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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

--Donald Knuth, Seminumerical Algorithms

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Most people will never need more than 16GB of RAM to play video games Sounds familiar to me. No comments, other than the famous "640K ought to be enough for anybody." is often attributed erroneously to Bill Gates.

With 256GB of RAM, you could run advanced AI processes or lease computing power to other people.. Of course, because both tasks are memory-bound, and not compute-bound /sarcasm.

The average user will not need 16 GB in the near future. Even gamers aren't RAM limited, my 12 GB is enough to make my graphics card the bottleneck.

I suspect they won't require 16 GB as a recommended amount for some time yet. We've been on 4GB for a while and the average user still isn't utilising all of that.

The only people who need a lot of RAM are people who are running very RAM intensive programs like databases, image processing, virtualisation, et al. where you need to keep huge volumes of data in memory. AI processes not so much as they are usually processes, not huge datasets.

However if you need to do any of that, you're absolutely daft to be buying a Mac when you can get a Dell (or insert other brand) x64 server of similar spec for half the cost, let alone build your own custom PC for less. Even the HP Z workstations top out at $8,000 and if anything goes wrong with that, HP comes to you.

Most people will never need more than 16GB of RAM to play video games Sounds familiar to me. No comments, other than the famous "640K ought to be enough for anybody." is often attributed erroneously to Bill Gates.

With 256GB of RAM, you could run advanced AI processes or lease computing power to other people.. Of course, because both tasks are memory-bound, and not compute-bound /sarcasm.

The quote "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" is often attributed to:

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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Attribution is disputed...but often given to Seneca https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...

Sure, do you remember when DES was going to take the lifetime of the Universe to crack, then some egg-heads had custom ASICS fabbed and built Deep Crack (EFF DES Cracker), which could break DES in a day?

Just saying that nobody wants to be the dumbass who will be quoted for the foreseeable future saying something like, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

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I'm not the parent but, jeeze, there are thousands of links on Google about that quote and they all eventually cite the source directly.

The WikiQuote page holding that quote even links to the entire source documents of that quote for free:

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

When he died he was the most decorated marine in US history at that time.

That quote is likely bogus:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Disputed

People are reminded this all of the time, Zuck: They "trust me", Zuck: Dumb fucks https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/.... A leopard, or slimey cunt, do not change their ways. Facebook have a history of faking subscriber numbers pretty much from it's conception, this has been reported on before. Stupid enough to use Facebook, well from the CEO's own mouth, you are a 'DUMB FUCK' and we should mock you (fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on me) and mock you and mock you some more (if you use facebook).

Dumb fuck.

That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.

I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.

https://www.saiglobal.com/

Dumb fuck.

That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.

I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.

I think we can trust him.

Dumb fuck.

That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.

They "trust me"
Dumb fucks.

was the reason for climbing Everest and is a good enough reason for going to Mars.

We also need to get off this planet before we are wiped out by an asteroid or something. Doing that in large numbers and creating a self sufficient colony on some other rock (preferably circling another star) will be very hard, a toe hold on Mars would be a great start.

And, remember, as Mater said, And then I remembered what they say about old British engines: "If there ain't no oil under 'em, there ain't no oil in 'em."

This fixes that.

Yup. If you rebuild it it'll just leak clean oil for awhile.

great way to ruin your investment by making the car near worthless.

Well, a drive-able Aston Martin is worth more than one you are banned from driving.

it will only be worth its money if it is in its original state.

You know, if you own a classic Aston Martin there's a very good chance you aren't using it as an investment.

And a classic body with a modern electric drive train would probably be hella fun to drive.

nobody is driving these classic cars anyway, except maybe once or twice a year to go to a meeting or somesuch

But I'm betting with an EV conversion this might change, precisely because you now have a modern, reliable 'engine' instead of something you need to coddle and treat like a museum piece.

