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> and I'm a Christian (lit. "little Christ")

Nope.

But both of them are now process driven companies, primarily focused on not overturning the boat, and the result is code that follows process.

I see evidence of this in a lot of different places. For Microsoft, there is this, and from what I've heard from people who worked there, it's basically like that all over Microsoft. Similarly, you can see the results in their products (that link shows an example of their processes entering the product in an obvious way). Similarly, at Google, I've talked to people who work there, and it seems about the same. Again you can see it in the output of their product (they must have some good people on the search team, though).

Honestly though, looking at the turnover these two company (check out their turnover rate) you have to focus on process, because you need them to be able to replace engineers when they leave.

As long as process is followed, you don't have to worry about whether you did a good job or not. Just go home at the end of the day

This isn't an assertion about Microsoft or Google, it's a description of how process driven companies are in general. This has been my experience both observing and being a part of them.

That is the mentality of the vast majority of mediocre programmers at both companies

This is what I get from talking to people who've worked there. Note that not everyone is a mediocre programmer.

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Bingo! Biometrics suck. How do you change your fingerprints, or your eye's iris?

This is irrelevant. Your erroneous argument arises from the mistaken application of the secrecy-based security model of passwords to the acquisition process-based security model of biometrics. I explained at length here: http://divegeekstuff.blogspot....

You cannot change your fingerprints or other biometric data so when it's compromised

This is irrelevant. I wrote a detailed explanation here: http://divegeekstuff.blogspot....

Do the people proposing this ever have _ANY_ real world experience at all?

I do, about 30 years' worth, in both physical and information security.

When you look at this this way, then you see that things like finger prints or retina have the same problems and worse. they are not mutable, they can be taken from you without you knowing it, and the transmission layer is still vulnerable

Mutability doesn't matter for biometrics, and neither does the fact that copies can be taken without your knowledge, because those don't affect the biometric security model. I wrote a detailed analysis here: http://divegeekstuff.blogspot....

No, you're wrong. Even all the way back in 2004, Google was talking about making books easy to search, not making them available for free. Making them available was the Authors Guild's idea.

Indeed, that was my first thought as well. But I think "Miranda", the actress who played the void of Nell's Primer would possible be more fitting.

Aristotle was possibly inspired by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Which I found linked to this old blog:
http://proto-knowledge.blogspo...

Yes

Did you feel the same way about 3.5inch floppy disks? Honestly, the 3.5mm headset jack standard is silly when you are trying to efficiently power headsets(if you don't care about power efficiency it's a fine standard).

The amp soldered into your Nexus5 won't drive most high-impedance headsets, but if you move the amp from your phone into the headset you not only eliminate a bunch of headaches when buying equipment, but you also improve sound quality and power efficiency. http://archimago.blogspot.com/...

Keeping an idea out of the UK is going to be difficult. Scarfolk Council have some proposals to take the legislation further: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/...

10 billion over 8 years = a pittiance.

Yet it is the amount you claimed necessary in your previous post. Daimler thinks it is an appropriate amount of EV investments at this time. If you disagree, you are more than welcome to argue why at the next shareholder meeting.

I was very obviously talking about Tesla.

It wasn't that obvious, since your description did not fit Tesla.

The only company pumping many billions per year into EVs

Tesla does not pump many billions per year into EVs. Others, however, are.

and the company with both of the top slots

Not true, unless you are willing to claim that the Nissan Leaf is a Tesla product.

False. The US incentive - being a fixed value - is more favourable to low-end EVs, versus countries where incentives are percentage based (such as VAT deductions).

As I said, the US may be an exception, but in general this is very true. Just compare Tesla sales by country to the incentives in that country.

Which is why reservations for the Model 3 are 1 1/2 orders magnitude larger.

USD 1000 refundable deposits for a product that is strongly hyped and will be in short supply because it is made by a company that does not know anything about mass production and keeps making empty promises. Let's not read too much in that.

Last week, I put together a quick write-up of the possible sources of trouble for AIS messages. It doesn't go into the needed depth on topics, but I would appreciate technical feedback and any links to people doing deep dives on any or all of the issues.

GPS spoofing possibly seen in AIS data: http://schwehr.blogspot.com/20...

And before that I've written quite a bit on the insanity that is AIS:

AIS Integrity and Security - Part 0: http://schwehr.blogspot.com/20...

Last week, I put together a quick write-up of the possible sources of trouble for AIS messages. It doesn't go into the needed depth on topics, but I would appreciate technical feedback and any links to people doing deep dives on any or all of the issues.

GPS spoofing possibly seen in AIS data: http://schwehr.blogspot.com/20...

And before that I've written quite a bit on the insanity that is AIS:

AIS Integrity and Security - Part 0: http://schwehr.blogspot.com/20...

