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I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

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

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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?

I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?

I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?

For a list of decent games for Oculus Go / Gear VR check this wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculu...

Many people find it attractive as a portable video player (both 2D and 3D).

And then there is also an intriguing gimmick that is Oculus Home, which might gradually grow into a richer social VR, as envisioned in sci-fi classics like "Snow Crash" and "Ready Player One". https://www.oculus.com/blog/we...

Reddit has a subreddit for this:

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

1. Correlation != Causation.

2. Rotten Tomatoes measures how popular something is. Using it as a exclusively as "proof" of measurement of "quality" is shows you don't understand point #1 nor #2.

Now there is (some) overlap between a movie that is popular AND good, but there are at least 4 permutations you seem to be ignoring:

RT / Quality
=========
High / Good -- i.e. Baraka
High / Crap -- i.e. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Spy Kids, Jurassic World, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Prometheus, etc.
Low / Good -- i.e Silence (2017), Underrated movies on RT, Ace Ventura (*)
Low / Crap -- i.e. Battlefield Earth, far too much crap to list.

Legend:

High = high popular score on Rotten Tomatoes
Low = low popular score on Rotten Tomatoes
Good = Great characters, plot, world building, story telling, or funny / satire / parody.
Crap = Who the fuck wrote/directed this shit???

We can ignore the High/Good (both > 90%) and Low/Crap (both < 40%) since in those cases it can generally be agreed upon that RT's score of popularity DOES equal quality. It is the two OTHER ones High/Crap, and Low/Good that demonstrate RT's score is based on popularity, not quality:

* High/Crap = movie might be over-rated
* Low/Good = movie might be under-rated

(*) I thought Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was funny as hell, but only a deluded fan would think it was "good" -- how should it be rated then??? Good from an Entertainment value? Crap from a Story perspective?

Beside, IMDB's Top 100 is a better correlation of good movies then RT. But again, this is still mostly a list of popular movies.

Even "better" is a combined RT and IMDb -- but even that must be taken with a grain of salt.

3. There is a HUGE disconnect between the RT's "Critics" and "Audience" score.

Spy Kids has a 93% from critics (WTF?!), yet only a 46% from the audience.

More crap like this can be seen with SW:TLJ, critics rate it 91%, yet the audience score is closer to 24% (**) -- ignoring the animated Clone Wars (2008), it is the LOWEST Star Wars film to date.

(**) RT currently shows the audience score as 47%, but this leads me to my next point.

4. Rotten Tomatoes pull shenanigans like this: They don't count half stars!

The Last Jedi ACTUAL Rotten Tomatoes popcorn score is 24 percent - Mark Sargent

Ignoring the data doesn't make it go away.

The problem is people like you conflate "popular" == good, or RT "high score" == good, when that simply isn't the case.

"They do have a 'hands on steering wheel' sensor."

Which most of the time does absolutely nothing when you're on the highway and it senses your hands aren't on the wheel:

https://www.teslarati.com/what... -what-happens-ignore-tesla-autopilot-warnings/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tesla... -how_often_does_autopilot_warn_you_to_put_your/

>As far as apps being moved to a paid model, look at something as stupid as Solitaire. Free in Windows 7, pay to remove ads in Windows 10

I knew someone was going to mention Solitare! So if you offer a free app in your OS, you are obligated till the end of time to enhance, update and include it free in all future versions of the OS? Especially something as irrelevant as a card game?

Well, that skips just a few interim possibilities there, doesn't it? Let's not forget that MS played all kinds of sketchy games with 'consent' when it came to updating lots of Windows 7 users to Windows 10; it wasn't exactly a truly conscious opt-in decision for many.

Possibility #1: leaving it in for users who upgraded from Windows 7/8.
Possibility #2: copy/pasting the same Solitaire release from Windows 8 to Windows 10. No enhancements, no updates. just inclusion of already-completed code that costs them $0, with the new-and-improved Solitaire available in the store.
Possibility #3: copy/paste the Win7 Solitaire release code,but have it give an ad for the new one in the Store when users close it out.
Possibility #4: don't-delete the legacy code when windows users explicitly re-add it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windo...
Possibility #5: Make a base level version available as a one-time purchase and a premium version an annual fee.

