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Or, or, hear out my novel ideal: You could just fashion spoons and forks from bamboo.

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And while I'm sure that those bamboo knives and forks won't be very comfortable because of the thickness of their edge and tines they should work.

And if you're adventurous, you could even wash and reuse them.

I sure do that with all the bamboo spatulas (some with silicone heads) in my kitchen, which have lasted me longer than many of the crappy plastic ones.

And I have the sticker to prove it.

You are just showing your ignorance here. The toasters probably peaked in ...bread toasting abilities...about 100 years ago.
Current iphone has roughly the same processing power as super computers occupying entire datacenter from 30 years ago. Heck, single nvidia 1070 has roughly the same power as IBM ASCI White from year 2000. 1070 which was released in 2016 is about 60% faster than 970 which was released in 2014
For your reference, here's a picture of the gpu and the supercomputer

Unfortunately, they do. That's why when I get a new power tool, I have to make modifications to pare it down to an elegant C-style device:

That's one extreme. And if you to the other extreme that's not very useful either. That the code doesn't crash doesn't mean it does anything useful or won't go into an infinite loop or that exceptions or error conditions are meaningfully handled from a user perspective or that the code is secure from unauthorized access or alteration or that data won't get corrupted, deleted or overwritten. Maybe if it's some kind of online service where you're bringing down many users, but if my game client crashes or hangs or throws an error message it almost doesn't matter. All I can do is close it and try again. So it's okay to rant about software quality but Rust would, at best, solve one little snippet of that.

And that's okay, it only needs to make the world a little better. But a lot of the "lets throw it all out and redo it in Rust" advocates seem to forget or ignore all the effort that's been made to create actual user functionality that works as intended and the massive effort it would take to retest that and since real world code rarely has 100% test coverage - and why are you rewriting it, if it does exactly what it should - you'd probably create a whole lot of new bugs. Probably not bugs from a language perspective, the Rust code executes according to spec but breaking real world functionality. And the training costs until developers create fewer of those bugs than before, if they ever do because they spend more time fixing Rust compiler warnings or don't find the documentation, IDE, libraries etc. equally useful.

To me it's a bit like the DVORAK keyboard layout, even if all the claims of somewhat increased typing efficiency and less strain for English-language users are true it's ultimately so rarely the limiting factor and the global effort to switch so huge it's extremely questionable if it's worth the effort. As opposed to fixing bugs the "old fashioned" way, I mean some of the core banking code is still written in COBOL. If you've ironed out all the bugs it doesn't matter what language you used, the question is what gets you as close as necessary with the least developer effort. If you want perfect you should probably do formal proofs or something like that and even then who proofs the proof? I've had "bugs" basically boil down to faulty test cases, it's not supposed to do what the test case says.

They've got all sorts of warnings/etc. on appropriate use. In the end though, what he's really sold is a very expensive weed torch.

Seriously.

It's just this sort of thing (bought at any walmart/hardware store): https://images-na.ssl-images-a...

Put into this Airsoft battle rifle: https://www.evike.com/images/l...

This "flamethrower" is just a weed-burning torch with a modified case to hold the tank. That's what he should call it.

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Sorry, jowls are loose. You want that box of "Failure Fulvous" or "Pompous Purple"? Maybe "Delusional Denim"?

BTW, can you show us your "jawline"?

PS: A beard is not a substitute for a jawline. George Lucas is envious of your gizzard. There's pelicans going "damn dude!" when they see you.

"something is fundamentally broken with [creimer]"

Gee, ya think?

He is a broken man, I can't even begin to imagine the shaming, dysfunctional, and abusive childhood he must have experienced.

That's why his mental armor is so impressive. He's become a pathological narcissist to avoid confronting the banality of his reality. I particularly love the weight training comments he makes. He truly thinks he's more muscle than fat, despite weighing more than Dorian Yates at his peak.

Now, Dorian Yates looked like this.

creimer's stupid fat head with a beard looks like this.

Mind you, both Dorian and creimer are the same height. (BTW, go watch The Joe Rogan Experience with Dorian Yates. Fascinating!)

