Easy enough to say but last time I checked if you want to do anything with the current VR headset boom, you're pretty much going to have to use Windows. Steam's OpenVR initiative makes it sound like you don't, but a few months ago when I checked their Linux examples wouldn't even build.
Is there every any particular need to limit them, though? A couple decades ago it was uncommon to have more than one sound device on a machine. Now it's unusual not to have two or three. Designs and requirements change over time, and having to factor out singleton behavior that was never really necessary in the first place is kind of a pain in the ass. You could easily just create those things with thing factories when the program starts up, and pass them around to objects that need them. No artificial limits, and you don't have to factor out singleton behavior when you decide you want two things where you used to only have one.
I've found that design review boards are becoming increasingly hostile toward singletons, too. There was a narrow window where they'd at least consider one, back when people started talking about design patterns. These days it's next to impossible to get one approved, even if there's pretty good justification for it. You can always design around the need for a singleton, and usually the system design will be better without them.
I've yet to see a computer science professor with particularly excellent code, either. I run across assignments and example code from courses on a regular basis that fall into the "Never, ever do that" category of programming. Case in point, a relative of mine recently had some questions about a CS programming assignment. Part of the assignment description talked about design patterns and predictably went straight for the Singleton as an example. I'm pretty sure that's the only pattern that about 90% of programmers ever actually learn when reading about design patterns and it's so abused in the industry right now that you can basically never get one past a design review board.
Anywhoo, back in the '90's I worked for a company that was getting a B2 Certification for its operating system. My job basically consisted of reading the entire AT&T C standard library code, finding potential security flaws, writing tests for those flaws and then writing a report with the tests which would be delivered to the NSA. I found the remote buffer overflow in the AT&T telnet daemon a couple years before the same overflow was discovered in the Linux telnet daemon. So the NSA basically outsourced the hard work of finding all those exploits to the companies that were trying to get security certifications. It took three or four guys just a few months to go through all the stuff we had to look at. I'm sure we missed a bit, but I was much more confident in the security of their OS at the end of all that. Too bad they eventually went out of business, were acquired by IBM and their products were killed. You know, progress!
Indeed. And so this discussion is the delightfully quaint discussion about how we'll eventually balloon to the moon of our times! Oh yes fuf fuf fuf I'm sure we'll be ballooning to Proxima Centauri in no time! *adjusts his monocle*
That's true! I haven't booted back to windows in months and have mostly been mucking around with Factorio and Stellaris lately. There's a pretty decent library of Linux-Compatible games on Steam, a much better situation than a decade ago when Loki was trying to make a business model off porting them. I haven't seen levels of hype like the one in No Man's Sky since Spore, and we all know how THAT turned out. So I was planning to hang out for a bit and watch some gameplay videos before making my mind up about the game. I'm guessing if I bought it, I might get a couple hours out of it and then get bored. I paid $20 for Factorio and have over a hundred hours in on it so far.That's more than worth my money to me. Plus, I'd have to boot back to Windows, so fuck that.
I'm probably going to have to break down and set up a Windows machine for a VR rig I want to build in a couple of months. It doesn't seem like any of the VR headsets support Linux particularly well, although I'll check again when I'm actually doing the build.
He didn't like working with the NSA and keeping all the secrets secret. He doesn't like working with the Wikileaks guys and keeping all the secrets public. There's just no pleasing that guy.
We're just easing into the world where no secrets can be kept. There will be some discontent as the proles start to see how the sausage is made, but whenever they realize that all the machinery is that dirty, things should settle down a bit. It's pretty much a universal truth that anyone who actively seeks power should under no circumstances be allowed to have that power. They're all fucking scumbags but we'll keep voting for them or the wrong scumbag will get it. I mean, what else could we do? Have a draft like Jury Duty? "Congratulations, you've been selected to serve 6 years in the Senate. Here's a six digit salary and a page. Try not to fuck it up!" It would never work because reasons!
