I'll never use a machine that tells me what to do. Use it only for keeping track of performance, never as an instructor.
^^^ this ^^^
I use an fitness tracker and an app, but I use it primarily for monitoring, logging calories in and out, and tracking results. The only "instructional" part of it I use - if you can call it that - is the "get off your lard ass, tubbo" reminder.
Read it again. That's 10,000 steps every day for a week to burn 2000 calories. 10,000 steps is approximately 5 miles. 35 miles a week. So that's ~57 calories per walking mile.
Nonsense. I have 16GB of ECC RAM in my NAS at home, and I can assure you I spent almost two orders of magnitude less than $500/GB. IIRC, it was closer to $10/GB.
If they're contractually bound to deliver that sort of uptime, and their system isn't designed to tolerate these kind of failures, they deserve to fail.
Yeah imagine that, people have different requirements. You did note the "IMO" at the end of sentence, yes?
Aside from "significantly heavier", "significantly more expensive" doesn't get past purchasing or accounting at work. Perhaps I should lecture them on the value of "choosing freedom over the mainstream".
When last I checked, we were talking about laptops, not tablets. Sorry, I used to have to lug around a overly heavy laptop for years. "Thin and sexy" has fuck all to do with it. I want the damn thing to not be a boat anchor.
I have a Dell Precision M4700 that I only reboot as a result of security patches being applied. It's predecessor was a different model in the Precision line that was trouble free for many years, until the video card finally took a dump.
Dell has made some shitty business models, however. You get what you pay for.
No, I'm a W-2 employee, I'm a US Citizen, and it's my recollection that I've never presented an ID to work - and I know for a fact that I've never shown an SS card, because I lost it in the 1980's and never replaced it.
Are people paid on 1099's somehow fit for disenfranchisement?
a) I've never had to show ID to work - and even if it were true that people today have to show ID to get a job - that only means that they have to HAD ID at some point. You ever lost your wallet?
b) there are multitudes of under the table cash-paying jobs out there, many of which are filled by people who are eligible to vote.
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I can mitigate it at my own expense - meanwhile, Congress has handed the telecom industry a $35-70B annual profit windfall.
'Murrica, fuck yeah.
No! It has to be turtles all the way down.
If you've got vendors willing to accept payment in BTC, or foreign currency then you effectively avoid the capital gains issue
Effectively, yes. Lawfully, no.
I left for coherent punctuation.
I'll never use a machine that tells me what to do. Use it only for keeping track of performance, never as an instructor.
^^^ this ^^^
I use an fitness tracker and an app, but I use it primarily for monitoring, logging calories in and out, and tracking results. The only "instructional" part of it I use - if you can call it that - is the "get off your lard ass, tubbo" reminder.
Read it again. That's 10,000 steps every day for a week to burn 2000 calories. 10,000 steps is approximately 5 miles. 35 miles a week. So that's ~57 calories per walking mile.
Sounds about right.
Here too, but NOT having kids guarantees that they won't be there for you.
Read TFA? This is slashdot, c'mon.
Nonsense. I have 16GB of ECC RAM in my NAS at home, and I can assure you I spent almost two orders of magnitude less than $500/GB. IIRC, it was closer to $10/GB.
Under the circumstances presented in TFA?
Absolutely, and it's not even close.
...people are cunts. Film at 11.
Right, they don't call it "ram" for nothing.
If they're contractually bound to deliver that sort of uptime, and their system isn't designed to tolerate these kind of failures, they deserve to fail.
Yeah imagine that, people have different requirements. You did note the "IMO" at the end of sentence, yes?
Aside from "significantly heavier", "significantly more expensive" doesn't get past purchasing or accounting at work. Perhaps I should lecture them on the value of "choosing freedom over the mainstream".
When last I checked, we were talking about laptops, not tablets. Sorry, I used to have to lug around a overly heavy laptop for years. "Thin and sexy" has fuck all to do with it. I want the damn thing to not be a boat anchor.
Oh, the horror. Microsoft is pushing users to their latest OS, and not patching OS that are at or near EOL?
I'm not a big fan of either Windows or Microsoft, but complaining about this is insane.
"Significantly bulkier and more expensive" makes it a complete non-starter IMO.
I have a Dell Precision M4700 that I only reboot as a result of security patches being applied. It's predecessor was a different model in the Precision line that was trouble free for many years, until the video card finally took a dump.
Dell has made some shitty business models, however. You get what you pay for.
*I* do - but concerned with *other people* who don't have the means to obtain one.
No, I'm a W-2 employee, I'm a US Citizen, and it's my recollection that I've never presented an ID to work - and I know for a fact that I've never shown an SS card, because I lost it in the 1980's and never replaced it.
Are people paid on 1099's somehow fit for disenfranchisement?
a) I've never had to show ID to work - and even if it were true that people today have to show ID to get a job - that only means that they have to HAD ID at some point. You ever lost your wallet?
b) there are multitudes of under the table cash-paying jobs out there, many of which are filled by people who are eligible to vote.
Or are you happy to disenfranchise them as well?
I have never shown ID to work. Never.
I am a US citizen, born here a very long time ago.
You can't get a job without an ID
Want to bet on that?
You want to know how many times I've shown ID or a SS card in the last thirty three years I've been employed?
Exactly zero.
I served in the goddamned military for six years. If I don't want to vote, I figure I paid for my freedom already.
Not to mention there are indirect costs involved - such as taking time off work to waste half a day waiting at DMV.