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@TimeBandit C'est juste un trou d'eau
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@TimeBandit
The only valid reply seems to be: Tabernak!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
To be honest, the whole "reasoning" is definitely WTF, because this is NOT case of master/slave metaphor - there is no "slave" anywhere! Actually, the "master" here is not the "master" from "master/slave", it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK. Maybe is English language that does not distinguish these two words (like many European languages do).
On the other hand, English does differentiate between "master" and "teacher", while most European languages do not. (That particular ambiguity goes all the way back to Latin.)
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
In Other News, Swiss postal and IT systems overloaded due to people sending in claims:
For the record, a single standard gold bar -- approximately the size of an ordinary building brick, weighing around 30 pounds -- would be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $500K, so I wonder what exactly these (multiple) "gold bars" worth ~40% of that were.
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@Mason_Wheeler multiple 10oz bars?
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@Mason_Wheeler According to one website, 1 g, 1 ozt, 100 g, and 1 kg bars are the most common in the bullion market. Not that I've ever actually bought or sold gold bullion, but I think I also remember having seen 10 ozt and/or 100 ozt bars in the past. In fact, I just glanced further down the search results page, and I see monex.com headlining 1 kg and 10 ozt bars. Also, I don't trust monex. They're advertising 99.5% purity, and the standard for gold bullion is typically 99.9 or 99.99%.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
bullion market
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@topspin That'd be gold bouillon.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin That'd be gold bouillon.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog did that joke. They never actually use the word, but... watch carefully and you'll see.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I will believe it when I see it:
So if I understand correctly, Microsoft has improved their traditionally piss-poor memory allocator, but because they fear it might break some buggy applications that worked by chance, everybody except select few have to opt in to use it. Not much to do with Chrome, too, except it's the application everybody really wants to opt in.
I am also wondering how it actually compares to what Linux does; I found some presentation trying to explain the feature, but I didn't read it too carefully and did not understand what is the improvement over earlier implementation.
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@HardwareGeek
I don't remember seeing any gold when visiting the castle ...
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I am also wondering how it actually compares to what Linux does; I found some presentation trying to explain the feature, but I didn't read it too carefully and did not understand what is the improvement over earlier implementation.
I think the memory allocator has been changed a few times over the life of Linux, and changing it for debugging purposes is definitely a thing (and one of the first tactics for debugging access violations, so many app authors know about it, even if not under that name). I suspect that for ordinary applications what really matters is whether it can become possible to let pages in the allocation space become deallocated or at least go cold (i.e., become unused so that they can be paged out by the OS). However, I don't know too much about this: while I've done memory allocator tuning, that was for debugging or application-specific reasons. (The application allocated about 90% of everything at the same size and never passed them between threads, giving two big and easy gains without deep understanding.)
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Amazing onebox. Literally the worst picture it could have chosen from the content…
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@dkf It would have been a good picture if it realized that the absolutely-positioned
div
s after the image itself are part of it. But without them it is utterly useless indeed.
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@Bulb It would have been a marginally useful picture then. But still the worst choice given that there's multiple relevant photographs of the area also on that page.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I am also wondering how it actually compares to what Linux does; I found some presentation trying to explain the feature, but I didn't read it too carefully and did not understand what is the improvement over earlier implementation.
I think the memory allocator has been changed a few times over the life of Linux, and changing it for debugging purposes is definitely a thing (and one of the first tactics for debugging access violations, so many app authors know about it, even if not under that name). I suspect that for ordinary applications what really matters is whether it can become possible to let pages in the allocation space become deallocated or at least go cold (i.e., become unused so that they can be paged out by the OS). However, I don't know too much about this: while I've done memory allocator tuning, that was for debugging or application-specific reasons. (The application allocated about 90% of everything at the same size and never passed them between threads, giving two big and easy gains without deep understanding.)
Linux allocator has generally used
mmap
for larger allocations, so those can be returned to the system. But I thought Windows did the same VirtualAlloc. Maybe it didn't actually.And yes, Linux allocator is designed for overriding –
malloc
,realloc
andfree
are called through pointers and everything else is built on top of these only. In contrast Windows allocator has some “debug” versions of things and more functions and it is hard to hunt it all down and overload it. We used to use DUMA in one Windows CE project until we started using streams from standard C++ library – those used some debug allocation functions that I never hunted down how to correctly override.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
bullion market
There's something white and suspicious floating in your bouillon.
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@PleegWat I'm assuming that's egg.
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@dkf
I would say that it's a bit Belgiumed
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@TimeBandit I believe you have just seen what he did there...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I believe you have just seen what he did there...
But he did point it out for us non-francophones. I didn't even read the original post assuming I wouldn't understand it. Now that I google-translated it it's doubly funny.
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I think a great way to mark the event would be to rewatch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. A lot of it was filmed right there in the mall: the skating rink where Billy the Kid, Socrates and Sigmund Freud try to pick up a couple of teenage girls, the aerobics class that Joan of Arc took over (actually a sportswear store at the time), the sporting-goods place where Genghis Khan went nuts with an aluminum baseball bat, the piano & organ store where Beethoven learned to rock a sequencer. Even part of Napoleon's waterslide adventure was filmed at what is now Castles & Coasters on the mall's outskirts.
It's also where, one Labor Day, I got to see Herve Villechaize in person when he appeared on our local feed for Jerry's Kids' telethon.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I believe you have just seen what he did there...
