Don't really know -- I met him through writing circles. But the pattern was similar -- sneer a lot and think it's an argument, and expect quick wit to substitute for actual knowledge.
History: the world has been ending within 20 years for about 2000 years. Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome (noted favorably above) predicted economic collapse and mass famine in 20 years -- in the 70's.
Economics: If oil were running out, the price would be going up. The (inflation adjusted) price is still way down. And once it starts really getting more expensive, things like hybrids will become economically attractive -- just this week, I heard that the waiting list for Prius hybrids is up to a year.
But the distinction is in the method of brewing, not the beans. Good coffee is from arabica beans; in espresso, the coffee is more finely ground, and the flavor is extracted under high pressure by live steam -- thus the name (same root as "express", the first meaning of which is "to extract under pressure.")
If you have an Americano doble -- ie, a double espresso in sufficient hot water to fill a standard large cup -- the amount of caffeine will be that of two cups of espresso (160 mg) and the quantity of total liquid will be about 16 oz, giving 10 mg/oz.
Milligrams per ounce. Gack. Let's throw in furlongs for chrissakes.
Fine. Just don't think either print statements or debuggers replace thinking. I've seen way to many programmers debug for hours to find a bug that could be found in a few minutes actual thought.
It was a little bit of a surprise to me when I visited rackspace.com a year or so ago, but they have a very high density scheme with no racks to speak of. Instead, they get steel-wire shelves like these, put cheap x86 boxes -- they actually assembler their own from commodity parts, which certainly makes sense if you're setting up thousands of boxes as they do -- in minitowers on them, and cable them with conventional cables tied with plastic cable ties.
Works great, relatively cheap, and you can do something else with the "rack" later if you want.
Not as interesting as you think: I'm by background a civilian intelligence guy; those were the Navy installations I knew because I'm dealing with them now.
Yeah, if you're going to define "rural" as "more than 2 hours from a city", it's going to be a problem. Sort of depends on what you want to call a city, I suppose, too: my home town in Colorado, Alamosa, has a population of 7500, and is just about 2 hours from Pueblo, a town of 100,000. Of course it's got 3/4th of the population of the whole San Luis Valley, which is about the size of Connecticut.
I dunno about you, but the SLV is pretty damn rural by my estimation.
But here's a map of the Colorado Springs area. I promise you, go east to Yoder, or west to Woodland Park, and it'll seem pretty damn rural.
Go to Woodland Park and you can tell all your friends you live in South Park. That's the little valley west of Pikes Peak. (South Park the town is really Fairplay.)
I'm sorry if I came off as seeming like I didn't trust you, but that one tesla thing didn't help.
In any case, though, you need to read more of the literature: the epidemiology really doesn't work out.
I'm not sure what you mean by "1UT" -- I'm guessing you mean "one microTesla", but in that case you're talking about three orders of magnitude less than the Earth's field, which also is a little questionable -- seeing as you can get that kind of field swinging a kids' horseshoe magnet in the next room.
Honest, though, I understand the urge to find An Explanation; I watched it happen many times in medical school. It's understandable to want to have some sense of control. But the evidence for tiny tiny EMF fields causing health effects just isn't there.
Citations? I've kept up on the scientific research -- that is controlled, statistically significant, good samples -- and it's been pretty consistent in showing that claims of EMF causing cancer etc don't pass the giggle test.
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Head. Phones.
Don't really know -- I met him through writing circles. But the pattern was similar -- sneer a lot and think it's an argument, and expect quick wit to substitute for actual knowledge.
Hey, wow, learn some jistory and economics.
History: the world has been ending within 20 years for about 2000 years. Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome (noted favorably above) predicted economic collapse and mass famine in 20 years -- in the 70's.
Economics: If oil were running out, the price would be going up. The (inflation adjusted) price is still way down. And once it starts really getting more expensive, things like hybrids will become economically attractive -- just this week, I heard that the waiting list for Prius hybrids is up to a year.
Still a moron.
But the distinction is in the method of brewing, not the beans. Good coffee is from arabica beans; in espresso, the coffee is more finely ground, and the flavor is extracted under high pressure by live steam -- thus the name (same root as "express", the first meaning of which is "to extract under pressure.")
If you have an Americano doble -- ie, a double espresso in sufficient hot water to fill a standard large cup -- the amount of caffeine will be that of two cups of espresso (160 mg) and the quantity of total liquid will be about 16 oz, giving 10 mg/oz.
