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123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | I've done both.
The first six years of my career was for a software company where I was on a team which did desktop support, server operations, backups, network architecture -- you name it, we did it. All that and the configuration management/release management for the product too. Through that six years I was twice offered the open door into entry-level management.
Since then I've been an employee at a company which provides contract services to customers of varying sizes (think being a consultant without having to find my own customers). I've had both long-term customers (like eight of the nine years I've been here) and one-visit, hit-and-run jobs. I've done everything from being a one-man IT department to being highly focused on one small part of a massive project.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
Currently I enjoy being the go-to guy for my long-term customers (even though coincidentally both are ending shortly for unrelated reasons). I have built fairly robust networks at both pieces and I have the architecture, and reasons for that architecture, in my head. Even though one site is fairly well documented, it is kind of neat to me to be able to tell people the reasoning behind the choices made.
Of course the goal is to document everything, and that philosophy is what drives answers like this: [If you got hit by a bus, would your company be in trouble?](https://serverfault.com/questions/18309/if-you-got-hit-by-a-bus-would-your-company-be-in-trouble/18327#18327)
There is also the constant change of scenery and moving around to visit different sites at different times. Plus the occasional rush when something blows up somewhere and you have to rush to be the hero of the hour. (Or try, anyways).
There are downsides. Some of our customers go against our recommendations, resulting in the very fires we have to rush to fix. Sometimes it is tiring to be on the road all the time. Sometimes it is worrying when there isn't enough to do and you start to wonder how your employer will pay you.
My big negative right now is that it is hard to take comp time when overtime or special jobs happen. The problem is that even if you work an extra 8 hours for customer A, you can't take the comp time the next day because those are scheduled visits to customers B C and D, none of which had anything to do with the overtime happened.
And a long-term negative, one which surprised me, is that I miss having a regular, daily commute and a cubical to hang all the artwork the kids do in school in.
I periodically look at the help-wanted and jobs boards to see what is available, but I have not hit that magic combination where the job was interesting and I was at a negative enough point in my cycle with my current job to want to apply.
Eventually I'll probably switch back if I find an interesting enough job. | Part part. Some grass IS greener on the other side. Single client is nice for stability, multi clients keeps you more on your toes - good for a career start, especially to slowly move towards higher ranks (planning, organization). It also keeps your knowledge more shallow, as you have less time with every technology. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | My day job (well, 30 hrs/wk currently) experience is in-house at a large University, though I've done a bit of consulting/project-based work, mainly for companies that have a few Linux/Unix boxes but a mostly-Windows admin.
Being in-house, especially at as large a place as I am (university, > 50k faculty, staff and students), definitely has its benifits. "Non-technical" management (in job title, not necessarily in aptitude) is so many levels above me that I don't really have to worry about "selling" IT. We're all quite specialized - my group runs a few services (albeit some rather complex ones) and that's what we do. I've never spoken directly to a user in an official capacity (aside from trips outside the office), which fits me quite well. Even if you're in a small IT department, you might still have to sell your newest project to management, but at least you don't have to worry about management being, literally, your client (and you always have the benifit that, while you can get fired, it's nowhere near as easy to sack the whole internal IT department as it is to switch to another consultant/outsourced provider). You also get the benefit of (hopefully) having more push in terms of IT direction - hopefully there's at least someone around who, at some level, has the respect to be able to say "this is the right way to do the job. this is how we're going to do it."
On the other hand, there is an element of challenge and unknown missing from working in-house (probably why I do what consulting I can). When working with multiple clients, even if they're usually the same ones, the problems can get more interesting, or at least different. Not to say that internal IT groups don't have more than their share of unusual situations, but a lot of the "fires" we (at least my group) put out turn out to be "oh, bug X surfaced in the DHCP server again, follow the checklist." | In house IT ususally has no money, doesn't keep up with the latest versions of software, and increasingly, rather than invest in training the staff management will call in out sourced talent to perform "interesting" tasks like domain upgrades, exchange upgrades etc. Saying that you've worked with windows 2003 (only) on your resume isn't exactly career enhancing. in house IT has to justify every penny and even when you've justified the expense you migh get told to find an alternative.
Of course this is some of the worst case stuff I've seen. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | Well, I'm lucky in that I'm in house, but also corporate. So I have my site, and my network, but I'm also a corporate "expert" who gets called by everyone and their mother to remote in and fix this or that. I even get to travel a bit.
So it's nice.
On the other hand, I've worked in house in places where there was no money, and no good toys, and you had to put everything together as best you could, and weather the inevitable storms when some piece of substandard gear kicked the bucket.
So I'd say, on balance, it all depends on the location. Being a contractor can be fun because you're seeing new things, and you get to do huge satisfying jobs, but you've also got to deal with angry local employees, and you don't ever get to rest, or deal with the big system (aside from epic contracts). And being an in-house guy can be fun...in the right house...but in the wrong house it can be ugly. | My day job (well, 30 hrs/wk currently) experience is in-house at a large University, though I've done a bit of consulting/project-based work, mainly for companies that have a few Linux/Unix boxes but a mostly-Windows admin.
Being in-house, especially at as large a place as I am (university, > 50k faculty, staff and students), definitely has its benifits. "Non-technical" management (in job title, not necessarily in aptitude) is so many levels above me that I don't really have to worry about "selling" IT. We're all quite specialized - my group runs a few services (albeit some rather complex ones) and that's what we do. I've never spoken directly to a user in an official capacity (aside from trips outside the office), which fits me quite well. Even if you're in a small IT department, you might still have to sell your newest project to management, but at least you don't have to worry about management being, literally, your client (and you always have the benifit that, while you can get fired, it's nowhere near as easy to sack the whole internal IT department as it is to switch to another consultant/outsourced provider). You also get the benefit of (hopefully) having more push in terms of IT direction - hopefully there's at least someone around who, at some level, has the respect to be able to say "this is the right way to do the job. this is how we're going to do it."
On the other hand, there is an element of challenge and unknown missing from working in-house (probably why I do what consulting I can). When working with multiple clients, even if they're usually the same ones, the problems can get more interesting, or at least different. Not to say that internal IT groups don't have more than their share of unusual situations, but a lot of the "fires" we (at least my group) put out turn out to be "oh, bug X surfaced in the DHCP server again, follow the checklist." |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | I've done both, too, and I definitely like the in-house IT. There are several reasons for this.
* Client-based IT tends to be of small-scale customers who cannot afford to hire a full-time IT personnel. This means you don't get to work on fun, large-scale projects.
* Client-based IT projects are based on customer's demands, which may not necessarily be what you want to do. For instance one customer I had was running Lotus Notes; I knew very little about it, but couldn't do much about that. I still had to deal with it.
* In-house IT tends to be of less pressure. The customers you serve are your co-workers. As long as you're on top of things, treat them well, then they will like you and you get the feel of appreciation. | In house IT ususally has no money, doesn't keep up with the latest versions of software, and increasingly, rather than invest in training the staff management will call in out sourced talent to perform "interesting" tasks like domain upgrades, exchange upgrades etc. Saying that you've worked with windows 2003 (only) on your resume isn't exactly career enhancing. in house IT has to justify every penny and even when you've justified the expense you migh get told to find an alternative.
Of course this is some of the worst case stuff I've seen. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | I've done both.
The first six years of my career was for a software company where I was on a team which did desktop support, server operations, backups, network architecture -- you name it, we did it. All that and the configuration management/release management for the product too. Through that six years I was twice offered the open door into entry-level management.
Since then I've been an employee at a company which provides contract services to customers of varying sizes (think being a consultant without having to find my own customers). I've had both long-term customers (like eight of the nine years I've been here) and one-visit, hit-and-run jobs. I've done everything from being a one-man IT department to being highly focused on one small part of a massive project.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
Currently I enjoy being the go-to guy for my long-term customers (even though coincidentally both are ending shortly for unrelated reasons). I have built fairly robust networks at both pieces and I have the architecture, and reasons for that architecture, in my head. Even though one site is fairly well documented, it is kind of neat to me to be able to tell people the reasoning behind the choices made.
Of course the goal is to document everything, and that philosophy is what drives answers like this: [If you got hit by a bus, would your company be in trouble?](https://serverfault.com/questions/18309/if-you-got-hit-by-a-bus-would-your-company-be-in-trouble/18327#18327)
There is also the constant change of scenery and moving around to visit different sites at different times. Plus the occasional rush when something blows up somewhere and you have to rush to be the hero of the hour. (Or try, anyways).
There are downsides. Some of our customers go against our recommendations, resulting in the very fires we have to rush to fix. Sometimes it is tiring to be on the road all the time. Sometimes it is worrying when there isn't enough to do and you start to wonder how your employer will pay you.
My big negative right now is that it is hard to take comp time when overtime or special jobs happen. The problem is that even if you work an extra 8 hours for customer A, you can't take the comp time the next day because those are scheduled visits to customers B C and D, none of which had anything to do with the overtime happened.
And a long-term negative, one which surprised me, is that I miss having a regular, daily commute and a cubical to hang all the artwork the kids do in school in.
I periodically look at the help-wanted and jobs boards to see what is available, but I have not hit that magic combination where the job was interesting and I was at a negative enough point in my cycle with my current job to want to apply.
Eventually I'll probably switch back if I find an interesting enough job. | Well, I'm lucky in that I'm in house, but also corporate. So I have my site, and my network, but I'm also a corporate "expert" who gets called by everyone and their mother to remote in and fix this or that. I even get to travel a bit.
So it's nice.
On the other hand, I've worked in house in places where there was no money, and no good toys, and you had to put everything together as best you could, and weather the inevitable storms when some piece of substandard gear kicked the bucket.
So I'd say, on balance, it all depends on the location. Being a contractor can be fun because you're seeing new things, and you get to do huge satisfying jobs, but you've also got to deal with angry local employees, and you don't ever get to rest, or deal with the big system (aside from epic contracts). And being an in-house guy can be fun...in the right house...but in the wrong house it can be ugly. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | Part part. Some grass IS greener on the other side. Single client is nice for stability, multi clients keeps you more on your toes - good for a career start, especially to slowly move towards higher ranks (planning, organization). It also keeps your knowledge more shallow, as you have less time with every technology. | In house IT ususally has no money, doesn't keep up with the latest versions of software, and increasingly, rather than invest in training the staff management will call in out sourced talent to perform "interesting" tasks like domain upgrades, exchange upgrades etc. Saying that you've worked with windows 2003 (only) on your resume isn't exactly career enhancing. in house IT has to justify every penny and even when you've justified the expense you migh get told to find an alternative.
Of course this is some of the worst case stuff I've seen. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | Well, I'm lucky in that I'm in house, but also corporate. So I have my site, and my network, but I'm also a corporate "expert" who gets called by everyone and their mother to remote in and fix this or that. I even get to travel a bit.
So it's nice.
On the other hand, I've worked in house in places where there was no money, and no good toys, and you had to put everything together as best you could, and weather the inevitable storms when some piece of substandard gear kicked the bucket.
So I'd say, on balance, it all depends on the location. Being a contractor can be fun because you're seeing new things, and you get to do huge satisfying jobs, but you've also got to deal with angry local employees, and you don't ever get to rest, or deal with the big system (aside from epic contracts). And being an in-house guy can be fun...in the right house...but in the wrong house it can be ugly. | There are many different IT shops. It is not simply a choice between contract shops and in-house IT.
IT can be many things:
* Internal support/helpdesk
* Development environments
* Windows intranet, internal tools focused.
* Service provider based/external facing services
* Internet Service Provider based
The previous list is far from comprehensive. Depending on the type of IT shop, there are varieties of differing roles within that. Roles can involve responsibilities ranging from architect to support. Some of these roles are not available in all shops and some roles are very different between shops.
External IT services can be many things. Consulting services and contract or staff augmentation services often overlap, which are often contact to hire. 1099 and corp. to corp. consulting are very different, which are often contract based and better resemble freelance consulting.
What do you want to do? I do not want to do many of these things, as they are entirely outside of my career focus and not things I enjoy.
One consulting firm can may large interesting projects using the technologies you enjoy, where another may churn out support contracts as the primary focus. Most fall somewhere in between.
My favorite type of internal IT shop is where one can have substantial involvement in the direction of technology, which seems to be more common in technology-focused companies. These shops often involve higher-level architecture as well. The contrast would be an internal IT shop focused on providing support to the intranet and internal end-users, which can have a substantially smaller budget and less responsibility as opposed to engineer roles.
Ultimately, IT is a big space. If you feel that you are stuck in a support role and not interested in business or management, chances are you can find a highly technical role that does not involve support. These choices are not necessarily distinct between consulting and in-house IT departments. |
123,000 | ServerFault Community,
It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now I work for a company who does the latter, and I often consider how nice it would be doing the in-house side of things, to just have one network I am focused on and instead of feeling like I have a dozen bosses between clients and internal management, I would just have one set of management and people to appease.
There is also the technical aspect of every client wanting something different, and having to manage numerous different technology platforms, or trying to force clients into using the technologies we prefer, neither situation is enjoyable.
Is this just "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or is there some legitimacy to the the stress of client based IT work compared to being an in-house IT guy?
Thanks! | 2010/03/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/123000",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7829/"
] | I've done both.
The first six years of my career was for a software company where I was on a team which did desktop support, server operations, backups, network architecture -- you name it, we did it. All that and the configuration management/release management for the product too. Through that six years I was twice offered the open door into entry-level management.
Since then I've been an employee at a company which provides contract services to customers of varying sizes (think being a consultant without having to find my own customers). I've had both long-term customers (like eight of the nine years I've been here) and one-visit, hit-and-run jobs. I've done everything from being a one-man IT department to being highly focused on one small part of a massive project.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
Currently I enjoy being the go-to guy for my long-term customers (even though coincidentally both are ending shortly for unrelated reasons). I have built fairly robust networks at both pieces and I have the architecture, and reasons for that architecture, in my head. Even though one site is fairly well documented, it is kind of neat to me to be able to tell people the reasoning behind the choices made.
Of course the goal is to document everything, and that philosophy is what drives answers like this: [If you got hit by a bus, would your company be in trouble?](https://serverfault.com/questions/18309/if-you-got-hit-by-a-bus-would-your-company-be-in-trouble/18327#18327)
There is also the constant change of scenery and moving around to visit different sites at different times. Plus the occasional rush when something blows up somewhere and you have to rush to be the hero of the hour. (Or try, anyways).
There are downsides. Some of our customers go against our recommendations, resulting in the very fires we have to rush to fix. Sometimes it is tiring to be on the road all the time. Sometimes it is worrying when there isn't enough to do and you start to wonder how your employer will pay you.
My big negative right now is that it is hard to take comp time when overtime or special jobs happen. The problem is that even if you work an extra 8 hours for customer A, you can't take the comp time the next day because those are scheduled visits to customers B C and D, none of which had anything to do with the overtime happened.
And a long-term negative, one which surprised me, is that I miss having a regular, daily commute and a cubical to hang all the artwork the kids do in school in.
I periodically look at the help-wanted and jobs boards to see what is available, but I have not hit that magic combination where the job was interesting and I was at a negative enough point in my cycle with my current job to want to apply.
Eventually I'll probably switch back if I find an interesting enough job. | I've done both, too, and I definitely like the in-house IT. There are several reasons for this.
* Client-based IT tends to be of small-scale customers who cannot afford to hire a full-time IT personnel. This means you don't get to work on fun, large-scale projects.
* Client-based IT projects are based on customer's demands, which may not necessarily be what you want to do. For instance one customer I had was running Lotus Notes; I knew very little about it, but couldn't do much about that. I still had to deal with it.
* In-house IT tends to be of less pressure. The customers you serve are your co-workers. As long as you're on top of things, treat them well, then they will like you and you get the feel of appreciation. |
5,130 | This is my first question in this Meta, so I'm not sure of what the rules are yet in duplicating or un-duplicating questions.
[This question](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110073/what-are-my-options-if-my-waning-company-values-me-highly) was marked duplicate of another question that it is clearly not a duplicate of. I feel like if I had removed one sentence in the linked question (which I have), the entire duplication is suddenly baseless. That is to say, they are only tangentially related at best - if even that.
How can the question be un-duplicated? What needs to be done, other than the edit I've made post-closing of the question? | 2018/04/04 | [
"https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5130",
"https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8346/"
] | If someone votes to close your question as a duplicate, you will get a notification asking you if that question solves your problem. You can then indicate that it does (which will close your question) or that it does not. If you don't believe that the question is a duplicate, it's usually worth editing your question to address why you think the two questions are not the same.
This is only one person's vote, so your question has not yet been closed. It still needs 4 more close votes to put your question on hold. | My mistake. The prompt due to a VTC had me thinking the question was *actually* closed, but in reality I should have checked the title and revision history. |
104,226 | I'm working on gathering info and scheduling a walk with my tax assessor to try and decrease my property's appraised value for a tax break. However, it occurred to me that the tax assessor's valuation might be used when valuing the home for sale.
Could I be costing myself potential money by intentionally doing anything I can to lower tax values?
We're planning a major indoor renovation next year and I wanted to do a walkthrough of the house to lower its taxable value now so I can put it off as long as possible in future years. | 2019/01/18 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/104226",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/37629/"
] | Property appraisals are used as input when determining a tax assessment, not the other way around. Often, a tax assessor will allow other inputs to be used in determining the taxable value of a property (such as recent sales in the neighborhood), however the primary means of determining value is through an appraisal.
Your question might be a moot one, because after the assessment happens and (let's say) the taxable value is reduced; the building permits required to begin your renovation will flag the attention of the assessor. Once the renovations are completed, you can bet that the city will want to reassess the updated value of the home.
Taking steps to "intentionally" lower the value of a property is risky business- you can bet that an assessor who's been on the job more than a couple years will have seen their share of such attempts, and if they recognize it there will most likely be repercussions. | In my experience the opposite is actually true: a lower assessment is a potential selling point due to the tax savings to the buyer.
