> Sometimes the WTF you've just encountered has justification, and it takes a deep dive to understand the code enough to know why.
God forbid some documentation. At a previous employer I was consistently baffled at how nearly all information about the mission critical application (and the business) was distributed through random verbal conversation, with the remainder coming from those deep dives into the code (at least until I could no longer hold my breath). There was literally zero documentation for an application with 1 million lines in the source tree and another million in SQL stored procedures (!!!). The size of the project alone was shocking considering it was a fairly standard line of business app, albeit with inventory, HR and customer interaction all rolled into one, but the experience was just about as bad as it gets for development and organizational practices.
Every article I read focusses on how quantum computing differ from classical at a high level. I know these are probably asinine questions, but how are these computers actually used? How are these experiments instructed to the machine? Do these machines have I/O? Does the state of the qubits have to be measured with separate equipment?
I find it sad/ humourous that open source printer firmware was part of the impetus behind the free software movement, yet it's probably still one of the most opaque areas there is.
This is it. Firefox feels half as fast, or worse, for JS performance. For example, I have Chromium installed just to use sites like Zillow and Google Maps. I know these aren't the best examples, for a variety of reasons (Zillow is a mess and of course Google Maps performs better in Google's browser), but those are the main two in recent memory.
United States. I need to look again but I don't think there's the option to permanently delete. Just some kind of generic notice like "your data will eventually be permanently deleted"... eventually, like the heat death of the universe.
Think about being one of the best and brightest hackers out there... why would you want to work for the NSA? What incentive do you have, other than a boatload of money? Isn't the regular, guilt-free FB boatload enough?
I recently accidentally re-activated my old FB account from high school (deactivated 2010). It's all still there. It's more like "unpublishing" your account than really "deactivating" it.
I agree with this assessment as well. REAPER totally has the power of vim or emacs, but when I started out and knew almost nothing about multitrack recording, I stuck with REAPER because its defaults were so easy and I didn't feel handicapped. The UI is so logically laid out and it really helped me understand routing and signal path in a way I didn't before, when I was trying to use other DAW's with less success.
In my experience kids love Garry's Mod if they have the patience to learn it. My brother played the heck out of it when he was 13. (To answer your question, he was playing custom game modes and would sometimes use the character poser/scene creation tools). It's great for technically inclined kids who love sandboxes and are bored with Minecraft.
That would make since, considering the overhead involved in translating the syscalls twice. It would be really interesting to see if/how the native Windows syscalls differed from the ones coming out of the Wine->WSL pipeline.
I don't argue with my diagnosis (in high school), but I disagree very much with the immediate decision to medicate. I felt very strongly at the time that the whole point was to sell medicine to my parents (Vyvance in my case).
It was just, "oh, his GPA's low? Seems like he can't focus? Here are some amphetamines, have a nice day!", with zero follow up about whether the medication was doing its job (didn't matter -- I never took it anyway).
A friend of mine is a Brand Ambassador for AARP and they are working to reverse this exact perception. She teaches "technology" classes -- basically, how to use a tablet/smartphone -- to seniors.
I agree. I interpreted GTA V as a bitter satire of American society and culture, set in a technologically marvelous video game (which is pretty 'meta').
Look, I'm sure the macOS implementation of ACPI is great.
I said "I GUESS ACPI is a mess", because most implementations I've used (and I've only used it; I know nothing low-level about it at all) have had some problem or another.
How wrong of me not to have any experience with your preferred platform, and leave it out of the discussion.
Yeah there's a massive difference between the Haswell i7 (2015) in my workstation at home and the Sandy Bridge i7 (2011) in my workstation at the office.
The old CPU's sharing a name with the new CPU's makes them sound like they're still up-to-date. Which I guess is great for making you feel better about your old device? This seems potentially detrimental to sales though, so I still don't understand the impetus for marketing them like that.