I thought to myself: What is a person good at that a computer is terrible at?
Pattern recognition.
So I thought to myself, what incidents, while driving, have I been in where pattern recognition came in to play?
I thought of numerous bad weather scenarios and several vehicle ahead scenarios that I had been in but the one that struck me the hardest was the little boy on the bicycle. I felt truly justified with my thinking that day.
Do I care that you do not personally believe that it happened to me? Not really.
Do I have any idea what you mean by straw man? I know the meaning of the term but I have no idea what you are talking about.
Are you saying that kids do not ride bikes on the sidewalk? Are you saying that it is not possible to see that they are clearly VERY new at riding and could have troubles? Are you saying it is impossible to go from the sidewalk to the front right tire of a car in a moments notice? I can not quite figure out where the straw man is. I am weary of playing Where's Waldo. Enlighten me with an actual argument or just shut up.
Exactly not this. Perhaps in the situation that a child suddenly darts out in the road from behind an obstacle, the computer will react faster and better; however,the human brain is a VASTLY superior pattern matcher and can recognize that there might be a problem long before a computer even begins processing what to do about the problem.
Example: I am driving through a neighborhood moving at 20 mph. There was a child, perhaps 3, on a bike riding on the sidewalk. I saw that the child was unsteady so I slowed down even further, to perhaps 12 mph. Sure enough, as soon as I did that, the child lost control and dove straight in front of my car from the sidewalk.
A computer would have been going 25 because that was the speed limit. It would have reacted a few milliseconds faster than I did. I preplanned and only had to stop a multi-ton vehicle from 12 to 0. The few milliseconds that reaction time bought for the computer would be vastly overridden by the slower speed I was going. I saw a pattern that a computer would not.
To be fair, almost any other person would have ended up hitting the child too. I happen to have taught lots of children how to ride bikes and I could intuit what was about and what could happen. That child was super lucky that day.
But the thing you learn about groups of people over time is that not everyone can or wants to be equal all the time
You almost got it right. Out of any group of people, you will have X% who can be given a goal and they will work towards it. The other percentage of people generally need lists of specific tasks in order to be productive.
My personal experience with X is that it is usually below 20 percent. 10 percent is about average.
Except it isn't because two long term, well respected contributors have left not because of code, quality or merit but because of the toxic mailing list.
Except Linux got to where it is with Linus being the way he is. Perhaps a kernel is no place for non-toxicity?
It does not matter. We shall soon see what the best way is. Perhaps the two who left can collaborate and have a nice politically correct team who are not overly harsh on everyone and succeed at writing a technically correct kernel that everyone can trust.
Some people find it easy to be offended by certain language patterns. Some people just don't care about certain language patterns.
For myself, I would rather the communication be direct and unambiguous. If that means using slang and colloquialisms, then so be it.
In this specific instance, I am not particularly bothered by penises nor the thought of someone sucking them; however, the message is crystal clear: The code in question does not belong in the kernel as the ONLY entity it would satisfy is Microsoft. Furthermore, it is annoying that anyone would even bring this topic up so just drop it. Now.
He said it in fewer words and more clearly. *shrug* Either way, I am not particularly offended. Are you?
The fear is not that the GMO crop will kill a person. The fear is that the genes will begin spreading and affecting non-GMO crops.
Why would that be a problem? Because nobody knows how the new genes will interact with different strains. The GMO corn may be perfectly healthy with the strain of corn it was spliced in to but it may not be healthy with another strain of corn. Or it may introduce weaknesses into other strains of corn and all corn crops except the GMO one might get wiped out.
In summary, there are lots of unknowns about GMO crops and being wary of artificially modified organisms appears to be wise; especially when it is a corporation pushing it.
Obama has increased the violations of privacy started under Bush; he is worse
The implication of that statement is that he has no real control over the situation. He is a different person from a different political party. Things should be different, not necessarily better or worse, but definitely not the same. It is like a new president was never even elected.
Hm. As far as drivers go, all mainstream distributions and recommended best practice is to have two kernels selectable from the boot menu. The first (default) one is the newest kernel while the second is the older kernel which you are upgrading. That way, if you have an issue with drivers, you can merely boot off of the older kernel which is known to work.