This statement concerns me though:
>
> Could I be costing myself potential money by intentionally doing anything I can to lower tax values?
>
>
>
This could be illegal, and so yes, it could be costly if you were prosecuted for it. Or you could be [elected governor instead](https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654201077/illinois-gov-candidate-removed-mansions-toilets-to-dodge-taxes-report-finds). |
1,057 | How does one refresh thumbnails in nautilus? In my videos folder I have some MKVs and only half of them have the movie border and a excerpt from the movie and the others (also MKVs encoded in the same way) just have the ordinary film icon.
(F5 doesnt do it.) | 2010/08/05 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/1057",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/633/"
] | easier way just delete the failed to cache icons by deleting the following directory.
It will make nautilus to refresh only those thumbnails which currently have **folder like** thumbnail. **It will not help if you want to refresh for file/folder which currently have any thumbnail.**
Most of the time you should delete this then deleting all the thumbnails.
~/.thumbnails/fail | There is a hidden directory in your home called .thumbnails.
If you delete a file (or all) there, its thumbnail will be recreated by nautilus the next time that you visit the dir where it's stored.
I don't know if there is some more convenient way.
Edit: Nautilus will store the thumbnails in memory. You will need to close and start again Nautilus to force it to recreate them. |
350,116 | Do modern-day protocols that our mobile phones run on eg. CDMA/GSM, 3G or 4G have a emergency break-in/broadcast protocol for authorities to issue warnings to the public? In the recent case in Hawaii of a false missile attack alert, users were [reported to have an unusual vibration and/or sound](http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-false-alert-how-process/index.html) on their mobile phones when receiving the SMS alert warning of an incoming missile attack.
Does the each of the wireless specification(s) mention of an emergency communication intervention feature that is present in almost all modern phones running Android, Apple or Blackberry, or was this delivered over plain old vanilla SMS? (I would imagine cost being a factor here, as well as difficulty in receiving messages on phones without a subscription plan, eg. roaming phones. Secondly, a message of such unprecedented importance should trigger a more urgent signal to the user, rather than just a benign sound or simple buzz. Which brings up the next question, can this be emergency warning messages be delivered to 'roaming' phones too?)
Perhaps, there is a built-in software equivalent Internet protocol baked into the respective mobile OSes that could also beam an alert should the device be connected to the Internet in another way, for example, via Wi-Fi?
What are your thoughts? | 2018/01/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/350116",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/69406/"
] | There is nothing hidden about what happened in Hawaii. It's called [Cell Broadcast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast).
Phones pick this up since they support these messages.
[There is even a tickbox for them.](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743)
The sound and vibration isn't unusual, it always plays maximum volume and has a sound designed to be heard. It works even in loud area's due to using unnatural frequencies.
Cell broadcast is being evaluated as replacement for air sirens in my country, the Netherlands, but it's hasn't proven to be very effective. There are still a lot of unsupported phones and lots of delay in some area for some reason.
Suggesting the internet protocol has "hidden break-in" features is straight up conspiracy stuff. The internet is public, [you can read the specification on the internet.](http://www.ietf.org/)
Some devices might have hidden features, but they usually don't stay hidden forever.
I'd recommend asking further question about the internet at [SU](https://superuser.com/), [SF](https://stackoverflow.com/) or [NE](https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/). | Based on the comments, I found most of the answers to my question via both the [FCC website](https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea) and [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts) on the topic. As well as a [patent](https://www.google.com/patents/US20110070861) describing the protocol in detail. Thanks to all those who commented. |
350,116 | Do modern-day protocols that our mobile phones run on eg. CDMA/GSM, 3G or 4G have a emergency break-in/broadcast protocol for authorities to issue warnings to the public? In the recent case in Hawaii of a false missile attack alert, users were [reported to have an unusual vibration and/or sound](http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-false-alert-how-process/index.html) on their mobile phones when receiving the SMS alert warning of an incoming missile attack.
Does the each of the wireless specification(s) mention of an emergency communication intervention feature that is present in almost all modern phones running Android, Apple or Blackberry, or was this delivered over plain old vanilla SMS? (I would imagine cost being a factor here, as well as difficulty in receiving messages on phones without a subscription plan, eg. roaming phones. Secondly, a message of such unprecedented importance should trigger a more urgent signal to the user, rather than just a benign sound or simple buzz. Which brings up the next question, can this be emergency warning messages be delivered to 'roaming' phones too?)
Perhaps, there is a built-in software equivalent Internet protocol baked into the respective mobile OSes that could also beam an alert should the device be connected to the Internet in another way, for example, via Wi-Fi?
What are your thoughts? | 2018/01/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/350116",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/69406/"
] | Unusual sounds/vibration can be explained by the unusual type of message being sent. Broadcast messages are usually sent using SMS-CB mechanism (instead of SMS-PP). Additionally, high-importance alerts are often sent with [SMS\_FLASH](https://archive.clickatell.com/developers/api-docs/flash-(popup)-messaging-advanced-message-send/) type, instructing the handset to display the message on the screen immediately, rather than storing it in the inbox. Since most users don't receive such messages often, they have no idea what kind of alert their phone has for it. | Based on the comments, I found most of the answers to my question via both the [FCC website](https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea) and [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts) on the topic. As well as a [patent](https://www.google.com/patents/US20110070861) describing the protocol in detail. Thanks to all those who commented. |
350,116 | Do modern-day protocols that our mobile phones run on eg. CDMA/GSM, 3G or 4G have a emergency break-in/broadcast protocol for authorities to issue warnings to the public? In the recent case in Hawaii of a false missile attack alert, users were [reported to have an unusual vibration and/or sound](http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-false-alert-how-process/index.html) on their mobile phones when receiving the SMS alert warning of an incoming missile attack.
Does the each of the wireless specification(s) mention of an emergency communication intervention feature that is present in almost all modern phones running Android, Apple or Blackberry, or was this delivered over plain old vanilla SMS? (I would imagine cost being a factor here, as well as difficulty in receiving messages on phones without a subscription plan, eg. roaming phones. Secondly, a message of such unprecedented importance should trigger a more urgent signal to the user, rather than just a benign sound or simple buzz. Which brings up the next question, can this be emergency warning messages be delivered to 'roaming' phones too?)
Perhaps, there is a built-in software equivalent Internet protocol baked into the respective mobile OSes that could also beam an alert should the device be connected to the Internet in another way, for example, via Wi-Fi?
What are your thoughts? | 2018/01/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/350116",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/69406/"
] | There is nothing hidden about what happened in Hawaii. It's called [Cell Broadcast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast).
Phones pick this up since they support these messages.
[There is even a tickbox for them.](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743)
The sound and vibration isn't unusual, it always plays maximum volume and has a sound designed to be heard. It works even in loud area's due to using unnatural frequencies.
Cell broadcast is being evaluated as replacement for air sirens in my country, the Netherlands, but it's hasn't proven to be very effective. There are still a lot of unsupported phones and lots of delay in some area for some reason.
Suggesting the internet protocol has "hidden break-in" features is straight up conspiracy stuff. The internet is public, [you can read the specification on the internet.](http://www.ietf.org/)
Some devices might have hidden features, but they usually don't stay hidden forever.
I'd recommend asking further question about the internet at [SU](https://superuser.com/), [SF](https://stackoverflow.com/) or [NE](https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/). | Unusual sounds/vibration can be explained by the unusual type of message being sent. Broadcast messages are usually sent using SMS-CB mechanism (instead of SMS-PP). Additionally, high-importance alerts are often sent with [SMS\_FLASH](https://archive.clickatell.com/developers/api-docs/flash-(popup)-messaging-advanced-message-send/) type, instructing the handset to display the message on the screen immediately, rather than storing it in the inbox. Since most users don't receive such messages often, they have no idea what kind of alert their phone has for it. |
70,798 | I am installing a CentOS 5.3 server in an environment with pre-established security policies. One of the policies is that portmap should not be installed. To be honest I am not sure if I really need it or not.
What other common services require portmap? | 2009/10/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/70798",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/5200/"
] | It's only used by legacy(-ish) RPC services.
For CentOS, if you're not using NFS or NIS, then you can do without it. | Even if you do use NFS, you may **still** disable portmap on the server with one caveat, your clients would need to connect with the `-o nolock` option instead, which is the behaviour of older NFS. |
92,025 | 
Lets say I have an audio signal with a DC offset and I want to use my earplugs to listen it clearly. Since I'm a human my hearing range is 20Hz to 20kHz. It means I need to filter very low frequency components i.e where f<20Hz. It means the cutoff frequency for the simple high pass filter circuit in my figure must be such that 1/2\*pi*R*C=20Hz. Here I need to know the impedance of the head phone (shown as R in the figure) to choose a proper capacitor.
At this point I'm confused:
My question is how can I measure this impedance? By simply using an ohmmeter? But what if it has different impedances in different
frequencies? Should I apply an ac signal at a particular frequency and measure its impedance? Is headphone impedance pure resistive? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/92025",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/16307/"
] | Relying on the headphone impedance for filtering is probably a bad idea. Different kinds of headphones will be significantly different. Even different instances of the same model of headphones can be different. The headphone impedance isn't just resistive but also reactive, and it will take some work to characterize it. Someone might plug your thing into a line input, instead of headphones, and expect it to work.
Instead, consider [buffering](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_amplifier) the output. For headphones, an op-amp will do. You can, in fact, find tons of designs online for "headphone amplifiers". Some of them even use very expensive op-amps from Burr-Brown costing $50 or more, and, I'm told, these sound better than unobtanium flux linkages. Personally, I just use whatever op-amps I have in the parts drawer. Anyway:
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2fLplBz.png) – Schematic created using [CircuitLab](https://www.circuitlab.com/)
Now calculating C1 is easy, because you also get to pick R1. [Just make it anything significantly bigger than your source impedance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_impedance#Audio_systems). Make C1 whatever you like to get the desired frequency response. The headphone impedance is largely irrelevant, because the output impedance of OA1 is so small. | I would use the nominal impedance of the headphones, and pad generously. You will need a large electrolytic capacitor, well in the hundreds of microfarads or more.
If you are after fidelity, then the filter calculations you have in mind might as well be tossed out of the window, because if you're after fidelity, speaker coupling capacitors must be seriously over-sized in order to minimize low frequency distortion. [Source: *Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook*, Douglas Self].
(If you're not after fidelity, then why bother trying to achieve excellent low frequency response.)
There is an amplifier solution for avoiding the capacitor that doesn't involve obtaining a dual-voltage supply for an op-amp.
Namely this: you can use some cheap, easy-to-use, audio amplifier chip. There are such chips which have outputs that consist of bridged amplifier stages, allowing the chip to run on a single-voltage supply, yet drive a speaker with no coupling capacitor. Unlike op-amps, such chips can drive low-impedance speaker loads (what they're designed to do). |
114,437 | What does the word *down-level* mean?
I read an article [here](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BugAndFixASPNETFailsToDetectIE10CausingDoPostBackIsUndefinedJavaScriptErrorOrMaintainFF5ScrollbarPosition.aspx) and it says:
>
> But the versions for some browsers (like IE 10) aren't within those
> ranges any more. Therefore, ASP.NET sees them as unknown browsers and
> defaults to a down-level definition, which has certain inconveniences,
> like that it does not support features like JavaScript.
>
>
> | 2013/05/20 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/114437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33659/"
] | A Google search for *“down-level”* (with the quotes) yields [the following](http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-downlevel.html) in one of the early results:
>
> **down·lev·el** / ˈdounˌlevəl/
>
>
> * adj. using an earlier version of software, hardware, or an operating system:
>
> *there are still 600 million computers, many of them downlevel, that wouldn't have all of these vulnerabilities fixed.*
>
>
>
Thus “defaults to a down-level definition” simply means “reverts to behaving as if it was an earlier version”. Because ASP.NET cannot reliably identify the browser version, it assumes it’s an early browser with minimal capabilities (so it delivers code which any browser should be able to cope with). | In this situation, *down-level* browsers are unclear definition browser. Maybe its standards are old and are not compatible to current standards.
And when we try to run on these browses, they'll happen unexpected errors. |
9,448,895 | Not sure what to call it, but a combined solution for starting servers/logging/consoles/development would be really nice. Here's our situation:
* Mongo database driven by a
* Scala/Akka backend server controlled by a
* Ruby/Rails front-end client using a
* PostgreSQL database
* All connecting to Memcached and
* Passing info via Redis
Now, in development, the low-level way to work on this is to spin up a large number of console windows. Start the Mongo database, start the backend service, start the Redis server, start the Rails client- all in different windows to pull the logs– or at least pipe their logs somewhere and tail them. Then, optionally, open any console you want, such as a Rails console and Redis console if working on the front-end.
\**The question is this: Is there a solution that will do all of this in a nice way? Possibly a combination of Bash, nice logging with something like Log.io, and Terminals, \**
And yes, I know I can script it all up myself:
1. I'd rather work on my project directly right now, so *may* get to it eventually
2. Someone who was dedicated to doing it right might actually make something nice, that does things I hadn't considered. | 2012/02/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9448895",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/74919/"
] | ActiveState "Stackato" (CloudFoundry with some add-ons) plus Komodo IDE plus New Relic comes close, I think. | I've seen something like this on a much smaller scale done very nicely with eclipse plugins. I know you say you want a turnkey solution, every environment is somewhat unique so its probably best to roll your own and eclipse may be a good starting point. |
9,448,895 | Not sure what to call it, but a combined solution for starting servers/logging/consoles/development would be really nice. Here's our situation:
* Mongo database driven by a
* Scala/Akka backend server controlled by a
* Ruby/Rails front-end client using a
* PostgreSQL database
* All connecting to Memcached and
* Passing info via Redis
Now, in development, the low-level way to work on this is to spin up a large number of console windows. Start the Mongo database, start the backend service, start the Redis server, start the Rails client- all in different windows to pull the logs– or at least pipe their logs somewhere and tail them. Then, optionally, open any console you want, such as a Rails console and Redis console if working on the front-end.
\**The question is this: Is there a solution that will do all of this in a nice way? Possibly a combination of Bash, nice logging with something like Log.io, and Terminals, \**
And yes, I know I can script it all up myself:
1. I'd rather work on my project directly right now, so *may* get to it eventually
2. Someone who was dedicated to doing it right might actually make something nice, that does things I hadn't considered. | 2012/02/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9448895",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/74919/"
] | [Foreman](http://blog.daviddollar.org/2011/05/06/introducing-foreman.html)
Not 100% what I was looking for, but pretty darn close. Still not sure if it's designed for non-Ruby applications, like starting an Akka server or Mongo db instance, but those can be done through rake tasks and amount to the same thing.
There's another piece of software called [Upstart (here's a tutorial)](http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/08-managing-and-monitoring-your-ruby-application-with-foreman-and-upstart/) that apparently works well with Foreman, and ensures that processes don't die on you unexpectedly.
This all seems like a decent way to get all the servers spun up and logs dumping smartly. It doesn't give you an automated popup of Textmate in the directory, but that's pretty minor. | I've seen something like this on a much smaller scale done very nicely with eclipse plugins. I know you say you want a turnkey solution, every environment is somewhat unique so its probably best to roll your own and eclipse may be a good starting point. |
312,947 | Is there a good Silverlight Design Architecture? | 2008/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/312947",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40118/"
] | There is [Prism](http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF) it was originally designed for WPF but there is now a Silverlight release. | Also there is [Caliburn](http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn/), an "Application Framework for Silverlight and WPF". |
312,947 | Is there a good Silverlight Design Architecture? | 2008/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/312947",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40118/"
] | There is [Prism](http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF) it was originally designed for WPF but there is now a Silverlight release. | Soon, Microsoft will be releasing a new version of Prism (though unlike the earlier answer), the Silverlight version of Prism is just a proof of concept. The PnP team hope to have a full release in the next couple of months. The prevailing story today is to use the same MVVM pattern that WPF has had success with (searching for Silverlight and MVVM will yield a lot of info). |
312,947 | Is there a good Silverlight Design Architecture? | 2008/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/312947",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40118/"
] | There is [Prism](http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF) it was originally designed for WPF but there is now a Silverlight release. | You could take a look at Rocky Lhotka's CSLA.NET for Silverlight - [CslaLight](http://www.lhotka.net/cslalight/Default.aspx) |
312,947 | Is there a good Silverlight Design Architecture? | 2008/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/312947",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40118/"
] | Also there is [Caliburn](http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn/), an "Application Framework for Silverlight and WPF". | Soon, Microsoft will be releasing a new version of Prism (though unlike the earlier answer), the Silverlight version of Prism is just a proof of concept. The PnP team hope to have a full release in the next couple of months. The prevailing story today is to use the same MVVM pattern that WPF has had success with (searching for Silverlight and MVVM will yield a lot of info). |
312,947 | Is there a good Silverlight Design Architecture? | 2008/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/312947",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40118/"
] | You could take a look at Rocky Lhotka's CSLA.NET for Silverlight - [CslaLight](http://www.lhotka.net/cslalight/Default.aspx) | Soon, Microsoft will be releasing a new version of Prism (though unlike the earlier answer), the Silverlight version of Prism is just a proof of concept. The PnP team hope to have a full release in the next couple of months. The prevailing story today is to use the same MVVM pattern that WPF has had success with (searching for Silverlight and MVVM will yield a lot of info). |
38,898 | If I have a [Dire Fleet Hoarder](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bDire%20Fleet%20Hoarder%5d) on the field that takes a point of damage can I cast [Siren's Ruse](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bSiren%27s%5d%2b%5bRuse%5d) to save it from dying? | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/38898",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/21919/"
] | **Yes you can save your creature, if you cast your spell at the right time.**
When you exile a creature and return it to the battlefield it becomes a new object (except in special cases) as per [the comprehensive rules](https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Zone):
>
> **400.7**: An object that moves from one zone to another becomes a new object with no memory of, or relation to, its previous existence. There are nine exceptions to this rule:...
