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They seem OK comingling inventory and releasing counterfit products

I've been a victim of this as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ninte...

/r/unexpectedfuturama

While China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' America's Brightest Children Are Being Punished To Coop Up Inside A Class Full Of Mentally Challenged, Disadvantaged, Disempowered Minority Children , All In The Name Of MULTI-CULTURALISM !!

All Hail America - The Nation Which Punishes Bright Children !!

Oh wow, this Reimer guy sounds like a serious pest with mental issues. Google shows
https://www.reddit.com/r/slash...
Like, who has two websites dedicated to themselves? Not even Donald Trump!

some tasks still perform better on Intel

Single threaded only... about 15% better for Intel's high end parts. Not worth the nearly 100% extra cost. Ryzen 2 got nearly even with Intel's 8000 series then more than half a year later Intel puts out the aggressively clocked 9000's and gets ahead 15%. But way behind in value even for single thread, never mind multicore which is what actually matters these days with multicore rendering and video encoding now being the common loads, single core mostly legacy or things that just don't matter with the chips on both sides already so powerful. So, Intel will most probably lose the single thread bragging point in 3 months or so and will be coming from behind on Cannon Lake, which when it finally ships in volume might find itself competing against a Zen 2 increment based on TSMC's initial EUV.

See, it's about value. You need to really stretch to find a single threaded load where 15% actually impacts anybody's experience these days, but it's a no-brainer to save nearly 50% of your processor budget to spend on what actually matters, like more memory. You want buttery smooth game streaming? Get the 2700X with more than enough cores, as opposed to the imaginary 9900K that costs way too much and runs too hot even if it was actually shipping.

Yeah, a lot of talk. Pissed off talk, switching to AMD talk. You know it's true.

Liberals have spent two years rioting in the streets and on campuses because they didn't get their way in 2016, are regularly driven to assault by the mere sight of red hats, and are triggered into apoplectic rage by the mere existence of alternative viewpoints. Social media (and /.) is flooded with batshit demands for everything from assassinations of republicans and Trump or demands for Trump's trial and execution for "treason", to the overthrow of the government itself.

In an honest world this is known as "terrorism"; the only reason no one pushes the point is because it would only inflame the situation more and we're trying to contain you psychos as best we can. Actively monitoring and infiltrating the Antifa-types (as well as right-wing nutjobs) looking for any excuse to shut them down is exactly what the government *should* be doing. To not do so is all but asking for another OKC.

Well, we're not to the neural implant level, but developers can start using this.

Another company is experimenting with pressure, heat, and cold for gloves. That tech is a bit bulky and isn't quite ready.

Several others are trying to use exoskeleton designs to give a sense of resistance.

This tech is rapidly approaching $20,000 per user expense. Prices will drop over time.

> What experience is sub par?

Gee, soldering the RAM and SSD to the MBP mobo ISN'T a dick move???

Stockholm Syndrome much?

Sorry, no.

It is a RELIABILITY move, especially when, as other posters have pointed out, a vanishingly small percentage of laptop users upgrade their hardware, even when they HAVE the opportunity. Proof positive is the fact that some other laptop OEMs do the same thing. Are they all Dicks, too? Why no Slashdot hand-wringing about THEM???

I love my MBP and iPhone 7+ too but let's cut the bullshit of Apple's anti-right-to-repair shenanigans.

Their gimping of the Mac Mini also isn't winning any fans.

IMHO, the reason they originally went from a 4 core to 2 core CPU in the 2014 Mac mini was issues with Thermal Dissapation. I realize that they could have updated the mini in late 2016, along with the original TB MBPs, and gone back to a Quad-Core CPU (and updated Ports); but I honestly think they were contemplating a bigger change for the mini.

We will know about that in about 4 days from now:

https://www.apple.com/apple-ev...

Instead of embracing Vulkan (or OpenGL) they have NIH syndrome with Metal.

That's already neatly taken care-of:

https://moltengl.com/

The above also includes MoltenVK; which is Vulkan under Metal 2.