I just came up with five options off the top of my head that don't involve MS having to write new code for free, forever.

... a package that was supposed to arrive at my work yesterday was "Delivery attempted" last night at 6:15pm (and failed, natch, because we're closed) because one of the world leaders in computing and AI has NO WAY to know that this location is a business. This is a 4-story building, in a 6-building, many-acre office park, on a street full of strip malls and office parks. Because evidently Amazon does NOT have an existing list of locations that are businesses, and evidently the AMZL delivery sap has no magic button on his handheld to mark a location as a business for future use (and I doubt that I'm the first person here to ever order something from Amazon.) Oh, and there's no way for me to edit my shipping address and specify that it's a business, although the customer service chat person told me that I could delete my address and re-enter it and then there will be a box to check that it's a business, which I will try AFTER my package successfully arrives. But hey, this has only been a known issue for a YEAR. https://www.reddit.com/r/amazo...

Fuck you, AMZL. This is fucking brain-dead.

What I read on my 'local' tech website (page in Dutch) is they arrested several admins in various countries, and a former admin in the Netherlands. Also, it wasn't a Europol lead operation. Law enforcement agencies of eleven nations were involved from Europe, North America and Hong Kong (Asia), 'in corporation with Europol'.

The site is seized by the US DoD. In the coordinated effort the agencies hunted down various admins. The hunt for other personnel and users of the services is ongoing.

Dutch police is answering questions about the case here on Reddit (in English).

Hmm, interesting.

This reminds me of a Medium article I read last night about StackOverflow and its problems. The thing I like about Reddit is that Karma isn't as important. Like it matters because at a certain point your posting privileges are limited but I feel karma isn't really that important. I think Reddit is vulnerable to gamification, but I feel it just doesn't matter as much. Like there was this "one troll" on r/linux and that person just kept making new accounts. Honestly if I'm on Reddit, I'm just shitposting most of the time if not lurking. But StackOverflow is different. It's supposed to be a community of developers just discussing technical things. And I think I agree with April that the moderation team really needs to do something about the whole issue of gamification and out-group/in-group and reputation.

Impatient men don't wander up to the unfamiliar.

I've been working with PCs a long, long time. My first PC was an IBM PC-1, and my second PC was a 286@6 MHz. The first graphics cards I used which caused unscheduled reboots under Windows (3.1) were Mach32, and the second ones were Mach64. I had the 3DFx Voodoo and Voodoo 2, the Matrox Mystique, an NEC PowerVR card, a Permedia 2, and finally a TNT and then TNT2. And I still tried ATI cards, and they were garbage, so I stuck with nVidia. Yet, every third card I would try an ATI card because they were cheaper... and they never worked right and I always went back to nVidia, which always worked.

AMD STILL has poor drivers and drops support for old hardware sooner than nVidia does. People don't avoid AMD because it's not nVidia. People avoid AMD because they're still less competent than nVidia.

In one respect, toxicity is the canary in the coal mine; in another, toxicity is what stops certain "right-thinking" opinions from taking over and being accepted; in yet another, "toxic" expression has a powerful ability to teach valuable life lessons to everyone from the reader to the participant. Banning toxicity is denial of human nature and causes such ideas to ferment in private rather than in public. The ban will be seen as unfair, and because there is no example to prove otherwise (because it's fucking BANNED) a sort of martyrdom of ideas will inevitably form.

