Re: Clippy
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I can think of MANY reasons to do a fourier transform in a spreadsheet, and I have done fourier transforms on data MANY times.
It spots cyclical trends. That's why.
CYCLICAL TRENDS are important, naturally occuring. Seasonality is a good example of ONE cyclical trend, people buying certain kinds of things at Christmas time. Yeah I called it Christmas instead of "winter holidays" and a big F.U. to people who want to complain about it.
So yeah, Fourier Transforms, a welcome feature.
Point is, if I do a spreadsheet of sales data per month, or per day even, and run a fourier transform on it, I might be able to spot trends that can affect how my financial decisions are made.
yeah I had to deal with a "UX" designer recently. He took 3 times longer than he should have to develop a FRACTION of what needed to be "DONE" by "certain time frame". I ended up taking over [being responsible for integration] to the point I just asked him to make 3 UI screens [embedded Web UI]. When he got those to me, I cloned them for the rest of the interface, and and the whole thing done in a few hours. during that time he apparently PANICKED and even started reverting my git commits. Finally I just gave up on him completely and asked him to create a single screen I was having trouble cloning from his existing code [which he did]. Lots of slack messages back/forth and him whining and complaining and "thanks for taking work away from me" etc. Well he did THAT on his own, through his own efforts.
And the worst part - most of the "work" was 3rd party libraries, which SUCK [things like jquery and 'materialize']. The features in use from these are really trivial, somewhat easily done with custom style sheets, and working around their quirks and limitations has generated a few hours of GRIEF FOR ME, whereas if I'd written it myself from scratch it would've taken LESS TIME and cost the customer less.
Anyway, VENT COMPLETE on *THAT*. 'UX' indeed. What a bunch of touchy-feely B.S. THAT is.
Oh yeah after his final deliverable he got the "thank you for your service we'll contact you" e-mail. We even had MEETINGS with an outside management consultant over this guy, how to get him to produce SOMETHING and what was going on. Just confirmed my suspicions, but it also clarified the right path and I think it's ok now (aside from the grief) because product started shipping yesterday!
well - I _do_ admit that the screens look nice. Maintainability is another issue, but even so, they look nice.
Still looks like an early 1990s software program, they really need to work on the look and design to make it beautiful
When you say 'beautiful' you mean 2D FLATTY FLATSO McFLATFACE FLATASS FLUGLY like Win-10-nic, Office 365, and anything Chrome excretes. Am I right?
(I am SICK and FORNICATING TIRED of every @#$% "developer" jumping on THAT failing bandwagon...)
A big *THUMBS DOWN* for not recognizing the SANITY of a "classic" 90's style WIMP-friendly interface.
Or perhaps: "Avoid buying anything made by Foxconn".
hard to do sometimes. However, as manufacturing moves BACK to the U.S. (and robotics improve, etc. so as to limit labor costs), as tariffs make Chinese imports "less cheap", as Mexico continues to ramp up ITS manufacturing capability, and so on, COMPETITION with China and particularly Foxconn might resolve this.
Other resolvable issues and competing alternatives ALSO exist, but there DEFINITELY needs to be an alternative to Foxconn in order to force them to stop it with the child labor crap.
they quietly accept this, doing the "harumph harumph" when they get caught, pretending to be outraged, upset, or even just bothered by it all... and continuing to do business with sweat chops that engage in child labor practices like 19th century work houses.
If they were SERIOUS they'd find another manufacturer. besides Foxconn...
[As I recall, Foxconn is one of those companies (in)famous for having the '4th shift' that's off the books, where patents and copyrights are violated for "internal to China use only". Whether or not they STILL engage in those practices remains to be seen. However, ~10 yeas ago I was somewhat in the loop on that kind of thing and there WERE actual illegal clones made of company products for the company I was working for, complete with the company logo embedded inside of plastic because it changed the tuning of the RF elements by NOT being there]
the tin foil helmet might protect you from the electrical signals, but they won't protect US from THEM, i.e. those who want to CONTROL, or HOLD US BACK "for our own good", yotta yotta yotta.
