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Maybe not you, but anybody who has read the Foxfire books should do just fine.

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They have math, from pre-algebra to calculus plus statistics. Physics, chemistry, astronomy. biology, microbiology, economics, psychology, U.S. history

There are quite a few efforts along the lines of what you are suggesting, but Openstax is my favorite because they are well funded (Gates Foundation and Hewlett Foundation, among others), they produce a consistent, high-quality product, they don't try to suck you into their ecosystem - they just write and give away the textbooks.

The Open Textbook Network is also very good, but they are more curators of all free textbooks and not so much producers.

Elongated bowls don't bang male-parts when you scoot forward a bit. They're seen as a luxury option for this purpose, but only by men, and not necessarily by all men. It's also easier to pee standing up.

Good point on the round toilet fluid dynamics.

The limits of our fluid dynamics technology (and fluid dynamics in general--there's only so much energy in a gallon of water that's not elevated 6 feet above the bowl) remain close to 20 years ago; the general understanding of and ability to manufacture to tolerances required for good fluid dynamics has spread, so cheaper toilets have improved faster than upper-end toilets. Until they start coating them with low-friction ceramics, this will remain true.

There are $50 toilets at Home Depot sometimes, when they're woefully overstocked. Typically, you can get a good (but not top-end) Toto around $200-$250 off Amazon; their MSRP is like $450. You can get the $600-$800 models for like $450. I like the highest-end models because they have smooth sides instead of the ridiculous crevices and pipe designs: a trapezoidal monolyth is a flat surface to wipe down, rather than a bunch of nooks and crannies to dig at with a pick brush for 40 minutes. Being able to not have my toilet covered in dust and yellow film without spending an hour every weekend cleaning it is worth the $450. Meanwhile, your generic toilet does typically cost over $100 if you don't catch some extreme overstock clearance bullshit, so yeah... the $200 thing is actually priced competitively.

So here's a $989 toilet at $600 on Amazon. If you're buying a $1,000 toilet, you should expect that I guess. You can see what I mean about the sides, though. Flat sides like that have become somewhat popular, versus this kind of shit that's impossible to clean. You're getting a vanilla top-down flush if you're not paying a few hundred, though; that Toto "Tornado Flush" has a steep price tag. As I said: I'm willing to pay in the upper end for something that's going to outlast the bathroom itself.

Good points, though.

1. There's no way that storing years worth of textbooks would offset the cost reduction from increasing the print run. Particularly for the 101 books that sell a large number of copies.

2. If you were storing the books, you could just as easily print and store them overseas to avoid that tax.

3. The very same books are typically much cheaper in overseas markets where education is less expensive. For some, publishers even go out their way to make the text order different to maintain this markup, see for example Campbell Biology in the UK (Global Edition) vs. the US book.

For subjects like calculus, publishers have come up with the "metric edition" because US and EU college students can't use unfamiliar units.

1. There's no way that storing years worth of textbooks would offset the cost reduction from increasing the print run. Particularly for the 101 books that sell a large number of copies.

2. If you were storing the books, you could just as easily print and store them overseas to avoid that tax.

3. The very same books are typically much cheaper in overseas markets where education is less expensive. For some, publishers even go out their way to make the text order different to maintain this markup, see for example Campbell Biology in the UK (Global Edition) vs. the US book.

For subjects like calculus, publishers have come up with the "metric edition" because US and EU college students can't use unfamiliar units.

Can you buy it? AMD arguably made "ok" CPUs (talking within past 2-3 years), and even some mildly interesting ones. But could you buy them anywhere?

Yes you can.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Part of the problem is that you, like most people posting, don't know what Yoga is and have never done it, but feel qualified to post your ridiculous claims anyway. The people saying Yoga is bending and stretching have no concept of what Yoda is either.

There are numerous branches of Yoga, and the branch everyone is referring to, Hatha, is specifically intended to prepare the body for meditation. Yes there is bending and stretching, but much more importantly there is mindfullness, and this is where the difference between Yoga and physical therapy couldn't be more great.

Yoga, practiced correctly, involves meditation ... one focuses the mind on the body and on breathing. This causes a radical change. It is fairly well understood by science now, not "voodoo" at all. See also "Buddha's Brain", which doesn't mention Yoga, but instead focuses (excuse the pun) on mindfulness and the positive effects it has on the brain.