Pick a forum, any forum. They start out with free speech goals and then gradually move towards oppressive censorship; as the censorship grows, the forum goes to shit, but the people who are demanding others they disagree with be silenced always claim that "it's dying because it's TOXIC and YOU AREN'T TAKING ENOUGH ACTION TO PROTECT PEOPLE!!!11eleventyone" when it's really the opposite. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so censorship gets heavier, public platitudes about "preventing abuse" and "improving safety" and "making the community more welcoming" are spouted, and the site goes even further to shit.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, take your pick because it doesn't matter. All of them "do something about the toxicity" and that's exactly what kills them. 4chan was doing really great at NOT falling into this trap for a long time until Moot got a girlfriend and that girlfriend had ties to Zoe Quinn; 4chan's GamerGate censorship was a fat nail in its coffin; /b/ went from a few interesting things mixed with tons of trannies and flat-chested teens and chubby threads and furry hentai to nothing but dicks and "roll games" and thirty-tittied furries afterwards.

tl;dr: Toxicity is the most important part of internet communities, because toxicity is humanity. No toxicity allowed, community slowly dies.

than you lot. shamelessly x posted. :

Amazon employee here.

The post is pretty spot on. They don't monitor bathroom breaks, but you'r individual rate (or production goal) dosnt account for bathroom breaks, or... let's say there is a problem like you need 2 of something and there's only one left, well you have to put on your "andon"... wait for someone to come "fix" for you, all the while your rate is dropping. The 2 most common reasons pepole get fired are not hitting rate, and attendance. They don't really try to help you hit rate, they just fire and replace.

My first week there 2 pepole collapsed from dehydration. It's so common place to see someone collapse that nobody is even shocked anymore. You'll just hear a manager complain that he has to do some report now, while a couple of new pepole try to help the guy ( veterans won't risk helping becuse it drips rate). No sitting allowed, and there's nowhere to sit anywhere except the break rooms. Before the robots (they call them kivas) pickers would regularly walk 10-15 miles a day, now it's just stand for 10-12 hours a day.

Pepole complain about the heat all the time but we just get told 80 degrees ( Fahrenheit obviously) is a safe working temp. Some times they will pull out a thermometer, but even when it hits 85 they just say it's fine.

There's been deaths, at least one in my building... Amazon likes to keep it all hush hush. Heard about others, you can find the stories if you search for it, but Amazon does a good job burying it.

Every now and we have an inspection, where stuff like this should be cought and changed. But they just pretty it up. If the pepole doing the inspection looked at numbers on inspection day vs normal operation, they would see a massive difference... but no fucks givin.

The truth is the warehouses operate at a loss most the time, Amazon literly can't afford to pay the workers decent pay, and can't afford to not work them to death. The entire bussnius model is dependent on cheep (easily replacable) labor, which is why tier 1s are the bulk of the Amazon work force. My building has like 3-5k workers most the time and around 10-30k on the holiday ( what they call peak). Almost all of that is tier 1, most states have 4-7 of these warehouses, and some like Texas and Arizona have tons more.

Next time you order something off Amazon, remember it was put in that box buy a guy sweating his ass off trying to put 100-250 things in a box per hour, for 10 hours a day or he will be fired, making about a dollar more than minimum wage. Might have even been a night shift guy, who goes to work at 630pm and gets off at 5am.

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

whole thread is full of stories like this. problem is that they are so damn cheap you cant NOT buy from amazon, because face it, we are all poor in this new world order.

I set up a Lenny bot on my home Asterisk system and have been enjoying getting scammers into it. I haven't got around to posting any of my own recordings, but https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle... is pretty hilarious.

I haven't gotten any of my own recordings up yet, but I've had a great time working on getting scammers to a Lenny bot I run at home, as on https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle...

Getting a little more creative.... https://www.reddit.com/r/funny...

CEO Steve Huffman whether posts containing racism or racial slurs violate Reddit's terms. Huffman revealed that said speech are permissible on the site.
....

It's unclear if Huffman's comments are representative of Reddit's company policy, but protection of hate speech can -- and do -- lead to online harassment and cyberbullying.

The CEO's comments are addressing racism and racial slurs.
  Which is NOT the same thing as hate speech.
Somebody is confusing the two, and they are NOT the same.

It's not hate speech when a poster merely expresses that they hold some racist belief(s), or uses
some racial slur or insult, or says ugly ignorant things about other people based on race, etc.
Hate speech is something very specific: Inciting violence or attempting to cause or incite others to cause physical harm or damage to a person or person(s).
  based on their race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender, religion or religious beliefs, veteran status, genetic information, disability or physical conditions..