And, BTW, Metal 2 is actually far better than OpenGL and Vulkan. And, as far as "Not Invented Here", it is important to point out that Metal Development was started BEFORE Vulkan; so, it is rather disingenuous to say that Metal is some kind of "Interloper":

"As for the direct comparison, first of all we have to mention that Apple started developing Metal and implementing it way before Vulkan was even proposed or dreamed, with the release of Metal being in 2014. I think that Apple would have never thought about developing Metal if the industry itself moved to a low-overhead API sooner. Anyway, as far as we know Metal provides a 10 times increase in draw calls compared to OpenGL ES 3,0 while Vulkan provides a 3,5 times increase in draw calls compared to OpenGL ES 3,1."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

HTF am I supposed to charge AND listen to my wired headphones on the iPhone now? Oh that's right buy your shitty overpriced Beats headphone garbage. NOT. Fuck this "courage" nonsense.

.5 secs on Amazon found these solutions (among many) :

https://www.amazon.com/HIOTECH...

https://www.amazon.com/Lightni...

Or, if you want a "Y-Cable" type:

https://www.amazon.com/Jackiey...

Or, if you need "Calling" (headset, not just headphone) use:

https://www.amazon.com/Certifi...

Apple has lost their way. All they care about is branding and making money. The _also_ used to care about technology at one time.

Right.

Recent things like adding eGPU support to macOS, releasing an iOS version which IMPROVES performance on older hardware, multi person FaceTime, Metal 2, SmartWatch with FDA-Approved ECG built-in, brand new COW FileSystem, vastly improving LogicProX and FCPX, etc. etc. None of those are "branding and making money" Projects.

Rei, your previous use of the word "spalling" in reference to concrete, and this post above, peg you as a civil engineer of some sort, or...

You are the evil spawn the the USENET newsgroup alt.pave.the.earth., as you seem to be suggesting that coating the planet in concrete will save us from CO2.

Which is a brilliant idea as we'll have more space to drive and park our electric cars :)

I assume you are talking about this post.

They surveyed people in the Republican party... and then later they surveyed people in the Republican party. Whether the people are the same and the views have changed, or the views are the same but the people have changed, is irrelevant. It's still a survey of the Republican party.

> Correct. Fortunately these diversity initiatives only exist in the mad ramblings of the far right, as admitted justification to further oppress people.

Tell that to Harvard, they're in court over that.

> Funny that the only mention I can find of this is on literal fake news sites. Not a single public record has any mention of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/15/harvard-sued-discrimination-against-asian-americans
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/15/620368377/harvard-accused-of-racial-balancing-lawsuit-says-asian-americans-treated-unfairl

If you want to call those "literal fake news sites," it's a free country ... :)

Guess I'd better use DuckDuckGo to dig up public records for this and an earlier lawsuit:

http://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SFFA-v.-Harvard-Complaint.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-981

> It's well known that conservatives only allow others that believe math and science and reading comprehension are all liberal conspiracies.

Most relevant to this, here's Linus' daughter, signing the post-meritocracy manifesto. So instead of building the best Linux for the benefit of everyone, we should worry more about politics.

Here's a liberal trying to decolonize science so we can get rid of the racism, in which they're saying things like "through black magic" people can send lightning to strike someone and then asking "can you explain that scientifically?" Is this part of that magical liberal bias in reality? :)

CNN has declared that "math is racist" (archive).

In general, a lot of this nonsense traces back to the ideas of critical theory. There are groups who think that every wrong in the world traces back to bad power structures which they need to deconstruct and recreate to achieve fairness. It should tell you something when they're currently trying to deconstruct things like science and meritocracy, though...

The irony is that none of that is necessary and it's actively harmful to the supposed goals. It's true that bad luck, oppression, disasters, etc. unfairly keep some people down or prop others up. The right way to fix that would be to help all disadvantaged people equally. Insofar as certain groups have been historically kept down as such, this would disproportionately help them and right things over time. Instead, it's more fashionable to decide that help must be on the basis of group membership, which instead creates new competition among groups and animosity.

