Machines already produce just about all the mediocre-- corporate sit down food. Applebees, Chilis, Olive Garden etc etc are just boil in bag or microwavers.
If you had, you would know that server is a well paid job. Tips add up fast, no competent server would accept a simple hourly wage. Granting at the bottom end they don't make shit, but at the bottom end server is entry level. The ones that can do it well move up to nicer restaurants quick.
Last count Mexico gets $500 million/year in US foreign aid. Given how corrupt Mexico is, I'm confident that money is now 'the property' of someone important. He has likely made financial commitments...
It's not like there isn't a money stream to divert. The political will isn't there.
If they wanted the illegal immigration to stop they would enforce the laws in the workplace. They don't, hence it's approved. Everybody has noticed too, hence they are working just about all the construction jobs these days (which has crappified those jobs somewhat). 'Only crap jobs' is BS for old folks who think they know what's up, when it was 'only crap jobs' people wore onions on their belts.
Damn CPAs trying to glamorize their jobs. Projects have max burn, planned burn and min burn curves. Not entirely unlike a plane has max speed, best cruise speed, best climb speed and stall speed curves.
55 is 'HD', 84 is 4k. So larger bitmap, slightly smaller pixels.
I tried using a 40 inch 1080p 'Monitor'. Only good for gaming. Pixels too large. Made me a little nostalgic for my Apple ][. Eyes even older now, might try again. Bigger screen further away, higher resolution.
If true, that just pisses me off even more, cause regular Skype certainly doesn't work anywhere close to flawlessly on Android. For example, they recently changed the default behavior to not show a 'check' Skype is online widget on the toolbar (whatever it's called in Android). This let droid swap the Skype app out and stop worrying about it, even with a timer active (as I assume Skype has). Nobody seems to care on the support forums. Skype's attitude seams to be 'it's an Android problem'. The only help you get is from other users. Even with the check widget active, it's flaky.)
I had to dig through the BS to find specs. 55 is HD, I assume they mean 1080p. Also i5, Intel Graphics. For 9k. Way at the bottom of the page, it keeps expanding downward, (yeah Javascript, never abused) didn't count the number of times I grabbed the scrollbar and pulled down only to see more BS downloaded.
Eventually at the very end it revealed just how cheap bastards they are. They are going to charge some chump 9k and not even spend a buck or two on a GPU.
Yes I know the users are Powerpointers...there is a group lucky that no one has ever perfected sStabInEye?
Kids: Deep Purple (they were a heavy metal band, you know 'Smoke on the Water') made an live album, in japan, including a song that the old AC tried to make a joke on.
Old man on me too. My ears rang for a week. Never seen so many people puking drunk at one event. It was pretty gross.
On second thought: Except Rolla's 'Extravaganza' where puking is part of the festivities and contests.
I bet 100,000/week was not the initial number used to justify building the system (i.e. the spec). Rather it was the initial ridership, on the first line.
If they had actually 'designed' the system for 100,000/week they would have just gone home. Makes no sense to build it at all.
Understanding edge cases is a key part of understanding.
The rest of your post isn't disagreeing. You chose to not reply to the 'unless you have bad coders.' part. Error logging and trapping are rolled into that.
I believe that you will find most over complex systems are 'highly evolved'. Basically they started coding without a full understanding of the problem, or the were chasing a changing problem and didn't understand or could not foresee the changes well enough to incorporate them in the initial design, or they were managed by idiots who thought they could get the job done quicker by only giving out limited information.
This will sometimes happen. When it does management should be double budgeting. Once for the working prototype, once for the good version. If the problem is really that fluid, routine clean slate rewrites (but mining the old versions for 'the good stuff'). The alternative is you stumble forward until you don't. As you say, it hits a WTF moment and confidence is lost.
I bought the last generation (VFX1) as well. Made it work well enough to not be guaranteed puck time. By using a 4 year newer processor and getting frame rates in the 200 range.
The problem will remain that a good fraction of software will make people puke. They are doing Descent for VR again. I bet nobody involved played Descent 2 on the last generation of VR hardware...it was cool, 3d stereoscopic worked better than any other game...didn't matter, puking or nearly puking was the end of that VR game for literally everyone who tried it. Insane frame rates, graphics similar to games that left you fine (Jane's ATF, Comanche 2, MechWarrior).