Reddit's policy update made it clear that hate speech is not tolerated.

You're no fun. Send them to Lenny. ;)

They do offer $15/mo for 5 accounts... which is the only way Spotify is worth it. The downside is that nobody offers less than $10/mo so it's hard to find a decent alternative that doesn't try to lock you into a specific platform like Apple Music

What do you mean "Lock you into a specific platform"? There is an Apple Music Client for Android and iTunes (which is also an Apple Music Client) is available for Windows, too.

https://play.google.com/store/...

https://www.apple.com/itunes/d...

Linux, as usual, takes the hindmost, sorry. I guess when it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop, things will be different...

Wait! They're different NOW! (If you have Ubuntu, at least).

https://askubuntu.com/question... ...or other Distros:

http://www.tunefab.com/tutoria...

http://www.sidify.com/guide/ho...

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

is this the same click-bait article I saw posted on Reddit where it was titled Woz "leaving Facebook" (like he was an employee there), only to have the article explain they meant closing his account, and then at the end of the article reveal he didn't even delete the profile in the end, because he didn't want someone else taking his username?

I am well aware that scikit-learn is written in Python. That doesn't mean Python is a good language. I'd argue Ruby is a better language.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
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Duolingo was talked about recently here on Slashdot. There's a podcast where they talk about how they switched from Python to Scala and how it helped them out a lot.

https://softwareengineeringdai...

I am well aware that scikit-learn is written in Python. That doesn't mean Python is a good language. I'd argue Ruby is a better language.

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

Duolingo was talked about recently here on Slashdot. There's a podcast where they talk about how they switched from Python to Scala and how it helped them out a lot.

https://softwareengineeringdai...

I am well aware that scikit-learn is written in Python. That doesn't mean Python is a good language. I'd argue Ruby is a better language.

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

Duolingo was talked about recently here on Slashdot. There's a podcast where they talk about how they switched from Python to Scala and how it helped them out a lot.

https://softwareengineeringdai...

Republicans, destroy your education systems

Yeah, republicans aren't the ones trying to shove identity politics into math and engineering or patrolling the campus with baseball bats on a seek-and-destroy mission against "nazis".

The most interesting things are happening in the world of tiling window managers in my opinion. While that subreddit isn't exclusively for tiling window managers, it can give you an idea of some of the customization and personalization that's possible with both the look and the configuration/usability of these window managers.

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

(worth a short read and funny as heck)

Yup, and that is pretty much the port that is worn out already. The thing that gets me is, I thought durability was one of the selling points of USB-C?? I plug my android phone in every day with micro-usb and it is showing no signs of wear.

That's likely what the connector salesman told Apple, HP, Microsoft. Acer, Lenovo, etc., about USB-C connectors, too.

I DO know that Apple doesn't put cheap-shit connectors in their products (because they don't HAVE to); but, since USB-C is a relatively new standard in the wild, perhaps some unanticipated wearout mechanisms in the overall USB-C connector designs are now coming to light.

If so, that wouldn't be Apple's fault, per se. It would be an industry-wide problem.

There are also common, fairly prosaic, issues, like an accumulation of LINT in the connector (no fooling!) that make it SEEM like a USB-C port is "wearing out", when it isn't:

https://forums.oneplus.net/thr...

Here's another forum poster suggesting a "de-linting" fix:

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

The Spec. is 10,000 insertion/extraction cycles. So you haven't worn out the Connector:

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

More than likely, there is lint that is keeping the connector from being fully-inserted, and thus the spring-clip that holds the "plug" into the "jack" isn't able to actuate.

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

https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/201...

https://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/...

They've just caught on to their Reddit fan club. Note how long it takes them to start talking about KSP, and how popular that is with them. Probably half of them do live with mom, and she can't get time alone no matter how many sailors come by :-).

I'm not sure what your wife's definition of "Barely" is; but I don't have ANY kind of experience that I would call "barely working".