Milligrams per ounce. Gack. Let's throw in furlongs for chrissakes.
... for a VoIP project. It's a really stupid way of getting very high availability, but it can be made to work, and it is cheap to implement.
Basics are:
(1) you need a heart beat to confirm the master machine is running.
(2) You write a simple script using dnsupdate(8) that removes your master and inserts the backup.
(3) You look up the special magic to tell DNS caching to flush on other machines.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Okay, now, go back and re-read what you wrote; see if it makes any sense this time.
That's actually a quote from the article, not Slashdot.
Off course, knowing this would require reading the article and what fun is that?
Fine. Just don't think either print statements or debuggers replace thinking. I've seen way to many programmers debug for hours to find a bug that could be found in a few minutes actual thought.
thinking is better.
Fuck him.
Okay, two words.
It was a little bit of a surprise to me when I visited rackspace.com a year or so ago, but they have a very high density scheme with no racks to speak of. Instead, they get steel-wire shelves like these, put cheap x86 boxes -- they actually assembler their own from commodity parts, which certainly makes sense if you're setting up thousands of boxes as they do -- in minitowers on them, and cable them with conventional cables tied with plastic cable ties.
Works great, relatively cheap, and you can do something else with the "rack" later if you want.
Actually, small-town colleges would be a very good possibility. Either as an instructor (if you've got an MS or PhD) or working for the school.
Not as interesting as you think: I'm by background a civilian intelligence guy; those were the Navy installations I knew because I'm dealing with them now.
Yeah, if you're going to define "rural" as "more than 2 hours from a city", it's going to be a problem. Sort of depends on what you want to call a city, I suppose, too: my home town in Colorado, Alamosa, has a population of 7500, and is just about 2 hours from Pueblo, a town of 100,000. Of course it's got 3/4th of the population of the whole San Luis Valley, which is about the size of Connecticut.
I dunno about you, but the SLV is pretty damn rural by my estimation.
But here's a map of the Colorado Springs area. I promise you, go east to Yoder, or west to Woodland Park, and it'll seem pretty damn rural.
Go to Woodland Park and you can tell all your friends you live in South Park. That's the little valley west of Pikes Peak. (South Park the town is really Fairplay.)
- Slidell, LA
- Stennis Space Flight Center in Mississippi
- Biloxi, MS (Air Force)
- Monterey, CA (not cheap, but away from the urban stuff)
- Omaha, NE
- Colorado Springs (urban, but real country no more than 20 minutes east)
I've temporarily enabled my email with spam blocking -- get in touch.... just to put it on record, if we ever need computer guys in the military this bad, I volunteer.
And I'm old and fat.
Code is much nicer. You should try it.
After 35 years in the technology business, I think I can say with some authority that it's not the technology that causes the stress.
It's management.
SOmeone once said to me "I don't want to change over until someone shows me something that beats Lotus Notes and a scanner."
I know it's probably not very helpful, but honestly I'm pretty cynical about high-tech solutions for these things.
On the other hand, emacs with Wiki mode isn't bad....
Better change to Everclear -- Scotch is still 50-60 percent water.
I'm sorry if I came off as seeming like I didn't trust you, but that one tesla thing didn't help.
In any case, though, you need to read more of the literature: the epidemiology really doesn't work out.
I'm not sure what you mean by "1UT" -- I'm guessing you mean "one microTesla", but in that case you're talking about three orders of magnitude less than the Earth's field, which also is a little questionable -- seeing as you can get that kind of field swinging a kids' horseshoe magnet in the next room.
Honest, though, I understand the urge to find An Explanation; I watched it happen many times in medical school. It's understandable to want to have some sense of control. But the evidence for tiny tiny EMF fields causing health effects just isn't there.
One TESLA?
Good LORD, man! One Tesla is 10 kilogauss. Something like 20,000 times the Earth's field.
That's not "magnetic field of a power line" that's a big fucking electromagnet. You're talking about the field strength of a high-intensity MRI.
Like this.
Man, you need to talk to a therapist. Cancer happens some times. It
s not your fault. It wasn't the power company's fault. Get on with your life.
Citations? I've kept up on the scientific research -- that is controlled, statistically significant, good samples -- and it's been pretty consistent in showing that claims of EMF causing cancer etc don't pass the giggle test.