Is that ideal? No idea. It works fine for me. Applications? Meh. Worst case scenario, you can uninstall the newest version and reinstall the older. Not quite a rollback but it has the exact same effect.
In summary, you are most assuredly not SOL if something goes wrong with an upgrade. If you are talking about upgrading entire versions, I would be interested in seeing your test for upgrading from Win2k to Win2003 to Win 2008R2 and let me know how rolling back works for you.
What difference do you think guns make? Do you honestly think you would still be allowed to have them if if made a difference?
They would make a HUGE difference. They would dispel the helpless feeling that people get when they have no weapons at all. Those people would get support from other governments, Russia, China, Syria, Iran, etc to help overthrow the US Government with explosives, rockets, mortars, etc.
Don't believe me? Look at Iraq and Syria currently.
But yeah, a group of guys with 9mms and hunting rifles would get steamrolled by a single tank. I get your point... but you should consider mine.
I'm going Linux as soon as I have a chance. Currently enjoying Linux Mint/w Cinnamon for general use.
I installed Server 2008 R2 to escape this shit and when browsing the latest "optional" updates, I noticed this telemetry shit (updated!) being offered. Nothing from Microsoft is safe now.
So yeah, I was dabbling with Linux Mint Cinnamon a while ago but when I would play my games, I could notice lost frames. I tried KDE, Mate, etc. but meh.
So they released a new version of Cinnamon just before they released Mint 17.2. If you disabled compositing for full screen games, the frame loss was gone. I now use Linux Mint Cinnamon for EVERYTHING except GTA V.
(Oddly, DOTA is even smoother under Linux than under Windows.)
I mention games because you already covered using it for general use: Email, browsing the web, writing scripts/programs, making spreadsheets (for Eve Online), etc.
Linux is desktop ready until SystemD fully takes over.
Actually the typical advice given to bikers is to ride thinking that everyone around you is actively trying to kill you.
Actually, some of them are. I have ridden well over a hundred thousand miles on bikes and twice, I had someone look me straight in the eyes and deliberately maneuver in such a way as to try and cause a collision. One, I was able to avoid through some creative acrobatics, the other... Ouch. I minimized the damage to myself but my bike was completely destroyed. I could not work for several days after.
Of course, in both situations, the driver just drove off as if nothing has happened. So yeah, it is best to assume at least one of the drivers out there is actively trying to kill you... because one is.
Systemd actually makes things much better by ensuring stderr always gets saved.
Your naive faith is cute. Sure, sysvinit is not wonderful. Regardless of the status of other init systems, SystemD is NOT the right answer. It is unreliable. It is taking over everything, which makes it a huge brittle obstacle that can be abused by those who control its underlying behavior. The guy writing it already has a terrible reputation for quality: Pulse Audio.
I could go on and on, but why. Some people are evangelists and there is no talking sense to them about the dangers of what is being proposed. I feel like Richard Stallman right now when he was preaching against the evils of closed source software and the dangers that it presents. SystemD is dangerous too. And it is unreliable.
This is why so much poor software exists in the world. I can only imagine what nightmare code is being generated by such efforts. Yes, anyone can code, just as anyone can build a house. Whether or not the house collapses immediately, whether it has any real value, or by any other measure still depends on the skill of the builder, just as in software.
I dunno. I started programming in C on my Commodore Amiga many many years ago. Bought a book, not much different than Googling nowadays. Eventually learned data structures and algorithms.
There is code of mine that was started in 1998 and I have not touched since about 2002 that is still running on the internet. It has never crashed, it has never acted poorly, it has always done what it is supposed to do. The source code was distributed and some really nasty hackers did their best to make it choke but the "best" they could do was DDoS it. One DDoS attack took out all of San Diego. Another DDoS attack took down all of Arizona and irc.blackened.com stepped out of the IRC business for a while.
My code still ran perfectly fine and still does to this day despite no updates for well over a decade.
The whole situation is stupid. You go when it is your turn unless someone is entering the intersection faster than you are. Even then, you should be close to halfway across before you yield to the other person moving out of sequence. Anything else is madness.
