Ah, I thought RAID1 would warn you somehow of bit flips which I assume would be the way heat-deteriorated storage would show up. Guess it won't, you'll need ZFS or something like that.

Bring laptop with SSD to Death Valley, leave it in the car stuck in the sun and go hiking. How long until your data is in trouble? However, I just looked at the specs for the Samsung 840 EVO, since it was the first to pop up:

Temperature
Operating: 0C to 70C
Non-Operating: -55C to 95C

I would assume the 95C is with data? It would be a rather small caveat if the drive survived but your data was fried.

Uhh... doesn't that mean that the RAID controller has to wait for the HDD on every read/write to verify it's the same as on the SSD, so effectively you get HDD performance?

Actually it's more traditional mass production at work, I do have a friend that works in the construction industry and modular housing is the big thing. Like for example bathrooms are fairly expensive with membranes, heat cables, tiles, plumbing and whatnot, the smaller ones just come on a trailer from a low cost country. Just hook up electricity, water and sewage and you're done. In apartment blocks they sometimes do whole apartments this way, for more custom buildings there's wall modules and such. Less and less is actually built on site, at best it's assembled.

And at least according to my friend though he might be somewhat biased but he's done both, the modular builds have fewer faults. Instead of unique builds depending on the job performance that day the modules have strong consistency and a pretty decent QA system. Even though the deliveries are more standardized the buyers are usually okay with that, just like there's a limited number of car models usually you're fine with getting one that suits your needs. What you need carpenters/plumbers/electricians for is now often aftermarket repairs/changes, not construction.

Huh, what? Project managers are typically generic drop-in process experts with PMP/Prince2 certification, there's usually a business analyst or reference group that are the subject matter experts. You might say project managers would do better with domain knowledge too, but that's ofte not the case unless it's just a side job to being the one designing/implementing it.

That's not really how it works, I don't know anyone who outsources one position. You make an assessment of your onshore team, you make an assessment of the offshore offering and you either do it or you don't. It doesn't matter if you're the star of the team or the glue that keeps them all together, if you're kicked to the curb it's all of you or none of you. Even if you're kept on you're just there to smoothen ruffled feathers until the offshore team are the ones running it, your new job is to be their coach until you've made yourself redundant.

For example, thought it's not outsourcing as such my government recently decided to move certain public offices out of the capital. This is a political move far, far above the individual employee and they do expect some competency will be lost but it's still going to happen. Individual skills will not protect against this, only practical or legal reasons why outsourcing is unfeasible. Any sensitive data for example is usually a giant PITA to move out of your jurisdiction to workers who aren't bound by your national laws. More practical reasons can be because you're working too close with the clients, they need on-site availability, it integrates too closely with hardware or anything else that makes on-site presence necessary.

Sadly this is a kick in the nuts to remote workers, as much as I'd really like a job I could do from anywhere I know then I'd also be in intense competition with the whole world. Because the value of my work doesn't come down to any of the above really, it comes down to supply and demand. Of course you can't expect massive demand but a stable niche you know they'll need for a long time where only a few can meet the requirements is usually a very safe spot. Like my current job I can't do shit from home, it's quite inconvenient but hell will freeze over before it's outsourced to India.

I'm not so sure it's about "growing out of it", it's mostly about who really means it and who just kicks where it hurts. The latter is "just" part of bullying and could just as well be that you're fat, skinny, tall, short, glasses, freckles, divorce kid, clothes, anything really. Those who really divide the world into superior and inferior remain bigots, those who just did it to harass mostly grows out of it. Or graduate to internet trolls, where there's apparently no age limit.

But it does mean that people moaning about today's youth is a useless indicator, like a broken clock is right twice a day. In fact that's giving it more credit than it deserves because it implies a situation we know is true once in a while. I can cry out about unicorns every day, it doesn't change the probability that there really is a unicorns. Mostly because there's no proof that unicorns exist at all. Has there ever really been a generation that's been so much terribly worse than the last?

I'm afraid most my primary sources are in Norwegian since I live in Norway, but I can start here. On average, women have an income of 326400 NOK and men 487800 NOK so about 67%, unfair right? Well, first of all 5.6% less of working age are in the workforce (77.1% vs 82.7%), I can't be bothered to cross-reference with medical or unemployment data but it's mostly stay-at-home moms, not that they're unable to work or unable to find work. In addition 34.7% of women work part time compared to 13.9% of men and without having the exact data here also overtime is male dominated.

Together when you plug those into the facts and compare full-time equivalents to full-time equivalents you find females make 87% of what men do. Breaking it down further this study (PDF) show that women prefer lower income, more risk adverse educations. This is also reflected in that the private sector is 36% women and the public sector 70% women, which generally is safer and pays less. In the study they find:

So now you're down to about a 3% unexplained difference. Now I'm entering a very touchy subject which I can't properly back up with data but my guess it's primarily maternity leave, as in Norway you have a total of 52 weeks, usually split into 42 weeks maternal leave and 10 weeks paternal leave and on average 1,78 births per woman. It makes some employers reluctant to hire women around 30 as they can't ask about such things and despite formally holding a job it's going to have consequences for experience and promotion opportunities. I know it would for me if I took that much leave.