It's Lenny: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny

I base this guess off of nothing but an image and a headline that said something like "friend charging" that I didn't click on, but it might be the ability to charge one phone with another. So if you have 80% battery and your friend's phone is about to die, you can put them on top of one another and yours can charge his.

Reminds me of the term "Charging Up", as used on the Hulu series "Future Man"...

Caution: DEFINITELY NSFW:

https://www.reddit.com/r/telev...

I'll probably get modded down but there are two important questions he should of asked before he died:

* ALL the Laws of Physics just "magically" emerged from where again? Or

* They have ALWAYS existed???

That is, WHY is the speed of light 299,792,458 m / s. Has it ALWAYS been this? If so, WHY? If not, WHY?

Either way, that requires no more, or any less, faith then your standard theist. Atheists LOVE to pretend that their F word is Faith -- but faith is NOT a dirty word -- only blind faith is. EVERYONE has Faith -- otherwise what sustains your beliefs in the first place???

Sadly Hawkins got caught up in the Fallacy of Duality:

* Atheist, noun, a spiritual blind man arguing color doesn't exist,
* Theist, noun, a spiritual monochromatic man arguing that ONLY his color exists.

The fundamental problem is that Atheism is based on ignorance. i.e. I have no belief. Ergo, I have no knowledge. Great! How does this LACK of knowledge help you to live a better life??? How does it help you to have compassion for your fellow man or animal?

As a mystic I can say Hawkins was 100% wrong about The Source. He will find out just how ignorant he was about meta-reality when he realizes his consciousness is INDEPENDENT of his physical body -- which he could of learnt if he actually LISTENED to anyone who has had an OBE. Sadly, he COMPLETELY missed the point about religion. He should of ditched man-made religion and focused on transcendent spirituality instead.

i.e.

* Religion: one man preaching another what he SHOULD do to understand The Source,
* Spirituality: one man teaching another what he COULD do to understand The Source.

Hawkins also should have stuck to Physics where he can PROVE his claims otherwise he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about W.R.T. Meta-Physics.

Scientist: Awesome work for making Science accessible to the public!
Atheist: Doesn't have a fucking clue about meta-reality.

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The ENTIRE reason you even exist is to learn HOW to have better relationships.
There is nothing more important then them. Your character is the only thing you can take with you when you die.

" are defiantly on the rise"

Sure, they're pretty defiant but once they meet a windshield at 85 miles per hour...

PS: This is the word you probably wanted.

You are somewhat correct, if esoteric research in the 1960's is what you are referring to as 'known techniques'. Modern AI techniques weren't truly implemented until the mid 70's, with broader acceptance and applications demonstrated in the mid 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If you are referring to the 1960's symbolic (lisp) techniques espoused by the disgraced Marvin Minsky, nearly fired from MIT for borderline fraud, a case that saw MIT forced to repay DARPA millions in wasted research money, then you are a bit behind the times. Modern AI techniques are now quite far from Minsky's self-aggrandized approach. Modern techniques were pioneered more by Minksy's high-school rival and a victim of Minky's petulant personal and private bullying, the truly brilliant Frank Rosenblatt. Frank was so close. Had he lived just a few more years and kept his confidence, he would have seen his dream realized.

Why it took the span of a human lifetime for people to see through Marvin is baffling: https://www.reddit.com/r/Machi...

Anyway, modern AI takes a bit of calculus to truly understand, and some statistics. An undergraduate with a solid math foundation should be able to derive the backprop algorithm and explain it. Then there's catastrophic forgetfulness, SLAM techniques with grid and place cells... probably things beyond a typical undergraduate curriculum, but possible.

Any technician can be trained to push buttons. It might take a bit more fundamental understanding of what is going on under the covers to catch training pitfalls and prevent inefficiencies. Maybe this is what companies hiring for AI work are after.

More just working, the extra care and attention apple put in really is worth the premium, right, right....right?

Sure!

Wake me when Android has zero bugs...

Idiot Haters.

Wake me when apple stuff 'just works' and doesn't have its cheapest model with a 1080 screen over a grand.