Furthermore, true practitioners of Yoga eat healthily, whereas those going to PT often don't. There are myriad other advantages to Yoga, but in the end hot babes in tight spandex is just a minimal perk in comparison.

If you don't believe me that there is a lot to Yoga, you could always do the geek thing and learn something.

2) Women do yoga, but I really yoga class is just about the last place you're going to talk to or flirt with a girl. People come to the studio to do their workout and then they leave, there's no down-time to chat and flirt.

1) I was flirting with her at a social dancing weekend (Tango) and not in Yoga class.

2) I was flirting with her while dancing, while chatting and while doing deep philosophy. ... And she was flirting with me - despite having a lover already.

3) She`s a Yoga instructor, so she`d most likely be my teacher if we do Yoga together.

4) As for no down time to flirt with women: I`d say the 15 to 20 something women I danced with for 2.5 nights and 2 days would probably beg to differ. That includes the Tango & Salsa chick that looked and felt like a cross-breed between a p0rnstar, olympic gymnast and a south-european supermodel and the cute girlfriend of a very good Tango friend who started crying in my arms during a particularly extatic tanda (set of tangosongs of similar stile). ... And the Yoga chick.

Bottom line: Get out, do some excersize, get something fashionable to wear, read this book, learn Tango or Salsa and go and meet and f*ck some decent chicas. Changes your life and your perspective on women so much you won`t believe it and think you`ve landed on a different planet where insecure ladies just want some pleasure with a guy that isn`t a total douche. (Hint: They paint their faces every day to be more beautiful - what does that tell you when you think about it for a minute?)

That`s some free life changing advice from your old slashdot pal Qbertino. (Posting anonymously from a public Chromebook.) Enjoy.

My two cents.

And as usual, if you need, somebody else thought about a solution: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...

I don't know if you remember this conversation, but I thought you might be interested in another book I found recently, When They Severed Earth From Sky. It clarifies a lot of natural-history aspects of mythology.

1. Offsite backup your most precious files.

First you need to determine the difference between must-have and nice-to-have backups. I am thinking of personal stuff, not business related,
That means that pictures you took of the first step are nice-to-have. Yes, it sucks if they are gone.
99% of the emails will fall under this as well and many of the things can be requested at the company you got them from in the first place.

So the real data you actually need as an individual will be much less than say 1GB. That means it can easily fit on a USB key. Write a script that does a copy of an encrypted up to date data-file to that key the moment you put the key in. Now you have offline backup.

And with prices of 32GB as low as they are, having those pictures of your first born is also possible. Even 256GB is not that expensive anymore.

I am just looking for a USB hub with Wifi instead of a cable to the PC, so I can place it near my front door as a key hanger.

200GB, eh? https://www.amazon.com/Samsung...

It's not just our species, its all life (that we know of) that could not exist anymore. Yes, the universe existed for 10 billion years (or so) before this tiny pebble somehow had a remarkable series of events occur...I'm not religious but life is special and until we know it exists anywhere else on the universe, it seems like its our responsibility to ensure it continues. Otherwise the universe will be boring.

And living in a kumbaya world for you, where people are disposable commodities, is even sadder.

Maybe you should look into Abilify or Zyprexa to treat your delusional episodes. I also recommend you get a copy of "How Not To Be An Asshole" ($6.99 paperback) and get someone to read it to you.

It's really fascinating that you would come up with something like "people are disposable commodities", as that says a lot more about you and your state of mind than it does about me. It also shows how little you know about, well, everything.

Read this book: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

Slack is a good example of one of these products. They've created a really nice collaboration tool, using a central source, for teams.

Pair that product with existing offerings. Big win for whoever owns it.

Now imagine being able to mine and apply the data they have on that crowd (in a variety of ways), and cross reference it with other sources.

Yeah, several billion doesn't seem too far fetched.

This $20 wireless quick charger for my S7 works pretty darn fast. Is it faster than wired charging? Probably not but it's fast enough for my needs and is convenient. And I'm happy Apple is finally jumping on the wireless charging band wagon.

Typical Vox article, where "pro-Trump" = "racist". Continuing to deny even the remotest possibility that Hillary! was just too corrupt for many people to swallow, and that she is indicative of the political elite orchestrating the presidential election.

