never said 'development' although there it gots is uses too. I said 'gnu tools'.
WSL is actually what makes using W10 a bearable experience. I'd almost say it's a game changer. I would prefer using gnu/linux altogether. But when stuck on windows 10 it's just great to have all the command line tools available as fast as native. (and if you bother to set up a x server even a lot of gui tools). I don't get all the hate on WSL.
Why are people stuck in this 'we must virtualize everything'. And then virtualize the virtualization. And virtualize anything within the virtualization. I'm not even kidding, you run a web os in a vm with a sandboxed browser that runs javascript to virtualize an online X86 emulator written in js to boot linux so you can etc... But you always have to question yourself: who will virtualize the virtualizers.
I rather go native especially if the job already took 20 mins on 8 cores in the first place. And where my interaction time with the machine is reduced to 12 seconds instead of 12 minutes.
Exactly. Installing VirtualBox with any of the great Linux distros works like a charm. I almost don't understand why would someone pay for this crippled solution.
Because it's faster and better in certain scenario's to do it like this.
Faster because:
A. To start it up, it's one click or one word away from a CLI. Virtualbox needs to be installed, spun up, wait till it's booted or restored, and taking up a truckload of RAM and CPU power. Just for running a simple command line tool. VB is total overkill when all you need is a simple CLI tool.
B. The executable runs natively. There's no virtualization overhead. This means full or better speed for execution and network (and other i/o) access.
Also, it works right on your own filesystem. No need for a 'shared folder' with you VM. Your drives are available as-is. And so are your gnu tools. So i can do anything with my files i want, no matter where they reside, without the hassle of copying them around to this shared-with-VM-folder.
Then, as far as security goes.. A VM not really adds any security here, i trust my ubuntu (or whatever) distro the same as on any native linux box. Why would i want to virtualize my gnu/linux environment.
There's other reasons as well, probably others will fill you in here. But to me just the ease and the speed are saving my sanity. Running anything in a VM still sux, even in 2018.
You can also reverse the argument, and compare it with using wine on gnu/linux. That's a pretty fair comparison as WSL and wine actually work in a very similar way. Yes, you could run anything you run with wine in a VM. Sometimes you even have to. But you'd rather not, for various reasons, but mostly because wine usually performs better and is less hassle.
It takes hardly an hour to write a decent PDO wrapper that provides the old mysql interface.
Been there, done that, but there's a (big) performance penalty doing so.
The old mysql* interface was fine, functional and elegant in itself, the issues mostly because people not knowing how to use it correctly (being spoiled by all needless OOPS a.k.a. object oriented spaghetti) , and not because of a significant limitation of the api itself.
Writing a wrapper sort-of works but is never 100% optimal, plus the whole website needs to be evaluated. Rewriting *everything* is simply out of the question for the obvious reasons and usually only leads to more and new bugs or new security issues.
Breaking what's not broken in the sake of 'security' instead of directing people to RTFM is just ignorant. I totally agree with GP.
Moreover, electric cars have very long potential lifespans since they contain few moving parts
While that statement in itself may be true, they do need the battery pack replaced every so often. And the production of those batteries is actually one of the most polluting aspects.
Our best bets still are: converting to more renewable sources for the 'normal' grid, and limiting the steel and concrete industries. There's more environmental gains to win from reforming the construction industry - even if only so partially - than from converting the automobile industry entirely.
Iirr the gyroscopes all have issues with their gyroscopes' bearings, that were not discovered in earth-based duration tests.
Cosmic rays erode the surface of the metal ball bearings, causing them to fail eventually way before their predicted life span.
They changed to ceramic bearings since which solved the problem.
Source: some youtube vid i saw a while ago.
You can count pretty fast then, must be my age. If i count one number each second, it would take me around 66 years to count 2 billion bits. I hope i'll live that long but if i'd start now, i doubt i'll complete the task. And that's without adding some time to sleep each day.
Back to school you.
it only had 256MB
What a strange use of the world `only`. 256MB is a lot, really a lot.
We could run our desktop computers with 256MB RAM at ease if we wanted to. As comparison: When windows 2000 was released (around 2000...) most computers only had around 64MB of memory, and that would already be a reasonable beefy computer. Windows 2000 liked a bit more, around 128, but would run on this 64MB just fine albeit a bit slow. And this same windows 2000 offered a desktop experience not much different from the (windows) desktops we are using today, including proper plug and play support, multimedia and whatever fancy you liked. When XP came a couple of years later, most people still hadn't updated to 256MB of memory.
Now, compare that to an embedded computer that does not have to waste any memory on fancy graphics, user interfaces and what more, and you will notice that 256MB is a lot. Really a lot. Try writing code to fill that up - a single human couldn't, even a whole team can't. Obviously it'll need some memory to store images etc, but this 2GB of flash is also a lot and comparable to what the first digital camera's came with..
And for those saying 'long time ago long time ago' - even today it's pretty common to write software that has no more than a single kilobyte of RAM memory available, for embedded purposes. With all the modern webcrap using gigabytes of memory for trivial tasks people seem to have lost the feeling for quantity. 256MB are more bits than i can count in my lifetime..
Do you know where those people work now? How do you feel about those companies?
Any long term /. reader will know that most big companies are frown upon. How Apple went from nerd's favorite to fanboys. How Google is almost synonym for Big Bro. How IBM went from markt leader to small boy.