IMHO, the "It Just Works" catchphrase was a mistake, from a marketing standpoint. Why? Because it opens Apple up to EXACTLY your kind of snarky comment, whenever even the most inconsequential issue comes up. However, it is important to point out that it was not Apple that came up with that oft-quoted phrase: It was some writer in the tech press. Apple actually avoided using the phrase for quite some time, and still except for one slide in one Keynote (which showed the phrase as a quote from a REVIEW) doesn't use it in any marketing materials or advertisements.

In fact, this Reddit thread (yeah, I know...) seems to posit that same position, that the phrase did not originate from Apple (see last post) :

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...

So kindly stop that meme, because the phrase was NOT coined by Apple to describe THEMSELVES; but rather from OTHERS describing the difference between the majority of things Apple does, vs., primarily, Windows (but it CERTAINLY would stand in contrast to the typical LINUX experience as well!).

This is exactly what it means. Once you have a pilot's license and your drone is equipped with sufficient instrumentation to see and avoid other aircraft, you could file a flight plan (if needed) and land at a local airport. Just keep in mind that depending on the services you require at an airport, you could be charged a landing fee.

And, despite the fact that I am a pilot and can fly my own damn plane, I can see the day when I would pay you for a drone ride to the other side of town in order to avoid hellacious traffic. I can also see the concept of an 'airport' evolving greatly over time.

If you stay clear of the National Airspace System and keep your drone within sight and out of the way of a bunch of us flying meat bags, then you're good to go.

Happy flying!

I completely agree, the lack of documentation on something that...obtuse (to be generous) is a travesty. Not gonna lie, I barely understand what's going on in the "here, this is profunctor optics in a nutshell" posts I've read, and those don't have fifty pounds of Java boilerplate piled on top to make things even more incomprehensible.

I'm into functional programming and greatly prefer it to OOP, so when I stumbled onto this discussion about the code, my reaction started with "that sounds familiar, FP thing isn't it?", followed by "oh shit, that's some next-level stuff," then "maybe they started using Scala which has libs for that kind of thing," finally ending at "holy fuck the madman implemented this in pure Java. I can't even read this shit." It's impressive but Java is such a terrible language for doing FP, and I can't help but think maybe they should have just used a different JVM language for that. Scala, or maybe Eta if you're that determined to write Haskell in places it doesn't belong. lol.

(Finally, thanks for the response. I'm used to getting ignored here when I post AC, so it's nice to see some people still read and respond to ACs here. Forgot my login info years ago but can't be arsed to make a new one because I don't comment often.)

And keeping with this theme, starting Nov 1 we have November NetHack:

https://old.reddit.com/r/netha...

I recently had occasion to try to explain this to a smug millenial with a degree in philosophy. His response was that I was mean-spirited, and would I please cut it out ...

This definitely improved your argument.

It's not that simple. See this reddit post for information. In short, what you get direct from Clevo is not entirely the same thing that System76 sells.

This is just obnoxious gamergate folks grabbing at publicity where they can get it.

If you've got to swing your dick out and use gamergate as a fear bludgeon, you've already lost that element. I'll remind you that That it was the people that were screeching gamergate was evil, who were the ones engaging in shitty behavior. Everything from doxing, to rape, to sexual harassment, to calling in bomb threats.

Projection is one hell of a fucking drug.

This is just obnoxious gamergate folks grabbing at publicity where they can get it.

If you've got to swing your dick out and use gamergate as a fear bludgeon, you've already lost that element. I'll remind you that That it was the people that were screeching gamergate was evil, who were the ones engaging in shitty behavior. Everything from doxing, to rape, to sexual harassment, to calling in bomb threats.

Projection is one hell of a fucking drug.

This is just obnoxious gamergate folks grabbing at publicity where they can get it.

If you've got to swing your dick out and use gamergate as a fear bludgeon, you've already lost that element. I'll remind you that That it was the people that were screeching gamergate was evil, who were the ones engaging in shitty behavior. Everything from doxing, to rape, to sexual harassment, to calling in bomb threats.

Projection is one hell of a fucking drug.

Why is that?