I have no problems with government working for the people, as long as there's a balance to the work being done.

From the perspective of working in a public school, there are right ways and wrong ways of obtaining public information. I've worked in three different school districts, and at 9 out of every 10 school board meetings, the only member of the public in attendance is the newspaper reporter. And 9 out of every 10 board meetings where someone else from the public attends, it's an individual, a family, or a community group speaking at the public commentary, then leaving after the public comment period is finished. (And 1 out of every 100 is when the shit hits the fan, and 300 people show up to complain about some coach who got fired or homosexuality advocacy group or what have you.) But if you want your public information, GO TO THOSE MEETINGS. That's why we have them open to the public. If you don't, then don't complain about why some school employee gets frustrated when you interrupt their already-busy day telling them to bend over backwards for some pissy FOIA request, as this guy has the habit of doing on a regular basis.

A public school in the state of Minnesota already has to file 37 different reports with the state every year, everything from attendance, to financing, student performance, and even one for preparing students to be a part of the "World's Best Workforce". There's an incredible amount of internal resources devoted to making that all happen. The best resource to find out what schools are doing is the information already publicly available on the state's Department of Education website, school websites, and newspapers.

But, despite all those efforts, it only takes one fool to mess it all up for the rest of us.

Believing a NYTimes article would be the first problem.

2010 was the buy time for housing, the years before that were certainly rent better than owning times (assuming you weren't flipping and hoping to not be the one holding the bag of course).

Heck even the housing doom and gloomers were calling that: http://housingpanic.blogspot.c...

It's not mentioned that it's a title because even Americans have heard of the title 'Baron'.

It still stands out. I don't want to speak for all Americans, but this is the first and only person that I think of when I hear the word "Baroness." I can't think of a single other baron or baroness unless maybe you want to talk about robber barons, or the trope of naming villains "Baron Von German Name."

Modern UI / UX design is a clusterfuck of bad design.

Everything that was learnt for the past 40 years has been thrown out the window. These morons are so focused on Form over Function that you get stupid shit like this:

* How dare we "clutter up" the UI and show the user a scroll bar so they can gauge spatial proximity. Now we have "endless" scrolling with no scroll bar -- so you have no fucking clue how far along the content you are. Want to QUICKLY scroll to a specific spot? LOL. Waste even more time trying to remember where it was. At least with scroll bars the slider position was a VISUAL MNEMONIC to help you remember roughly where it was.

* We get idiotic error messages that don't:

i) explain WHAT caused the problem in the first place,
ii) nor HOW to resolve it.

I just ran into one this week. I purchased an album off iTunes and only half the album was downloaded. Clicking on a song that was in grey pops up a dialog Item not available. No Shit, Sherlock. HOW do I _fix_ the problem ?! Really, there was no room to say "iTunes > Purchased Music" ???

* Worse, everything is "flat" so you have NO visual cue to tell what can be interacted with and what is purely informational. You are kept playing a stupid guessing game of "Can I press this?" In the past we had 3D shading for objects that you could interact with and flat shading for informational. From the _context_ you could figure out the UI. Now a days? HAHA.

* Gaudy colors are now "in vogue" because they have been smoking Hollywoods Orange and Teal crack pipe.

The only progress is that:

* "Search" has now been added to "Options" because who needs manuals, right?

* At least they are _finally_ starting to get a clue with 120 FPS. Consoles are still stuck on a shitty 30 fps.

Modern UI / UX people are morons. I fight with these people weekly where their latest design is always half-baked. Hell, just getting them to understand "mach banding" and the simple concept of adding noise to reduce it is an uphill struggle.

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"Those who forgot the past are condemned to repeat it."

Thanks to Demis Hassabis.

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I'd never heard this before so I did some searching, just to see what I could find. Wow, these people sure do like the term "globalist." For such a vague nonsense-word, they certainly use it a lot.

There's a lot of talk about Jews too, and the two words seem to get used together pretty often (example), but they are distinct. If you look at that example, this person is talking about two groups of globalists which are led by Jews but (by implication) not wholly comprised of Jews.

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

Back in the 1980s Austrian television channel ORF1 showed a TV show about a guy with a talking car solving crimes. It was called "Knight Rider".

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Also note the size of that huge thumb on the left side.

You shouldn't have an Arris modem anyway. They are back-doored, with hard-coded credentials. Arris security makes Equifax look like Fort Knox.

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Newton was right about gravity. It does not propagate. It is an instantaneous nonlocal phenomenon.

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See subject & see PopeFATZO admit he's nothing more than a paid for crony of his paymaster George Soros https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10845433&cid=54783553/ - the TOTAL LOSER who thinks he is a "god" (psychotic) & has outright said he wants to bring down the USA + any constitutional republic in the way of Globalists like Soros as well as Israel (& though Soros himself is a Jew, he sold his own into the clutches of the Nazis).