It's getting worse, but not the way people might think. At some point "THEY" will be given TOO MUCH AUTHORITY over OUR LIVES, in the name of "for our own good". It's already being done in the SMALL things. There's a LOT to be said for FREEDOM and SELF-DEFENSE, and *NOT* being a "sheeple".
[Windows] wasn't ever easier to use
Actualy it was, EASIER than MS-DOS. But it *NEVER* *REALLY* *GOT* *POPULAR* untl Windows 3.0. Why? [history lesson starts here] BECAUSE, Windows 3.0 was 3D SKEUOMORPHIC!!!
Now, Micro-shaft is BACK on the 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATSO look, which is _COMPLETELY_ _BASS_ _ACKWARDS_ from THE SUCCESS of Windows 3.0!!!
*ahem*
Its only USP was backwards compatibility. Now MS are killing that in a move to copy Apple's app store, it will die for lack of an any good reason to live.
Well I'd say that is partly true, at least for Win-10-nic. 7 is pretty usable, but I've grown used to a Mate desktop on either Linux or FreeBSD.
What keeps people using Windows is WINDOWS APPLICATIONS. The OS itself is SUCKING a LOT thse days. If it weren't for APPLICATIONS, *NOBODY* would want it!!!
[so what we need are major application developers targeting POSIX operating systems directly, or open source equivalents for all of the remaining things, before MS's marketing collapses onto itself like a star turning into a black hole]
I watched him do it. That's back when I attended MS Conferences. It's also back when I believed in the direction they were moving in. ".Net" initiative was my "Wake Up" moment. I stopped going. to their conferences. WRONG direction.
And thinking of WRONG direction, why is _THIS_ all 2D FLATTY FLATSO McFLATFACE like the OTHER Win-10-nic CRAP?
Microshaft ONLY excels at "getting it wrong" these days...
what it says in the title - spend more time screaming profanity at your voice-enabled device, using epithets, acting like a crime boss, announcing you'll commit crimes, and things like that. Have fun with it!
and the moment they turn you in, get the PRESS involved in your "joke" and show how they VIOLATE privacy!
(There's no way THEY can win this and YOU get to have fun with it!)
"Walmart imports a lot of Chinese crap."
doesn't take long going through the store to determine whether this is true or not, but yeah, low-end department stores nearly always buy from the cheapest supplier, which currently involves a lot of companies in China. Do you blame them?
The question that arises is whether or not China is engaging in predatory trade practices that KEEP these stores from buying their 'cheap crap' from OTHERS...
thanks for the leading question. the premise you state in the form of a question is WRONG, i.e. that
a) tariffs are VAT taqxes on cheap crap at walmart
b) billionaire hedge fund managers are the [only?] recipients of a 1 trillion dollar tax cut
First, I shall school you on tariffs, what they are, and why they are a good idea in THIS case...
Traditionally ALL countries (including the UK) charge taxes on things, and imports are no exception. These are called 'tariffs'. They help fund the government, and also help prevent a foreign country from RUINING a particular business within YOUR country through various predatory and unfair practices (such as 'dumping').
If this were essential items, then MAYBE you'd have a point. but it's not. The end result is that China will lose business to other competing nations and businesses [remember China is STILL COMMUNIST, and really state-owns pretty much EVERYTHING when you boil it all down], when it's now possible for the others to compete.
Predatory competition has been used forEVAR to shut down the competition, form monopolies, and then REALLY rape the customer down to his last penny. Tariffs are a way for a nation to STOP this at the border. That's what's happening NOW.
Now, when it comes to TAX CUTS: When cigarette taxes are used to stop people from smoking, it should be obvious that taxation REDUCES an activity. In the case of taxing INCOMES, why REDUCE them? Don't people DESERVE to KEEP what they earn? And those who earn MORE _ALSO_ deserve to KEEP it!
