Hmmm. I wonder if you are just confirming what the parent comment said. The sheer linearity of that graph indeed hints that the improvements have mostly happened by just throwing more and more raw CPU power into the task, without breakthroughs in making the algorithms more accurate or efficient.
Man, I'm sad to see this go. Even the Extended Support will end in January 2020 which comes sooner than we know. Yes, Windows 10 is bringing the classic desktop back, but it seems that it is becoming a unelegant mishmash of Modern UI widgets and classic Windows widgets. I guess it's back to Linux-land, the place where I camped during the whole Windows XP era.
Many scripts directly read configuration files, create lists of filenames and deal with various environment variables. Those are all input. Also there are lots of scripts which do not call just one "startup program" but acquire data from tens of helper processes. For an example, see the bind9 script, which was featured in another comment in this discussion. I have also seen weird "Invalid argument" breakage when the interface of one of those accessories changes slightly.
I think this is why Minecraft is so popular. Things are built up from simple bricks, and anybody can pick it up and start building. You don't need to take a course to figure out how to build stuff.
Yep, that is exactly the reason. There is no tedious-looking CAD-like program to learn, one can instead start right away messing around with blocks in a natural environment. It is also surprising how large architectural things people wind up building in the game, even when one might think that the most complex stuff would already be much more efficient to design inside a dedicated software for the purpose. I guess the game also gives the illusionary feeling that you are building something concrete instead of just drawing some lines on engineering paper.
Maybe. Currently we have every app maintaining its own configuration file(s) in miscellaneous directories under the user's home directory in non-standard format and each application implementing its own configuration parser.
Agree. Over here, we are constantly whining how crappy SystemD is, even though most of people have no idea what they are even talking about. The discussion is much more relaxed at/r/linux. Over there, they are already taking advantage of the new system and putting together little projects like SystemD computer wake-up alarm and analyzing how it works.
Seriously, I won't bend over backwards just to appease the maker of some hardware.
It's just basic quality control. They have to be picky, or else we will end up with a app store full of trash, like the Windows Store is, and to some extent Google Play is too.
Is it the only choice that the AI would attack us when it becomes smarter than us? What if it will instead propel us to a world where wellbeing increases in exponential amounts. We don't have to design an AI that is a warthirsty idiot like humans.
The new Mac Mini is twice as slow as the late 2012 model. So fuck you Apple.
The benchmarks say that the CPU of the entry-level late 2014 Mac Mini is only 3.8% slower than the entry-level late 2012 Mac Mini. However, the TDP is also 57.1% lower (from 35W to 15W).
The study is really more about setting unrealistic goals. You don't want to do that. But from a mental health perspective it is still good to manually steer the ship towards positivity as our minds are so clever picking all sorts of negative trash anyway.
Why do we need new games? Everyone knows Quake 3 attained perfection in 1999. It's a scientific fact.
Heh!
But hey, 1999 was a great year. CPUs and 3D accelerators were powerful enough to run games like Quake 3 or Half-Life. All games released after that has just been about adding more fidelity.
Sound quality of music albums reached also a pinnacle point: we got great digital audio workstations with lots of tracks and good signal-to-noise ratio, and the dynamic range compression madness had not yet begun.
Windows 2000 was released, which is the other of the two non-sucky graphical operating systems Microsoft has released (the other one is Windows 7). Linux also got popular on the desktop.
I'm not sure if he deserves all the mockery. Maybe some people think that he has posted a couple of silly opinion pieces, but that does not make him a malicious monster.
Is there a way to detect a counterfeit chip without bricking it? If that's the case, they could have just added a System Log message "FTDI device attached to system is not genuine! Driver will not start." Then the driver would return an error and Control Panel would show a yellow exclamation mark for the device.
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Hmmm. I wonder if you are just confirming what the parent comment said. The sheer linearity of that graph indeed hints that the improvements have mostly happened by just throwing more and more raw CPU power into the task, without breakthroughs in making the algorithms more accurate or efficient.
Please provide evidence that all of the sysadmins who criticize systemd no idea what they are even talking about.
They have the proof of burden, not me.
Man, I'm sad to see this go. Even the Extended Support will end in January 2020 which comes sooner than we know. Yes, Windows 10 is bringing the classic desktop back, but it seems that it is becoming a unelegant mishmash of Modern UI widgets and classic Windows widgets. I guess it's back to Linux-land, the place where I camped during the whole Windows XP era.