So try to imagine the complexity and depth of the perceptual and psychological self-deception required to look at yourself in the mirror, see neck rolls and think "Dorian Yates can go fuck off".

Let that sink in for a while. I have full body pics of creimer for the interested. Horrific. I think NATO banned these pictures.

Don't click on any dick pic links that appear on Slashdot

Here is the one I always print when trying to get friends to secure their network. This usually gets the point across and the initial conversation flowing.

Original concept art for Curiosity

Number Five from Short Circuit

Things that make you go hmm...

on Twitter, but I don't know if he uses a phone.

If he does, then it's probably one like this official presidential phone

I'm not seeing a single muscle on you. I do see that even your fingers are storing fat at this point. There is also about 10lb of fat in your neck. The neck is not where people's bodies store fat until every other place is full.

If you diet and work out, you can be completely fit within 2 years without trying super hard. You have been at it for 5. It's not working - that's a fact. Your old picture and your new picture look the same unless you stare at it and examine small details. In that amount of time of diet and exercise, you should look like a completely different person from a quick glance. I love how your brain is so broken you actually see those two photos as proof what you're doing is working. That's called a brain disease fuggo.

Both your mind and your body are broken. You look in the mirror and you see a skinny nerd. Literally everyone else looks at you and sees this
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Then this will BLOOOOWWWW your mind

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She blew mine.

Now, this is a giant spider!

Anyone try one of those cheap "Smart Watches" you see on Amazon? Here's one I looked at: CNPGD Bluetooth Smart Wrist Wrap Watch Phone for IOS and Android, Black

I don't know. Based on the size, it appears to be a bit cumbersome...

Why does Amazon keep putting out these stupid drone delivery theatre videos? Yes, a quadcopter can lift a 5 pound box and fly 20 minutes out, 20 minutes back with it. And land in a big farmer's field as shown in the video. Now let me see, the market consisting of farmers living 7 miles from an Amazon warehouse dispatch center is how big exactly? Is there even one? And don't forget, this thing will need to be flown with cell coverage for the operator video... there's no way it's going to land autonomously in somebody's front yard without eventually maiming the mailman or killing the cat. And um. Exactly how many front yards are there available in the urban centers where these things would need to operate? What if it's raining? Windy? What is the failure rate? Failure mode? (Hint: it's raining hardware on your car.)

At least they showed a normal quadcopter this time, not some pathetic piece of concept art. It still just sends a simple, clear message: "Amazon is full of shit."

I remember those, the 112k modem. It was sometimes cheaper than ISDN and you had the ability to still have a real phone working without completely dropping internet.

Like this, perhaps?

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"PROFESSIONALS" = 74.5% male
"TECHNICIANS" = 88.8% male

"LABORERS & HELPERS" = 54.6% male

Technicians are not professionals?

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"PROFESSIONALS" = 74.5% male
"TECHNICIANS" = 88.8% male

"LABORERS & HELPERS" = 54.6% male

The old version of Amazon's agreement stated that developers would receive 20% of the original price when an app was given away for free. Then they changed it, and they didn't make it clear to developers. For many of them it was a nasty surprise. Unfortunately I can't find the original, but the new version is here https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/devportal/pdf/Appstore_Distribution_Agreement.pdf with the added sentence "No Royalty is payable for Apps with a List Price of $0.00." in Section 2(a).

List price is not SALE price.

The old version of Amazon's agreement stated that developers would receive 20% of the original price when an app was given away for free. Then they changed it, and they didn't make it clear to developers. For many of them it was a nasty surprise. Unfortunately I can't find the original, but the new version is here https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/devportal/pdf/Appstore_Distribution_Agreement.pdf with the added sentence "No Royalty is payable for Apps with a List Price of $0.00." in Section 2(a).

It's amazing how many problems and complaints would be solved if every ToS, EULA, and online agreement required some kind of electronic signature to be valid. It should be something that would take more than a quick mouse-click to apply. Also if any amendments to existing agreements had to come with a statement to the effect of, "The amended agreement is identical to the previous one in every way, except the following:" which could be covered in a couple of paragraphs, rather than reading tens of pages of legalese to find what has changed.