Fucking small boys is a favorite past time of Muslim extremism. Perhaps a picture of him with a rent-a-boy would increase his appeal with that demographic.
And before you guys get your panties in a knot, I don't even have to google to know those guys don't have a monopoly on little boy fucking. It's apparently impossible to make it to adulthood without being raped by someone, no matter what country you live in. Maybe you get raped by your priest. Maybe you get raped by a US Senator. Maybe you get abducted and raped by some random stranger in a windowless van. Seeing as how no one has come forward by now (And they always do,) I'd guess Trump is probably in the minority of people in the top 1% who didn't get there for the sole purpose of fucking children whenever they want to.
Seems to me there must be a sum of money upon which you could live comfortably for the rest of your life. Around 8 or 10 million, you could probably make more on interest and investment income than most Americans do, and why go for more after that? But I suppose that's why he's a billionaire and I'm not. I'm pretty happy just doing what I'm doing. I wonder if he is. As Sarah Silverman says, all the penises in the world won't fill the hole in your heart.
It's not already full of toxins? Have you ever BEEN to Florida? The water there smells like shit, more or less literally, shit. The first time I visited there I called the hotel's front desk to tell them there was something horribly wrong with the water in my room and they told me that no, that's just how the water is in Florida. Please feel free to buy one of the $10 bottles of water from the mini fridge. So really this doesn't amount to much since you were probably avoiding drinking the water if you live there, anyway. If anything, the toxic chemicals might actually be an improvement.
Because it kind of looks to me like the despicable things you're doing is helping Trump. Seems like no matter what happens, America will get the president it deserves, so maybe I'll just write "None of the above" in on my ballot. Fucking assclowns.
Seems to me the problem you're describing there isn't one with drugs, it's one with the fact that it's much easier to create another human life than it is to buy a car or a gun (for example.) I do have a solution to this, but I don't think it would be tolerated in the USA. Maybe China...
"These Days?" They invented OO because the maintenance phase of the project was always very expensive, and they were looking for ways to reduce those costs. Fortunately they solved that problem with Agile -- now you just work on the project for years until it's done, then throw all the code away and start over again. No maintenance costs, it's genius!
If you have to be on drugs because you're in constant pain, you want to be on the drugs that won't directly kill you. It's hard to OD on pot. We've had two or three in Colorado where edibles were involved, but nothing like the "another OD death every 30 minutes" that's currently going on with prescription painkillers. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the studies end up showing that it's less harmful to your body than alcohol or even some OTC painkillers like Tylenol.
Video's always been Apple's weak point. I just set up a Mac tower I got in 2006 as a server and it's still a respectably beefy machine, but the video options for it have always sucked. The "high end" video card for it at the time was some ATI thing that cooked itself to death if you actually made it push 3D.
Funnily enough, my Linux box is a decent enough gaming box -- not PC Master Race level, but I'm able to play all the steam games I've tried on it. Most of my library focuses on gameplay over graphics, so I haven't really pushed it very hard. It's still a nicer situation than the last time I tried, when the only commercial games you could get for Linux came from Loki games. That being said, I still miss Tribes 2.
Little secret guys, you want something made, someone in China wants to make it for you. They'll do it for cheap and if it's a hunk of technology, they'll do it with the same parts they made the original from. But why stop with knockoff routers and my little pony love dolls? Anything you can imagine and get on to paper, some dude in China will make for you, using only the finest tears from the finest ruined hopes and dreams of tiny little Chinese children. Does that guy in China care that your specification calls for an orphan heart? No. No he doesn't. And he can get them dirt cheap! And if you want some quality engineering, he'll outsource it to Korea! One of the Koreas for sure! So why let the big corporations have all the fun? Why wait for some corporation to make that awesome thing you've been kicking around in your head for the last couple years? Find a manufacturer in China and go into business for yourself! Just don't be surprised when they start ripping off your designs once you start making money. Because China don't give a shit about US trademarks.