If you yield to the slightest of motions, you will never go. If you go when someone else is going more aggressively than you, there will be an accident. The only solution is to assert that it is your turn to go by entering the intersection. If an accident happens despite all of that, then it is clearly the other person's fault and the accident was going to happen anyway.
The mirror coating is barely reflective to a laser, and will burn off just about as quickly as the camouflage coating which you propose. What is needed to have any real effect is an ablative laser coating which continues to be reflective as it is burned away. AFAIK no such material exists as of yet, in spite of being prophesied in roll-playing games (i.e. Battletech.)
Hm. It seems to me that the ideal way to handle this is to have the material ablate in such a manner that it leaves a cloud of particles hanging in the air, forcing the laser to burn through the cloud as well.
Since I am certain you will not see my previous response to another poster, I think it would be wise for me to paraphrase the poster's response and my response for you:
Enterprise Architect should not be logging on with administrative credentials. An Enterprise Architect has two arms, Sysems/Networks Administrators and Information Assurance. Systems/Networks give you reports and implements what you want. Information Assurance validates (amongst other things). You need to do nothing in that arena.
The role that everyone seems to be ignoring here is IA. Information Assurance should be the read only underlings that validate things are the way the EA thinks they are.
In summary: The Enterprise Architect needs no accounts other than that required to log on to their workstation. The System and Network Administrator personnel implement what they are told. The Information Assurance personnel guarantee to the Enterprise Architect that what was told the System Administrators was properly implemented.
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GPS satellites are also traveling at more than 10,000mph, which makes them a tricky target to hit
This is merely an engineering problem. It is not a question of "can it be done", it is a question of "when will it be done". That is the whole point.
I thought to myself: What is a person good at that a computer is terrible at?
Pattern recognition.
So I thought to myself, what incidents, while driving, have I been in where pattern recognition came in to play?
I thought of numerous bad weather scenarios and several vehicle ahead scenarios that I had been in but the one that struck me the hardest was the little boy on the bicycle. I felt truly justified with my thinking that day.
Do I care that you do not personally believe that it happened to me? Not really.
Do I have any idea what you mean by straw man? I know the meaning of the term but I have no idea what you are talking about.
Are you saying that kids do not ride bikes on the sidewalk? Are you saying that it is not possible to see that they are clearly VERY new at riding and could have troubles? Are you saying it is impossible to go from the sidewalk to the front right tire of a car in a moments notice? I can not quite figure out where the straw man is. I am weary of playing Where's Waldo. Enlighten me with an actual argument or just shut up.
Exactly not this. Perhaps in the situation that a child suddenly darts out in the road from behind an obstacle, the computer will react faster and better; however,the human brain is a VASTLY superior pattern matcher and can recognize that there might be a problem long before a computer even begins processing what to do about the problem.
Example: I am driving through a neighborhood moving at 20 mph. There was a child, perhaps 3, on a bike riding on the sidewalk. I saw that the child was unsteady so I slowed down even further, to perhaps 12 mph. Sure enough, as soon as I did that, the child lost control and dove straight in front of my car from the sidewalk.
A computer would have been going 25 because that was the speed limit. It would have reacted a few milliseconds faster than I did. I preplanned and only had to stop a multi-ton vehicle from 12 to 0. The few milliseconds that reaction time bought for the computer would be vastly overridden by the slower speed I was going. I saw a pattern that a computer would not.
To be fair, almost any other person would have ended up hitting the child too. I happen to have taught lots of children how to ride bikes and I could intuit what was about and what could happen. That child was super lucky that day.
But the thing you learn about groups of people over time is that not everyone can or wants to be equal all the time
You almost got it right. Out of any group of people, you will have X% who can be given a goal and they will work towards it. The other percentage of people generally need lists of specific tasks in order to be productive.
My personal experience with X is that it is usually below 20 percent. 10 percent is about average.
Except it isn't because two long term, well respected contributors have left not because of code, quality or merit but because of the toxic mailing list.
Except Linux got to where it is with Linus being the way he is. Perhaps a kernel is no place for non-toxicity?
It does not matter. We shall soon see what the best way is. Perhaps the two who left can collaborate and have a nice politically correct team who are not overly harsh on everyone and succeed at writing a technically correct kernel that everyone can trust.