>
>
>
However in order to save your creature, you must cast exile and return the creature *before* damage has been done to it.
For example if your creature is targeted by a removal spell:
* You have a [Dire Fleet Hoarder](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bDire%20Fleet%20Hoarder%5d) and your opponent casts [Shock](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bShock%5d) targeting it.
* If you respond to the Shock with [Siren's Ruse](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bSiren%27s%5d%2b%5bRuse%5d), your opponent has no responses.
* Once the stack starts to resolve, the Shock will lose track of your Dire Fleet Hoarder and fizzle (since it no longer has any legal targets).
* Your pirate has survived and is free to pillage another day!
An example of your creature about to die in combat (see: [Combat Phase](https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Combat_phase) for more info):
* You have a [Dire Fleet Hoarder](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bDire%20Fleet%20Hoarder%5d) that is attacking and your opponent has a
2/2 [Forest Bear](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bForest%20Bear%5d) blocking it.
* **Before the Damage Step** you cast [Siren's Ruse](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bSiren%27s%5d%2b%5bRuse%5d) targeting your Dire Fleet Hoarder, your opponent has no responses.
* When Siren's Ruse resolves your Dire Fleet Hoarder is removed from combat. It will no longer be dealt any damage by the Bear, and it will no longer deal any damage to the Bear.
**If however the damage has already been marked on the Dire Fleet Hoarder,** for instance you let the the Shock spell resolve without responding or you let combat damage be dealt, **it is too late to save it.** This is because it will have already died due to state-based actions as per [the comprehensive rules](https://mtg.gamepedia.com/State-based_action):
>
> **704.1.:** State-based actions are game actions that happen automatically whenever certain conditions (listed below) are met. State-based actions don’t use the stack.
>
>
>
and
>
> **704.5g:** If a creature has toughness greater than 0, and the total damage marked on it is greater than or equal to its toughness, that creature has been dealt lethal damage and is destroyed. Regeneration can replace this event.
>
>
>
Since the creature is killed as a result of a state based action, it doesn't use the stack. Since it doesn't use the stack, you can not respond to it and can not save your creature. | It depends on specifically what you mean by "takes a point of damage".
If you mean that an opponent cast something like [Lightning Strike](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bLightning%20Strike%5d), then yes, you can respond to Lightning Strike while it is still on the stack, and cast [Siren's Ruse](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bSiren%27s%5d%2b%5bRuse%5d) to save it. This works because when your Dire Fleet Hoarder enters the battlefield again from exile, it will be a completely different creature from the one that was targeted with Lightning Strike:
>
> 400.7. An object that moves from one zone to another becomes a new object with no memory of, or relation to, its previous existence. There are nine exceptions to this rule:
>
>
>
(None of the exceptions apply here)
Similarly, if it has been assigned to block a creature that will deal a point of damage to it, or if it was blocked by a creature that will deal a point of damage to it, you can save it by casting Siren's Ruse after blockers have been assigned. (If you do this, then it also won't deal any combat damage, as the object that comes back into play will not be involved in combat. Though any creature is was blocking will still be considered blocked, and not deal damage to you).
However, if you mean that it literally has taken a point of damage, then no, you can't save it. It will die before you have a chance to do anything else, because it has as much damage as its toughness.
>
> 704.3. Whenever a player would get priority (see rule 116, “Timing and Priority”), the game checks for any of the listed conditions for state-based actions, then performs all applicable state-based actions simultaneously as a single event.
>
>
> 704.5g If a creature has toughness greater than 0, and the total damage marked on it is greater than or equal to its toughness, that creature has been dealt lethal damage and is destroyed. Regeneration can replace this event.
>
>
>
In other words, to save it you must respond to whatever is about to deal it damage, before it is actually dealt damage. |
5,830,162 | Can somebody help me to see the values that are stored in a database non-programatically? Using file explorer and command prompt? | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5830162",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/610919/"
] | 1. using command line
a) enter adb shell
b) cd to your app directory, database file will under databases folder
c) $sqlite3 yourdb\_name
d) ## now you should enter command mode
e) select \* from your\_tablename;
2. using ddms
a) using DDMS's file explorer
b) find the database file
c) copy databases to ypur PC
d) use any sqlite tool to read it
Good luck!! | use [sqlitebrowser](http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/) |
5,830,162 | Can somebody help me to see the values that are stored in a database non-programatically? Using file explorer and command prompt? | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5830162",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/610919/"
] | 1. using command line
a) enter adb shell
b) cd to your app directory, database file will under databases folder
c) $sqlite3 yourdb\_name
d) ## now you should enter command mode
e) select \* from your\_tablename;
2. using ddms
a) using DDMS's file explorer
b) find the database file
c) copy databases to ypur PC
d) use any sqlite tool to read it
Good luck!! | You can use the command line tool **sqlite3(.exe)** of the SQLite library.
Source: <http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.html> |
5,830,162 | Can somebody help me to see the values that are stored in a database non-programatically? Using file explorer and command prompt? | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5830162",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/610919/"
] | 1. using command line
a) enter adb shell
b) cd to your app directory, database file will under databases folder
c) $sqlite3 yourdb\_name
d) ## now you should enter command mode
e) select \* from your\_tablename;
2. using ddms
a) using DDMS's file explorer
b) find the database file
c) copy databases to ypur PC
d) use any sqlite tool to read it
Good luck!! | download sqlite browser and browse your data and you can see its tables and its data [use this blog to learn more.](http://bhutiyagirish.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/browse-android-database/) |
5,830,162 | Can somebody help me to see the values that are stored in a database non-programatically? Using file explorer and command prompt? | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5830162",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | 1. using command line
a) enter adb shell
b) cd to your app directory, database file will under databases folder
c) $sqlite3 yourdb\_name
d) ## now you should enter command mode
e) select \* from your\_tablename;
2. using ddms
a) using DDMS's file explorer
b) find the database file
c) copy databases to ypur PC
d) use any sqlite tool to read it
Good luck!! | Is it possible to get the Database from the DDMS in eclipse?
I was searching in the data folder for the application and I didn't find it there. |
5,440 | I was working with the API and trying to paginate the results and I ran into an error which says 'Skip value must 5000 or less'. It would be nice if you guys could add this to your documentation because I had no idea that this limit was being imposed until I started to try and clean the data. Now I must go and download it all over again to make sure I've captured all the data. | 2015/06/15 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/5440",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/6767/"
] | Thanks for your note. The skip limit was, until recently, unbounded. Unfortunately, we found that queries with large skip values were overloading the servers. To ensure the service remained available for everyone, we introduced the skip limits.
We are currently investigating if we can support large skip values without compromising the servers. We will update the documentation accordingly. | Is this issue going to be resolved soon? Is there any workaround? I need to access data through multiple years which requires skip values over 5000, as the limit is only 100 for the API |
5,440 | I was working with the API and trying to paginate the results and I ran into an error which says 'Skip value must 5000 or less'. It would be nice if you guys could add this to your documentation because I had no idea that this limit was being imposed until I started to try and clean the data. Now I must go and download it all over again to make sure I've captured all the data. | 2015/06/15 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/5440",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/6767/"
] | Thanks for your note. The skip limit was, until recently, unbounded. Unfortunately, we found that queries with large skip values were overloading the servers. To ensure the service remained available for everyone, we introduced the skip limits.
We are currently investigating if we can support large skip values without compromising the servers. We will update the documentation accordingly. | A workaround would be to modify the searching strategy. For example, breaking down the data you wanted in accordance with a date range. |
5,440 | I was working with the API and trying to paginate the results and I ran into an error which says 'Skip value must 5000 or less'. It would be nice if you guys could add this to your documentation because I had no idea that this limit was being imposed until I started to try and clean the data. Now I must go and download it all over again to make sure I've captured all the data. | 2015/06/15 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/5440",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/6767/"
] | A workaround would be to modify the searching strategy. For example, breaking down the data you wanted in accordance with a date range. | Is this issue going to be resolved soon? Is there any workaround? I need to access data through multiple years which requires skip values over 5000, as the limit is only 100 for the API |
17,097 | It's easy to browse a list of songs using home sharing and import all the songs that are "not in my library".
**Once that is done, is there an easy way to get the same playlist on the new library?**
There is no option to import a playlist. You can drag a playlist from another computer to one of yours. But that would end up copying all songs again and creating duplicates.
I ended up using Screen Sharing to export that playlist as ***File -> Library -> Export Playlist...***, choosing XML format, then saving it to the desktop of the current mac. From there, it imported the playlist fine, but I was hoping I was missing a simpler, more drag and drop solution.
*I can't believe I'm actually looking for another feature to be added to iTunes - it's got to be there somewhere.*
Also, I don't want all the playlists - just a few so exporting the whole library won't speed things up or simplify the operation. | 2011/07/07 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17097",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/5472/"
] | 1. Create a new playlist on your local machine with the same name as the one you would like to import.
2. Click on the library that you wish to import a playlist from over Home Sharing.
3. Expand the library by clicking on the arrow to the left of the name.
4. Expand the folder called Playlists from within the library.
5. Drag the playlist from the home sharing library onto the one you have created.
Your music will be copied over into the new playlist. This method does have one flaw, however. If you already have some of these songs in your library, they will be duplicated. But, File > Display Duplicates may help you with that.
Unfortunately, this is the only way to do this over Home Sharing. Hopefully, iTunes 11 will improve on this, but I'm not getting my hopes up. | On the macbook i wanted the playlists imported to had file sharing set up as opposed to Home Sharng.
In iTunes i went to >file>library>import playlists then on the other mac i went to the >music>itunes> iTunes music library.xml file and imported it.
This imported all the playlists in 1 go, which is what i needed to do. |
109,761 | In the 5/15 minute scrum meeting the 3 questions are asked.
For the last question
"what impediments are getting in your way"
If a dev has problems - the xyz is going to have problems, this is likely going to draw the meeting out past 15 mins and could go into a hour long discussion.
Is it the scrum masters job to help this user, is there something to stop this from going on more than 15 mins.
Thoughts? | 2010/05/23 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/109761",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/6959/"
] | Remind everyone that the daily scrum meeting needs to be short, and ask them to briefly list their impediments during the meeting.
Then, if any impediments need a lot of discussion, schedule a meeting with those involved immediately after the scrum to discuss the details. Everyone else can get on with their day while you work out how to remove the impediment. | In our dailies, if someone says that he has a problem that may require a long time to investigate\ solve, the scrum master just refers to the relevant person (who can help), from\ outside of the scrum team, and suggests to close the issue out of the meeting. Dailies, as the scrum methodology, are intended for the WHOLE team. A specific problem which can't contribute to others, should be managed out of the scrum meetings. |
109,761 | In the 5/15 minute scrum meeting the 3 questions are asked.
For the last question
"what impediments are getting in your way"
If a dev has problems - the xyz is going to have problems, this is likely going to draw the meeting out past 15 mins and could go into a hour long discussion.
Is it the scrum masters job to help this user, is there something to stop this from going on more than 15 mins.
Thoughts? | 2010/05/23 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/109761",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/6959/"
] | Remind everyone that the daily scrum meeting needs to be short, and ask them to briefly list their impediments during the meeting.
Then, if any impediments need a lot of discussion, schedule a meeting with those involved immediately after the scrum to discuss the details. Everyone else can get on with their day while you work out how to remove the impediment. | If the impediments can be resolved quickly (in a couple of min) - deal with it at the stand-up meeting, if it requires more time to resolve - park it and deal with it after the meeting in the order to priority.
Stand-ups should be time-boxed and kept under 15min in order to be effective for the whole scrum team. When the team gets into routine of ~15 min daily standups, then having a longer one once in a while is not a big deal... |
109,761 | In the 5/15 minute scrum meeting the 3 questions are asked.
For the last question
"what impediments are getting in your way"
If a dev has problems - the xyz is going to have problems, this is likely going to draw the meeting out past 15 mins and could go into a hour long discussion.
Is it the scrum masters job to help this user, is there something to stop this from going on more than 15 mins.
Thoughts? | 2010/05/23 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/109761",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/6959/"
] | If the impediments can be resolved quickly (in a couple of min) - deal with it at the stand-up meeting, if it requires more time to resolve - park it and deal with it after the meeting in the order to priority.
Stand-ups should be time-boxed and kept under 15min in order to be effective for the whole scrum team. When the team gets into routine of ~15 min daily standups, then having a longer one once in a while is not a big deal... | In our dailies, if someone says that he has a problem that may require a long time to investigate\ solve, the scrum master just refers to the relevant person (who can help), from\ outside of the scrum team, and suggests to close the issue out of the meeting. Dailies, as the scrum methodology, are intended for the WHOLE team. A specific problem which can't contribute to others, should be managed out of the scrum meetings. |
53,177 | I am trying to set up a development environment for our web server. I would like all emails that are relayed by the server go to a specific mailbox, regardless of who they were sent to. For example, some application on the server sends an email to shopper@yahoo.com. I want that email to go to devbox@mysite.com. Is that possible to do with IIS/Virtual SMTP? Is there some other way of doing this? I don't have exchange server running, if that makes a difference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot! | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/53177",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/16461/"
] | IIS' SMTP server isn't particularly bright. I'd recommend using a more intelligent mail server that you control perform the address munging and/or forwarding to a specific address, and having IIS' SMTP server "smart host" to it.
The "more intelligent" mail server need not be a normal mail MTA application; a simple script that opens a network socket, implements just enough SMTP to catch the mail from IIS and write it out to a log file would work just fine. | If you want a custom server option you might look at [hMailServer](http://www.hmailserver.com/) as well (free and easy to use) |
4,983 | My (maybe wrong) impression is that while probability is widely used in science (for example, in statistical mechanics), it is rarely seen in pure mathematics. Which leads me to the question -
**Are there some interesting application of Probability Theory in pure mathematics, outside Probability Theory itself?** | 2010/09/19 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4983",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/766/"
] | The topic of Probabilistic Combinatorics. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_method>
This is a powerful way of giving non-constuctive existence proofs for lots of different (finite) mathematical structures and determining their properties.
I found this the highlight of all my undergraduate probability courses. If you are interested in learning more I would recommend: "The Probabilistic Method" by Alon and Spencer. | In addition to examples, the overall "gestalt" answer to the question is: probability is used everywhere in mathematics. It is a basic idea on the level of algorithm, algebraic structure, geometry, calculus, or other very ubiquitous things. It has become a very popular source of questions and intuitions in research, in all fields. Knowing that this is true, it is not surprising that many examples of theoretical uses of probability can be posted.
Being a basic language, it is also true that many of the uses of probability are basic, and do not go far beyond the idea of a probability distribution, frequencies of events, expectations, related combinatorics and so on. But in some fields, advanced results in probability theory are constantly being used. |
4,983 | My (maybe wrong) impression is that while probability is widely used in science (for example, in statistical mechanics), it is rarely seen in pure mathematics. Which leads me to the question -
**Are there some interesting application of Probability Theory in pure mathematics, outside Probability Theory itself?** | 2010/09/19 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4983",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/766/"
] | The [Erdős–Kac theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Kac_theorem) shows that the (log of the log of the) prime factors of a number are Poisson/normally distributed. | You may find some interesting examples on this MathOverFlow thread:
<https://mathoverflow.net/questions/9218/probabilistic-proofs-of-analytic-facts> |
4,983 | My (maybe wrong) impression is that while probability is widely used in science (for example, in statistical mechanics), it is rarely seen in pure mathematics. Which leads me to the question -
**Are there some interesting application of Probability Theory in pure mathematics, outside Probability Theory itself?** | 2010/09/19 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4983",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/766/"
] | One of my favorite examples is a proof of the Weierstrass approximation theorem, the fact that polynomials are dense in the space of continuous functions over an interval.
I like the proof because it's elementary and the conclusion comes as a surprise. | In addition to examples, the overall "gestalt" answer to the question is: probability is used everywhere in mathematics. It is a basic idea on the level of algorithm, algebraic structure, geometry, calculus, or other very ubiquitous things. It has become a very popular source of questions and intuitions in research, in all fields. Knowing that this is true, it is not surprising that many examples of theoretical uses of probability can be posted.
Being a basic language, it is also true that many of the uses of probability are basic, and do not go far beyond the idea of a probability distribution, frequencies of events, expectations, related combinatorics and so on. But in some fields, advanced results in probability theory are constantly being used. |
3,679,361 | I need to know how to join two tables together with their timestamps. The timestamps differ consistently by 1.8 seconds every time and there is a data entry every half hour. any ideas? | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3679361",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323332/"
] | Direct show will do exactly what you need through the ICaptureGraphBuilder
For a C# wrapper, see:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/directshownet/> | I have used this [VideoTexture Class](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/game/VidTextureClassWebcamApp.aspx) before with success and would recommend you to use it. It gives you the current state as `Texture2D`, which is easily renderable and should be reasonable to convert to an avi. If you are using Windows Vista or 7 you need to replace the DirectShowNet.dll with newest one from [here](http://sourceforge.net/projects/directshownet/). |
6,646,835 | I have a set of mysql data that i want to share to a friend using asp.net.
My question is what is the best way for me to share some tables. He can read only the datas.
Thanks in advance. | 2011/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6646835",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/723335/"
] | you can simply give access to mysql db | Just create another account that can access the database and give the account limited access rights. So he will only be able to read the data and not edit the data. But using asp you can create a website of sorts that displays the data to your friend in a easy to read format. But personally I am a php fan |
6,646,835 | I have a set of mysql data that i want to share to a friend using asp.net.
My question is what is the best way for me to share some tables. He can read only the datas.
Thanks in advance. | 2011/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6646835",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/723335/"
] | you can simply give access to mysql db | You may create View of the tables for which you want other application to allow. |
6,646,835 | I have a set of mysql data that i want to share to a friend using asp.net.
My question is what is the best way for me to share some tables. He can read only the datas.