Once the VR gets the 'make you puke' reputation it will be too late. So writing software to simulate things that already make a significant fraction of users puke (e.g. roller coasters) might not be the best place to start.
My advice, games where up stays up. Helis better than fixed wing.
This time I've gone so far as to weld up a frame to hold an old M3 seat and my G27 wheel and parts. Commercial racing seats all suck. Even there, best case, up is up, solid controls in your hands, courses with short switchback heavy layouts (e.g. AssetoCorsa, Hill climb and Old Neurburgring) are kind of pukey. None are as bad as Alien Isolation, for some reason I can't get it to run so I don't feel sick. Too bad, that game was made for VR. I should fuck with it some more.
We should stop comparing clock rates, and start comparing RAM bandwidth/cache size. Better RAM/more pipes/more cache is where much of the 'generational difference' performance comes from.
Processors have been RAM bandwidth limited for a long time. 386SX was RAM bandwidth limited. Granting that was a POS that nobody used.
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Machines already produce just about all the mediocre-- corporate sit down food. Applebees, Chilis, Olive Garden etc etc are just boil in bag or microwavers.
That's one incompetently cooked steak!
I'd never go back to a place that served me the steak they show. Never.
That said 160F is way too cooked. The center of a steak should be at the body temperature of a cow and raw. The outside should be seared.
The steak they show is an incompetent medium well. No red at all.
No two batches of tomato sauce (picking one example) are exactly the same. So good cooks taste and adjust their recipes based on today's ingredients.
This is basically why corporate chains (e.g. Crapelbees, Chilis, Outback etc etc) are completely, permanently stuck at mediocre.
They follow fixed recipes and hire food assemblers, not cooks much less chefs.
Great food is art, art is hard to automate.
Olive Garden is unfortunately an example of what's to come.
It's not so much a restaurant in the traditional sense as it is a dining room with an attached 'microwave center'.
I don't understand why anybody would eat there. Seriously, why?
If you had, you would know that server is a well paid job. Tips add up fast, no competent server would accept a simple hourly wage. Granting at the bottom end they don't make shit, but at the bottom end server is entry level. The ones that can do it well move up to nicer restaurants quick.
Self described 'creative' types are mostly liberal. They are also fucking useless and not very creative.
Last count Mexico gets $500 million/year in US foreign aid. Given how corrupt Mexico is, I'm confident that money is now 'the property' of someone important. He has likely made financial commitments...
It's not like there isn't a money stream to divert. The political will isn't there.
If they wanted the illegal immigration to stop they would enforce the laws in the workplace. They don't, hence it's approved. Everybody has noticed too, hence they are working just about all the construction jobs these days (which has crappified those jobs somewhat). 'Only crap jobs' is BS for old folks who think they know what's up, when it was 'only crap jobs' people wore onions on their belts.
Envelope damnit, duh.
Manifold is also a mathematical surface.
See also 'Flight Manifold'. Multiple curves.
Damn CPAs trying to glamorize their jobs. Projects have max burn, planned burn and min burn curves. Not entirely unlike a plane has max speed, best cruise speed, best climb speed and stall speed curves.
55 is 'HD', 84 is 4k. So larger bitmap, slightly smaller pixels.
I tried using a 40 inch 1080p 'Monitor'. Only good for gaming. Pixels too large. Made me a little nostalgic for my Apple ][. Eyes even older now, might try again. Bigger screen further away, higher resolution.
If true, that just pisses me off even more, cause regular Skype certainly doesn't work anywhere close to flawlessly on Android. For example, they recently changed the default behavior to not show a 'check' Skype is online widget on the toolbar (whatever it's called in Android). This let droid swap the Skype app out and stop worrying about it, even with a timer active (as I assume Skype has). Nobody seems to care on the support forums. Skype's attitude seams to be 'it's an Android problem'. The only help you get is from other users. Even with the check widget active, it's flaky.)
I had to dig through the BS to find specs. 55 is HD, I assume they mean 1080p. Also i5, Intel Graphics. For 9k. Way at the bottom of the page, it keeps expanding downward, (yeah Javascript, never abused) didn't count the number of times I grabbed the scrollbar and pulled down only to see more BS downloaded.