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P.S.=> You're scum PopeFATZO & yes, it shows (your photo) https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqAn6jRY748/UP906Z4OONI/AAAAAAAAMBw/4UJL1sLYx2E/s1600/Gun+Nut+Article+for+Bell+of+Lost+Souls2.jpg/ & man you truly ARE one UGLY fucker (inside & out)... apk

...his body could feed alot of Maori families.

Do all Maori families keep just one alot?

I have no idea what you Americans are doing.

I suspect the DSL problem in the US is that many central offices were consolidated in the early era of Electronic Switching System (ESS) deployment, and this is the reason for our crazy long local loop lengths that average 4.25 km. Works fine for voice, horrible for DSL speeds above a few Mbps.

The US had the generic brands back in the 80s. I still have Compact Disc.

Let me rephrase it more rigorously: A 5-inch 1280x720 pixel display has sqrt(1280^2+720^2)/5 = 294 pixels per inch. When reading printed text, a user holds the phone about 15.7 inches away.[1] This is 15.7 * 294 = 4615 pixels per radian, which exceeds the commonly accepted 60 pixels per degree[2] or 3400 pixels per radian resolution of the center 5 percent of the retina.

[1] "How Close Do You Hold Your Smart Phone?"
[2] Understanding Pixel Density and Eye-Limiting Resolution

Ouch. I hate when that happens! Just stop fucking with my software already!

I never did try Picasa. What am I missing?

Feature wise not much. To be honest I'm probably the one missing something since I never used ACDsee or Picasa for any of their cataloguing or editing functions. I was using them mostly as image viewers. My requirements for those were simple:

1. Light weight.
2. Have zoom to fit, zoom to 100% as quick options. (continuous zoom is a bonus)
3. Interpolation other than nearest neighbour when zooming.
4. Support automatic conversion of the image colour to the monitor profile (I have a wide gamut monitor so if this isn't done colours look hyper saturated)
5. Easy scrolling and switching between images.

- ACDSee split their light weight viewer out from their main viewer. The main viewer fails on 1. The lightweight viewer fails on 3 and 4.
- Windows Picture viewer (windows 7) fails 2 and 4
- Windows Picture viewer (windows 10) fails on 5 since it relies on integration of the explorer to decide what images to display next. e.g. I click on a downloaded jpg in Chrome's download window and I can't scroll between any other pictures even thought there's more in the downloads folder. It also fails on 1 since MS is trying to turn it into a social networking application cum movie player. (I kid you not one of the insider previews renamed the Photo Viewer to "Story Remix" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean). It also is slow to scroll.
- Irfanview sort of failed on 4 because it was unable to automatically read the monitor profile and it needed to be set manually in the settings, so on my laptop which I sometimes plug into my monitor it would have the colours incorrect unless I change it at every dock.

But really something that has grown on me is Picasa's no nonesense auto-fading interface http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AB3p... and simple keystroke navigation. pgup/down zooms fit/100%/400%, up/down arrows are stepless zoom. left right previous / next. Defaults to fullscreen but hitting enter makes it windowed. esc key exits. moving the mouse to the bottom exposes a scrollbar of images in the folder as well as control buttons for the keyboard impaired.

True "whisky snobs" know the difference.

You remind me of true audiophiles

Captain Obvious strikes again!

I do see beauty ideals changing though.

The anorectic cique that burst on to the stage with 60ies Supermodel Twiggy is fading a bit, as far as I can tell.

I *do* like hugging cute ladies (who wouldn't?), I actually do it for pastime in Tango dancing and just the other week had the chance to dance with one of the best and IMHO most beautiful tango dancers of the world who also happens to have a body that is a perfect 10 (no that's not me holding her ... sadly :-) ). However, whilst Diana Cruz (the aforementioned tango dancer) does 3 hours of Yoga and Pilates each day and has professional dance training, dances a few hours of Tango each day and has the body and l33t dancing skillz to show for it, I do get to see, experience and hug a fair amount of more feminine rounded bodies and even some ladies who are pretty pudgy these days.

Long story short, I notice my interests shifting towards more "early last century" body ideals, or at least including them. I still think Twiggy looked (looks) great and I like myself a hot lady that is only muscles, bones and posture - quite a few of those in Tango, but I do also like well-rounded classic female bodies these days. Also quite a few of those in Tango. Duh. Yesterday I hung out with a lady who was on the brink of fat. Definitely overweight anyway. But she did have a little something going for her. A little excercise and work on her posture and she'd be a beautiful lady, even with the Cup-D breasts and some extra body-fat.

I expect perception to change further and eventually spill into hollywood aswell.