The only TRUE FAIR TAX RATE is the SAME rate, whether your single, married, have kids, or earn MORE than the next guy. Seriously. And the end-result of HIGH TAXES on "the wealthy" are always twofold: a) "The Wealthy" always seem to have the resources to CIRCUMVENT it since often their income is NOT EARNED, and b) those who DO earn high incomes are likely to just say FUCK IT and either retire or stop WORKING THEIR ASSES OFF to get ahead.
High marginal tax rates on "the rich" are on those trying to BECOME the rich, not the ACTUAL rich. So your STUPID CLASS ENVY BULLSHIT is JUST a SOCIALIST PLOY to use CLASS ENVY to EMPOWER "them". Aka SOCISLISTS.
Whenever you LOWER tax rates on those who INVEST and CREATE BUSINESSES, you get more, uh, INVESTMENT and BUSINESSES. This means JOBS. And that's the point.
This is why Trump-economis WORKS, just like Reagonomics WORKED in the 80's, and if you don't actually remember SEEING it and LIVING it, then your revisionist history BULLSHIT is talking, not THE TRUTH.
"But the his base consists of idiots"
No, it's actually the DEMO[N,C]RAT base that consists of idiots.
Why? because they actually SUPPORT "Quatro Perra" aka 'The Gang of Four' and their horrific socialist agenda, along with Pocahontas, Harris, Bernie, "Beto", and the rest of 'em. Biden actually looks MODERATE compared to "them". And yet, WHOM do the base support? That's right, the WACKOS.
Now as for Republo-crats that vote in RINOs, I might consider your opinion.
you just don't like Trump. Your "feeling" (not thinking) on this matter is obvious.
Your opinion has been noted, and subsequently ignored.
If Trump cured cancer, paid everyone's taxes worldwide out of his own pocket, and did whatever every other nation and critic wanted him to do, you would STILL hate him.
It's like this, kinda (to a feminist): If a man says something, and there's no woman around to hear him, is he still "wrong" ?
most likely they were BUILT BY TH#E SAME PEOPLE working FOR THE SAME COMPANY with THE SAME SUPPLY CHAIN on what is sometimes known as "4th shift", aka the "off the books" shift where they do all of the counterfeiting and cloning - usually for consumption WITHIN CHINA.
Hong Kong in the 80's was ALREADY known as a place where you could buy a camera [for example] and end up wtih a shell that didn't even open the shutter when you pressed the button. Member's Only, Adidas, Canon and Nikon, brands that were often faked at that time and sold in legit-looking stores in town.
"They warned us" about such things when I was there in 1985, as a member of the U.S. Navy. The recommendation was to ONLY purchase things at the China Fleet Club, which was run by the Royal Navy. I got a nice tailored suit and a good quality set of dishes there.
I'm sure that this reputation (for Hong Kong) has continued, and so it seems that Hong Kong was the pipeline for the counterfeit goods in this case. Too bad, I liked Hong Kong when I was there. bamboo scaffolding, construction still going on even though it was 1985, 4 years until the handoff to China.
In any case I have no doubt that the reason these "fakes" didn't look FAKE is that they probably weren't "fake", just NOT paying the royalties...
I've lived in all of those places. You could NOT pay me enough money to live there again!
(In the 70's, it wasn't like it is today. It was actually ACCEPTABLE. This is because it was mostly ELECTRONICS and actual SILICON-related engineers, and military contracts, and cutting edge technology, not like the current "cloud" crowd dominating it today)
(NASA had a lot of presence there as well)
samsung doesn't make the batteries, they most likely buy them from a company in China, since making the batteries requires polluting the environment, and it's ok to do that in China because they don't care.
So batteries built anyplace ELSE in the world willl cost a LOT more, because you need to TAKE PRECAUTIONS to avoid polluting the environment [whch is reasonable, I say]. but competition being what it is, the lowest price:quality always gets the sales and the supplier contracts.
So there ya go. Now Sammy had some issues with PINCHING their batteries (causing failure) but that was a final assembly problem. The batteries themselves probably performed "as designed". Whatever THAT implies, yeah.