Pretty sure Aston Martin is expecting people to come knocking and say "yes please, here's my money, please make my vintage car go like hell".

And, remember, as Mater said, And then I remembered what they say about old British engines: "If there ain't no oil under 'em, there ain't no oil in 'em."

This fixes that.

but they are attracted to the POSSIBILITY of becoming the "Drug Overlord". the big boss.

That's also why a large proportion of the population supports tax cuts that only benefit the top 1%: they consider themselves to be "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

As I recall, Facebook has always been one of the sleaziest companies on the planet. You'll recall the "dumb fucks" quote.

By abolishing net neutrality?

This is dumb. The abolition explicitly reduced the government's role in the Internet. Reduced — while the TFA argues for an increase: all of the analogies mentioned (speed-limits, prescription- and licensing-requirements) are enforced by government.

Like the early US, Internet was Libertarian — treating censorship as damage and routing around it, remember? The same unfortunate tendencies, which make the countries increasingly authoritarian, can now be observed online...

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

-- George Orwell, 1984 (1948)

And the Copenhagen interpretation is the new "Bohr atom model" - almost no one believes it this century

A 2011 survey of attendees of a conference on quantum physics would disagree with you, with 42% of the respondents (a plurality) listing the Copenhagen interpretation as their favorite interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Anyhow, measurement devices collapse the wave state, removing this sort of uncertainty at the point of measurement.

Sorry -- what's your definition of the Copenhagen interpretation? Because, to my understanding, wave function collapse on measurement *is* the Copenhagen interpretation: "Here's the quantum regime. Here's the classic regime. The result of a 'measurement' is always classical. -- How do you go from quantum to classical? It doesn't matter, it just does. We have well defined procedures to extract the empirical (classical) measurement results from a given quantum result. Throw a black box over the 'how', then shut up and calculate."

Using LinkedIn and Facebook may be perceived these says as a practical necessity for many people, of course. There is such a thing as social networking effects. But using them is still overall a bad thing for society -- even ignoring the personal mental health effects: https://www.medicaldaily.com/s...

Essentially, profiling (or ratting on) your colleagues and friends/family and defining all your relationships to them to a central authority on an ongoing basis is in some sense immoral in a democracy when other decentralized alternatives exist (e.g. email, IRC, personal websites,and more). It is immoral because it pushes too much power (as information) into a few centers instead of keeping that power decentralized across society. It does not matter if those centers are industrial or governmental.

Giving up such information voluntarily to big central authorities is the kind of thing that anyone who went to public school in the 1960s or 1970s would have been taught reflected the values of Soviet Russia and its pervasive intelligence apparatus (e.g. listening in on all phone calls) -- not the values of a democratic USA.

As Mark Zuckerberg himself said, it is just dumb:
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Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

Of course, given such a high level of informational immorality over the past decade (trading privacy for convenience), the world indeed may have changed. It is possible there is no going back -- even as various people, myself included, have worked towards more decentralized communication alternatives.

Instead, we may have to consider, say, David Brin's "Transparent Society" as a different option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Of course, there is likely a healthy balance of meshwork and hierarchy needed, so not all one or the other:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/me...
"Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation."

No easy answers... But a big potential problem...

See also for the past:
https://ibmandtheholocaust.com...
"IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing throughout World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s."

And for the present and near future, China's Social Credit system:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"Chinaâ(TM)s social credit system, a big-data system for monitoring and shaping business and citizensâ(TM) behaviour, is reaching beyond Chinaâ(TM)s borders to impact foreign companies, according to new research. The system, which has been compared to an Orwellian tool of mass surveillance, is an ambitious work in progress: a series of big data and AI-enabled processes that effectively grant subjects a social credit score based on their socia

This was written by James McHenry; he recorded it in the notes he took when he was the Maryland delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It's unclear the specific date, but Dr. McHenry clearly attributed the quote directly to Franklin.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
-Benjamin Franklin

*Sigh* you can make any old crap sound profound by attributing it to someone famous.