Thanks in advance. | 2011/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6646835",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/723335/"
] | You may create View of the tables for which you want other application to allow. | Just create another account that can access the database and give the account limited access rights. So he will only be able to read the data and not edit the data. But using asp you can create a website of sorts that displays the data to your friend in a easy to read format. But personally I am a php fan |
169,271 | 1. I take my coffee with milk and sugar.
=) With milk and sugar, I take my coffee.
But
2. Today is the first day of the month.
=) Of the month, today is the first day.
3. He is the son of Bill.
=) Of Bill, he is the son.
I know Nb1 is correct, but inside Nb2 and Nb3 three there may be problem starting with preposition OF. what do you think?Can we use preposition "Of" as all other prepositions. | 2018/06/12 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/169271",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/19956/"
] | It's an abbreviated reference, to save having to say the same thing twice...
>
> Anglicanism was coined to describe *the common religious tradition* of these churches; as also [*(to describe) the common religious tradition]* of the Scottish Episcopal Church
>
>
> | **that** = relative (anaphoric) pronoun referring back to an earlier noun or noun-phrase
**as** = in the same way, similarly
**also** = in addition, as well, too
and also too that [i.e. *the common religious tradition*] of the Scottish Episcopal Church
Compare:
>
> This "Renaissance" of the Latin language (as also that of ancient Greek) did not start any earlier than the 8th-9th century.
>
>
>
as also *the "Renaissance" of ancient Greek*...
and the "Renaissance" of ancient Greek as well |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | I usually try the following, in order:
1) Check the mailing list or forums to see whether my bug is new, it's already on the tracker, or is fixed in a newer version/SVN/whatever
2) If the bug isn't known, ask about it in the mailing list. This is when you get told it's a feature, not a bug, and/or RTFM ;)
3) If the bug is indeed a bug and it's new, you can either wait until someone fixes it (you can help by providing additional info, testing or debugging) or fix it yourself and submit a patch
If you need the bug fixed urgently, your best bet is to do steps 2 and 3 together (report the bug and propose a patch). Otherwise your bug may or may not be fixed in a timely manner, depending on whether someone else finds it worth fixing. I guess you can "bribe" the developers or other community members to work on your bug, although I never tried that one. | If you have a good idea how to reproduce the bug, then writing a unit test exposing the bug would be a good starting point. (Often, open source projects already have large test suites).
The failing unit test is a good way to communicate the "bug" to the project maintainer. If it is not a bug but simply you who are using it incorrectly, then the maintainer would point out that this is by design, and most often with a reason why. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | I usually try the following, in order:
1) Check the mailing list or forums to see whether my bug is new, it's already on the tracker, or is fixed in a newer version/SVN/whatever
2) If the bug isn't known, ask about it in the mailing list. This is when you get told it's a feature, not a bug, and/or RTFM ;)
3) If the bug is indeed a bug and it's new, you can either wait until someone fixes it (you can help by providing additional info, testing or debugging) or fix it yourself and submit a patch
If you need the bug fixed urgently, your best bet is to do steps 2 and 3 together (report the bug and propose a patch). Otherwise your bug may or may not be fixed in a timely manner, depending on whether someone else finds it worth fixing. I guess you can "bribe" the developers or other community members to work on your bug, although I never tried that one. | Write a clean test case, then submit it to the mailing list.
IME more often than not you find an error in your own code while writing the test case. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | The great thing about OSS is that you have the source code!
So you can make the fix yourself, or hire someone to do it.
The important thing is to give back to the community and check in your fix! | Just because it hasn't been mentioned yet, give "[How To Ask Questions The Smart Way](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)" a read. It has lots of invaluable advise on how to approach asking questions and asking for help from a development community. A lot of it boils down to: understand the way the community works and make sure you play by the rules. If you are respectful, ask an intelligent question by providing all the necessary details (and reproduction recipe if it's a possible bug), you will likely get a reasonable response. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | I usually try the following, in order:
1) Check the mailing list or forums to see whether my bug is new, it's already on the tracker, or is fixed in a newer version/SVN/whatever
2) If the bug isn't known, ask about it in the mailing list. This is when you get told it's a feature, not a bug, and/or RTFM ;)
3) If the bug is indeed a bug and it's new, you can either wait until someone fixes it (you can help by providing additional info, testing or debugging) or fix it yourself and submit a patch
If you need the bug fixed urgently, your best bet is to do steps 2 and 3 together (report the bug and propose a patch). Otherwise your bug may or may not be fixed in a timely manner, depending on whether someone else finds it worth fixing. I guess you can "bribe" the developers or other community members to work on your bug, although I never tried that one. | The great thing about OSS is that you have the source code!
So you can make the fix yourself, or hire someone to do it.
The important thing is to give back to the community and check in your fix! |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | The great thing about OSS is that you have the source code!
So you can make the fix yourself, or hire someone to do it.
The important thing is to give back to the community and check in your fix! | The most sensible way I have found, when you have an issue with a library and you don't have the skills to find the problem yourself, is to contact the maintainers. They know the code and will be grateful to find out about bugs, if that's what it is, or will point you in the direction of how to use the library correctly.
For example, I had a problem I couldn't solve when I was developing a site that used [SVG Web](http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/). I don't have any action scripting skills, so I started [a thread](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-web/browse_thread/thread/bf53ae84edf22eab/f4bb66d343bf633a) asking about the issue and I was told to log a bug with a minimal test case, so I did. It turned out the problem was in the browser, so I had to tweek my code slightly.
If you are smart enough to fix it yourself, don't forget to give back what you learned. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | If you have a good idea how to reproduce the bug, then writing a unit test exposing the bug would be a good starting point. (Often, open source projects already have large test suites).
The failing unit test is a good way to communicate the "bug" to the project maintainer. If it is not a bug but simply you who are using it incorrectly, then the maintainer would point out that this is by design, and most often with a reason why. | Write a clean test case, then submit it to the mailing list.
IME more often than not you find an error in your own code while writing the test case. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | The most sensible way I have found, when you have an issue with a library and you don't have the skills to find the problem yourself, is to contact the maintainers. They know the code and will be grateful to find out about bugs, if that's what it is, or will point you in the direction of how to use the library correctly.
For example, I had a problem I couldn't solve when I was developing a site that used [SVG Web](http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/). I don't have any action scripting skills, so I started [a thread](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-web/browse_thread/thread/bf53ae84edf22eab/f4bb66d343bf633a) asking about the issue and I was told to log a bug with a minimal test case, so I did. It turned out the problem was in the browser, so I had to tweek my code slightly.
If you are smart enough to fix it yourself, don't forget to give back what you learned. | Write a clean test case, then submit it to the mailing list.
IME more often than not you find an error in your own code while writing the test case. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | The most sensible way I have found, when you have an issue with a library and you don't have the skills to find the problem yourself, is to contact the maintainers. They know the code and will be grateful to find out about bugs, if that's what it is, or will point you in the direction of how to use the library correctly.
For example, I had a problem I couldn't solve when I was developing a site that used [SVG Web](http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/). I don't have any action scripting skills, so I started [a thread](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-web/browse_thread/thread/bf53ae84edf22eab/f4bb66d343bf633a) asking about the issue and I was told to log a bug with a minimal test case, so I did. It turned out the problem was in the browser, so I had to tweek my code slightly.
If you are smart enough to fix it yourself, don't forget to give back what you learned. | Just because it hasn't been mentioned yet, give "[How To Ask Questions The Smart Way](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)" a read. It has lots of invaluable advise on how to approach asking questions and asking for help from a development community. A lot of it boils down to: understand the way the community works and make sure you play by the rules. If you are respectful, ask an intelligent question by providing all the necessary details (and reproduction recipe if it's a possible bug), you will likely get a reasonable response. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | If you have a good idea how to reproduce the bug, then writing a unit test exposing the bug would be a good starting point. (Often, open source projects already have large test suites).
The failing unit test is a good way to communicate the "bug" to the project maintainer. If it is not a bug but simply you who are using it incorrectly, then the maintainer would point out that this is by design, and most often with a reason why. | Just because it hasn't been mentioned yet, give "[How To Ask Questions The Smart Way](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)" a read. It has lots of invaluable advise on how to approach asking questions and asking for help from a development community. A lot of it boils down to: understand the way the community works and make sure you play by the rules. If you are respectful, ask an intelligent question by providing all the necessary details (and reproduction recipe if it's a possible bug), you will likely get a reasonable response. |
40,488 | We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them?
I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well.
1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done?
2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library?
... any other options? | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40488",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1502/"
] | The great thing about OSS is that you have the source code!
So you can make the fix yourself, or hire someone to do it.
The important thing is to give back to the community and check in your fix! | Write a clean test case, then submit it to the mailing list.
IME more often than not you find an error in your own code while writing the test case. |
43,463 | I want to set up a wireless network over two floors at the department, which will need several devices. The unversity provides several end-points, so to maximize speed I thought that I would place a wireless router each with their own IP address at strategical points, so each will only handle the traffic actually going through it. I wish the users to have the least painfull experience while going around the dept. with a connected device. Obviously this means one password for all of them, but the question is, should I give the same SSID to all of them, or should say number them? Also, if they have the same SSID, should I put them on different channels or the same channel? | 2017/08/22 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/43463",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/39098/"
] | The APs should be on different channels to avoid interference. If there are other APs in the building, try to minimize co-channel interference by selecting unused channels (if possible).
You can use the same SSID, which will make roaming a little easier.
I'm assuming you're using access points and not routers, so the IP address of each is for administration only. Access points are layer 2 devices, like switches, so they don't look at IP addressing. | Controller Based:
If these users require same privileges yes you can use same SSID this will minimize interference (the more SSIDs you broadcast the more they interfere with each other). Additionally it makes roaming easier as they will not need to reconnect to a different SSID. This strategy also enables you to pull the same pool, easing rules to permit / prevent access. You should defiantly choose unique channel selection to prevent APs from interfering with each other.
Cisco Meraki:
You can again advertise the same SSID and with Meraki can look and assign Layer 7 (unique traffic) to deny / permit and how much bandwith can be used for such. Under this you can assign "roaming" if a user transitions from one AP to another with the same SSID their traffic will be handed off.
The only disclaimer is that generally speaking wireless tends to be "sticky" as the client roam the device may attempt to hold down the weaker connectivity.
Hope this helps |
22,577 | I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during mashing be sufficient for sweetness?
Then again I read that the sugar added during bottling is supposed to increase carbonation - not sweetness. But how would sufficient carbonation be ensured without adding sugar (sticking to the reinheitsgebot)?
(my question might seem dogmatic but I am more interested in understanding the underlying processes) | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/22577",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/16084/"
] | Yes. Priming with sugar would break the reinheitsgeboten.
The way you want to go is to retain unfermented mash and add it when bottling takes place.
There's a really handy calculator right here: <https://www.brewersfriend.com/gyle-and-krausen-priming-calculator/> | The easiest way to not break the Reinheitsgebot rules is to use malt extract. Either liquid or dried. Simple as that. Many people do this and most homebrew books have a way to calculate the amounts. Malt extract is derived solely from malt sugars. Therefore, in essence it is barley and water and then dehydrated. So all you are left with is unfermented wort (with or without hops). This does not break the rules.
The other way to do this is to cask condition during fermentation and bottle under pressure. |
22,577 | I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during mashing be sufficient for sweetness?
Then again I read that the sugar added during bottling is supposed to increase carbonation - not sweetness. But how would sufficient carbonation be ensured without adding sugar (sticking to the reinheitsgebot)?
(my question might seem dogmatic but I am more interested in understanding the underlying processes) | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/22577",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/16084/"
] | Yes. Priming with sugar would break the reinheitsgeboten.
The way you want to go is to retain unfermented mash and add it when bottling takes place.
There's a really handy calculator right here: <https://www.brewersfriend.com/gyle-and-krausen-priming-calculator/> | Take a portion of wort and prime with this. This is how almost all German brewers who do not force carbonate prime. To comply with Reinheitsgebot the forced carbonation must be done with CO2 recovered from the brewing process.
They don't store wort for long periods of time, but ensure they brew on bottling day and mix cooled wort with fermented beer as packaging. |
22,577 | I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during mashing be sufficient for sweetness?
Then again I read that the sugar added during bottling is supposed to increase carbonation - not sweetness. But how would sufficient carbonation be ensured without adding sugar (sticking to the reinheitsgebot)?
(my question might seem dogmatic but I am more interested in understanding the underlying processes) | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/22577",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/16084/"
] | Yes. Priming with sugar would break the reinheitsgeboten.
The way you want to go is to retain unfermented mash and add it when bottling takes place.
There's a really handy calculator right here: <https://www.brewersfriend.com/gyle-and-krausen-priming-calculator/> | As a German I don't get the hype about the Reinheitsgebot. I think it was a nice invention back then and sure is a good marketing thing nowadays. You should read into why the Reinheitsgebot was originally introduced and think about its relevance in present days. I personally just like a good flavoured beer and am open for new creations.
A lot of people also think the Reinheitsgebot was the biggest attack on European shamanism. But that's pretty esoteric stuff....
Anyway, back to topic: I think what most people here explained is the German "Speisegabe" (keeping a bit of the original worth, store it cool and ad it in the end). To my knowledge its only done for bottle fermentation in the Hefeweizen.
Most commonly used is the "Grünschlauchen". You keep a good eye on the sugar content of your beer and when it has just about enough sugar left to make a nice carbonation you fill it into the bottles. |
22,577 | I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during mashing be sufficient for sweetness?
Then again I read that the sugar added during bottling is supposed to increase carbonation - not sweetness. But how would sufficient carbonation be ensured without adding sugar (sticking to the reinheitsgebot)?
(my question might seem dogmatic but I am more interested in understanding the underlying processes) | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/22577",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/16084/"
] | The easiest way to not break the Reinheitsgebot rules is to use malt extract. Either liquid or dried. Simple as that. Many people do this and most homebrew books have a way to calculate the amounts. Malt extract is derived solely from malt sugars. Therefore, in essence it is barley and water and then dehydrated. So all you are left with is unfermented wort (with or without hops). This does not break the rules.
The other way to do this is to cask condition during fermentation and bottle under pressure. | Take a portion of wort and prime with this. This is how almost all German brewers who do not force carbonate prime. To comply with Reinheitsgebot the forced carbonation must be done with CO2 recovered from the brewing process.
They don't store wort for long periods of time, but ensure they brew on bottling day and mix cooled wort with fermented beer as packaging. |
22,577 | I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during mashing be sufficient for sweetness?
Then again I read that the sugar added during bottling is supposed to increase carbonation - not sweetness. But how would sufficient carbonation be ensured without adding sugar (sticking to the reinheitsgebot)?
(my question might seem dogmatic but I am more interested in understanding the underlying processes) | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/22577",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/16084/"
] | The easiest way to not break the Reinheitsgebot rules is to use malt extract. Either liquid or dried. Simple as that. Many people do this and most homebrew books have a way to calculate the amounts. Malt extract is derived solely from malt sugars. Therefore, in essence it is barley and water and then dehydrated. So all you are left with is unfermented wort (with or without hops). This does not break the rules.
The other way to do this is to cask condition during fermentation and bottle under pressure. | As a German I don't get the hype about the Reinheitsgebot. I think it was a nice invention back then and sure is a good marketing thing nowadays. You should read into why the Reinheitsgebot was originally introduced and think about its relevance in present days. I personally just like a good flavoured beer and am open for new creations.
A lot of people also think the Reinheitsgebot was the biggest attack on European shamanism. But that's pretty esoteric stuff....
Anyway, back to topic: I think what most people here explained is the German "Speisegabe" (keeping a bit of the original worth, store it cool and ad it in the end). To my knowledge its only done for bottle fermentation in the Hefeweizen.
Most commonly used is the "Grünschlauchen". You keep a good eye on the sugar content of your beer and when it has just about enough sugar left to make a nice carbonation you fill it into the bottles. |
543,561 | If you set up a table's column to be a computed column whose Formula calls a Function, it becomes a pain to change that underlying Function. With every change, you have to find every single column whose Formula that references the Function, remove the reference, save the Table, alter the Function, add everything back, and save again. Even small changes are nightmares.
Can you tell SQL Server that you don't care that the Function is being referenced by Formulas and to just go ahead and change the underlying Function?
Additional Details:
The computed column is not persisted or referenced by a FK constraint because it is non-deterministic. The function takes into consideration the current time. It's dealing with the question of whether a record is expired or not. | 2009/02/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/543561",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61332/"
] | Sorry for this late answer, but it can be useful.
You can use a dummy function for each computed column that will call your real function.
>
> Example:
>
> The computed column use the formula: dbo.link\_comp('123')
>
> This function forward the arguments and calls and return the function dbo.link('123') (Your real function)
>
> Both functions just need to use the same arguments and return the same type.
>
>
>
Then, the function that is locked is dbo.link\_comp and you can still ALTER dbo.link.
Also, if your function is called from other SQL, you can still use your real function name dbo.link, the dummy function dbo.link\_comp is only for the computed column. | The consequences of the ALTER could be huge.
Have you indexed the columns? Used it in a view with schemabinding? Persisted it? Foreign key relationship to it?
What if the ALTER changes the datatype, NULLability or determinism?
It's easier to stop ALTER FUNCTION with dependencies than deal with so many scenarios. |
543,561 | If you set up a table's column to be a computed column whose Formula calls a Function, it becomes a pain to change that underlying Function. With every change, you have to find every single column whose Formula that references the Function, remove the reference, save the Table, alter the Function, add everything back, and save again. Even small changes are nightmares.
Can you tell SQL Server that you don't care that the Function is being referenced by Formulas and to just go ahead and change the underlying Function?
Additional Details:
The computed column is not persisted or referenced by a FK constraint because it is non-deterministic. The function takes into consideration the current time. It's dealing with the question of whether a record is expired or not. | 2009/02/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/543561",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61332/"
] | No, as far as I know, you cannot do this - you'll have to first remove all computed columns referencing a function, alter the function, and then recreate the computed columns.