Eventually at the very end it revealed just how cheap bastards they are. They are going to charge some chump 9k and not even spend a buck or two on a GPU.
Yes I know the users are Powerpointers...there is a group lucky that no one has ever perfected sStabInEye?
Like a backup musician in GWAR. He's only 'timothy' while he has the job.
Alternatively think of it like a punk band that fires their drummer as soon as he starts to keep time. To keep up their image.
'timothy' better keep pasting Unicode if he wants those sweet sweet /. dollars to keep rolling.
Whoosh on the whole thread.
Old man on AC OP.
Kids: Deep Purple (they were a heavy metal band, you know 'Smoke on the Water') made an live album, in japan, including a song that the old AC tried to make a joke on.
Old man on me too. My ears rang for a week. Never seen so many people puking drunk at one event. It was pretty gross.
On second thought: Except Rolla's 'Extravaganza' where puking is part of the festivities and contests.
True.
In this case BART is being sabotaged by BART so they can get their bonds passed.
If only they had more than one building. So they could DO maintenance without having fat accounts.
San Mateo. Look at a map of CalTrain's route.
BART hasn't made it east on the south side of the bay to complete a circle anyhow. It was always a dumb idea.
Back then they didn't dispose of beverage containers and condoms were heirlooms. Handed down from father to son.
I should find the link to the 'worlds oldest condom', it has a drawstring.
Hell, I could put a screaming mouse into one of the cars in a weekend. Might want to use a rat though.
The currently shutdown parts are all above ground. I should call them.
You'll know the car I worked on by the zoomy headers out the side. That and the lope.
I bet 100,000/week was not the initial number used to justify building the system (i.e. the spec). Rather it was the initial ridership, on the first line.
If they had actually 'designed' the system for 100,000/week they would have just gone home. Makes no sense to build it at all.
Wasn't there a story recently about making mass transit a little more risky? Sounds like a win-win.
I know Captain Hindsight.
Understanding edge cases is a key part of understanding.
The rest of your post isn't disagreeing. You chose to not reply to the 'unless you have bad coders.' part. Error logging and trapping are rolled into that.
I believe that you will find most over complex systems are 'highly evolved'. Basically they started coding without a full understanding of the problem, or the were chasing a changing problem and didn't understand or could not foresee the changes well enough to incorporate them in the initial design, or they were managed by idiots who thought they could get the job done quicker by only giving out limited information.
This will sometimes happen. When it does management should be double budgeting. Once for the working prototype, once for the good version. If the problem is really that fluid, routine clean slate rewrites (but mining the old versions for 'the good stuff'). The alternative is you stumble forward until you don't. As you say, it hits a WTF moment and confidence is lost.
He'll be sucking halon soon enough.
I bought the last generation (VFX1) as well. Made it work well enough to not be guaranteed puck time. By using a 4 year newer processor and getting frame rates in the 200 range.
The problem will remain that a good fraction of software will make people puke. They are doing Descent for VR again. I bet nobody involved played Descent 2 on the last generation of VR hardware...it was cool, 3d stereoscopic worked better than any other game...didn't matter, puking or nearly puking was the end of that VR game for literally everyone who tried it. Insane frame rates, graphics similar to games that left you fine (Jane's ATF, Comanche 2, MechWarrior).
Once the VR gets the 'make you puke' reputation it will be too late. So writing software to simulate things that already make a significant fraction of users puke (e.g. roller coasters) might not be the best place to start.
My advice, games where up stays up. Helis better than fixed wing.
This time I've gone so far as to weld up a frame to hold an old M3 seat and my G27 wheel and parts. Commercial racing seats all suck. Even there, best case, up is up, solid controls in your hands, courses with short switchback heavy layouts (e.g. AssetoCorsa, Hill climb and Old Neurburgring) are kind of pukey. None are as bad as Alien Isolation, for some reason I can't get it to run so I don't feel sick. Too bad, that game was made for VR. I should fuck with it some more.
Ramble...
We should stop comparing clock rates, and start comparing RAM bandwidth/cache size. Better RAM/more pipes/more cache is where much of the 'generational difference' performance comes from.
Processors have been RAM bandwidth limited for a long time. 386SX was RAM bandwidth limited. Granting that was a POS that nobody used.