The brokenness of multi-display support in the last two releases of macOS her her biggest issue. It's a battle to get her late 2015 5k iMac to wake her 2nd display after the machine sleeps, which has only been an (widely reported, mind you) issue since Sierra. It's not the Mac, either; nor is it the display. Every Mac we have with Sierra or newer (2 personal laptops, 1 business laptop and the iMac) exhibits this issue when this, or any other display is connected. These are Macs and displays which worked together just fine prior to Sierra.

Milti-display support isn't a niche feature; it's integral to the workflow of many a graphic designer -- drawing tablets with built-in displays are quite popular among that crowd -- and the vast majority of professional users who actually have a desk to work at. It's quite a major issue for them to seemingly be ignoring; it's the kind of thing you'd expect they'd have addressed in an early point release of Sierra, not something they'd let linger nearly half a year into the following release (and still not have fixed).

That's just one of many issues she's encountered in the past handful of years; to someone who remembers Macs "Just Working" since the mid 1980's, though, that's a world-breaking issue.

You can use several DDNS providers with letsencrypt. Here's directions for the one I use, duckdns.

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

At least (some) Chromebooks can be made to run real operating systems that aren't walled gardens.

Scientists are discovering that Consciousness Affects Matter. (The fact that the Placebo Effect even _exists_ at all is partial proof of this.)

But this is nothing new. You can find doctors talking about their NDEs. A NDE (Near Death Experience) is when a person has an OBE when they almost died.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's My stroke of insight is an interesting talk about her OBE.

Eben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife

Dr.Eben Alexander talks about his Near Death Experience & Proof of Heaven

Before you graduate to OBEs you'll probably want to start with Lucid Dreaming. Reddit, of all places, has a good sub-reddit: /r/LucidDreaming/

Then as you learn to meditate you can work on having an OBE.

Thomas Campbell documents the experiences of his OBEs in My Big Toe -- where he was one the participants.

Once you have you OBE's you can start having them with others.

My wife and I have had shared OBE's -- we then compare and contrast "our notes" to see what is the same and different. The fact that we can describe the same experiences proves that consciousness is non-local -- something that Physicts just now are starting to understand.

Lastly, Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality discusses past experiments done by neuro-scientists that show the brain is !== mind, and non-local.

That is enough resources to get you started. Good luck on experiencing a wider reality !

The link is in TFS, but I'll repost it here for you anyway: https://www.reddit.com/help/co...

The first thing on the list of prohibited content is things that are illegal. Isn't selling chemical weapons, elephant tusks and human organs illegal?

Reddit has banned gun sale subreddits today.

Original post by Puffin Fitness: https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/85p30j/deletefacebook_movement_gains_steam_after_50/dvz4y6o/

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In 2009, Russian social-media mogul Yuri Milner invested $200 million into Facebook at a valuation of $10 billion dollars without voting rights or a seat on the board. To understand this investment, at the time the world was going through a global recession and Facebook's general valuation had dropped from the $15 billion from the year prior to $4-$6 billion in 2009.

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-valuation-the-cheat-sheet/

One company did offer a valuation of $8 billion, but with a seat on the board, which Zuckerberg was strongly against. In other words, Yuri Milner invested in Facebook when they were strapped for cash and at an inflated price without voting rights or a seat on the board. That's an amazing deal for Zuckerberg!

Here's Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg hanging out for an interview: https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/mark-zuckerberg-and-yuri-milner-talk-about-facebooks-new-investment-video/

The deal was coordinated by Alisher B. Usmanov, a Russian oligarch that earned his fortune managing steel mill subsidiaries for Gazprom.

Usmanov spent six years in prison for fraud and embezzlement in the 80's.

In 2008, Usmanov fired a publisher and editor at one of Russia's most respected news paper after it published detailed accounts of Russian election fraud.