It allows witch hunting against contributors for wrong think, with an inner council that isn't held to it's own standards. Say the wrong thing, hold the wrong opinion, believe something that they don't and the happy little gang of thugs will come after you, smear you, dox, and go after your friends and family. 24hrs after it was put in place the person who is the core behind it already began the witch hunt. Other people are doing the same thing, using the CoC to purge their ideological enemies.

Tell me something, what matters to you more? Code written by someone who you couldn't give a shit about over their opinions, or code written by people who are kept in line through coercion and fear.

No one is forcing anyone to use Google, YouTube, or any of the other services.

Other than Stripe and Patreon and Apple and Visa and Mastercard and the US State Department and UK Home Office.

If you start up an alternative service, you can expect to get kicked off of every cloud service provider and then DDOSed to death by NATO. Expect the backbones and satellite service providers to start enforcing the same rules that payment processors are already enforcing, and then please tell me how you can begin to build an alternative to Google when you have no network access, no government funding, and no banks will process your payments.

Engineering, prepare to receive torrent in cargo bay 1!

The problem is the virial CoC being spread around projects. The CoC is already being used as a weapon against people in a "Wrong Think" and making news.

The "For the Children" nanny mentality that a CoC needs to be in place to protect people from a group of people, when its being used as a club against immediately after Linus accepts it, shows the problem with it. The CoC is already a problem and being reported on, this is already way political. We are talking about it because its political.

Less than 24 hours after passing the CoC, a person tried to get a contributor removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/churn...

People do this near professionally. Sign up for $500 if you spend $1k in 90 days. Use that $1k with 0% transfer to pay off another card that you did the same thing with. Rinse. Repeat.

Geeks need to go back to Firefox. It isn't made by an OS vendor or an advertising agency, it doesn't snoop on you, and it is completely open source.

Oh, really?

There are browsers that claim not to collect user data such as Iceweasel-UXP, Palemoon and Waterfox.

Reddit has a long thread on this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

I think there's actually a point to Linus's more colourful explosions. Remember that most of the people working under him aren't employed by him. He can "fire" people by refusing to pull from them, but that's a pretty nuclear option. Other than that, harsh language is pretty much all he's got.

And when someone's paycheque boss asks them to do something Linus doesn't like (most common: getting a new product working with a fast ugly hack rather than a cleaner, more general solution), it can be useful to that person to be able to place a still-smoking e-mail on their boss's desk and say "see, I told you that wouldn't fly."

Definitely follow the links in the article to see the context. The explosions aren't just bullying; they're all surrounded by quite detailed explanations of why he's angry. "Please just kill yourself now" is the culmination of a post titled "Venting" and subtitled "you might want to avert your eyes now." It wasn't directed at a named individual, or necessarily anyone at all. It was "if you...think that my kids need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place."

He also doesn't bite the newbies. It's people he expects to know better he yells at. And he's not a hypocrite who can give but not take. I'm careful calling Linus wrong because he's usually right, but on the rare occasions I catch him out I've enjoyed abusing him right back.

This strong language is not itself sexist. Nor does it appear to be used in a sexist manner. But it ends up interacting badly with a broader societal double standard and produces a sexist effect.

The underlying problem is that women are judged far more harshly for assertiveness than men are. A man can be a complete bastard and still respected or even admired. There are plenty of Frank Underwoods doing quite well in the world.

(Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau comes to mind. "arrogant prick" is a pretty accurate summary of his personality. He was famously unsullied by humility. Fortunately, he was as smart as he through he was.)

But this is a real ongoing problem for female politicians. Remember "Nasty Woman"? Women walk a tightrope between being wallflowers and bitches.

Now, Linux development is done in public. All your interactions are immortalized in public mailing list archives.

A male developer can tell Linus to get his head out of his ass and not hurt his current or future job prospects in the least. As the article quotes Val Aurora as noting, a woman doing exactly the same thing experiences a lot of retaliation. People may not say so directly, but a woman acting like that is judged as an intolerable co-worker long before a man is.

That societal double standard is not itself Linus's fault, but it means that a rough-and-tumble development culture quite effectively excludes women.

Since they're already going after core developers since the CoC was put into place, the belief that they're going to put substandard code into place is no longer theoretical, it's pretty much a given.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux...