Bernie was never meant to be a real threat to Hillary! but the D constituents are just as fed up with the 1% as anyone else. Even without those carefully crafted primary rules, Bernie almost got out of control. The R side of the equation didn't have those rules in place, so Jeb did get displaced. That left Trump-the-outsider running against Hillary!-the-corrupt, and that's why he won.

It seems to me that even progressive publications like Vox would see through what's going on here. It's no longer (only) progressive vs. conservative. This is a different battle, orthogonal to the first one: it's the political elite pulling the levers behind the scenes, vs. actually having control of your own government.

You may personally support (or not support) Trump for other reasons, but he was definitely race-baiting.

Race-baiting has been a serious problem in American politics for a very long time. Slinging "leftist" at those that point it out hurts our ability to talk about it and try to deal with it.

And here is the other major arc of democracy, if that book doesn't depress you enough.

You can also get a free book each month from a selection of new upcoming books.
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/kindlefirst/
Once in a while I also get a book from the local library sent to my Kindle... but that's a two week and it's over deal.

spam free link: Amazon
or even Google.

Seconded! I went through the same transition. Incidentally, I was the only one in my immediate surrounding that saw Trump coming [not that I support him; also as no-US citizen I could not vote]. Somebody above objected that the arrogance of the left could never be the reason for people switching to Trump. I agree with that actually, but almost half the population did not vote - it was those people that the Democrats failed to engage....

Finally, the perfect illustration of yours and my sentiments - https://www.amazon.com/Girls-N...

Searching any thing in the life of people to put them in jail is not justice. Even about Capone, Dotcom, in fact for anybody. Anybody can be put in jail under those conditions.

This is why there are some failsafes in the constitution and in the human rights declaration against unreasonable search and seizure of asset.

I always amaze that so many US citizen seems to think this kind of thing is normal. Yeaaah, he is a bad guy lets find anything to put him in jail. US justice is sick.

To their credit, they managed to produce the hardware and software and get it to market, and apparently it worked fine. There is just a lot of competition in that space right now (like this: https://www.amazon.com/Withing...), plus most all fitness trackers (Fitbit, and even the Apple Watch) do a decent job tracking sleep. Personally I use my Apple Watch with a free app to track my sleep, and as a bonus I get to see how all my cardio exercise results in nice low heart rates while I'm in deep sleep.

I sometimes wonder about this.

Read Laura Kipnis's book Unwanted Advances . Kipnis isn't alt-right or conservative. She's a well-respected feminst who's on the same side of the political aisle as you, but she's very critical of the current campus culture.

If you read her book, I suspect that she will explain the problem to you in a way that you can understand.

What would happen is: water would condense on the every surface in the computer after every time you opened the case. ...

After opening and closing the case, you would need to run the fridge case in a dehumidification mode for several hours before turning the computer on in order to reduce the humidity below the cooled computer's dew point.

Just stuff the case with those Silica Gel Desiccant packets - problem solved.

"Does this mean that Amazon was planning to fight back with some kind of "Amazon Docs" solution?"

See: https://aws.amazon.com/workdoc...

See Amazon WorkDocs ( https://aws.amazon.com/workdoc... ), based on the URL it's an AWS product.

Compressor motors as such are not designed for continuous operation

Refrigeration compressors actually are often designed for continuous operation. In fact, if your AC in your house is sized right it should run 24/7 on the hottest days of the year, at least during the hottest hours of the hottest days. Similarly to get higher efficiencies refrigerators and such will often have longer duty cycles. They are most efficient after they are running for awhile.

All that being said, a pure refrigeration solution for a PC is problematic. If you could get all the chips to connect to one heat sink they you could do it, but if you have to have multiple hot spots, then it would probably be easier to use water or some other liquid coolant first, and then refrigeration second. Let's think about numbers a bit. Assume you have a very high end system that is generating 1KW of heat well google can tell you that is 3412 btu/hr. Some very small window units are around that capacity.

Basically you could water cool between the two and get rid of the inside fan blades. You could also just direct cold air from that kind of window unit through a PC or any number of variations. The reason I mention water cooling is the water plus the heat sinks and various metal provide a certain amount of thermal mass. Add more water and get more thermal mass. They would allow the refrigeration compressor to cycle off when it needed to.