It is said, "His ties to the Kremlin and Facebook have stirred concerns that he might influence the companyâ(TM)s policies in subtle ways to appease governments in markets where Facebook is also an important tool of political dissent, such as Russia." This was in 2009.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/technology/a-russian-facebook-bet-pays-off-big.html

Usmanov is close friends with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov

Ivanka Trump and Wendi Deng are good friends with Abramovich's then wife, Dasha Zhoukova. Here they are watching a tennis match.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3784716/Ivanka-Trump-Karlie-Kloss-Wendi-Deng-Murdoch-watch-Open.html

The leak of the Paradise Papers revealed the money Yuri Milner used to invest into Facebook came from Gazprom, a US sanctioned Russian oil and gas company, at one point owning 9% of the company.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-the-paradise-papers-leak-facebook-yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia

Soon after, Zuckerberg and Milner became friends, meeting monthly:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-got-early-business-advice-194957335.html

And even spoke together in November 2015 at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-the-paradise-papers-leak-facebook-yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia

In May 2012, Milner attended Zuckerberg's wedding. In 2014, Milner moved to California home he paid 100% above value on.

http://time.com/5011000/paradise-papers-tax-ha

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Note that I'm not talking about speed of emulation, but latency between input and response. This sort of thing has been investigated and quantified, and found to still be an issue even with recent computers. While it won't affect many games, there are some where it is important.

You missed an AC comment in the middle, so the GP post wasn't even directed at you, but an AC comment you missed.

That said, I'll leave this here. It's kind of interesting that we all 'know' who was behind this when we haven't actually seen much real analysis just yet.

So, too late to exchange those old Geoffrey Dollars for Bitcoin?

What examples of "left bias" have you found on Wikipedia that are unsupported by sources that have earned a reputation for fact-checking?

These sources earned that reputation for fact-checking decades ago, then fired all of their fact-checkers in the 1990s and were sold off in the 2000s to billionaires who fired everyone again and restaffed the companies with left-wing nutjobs because controversy brings hits and ad revenue and foreign investment.

Many of the "debunked" "conspiracy theories" involve times when these billionaires and their staff have been caught conspiring, with evidence from Wikileaks, Soros/DC Leaks, the Mossack Fonseca records, etc. Pizzagate involved arrests for child trafficking and an American spook was killed investigating it. Something happened there. Gamergate is a smaller example. Their logs were leaked and the collusion was proven, and the collusion involved board members of the New York Times and the Wikimedia Foundation which may explain why Wikipedia is so insistent that nothing happened and still considers the NYT a reliable source after their reporters admit that they are told what to write regardless of what the facts are.

In this media environment where the corporate powers are corrupt and incompetent, there is a market opportunity for new and independent media organizations. This is why the corporations are blacklisting them and slandering them as Nazis. This is collusion by big business to shut out competition. They are putting new media out of business before they can get off the ground, when the next Seymour Hersh or Nellie Bly is still one guy with a camera phone. They are getting rid of them before they can gain a following.

Or is Wikipedia's guideline for determining "reputation for fact-checking" itself applied in a manner that shows a systemic bias?

Wikipedia's determination of who is or is not a reliable source is run NorthBySouthBaranof who you can just google to see how nuts he is, or search for his name in the gamergate forums [1] [2] and WikiInAction. He has a large group of friendly admins who ban anyone who questions his decision making no matter how obviously wrong he is.

It's weird what Reddit considers 'toxic', too. I mean, for some odd reason, they don't appear to have any issue with these subs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shoplifting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stealing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pickpocket/

It's weird what Reddit considers 'toxic', too. I mean, for some odd reason, they don't appear to have any issue with these subs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shoplifting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stealing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pickpocket/

It's weird what Reddit considers 'toxic', too. I mean, for some odd reason, they don't appear to have any issue with these subs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shoplifting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stealing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pickpocket/

This is the link I was referring to. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D... [reddit.com]

One obvious problem is that your link makes a claim but doesn't back it up in any way. There's no list of the ">500" companies that Trump ran, just a claim that he did.

It's a complete sham. It was never a "top result" on Google or any other search engine. Don't try to spread that stuff here and expect that no one will point out that it's complete bullshit.