Maybe MS will give us a "CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION" command in SQL Server 2010/2011? :-)
Marc | You could change the column to be not-computed, and update it by TRIGGER.
Or you could rename the table to something else, drop the computed column, and create a VIEW in place of the original table (i.e. with the original table name) and including the "computed" column you need.
EDIT: note that this may mess with your INSERTs into the original table name (now a VIEW). Obviously you could keep the old table, drop the computed column, and create a separate VIEW that contained the computed column.
We've had to work around Computed Columns enough times to have decided they are more trouble than they gain. Fail-saf inserts(1), trying to insert into VIEWs onto tables with computed columns, things that require messing with SET ARITHABORT and so on.
(1) We have fail-safe inserts like:
INSERT INTO MyTable SELECT \* FROM MyOtherTable WHERE ...
which are designed to fail if a new column is added one table and not the other. With Computed Column we have to explicitly name all columns, which loses us that safety net. |
543,561 | If you set up a table's column to be a computed column whose Formula calls a Function, it becomes a pain to change that underlying Function. With every change, you have to find every single column whose Formula that references the Function, remove the reference, save the Table, alter the Function, add everything back, and save again. Even small changes are nightmares.
Can you tell SQL Server that you don't care that the Function is being referenced by Formulas and to just go ahead and change the underlying Function?
Additional Details:
The computed column is not persisted or referenced by a FK constraint because it is non-deterministic. The function takes into consideration the current time. It's dealing with the question of whether a record is expired or not. | 2009/02/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/543561",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61332/"
] | No, as far as I know, you cannot do this - you'll have to first remove all computed columns referencing a function, alter the function, and then recreate the computed columns.
Maybe MS will give us a "CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION" command in SQL Server 2010/2011? :-)
Marc | The consequences of the ALTER could be huge.
Have you indexed the columns? Used it in a view with schemabinding? Persisted it? Foreign key relationship to it?
What if the ALTER changes the datatype, NULLability or determinism?
It's easier to stop ALTER FUNCTION with dependencies than deal with so many scenarios. |
112,406 | Do I need to create tablespace and also add all datafiles before importing a schema using datapump? Or does impdp add all data files itself first and then unloads data into it? | 2015/08/27 | [
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/112406",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/73736/"
] | `impdp` is able to create the tablespaces. You can even change the location of the datafiles if needed. Check [the documentation](http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28319/dp_import.htm) for more information since there are many parameters with this tool (**REMAP\_DATAFILES** and **REUSE\_DATAFILES** for example). | You need to do the following:
* User is created (create user blah identified by blah:)
* Create the tablespace (create tablespace blah...)
* Put dmp file in dmp directly (usually installation home directly/admin/dpdump) unless you create your own then you'll need to go into sqlplus and create the directory object and use that object as a parameter in impdp (DIRECTORY=myDirObject)
* Then run impdpd. It will not create the tablespaces for you in my experience. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | Some thoughts and references can be found here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#Philosophical_issues>
Practically, of course, we have no idea how to do this at this point. Philosophers have investigated questions of [personal identity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/) -- if you upload your consciousness will the result still be *you* -- and whether the result of the upload might be a [philosophical zombie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie). | According to the Hindu text Shvetashvatara Upanishad:
>
> God, who is one only, is hidden in all beings. He is all-pervading,
> and is the inner self of all creatures. He presides over all actions,
> and all beings reside in Him. He is the witness, and He is the Pure
> Consciousness
>
>
>
According to this you cannot transfer consciousness into a machine because "we are all one". There is only one driver driving all the cars in the different spots in time and space. If a machine had consciousness it would not be different from yours.
Is that sense of separateness that makes the notion of individuality which is ultimately false and created by mind, not the consciousness. This fake individuality is called the ego or idea of the self. e.g. "I'm my nationality, gender, body, my culture etc"
Some eastern philosophies tell you that you are not those things because those things are learned along the way. e.g. "If you can watch it it's because its not you" you can watch your body, your thoughts and emotions but you cannot watch the silent watcher which is called **consciousness**.
Buddhism and Tao take it a little further and tells you not to settle with that idea from the vedic texts. Consciousness or oneness is something to be experienced not to be told or understood (ideas and thoughts are created by the mind not the consciousness, "I think therefore I'm" it's wrong from this point of view. Consciousness witnesses the thoughts but it does not create them, the mind does). They teach Emptiness or Nirudha meditation for this.
If this approach is true. There is no death, no end, no beginning... Everything happens here and now. The rest is the veil of Maya, the mind/ego confusing your true essence.
If you want to put this to test ponder on the idea of who are you like in the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus). What if they made 2 o 3 copies of yourself in that machine which one would be you? If all cells and synaptic connections or atoms in your body change overtime you are not who you think you are but the illusion of it.
Existence is metaphysical and it will always be. It doesn't matter how advanced technology gets then again it's seems it's far to early to simulate all possible quantum events produced in the brain so apparently we are safe for now...or are living in a simulation and singularity has already been accomplished?
If you want some literature on the subject I could recommend you the film [Total Recall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/) **1990** (ego trip) and the series "[Altered Carbon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series))", the film [Ghost in the Shell **1995**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)).
>
> "You are nothing, you are nobody you are just a stupid dream." Total Recall
> 1990
>
>
> |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | Some thoughts and references can be found here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#Philosophical_issues>
Practically, of course, we have no idea how to do this at this point. Philosophers have investigated questions of [personal identity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/) -- if you upload your consciousness will the result still be *you* -- and whether the result of the upload might be a [philosophical zombie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie). | Renee's answer has some interesting data points to consider. One in particular that I think is notable to point out would be number 7:
>
> 7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death.<
>
>
>
One scenario that I had brought up in a question that I had asked ("Do dreams have material reality?") regarding dreams was the instance of "simultaneity" that is implicit in the process of having them. Dreams are considered "counterfactual/embodied simulations" and one could say that when having them our "consciousness" is transferred from the waking-reality to the dreamworld. Followers of the Bon tradition in Tibet make the distinction between this body, here and now, and the "dream-body" that one may recall having experiences of same through.
So there can be a transfer of consciousness from Topos 1: the bedroom you fall asleep from to Topos 2: the dreamworld you may find yourself in.
This, however, is presuming that the dreamworld is a place like any other place that one can "travel" to.
This is clearly not the same as the idea of transferring it into a machine but we can at least know, like Renee suggests, that our point-of-view can be transferred from one state to another. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
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] | If consciousness is simply an artefact of the brain, then we only need to recreate a suitable environment for ourselves. We know:
1. the brain can transfer control from one side to the other in cases of brain injury; this isn't easy, it takes a lot of retraining
2. the brain is capable of learning how to control extra peripherals like robotic arms, as well as acquire sensory information through digital devices
3. split brain patients show that we retain "wholeness" with as little as 10% of the corpus callosum left (notably, the portion nearest to where consciousness is believed to originate in the brain)
4. our brains are strangely good at offloading information; no one remembers phone numbers anymore but we retain enough to know where it is
5. while memory is a function of brain size, deductive reasoning and consciousness can be found on brains a fraction the size of ours -- at least with any known method we have of testing for consciousness (mirror test in ants) or deductive reasoning (crows and ravens)
6. artificial consciousness is not hard but has rarely been pursued academically (maybe rightfully so); one person was able to reconstruct a very crude level of AC in his Commodore 128
7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death
A few other facts:
* the average firing rate of a neuron is only about 200Hz
* the whole brain has 80-90 billion neurons a neuron's state can be represented well with 8-bits; that's 85GB; that's nothing;
* on average, a neuron has about 1,000 interconnections with other neurons; that's about 1KB per neuron of about 85TB; that's a lot, but doable
* neurons have a very low duty cycle (they rest a lot), they're less than 10% active; total brain activity is around 1.7 THz (200Hz \* 10% \* 85 billion)
* the corpus callosum is about 200-300 million neurons and represents a signal bandwidth of about 5 GHz (200Hz \* 10% \* 250 million)
* each neuron takes 1KB of data to be 'processed' so in compute terms the whole brain is around 1.7 petaOPS and the corpus callosum is processing around 5 teraOPS. For comparison, NVIDIA GPUs top out at 130 teraOPS right now (circa 2020Q1)
My theory (and this is total opinion from here)
Transfer is possible so long as the person is still alive -- our consciousness is the precise state of our organic computer and not the chemical make up of it. Scientists may be able to reconstruct memories from dead brains, but not its original consciousness.
The idea would be to create a new host that connected AS-IF it were the other half of our brain -- through the existing corpus callosum. The new brain would be connected to an android which would contain all your new senses, motion, etc. During training, your old body could use VR, but using the antagonist theory of accelerated learning, you'd want to slowly delay or cripple that to encourage use of localized thinking in the android itself.
Given time, I believe that would happen naturally -- as long as the new host is favorable to human thought. Over time, the new brain should be doing more thinking and have more recent memories than the old one and at some point, you should be able to let the old body die and "you" may survive.
Think of this like human vMotion. | According to the Hindu text Shvetashvatara Upanishad:
>
> God, who is one only, is hidden in all beings. He is all-pervading,
> and is the inner self of all creatures. He presides over all actions,
> and all beings reside in Him. He is the witness, and He is the Pure
> Consciousness
>
>
>
According to this you cannot transfer consciousness into a machine because "we are all one". There is only one driver driving all the cars in the different spots in time and space. If a machine had consciousness it would not be different from yours.
Is that sense of separateness that makes the notion of individuality which is ultimately false and created by mind, not the consciousness. This fake individuality is called the ego or idea of the self. e.g. "I'm my nationality, gender, body, my culture etc"
Some eastern philosophies tell you that you are not those things because those things are learned along the way. e.g. "If you can watch it it's because its not you" you can watch your body, your thoughts and emotions but you cannot watch the silent watcher which is called **consciousness**.
Buddhism and Tao take it a little further and tells you not to settle with that idea from the vedic texts. Consciousness or oneness is something to be experienced not to be told or understood (ideas and thoughts are created by the mind not the consciousness, "I think therefore I'm" it's wrong from this point of view. Consciousness witnesses the thoughts but it does not create them, the mind does). They teach Emptiness or Nirudha meditation for this.
If this approach is true. There is no death, no end, no beginning... Everything happens here and now. The rest is the veil of Maya, the mind/ego confusing your true essence.
If you want to put this to test ponder on the idea of who are you like in the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus). What if they made 2 o 3 copies of yourself in that machine which one would be you? If all cells and synaptic connections or atoms in your body change overtime you are not who you think you are but the illusion of it.
Existence is metaphysical and it will always be. It doesn't matter how advanced technology gets then again it's seems it's far to early to simulate all possible quantum events produced in the brain so apparently we are safe for now...or are living in a simulation and singularity has already been accomplished?
If you want some literature on the subject I could recommend you the film [Total Recall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/) **1990** (ego trip) and the series "[Altered Carbon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series))", the film [Ghost in the Shell **1995**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)).
>
> "You are nothing, you are nobody you are just a stupid dream." Total Recall
> 1990
>
>
> |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | If consciousness is simply an artefact of the brain, then we only need to recreate a suitable environment for ourselves. We know:
1. the brain can transfer control from one side to the other in cases of brain injury; this isn't easy, it takes a lot of retraining
2. the brain is capable of learning how to control extra peripherals like robotic arms, as well as acquire sensory information through digital devices
3. split brain patients show that we retain "wholeness" with as little as 10% of the corpus callosum left (notably, the portion nearest to where consciousness is believed to originate in the brain)
4. our brains are strangely good at offloading information; no one remembers phone numbers anymore but we retain enough to know where it is
5. while memory is a function of brain size, deductive reasoning and consciousness can be found on brains a fraction the size of ours -- at least with any known method we have of testing for consciousness (mirror test in ants) or deductive reasoning (crows and ravens)
6. artificial consciousness is not hard but has rarely been pursued academically (maybe rightfully so); one person was able to reconstruct a very crude level of AC in his Commodore 128
7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death
A few other facts:
* the average firing rate of a neuron is only about 200Hz
* the whole brain has 80-90 billion neurons a neuron's state can be represented well with 8-bits; that's 85GB; that's nothing;
* on average, a neuron has about 1,000 interconnections with other neurons; that's about 1KB per neuron of about 85TB; that's a lot, but doable
* neurons have a very low duty cycle (they rest a lot), they're less than 10% active; total brain activity is around 1.7 THz (200Hz \* 10% \* 85 billion)
* the corpus callosum is about 200-300 million neurons and represents a signal bandwidth of about 5 GHz (200Hz \* 10% \* 250 million)
* each neuron takes 1KB of data to be 'processed' so in compute terms the whole brain is around 1.7 petaOPS and the corpus callosum is processing around 5 teraOPS. For comparison, NVIDIA GPUs top out at 130 teraOPS right now (circa 2020Q1)
My theory (and this is total opinion from here)
Transfer is possible so long as the person is still alive -- our consciousness is the precise state of our organic computer and not the chemical make up of it. Scientists may be able to reconstruct memories from dead brains, but not its original consciousness.
The idea would be to create a new host that connected AS-IF it were the other half of our brain -- through the existing corpus callosum. The new brain would be connected to an android which would contain all your new senses, motion, etc. During training, your old body could use VR, but using the antagonist theory of accelerated learning, you'd want to slowly delay or cripple that to encourage use of localized thinking in the android itself.
Given time, I believe that would happen naturally -- as long as the new host is favorable to human thought. Over time, the new brain should be doing more thinking and have more recent memories than the old one and at some point, you should be able to let the old body die and "you" may survive.
Think of this like human vMotion. | Renee's answer has some interesting data points to consider. One in particular that I think is notable to point out would be number 7:
>
> 7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death.<
>
>
>
One scenario that I had brought up in a question that I had asked ("Do dreams have material reality?") regarding dreams was the instance of "simultaneity" that is implicit in the process of having them. Dreams are considered "counterfactual/embodied simulations" and one could say that when having them our "consciousness" is transferred from the waking-reality to the dreamworld. Followers of the Bon tradition in Tibet make the distinction between this body, here and now, and the "dream-body" that one may recall having experiences of same through.
So there can be a transfer of consciousness from Topos 1: the bedroom you fall asleep from to Topos 2: the dreamworld you may find yourself in.
This, however, is presuming that the dreamworld is a place like any other place that one can "travel" to.
This is clearly not the same as the idea of transferring it into a machine but we can at least know, like Renee suggests, that our point-of-view can be transferred from one state to another. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | I remember Leibnitz once particularly talked about this in one of his philosophy books (forget the book name, maybe Monadology). He said something like if consciousness can be made up of mechanical parts, then try imagine to enlarge this machine proportionally until you can locate where is the part to know "I". I never fully understand his meaning, but sounds like as a rationalist he didn't believe consciousness is of "mechanical" nature, thus couldn't be possible to transfer to a machine. In his later years he introduced his notion of monad which is non-mechanical non-geometric kind of a complete inseparable substance (including self-consciousness what commonly called "I") which is the foundation of this world, and he was a foundationalist I believe when dealing with epistemology...
Of course during his time electricity and neuroscience is not much prevalent, but I would opine they all share same "mechanical" nature since all modern quantum mechanics successfully built fundamental laws onto non-deterministic mechanics nature with probability added.
In eastern philosophy and religion, monad concept existed long ago, which was called "manas-vijñāna" which may be the indo-european root of today's English word "mine". It's the 7th consciousness beyond our normal rational reasoning consciousness. It's a very subtle but powerful consciousness which determines all your thinking and living habits, it's the original impetus which motivates you to achieve something to flex your muscle and show to all others, it's also like a huge waterfall down from your whole body, hard to change its course at all, which is exactly makes up what we all simply call "I". This makes sense since regrading the notion of "I", we all intuitively feel it must come from the huge huge amount of our neurons' combinatorial network effect. But it doesn't equal all of them in a accumulative linear model fashion. Sure even if you lost a big part of it like above mentioned brain damage or other serious injuries, you still can know it's "I" thinking and moving, etc. While most people just argue about the concepts in the rational consciousness's reasoning realm all day long and try to use machines to learn new reasoning, to change and control this kind of specific consciousness for your own benefit is extremely hard...
Leibnitz once commented similarly in his Monadology, there're no windows between monad and its outward surrounding monads, although it reflects all outside processes. It's like pre-programmed, but also changable (all things change), just extremely hard, if someone achieved to change his or her old "I" resolving some previous sufferings, it can be called "reborn", or attained "Hu" in Sufism... | My thought is that it would be difficult to transfer consciousness to a machine before we know what it is and how it arises. Not one person who speculates this transfer is possible knows this. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | Renee's answer has some interesting data points to consider. One in particular that I think is notable to point out would be number 7:
>
> 7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death.<
>
>
>
One scenario that I had brought up in a question that I had asked ("Do dreams have material reality?") regarding dreams was the instance of "simultaneity" that is implicit in the process of having them. Dreams are considered "counterfactual/embodied simulations" and one could say that when having them our "consciousness" is transferred from the waking-reality to the dreamworld. Followers of the Bon tradition in Tibet make the distinction between this body, here and now, and the "dream-body" that one may recall having experiences of same through.
So there can be a transfer of consciousness from Topos 1: the bedroom you fall asleep from to Topos 2: the dreamworld you may find yourself in.
This, however, is presuming that the dreamworld is a place like any other place that one can "travel" to.
