Yuh huh. They also don't mention that the Nvidia drivers don't work with Wayland. They put an optimistic "yet" at the end of that. First thing I ended up doing in The Big Upgrade of a couple of machines a few days ago was force X.org sessions in GDM so I could get 3D acceleration. Remote windows? Don't tend to use 'em here, but have in the past and do consider it important.
Yeah, and being a full time employee doesn't really guarantee you any safety. The usual suspects around here are legendary for their layoff cycles. You'll run into people here who've been laid off two or three times by the same company. Corporate benefits have been going to crap lately too -- you might get an extra bonus a year out of them, that might help with the difference between the FTE and contractor salaries. I made the mistake of accepting a stock grant, which accidentally made a decent amount of money for me but still almost wasn't worth the extra complexity in my taxes. Admittedly paid vacations are kind of nice, assuming they ever actually let you take them.
Yeah. Often when playing poker, you can tell that your opponent is getting a huge adrenaline rush. But is he getting a huge adrenaline rush because he's bluffing and hopes you'll fold, or because he's sitting on a huge hand and hopes you'll call?
There are some aspects of flying a satellite that are the same no matter who you are. One is that the satellite can't just go anywhere. You have to wait until it gets to what you want to take a picture of, and the sun has to be in the correct position. If you look too far left or right, your images will have a lot of distortion and it'll be hard to determine individual pixel coordinates. If your satellite does happen to be right over what you want to look at right now, you can't just tell it to turn and look there. You have to wait until it's over an antenna to send it instructions and then wait until it's over another antenna to get its images. And you still have to compete with other people for satellite time because the satellite can't look at two different places at the same time. And once you get the images back, you need to get them into a useful format, which means a fair bit of work to determine the exact coordinates of various features in the image, assessing whether cloud cover is blocking what you want to look at, and figuring out whose hands to put that imagery in. If you're flying your own satellites, you've also already handed over some briefcases full of cash. Anything involving satellites always involves briefcases full of cash.
Satellites take forever and the pixels are really chunky. They also have trouble with cloud cover. If you want a bag of pixels from today, you're probably not going to get them from a satellite. A turn-around time of three days on a satellite would be astounding. Yeah, you might be able to get some shitty off-nadir and cloudy pixels from 15-20 hours ago with an appropriately-placed briefcase full of cash, otherwise you can generally assume that the pixels you're looking at are weeks-to-months old.
No, he thought exactly that and boasted about it online. Now that he realizes he might face consequences for his actions, that's what he's remorseful about.
Seems to me a lot of the things that can make a senator very wealthy and influential can also kind of accidentally make you a felon if you happen to get caught at it. The senators are probably aware of that and would rather not risk their shiny income in the event they do accidentally get caught at it. Felons in general probably have a better approval rating than Congress, anyway.
A good CEO might have an impact on a company's bottom line, but a bad one can be worse than useless. Given that there are a lot more bad ones than good ones, perhaps it would make more financial sense to replace the CEO with a robot. It wouldn't even have to be a very smart one.
It's not too hard to find a 4K camera. I've started to see a bunch of Skydiving/Wingsuiting videos on YouTube in 4K. If Hollywood isn't careful, they'll be overtaken by amateur content in the next couple of years.
With the maker movement, I could actually see Radio Shack working as an extension of local maker spaces. Or maker spaces in places that don't have them. It'd take some really bright management, though, and that's one thing it seems like Radio Shack hasn't had for a very long time.
I've run across two or three people in three decades in the industry who I thought were so bad at what they did that I'd consider them representing themselves as programmers should constitute fraud. They ended up working six months to a year at their companies and left just as it was being determined that they'd produced no working code while they were employed there. Admittedly there were management issues that allowed them to string their respective companies along as long as they had, but a lot of that went on in the US IT industry in the '90's. It sounds like India's going through the same adjustment that we did when things tightened up a bit. A lot of the worst people left the industry around that time, as companies dialed in on how to interview for and manage software engineering projects.
Very much this. I got a cheap color laser printer for $300 a couple of years ago and it's perfect. I'll let it sit for 6 or 8 months at a time and it'll still quite happily print something the moment I fire it up. Toner's about in the same ballpark as inkjet ink and I get a very reasonable number of pages out of it, even when doing a fairly high volume of pages and photos.
It all seems like quite a long way to go to avoid writing a GUI application. That's what we're doing there, right? Someone took a look at the state of writing GUI code in the mid '90's, said "Fuck THAT shit!" and came up with Javascript instead. And every attempt to polish THAT turd since then has made it look worse. So now we're at the point I want to write a front end, I have to weigh my choice between trying to write a new GUI toolkit that doesn't suck goat balls and Javascript and a few gallons of turd polish. It seems like a number of really bad decisions have led to this point, and we're not making any better ones lately.