The top job boards are all shit. So much as look at your account sideways and you'll be inundated with useless fucking spam from a guy named Deepak (It's always fucking Deepak, too) who has some $15 an hour phone support position in Detroit that he thinks your 30 years of software engineering experience would be perfect for. If a company is posting a position on a job board, it's because they're paying severely under market, have a shitty working environment, or are planning to get rid of that position in less than a year, so they don't want to incur the $10,000 or so referral that they'd typically pay to a recruiting company. Maybe all three. Really, the only reason to keep an eye on the job boards is to give you a good idea of who in the area NOT to work for.
The awkward phase of the project where Congress hauls your CEO in front of it and is all like "Dude, what the fuck?!" If only there was some sort of magical way that Congress could prevent those sorts of things from happening in the first place. Perhaps we should create a group of people who could create a "law" that would "regulate" an "industry" in order to prevent claims being made that jamming random objects in your pee-hole cures cancer. Or whatever. Sadly, no such group of people exists and we must just wring our hands helplessly whenever this sort of thing happens, and live with constantly clogged pee-holes.
Also, does anyone actually know what Congress' job actually is? They don't seem to be particularly good at hauling CEOs in front of them to ask them awkward questions. Perhaps Congress needs to haul Congress in front of itself and ask it "Dude, what the fuck?" I'm pretty sure we could replace the lot of them with an orangutan. At least then, some CEOs might get covered in orangutan shit from time to time, which makes me think an orangutan would do Congress' job better than it's currently getting done.
Doesn't seem like a bad idea, but my backing camera gets crapped up a lot more easily than my mirrors do. And any likely camera location on the vehicle is likely to get covered with snow more quickly and thoroughly than my side mirrors do.
It kind of sounds to me like if you're incapacitated to the point where the autopilot might save your life, you shouldn't be driving at that point anyway. Having the autopilot will just encourage people to bet their lives on a piece of equipment they clearly don't understand.
I used to work in a phone support call center back in the early '90's, when you could still find some in the USA. The goal was never to fix the customer's problem. The goal was to close tickets. That's what they pushed. If you could develop a confusing enough patter, you can close an awful lot of tickets. Here are some vague instructors. Give those a try, reboot and call back if it's still a problem. The team lead there had a great scam going on -- he'd set his phone to forward any calls back into the system. The software would then register that he closed a call. He'd just turn that on for a few minutes each day, rack up enough calls to seem like the most efficient employee in the place and get on with his very important solitaire business. Worked great until they caught him at it and walked him out. Once again the message in this story is "Don't get caught."
I can't imagine it'd be that hard to detect that the driver's not paying attention. They could just have the car pull over to the side of the road and refuse to go until the driver's being attentive again. Or request medical attention, if he's seeming more dead than usual today.
Yeah, I don't even use cruise control most of the time, even when driving over a thousand miles on a road trip, because I feel like it reduces my involvement and attention to my driving. Having trouble maintaining the correct speed is one of those little clues I need that it's time to get off the road for a break. Having the car do most of the driving would get boring within a matter of minutes.
Not that inattentive drivers are anything new. On my commute for my first job, back in the late '80's, I passed an erratically driving guy on the Interstate who had a huge book propped open on his steering wheel. That's pretty much why we can't have nice things, right there.
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Easy enough to say but last time I checked if you want to do anything with the current VR headset boom, you're pretty much going to have to use Windows. Steam's OpenVR initiative makes it sound like you don't, but a few months ago when I checked their Linux examples wouldn't even build.
I've found that design review boards are becoming increasingly hostile toward singletons, too. There was a narrow window where they'd at least consider one, back when people started talking about design patterns. These days it's next to impossible to get one approved, even if there's pretty good justification for it. You can always design around the need for a singleton, and usually the system design will be better without them.