I didn't see it until he did that. (shakes my head in shame...)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
To be honest, the whole "reasoning" is definitely WTF, because this is NOT case of master/slave metaphor - there is no "slave" anywhere! Actually, the "master" here is not the "master" from "master/slave", it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK. Maybe is English language that does not distinguish these two words (like many European languages do).
On the other hand, English does differentiate between "master" and "teacher", while most European languages do not. (That particular ambiguity goes all the way back to Latin.)
Interesting, never heard that, those two are completely different in all languages I know (although my Russian is very rudimentary, so maybe I am missing something). Is it a romance language thing?
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
To be honest, the whole "reasoning" is definitely WTF, because this is NOT case of master/slave metaphor - there is no "slave" anywhere! Actually, the "master" here is not the "master" from "master/slave", it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK. Maybe is English language that does not distinguish these two words (like many European languages do).
On the other hand, English does differentiate between "master" and "teacher", while most European languages do not. (That particular ambiguity goes all the way back to Latin.)
Interesting, never heard that, those two are completely different in all languages I know (although my Russian is very rudimentary, so maybe I am missing something). Is it a romance language thing?
Nordic languages differentiate them as well; Mäster, lärare for Swedish.
I'd guess most Germanic languages does the same.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Ruby on Rails
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his approach to writing phenomenal code.E_INVALID_TYPE
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@Dragoon
Why David Heinemeier Hansson never loses grip on the race track?
He drives like it's on rails
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I have never been good at EE, but always found it interesting:
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If this one is over the line for the current interim guidelines, let me know and I'll remove it.
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@jinpa Isn't it extremely unusual for a Justice to publish a dissent from a decision whether to take a case or not? I think decisions to deny certiorari (and the vast majority of petitions are denied) are generally made without public comment.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Isn't it extremely unusual for a Justice to publish a dissent from a decision whether to take a case or not? I think decisions to deny certiorari (and the vast majority of petitions are denied) are generally made without public comment.
Generally yes, but dissents from them aren't that uncommon. It's already happened several times this term.
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Well, that doesn't embed, even on my phone, so let's try somebody else saying the same thing.
I wonder if that applies to transfers, too. My current workplace is trying to hire a couple of people who need transfers.
Edit: And BS that that story is "EXCLUSIVE". There's like 700 tweets announcing the same news.
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@HardwareGeek No, "exclusive" is just the article summary.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
To be honest, the whole "reasoning" is definitely WTF, because this is NOT case of master/slave metaphor - there is no "slave" anywhere! Actually, the "master" here is not the "master" from "master/slave", it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK. Maybe is English language that does not distinguish these two words (like many European languages do).
On the other hand, English does differentiate between "master" and "teacher", while most European languages do not. (That particular ambiguity goes all the way back to Latin.)
Interesting, never heard that, those two are completely different in all languages I know (although my Russian is very rudimentary, so maybe I am missing something). Is it a romance language thing?
Nordic languages differentiate them as well; Mäster, lärare for Swedish.
I'd guess most Germanic languages does the same.Czech uses the word for (feudal) lord with slaves, which arguably makes a lot more sense (the thralls were not much higher than slaves in the middle ages anyway).
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
On the other hand, English does differentiate between "master" and "teacher", while most European languages do not. (That particular ambiguity goes all the way back to Latin.)
Well, because the master is a teacher to the apprentice, and back in ancient times there were not many other kinds of teachers. Czech does differentiate them though.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
What's that, something like 3kg of metal in a compact shape?
Seems pretty easy to misplace... Well... If you're an idiot or obscenely wealthy.I could maybe see misplacing it. But not realizing you'd misplaced it...
Yeah, around these parts, when things like that happens organized crime is usually suspected. They usually don't want to fess up to owning the money, even less explaining where it comes from.
Which reminds me; gold bars have serial numbers.
If the owner could not be tracked down via the serial number, then the bar is either very old or serial-less. Which has implications regarding likelyhood of legal ownership.
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The only good thing about this story is that it was only a copy which was destroyed. Of course, the owner of said painting is not amused:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Of course, the owner of said painting is not amused:
Than he should of found a proper restorer and not a furniture restorer.
Perhaps I am wrong here, but I would think that restoration of paintings is sufficiently different that the restoration of furniture would not qualify them to restore a painting.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perhaps I am wrong here, but I would think that restoration of paintings is sufficiently different that the restoration of furniture would not qualify them to restore a painting.
That's certainly what the art restorers' association says. And the publicized results suggest they're correct.
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Perhaps I should of used a different phrase but that would of been less fun.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
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should ofThere is an ongoing discussion on what is acceptable in the forum and what is grounds for banishment. I'll make sure to quote this post.
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Harsh but fair.
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@Zecc Bad grammar is permissible for members from third world countries, Poland and Wyoming, but intentionally spiking @HardwareGeek's blood pressure is a bannin'.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Zecc Bad grammar is permissible for members from third world countries, Poland and Wyoming, but intentionally spiking @HardwareGeek's blood pressure is a bannin'.
I'm not sure how I feel about being lumped in with Wyoming...
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure how I feel about being lumped in with Wyoming...
@Dragoon said:
Harsh but fair.
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Tbf, I actually wanted to make the joke from Dogma ("Worse. Wisconsin."), but derped somewhere along the way to the right state.