I would actually blame a couple of other things, though. DISCHARGING a LiPo battery too far is one of the most dangerous things you can do to it, resulting in gassing and swelling and other chemical nastiness that you don't want to go into. If the battery control on those bikes does NOT prevent this, and ALSO prevent too-rapid charge rates [especially on heavily depleted batteries], you'll get explosions and fires and other things. Yeah, been there, done that. Worked with LiPo a LOT.
* one time I accidentally shorted a LiPo by connecting to a board I'd hand-built but didn't see a short across the battery, accidental solder bridge, in the visual inspection. Within 10 seconds the battery looked like a balloon. I disconnected it and ran it under a faucet to rapid-cool it, then it suddenly shrank down all wrinkly looking. Was completely unchargeable though, totally ruined. At least it didn't go *boom*
in a state KNOWN for it's over-litigation, a company did... WHAT?
Lithium _IS_ _THE_ _MOST_ _REACTIVE_ _METAL_ _ON_ _THE_ _PLANET_ Let it get outside of its protective container, and it WILL burst into flames and explode, reacting with LITERALLY everything!
That being said, who made the batteries? El Cheapo Battery Company, LTD from Ali Baba web site, right?
Yeah THAT'll keep costs down. And customers in pain.
Don't get me wrong, an electric bike service where you could "just grab one" sounds convenient, but here in San Diego we've had a LOT of problems with bike rental companies [the non-leccy kinds] and people leavng the things in (being kind) INCONVENIENT places.
People are (in general) pigs, in other words, without motivation to NOT be pigs. Self-disciplined people are generally an exception but not the norm.
As for San Jose California. I left that area in 1980 and would NEVER want to go back there. I understand it took a HARD TURN to the left, and the price of housing there is RIDICULOUS. Seriously, Silly Valley companies do NOT need to hire there, unless their investors ALSO own property [and make money off of ridiculous housing and rent prices]. And considering how bums and hobos and other "human debris" are CRAPPING IN THE STREETS and LIVING IN TENTS ON THE SIDEWALKS, who'd WANT to live there?
In any case, nothing beats a good old fashioned gasoline burning car or motorcycle. Seriously! And last I checked, the rate at which they burst into flames and cook your crotch is VERY small...
yeah I can do that with FreeBSD as well [and I do compile the kernel myself before updating]. But when it comes to the 3rd party software, building from source can take DAYS... [even on a super-mega-multi-core box]
But yeah if you want it built with your current shared libs and headers, as long as everything's consistent, build from source is probably the best way to go for reliability.
"Microsoft considers that everything lives on C:"
REAL operating systems don't have a 'C' drive. Worth pointing out...
(when's the last time you used an 'A' or 'B' drive on your machine that has a 'C' drive, hmm???)
A REAL OS has a '/' to which everything mounts on a specfied directory aka 'mount point'. MUCH simpler.
on FreeBSD the port installs all of it, and I didn't see a configure option to get rid of LibreLogo. however, it installs to a specific place and looks like renaming the directory (or blowing it away) would avoid the bug by preventing it from running. so you'd get an error, the first clue that something is wrong with that document.
I've never liked word macros, especially the auto-run kind. don't wanna code 'em, too much trouble, viruses etc. like "insecure by design". RTF format actually made more sense at one time. But from now on if someone sends me a document, I guess I'll have to find a way to get rid of any macros in it before opening, even in libre office.
stupid feature creep.
looks like it's in version 6 on FreeBSD, in any case.
My fix (hopefully works):
rename /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/share/Scripts/python/LibreLogo to something else
Should make any attempt to run LibreLogo python stuff fail. Doesn't seem tlo affect loading the program, though. I'm sure I'll _NEVAR_ miss this "feature".
in case anyone wonders, there's a checkbox in the 'view toolbars' menu in Libre Office writer, for 'Logo'. It's off, but I'm not convinced that's enough. Renaming the diretory where its support files are, that SHOULD fix it. Use "locate LibreLogo" to find them.