More expensive refrigeration technology like used in Mini Splits uses variable speed compressors, which are probably something like an inverter to bring things to DC then some kind of pulse width modulation to control speed. That all being said, there are limits to running speeds. At some point you have to cycle the system off then back on. Do that too often and you might see a compressor failure.

  A random web search seems to show a refrigerator at around 1200 btu/hr. In short, a refrigerator may not in itself be powerful enough.

  I suppose if someone told me to just build one and didn't care about price, I might start with an aquarium cooler, something like this link
You still would need a pump and the rest of the water cooling goodness, including probably some kind of reservoir. Some of that might fit in a PC case.

Actually come to think of it, I doubt I ever build a water cooling setup again. I'm typing on a 2 core intel I3 something or other with a fan so quiet I can't hear it... Unless I have to build a very high end number crunching cluster and stay in the room with it, water cooling is just too much work, plus it is more work when you change something. Still, it is easier to disconnect/connect water lines than it is refrigerant lines. You can't just run refrigerant evaporators in series. You have to run them in parallel, and then figure out some kind of adjustable metering to balance them all.

Check out this kit:
https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Di...
I doubt that there is a single "generic" brick in this kit. It's all special parts.

Studying CS, one group went to an exam on a paper about how .NET is a programming language and never mentioned C#.

They passed, and when asked about it, the teachers said there was no difference.

.NET is a technology stack. The .NET Runtime is the "virtual machine" that all MSIL runs on. There are many .NET languages, C#, F#, VB.Net, even Python. Each language compiles down into MSIL (byte code) similar to Java. The .NET Runtime then compiles the byte code down into machine language based on the CPU architecture. Teachers who don't have a basic understanding of this have no business teaching students about it. It's not particularly hard to learn about. One only need pick up the Jeffrey Richter book. It's a pretty quick read and you will be very educated about what goes on under the hood afterwards.

Lol, nope. Check this out

And by this of course I mean the point in the universe where veterinary medicine, soap bubble making, and butt sex cross paths. See people who bought J-lube also bought Dawn manual pot & pan. Why? Because these are the soap bubble enthusiasts. Other people bought J-lube and the Extra Large SensaFirm Balled Cock 11 Inch Mocha. That's a whole nother segment of the market that comes together in this tiny speck of the Venn diagram with the soap bubblers AND the veterinarians who need to do obstetrical work and artificial inseminations in large animals. We are all just 6 purchases away from each other in the Amazon universe!

sauce: amazon

My $0.02:
Probability Theory by E.T. Jaynes If you want to understand AI you need to read this (several times).
The Elements of Statistical Learning Hastie, Trevor, Tibshirani, Robert, Friedman, Jerome
Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Begino

Yes, this is a dupe. Here is a brief synopsis of the previous discussion:
1. Many people do not think AI today is analogous to the "web" in 1993.
2. Machine learning is much harder than editing HTML. You aren't going to learn it in a 21 day "bootcamp".
3. If you are serious this is what you should do:
  a. Learn plenty of linear algebra
  b. Learn how to program GPUs using CUDA and OpenCL.
  c. Learn basic theory, like backprop and autoencoders.
  d. Write some code, read some books, write more code.

Here are some good resources:
MIT Artificial Intelligence Course
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Begino
Geoffrey Hinton's 2006 Science Paper that triggered the "deep learning" revolution.

That will get you started.

There are still devices available for sale now, like the winter mini PC/atom SoC. I bought one of those instead of a raspberry pi and it runs well if quite hot. My version at least wouldn't boot a 64-bit ISO, seems be a purposeful (arbitrary?) limitation added to the UEFI firmware.

As you can see: 2gigs RAM, only 32 gigs storage. Having two versions of all those runtimes would make a difference. And those devices are well in the time period.

It's an avocation, not a vocation. I'll buy a copy of yours if you buy a copy of mine... Life would be a lot different if I had to depend on the book income.

We have been here before. Timothy Egan wrote a book that I highly recommend called "The Worst Hard Times" that fully describes how the prairie was "mined" for its ability to grow crops—an ability that was created over millennia of the creation of soil by the sod, the plants that were there and by the animals that freely roamed the Great Plains.