Anywhoo, back in the '90's I worked for a company that was getting a B2 Certification for its operating system. My job basically consisted of reading the entire AT&T C standard library code, finding potential security flaws, writing tests for those flaws and then writing a report with the tests which would be delivered to the NSA. I found the remote buffer overflow in the AT&T telnet daemon a couple years before the same overflow was discovered in the Linux telnet daemon. So the NSA basically outsourced the hard work of finding all those exploits to the companies that were trying to get security certifications. It took three or four guys just a few months to go through all the stuff we had to look at. I'm sure we missed a bit, but I was much more confident in the security of their OS at the end of all that. Too bad they eventually went out of business, were acquired by IBM and their products were killed. You know, progress!
Indeed. And so this discussion is the delightfully quaint discussion about how we'll eventually balloon to the moon of our times! Oh yes fuf fuf fuf I'm sure we'll be ballooning to Proxima Centauri in no time! *adjusts his monocle*
I'm probably going to have to break down and set up a Windows machine for a VR rig I want to build in a couple of months. It doesn't seem like any of the VR headsets support Linux particularly well, although I'll check again when I'm actually doing the build.
We're just easing into the world where no secrets can be kept. There will be some discontent as the proles start to see how the sausage is made, but whenever they realize that all the machinery is that dirty, things should settle down a bit. It's pretty much a universal truth that anyone who actively seeks power should under no circumstances be allowed to have that power. They're all fucking scumbags but we'll keep voting for them or the wrong scumbag will get it. I mean, what else could we do? Have a draft like Jury Duty? "Congratulations, you've been selected to serve 6 years in the Senate. Here's a six digit salary and a page. Try not to fuck it up!" It would never work because reasons!
And before you guys get your panties in a knot, I don't even have to google to know those guys don't have a monopoly on little boy fucking. It's apparently impossible to make it to adulthood without being raped by someone, no matter what country you live in. Maybe you get raped by your priest. Maybe you get raped by a US Senator. Maybe you get abducted and raped by some random stranger in a windowless van. Seeing as how no one has come forward by now (And they always do,) I'd guess Trump is probably in the minority of people in the top 1% who didn't get there for the sole purpose of fucking children whenever they want to.
Seems to me there must be a sum of money upon which you could live comfortably for the rest of your life. Around 8 or 10 million, you could probably make more on interest and investment income than most Americans do, and why go for more after that? But I suppose that's why he's a billionaire and I'm not. I'm pretty happy just doing what I'm doing. I wonder if he is. As Sarah Silverman says, all the penises in the world won't fill the hole in your heart.
It's not already full of toxins? Have you ever BEEN to Florida? The water there smells like shit, more or less literally, shit. The first time I visited there I called the hotel's front desk to tell them there was something horribly wrong with the water in my room and they told me that no, that's just how the water is in Florida. Please feel free to buy one of the $10 bottles of water from the mini fridge. So really this doesn't amount to much since you were probably avoiding drinking the water if you live there, anyway. If anything, the toxic chemicals might actually be an improvement.
Because it kind of looks to me like the despicable things you're doing is helping Trump. Seems like no matter what happens, America will get the president it deserves, so maybe I'll just write "None of the above" in on my ballot. Fucking assclowns.
Seems to me the problem you're describing there isn't one with drugs, it's one with the fact that it's much easier to create another human life than it is to buy a car or a gun (for example.) I do have a solution to this, but I don't think it would be tolerated in the USA. Maybe China...
"These Days?" They invented OO because the maintenance phase of the project was always very expensive, and they were looking for ways to reduce those costs. Fortunately they solved that problem with Agile -- now you just work on the project for years until it's done, then throw all the code away and start over again. No maintenance costs, it's genius!
If you have to be on drugs because you're in constant pain, you want to be on the drugs that won't directly kill you. It's hard to OD on pot. We've had two or three in Colorado where edibles were involved, but nothing like the "another OD death every 30 minutes" that's currently going on with prescription painkillers. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the studies end up showing that it's less harmful to your body than alcohol or even some OTC painkillers like Tylenol.
