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home to the tallest trees... Kaure, Alerce, Sequoia/Redwood, Cedars of Lebanon... all chopped down by agriculturalists https://youtu.be/kb_t-sVVzF0?t...

I'm guessing that you don't have any friends?

https://youtu.be/Tjp5OmoDYQM?t...

Really? Why bother, TMo?

That limitation is temporary. I wish the summary had bothered to mention anything about the technical side of what T-Mobile's doing, because it's news for nerds after all.

What T-Mobile is implementing is a technical standard known as STIR/SHAKEN which is explicitly designed to prevent spoofed calls, among other things. Even the FCC itself (PDF) back in 2015/2016 was big on this particular framework for combating robocalls. So much so that one of the very, very few things Ajit Pai managed to do right for consumers was have the FCC require (PDF) that U.S. telecoms implement STIR/SHAKEN, and do so "without delay". Oh yeah, and they're required to interoperate.

So right now the Note9 is the first phone to support it. Others will follow. I'm sure Apple devices will get it quickly, probably with iOS 13 this year. And to respond to your specific complaint, it's "only TMo to TMo" right now because they're the first to implement the framework. Once the other telcos get their STIR/SHAKEN setups going, calls between networks should also be able to be verified.

And just for funsies, here's a full hour-long (!) video on the framework and how it works, as well its status in various countries, not just the U.S.

As stated in 2016 at FSCONS in the Q&A https://youtu.be/wMvyOGawNwo?t...

obviously, china is investing heavily in china, it makes sense for them to do this;

https://youtu.be/zQV_DKQkT8o

These people can't even do multiplication and they're running the world's governments.

I usually recommend this physicist, who has popularized multiplication in the context of energy usage:

https://youtu.be/E0W1ZZYIV8o

So far none of the econuts I talk to are willing to take cold showers - they'd be safe to ignore if they didn't control the AR-15's of federal agencies' SWAT teams.

This myth comes from a study done in the 30s on sheep. From there it turned into the great Soyboy panic of 2018.

Basically it's nonsense, the stuff in soy has no effect on human males manliness or testosterone levels or man-boobs.

This video explains it in detail, with references for everything: https://youtu.be/C8dfiDeJeDU

"I would argue that senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does, waiting until every last shred of evidence is in" - McGovern https://youtu.be/xbFQc2kxm9c?t...

Liar.
https://youtu.be/AZZNvT1vaJg

I read carefully all replies so far.
None of the critics has any idea whatsoever what was done, why, how, and most importantly, why.
In order to think about anything you need data.
So why don't you start with listening to those two

https://youtu.be/FG6HbWw2RF4

https://youtu.be/AZZNvT1vaJg

The second is an interview with the very people who did it. Just hear how the reviewers were encouraging them to make the papers even more radical (untruthful). And how the most ridiculous paper actually won an award.

All of you here who criticize those brave and insightful people are useful idiots with tiny balls and even tinier brains.

You are also nasty and dangerous.

I read carefully all replies so far.
None of the critics has any idea whatsoever what was done, why, how, and most importantly, why.
In order to think about anything you need data.
So why don't you start with listening to those two

https://youtu.be/FG6HbWw2RF4

https://youtu.be/AZZNvT1vaJg

The second is an interview with the very people who did it. Just hear how the reviewers were encouraging them to make the papers even more radical (untruthful). And how the most ridiculous paper actually won an award.

All of you here who criticize those brave and insightful people are useful idiots with tiny balls and even tinier brains.

You are also nasty and dangerous.

Local news is the only fact-based news left.

Um, you might want to think about that a bit more.

That's not how digital sampling works. Not at all. Those "square waves" you see are not square waves, they are a defect in the way your computer software displays the waveform on screen.

This video explains it in detail: https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM

TL;DW is that a "square wave" at 2 samples per wavelength comes out as a perfect sine wave at half the sampling frequency, also known as he Nyquist frequency.

The problem is that people think digital results in a different waveform than the original analog waveform. They can't understand how you can go from a stairstep digital signal to a smooth analog signal, and incorrectly conclude that something must be lost when you store music digitally. Yes something is lost, but it's only frequencies higher than Nyquist - half the sampling frequency, which is carefully chosen so the only frequencies lost are those beyond your hearing range (and weren't captured in the original analog recording anyway).

Monty Montgomery demonstrated this in a video using an analog wave generator, an analog spectrum analyzer, an analog oscilliscope, and A/D and D/A converters. At 20 kHz, the stairstep digital waveform is an awful mess, but after conversion back to analog it's still a perfectly smooth sine wave.