Many scripts directly read configuration files, create lists of filenames and deal with various environment variables. Those are all input. Also there are lots of scripts which do not call just one "startup program" but acquire data from tens of helper processes. For an example, see the bind9 script, which was featured in another comment in this discussion. I have also seen weird "Invalid argument" breakage when the interface of one of those accessories changes slightly.
I think this is why Minecraft is so popular. Things are built up from simple bricks, and anybody can pick it up and start building. You don't need to take a course to figure out how to build stuff.
Yep, that is exactly the reason. There is no tedious-looking CAD-like program to learn, one can instead start right away messing around with blocks in a natural environment. It is also surprising how large architectural things people wind up building in the game, even when one might think that the most complex stuff would already be much more efficient to design inside a dedicated software for the purpose. I guess the game also gives the illusionary feeling that you are building something concrete instead of just drawing some lines on engineering paper.
Shills?
Bash scripts are not where the bottleneck is. Switching that to compiled code won't get you much of a speedup.
It will give you more robustness, though. Scripts are a huge minefield and require very careful input validation.
Maybe. Currently we have every app maintaining its own configuration file(s) in miscellaneous directories under the user's home directory in non-standard format and each application implementing its own configuration parser.
Agree. Over here, we are constantly whining how crappy SystemD is, even though most of people have no idea what they are even talking about. The discussion is much more relaxed at /r/linux. Over there, they are already taking advantage of the new system and putting together little projects like SystemD computer wake-up alarm and analyzing how it works.
It is hard. Linux is a big professional system.
Seriously, I won't bend over backwards just to appease the maker of some hardware.
It's just basic quality control. They have to be picky, or else we will end up with a app store full of trash, like the Windows Store is, and to some extent Google Play is too.
Who are they?
They are a Chinese stove maker.
Very good point.
Is it the only choice that the AI would attack us when it becomes smarter than us? What if it will instead propel us to a world where wellbeing increases in exponential amounts. We don't have to design an AI that is a warthirsty idiot like humans.
Yep, you are correct on that one. Even the fastest dual cores of the new Mac Mini can't kick the old quad cores' ass.
The new Mac Mini is twice as slow as the late 2012 model. So fuck you Apple.
The benchmarks say that the CPU of the entry-level late 2014 Mac Mini is only 3.8% slower than the entry-level late 2012 Mac Mini. However, the TDP is also 57.1% lower (from 35W to 15W).
The study is really more about setting unrealistic goals. You don't want to do that. But from a mental health perspective it is still good to manually steer the ship towards positivity as our minds are so clever picking all sorts of negative trash anyway.
Why do we need new games? Everyone knows Quake 3 attained perfection in 1999. It's a scientific fact.
Heh!
But hey, 1999 was a great year. CPUs and 3D accelerators were powerful enough to run games like Quake 3 or Half-Life. All games released after that has just been about adding more fidelity.
Sound quality of music albums reached also a pinnacle point: we got great digital audio workstations with lots of tracks and good signal-to-noise ratio, and the dynamic range compression madness had not yet begun.
Windows 2000 was released, which is the other of the two non-sucky graphical operating systems Microsoft has released (the other one is Windows 7). Linux also got popular on the desktop.
Gooood times.
I get this when I search for "doom":
Designers: Tom Hall, Shawn Green, John Romero, Sandy Petersen, American McGee
Still no Johnny Cee there. They must add a "Programmers" section!
So now we just mock Bennett.
I'm not sure if he deserves all the mockery. Maybe some people think that he has posted a couple of silly opinion pieces, but that does not make him a malicious monster.
Is there a way to detect a counterfeit chip without bricking it? If that's the case, they could have just added a System Log message "FTDI device attached to system is not genuine! Driver will not start." Then the driver would return an error and Control Panel would show a yellow exclamation mark for the device.
But those are trusted pools, right? So we have no reason to worry about such attack.
Stability is still more important...although I fully agree with your package management point.
Pay no attention to the fact that Apple has sold an entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for the last 9 years.
They have sold the entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for 1 week. Before that, it was $599.
Tent protocol documentation comes quite close.