Some people find it easy to be offended by certain language patterns. Some people just don't care about certain language patterns.
For myself, I would rather the communication be direct and unambiguous. If that means using slang and colloquialisms, then so be it.
In this specific instance, I am not particularly bothered by penises nor the thought of someone sucking them; however, the message is crystal clear: The code in question does not belong in the kernel as the ONLY entity it would satisfy is Microsoft. Furthermore, it is annoying that anyone would even bring this topic up so just drop it. Now.
He said it in fewer words and more clearly. *shrug* Either way, I am not particularly offended. Are you?
I am surprised that you did not provide any links to back your assertions. How can anyone take you seriously if you do not provide examples?
It should be noted that all of the examples that I have seen (the most public ones) have not bothered me in the least.
Maybe the kernel dev environment is not for you... without links, we will never know.
The fear is not that the GMO crop will kill a person. The fear is that the genes will begin spreading and affecting non-GMO crops.
Why would that be a problem? Because nobody knows how the new genes will interact with different strains. The GMO corn may be perfectly healthy with the strain of corn it was spliced in to but it may not be healthy with another strain of corn. Or it may introduce weaknesses into other strains of corn and all corn crops except the GMO one might get wiped out.
In summary, there are lots of unknowns about GMO crops and being wary of artificially modified organisms appears to be wise; especially when it is a corporation pushing it.
You seem very sure of yourself, but what if He's just hiding?
How big is his penis and why does he even have one? Are galaxies his sperm that he shot out into the universal womb?
It appears that it includes any VW and Audi vehicles that don't have a urea injection system.
Piss on that.
Obama has increased the violations of privacy started under Bush; he is worse
The implication of that statement is that he has no real control over the situation. He is a different person from a different political party. Things should be different, not necessarily better or worse, but definitely not the same. It is like a new president was never even elected.
Nice to see a story about stuff around my neighbourhood. Too bad they got the name wrong tho :(
Yeah, but English does not have a 'd' character. O-o
I lost 22 kilos by not eating breads, rice, and processed foods high in carbohydrates. I ate eggs, cheese, bacon, steak, and some vegetables.
I eat a few carbohydrates now to slow down the weight loss.
Hm. As far as drivers go, all mainstream distributions and recommended best practice is to have two kernels selectable from the boot menu. The first (default) one is the newest kernel while the second is the older kernel which you are upgrading. That way, if you have an issue with drivers, you can merely boot off of the older kernel which is known to work.
Is that ideal? No idea. It works fine for me. Applications? Meh. Worst case scenario, you can uninstall the newest version and reinstall the older. Not quite a rollback but it has the exact same effect.
In summary, you are most assuredly not SOL if something goes wrong with an upgrade. If you are talking about upgrading entire versions, I would be interested in seeing your test for upgrading from Win2k to Win2003 to Win 2008R2 and let me know how rolling back works for you.
What difference do you think guns make? Do you honestly think you would still be allowed to have them if if made a difference?
They would make a HUGE difference. They would dispel the helpless feeling that people get when they have no weapons at all. Those people would get support from other governments, Russia, China, Syria, Iran, etc to help overthrow the US Government with explosives, rockets, mortars, etc.
Don't believe me? Look at Iraq and Syria currently.
But yeah, a group of guys with 9mms and hunting rifles would get steamrolled by a single tank. I get your point... but you should consider mine.
Holy crap! Change your bank now. I have never had to deal with this kind of abusive behavior. Try a credit union or something. Just ouch.
I'm going Linux as soon as I have a chance. Currently enjoying Linux Mint /w Cinnamon for general use.
I installed Server 2008 R2 to escape this shit and when browsing the latest "optional" updates, I noticed this telemetry shit (updated!) being offered. Nothing from Microsoft is safe now.
So yeah, I was dabbling with Linux Mint Cinnamon a while ago but when I would play my games, I could notice lost frames. I tried KDE, Mate, etc. but meh.
So they released a new version of Cinnamon just before they released Mint 17.2. If you disabled compositing for full screen games, the frame loss was gone. I now use Linux Mint Cinnamon for EVERYTHING except GTA V.