My 2 cents.

When's the last time overall US population dropped again? Oh, right.

Way to ignore the argument, numbnuts. The US dropped below static replacement fertility in 1972. All population growth since then has been due to increasing lifespan (whoops, that's going away), and immigration.

Now what happens after you build a fortress wall (wasting tens of billions of dollars) and drop legal immigration to 50,000/yr? Oh yeah, a population drop! We're already at 0.7%/yr and falling, and we haven't even implemented Trump's immigration control dreams yet.

"Have you actually thought about the social and economic circumstances of depopulating midwestern cities and towns, or is that beyond your attention horizon, living in California as you are?"

Answer the question. Oh right, you can't.

Quite a few happily look up to a midget standing on his wallet

Short, funny little Mickey Rooney scored some of the hottest babage in the world, and it wasn't because of his wallet, since the women he banged were all much more successful than him. Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, even Ava fucking Gardner, who on a scale of 1 to 10 was like an 18.

Here is a photo of Ava Gardner while she was married to Mickey Rooney:

https://www.oldtimeradiodownlo...

and Lana Turner:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ssV...

And this is what Elizabeth Taylor looked like when Mickey Rooney was tapping that ass:

https://vickielester.files.wor...

Mickey Rooney was 5' 2" tall. For all the AAA poontang he had, his dick should be enshrined in the Smithsonian.

Well, at least we'll find out the answer eventually. ;)

I hate to quote Game of Thrones, but...

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." (Meme related)

This seems to be related to the Streisand Effect. And /pol/ has memes about how nearly everyone there now first went there to see for themselves what was so terrible that everyone condemned it.

My guess is that Google and GoDaddy have just delivered publicity and an endorsement the likes of which those guys couldn't in a hundred years have been able to purchase.

I was exhibiting my atmospheric CO2 loggers at Maker Faire San Mateo and a gentleman walked up to me and explained to me this self extinction hypothesis.

Due to three years experience of using a CO2 meter and measuring things like my car CO2 emission, I have started thinking about the CO2 problem in terms of identifying and implementing a low CO2 emission society at a low level, such as a school district.

What I would recommend to every Slashdot reader is: Buy a CO2 meter and start developing a hands-on understanding of the CO2 problem.

Here is my blog, 2 years out of date: https://lessco2essay.blogspot....

This ingenious analysis of why we don't hear any extraterrestial signals means the time to begin converting to an equitable, fair, reasonable and enjoyable low carbon emission society is now.

You've actually got it backwards. The null hypothesis in this case is "there is no gender-based discrimination." Since you cannot prove a negative (e.g. "reindeer can't fly"), it becomes the null hypothesis, and the burden of proof falls upon those trying to disprove it.

Bwahaha LOL you've outed yourself as an idiot and left your argument without a foundation! Not only for believing anti-scientific "can't prove a negative" nonsense, but because the very link you point to also points out what hogwash it is! Have another:

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You've actually got it backwards. The null hypothesis in this case is "there is no gender-based discrimination." Since you cannot prove a negative (e.g. "reindeer can't fly"), it becomes the null hypothesis, and the burden of proof falls upon those trying to disprove it.

That is, the base assumption is that differences in job preference are caused by biology or other non-discriminatory factors, leading to gender disparity in the workplace. The burden of proof is upon those advocating that gender disparity is caused by discrimination to prove a causal link between discrimination and gender disparity. The burden of proof isn't on those advocating the null hypothesis because you can't prove it (short of disproving all possible alternative hypotheses).

Those advocating the null hypothesis can critique studies advocating the discrimination hypothesis, e.g. suggesting that biology could account for the difference we see, without actually having to prove it. The burden of proof then falls again those advocating the discrimination hypothesis to come up with experiments or studies which separate out the effects of biology from the effects of discrimination (this is what they're talking about when you read that a study "controlled for" factors like age or income).

If those advocating the discrimination explanation are unable to come up with a way to separate out biological effects, then that's an obstacle to proving the discrimination hypothesis. Until they are able to overcome that obstacle, the assumption is that the null hypothesis is correct.

Your post actually supports Damore by demonstrating the flawed reasoning of those criticizing him. You have made a non-falsifiable hypothesis the null hypothesis. Even if a company kept video recordings of everything that happened every minute of every workday, demonstrating that no gender-based discrimination happened, you can still argue "but they plotted it after work hours when they met at a bar." It's a non-falsifiable hypothesis. This means it cannot be the null hypothesis. The base assumption has to be that there is no gender-base discrimination, and you have to gather evidence showing this hypothesis is false.

Feminist academics have also done a huge amount of working trying to understand why so many men end up in jail and what can be done to reduce it.

For instance, working to change the threshold of proof for rape to mere accusation. "Believe the victim", etc.