This is clearly not the same as the idea of transferring it into a machine but we can at least know, like Renee suggests, that our point-of-view can be transferred from one state to another. | My thought is that it would be difficult to transfer consciousness to a machine before we know what it is and how it arises. Not one person who speculates this transfer is possible knows this. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | Some thoughts and references can be found here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#Philosophical_issues>
Practically, of course, we have no idea how to do this at this point. Philosophers have investigated questions of [personal identity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/) -- if you upload your consciousness will the result still be *you* -- and whether the result of the upload might be a [philosophical zombie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie). | I remember Leibnitz once particularly talked about this in one of his philosophy books (forget the book name, maybe Monadology). He said something like if consciousness can be made up of mechanical parts, then try imagine to enlarge this machine proportionally until you can locate where is the part to know "I". I never fully understand his meaning, but sounds like as a rationalist he didn't believe consciousness is of "mechanical" nature, thus couldn't be possible to transfer to a machine. In his later years he introduced his notion of monad which is non-mechanical non-geometric kind of a complete inseparable substance (including self-consciousness what commonly called "I") which is the foundation of this world, and he was a foundationalist I believe when dealing with epistemology...
Of course during his time electricity and neuroscience is not much prevalent, but I would opine they all share same "mechanical" nature since all modern quantum mechanics successfully built fundamental laws onto non-deterministic mechanics nature with probability added.
In eastern philosophy and religion, monad concept existed long ago, which was called "manas-vijñāna" which may be the indo-european root of today's English word "mine". It's the 7th consciousness beyond our normal rational reasoning consciousness. It's a very subtle but powerful consciousness which determines all your thinking and living habits, it's the original impetus which motivates you to achieve something to flex your muscle and show to all others, it's also like a huge waterfall down from your whole body, hard to change its course at all, which is exactly makes up what we all simply call "I". This makes sense since regrading the notion of "I", we all intuitively feel it must come from the huge huge amount of our neurons' combinatorial network effect. But it doesn't equal all of them in a accumulative linear model fashion. Sure even if you lost a big part of it like above mentioned brain damage or other serious injuries, you still can know it's "I" thinking and moving, etc. While most people just argue about the concepts in the rational consciousness's reasoning realm all day long and try to use machines to learn new reasoning, to change and control this kind of specific consciousness for your own benefit is extremely hard...
Leibnitz once commented similarly in his Monadology, there're no windows between monad and its outward surrounding monads, although it reflects all outside processes. It's like pre-programmed, but also changable (all things change), just extremely hard, if someone achieved to change his or her old "I" resolving some previous sufferings, it can be called "reborn", or attained "Hu" in Sufism... |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | If consciousness is simply an artefact of the brain, then we only need to recreate a suitable environment for ourselves. We know:
1. the brain can transfer control from one side to the other in cases of brain injury; this isn't easy, it takes a lot of retraining
2. the brain is capable of learning how to control extra peripherals like robotic arms, as well as acquire sensory information through digital devices
3. split brain patients show that we retain "wholeness" with as little as 10% of the corpus callosum left (notably, the portion nearest to where consciousness is believed to originate in the brain)
4. our brains are strangely good at offloading information; no one remembers phone numbers anymore but we retain enough to know where it is
5. while memory is a function of brain size, deductive reasoning and consciousness can be found on brains a fraction the size of ours -- at least with any known method we have of testing for consciousness (mirror test in ants) or deductive reasoning (crows and ravens)
6. artificial consciousness is not hard but has rarely been pursued academically (maybe rightfully so); one person was able to reconstruct a very crude level of AC in his Commodore 128
7. third person cameras create an "out of body" experience a long with a sense of being "sucked back in" when ending the session, so moving our point-of-view is not the challenge, it's keeping it there after mortal death
A few other facts:
* the average firing rate of a neuron is only about 200Hz
* the whole brain has 80-90 billion neurons a neuron's state can be represented well with 8-bits; that's 85GB; that's nothing;
* on average, a neuron has about 1,000 interconnections with other neurons; that's about 1KB per neuron of about 85TB; that's a lot, but doable
* neurons have a very low duty cycle (they rest a lot), they're less than 10% active; total brain activity is around 1.7 THz (200Hz \* 10% \* 85 billion)
* the corpus callosum is about 200-300 million neurons and represents a signal bandwidth of about 5 GHz (200Hz \* 10% \* 250 million)
* each neuron takes 1KB of data to be 'processed' so in compute terms the whole brain is around 1.7 petaOPS and the corpus callosum is processing around 5 teraOPS. For comparison, NVIDIA GPUs top out at 130 teraOPS right now (circa 2020Q1)
My theory (and this is total opinion from here)
Transfer is possible so long as the person is still alive -- our consciousness is the precise state of our organic computer and not the chemical make up of it. Scientists may be able to reconstruct memories from dead brains, but not its original consciousness.
The idea would be to create a new host that connected AS-IF it were the other half of our brain -- through the existing corpus callosum. The new brain would be connected to an android which would contain all your new senses, motion, etc. During training, your old body could use VR, but using the antagonist theory of accelerated learning, you'd want to slowly delay or cripple that to encourage use of localized thinking in the android itself.
Given time, I believe that would happen naturally -- as long as the new host is favorable to human thought. Over time, the new brain should be doing more thinking and have more recent memories than the old one and at some point, you should be able to let the old body die and "you" may survive.
Think of this like human vMotion. | My thought is that it would be difficult to transfer consciousness to a machine before we know what it is and how it arises. Not one person who speculates this transfer is possible knows this. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | Some thoughts and references can be found here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#Philosophical_issues>
Practically, of course, we have no idea how to do this at this point. Philosophers have investigated questions of [personal identity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/) -- if you upload your consciousness will the result still be *you* -- and whether the result of the upload might be a [philosophical zombie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie). | My thought is that it would be difficult to transfer consciousness to a machine before we know what it is and how it arises. Not one person who speculates this transfer is possible knows this. |
65,362 | What are some views on the ability to transfer consciousness into a machine? So when discussing this question, there are two set of questions that arises. What is consciousness, is it something that arises from the brain or the soul? The second set of question relates to the question of whether the consciousness of a human can be replicated by a computer, and whether we can literally transfer the consciousness such that the original consciousness can be transferred instead of being simply copied and what it entails. I would like to know what are some thoughts philosophers have had on the subject. | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/65362",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40864/"
] | According to the Hindu text Shvetashvatara Upanishad:
>
> God, who is one only, is hidden in all beings. He is all-pervading,
> and is the inner self of all creatures. He presides over all actions,
> and all beings reside in Him. He is the witness, and He is the Pure
> Consciousness
>
>
>
According to this you cannot transfer consciousness into a machine because "we are all one". There is only one driver driving all the cars in the different spots in time and space. If a machine had consciousness it would not be different from yours.
Is that sense of separateness that makes the notion of individuality which is ultimately false and created by mind, not the consciousness. This fake individuality is called the ego or idea of the self. e.g. "I'm my nationality, gender, body, my culture etc"
Some eastern philosophies tell you that you are not those things because those things are learned along the way. e.g. "If you can watch it it's because its not you" you can watch your body, your thoughts and emotions but you cannot watch the silent watcher which is called **consciousness**.
Buddhism and Tao take it a little further and tells you not to settle with that idea from the vedic texts. Consciousness or oneness is something to be experienced not to be told or understood (ideas and thoughts are created by the mind not the consciousness, "I think therefore I'm" it's wrong from this point of view. Consciousness witnesses the thoughts but it does not create them, the mind does). They teach Emptiness or Nirudha meditation for this.
If this approach is true. There is no death, no end, no beginning... Everything happens here and now. The rest is the veil of Maya, the mind/ego confusing your true essence.
If you want to put this to test ponder on the idea of who are you like in the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus). What if they made 2 o 3 copies of yourself in that machine which one would be you? If all cells and synaptic connections or atoms in your body change overtime you are not who you think you are but the illusion of it.
Existence is metaphysical and it will always be. It doesn't matter how advanced technology gets then again it's seems it's far to early to simulate all possible quantum events produced in the brain so apparently we are safe for now...or are living in a simulation and singularity has already been accomplished?
If you want some literature on the subject I could recommend you the film [Total Recall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/) **1990** (ego trip) and the series "[Altered Carbon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series))", the film [Ghost in the Shell **1995**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)).
>
> "You are nothing, you are nobody you are just a stupid dream." Total Recall
> 1990
>
>
> | My thought is that it would be difficult to transfer consciousness to a machine before we know what it is and how it arises. Not one person who speculates this transfer is possible knows this. |
70,434 | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rrXc0.jpg)
[Photo](https://web.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2735178159834212&set=g.1408822416108586&type=1&theater&ifg=1).
What is the reason for making the empennage of this Lockheed L-1049E Super Constellation's design look so complicated with two ***vertical horizontal*** stabilizers? In my understanding, the more components installed, the more the weight of the airplane will be, and as a result will put more load on the engines, especially if there will be more actuators required. Do all the horizontal stabilizers have controllable surfaces? What is the reason for making the horizontal and the vertical cross each other, and not attaching them at their tips (marked with yellow and green circle)?
**Edit:** I corrected the question on the body from *with two additional **horizontal** stabilizers?* to become *with two additional **vertical** stabilizers?* as supposed to be as I marked in the picture. | 2019/10/07 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/70434",
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"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/34998/"
] | Complicated is a matter of opinion and I wont address that specifically since its somewhat subjective. But the core of the question is "why did the L-1049E have 3 tails" which is a legitimate question for this site.
The design was to [allow the aircraft to fit in hangars of the time](https://www.airvectors.net/avconnie.html)
>
> A sleek fuselage, something like an elongated fish with smooth curves,
> featuring a circular cross-section, a snub nose, and a triple-fin
> tail. Triple tailfins were selected because a single tailfin would
> have been too tall to fit into typical hangars.
>
>
>
The L-1049E had tricycle style gear that was quite tall (for the time) and a standard single tail would have made the aircraft too large to fit into the hangars that most fields had.
The above link also discusses that for a particular Military version (*"WV-1"*) of the aircraft the lower section of the tails were extended to compensate for a radome being mounted on the top. This came along only a year into the design and the subsequent builds may have been a hold over.
Weight as a result of the added rudders would not have been as much as you may expect since they were traditional fabric covered style surfaces | Food for thought: perhaps the design of the Constellation's tail was inherited -- aesthetically if not engineering-wise-- from the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, where the position of the two vertical fins was selected to put them in the optimal position relative to the propwash from the two engines. Even on the P-38, it seems it might have been possible to generate an equally effective tail with less interference drag by rearranging proportions and positions of the various surfaces to eliminate the little "stub" ends of the horizontal tail that projected outboard of the vertical fins, for a tail design more like that of the P-61 Black Widow. With the four-motored Constellation, it seems that it would have been an even simpler matter to select proportions of the tail surfaces such that the vertical fins could have served as "end plates" for the horizontal tail, with no projecting "stub ends" outboard of the vertical fins, thus reducing interference drag. It would also seem that interference drag might have been further reduced, while still meeting other design goals, by selecting a tail design with two vertical fins rather than three. |
30,388,971 | I need in simple ANSI SQL parser and am looking for some instant solution. Does antlr have SQL grammar out of the box or should I write it on my own from scratch? | 2015/05/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/30388971",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2786156/"
] | Here is an SQLite grammar for ANTLR4
<https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/sqlite/SQLite.g4> | Have a look at this site. It has a java solution
<http://jsqlparser.sourceforge.net/home.php>
Johan |
755,213 | My company maintains two SVN repositories, Repository 1 and Repository 2:
1. This repository has multiple projects in it, and is only accessed by the developers within the company. Access is through HTTPS and authentication is through the Windows domain.
2. This repository has a single project in it, and is accessed by the developers within the company, and our client's developers. Access is through svn:// and authentication is through the passwd file.
We have some code in a folder in Repository 1 that we would like to be downloaded to users of Repository 2. The obvious answer is to use SVN Externals, but as far as I can see, that would need the client's developers to have accounts on our domain, and our IT people don't like that.
Therefore, the only solution I can see is some kind of cron job that runs periodically to copy the necessary files from Repository 1 to 2. I've found a tool called [Tailor](http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor) which claims to do what I need, but so far I've not managed to get it to work correctly.
Before I spend more time trying to get Tailor to work, does anyone have any suggestions of another approach? My last resort is to knock up a program to do it for me, which shouldn't be too hard, but it's always best to use an existing app if there is one!
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Rich | 2009/04/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/755213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68283/"
] | If SVN externals would work, but the only stumbling block is access rights, then why not make a clone of the repository and point the externals to that?
SVN now has good support for mirroring:
<https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/MirroringASubversionRepository>
You can lock down the mirror repository using any authentication scheme you like, for example, anonymous read-only access.
However, you need to ensure that the only thing that updates the mirror is the svn sync command - the users of repository 2 won't be able to commit changes back to repository 1.
This page has some very useful information:
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt> | Do you need to have the external developers change the code in the folder in repository 2, if not you may not need to use SVN at all.
In general, having two repositories with SVN with the same code in is going to be confusing.
Other options
* If you need the external developers
to edit the files in repository 2,
could you not have the externals
going the other way, so repository1
has an externals definition to
repository.
* Go round your IT people
by putting all the code on repository.
* Use GIT. |
755,213 | My company maintains two SVN repositories, Repository 1 and Repository 2:
1. This repository has multiple projects in it, and is only accessed by the developers within the company. Access is through HTTPS and authentication is through the Windows domain.
2. This repository has a single project in it, and is accessed by the developers within the company, and our client's developers. Access is through svn:// and authentication is through the passwd file.
We have some code in a folder in Repository 1 that we would like to be downloaded to users of Repository 2. The obvious answer is to use SVN Externals, but as far as I can see, that would need the client's developers to have accounts on our domain, and our IT people don't like that.
Therefore, the only solution I can see is some kind of cron job that runs periodically to copy the necessary files from Repository 1 to 2. I've found a tool called [Tailor](http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor) which claims to do what I need, but so far I've not managed to get it to work correctly.
Before I spend more time trying to get Tailor to work, does anyone have any suggestions of another approach? My last resort is to knock up a program to do it for me, which shouldn't be too hard, but it's always best to use an existing app if there is one!
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Rich | 2009/04/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/755213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68283/"
] | I see you need to make changes from both repositories.
You might be able to use the same svnsync idea to build a [write-through proxy](http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#webdav-proxy).
Using this, the mirror repository passes write requests back to the master proxy. Now I'm not sure at this point what happens with authentication, but it's probably worth investigating here.
Might also look at [this info](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/http-and-webdav/webdav-proxy). | Do you need to have the external developers change the code in the folder in repository 2, if not you may not need to use SVN at all.
In general, having two repositories with SVN with the same code in is going to be confusing.
Other options
* If you need the external developers
to edit the files in repository 2,
could you not have the externals
going the other way, so repository1
has an externals definition to
repository.
* Go round your IT people
by putting all the code on repository.
* Use GIT. |
755,213 | My company maintains two SVN repositories, Repository 1 and Repository 2:
1. This repository has multiple projects in it, and is only accessed by the developers within the company. Access is through HTTPS and authentication is through the Windows domain.
2. This repository has a single project in it, and is accessed by the developers within the company, and our client's developers. Access is through svn:// and authentication is through the passwd file.
We have some code in a folder in Repository 1 that we would like to be downloaded to users of Repository 2. The obvious answer is to use SVN Externals, but as far as I can see, that would need the client's developers to have accounts on our domain, and our IT people don't like that.
Therefore, the only solution I can see is some kind of cron job that runs periodically to copy the necessary files from Repository 1 to 2. I've found a tool called [Tailor](http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor) which claims to do what I need, but so far I've not managed to get it to work correctly.
Before I spend more time trying to get Tailor to work, does anyone have any suggestions of another approach? My last resort is to knock up a program to do it for me, which shouldn't be too hard, but it's always best to use an existing app if there is one!
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Rich | 2009/04/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/755213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68283/"
] | If SVN externals would work, but the only stumbling block is access rights, then why not make a clone of the repository and point the externals to that?
SVN now has good support for mirroring:
<https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/MirroringASubversionRepository>
You can lock down the mirror repository using any authentication scheme you like, for example, anonymous read-only access.
However, you need to ensure that the only thing that updates the mirror is the svn sync command - the users of repository 2 won't be able to commit changes back to repository 1.
This page has some very useful information:
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt> | There is [SVNReplicate](https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNreplicate), which maybe could be customized to work with a single project, but this seems a case where a [distributed VCS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dvcs) should be more appropiate. |
755,213 | My company maintains two SVN repositories, Repository 1 and Repository 2:
1. This repository has multiple projects in it, and is only accessed by the developers within the company. Access is through HTTPS and authentication is through the Windows domain.
2. This repository has a single project in it, and is accessed by the developers within the company, and our client's developers. Access is through svn:// and authentication is through the passwd file.
We have some code in a folder in Repository 1 that we would like to be downloaded to users of Repository 2. The obvious answer is to use SVN Externals, but as far as I can see, that would need the client's developers to have accounts on our domain, and our IT people don't like that.
Therefore, the only solution I can see is some kind of cron job that runs periodically to copy the necessary files from Repository 1 to 2. I've found a tool called [Tailor](http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor) which claims to do what I need, but so far I've not managed to get it to work correctly.
Before I spend more time trying to get Tailor to work, does anyone have any suggestions of another approach? My last resort is to knock up a program to do it for me, which shouldn't be too hard, but it's always best to use an existing app if there is one!
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Rich | 2009/04/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/755213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68283/"
] | If SVN externals would work, but the only stumbling block is access rights, then why not make a clone of the repository and point the externals to that?
SVN now has good support for mirroring:
<https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/MirroringASubversionRepository>
You can lock down the mirror repository using any authentication scheme you like, for example, anonymous read-only access.
However, you need to ensure that the only thing that updates the mirror is the svn sync command - the users of repository 2 won't be able to commit changes back to repository 1.
This page has some very useful information:
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt> | I see you need to make changes from both repositories.
You might be able to use the same svnsync idea to build a [write-through proxy](http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#webdav-proxy).
Using this, the mirror repository passes write requests back to the master proxy. Now I'm not sure at this point what happens with authentication, but it's probably worth investigating here.