Any big company should be observed with skepticism and reservation, not only the tech sector, but the tech sector simply has a big influence on our daily lives and the future to come. That's why they are under a microscope. It's also why they are not expected to change fast.
But when it comes to Microsoft it's also why 2 decades of bad behavior is not suddenly forgotten after one decade of being 'OS friendly' or 'no longer OS hostile', especially if you see how they treat their customers with win10 when it comes to privacy.
But any day Microsoft fanboys take over /. is a sad day, and today is one.
People like you really need to get over your irrational Microsoft hate and take a leaf out of Torvald's book and go and get some professional help. You're exactly the sort of toxic open source community member he was talking about, because even when you've got literally everything you wanted from a formerly proprietary company - i.e. a complete open sourcing of one of their key products, you STILL bitch and moan at them and imply they shouldn't have done it. You're exactly the sort of person the OSS community doesn't need because you're exactly the sort of no-life vermin that pushes organisations and individuals away from contributing to it.
With these kind of rants, i'd also suggest you are exactly the person the 'OSS community' (if such exists) does not need.
It's also very interesting to see the amount of brainwash being done to you, to conclude that 'if you don't like MS you are not a good civilian/OSS member/technician/bla'.
By the way. the reason people don't trust MS is most likely because they are a decade or 2 older than you, and actually remember what MS has done in the past first-hand, and also observe how most 'changes' from MS are actually double-bottomed party tricks. Open-sourcing some code will not erase such memories. Live with it - cause those 'unbelievers' are likely right and if not, have the right for their viewpoints as much as you - just you don't realize it.
With headphones? As you blissfully bike along not listening to traffic noise?
Ironically the law also covers (`mobile`) music devices. They are probably thinking ipods, or phones used for the music or whatever, but listening to an mp3 player (or more precisely: controlling the mp3 player) is also being forbidden, in effect also outlawing a 1980's walkman.
I have double feelings about this law. Yes, some people bicycle while looking constant at their phone. But i bet people are getting fined for just checking the time, or making a normal phone call. I'm totally fine with people making phone calls on their bicycle, because it means they keep their eyes on the road. It's texting and chatting (or is that called 'apping' these days?) that's the issue, not phoning or casual screen use or interaction.
As European, i say labor costs are the primary factor why repairs are often infeasible.
It's not like our salary is that high. It's all the added taxes - starting with sales tax (also on repairs and other services) and not ending with labor taxes.
To bring home a $15 salary a technician would have to charge at least $65 / hour. And that's excluding the costs he or she might have for the shop, shipping, components etc. In effect it means that even a small 20-minute repair on, say, a smartphone will put you down at least a $120.
Any repair that is labor intensive will be costly. Component costs are only a fraction of the repair costs. And it happens that repairs are inherently labor intensive. Fix the tax system and repairs would get more affordable. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
Facebook has become noise. And they did it themselves.
They send e-mails so frequently that it resulted in me ignoring them all. Any page is filled up with ads. Real interesting things rarely get posted.
I check fb maybe once every 2 weeks. I might actually browse it a bit when i'm bored, but last time i did that was months ago.
The only good usage of fb these days is to get in contact with companies. Companies that choose to ignore e-mails and phone calls (or just promise yes and do no) - for whatever reason it works better if the request or issue is made public on fb. It's a modern name-and-shame game.
Apart that, the initial goal of 'get in touch with your friends' seem to be less the case and less fb's mission. Well, i use messenger if someone else wishes so. Personally i prefer e-mail over any messenger.
It takes a decade to build a nuclear power plant. Including planning and legal permits etc you're more looking at two decades to build a plant.
Meanwhile, a wind mill can be placed in a matter of months. A large scale off-shore wind park takes maybe 2-3 year to build, and has more capacity than a nuclear multi-reactor plant would have. Go ask the Danish, the Dutch or the Germans.
While i don't oppose nuclear energy per-se, it's obvious that's its more economic, faster, cheaper, easier to build wind- and solar farms. And safer too, also after decommissioning.
Your plan might have worked in the 80's. When climate change was known by scientists, and totally ignored by almost anyone else. In 2018 we have better alternatives.
Programmers need to get over their pride.
Non-programmers should learn some patience, persistence, more eye for details and most important: learn that even the most basic stuff is not done auto-magically.
Analytic skill set only comes last. In my experience it boils down to the first skill: patience.
Pride has nothing to do with all that shit.
It's akin to saying you probably don't need to wear a seat belt
No, no and no.
As you may know, risk = damage x chance.
When i don't wear a seat belt and get in a crash, i might die or suffer severe injuries. That's big damage.
When i loose a file, i lost a few bits. I usually couldn't care less. It might be a photo or mp3 file. It might be a failed backup. Worst case it's a fortune worth of bitcoin. But i won't die from it.
Don't make analogies that just aren't true. Don't pretend a lost bit is the same as a broken body part. And to be on-topic - i usually just `yank` my thumb drive out whenever i want. When i feel it's really important i might once in a blue moon go the official way. I'm perfectly capable of calculating the risk that i take. Saving many seconds on repeated actions weigh up against that one time i was to quick and spend a minute re-copying a file.
It's just the next episode of FUD - same as the 'experts' done with passwords. Just so now they have an excuse to blame the user if a flash storage fails (which they do): 'you probably yanked it out'.