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More so, the lack of protections for shouting fire seem to rest on the properties of (a) panic, AND (b) falsehood. I suspect one's shouting of "fire" in a crowded theater would indeed be protected, if there were in fact a fire that threatened everyone in the theater.

Conservatives have gleefully embraced the alternative reality of Hannity, Jones, et al. as it suited them. That the intrinsic falsehood of that alternative world should lead to the actual world filtering it out is just the other shoe dropping. Don't like it that reality has a liberal bias? Tough.

Isn't this the four-stage strategy for dealing with foreign issues from "Yes, Prime Minister"?

Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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RUFKM?!?!?!

Fuckerberg wants my actual banking data too?

Fuck that shit.

DON'T BE A DUMB FUCK! GET OFF FACEBOOK NOW!!!!

If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

So far the only arguments against the wall have been a constant stream of infantile, verbal filth and absolutely zero reasoning or fact.

Does a pretty good job solidifying Okian's stance.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man -- General George S. Patton

Don't be a dumb fuck

Take your life back.

Fuck Fuckerberg.

Stop using FuckBook.

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept" is from a famous speech by Lt. Gen. David Morrison,1 Chief of Army, about sexual harassment and humiliation in the ranks in the Australian Army. Does quoting that line in a speech about wall warts seem a bit...overwrought to anyone else, or is it just me?

1Gen. Morrison credits the Governor of New South Wales, David Hurley, with the quote, but Morrison's is the most famous use of it.

Three million is "dozens". Lots and lots of dozens.

Don't be a dumb fuck.

Yes, I'm with your line of thinking. "Dozens" makes it sound like there were about 24 to 120 companies. If they sold access to 24, a company the size of Facebook likely sold it to 24,000. Dozens is probably designed to sound deliberately low whilst not being technically incorrect.

Three million is "dozens". Lots and lots of dozens.

Don't be a dumb fuck.

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As Hitler famously said, if you repeat a lie loudly and frequently, then people will eventually believe it.

That's funny, because Hitler never said those words.

"[A]ll effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward." Mein Kampf

Most people simply confuse who among the Nazis top heads uttered this idea.
(Basically confusing the guy who wrote it in his book, and the guy who applied it systematically in all propaganda).

...Soon it adds up to some real money (Saying often attributed to US Senator, Everett Dirksen).

I once had a comparative language teacher who said: English doesn't barrow words from other languages. English follows other languages into dark alleys and rifles their pockets.

Was he James Nicoll ?

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

John Rogers

Who's the "Dumb fuck" now, Zuck?

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"I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief."

Kurt von_Hammerstein-Equord.

All this SJW stuff comes from the stupid diligent - they're diligent and trying to force their way in -- but they're stupid (as far as this project is concerned) as they can't actually cut it as useful programmers on this project; so they're trying to make their stupid mark. You can see the problem when stupid/diligent conflict with clever/lazy...

Traditional OSS was all clever/lazy - the stupid were simply excluded. Now, they can muscle their way in.

Jack D. Ripper was right! They are trying to impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!

Quoting from the movie by Woody Allen:
Esposito: From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish.

. Yup, this science is definitely settled.

I'm sorry: the science is NEVER settled. If it is, it's dogma. You might as well stay with religion, because random($Holy_Book) is singularly, literally correct and everything else is absolutely wrong, and they'll TELL you that upfront. If you fight it, then either somehow you've misunderstood the words and need a re-education OR the $Evil_Deity has you under control. (The Earth, Gods Creation, is still the Center of the Universe, right? RIGHT?? If not, back in you go and we'll try it again later.)

All science can do is tell you what's WRONG, hopefully in a way so that you can find something next time that's NOT-QUITE-SO-wrong. Then: "Iterate." See: Iterate.