The mistake people make is thinking that the digital signal is a series of stairsteps. It's not stairsteps, it's just the corners of each stairstep. The sound's value is only defined at each corner. In between the corners, it's undefined. And it turns out that there is only one analog waveform which can be drawn through every one of those corners, yet contain no frequencies higher than Nyquist. So the digital sample of the waveform can perfectly recreate the original analog waveform (within the chose frequency limit).

Vinyl is the music equivalent of homeopathy.

Doesn't have to be

https://youtu.be/1qtxPSR8q98?t...

The ASK21 has, of course, a tail wheel which doesn't touch the ground when the aircraft is sitting level. The tail wheel would only touch if the aircraft were nose up. In the videos, we see the nose well below the horizon during the approach. Then just before touchdown we see the nose rise, the tailwheel touch

The main wheel (centre) touches first right at this time point:

https://youtu.be/Cj2wsJ5Wbqw?t...

Then the front wheel touches. The tail wheel never touches down. It's a pretty level landing, but you see the glider wobbling up and down in angle a lot on the approach.

Either way, I assume you know the tail wheel on the ASK21 typically touches

I wouldn't say typically. You can. Tend to land on the middle wheel though if you can though as a beginner it's better to err towards the back than the front. Remember the ASK21 has airbrakes (really combined airbrakes and spoilers, they do both) so you jut hit them to drop more with the nose level. Avoids picking up too much speed as well.

> Tell you what you try flaring an ASK21 on the way in and let me know how it goes for you.

Here a couple ASK21's:
https://youtu.be/Cj2wsJ5Wbqw
https://youtu.be/zsT9KXkQ-JY

Of course a glider is a tad different than a powered plane. The same ideas apply, but sometimes to a much different extent. I only have to be generally aware of *strong* thermals, for example.

I wonder if perhaps we have slightly different definition of "flare", as well as the extent of flare being very different in a glider with a 16:1 (!!!) aspect ratio, vs say 5:1. Anyway, about the videos ...

The ASK21 has, of course, a tail wheel which doesn't touch the ground when the aircraft is sitting level. The tail wheel would only touch if the aircraft were nose up. In the videos, we see the nose well below the horizon during the approach. Then just before touchdown we see the nose rise, the tailwheel touch, then we see the nose drop to level. The drop may be easier to see than the rise, but we know that we started nose down, and we ended with a nose drop to level, so obviously we had to go nose up in between. Not by much at 16:1, but we definitely went nose up.

Here's the terminology I was taught:
Nose down : descent
Nose to level : round out
Nose up, planting rear gear : flare
Nose drops to level and main gear on the ground : landed

Maybe you think of the nose coming up (a bit) and then back to level as "an extended roundout" and don't think "flare"? Either way, I assume you know the tail wheel on the ASK21 typically touches, which means the aircraft is nose up. Some of us call going nose up to touch down a "flare". :)

> Tell you what you try flaring an ASK21 on the way in and let me know how it goes for you.

Here a couple ASK21's:
https://youtu.be/Cj2wsJ5Wbqw
https://youtu.be/zsT9KXkQ-JY

Of course a glider is a tad different than a powered plane. The same ideas apply, but sometimes to a much different extent. I only have to be generally aware of *strong* thermals, for example.

I wonder if perhaps we have slightly different definition of "flare", as well as the extent of flare being very different in a glider with a 16:1 (!!!) aspect ratio, vs say 5:1. Anyway, about the videos ...

The ASK21 has, of course, a tail wheel which doesn't touch the ground when the aircraft is sitting level. The tail wheel would only touch if the aircraft were nose up. In the videos, we see the nose well below the horizon during the approach. Then just before touchdown we see the nose rise, the tailwheel touch, then we see the nose drop to level. The drop may be easier to see than the rise, but we know that we started nose down, and we ended with a nose drop to level, so obviously we had to go nose up in between. Not by much at 16:1, but we definitely went nose up.

Here's the terminology I was taught:
Nose down : descent
Nose to level : round out
Nose up, planting rear gear : flare
Nose drops to level and main gear on the ground : landed

Maybe you think of the nose coming up (a bit) and then back to level as "an extended roundout" and don't think "flare"? Either way, I assume you know the tail wheel on the ASK21 typically touches, which means the aircraft is nose up. Some of us call going nose up to touch down a "flare". :)

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I believe what you mean to say is, "Thank you."