Maybe you should look in a mirror some time and stop projecting. This is the link I was referring to. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...
Note that it was in June and in October, the media pounded away on Trump's business record by claiming that some businesses were not successful because they didn't make huge profits. Well they employed people and they didn't file for bankruptcy so I don't think they can be called "failed".
Also, when did I say I hung out on Reddit? I don't. That place has too much censorship which is really the point of this Slashdot story. You seem to have missed that.

Must be free to use.

This is a somewhat difficult, limiting condition. But AFAIK there's at least one who offers: Eternal September. I have not personaly tried them, though.

But it's decentralized. You'll mostly be talking with other people who use one of the paid services. (I decided to link to a subreddit about Usenet, because I thought it would be ironic, while also being a fairly high-quality reference.)

https://amdflaws.com/disclaime...

"Although we have a good faith belief in our analysis and believe it to be objective and unbiased, you are advised that we may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance of the securities of the companies whose products are the subject of our reports."

24 hours notice. "Researchers" who seem to spring up out of nowhere. Creating a website and videos for maximum publicity. All the security flaws seem overblown (require actual flashing of firmware or bypassing driver signing), and.. wait, what's this?

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

A huge number of put option (a bet that share price will fall dramatically) volume 5 days ago?

Nah, this is totally legit!

Reddit has been waging a war against free speech, and against certain demographics, for the sake of political correctness, for many years now.

Merely recounting some of the facts of journalistic ethical missteps with regards to Gamergate was sufficient cause for massive Orwellian Bannings, Shadowbannings, and Mass censorship. They will also do the same across Reddit for terrorist bombings that dare to mention a privileged group that bombed or killed, such as with the London terrorist knifings, or the Orlando Massacre

If you bring up inconvenient facts that are not politically correct, you can expect to receive the same treatment. You can also expect to have the Inquisitors of SRS downvote brigading your small subreddit. SRS is quite open about being against free speech, and actively opposing non-SJW outlooks. SRS receive active admin support, so they are rarely, if ever, punished. If you resist Admin control over a subreddit, your subreddit is removed.

Furthermore, there is a massive conspiracy of leftist moderators that, in cahoots with the Administrators of Reddit, actively attempt to squelch and censor the views of the Right, and Libertarians. This is not unlike the situation with Wikipedia, and the moderation wars that have occurred there, or the regular invasion of SJW material here, into Slashdot.

Why is this?

Politically Correct speech stands in direct opposition to Free Speech.
The privatization of the Commons
Corporate attempts to push Feel Good communication codes everywhere, to sell More Advertising.
Demonization of Men (White & Asian mainly), like Google
Active attempts to silence political opposition outside the Silicon Valley Worldview

Reddit has been waging a war against free speech, and against certain demographics, for the sake of political correctness, for many years now.

Merely recounting some of the facts of journalistic ethical missteps with regards to Gamergate was sufficient cause for massive Orwellian Bannings, Shadowbannings, and Mass censorship. They will also do the same across Reddit for terrorist bombings that dare to mention a privileged group that bombed or killed, such as with the London terrorist knifings, or the Orlando Massacre

If you bring up inconvenient facts that are not politically correct, you can expect to receive the same treatment. You can also expect to have the Inquisitors of SRS downvote brigading your small subreddit. SRS is quite open about being against free speech, and actively opposing non-SJW outlooks. SRS receive active admin support, so they are rarely, if ever, punished. If you resist Admin control over a subreddit, your subreddit is removed.

Furthermore, there is a massive conspiracy of leftist moderators that, in cahoots with the Administrators of Reddit, actively attempt to squelch and censor the views of the Right, and Libertarians. This is not unlike the situation with Wikipedia, and the moderation wars that have occurred there, or the regular invasion of SJW material here, into Slashdot.

Why is this?

Politically Correct speech stands in direct opposition to Free Speech.
The privatization of the Commons
Corporate attempts to push Feel Good communication codes everywhere, to sell More Advertising.
Demonization of Men (White & Asian mainly), like Google
Active attempts to silence political opposition outside the Silicon Valley Worldview