Seriously -- I applaud the flat-Earth nutcase (I think he's one too) that launched himself in a rocket the other month. But he thinks something, and he's out actively trying to prove it. I don't understand why lunar eclipses don't help -- I think it's because they believe the Earth has to be sitting on something: the "Down" thing. They "get" gravity as down, but can't figure out that for something floating in space, down is always near the center. (But way down there isn't down, it's UP.) But he's at least trying. I don't see why he can't fly an unmanned rocket with a GoCam on it and collect it himself, or radio down the pics. What, are the Illuminati going to intercept and change the SD Card / Radio Signals / have Elvis's UFO fly by it and hang pictures in front of the camera to deceive him? He wants to see it with his own eyes, except how does that change the UFO picture problem? (Unless of course he finds an edge. THEN it's a different story.)

HE'S taking action. When's the last time you (or *I*) did something like that? Here's a weird thing you could try. (Or just finish watching the video.) But the the MiB could be sponsoring the video -- that's why science wants everything out in the open and repeatable.

And that's why Sci and Rel don't mix -- Miracles are by definition NOT repeatable but science wants them to be, to find the edges and exceptions. And that's just fine, pick you poison. I'm an atheist but believe they're independent -- you can believe both at the same time. But some people want you to pick one EXCLUSIVELY over the other.

I'm a bad example since I've done just that -- except I'm actually an agnostic, and I really just don't care about the religion side. If so, then God and I will eventually be having a quick little chat. (I imagine it'll be a QUICK one before being smited: "Oh, hi there God -- well, shit." If not, then I imagine we won't, it'll be more: " " I'm anxious to find out, but not enough so to hurry along the process. BTW: Watch Youjo Senki / The Saga of Tanya the Evil

So what science experiments have YOU tried to re-validate lately? AGW? Dropping and timing light and heavy objects? Birds fly by ONLY flapping their wings? Fridge light always on or goes out? ANYTHING?

Science isn't special -- DO some. Explain things. Or explain why you CAN'T explain them. I was looking for the Feynman quote about a freshman lecture, but insead, this one fits better: 12th one down. -- "Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." It's NEVER settled, but the longer it goes the more " 'PLAININ' you got to do."

But I'm going to finish with the highest authority available, a quote from ANIME: "It's your fault for being unable to differentiate between religion and science." Trying to remember where that came from. Something about two little girls and a ?slug?, one is much more religious than the other -- hence the comment.

They also failed to mention the Facebook scripts and cookies on websites that also gather up your data, not just visiting the site, from a link on a different web site. So I do block Facebook script and cookies and if they still have a profile on me, that would be a real invasion of privacy, I actively take steps to avoid being in their database which they would have to subvert in order to get me in there. Mark Zuckerberg quote "They trust me, Dumb fucks " https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/..., that was also a reason why I dropped the platform, some people don't ever change their stripes and as far as Mark Zuckerberg is concerned, you are a dumb fuck if you trust him, I would have to agree with that opinion, especially once you are aware of that quote (I really do not understand why anyone would trust him after that quote, I really do not).

You don't even need to make up his words, you can just use his own.

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

So people should now trust Instagram because NOW after Facebook has been found out because Instagram started limited some of the extensive data gathering they've been doing on "users" for years?

What this tells me is that *ANY* Zuckerberg production is completely untrustworthy with carefully crafted terms of service designed to keep "the product" from running away.

Cattlemen, like Zuckerberg, are very fond of their herds right up to and particularly after the cattle are sold at market.

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Absolutely. I'm just as taken back as the rest of the sane-minded folk who aren't in shock-and-awe of this quick movement to say we're more secure and less intrusive than the other platform over there. It's simply narrow minded that everything was done in your best interest as an end-user in social media platform situations.

You can't stop the Big Machine. Heck, you can't even hope to contain it anymore (God bless you, Dan Patrick). This is all just smoke-and-mirrors to save investor stock and dividends, people. As long as you keep using this shit, it only gets worse.