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It's like one of those "build your own boat" magazines, first issue only $0.99 *
Each one comes with a tiny bit of source code that you must manually type in to lovingly craft your own linux distribution.
* Future issues $99.99
But its not bitcoin, and you can actually spend the money anywhere you want, because in the end it is delivering real money to real accounts from other real accounts.
But this will then become invalidated based on the fact that europe has had the concept of free bank transfers for decades.
The point is that firmware bugs are *not* widespread –SSDs fail at 1/10th the rate that HDDs do.
What makes you think that the drive firmware doesn't reuse sectors that are already in use?
Hint: If you have 1.6GB of drive in use, and 400MB at 800 write cycles, the drive is not going to sit on it's thumb and carry on writing to the 400GB that's near death, it's going to move 400GB of data, and then write to the fresh, unused sectors.
Yes, this causes a small overhead of an extra write, which is called "write amplification". The practice of this situation is though that it only multiplies up writes by about 1.2 times, so even taking that into account you're still talking about 440 year life span.
I dislike SSDs because when they fail they do it catastrophically.
Huh? The typical failure mode for an SSD that hits its write limit is actually to simply become read only. Compared to an HDD's likely "all your data is gone", I'd hardly call that catastrophic.
Not true, failure rates for SSDs are an order of magnitude lower than those for HDDs (around 0.5% for SSDs vs 5% for HDDs per year)
No, we have nice labels on all our foods that show how much heat will be generated if you burn it fully, not how many calories you will get if you eat it, nor how many calories you will get it if you eat it in combination with another food that inhibits or aids its digestion. The latter is the reason for the former – it's impossible to label foods with how many calories you will get if you consume them, because the number of calories you will get if you consume them depends on many factors, including, but not limited to, the gut fauna, the metabolism, the other foods consumed, the state of the body, the amount of sleep you've had,
Of course, that spread across a 2TB drive, means needing to write 2PB of data before the drive dies, so at even a fairly high usage home user's 10GB per day, that'll be 550 years before they have problems.
Why do people still think SSD write limits are an issue?
Not true at all. An extreme example would be 1 teaspoon of sugar, and 2 lego bricks. Both contain a fairly similar amount of energy. Only one of these will actually make it into your body if consumed.
This example is obviously dumb, but it's true of all foods –varying amount of the energy in those foods will actually make it into your body. Worse, varying bodies will get varying amounts of energy from them. This can be caused by bacterial fauna, metabolic rate, genetic efficiency of processing, the body's current state and hence it's desire to store or dispose of foods, etc.
This is something that I've found very strange.
Why do people come up with strange beliefs? Fat cells screaming to eat! Maybe a good analogy but is it really true?
Yes, it's been repeatedly demonstrated that there's a correlation (and in fact causation) between having a lot of fat cells, and having your body become less efficient at processing fats and sugars, and that that has a consequence that your brain will start requiring you to consume more of them, become hungry earlier, crave more sugary items, etc.
If someone challenges them, then they hit Google and find some article and reaffirm their beliefs.
That's because these are scientifically demonstrated beliefs.
My weight touched that obese BMI of 30 but managed to get my BMI down to the low 20s by losing over 50lbs. In my case, I find that my weight problem was due to some very strange beliefs I had been keeping and so questioning these beliefs and experimenting out of them was what worked. Everyone has different reasons for the weight problem but for me that was the problem.
Good on you, though you've actually gone from the third most healthy (in terms of long life) weight category (obese class 1), bordering on the healthiest (overweight), into one of the ones that's correlated with average length life (normal) bordering on one of the ones correlated with very short life (underweight). The point being made is that yelling "eat less, do more" at people is not the be all and end all of this. There are many reasons why that will not work, that have already been covered. More so, there are even reasons why the yelling itself will hinder the problem (reinforcing psychological problems, making people think 'it's all my fault', and in doing so increasing the urge to eat).
My point is that maybe we should be experimental and not dogmatic when it comes to weight loss.
I agree, which is why the idea that doctors are only allowing one of many possible routes to weight loss is pretty abhorrent to me.
"right now"? SICP has been popular since the 70s, and with good reason.
No, the article is just terrible at explaining what FRP is. The idea of FRP is that you stop simply having the idea of having values, and start having the idea of "time varying values". So instead of having an int, which I change the state of at a bunch of times, I can have a Reactive which represents the value of the int at all possible times. You can then treat these as first class citizens, which you can manipulate, so if you have a Reactive representing the time, you can do things like time + 1, and get a new reactive int representing one second later than the current time.
These can be combined in much more complex ways to produce much more interesting behaviours than "hey, what will the time be in one second".
You can see a simple example of this, describing the n-bodies problem here http://noordering.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/simulating-n-bodies-and-functional-programmingre/
You're doing it wrong. With 150 employees you should not need 5 IT staff even, let alone more after that. Fix what you're doing wrong (to me, it sounds like you're micromanaging everyone's machines, and wasting a whole bunch of time in doing it).
And this... this is everything that's wrong with the american's version of liberalism.
American liberalism: You can do whatever you want.
Everyone else's liberalism: You can do whatever you want as long as you don't harm others by doing it.
Bear in mind that today's 5000 series actually does compete pretty bloody well with nVidia and AMD. It's near impossible to get a faster GPU in a thin and light laptop. The GeForce 740m is the same speed as it, the 750m is getting into power brackets that can't be put in a thin and light, and is only about 10-20% faster than the 5200 pro.
For me, Intel is doing a pretty impressive job of catching up. We've gone from intel being no where in terms of GPU performance to being able to equal the best nVidia and AMD can do at least in the power constrained market.
"Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser." -- Dave Thomas, "Strange Brew"