Might also look at [this info](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/http-and-webdav/webdav-proxy). |
755,213 | My company maintains two SVN repositories, Repository 1 and Repository 2:
1. This repository has multiple projects in it, and is only accessed by the developers within the company. Access is through HTTPS and authentication is through the Windows domain.
2. This repository has a single project in it, and is accessed by the developers within the company, and our client's developers. Access is through svn:// and authentication is through the passwd file.
We have some code in a folder in Repository 1 that we would like to be downloaded to users of Repository 2. The obvious answer is to use SVN Externals, but as far as I can see, that would need the client's developers to have accounts on our domain, and our IT people don't like that.
Therefore, the only solution I can see is some kind of cron job that runs periodically to copy the necessary files from Repository 1 to 2. I've found a tool called [Tailor](http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor) which claims to do what I need, but so far I've not managed to get it to work correctly.
Before I spend more time trying to get Tailor to work, does anyone have any suggestions of another approach? My last resort is to knock up a program to do it for me, which shouldn't be too hard, but it's always best to use an existing app if there is one!
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
Rich | 2009/04/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/755213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68283/"
] | I see you need to make changes from both repositories.
You might be able to use the same svnsync idea to build a [write-through proxy](http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#webdav-proxy).
Using this, the mirror repository passes write requests back to the master proxy. Now I'm not sure at this point what happens with authentication, but it's probably worth investigating here.
Might also look at [this info](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/http-and-webdav/webdav-proxy). | There is [SVNReplicate](https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNreplicate), which maybe could be customized to work with a single project, but this seems a case where a [distributed VCS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dvcs) should be more appropiate. |
12,392 | I have this wierd impact thing where I can flag and that stuff, what does the Impact mean?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gl6e2.png)
What does the 66 mean? | 2017/04/26 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12392",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/186038/"
] | "Impact" is an approximate measure of the number of people who have viewed your questions and answers. In your case, around 66 people have viewed your questions, which corresponds to the total view count. | Hovering over the "Impact" (specifically the number of people reached) displays a tool tip telling you what it is:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlGRK.png) |
1,293,016 | I work in field robotics and we have a central server keeps track of a whole heap of data to do with vehicle state, environment state, tasks, task grouping and so on. There are processes which deal with different parts of this data, and user interfaces which need to be updated when specific parts change.
What I want is a way for systems to connect to the central server and subscribe to a portion of the data. They get all the data piped down to them and any changes sent as they happen. Additionally I'd like to be able to nominate that certain updates can be amalgamated: if a vehicle has moved 3 times but the UI connected does not have much bandwidth than just the latest position is sent.
Currently I'm thinking an in-memory database which keeps track of client subscription queries and calculates deltas to send to them. Is there a better way or existing solution to distributing a data model? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1293016",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/158334/"
] | You may want a [tuple space](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space). In java, there's [JavaSpaces](http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jini/javaspaces/), which is part of [Jini](http://www.jini.org/wiki/Main_Page). I don't know if it supports change notification out of the box, or if you'll have to add some kind of notifications yourself. | I probably would (sort of ab-)use [Apache ServiceMix](https://servicemix.apache.org/index.html) for this scenario. Using a message oriented middleware can only benefit your project.
Describing my solution from a very high level view:
The way I see it, when abstracting the problem a bit, we are talking of events that happen, which need to be processed according to (business) rules. Depending on those business rules, other communication partners need to be synchronously or asynchronously notified.
So your various stations could send rather simple JMS messages to the [ActiveMQ](http://activemq.apache.org) component of ServiceMix when an event happens. Business logic running on the [ApacheCamel](http://camel.apache.org) will then read those messages and process them. The Camel component offers a rich feature set for Enterprise Integration Patterns. Implementing the business logic here is rather simple and straightforward. The stations which need to be notified could subscribe to JMS queues or topics, depending on the use case, or synchronously via a custom or one of the [many existing connectors](http://camel.apache.org/components.html) and [data formats](http://camel.apache.org/data-format.html). Hint: Sending [protocol buffers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers) over JMS or AMQP can be implemented in C or C++ with relative ease. This should allow highly efficient code on the stations, eliminating the dependency on a JVM the same time.
With the use of ServiceMix setup, you have various advantages:
* Durable notifications and subscriptions both for events and calculated data, when using JMS for asynchronous communication – if set up properly, no event will be lost, which might not be the case with a RAM based solution.
* A [battle tested environment](https://servicemix.apache.org/community/users.html), ready to use
* Ease of maintenance: updates to the business logic can be rolled out with little (fractions of seconds) to no downtime, if the application is planned properly. This is due to the fact that the business logic will be implemented as [OSGi bundles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi#Bundles) and the replacement of those bundles can be handled gracefully.
* Ease of development: Instead of needing to develop a whole application, you only need to implement the business logic, the software which sends the messages to ActiveMQ and your domain models.
* Seamless integration in existing SOA
* By design, complex problems are split into various smaller ones, which will likely enhance stability and perfectly matches agile development procedures |
25,765 | If you are not aware, [London Gatwick](http://www.fly-sea.com/charts/EGKK.pdf) (aka EGKK) has a setup with a primary air carrier runway and a backup runway immediately next to it, such that only one runway can be used at a time.
The main runway 8R/26L (South) has full HIALS (ALSF-2 in FAA parlance) with CAT III ILS as well as RNAV (LNAV/VNAV, no SBAS/LPV) and plated SRA non-precision approaches; however, the backup runway 8L/26R (North) only has RNAV and SRA approaches, and no ALS.
Similar runway configurations in the US (KEWR aka Newark Int'l is similar save for having a crosswind runway) allow what is called a sidestep ILS procedure, where the main ILS is flown to higher (nonprecision) minima and then a maneuver is executed on short final to "slide" over to the other runway after visual contact with both runways has been achieved. From AIM 5-4-19:
>
> **5−4−19. Side−step Maneuver**
>
>
> **a.** ATC may authorize a standard instrument
> approach procedure which serves either one of
> parallel runways that are separated by 1,200 feet or
> less followed by a straight−in landing on the adjacent
> runway.
>
>
> **b.** Aircraft that will execute a side−step maneuver
> will be cleared for a specified approach procedure
> and landing on the adjacent parallel runway.
> Example, “cleared ILS runway 7 left approach,
> side−step to runway 7 right.” Pilots are expected to
> commence the side−step maneuver as soon as
> possible after the runway or runway environment is
> in sight. Compliance with minimum altitudes
> associated with stepdown fixes is expected even after
> the side−step maneuver is initiated.
> NOTE−
> Side−step minima are flown to a Minimum Descent
> Altitude (MDA) regardless of the approach authorized.
>
>
> **c.** Landing minimums to the adjacent runway will
> be based on nonprecision criteria and therefore higher
> than the precision minimums to the primary runway,
> but will normally be lower than the published circling
> minimums.
>
>
>
Why has the UK not published similar minima for Gatwick's ILS? The existing OCHs for the secondary runway RNAV approaches are in the 650' range -- if the Newark ILS sidestep minima are any indication, it'd be possible to obtain lower minima for a sidestep approach to the EGKK secondary runway than are currently available from the RNAV or SRA approaches, and it would require no new navaids to be put into service.
Are sidestep approaches verboten in JAR-land? Is there some terrain or obstacle factor that I'm not seeing that makes a sidestep ILS approach into EGKK problematic or not desirable relative to the current RNAV approaches to the secondary runway? Or can the ICAO/CAA format for approach plates not represent sidestep minima? | 2016/03/03 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/25765",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/3825/"
] | You use circling minima for sidestep manoeuvres. While not commonly practiced, they may be requested by the pilot, have done so many times when LEMD (MAD) is in N config, saves 20min taxi-time... | After a lot of Googling, it looks to me like a side-step ILS approach is exclusively a US term and - at least practically speaking - it doesn't exist in the rest of the world. There are almost no relevant search hits for the term in other countries; Transport Canada [includes it in their glossary](https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/opssvs/secretariat-terminology-glossary-825.htm) but it's a direct copy from the [FAA's P/CG](http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/media/PCG.pdf) and is noted as a US term:
>
> U.S.: A visual maneuver [sic] accomplished by a pilot at the
> completion of an instrument approach to permit a straight-in landing
> on a parallel runway not more than 1200 ft to either side of the
> runway to which the instrument approach was conducted.
>
>
>
I did find out that some other countries use the term *swingover* for more or less the same thing, but the only two extensive sources I found are in German: [IVAO Deutschland](https://www.ivao.de/kompendium/Swingover) and [wikipedia.de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Over). Neither of them quotes a regulatory or ICAO source. The IVAO page says that pilots usually ask for a swingover, whereas in the US - at least based on what I found in forums - ATC will request it from the pilot.
But even if you're willing to accept that "it's a US thing", it doesn't explain *why* only the US has side-step approaches. I can think of a fairly vague reason, but I may be completely wrong. Side-step minima are different, as the [ATC orders](https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/ATC.pdf) (section 4-8-7) note:
>
> Side-step maneuvers require higher weather minima/MDA. These higher
> minima/MDA are published on the instrument approach charts
>
>
>
That means it takes actual work to create side-step minima, you can't just use them 'for free' from another ILS approach. So my guess here is that the US simply has - or, historically, had - better ILS and weather reporting facilities than many other countries do, as well as more resources directed at defining approaches and [more flights going into busy airports](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic). In other words, side-step approaches are more practical, 'affordable' and useful for the US than for other countries. But that's entirely my own speculation, and if someone can find a documented reason that would be great. |
76,812 | What factors determine which approach is more appropriate? | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/76812",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/337/"
] | I agree with Orion, but I'm going to rephrase the decision process.
You have a noun and a verb / an object and an action.
* If many objects of this type will use this action, try to make the action part of the object.
* Otherwise, try to group the action separately, but with related actions.
I like the File / string examples. There are many string operations, such as "SendAsHTTPReply", which won't happen for your average string, but do happen often in a certain setting. However, you basically will always close a File (hopefully), so it makes perfect sense to put the Close action in the class interface.
Another way to think of this is as buying part of an entertainment system. It makes sense to bundle a TV remote with a TV, because you always use them together. But it would be strange to bundle a power cable for a specific VCR with a TV, since many customers will never use this. The key idea is **how often will this action be used on this object**? | Not nearly enough information here. It depends if your language even supports the construct "Thing.something" or equivalent (ie. it's an OO language). If so, it's far more appropriate because that's the OO paradigm (members should be associated with the object they act on). In a procedural style, of course, DoSomethingtoThing() is your only choice... or ThingDoSomething() |
76,812 | What factors determine which approach is more appropriate? | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/76812",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/337/"
] | I agree with Orion, but I'm going to rephrase the decision process.
You have a noun and a verb / an object and an action.
* If many objects of this type will use this action, try to make the action part of the object.
* Otherwise, try to group the action separately, but with related actions.
I like the File / string examples. There are many string operations, such as "SendAsHTTPReply", which won't happen for your average string, but do happen often in a certain setting. However, you basically will always close a File (hopefully), so it makes perfect sense to put the Close action in the class interface.
Another way to think of this is as buying part of an entertainment system. It makes sense to bundle a TV remote with a TV, because you always use them together. But it would be strange to bundle a power cable for a specific VCR with a TV, since many customers will never use this. The key idea is **how often will this action be used on this object**? | I have to agree with [Kevin Conner](https://stackoverflow.com/users/10906/kevin-conner)
Also keep in mind the caller of either of the 2 forms. The caller is probably a method of some other object that definitely does something to your Thing :) |
76,812 | What factors determine which approach is more appropriate? | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/76812",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/337/"
] | I agree with Orion, but I'm going to rephrase the decision process.
You have a noun and a verb / an object and an action.
* If many objects of this type will use this action, try to make the action part of the object.
* Otherwise, try to group the action separately, but with related actions.
I like the File / string examples. There are many string operations, such as "SendAsHTTPReply", which won't happen for your average string, but do happen often in a certain setting. However, you basically will always close a File (hopefully), so it makes perfect sense to put the Close action in the class interface.
Another way to think of this is as buying part of an entertainment system. It makes sense to bundle a TV remote with a TV, because you always use them together. But it would be strange to bundle a power cable for a specific VCR with a TV, since many customers will never use this. The key idea is **how often will this action be used on this object**? | DoSomethingToThing(Thing n) would be more of a functional approach whereas Thing.DoSomething() would be more of an object oriented approach. |
80,350 | We have a scenario where we require our users to enter in a six character hexadecimal serial number from an IOT device into a website textbox. Unfortunately, due to the form factor of the IOT device, the label that has the hexadecimal characters is only about 1'' wide by 3/4'' height. Also, this is a consumer device so our user base has no knowledge of what hexadecimal even is.
In our user studies and in the field we've seen a lot of users struggle with determining what character is on the label. This ultimately ends in us not being able to match up the device's events with the user and the user thinks the system is broken.
Is there a font that is best for the readability of hexadecimal characters, A-F & 0-9, at really small font sizes on a white label? Are there any other suggestions as to how we could make it more readable? | 2015/06/18 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/80350",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/67569/"
] | Here are some recommendations:
* Monaco
* Courier
* Consolas
At smaller font sizes I would recommend turning anti-aliasing off for readability. Also, [this is a good reference](http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts) which shows the display of the fonts mentioned. | In general, when I go for sheer legibility and don't care about other font features, I go with [Source Sans Pro](https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro). It's clear, compact and works great on any size, so it's pretty common choice for your kind of tasks
Another good choice is [Droid](http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender), a font made after the [Android font](http://www.droidfonts.com/) built by Ascender.
Take a look at both fonts with the characters you need (smaller size is 9 px)
Additionally, both fonts have serif versions should you need them |
80,350 | We have a scenario where we require our users to enter in a six character hexadecimal serial number from an IOT device into a website textbox. Unfortunately, due to the form factor of the IOT device, the label that has the hexadecimal characters is only about 1'' wide by 3/4'' height. Also, this is a consumer device so our user base has no knowledge of what hexadecimal even is.
In our user studies and in the field we've seen a lot of users struggle with determining what character is on the label. This ultimately ends in us not being able to match up the device's events with the user and the user thinks the system is broken.
Is there a font that is best for the readability of hexadecimal characters, A-F & 0-9, at really small font sizes on a white label? Are there any other suggestions as to how we could make it more readable? | 2015/06/18 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/80350",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/67569/"
] | Here are some recommendations:
* Monaco
* Courier
* Consolas
At smaller font sizes I would recommend turning anti-aliasing off for readability. Also, [this is a good reference](http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts) which shows the display of the fonts mentioned. | I have a similar situation, small labels with 16 digits that must be human readable. What I have done is used a fixed width font (Courier), I've split the numbers into groups like #### #### #### #### and also set the spacing between the letters to be a little wider than default. This is pretty readable even at 9pt font - black on white or black on yellow.
Our labels come out of various printers for some printers we had to learn driver settings to make sure it would use the right thermal temp (hardware settings) or make sure it wouldn't do font substitutions (software setting) |
103,556 | What lens should I purchase to take pictures of fast moving subjects at a distance, magnify them with crisp detail so to speak freeze them in action, and bring them close (as subjects for my drawings and paintings)?
I have an EOS Rebel T7i, Canon EF-S 18-55mm, and EF-S 55-250mm lenses.
I am an amateur photographer, I have great interest in motion subjects, from flying birds to a kite surfer, to civil war re-enactments. I found myself wanting to capture expressions and out of the ordinary movements, cannonball fire, the facial expression of a Kite surfer that is 50 feet in the air, and actions.
I went on the Canon website and read many reviews on macro and telephoto and it shows sample pictures like a dragonfly's head or pictures of still subjects, which are all great but I want the same effect on an eagle sitting on a branch 300 feet from me and if he takes off I want to be able to shoot pictures in flight. I actually captured a bald eagle sitting on a branch with my zoom lens, but it just did not bring it close enough for me.
I am also more concentrated on being able to hike and be on the go and snap a picture instead of setting up a tripod unless it is an event. I do not want to spend a ton of money to start out with, but around of $1000 I am game. | 2018/12/15 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/103556",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/80673/"
] | You can do perspective correction in PS, an easy way is for example via Camera Raw, or the Distort/Lens Correction filter.
Another method to retain straight verticals *while shooting* is to shoot with a wide FoV and keep your lens pointed horizontally. Your object will be in the lower part of the image,but you can crop that later (that's why you need the wide FoV). The trick is to *not* point your camera down to center the chair. (this is basically what a shift lens does, it just saves you the cropping step) | On the software side, it can be corrected in [Photoshop](https://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/3-ways-fix-perspective-errors-photoshop-71412122). Lightroom even has a panel in the development module dedicated that. There is also software that only does the perspective corrections.
You have to take into account that when correcting the perspective you usually end cropping part of the original photograph. Leave breathing space for the possible crop when taking the picture. |
103,556 | What lens should I purchase to take pictures of fast moving subjects at a distance, magnify them with crisp detail so to speak freeze them in action, and bring them close (as subjects for my drawings and paintings)?
I have an EOS Rebel T7i, Canon EF-S 18-55mm, and EF-S 55-250mm lenses.
I am an amateur photographer, I have great interest in motion subjects, from flying birds to a kite surfer, to civil war re-enactments. I found myself wanting to capture expressions and out of the ordinary movements, cannonball fire, the facial expression of a Kite surfer that is 50 feet in the air, and actions.
I went on the Canon website and read many reviews on macro and telephoto and it shows sample pictures like a dragonfly's head or pictures of still subjects, which are all great but I want the same effect on an eagle sitting on a branch 300 feet from me and if he takes off I want to be able to shoot pictures in flight. I actually captured a bald eagle sitting on a branch with my zoom lens, but it just did not bring it close enough for me.
I am also more concentrated on being able to hike and be on the go and snap a picture instead of setting up a tripod unless it is an event. I do not want to spend a ton of money to start out with, but around of $1000 I am game. | 2018/12/15 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/103556",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/80673/"
] | You can do perspective correction in PS, an easy way is for example via Camera Raw, or the Distort/Lens Correction filter.