I'm against social justice and for a meritocracy with actual equality. SJWs tend to use statistics to prove injustice against a class merely by the existence of differences. Like for example men generally earn more than women, that's enough to turn on the hate meter and cry about social injustice. If you start breaking it down on age, education, grades, jobs, actual experience (part-time vs full-time, overtime, time on leave) you find that most these differences disappear and you have close to equal pay for equal work. You're not discriminated against, you just want it on a feigned injustice not merit.

Which is of course not to say I support the bigots that want to keep women, minorities and whatnot out of positions of power and you might need to counteract discrimination. But I'm generally opposed to the idea that you should require less of a lesbian black female engineer than a straight white male engineer just to balance out the percentages. Yet that is what happens in education and HR when you make this a qualification. Let's hire her not because she's the best, but because she looks good on the statistics.

I also think it is pretty toxic to everyone involved. It's demeaning to come in on a quota rather than your own merits, it creates resentment from ordinary workers that made it the hard way and is highly unjust to the more skilled people you're replacing. Like having a token black guy in a TV show or write in a female elf into Tolkien so somebody could have a romantic love interest, you're not getting a lot of credit for your character. And I don't see any clear reason, if you're getting equal opportunities and women choose to be nurses and men engineers do we need to force them to swap?

The TL;DR version:
Equal pay for equal work - meritocracy
Equal pay for unequal work - social justice
Unequal pay for equal work - bigotry
Unequal pay for unequal work - as it should be

Most of those shitting on it was comparing it to win2k, because of the less business-like interface and online activation. Of course most of those weren't running a legit license since 2k was a "professional" and not "consumer" OS. I don't recall anybody suggesting 98 - and particularly not ME - being better than XP. By 2010, Win2k was EOL, so it's not like you had much other choice if you wanted to run Windows and be supported. And they'd actually improved a lot of things, since XP pro was the current OS for 5 years (2001 to 2006) as opposed to 2k (2000 to 2001).

What you get as a user has its ups and downs, but they are improving the core in pretty much every generation. I get consistently beat on load games on games compared to my buddy running Win8 on equal or in some cases better hardware. If they'll just give a normal desktop, I'm inclined to upgrade to Windows 10 even though Win7 is current "the best Windows ever". The road may twist and turn some but eventually it moves forward.

Or because we believe there's a kidnapping victim in your house and we got a warrant. The cops would have a problem if every door was the only way in to an unbreakable fort and they couldn't compel the key because it's in your mind and protected by the 5th amendment. Real world analogies fail because in the real world, they would get blowtorches, bolt cutters and whatnot to execute the search one way or the other. The lock will stand up to casual burglars, but not a full-out assault.

That's the shade of gray between no security and perfect security which in the digital world is turning into a black and white situation. And people either fall down on the "fuck security, we can't have the government snooping on everything" or "fuck privacy, we can't have black boxes and networks the law can't touch everywhere". And both think the other side is completely crazy. Is there a good middle ground? I don't quite see how, but I see why the discussing is becoming so polarized.

Yes yes, you spam that to every thread. That's exactly why I compared Intel with Intel. Unless you think they're creating benchmarks that's increasingly inaccurate for each new generation, the point was that AMDs "jump" isn't actually more than Intel has improved through yearly releases since. Do you think the benchmarks are more "rigged" for the 4790k than the 3770k? Is the lack of new FX processors not real? By the way, even Phoronix's conclusion says:

I guess "bit of troubled" was the most pro-AMD way he could describe the FX-8150. And the FX-8350 is a mixed bag. And there's been zero improvement since. I realize your anger but Bulldozer was a disaster, the number of AMD fanboys that swear to their AMD Phenom II X6s should be a clue. When you can't even sell it to the ones drinking the kool-aid, good luck selling it to everybody else.

Not even close. They have on the research stage made functional 3nm FinFET transistors, if they can be produced in the billions is unlikely as it requires every atom to be in the right place but 10nm still has some margin of error. The end of the road is in sight though...

FX-8350: 2012
"Zen": 2016

The 40% jump is more like 0%, 0%, 0%, 40%.

If you compare a 3770K (best of 2012) to a 4790K (best of today) you get a ~15% frequency boost and another ~10% IPC improvements. If the leaked roadmaps are to believed Skylake for the desktop is imminent which will bring a new 14nm process and a refined micro-architecture at the same time as Broadwell missed their tick for the desktop, so in the same timeframe Intel will have improved 30-40% too.

Anyway you asked about AMD and I answered with Intel but it's a lot easier to get a meaningful answer without getting into the AMD vs Intel flame war. In short, even if AMD comes through on that roadmap they're only back to 2012 levels of competitiveness and honestly speaking it wasn't exactly great and AMD wasn't exactly profitable. They're so far behind that you honestly couldn't expect less if they weren't giving up on that market completely, which honestly thinking I thought they had. And I wonder how credible this roadmap is, I remember an equally impressive upwards curve for Bulldozer...