I run noscript and whitelist sites that are allowed to run Javascript. I'm frequently astounded by how obnoxious an experience it is to browse the internet without them. I think if I didn't have the options of ublock and noscript, I'd browse the web a lot less than I do now. Which might not be a bad thing, I suppose.
What exactly are you outlawing there? Individuals agreeing upon the value of a thing and exchanging items of value for that thing? Imaginary value? Better watch out, if you outlaw imaginary value, every modern currency system collapses. We already know what that looks like -- see Zimbabwe.
Economics is all just smoke and mirrors piled onto some basic fundamental concepts. Maybe if we stopped pretending it was some sort of science, we'd be able to come up with actually-better systems of wealth.
A couple years ago I was maintaining an old C program that was written in the mid '90's. It has over 400 global variables that three applications shared via header files. If you look at a lot of the system-level utilities that you might use on a daily basis in a UNIX type system (ls, awk, sed, grep, for example,) most of them will be written the same way. In the case of something small like ls or rm, you might actually be able to get away with that, but that's how ALL C programs were written back in the day. And a lot of them still are. Sure, you could write a C program that doesn't define any global variables (there'll still be a couple from the standard library, like errno,) but no one actually does that. Your C code could make sure that it doesn't allow arrays to overflow. No one does that. You could sanitize your inputs. No one does that.
You see, it's not that languages are necessarily fundamentally bad, it's that programmers are. There are a lot of reasons why, but it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools. You could write an operating system in C or assembly language, and code it carefully so that you can guarantee each little piece of it doesn't suck. And three decades later you might eventually release it. Or not. Dunno, haven't seen one yet. You think it'd be any easier in whatever newfangled language you like? I doubt it. The hard part would be finding some programmers who have the time and willingness to learn all the stuff you need to know to write an operating system and spend several years actually doing that. At the moment no one seems to hate the OS they're using enough to try to write one that sucks less.
More or less by accident, and being easier to use (Specifically in the payment department) than everyone else. Seems like most retail sites want me to create an account just to browse their site, and no, I don't want to create an account with them for a one-time purchase. Amazon results seem to turn up on most google searches for specific items and I already have an account with them, so it's easy. You have to keep an eye on them, though -- it seems like a number of their vendors just buy stuff down at the local Wal Mart and sell it for 2 - 5 times the price on Amazon. I mostly see that with grocery-type items (popcorn, Paper towels, kitty litter, et al.) Once you're aware that their prices can sometimes not be the best, you can shop around a bit. It's not too hard to find an out-of-state wholesaler where you can get your items at a significant discount.
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Yuh huh. They also don't mention that the Nvidia drivers don't work with Wayland. They put an optimistic "yet" at the end of that. First thing I ended up doing in The Big Upgrade of a couple of machines a few days ago was force X.org sessions in GDM so I could get 3D acceleration. Remote windows? Don't tend to use 'em here, but have in the past and do consider it important.
Lots of genes have influenced who I am. Some of those include walking bags of genes of varying and arguable worth. They know who they are.
Does the Javascript have to stop running when the ad completes? If it could stay up for the entire time you watch a video, that could make a mint.
Yeah, and being a full time employee doesn't really guarantee you any safety. The usual suspects around here are legendary for their layoff cycles. You'll run into people here who've been laid off two or three times by the same company. Corporate benefits have been going to crap lately too -- you might get an extra bonus a year out of them, that might help with the difference between the FTE and contractor salaries. I made the mistake of accepting a stock grant, which accidentally made a decent amount of money for me but still almost wasn't worth the extra complexity in my taxes. Admittedly paid vacations are kind of nice, assuming they ever actually let you take them.
Could you short them in the usual way, betting that the price will drop against a current owner?
Yeah. Often when playing poker, you can tell that your opponent is getting a huge adrenaline rush. But is he getting a huge adrenaline rush because he's bluffing and hopes you'll fold, or because he's sitting on a huge hand and hopes you'll call?
I assume they mean that in the same sense that the Chinese telcom "could be" Chinese?
There are some aspects of flying a satellite that are the same no matter who you are. One is that the satellite can't just go anywhere. You have to wait until it gets to what you want to take a picture of, and the sun has to be in the correct position. If you look too far left or right, your images will have a lot of distortion and it'll be hard to determine individual pixel coordinates. If your satellite does happen to be right over what you want to look at right now, you can't just tell it to turn and look there. You have to wait until it's over an antenna to send it instructions and then wait until it's over another antenna to get its images. And you still have to compete with other people for satellite time because the satellite can't look at two different places at the same time. And once you get the images back, you need to get them into a useful format, which means a fair bit of work to determine the exact coordinates of various features in the image, assessing whether cloud cover is blocking what you want to look at, and figuring out whose hands to put that imagery in. If you're flying your own satellites, you've also already handed over some briefcases full of cash. Anything involving satellites always involves briefcases full of cash.