Another method to retain straight verticals *while shooting* is to shoot with a wide FoV and keep your lens pointed horizontally. Your object will be in the lower part of the image,but you can crop that later (that's why you need the wide FoV). The trick is to *not* point your camera down to center the chair. (this is basically what a shift lens does, it just saves you the cropping step) | The expensive optical solution is to employ a [tilt-shift lens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography#Available_lenses). The advantage opposed to computational solutions is that you retain the full sensor resolution to work with. Whether this results in an actually higher resolution of the result depends on the quality of the optics: after all, the task of spreading out lines for which only short line information is visible is tricky either way. With analog film, optics tended to be the better option but things are not as clearcut digitally. |
103,556 | What lens should I purchase to take pictures of fast moving subjects at a distance, magnify them with crisp detail so to speak freeze them in action, and bring them close (as subjects for my drawings and paintings)?
I have an EOS Rebel T7i, Canon EF-S 18-55mm, and EF-S 55-250mm lenses.
I am an amateur photographer, I have great interest in motion subjects, from flying birds to a kite surfer, to civil war re-enactments. I found myself wanting to capture expressions and out of the ordinary movements, cannonball fire, the facial expression of a Kite surfer that is 50 feet in the air, and actions.
I went on the Canon website and read many reviews on macro and telephoto and it shows sample pictures like a dragonfly's head or pictures of still subjects, which are all great but I want the same effect on an eagle sitting on a branch 300 feet from me and if he takes off I want to be able to shoot pictures in flight. I actually captured a bald eagle sitting on a branch with my zoom lens, but it just did not bring it close enough for me.
I am also more concentrated on being able to hike and be on the go and snap a picture instead of setting up a tripod unless it is an event. I do not want to spend a ton of money to start out with, but around of $1000 I am game. | 2018/12/15 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/103556",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/80673/"
] | On the software side, it can be corrected in [Photoshop](https://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/3-ways-fix-perspective-errors-photoshop-71412122). Lightroom even has a panel in the development module dedicated that. There is also software that only does the perspective corrections.
You have to take into account that when correcting the perspective you usually end cropping part of the original photograph. Leave breathing space for the possible crop when taking the picture. | The expensive optical solution is to employ a [tilt-shift lens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography#Available_lenses). The advantage opposed to computational solutions is that you retain the full sensor resolution to work with. Whether this results in an actually higher resolution of the result depends on the quality of the optics: after all, the task of spreading out lines for which only short line information is visible is tricky either way. With analog film, optics tended to be the better option but things are not as clearcut digitally. |
25,066 | How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap?
What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one. | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/25066",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/7131/"
] | I simply mark the whole drawing, and resize the page to it, so that the page has the desired margin to the drawing. I nearly always use page format A4 landscape or A4 portrait with visible page border.
While bitmap exporting, I can easily choose between drawing, page or selection. | Draw a rectangle over the area you want to export. Make the rectangle have transparant fill. Select the rectangle and export the selection |
25,066 | How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap?
What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one. | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/25066",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/7131/"
] | I simply mark the whole drawing, and resize the page to it, so that the page has the desired margin to the drawing. I nearly always use page format A4 landscape or A4 portrait with visible page border.
While bitmap exporting, I can easily choose between drawing, page or selection. | If you want a border of, say, *100px* around your selection/document:
* add a reclangle, put its
+ position: 0, 0,
+ size: doc-width, doc-height,
+ fill: transparent, border: transparent
+ bodrer-size: *100px*
* select all (Ctrl+A)
* export selection |
25,066 | How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap?
What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one. | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/25066",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/7131/"
] | Draw a rectangle over the area you want to export. Make the rectangle have transparant fill. Select the rectangle and export the selection | If you want a border of, say, *100px* around your selection/document:
* add a reclangle, put its
+ position: 0, 0,
+ size: doc-width, doc-height,
+ fill: transparent, border: transparent
+ bodrer-size: *100px*
* select all (Ctrl+A)
* export selection |
91,010 | The dictionary explains this as:
>
> To show somebody that you are interested in them and/or want to help them
>
>
>
The explanation indicates the subject of the sentence is the one that offers help, but I think this one is also correct:
>
> I'll try it first, and if I can't handle it, I'll reach out to you for help.
>
>
>
I am confused about who offers help because I saw my native speaker colleague write this in an email:
>
> Thanks for reaching out to me.
>
>
>
Is this a "thanks" for helping or being asked to help? | 2012/11/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/91010",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2796/"
] | The definition shown in your dictionary is unnecessarily narrow, which has led to your confusion. More broadly, "to reach out" means *to initiate contact with someone*, with the usual implication that the contact is helpful or beneficial.
For that reason, either the helper or the person requesting help can be said to "reach out" to the other. The only stipulation is that the subject of "reach out" is the one who initiates the relationship. If you ask someone for help, then it is correct to say that you reached out for help from them; but if they offered help without you asking, then they reached out to help you.
(Note also this difference: you reached out *for* help, they reached out *to* help.) | “Reach out” is just so much mindless business twaddle. There are lots of web pages excoriating its promulgators.
For example, John Smurf’s [MBA Jargon Watch](http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon2.htm) defines it as follows:
>
> **reach out** (*v.*)
>
>
> To call or email. For this one, we can blame those old AT&T ads that encouraged folks to "reach out and touch someone." Obviously, you can't actually reach out and TOUCH anyone due to your company's stringent sexual-harrassent policy. But you can "reach out" (but, again, no touching) to a co-worker for information, support, or to start one of those crucial conversations. But keep any interaction to a phone call or email just to be on the safe side.
>
>
>
And here, from the [Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary](http://www.theofficelife.com/business-jargon-dictionary-R.html):
>
> **Reach out** [*v.*]
>
>
> To contact. A dramatic way of saying a very mundane thing."I'll have my people reach out sometime next week."
>
>
>
And here from *Forbes Magazine* no less, in their now very famous and frequently cited page of [Most Annoying Business Jargon](http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/annoying-business-jargons-12.html) or [via this link](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-most-annoying--pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon.html) of the most annoying, pretentious, and useless business jargon, where *reaching out* made it to position #7 in their 32-bracket run-off:
>
> The next time you feel the need to reach out, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it, because all that meaningless business jargon makes you sound like a complete moron.
>
>
>
And here from the Daily Muse’s [Business Buzzwords to Banish from Your Vocabulary](http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/business-jargon/):
>
> **Reach Out**
>
>
> “Let’s reach out to someone in accounting to get those numbers.”
>
>
> “If you want to follow up, feel free to reach out to me by phone.”
>
>
> “Reach out” is one of the best examples of how corporate jargon makes things unnecessarily complicated. The English language already has lots of useful words related to communication. “Reach out to me by phone?” Seriously? How about just “call me?” In an age when most people are overwhelmed by crowded email inboxes, it’s best to be brief and clear. Never use “reach out” when “email” or “contact” will do just fine.
>
>
>
Whereas *Forbes Magazine* put the phrase at position ⁷⁄₃₂, at Lackuna.com’s site for Tech and Language News, “reaching out” made it to the #2 slot in their article on [Business Language — is it all just mumbo jumbo?](http://www.lackuna.com/2012/06/13/business-language-is-it-all-just-mumbo-jumbo/). In fact, only “blue-sky thinking” outranks it:
>
> **#2 – Reaching Out**
>
>
> This one seems to be popular with American workers. Given today’s global economy, with businesses doing more and more international trade, you’re probably no stranger to receiving speculative emails saying something along the lines of: “Hi there! I’m reaching out to you in the hope that….”
>
>
> They want to say they are getting in touch. You think they want to touch you, literally. It’s ok…really…
>
>
> Why they can’t just say “I am contacting you because?”. There’s no need to use such ridiculously emotive language, especially if you’re emailing me for the first time and that we’ve never met before. It won’t make me like you any more, so stop it.
>
>
>
On the Hot To Write Better website, their article on [Do you speak Touchy-Feely?](http://howtowritebetter.net/do-you-speak-touchy-feely/) writes:
>
> **Reach out**
>
>
> Means contact. Reach out suggests to me an almost-drowning loser grasping unsuccessfully at a life-saver ring. I suspect this is not quite what the originators of this term had in mind. Why does anyone have to *reach out* merely to get in touch with someone? Why can’t you just contact them?
>
>
>
On a somewhat more reflective and perhaps linguistically relevant note, Global Results Communiations’ article on [Word Up: Having Fun with Business Jargon](http://blog.globalresultspr.com/word-up-having-fun-with-business-jargon/) observes:
>
> Even when geography, culture, gender, social class and age group are relatively similar, two people can find themselves speaking entirely different languages if their professions are different. For example, one of my closest girlfriends is a college professor, and I am in public relations in the technology industry. She once asked me what “close the loop” meant and under what circumstances someone would say it. She had literally never heard the expression! She said that there are certain expressions used in “business” that she and her academic colleagues never use or have never heard of, such as “ping,” “reach out,” and “circle back.” These words make her laugh. I am equally amused by the words she and her academic colleagues regularly use in their field, like “rigorous” and “empirical.” Once you’ve heard the same expressions so many times, you become inured and take for granted that if you know and use these expressions, just about everyone else must know and use them, too.
>
>
>
To people coming from a different background, these in-group and in-vogue expressions sound ridiculous. But if you are part of that in-group, they mark you as being just that to the others who are there. To you, it may sound funny if they use that language, while to them, you may sound funny if you do not. I’ve observed first-hand the mismatch between academic and business language when groups from those respective communities interact, and it really does take them quite some time to figure out what each other are saying. |
91,010 | The dictionary explains this as:
>
> To show somebody that you are interested in them and/or want to help them
>
>
>
The explanation indicates the subject of the sentence is the one that offers help, but I think this one is also correct:
>
> I'll try it first, and if I can't handle it, I'll reach out to you for help.
>
>
>
I am confused about who offers help because I saw my native speaker colleague write this in an email:
>
> Thanks for reaching out to me.
>
>
>
Is this a "thanks" for helping or being asked to help? | 2012/11/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/91010",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2796/"
] | The definition shown in your dictionary is unnecessarily narrow, which has led to your confusion. More broadly, "to reach out" means *to initiate contact with someone*, with the usual implication that the contact is helpful or beneficial.
For that reason, either the helper or the person requesting help can be said to "reach out" to the other. The only stipulation is that the subject of "reach out" is the one who initiates the relationship. If you ask someone for help, then it is correct to say that you reached out for help from them; but if they offered help without you asking, then they reached out to help you.
(Note also this difference: you reached out *for* help, they reached out *to* help.) | Leaving aside the twaddleity of *reach out*, the matter of who is helping whom is resolved thus:
* *reach out **for** help* signifies “get in touch with in order to obtain help”
* *reach out **to** help* signifies “get in touch with in order to offer help”
* *thank you **for** reaching out* signifies “I feel gratitude toward you because you got in touch and offered help” |
91,010 | The dictionary explains this as:
>
> To show somebody that you are interested in them and/or want to help them
>
>
>
The explanation indicates the subject of the sentence is the one that offers help, but I think this one is also correct:
>
> I'll try it first, and if I can't handle it, I'll reach out to you for help.
>
>
>
I am confused about who offers help because I saw my native speaker colleague write this in an email:
>
> Thanks for reaching out to me.
>
>
>
Is this a "thanks" for helping or being asked to help? | 2012/11/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/91010",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2796/"
] | The definition shown in your dictionary is unnecessarily narrow, which has led to your confusion. More broadly, "to reach out" means *to initiate contact with someone*, with the usual implication that the contact is helpful or beneficial.
For that reason, either the helper or the person requesting help can be said to "reach out" to the other. The only stipulation is that the subject of "reach out" is the one who initiates the relationship. If you ask someone for help, then it is correct to say that you reached out for help from them; but if they offered help without you asking, then they reached out to help you.
(Note also this difference: you reached out *for* help, they reached out *to* help.) | Hard to tell what exactly he/she means without more of the context.
In general, I think when someone says "Thanks for reaching out to me", they are both taking it as a compliment that you would consult their help (when you are obviously working on something or in the process of doing or researching something), and simply thanking you for, when reaching a point where you need some sort of help, seeking help and being responsible enough to ask for outside help.
>
> I'm glad you're taking the time to consult someone about your problem, and I take it as a compliment that you value my opinion and insight on the particular topic.
>
>
>
...is how I translate this. Sounds like something a professor would say! |
91,010 | The dictionary explains this as:
>
> To show somebody that you are interested in them and/or want to help them
>
>
>
The explanation indicates the subject of the sentence is the one that offers help, but I think this one is also correct:
>
> I'll try it first, and if I can't handle it, I'll reach out to you for help.
>
>
>
I am confused about who offers help because I saw my native speaker colleague write this in an email:
>
> Thanks for reaching out to me.
>
>
>
Is this a "thanks" for helping or being asked to help? | 2012/11/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/91010",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2796/"
] | “Reach out” is just so much mindless business twaddle. There are lots of web pages excoriating its promulgators.
For example, John Smurf’s [MBA Jargon Watch](http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon2.htm) defines it as follows:
>
> **reach out** (*v.*)
>
>
> To call or email. For this one, we can blame those old AT&T ads that encouraged folks to "reach out and touch someone." Obviously, you can't actually reach out and TOUCH anyone due to your company's stringent sexual-harrassent policy. But you can "reach out" (but, again, no touching) to a co-worker for information, support, or to start one of those crucial conversations. But keep any interaction to a phone call or email just to be on the safe side.
>
>
>
And here, from the [Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary](http://www.theofficelife.com/business-jargon-dictionary-R.html):
>
> **Reach out** [*v.*]
>
>
> To contact. A dramatic way of saying a very mundane thing."I'll have my people reach out sometime next week."
>
>
>
And here from *Forbes Magazine* no less, in their now very famous and frequently cited page of [Most Annoying Business Jargon](http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/annoying-business-jargons-12.html) or [via this link](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-most-annoying--pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon.html) of the most annoying, pretentious, and useless business jargon, where *reaching out* made it to position #7 in their 32-bracket run-off:
>
> The next time you feel the need to reach out, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it, because all that meaningless business jargon makes you sound like a complete moron.
>
>
>
And here from the Daily Muse’s [Business Buzzwords to Banish from Your Vocabulary](http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/business-jargon/):
>
> **Reach Out**
>
>
> “Let’s reach out to someone in accounting to get those numbers.”
>
>
> “If you want to follow up, feel free to reach out to me by phone.”
>
>
> “Reach out” is one of the best examples of how corporate jargon makes things unnecessarily complicated. The English language already has lots of useful words related to communication. “Reach out to me by phone?” Seriously? How about just “call me?” In an age when most people are overwhelmed by crowded email inboxes, it’s best to be brief and clear. Never use “reach out” when “email” or “contact” will do just fine.
>
>
>
Whereas *Forbes Magazine* put the phrase at position ⁷⁄₃₂, at Lackuna.com’s site for Tech and Language News, “reaching out” made it to the #2 slot in their article on [Business Language — is it all just mumbo jumbo?](http://www.lackuna.com/2012/06/13/business-language-is-it-all-just-mumbo-jumbo/). In fact, only “blue-sky thinking” outranks it:
>
> **#2 – Reaching Out**
>
>
> This one seems to be popular with American workers. Given today’s global economy, with businesses doing more and more international trade, you’re probably no stranger to receiving speculative emails saying something along the lines of: “Hi there! I’m reaching out to you in the hope that….”
>
>
> They want to say they are getting in touch. You think they want to touch you, literally. It’s ok…really…
>
>
> Why they can’t just say “I am contacting you because?”. There’s no need to use such ridiculously emotive language, especially if you’re emailing me for the first time and that we’ve never met before. It won’t make me like you any more, so stop it.
>
>
>
On the Hot To Write Better website, their article on [Do you speak Touchy-Feely?](http://howtowritebetter.net/do-you-speak-touchy-feely/) writes:
>
> **Reach out**
>
>
> Means contact. Reach out suggests to me an almost-drowning loser grasping unsuccessfully at a life-saver ring. I suspect this is not quite what the originators of this term had in mind. Why does anyone have to *reach out* merely to get in touch with someone? Why can’t you just contact them?
>
>
>
On a somewhat more reflective and perhaps linguistically relevant note, Global Results Communiations’ article on [Word Up: Having Fun with Business Jargon](http://blog.globalresultspr.com/word-up-having-fun-with-business-jargon/) observes:
>
> Even when geography, culture, gender, social class and age group are relatively similar, two people can find themselves speaking entirely different languages if their professions are different. For example, one of my closest girlfriends is a college professor, and I am in public relations in the technology industry. She once asked me what “close the loop” meant and under what circumstances someone would say it. She had literally never heard the expression! She said that there are certain expressions used in “business” that she and her academic colleagues never use or have never heard of, such as “ping,” “reach out,” and “circle back.” These words make her laugh. I am equally amused by the words she and her academic colleagues regularly use in their field, like “rigorous” and “empirical.” Once you’ve heard the same expressions so many times, you become inured and take for granted that if you know and use these expressions, just about everyone else must know and use them, too.
>
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To people coming from a different background, these in-group and in-vogue expressions sound ridiculous. But if you are part of that in-group, they mark you as being just that to the others who are there. To you, it may sound funny if they use that language, while to them, you may sound funny if you do not. I’ve observed first-hand the mismatch between academic and business language when groups from those respective communities interact, and it really does take them quite some time to figure out what each other are saying. | Leaving aside the twaddleity of *reach out*, the matter of who is helping whom is resolved thus:
* *reach out **for** help* signifies “get in touch with in order to obtain help”
* *reach out **to** help* signifies “get in touch with in order to offer help”
* *thank you **for** reaching out* signifies “I feel gratitude toward you because you got in touch and offered help” |
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