Funnily enough, my Linux box is a decent enough gaming box -- not PC Master Race level, but I'm able to play all the steam games I've tried on it. Most of my library focuses on gameplay over graphics, so I haven't really pushed it very hard. It's still a nicer situation than the last time I tried, when the only commercial games you could get for Linux came from Loki games. That being said, I still miss Tribes 2.
I'm so looking forward to 15 fps with their top of the line video cards.
Little secret guys, you want something made, someone in China wants to make it for you. They'll do it for cheap and if it's a hunk of technology, they'll do it with the same parts they made the original from. But why stop with knockoff routers and my little pony love dolls? Anything you can imagine and get on to paper, some dude in China will make for you, using only the finest tears from the finest ruined hopes and dreams of tiny little Chinese children. Does that guy in China care that your specification calls for an orphan heart? No. No he doesn't. And he can get them dirt cheap! And if you want some quality engineering, he'll outsource it to Korea! One of the Koreas for sure! So why let the big corporations have all the fun? Why wait for some corporation to make that awesome thing you've been kicking around in your head for the last couple years? Find a manufacturer in China and go into business for yourself! Just don't be surprised when they start ripping off your designs once you start making money. Because China don't give a shit about US trademarks.
The top job boards are all shit. So much as look at your account sideways and you'll be inundated with useless fucking spam from a guy named Deepak (It's always fucking Deepak, too) who has some $15 an hour phone support position in Detroit that he thinks your 30 years of software engineering experience would be perfect for. If a company is posting a position on a job board, it's because they're paying severely under market, have a shitty working environment, or are planning to get rid of that position in less than a year, so they don't want to incur the $10,000 or so referral that they'd typically pay to a recruiting company. Maybe all three. Really, the only reason to keep an eye on the job boards is to give you a good idea of who in the area NOT to work for.
Also, does anyone actually know what Congress' job actually is? They don't seem to be particularly good at hauling CEOs in front of them to ask them awkward questions. Perhaps Congress needs to haul Congress in front of itself and ask it "Dude, what the fuck?" I'm pretty sure we could replace the lot of them with an orangutan. At least then, some CEOs might get covered in orangutan shit from time to time, which makes me think an orangutan would do Congress' job better than it's currently getting done.
Doesn't seem like a bad idea, but my backing camera gets crapped up a lot more easily than my mirrors do. And any likely camera location on the vehicle is likely to get covered with snow more quickly and thoroughly than my side mirrors do.
It kind of sounds to me like if you're incapacitated to the point where the autopilot might save your life, you shouldn't be driving at that point anyway. Having the autopilot will just encourage people to bet their lives on a piece of equipment they clearly don't understand.
I used to work in a phone support call center back in the early '90's, when you could still find some in the USA. The goal was never to fix the customer's problem. The goal was to close tickets. That's what they pushed. If you could develop a confusing enough patter, you can close an awful lot of tickets. Here are some vague instructors. Give those a try, reboot and call back if it's still a problem. The team lead there had a great scam going on -- he'd set his phone to forward any calls back into the system. The software would then register that he closed a call. He'd just turn that on for a few minutes each day, rack up enough calls to seem like the most efficient employee in the place and get on with his very important solitaire business. Worked great until they caught him at it and walked him out. Once again the message in this story is "Don't get caught."
I can't imagine it'd be that hard to detect that the driver's not paying attention. They could just have the car pull over to the side of the road and refuse to go until the driver's being attentive again. Or request medical attention, if he's seeming more dead than usual today.
Not that inattentive drivers are anything new. On my commute for my first job, back in the late '80's, I passed an erratically driving guy on the Interstate who had a huge book propped open on his steering wheel. That's pretty much why we can't have nice things, right there.
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Yup. A fraud complaint sent to the state's AG and CCed to Comcast's CEO would probably light some fires under some asses in Comcast.