The entire notion of a contract or agreement is that both parties fully understand it and both parties voluntarily agree to it. The fact that most people neither read nor understand most agreements and EULAs and ToS's means that this system is failing and needs to be changed. Unless of course we are prepared to reject the idea of informed, voluntary consent to mutually satisfying agreements. Anyone who wants to reject that notion should understand that your alternative is the law of the jungle.

The old version of Amazon's agreement stated that developers would receive 20% of the original price when an app was given away for free. Then they changed it, and they didn't make it clear to developers. For many of them it was a nasty surprise. Unfortunately I can't find the original, but the new version is here https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/mobile-apps/devportal/pdf/Appstore_Distribution_Agreement.pdf with the added sentence "No Royalty is payable for Apps with a List Price of $0.00." in Section 2(a).

Well, when you advertise it with a graph like this claiming to get 2 months vs. a smartphones 5-10 hours (where one number is 1/48 duty cycle and disabled wireless, and the other is actual usage hours), it seems pretty damn deceptive. Where I'm from, we call that fraudulent advertising.

Whoever came up with this comparison chart will be first up against a wall when the revolution comes:

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Business Insider and author of TFA, Dan Frommer, got several details wrong.

TLDR; Amazon prevents you from selling for cheaper on other outlets, or giving away free downloads or FOSS if you want to charge on the Amazon Appstore.

(Snipped down.) When developers will be able to set a suggested retail price ('MSRP'). Then Amazon will set the retail price. Developers will get to take home the standard 70% of the app's retail price (what the app sells for) or 20% of the MSRP (what the developer thinks it should sell for), whichever is greater.

What does "MSRP" mean?

In the retail business (that's where the "R" in "MSRP" comes from) retailers make speculations on how many units they can sell at what prices over what period of time, compare to actual or theoretical negotiated bulk prices for purchasing from a manufacturer or wholesaler, and then decide whether or not it meets their profit expectations. It can be a little more complex than this, but this is the gist of it.

Well, the article linked to by Slashdot does not help you find Amazon's justification for using the terms "MSRP" or "SRP." My research, which may be incomplete, indicates that Amazon is not using this term, and rightly so. Here is an excerpt from Amazon's Appstore Distribution Agreement, which you can see in PDF form here (MD5 checksum 15636c42ecfb47dc819445ad3214eac4, just in case they change the file in the future without renaming it.)

Section 2a of Amazon's Appstore Distribution Agreement

For each sale of an App, we will pay you a royalty (“Royalty”) equal to the greater of (i) 70% of the purchase price or (ii) 20% of the List Price.

Ok, so what we're actually dealing with is called a "List Price" in the legal agreement to supply Amazon's new App Store. This is a more correct term, because an MSRP is legally unrelated to the price a retailer secures from their supplier for units of the product. It's clear though that this "List Price" bears legal weight in determining the PPU (price per unit) of the product from the supplier (or, developer, I guess.)

So at this point what we have established is that the "List Price" in fact has no bearing on what the app will be sold for, but is defined to be five times the minimum PPU the developer is paid.

Here is a really important detail that Business Insider and author of TFA, Dan Frommer, glossed over:

..if your app is $10 in the official Android market and $10 in Apple's iPhone app store, but $5 at Amazon's store, it could hurt sales in your other channels where you get more revenue per sale.

Somehow, even managing to discuss the situation in which you set your prices differently for different sales outlets, Business Insider and Dan Frommer miss this juicy tidbit:

Section 5i of Amazon's Appstore Distribution Agreement

The “List Price” for an App is an amount that does not exceed, at any time, the lowest list price or suggested retail price for such App (including any similar edition, version or release) available on any Similar Service or the lowest actual price at which you make such App available for sale through any Similar Service. You will update the List Price for each App as necessary to ensure that it meets the requirements of this section 5i.

"List Price," then, is not simply five times the minimum PPU you wish to be paid (which would effectively allow you to actually set the price you want to sell at, which would be nice) but is in fact a function of what price you are offering, but a function of the price your app is available for at different outlets! This means if your app is on multiple outlets, Amazon takes away your ability to set your price through the List Price, and even