I read a story about a guy who hacked his Progressive car tracker thing so it would transmit when not plugged into his car.

Here's the reddit story: https://www.reddit.com/r/hacki...

Looking forward to the creative hacks people will come up with for these forced insurance trackers.

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

Mod parent up!

Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa... http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni... https://www.elecrow.com/ https://gist.github.com/probon... https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod... https://www.reddit.com/r/elect... https://github.com/petit-miner... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.board-db.org/ https://github.com/NextThingCo... https://detail.1688.com/offer/... https://detail.1688.com/offer/... https://www.aliexpress.com/ite... https://github.com/NextThingCo

Plus this ---> How to hand solder the Allwinner chip

Last, but not least, the following 3 youtube links for more soldering tips and tricks:

https://www.youtube.com/result...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/result...

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

Mod parent up!

Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

  http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa...
  http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni...
  https://www.elecrow.com/
  https://gist.github.com/probon...
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
  https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
  https://github.com/petit-miner...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.board-db.org/
  https://github.com/NextThingCo...
  https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
  https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
  https://www.aliexpress.com/ite...
  https://github.com/NextThingCo

Plus this ---> How to hand solder the Allwinner chip

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

Mod parent up!

Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa...
http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni...
https://www.elecrow.com/
https://gist.github.com/probon...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
https://github.com/petit-miner...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.board-db.org/
https://github.com/NextThingCo...
https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
https://www.aliexpress.com/ite...
https://github.com/NextThingCo

Freddie Mercury never fixed his teeth because they thought it would negatively affect his singing. I'm not a kernel dev but I sure have used, and appreciate (including supporting them monetarily) their efforts over the years. I hope this doesn't dispel the magic.

OMG, a car caught fire - quick, get breathless overcoverage of it! Wait, you already did? Good!

There's one car fire in the US for every 20 million miles driven and one fatality per 85 million miles.

Teslas have been driven 9 billion miles. This should correspond to 450 fires and 106 deaths.

Where are they?

Concerning fires, here's a list of Tesla fires between 1 January 2013 and 11 March 2018, which is the vast majority of Tesla miles. The total count? 14. Vs. an expected 450.

Concerning fatalities, three months ago an anti-Tesla Twitter account added up the number of deaths in Teslas and arrived at 34. Note that many of these occurred in other countries like China that have a much higher road fatality rate than the US. It's still a third of the expected number for US-only driving of that many miles.

Let's look at the newest Teslas, shall we - the Model 3? So far there have been no fatalities and no reports of fires in customer cars (there was one Model 3 found up for scrap that had been gutted by fire, but it was "Location: Fremont" with 1 mile on the odometer, so clearly something that happened at the factory. Also, the fire damage was heaviest on the bumper, where it had melted the alumium - but hadn't managed to do so over the pack itself. So it's not clear that a battery fire was actually involved). But how many miles have been driven for this rate of "0/1 fires and 0 deaths"?

Lacking specific numbers, the best we can do is estimate. The average driver drives around 12k miles per year. Owners of new cars put significantly more miles on them during their first year, and particularly first few months because - obviously - it's a new car that they bought because they wanted to drive it. Bloomberg says there were around 25k made in the past month (0-1m ago), 19k in the previous month (1-2m ago), then 13,5k (2-3m ago), then 9k (3-4m ago), the 9k (4-5m ago), then 6,5k (5-6m ago), and 9k earlier than that. So around 19k*(30k/12)*0,5 + 13,5k*(30k/12)*1,5 + 9k*(26k/12)*2,5 + 9k*(23k/12)*3,5 + 6,5k*(21k/12)*4,5 + 9k*(18k/12)*6 = ~315M miles. Meaning if they were gasoline cars we should expect 16 fires and 3 1/2 deaths. Where are they?

The History of Corporate Whining

"I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch.

But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.

And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.

He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel."

The OPS officer is Linus. The conference is the battleship.