Satellites take forever and the pixels are really chunky. They also have trouble with cloud cover. If you want a bag of pixels from today, you're probably not going to get them from a satellite. A turn-around time of three days on a satellite would be astounding. Yeah, you might be able to get some shitty off-nadir and cloudy pixels from 15-20 hours ago with an appropriately-placed briefcase full of cash, otherwise you can generally assume that the pixels you're looking at are weeks-to-months old.
No, he thought exactly that and boasted about it online. Now that he realizes he might face consequences for his actions, that's what he's remorseful about.
Seems to me a lot of the things that can make a senator very wealthy and influential can also kind of accidentally make you a felon if you happen to get caught at it. The senators are probably aware of that and would rather not risk their shiny income in the event they do accidentally get caught at it. Felons in general probably have a better approval rating than Congress, anyway.
A good CEO might have an impact on a company's bottom line, but a bad one can be worse than useless. Given that there are a lot more bad ones than good ones, perhaps it would make more financial sense to replace the CEO with a robot. It wouldn't even have to be a very smart one.
Shit, why are you guys messing around in China? The USA wants what you have to offer!
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It's not too hard to find a 4K camera. I've started to see a bunch of Skydiving/Wingsuiting videos on YouTube in 4K. If Hollywood isn't careful, they'll be overtaken by amateur content in the next couple of years.
With the maker movement, I could actually see Radio Shack working as an extension of local maker spaces. Or maker spaces in places that don't have them. It'd take some really bright management, though, and that's one thing it seems like Radio Shack hasn't had for a very long time.
I've run across two or three people in three decades in the industry who I thought were so bad at what they did that I'd consider them representing themselves as programmers should constitute fraud. They ended up working six months to a year at their companies and left just as it was being determined that they'd produced no working code while they were employed there. Admittedly there were management issues that allowed them to string their respective companies along as long as they had, but a lot of that went on in the US IT industry in the '90's. It sounds like India's going through the same adjustment that we did when things tightened up a bit. A lot of the worst people left the industry around that time, as companies dialed in on how to interview for and manage software engineering projects.
They get paid in Dong.
Very much this. I got a cheap color laser printer for $300 a couple of years ago and it's perfect. I'll let it sit for 6 or 8 months at a time and it'll still quite happily print something the moment I fire it up. Toner's about in the same ballpark as inkjet ink and I get a very reasonable number of pages out of it, even when doing a fairly high volume of pages and photos.
It all seems like quite a long way to go to avoid writing a GUI application. That's what we're doing there, right? Someone took a look at the state of writing GUI code in the mid '90's, said "Fuck THAT shit!" and came up with Javascript instead. And every attempt to polish THAT turd since then has made it look worse. So now we're at the point I want to write a front end, I have to weigh my choice between trying to write a new GUI toolkit that doesn't suck goat balls and Javascript and a few gallons of turd polish. It seems like a number of really bad decisions have led to this point, and we're not making any better ones lately.
I run noscript and whitelist sites that are allowed to run Javascript. I'm frequently astounded by how obnoxious an experience it is to browse the internet without them. I think if I didn't have the options of ublock and noscript, I'd browse the web a lot less than I do now. Which might not be a bad thing, I suppose.
Economics is all just smoke and mirrors piled onto some basic fundamental concepts. Maybe if we stopped pretending it was some sort of science, we'd be able to come up with actually-better systems of wealth.
They are bugs. They're just bugs in how you designed your government.
You see, it's not that languages are necessarily fundamentally bad, it's that programmers are. There are a lot of reasons why, but it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools. You could write an operating system in C or assembly language, and code it carefully so that you can guarantee each little piece of it doesn't suck. And three decades later you might eventually release it. Or not. Dunno, haven't seen one yet. You think it'd be any easier in whatever newfangled language you like? I doubt it. The hard part would be finding some programmers who have the time and willingness to learn all the stuff you need to know to write an operating system and spend several years actually doing that. At the moment no one seems to hate the OS they're using enough to try to write one that sucks less.
More or less by accident, and being easier to use (Specifically in the payment department) than everyone else. Seems like most retail sites want me to create an account just to browse their site, and no, I don't want to create an account with them for a one-time purchase. Amazon results seem to turn up on most google searches for specific items and I already have an account with them, so it's easy. You have to keep an eye on them, though -- it seems like a number of their vendors just buy stuff down at the local Wal Mart and sell it for 2 - 5 times the price on Amazon. I mostly see that with grocery-type items (popcorn, Paper towels, kitty litter, et al.) Once you're aware that their prices can sometimes not be the best, you can shop around a bit. It's not too hard to find an out-of-state wholesaler where you can get your items at a significant discount.