To which I reply, "You're welcome." Here let us let The Rock demonstrate in song

https://youtu.be/79DijItQXMM.

its a leap of purpose, a leap of faith that we don't generally associate with the Chinese

https://youtu.be/Q91dmHDuEQU

I watched this video on YouTube just a little while ago. I've not really looked into the science of it nor modeled the impacts he's talking about but it might be possible that our earth is a remnant from a not-that-long-ago clash with an itinerant planet's moon. We live on the half of a then larger planet that was smashed by that moon, the rest became an asteroid belt and probably our moon. I think this is a more likely explanation for why a huge part of the crust might be missing than it having been scraped by icebergs. I'm just guessing the icebergs wouldn't have scratched that deeply and it seems like the fossil record would still be there at the bottom of the ocean if it had happened that way. Although I like the tectonic plate subduction argument, clashing rocks in space is much more violent and attractive.
https://youtu.be/ogw6BJRL_rQ?t...
This has to do with Sumerian civilization and the possibility of extra-planetary beings having given us technology way back then. If you're completely closed to that idea, this may not be for you. OTOH, you may be able to compartmentalize and accept the interplanetary collision separate from the extra-terrestrial civilization interference argument.

Oh this is literally a comedians dream. Where to begin? Should we starrt with the requisite IÃ(TM)m Mark Zuckerberg and your not joke?

I think I'll just go with a tried-and-true classic.

https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg

Strat

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
UPDATE: Santa brough me a Panasonic HC-V180K camcorder for Christmas to replace my iPhone 6s for recording #YouTube videos.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!
Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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Figure Out G.E.D. Question From Hot Ones Truth or Dab with Kevin Hart

7. Huawei phones lack the backdoors that allow the US intelligence community to spy on its own people.

That's it, really. They don't trust us, not at all. You really have to wonder why? Why do they feel the need to spy on us and know what we're thinking? Our elected government made this illegal, and the intelligence community promptly broke the law and lied about it.

On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden soon revealed material that proved Clapper's testimony false: The government had been gathering and storing data from ordinary Americans' phone records, email and Internet use.

They don't feel any obligation to us at all. It's OK if they break the laws we passed with our elected government and lie to our faces - they don't feel safe if we can keep secrets from them. Fuck democracy, they have wars to start. If we all started buying Huawei they would feel very unsafe indeed.

Tell me about it! :)

I live in San Jose but I work in Palo Alto.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
UPDATE: Santa brough me a Panasonic HC-V180K camcorder for Christmas to replace my iPhone 6s for recording #YouTube videos.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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Figure Out G.E.D. Question From Hot Ones Truth or Dab with Kevin Hart

1) Nobody gives a fuck if you go there

Considering this story is entirely about the state of Vermont offering $10k to go there, I would say that yes, somebody clearly gives a fuck if I go there. In fact, 10,000 fucks.

2) The answer to all three is yes. If you can work remotely you can surf the internet.

Looking at websites is not surfing in any meaningful sense. Only someone who has never surfed could possibly think it was.

https://youtu.be/ksgAvwWnrI0

LOL! I dont need no tracker or implant to track kids. View kids videos I made on my channel.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
UPDATE: Santa brough me a Panasonic HC-V180K camcorder for Christmas to replace my iPhone 6s for recording #YouTube videos.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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Figure Out G.E.D. Question From Hot Ones Truth or Dab with Kevin Hart

"Markets Not Capitalism," Says Professor Gary Chartier https://youtu.be/EdrBeBwHenk

Aristotle Onassis had whale foreskin bar stools. What's not to love about that?

https://youtu.be/4u_G8L-BIHU

https://youtu.be/QH0V7kp-xg0

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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$700 For A Vacuum Cleaner -- Are You #%@$ Nuts?!

Yeah, Dollar Tree is good. AA batteries are 8 for $1.

While he only tested Dollar General batteries and Harbor Freight on the low end, I imagine Dollar Tree batteries aren't much better. I really wouldn't recommend them unless they're for remotes or something--and even then "dead" Duracell/Rayovac/Energizer would work just as well. Maybe some day he'll compare the value of rechargeables as I imagine they're a lot better value.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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$700 For A Vacuum Cleaner -- Are You #%@$ Nuts?!

The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World" and other elementary programs in a programming language.

Original K&R program: boiler plate, missing boiler plate, boiler plate, "hello, world\n", boiler plate.