From the book:

First came the tragedy of settling in an unsettled land encouraged by rising food prices, war, and real-estate speculation. Then came the tragedy of overproduction and the incapacity to sell farm products at a price sufficient to cover the costs of marketing perishable food-stuffs.

The fact that the Great Depression coincided with this man-made ecological disaster deepened its effect. One of the solutions was to do the agricultural subsidies, that were supposed to cause land to lie fallow for years and build up and protect the soil. What we have is subsidies that are set too low to keep farmers happily accepting them or we have too much greed.

But here is where this hits me, personally. My father was born in Eastern Kansas in 1931. As a little boy, he was subjected to the recurrent dust storms. Again, from the book:

Dust clouds boiled up, ten thousand feet or more in the sky, and rolled like moving mountains – a force of their own. Cattle went blind and then suffocated [their] stomachs stuffed with fine sand. Children coughed and gagged, dying of something the doctors called "dust pneumonia.

My dad's family all got something pulmonologists called "pulmonary fibrosis." One of his sisters died of it. My dad was on a CPAP machine, which is commonly used by people with COPD—smokers who didn't quit and who need oxygen as they get older because their lungs are half-destroyed. He needed the machine to get a good night's sleep. He had a raspy cough all his life.

Three years ago, my father slipped on some ice and fell and broke six ribs. Now, that's like the "proverbial breaking one's hip" that is a life-changing event for an older person, but they do survive this. My father was in the ICU for 19 days and just could not live. He died on his 83rd birthday and a good 60% of his reason for death was the dust from those storms when he was a young boy.

This is what we are creating with greed, folks. Mark my words, when the drought comes (and it will with global warming) we will see these dust storms again.

[I]t hurt, like a swipe of coarse sandpaper on the face

Here is a link to the book on Amazon. Please note, this is not meant to be an endorsement of Amazon, it is an endorsement of the book and the author's work: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial AppealsHave Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

I didn't understand politics at all or think that racism was still a thing until I read this.

https://www.amazon.com/Answeri...

Regardless of your religious views, this is an excellent (and readable) example of seasoned academics taking a poor writer to task. The God Delusion was very popular, but incredibly poorly thought out and written.

Two books, both by Dale Carnegie:

How to Win Friends and Influence People - I would have avoided a lot of useless arguments if I'd read it sooner.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - It helped me get through a very rough patch of my life.

Two books, both by Dale Carnegie:

How to Win Friends and Influence People - I would have avoided a lot of useless arguments if I'd read it sooner.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - It helped me get through a very rough patch of my life.

THIS! How I wish they'd do a similar-quality update of "The Ascent of Man".

Bronowski's book from the series was bloody amazing too.

https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-...

The Elements of Style.

It's not actually a book I wish I'd read early, it was a book I did read early and have been grateful for ever since!

It's a short, clear, concise book as you would hope for from a book to help improve your writing. It has many small points that really stick with you, in my case for decades.

For some reason the Kindle edition (linked to above) seems to be totally free at the moment so you have no excuse not to grab it! The paperback itself is fairly small if you prefer paper.

RTFM. Wiser words were never acronymized.

Here you go:

The Male Body: An Owner's Manual
The Female Body: An Owner's Manual

RTFM. Wiser words were never acronymized.

Here you go:

The Male Body: An Owner's Manual
The Female Body: An Owner's Manual

"Most Secret War" by R. V. Jones
https://www.amazon.com/Most-Se...

A story of doing vital technology on the time scales of total war. This book should be read by anyone who cares about practical innovation.

https://www.amazon.com/Never-S...

  Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Interesting read, and you end up with Tactical Listening skills. Changes how you view negotiation situations completely. And everything is a negotiation in life. ;)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The Four Agreements

Meditation related literature including Buddha's Brain and Wherever You Go, There You Are

Also "The Bible" and "The Torah", but so that I can properly address the cognitive distortions of the Christian/God-centric mindset as needed in an authoritative manner.

Of course, that same argument also applies to guy higher in the thread complaining about lightning connectors too.

That said, I'm finding USB-C stuff to be a whole lot more reliable than anything involving Lightning connectors for some reason. I've yet to have a USB-C connector fail, where I've had literally dozens of Lightning cables and adapters fail. So while the Android future is probably USB-C ... that strikes me as a lot better than the Apple Lightning present.

Good luck when your Android devices all switch to USB-C.

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-A...