Discordapp.com, a web-based text and voice chat platform, allows uploading server-specific emojis in Chrome. It used to allow uploading them in Firefox as well until the settings UI redesign in May 2017. Since then, clicking the "Upload Emoji" button has done nothing: no change in the window, no message in the developer console. When this bug was reported on Reddit, on Twitter, and on Discord's feedback forum. The official response out of Discordapp.com's developers for the past 16 months has been that if it works in Chrome, it works. (See this Tweet and this feedback reply.)

All consoles feature standard USB ports and there's a software exploit that you can put on a memory card which will allow you to run executables straight from the memory card

For one thing, I thought the exploit used by FreeMcBoot was patched in newer (model 9xxxx) slim PlayStation 2 consoles. What's the new exploit that works on 9xxxx? If there is one, the FMCB FAQ on Reddit hasn't been updated.

If the suggested solution is to replace a 9xxxx PS2 with a pre-9xxxx PS2, the supply of these is likely to dwindle even faster. My pre-9xxxx slim PS2 no longer stays on reliably because of a loose power jack, and the used one I bought at a garage sale to replace it is 9xxxx. How would I go about getting its power jack repaired in order to use FreeMcBoot?

And how practical is it to manufacture new PlayStation 2 compatible memory cards with a copy of this exploit, so that a suitable memory card can be bundled with each boxed physical copy of a homebrew game?

Maybe they should be in this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe...

The reason reddit is so popular because it is a confirmation bias wonderland for people who are not very bright and that is most of our species. So reddit is a wonderland of egoboost for the none too bright and uninformed. It's just 100% drama generating machine between the informed, uninformed, young and old and it has to do with the karma and moderation system. Reddit is just one monkey ego war where opinions no matter how dumb are fought and defended by drive by upvoting and downvoting of whatever subgroup is most dominant on the sub unfortunately for our species .

This is what I have observed: Reddit is class warfare. The unhappy, alienated, lost, etc. have found a site where they can make reality appear as they want it to be, instead of how it is, and have others confirm their bias as positive. It produces truly toxic, badly-behaved users.

Reddit moderators are tasked with enforcing unpopular, biased, and vaguely written rules. For example, if someone gets killed in an article and you reply, "Good job," you are guilty of inciting or glorifying violence. If the moderators do not ban you, their sub gets banned, and all the work they put into it goes out the window.

This is why some have suggested unionizing Reddit moderators. While generally I oppose unions, moderators deserve (1) some compensation and (2) some kind of official appeals process to protect their hard work.

There are people who threaten mods, there are mods who abuse their power, and luckily there are also quite a few people with a sense of humor, e.g. see comments in https://www.reddit.com/r/video...

The Coursera course 'Learning How To Learn' also makes this same point... with the added tip to tackle the most difficult problems first before the easy ones, before backing off the problem at the point where it gets frustrating and moving on - leaving the subconscious to trundle on with that problem. If you want a good short summary, Reddit comes through: https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMo...

This is the usual pseudo-futuristic mumbo-jumbo from Tesla they sprout out to change the subject when they are about to miss a financial or a production goal. It used to work, but these days even the rabidly pro-Tesla media are starting to stay away from peddling these musk nuggets, and fewer and fewer people fall for them.

Remember how Tesla announced a few weeks ago how their "security" was second to none and how they would be graciously gifting it to the rest of the automobile world to save it from mistakes? Remember how it happened just before they announced there is no funding and there'll be no buyout?

Remember how we later learned that their software is a hopeless half-maintained hodge-podge of spaghetti code and how their security is worse than the security you typically find in an FX trading startup? Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Enoug... Only yesterday we received a confirmation - Tesla's "network" melted down precisely in the manner the link above describes it can.

Did we see an article on Slashdot about the Tesla IT problems (a legitimate "nerd news" topic)? Nope. Did we read the news about Tesla's network meltdown? Nope, although in the past much smaller problems with a single company network have been covered regularly.

This announcement is all smoke and mirrors, and it is being spread about to try to build "a positive momentum" ahead of the Tesla troubles that are stacking up for the next few weeks - missing profitability targets, disappearing demand, supplier issues and customer service issues.

Musk may have his left turn signal on, but he's really braking.