(Oddly, DOTA is even smoother under Linux than under Windows.)
I mention games because you already covered using it for general use: Email, browsing the web, writing scripts/programs, making spreadsheets (for Eve Online), etc.
Linux is desktop ready until SystemD fully takes over.
Actually the typical advice given to bikers is to ride thinking that everyone around you is actively trying to kill you.
Actually, some of them are. I have ridden well over a hundred thousand miles on bikes and twice, I had someone look me straight in the eyes and deliberately maneuver in such a way as to try and cause a collision. One, I was able to avoid through some creative acrobatics, the other... Ouch. I minimized the damage to myself but my bike was completely destroyed. I could not work for several days after.
Of course, in both situations, the driver just drove off as if nothing has happened. So yeah, it is best to assume at least one of the drivers out there is actively trying to kill you... because one is.
ROFLMAO. http://0pointer.net/blog/revis...
I am dying inside. LOL Read your words then read that link then read your words again. You just can't make this shit up.
Systemd actually makes things much better by ensuring stderr always gets saved.
Your naive faith is cute. Sure, sysvinit is not wonderful. Regardless of the status of other init systems, SystemD is NOT the right answer. It is unreliable. It is taking over everything, which makes it a huge brittle obstacle that can be abused by those who control its underlying behavior. The guy writing it already has a terrible reputation for quality: Pulse Audio.
I could go on and on, but why. Some people are evangelists and there is no talking sense to them about the dangers of what is being proposed. I feel like Richard Stallman right now when he was preaching against the evils of closed source software and the dangers that it presents. SystemD is dangerous too. And it is unreliable.
This is why so much poor software exists in the world. I can only imagine what nightmare code is being generated by such efforts. Yes, anyone can code, just as anyone can build a house. Whether or not the house collapses immediately, whether it has any real value, or by any other measure still depends on the skill of the builder, just as in software.
I dunno. I started programming in C on my Commodore Amiga many many years ago. Bought a book, not much different than Googling nowadays. Eventually learned data structures and algorithms.
There is code of mine that was started in 1998 and I have not touched since about 2002 that is still running on the internet. It has never crashed, it has never acted poorly, it has always done what it is supposed to do. The source code was distributed and some really nasty hackers did their best to make it choke but the "best" they could do was DDoS it. One DDoS attack took out all of San Diego. Another DDoS attack took down all of Arizona and irc.blackened.com stepped out of the IRC business for a while.
My code still ran perfectly fine and still does to this day despite no updates for well over a decade.
The whole situation is stupid. You go when it is your turn unless someone is entering the intersection faster than you are. Even then, you should be close to halfway across before you yield to the other person moving out of sequence. Anything else is madness.
If you yield to the slightest of motions, you will never go. If you go when someone else is going more aggressively than you, there will be an accident. The only solution is to assert that it is your turn to go by entering the intersection. If an accident happens despite all of that, then it is clearly the other person's fault and the accident was going to happen anyway.
The mirror coating is barely reflective to a laser, and will burn off just about as quickly as the camouflage coating which you propose. What is needed to have any real effect is an ablative laser coating which continues to be reflective as it is burned away. AFAIK no such material exists as of yet, in spite of being prophesied in roll-playing games (i.e. Battletech.)
Hm. It seems to me that the ideal way to handle this is to have the material ablate in such a manner that it leaves a cloud of particles hanging in the air, forcing the laser to burn through the cloud as well.
Since I am certain you will not see my previous response to another poster, I think it would be wise for me to paraphrase the poster's response and my response for you:
Enterprise Architect should not be logging on with administrative credentials. An Enterprise Architect has two arms, Sysems/Networks Administrators and Information Assurance. Systems/Networks give you reports and implements what you want. Information Assurance validates (amongst other things). You need to do nothing in that arena.
The role that everyone seems to be ignoring here is IA. Information Assurance should be the read only underlings that validate things are the way the EA thinks they are.
In summary: The Enterprise Architect needs no accounts other than that required to log on to their workstation. The System and Network Administrator personnel implement what they are told. The Information Assurance personnel guarantee to the Enterprise Architect that what was told the System Administrators was properly implemented.