(or on linux, most likely in /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/... yotta yotta)
See, you came up with the SAME application for this that I did.
SO what I want to know (about this magnet)...
a) what is the effect if a neutron flux on its superconductivity,
b) If configured as a Tokomak ring [or some other, perhaps more efficient, magnetic confinement design], can it be made SMALL enough for a practical fusion reactor,
c) does the energy required to keep it cool "break even" with the energy produced by fusion in an appropriate reactor design?
In any case, these are the *kinds* of obstacles that exist for magnetic confinement of fusion, but _BETTER_ superconducting magnets _SHOULD_ make this work better, right?
I'm looking forward to fusion electricity. Thing is, the "no nukes" *IDIOTS* will soon discover that fusion produces MORE neutron radiation than fission, and will BITCH about it just because it's "nukular".
(you watch, they don't want normal people to have cheap electricity)
And let me point ont one other thing - if you LIKE electric cars, fusion electricity will be the future for THAT sort of thing as well. Am I right? Of COURSE I am!
"Do NOT let theorists be in charge of DESIGN - leave that to engineers."
sometimes true, NOT in this case. although 'any to any' routing is a bit much in SOME cases, in theory you could simply adopt a *modified* version of IPv6 that simplifies the routing of /64 or /48, then apply "any to any" for the remaining bits.
That's simple enough, right? But with netblocks being what they are these days, aren't we already at an "any to any" route (in practicality) for IPv4's ?
I just look at how IPv6 works on my LAN and over a tunnel, and I'm not seeing "all these problems" with it. Aside from ":some stupid wifi router" implementing IPv6 routing aggressively [forcing me to plug an ethernet cable between the WAN and one of the LAN ports to compensate] I see it purely as a problem with implementation rather than the actual protocol itself.
Do it right and everything works. DO it wrong and you have problems. Old routers "doing it wrong" sounds like "the problem" to me, and NOT the protocol design.
/me has had no trouble setting up FreeBSD to route IPv6. Ancient 2.6 kernel routers, on the other hand...
I don't know why you *FEEL* (not think) that "it's not going to happen" based on slow adoption by ISPs...
seems to work fine for me. I have had an IPv6 tunnel for YEARS.
Aside from that, a big problem _might_ be the way IPv4 is allocated. Setting up a /30 for everyone is kinda *stupid*. If you have less than a /28 you should be forced to use PPPoE or some similar method to get your IP address assigned. That would effectively free up a good percentage of the "taken" addresses...
/me points out that if the pipe is good enough, you don't NEED a /30 netblock to get that extra 5% or 10% bandwidth. It's just wasting 3 IP addresses for every one being TRULY used. But it's easier for an ISP to *CLAIM* you get a benefit when you do it that way. And in the process, 3 IPv4 addresses are wasted to get YOU "the one".
let's focus on THAT, too. Raise the price for a /30, or give a price break to use PPPoE or some similar tunnel method that only uses 1 IPv 4 instead of 4 of them.
(yeahTHERE's your problem!!!)
THey could "get it right" by doing a WINDOWS SUBSYSTEM FOR LINUX - sorta like what they did for OSX a while back...
In other words, if I could GET A LICENSE FOR A WINE ALTERNATIVE coming from Microsoft, which ran 32-bit AND 64-bit applications properly, was LICENSED FOR USING SHARED LIBS, and worked WITH DIRECTX on Linux, then I'd SPEND MONEY to buy that. Seriously.
Just make sure it ALSO works on FreeBSD, K Microsoft?
Ya know, they had it right in windows 2000, and to some extent in XP. In Windows 7 they sorted by default but you could turn that OFF and put things in THE ORDER _YOU_ want!
Win-10-nic, always alphabtized, tiled, prioritized in TILE SIZE by MS's whim.
I think they should roll back a couple o' decades, to a time when they weren't ALL FORNICATED UP.