The original version:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}

What the beginner soon learns:
* "(" and "{" symbols are found in different places on the keyboard, and look different, too—if you're not too vain to be caught dead in your corrective eyewear
* "#" leads a furtive double life: inscrutable on your touch-tone phone, and just as inscrutable here, as well
* manual indentation is a thing (but do you properly use tabs or spaces?)
* there are several types of symbols which travel mainly in pairs
* you can muck around freely with what you type in between the double quotation marks, and your program will still compile (no matter how rude you make it—and because of this, you grok for the first time in your life why some people are drawn to this arcane form)

Note that if you're clever enough to improv something in between the double quotes that causes your program not to compile, you're probably already on your way to becoming a real programmer.

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Brian Kernighan on successful language design: on teaching notation — uploaded 17 November 2015

Gist of the story: Bell Labs taught EQN to typists in under an hour, to a level where they were able to reproduce most of the mathematics that needed to be typeset. Obviously, these typists were way more mature/professional than the majority of my freshman classmates way back when.

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About that nice, pedagogical exercise: main doesn't declare it's return value (or its argument list), the function doesn't supply an explicit return value (there's an implicit return 0; inserted by invisible elves), and printf itself—your first friend—is a notorious hole in the C type system.

And it only gets worse when you visit the other side.

From The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike:

int scanner(const char *data, char *buffer, size_t buflen)
{
char format[32];
if (buflen == 0)
return 0;
snprintf(format, sizeof(format), "%%%ds", (int)(buflen-1));
return sscanf(data, format, buffer);
}

When you've typed that little ditty out, not entirely from memory, but from mastery of all the various arcane necessities—and without consulting a cheat sheet—and it compiles the first time, T&OT (then and only then) you've demonstrated something to self/instructor about your competence to freely improvise in the C language.

But still -1 for that coyote-ugly NSFW manifest constant 32.

If you can type that snippet out, without the manifest constant 32, using precisely the smallest automatic array which is guaranteed not to fail on any platform where the code reasonably compiles—and the comment block at the top explains the reasoning process with full reference to all pertinent passages of the C standard—hand the person their technical diploma already; this is one Navy Seal–caliber code monkey. (Remember to make sure that your locale does not screw this up, and to provide the precise reference to the C standard which justifies your conclusion.) I'm not sure what kind of dire hoops you'll need to jump through to introduce this precise buffer size as a compile-time constant (in C, not C++), but have no fear: it turns out that the C preprocessor is Turing complete.

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I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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$700 For A Vacuum Cleaner -- Are You #%@$ Nuts?!

We already know you can jump off a plane and survive. Lois Ann Frotten was parachuting back in 1962 and the parachute failed, but as any true dare devil, she wouldn't set such a minor setback kill her.

The newspaper on the event
Her TV appearance where she talked about it

What about her floor-to-ceiling bags of clothes, are we going to pretend they all came from goodwill?

Uh, she had them before she lost her apartment? Here's your sign....

I've paid my Apple premium price before because I specifically didn't want to deal with questionable quality in any aspect.

This isn't a QA thing. It's a consequence of prioritizing form over function. Apple has managed to convince users that their product design is superior even when it's inferior. For example, consider the widespread misbelief that a metal frame is better than plastic. Droves of misguided reviewers have probably convinced you that a metal chassis is better than a plastic chassis. In fact, it's the other way around. A plastic frame bounces back from impacts while a metal frame instantly deforms. Metal construction is superior if you're building something large enough that it can survive typical impacts without deformation. But for something as small and thin as a phone or tablet, you can't build a metal frame strong enough to withstand typical impacts. You're better off designing the device with plastic so it bends and bounces back from impacts.

Aluminum case warpage today, cheap SSD selection tomorrow.

The SSD thing has already happened (as a consequence of dropping Samsung as the supplier for the SSD). Scroll down to "Storage Devices". You'll see that the 2018 Macbook Pros have inferior sequential speeds and some of the worst 4k speeds of any SSD put in any laptop. Typical 4k speeds are 40-70 MB/s reads, 100-150 MB/s writes. The 15" 2018 MBP manages just 10 MB/s 4k reads, 20 MB/s writes.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-2018-2-6-GHz-560X-Laptop-Review.317358.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-2018-Touch-Bar-i5-Laptop-Review.316648.0.html

It's just not widely known because the new version of OS X these devices ship with defaults to making links (like a shortcut) instead of actually copying data, which breaks most of the disk benchmarks used by reviewers. The copy isn't made until the link is edited to be different from the original. If you do a search, you'll find hundreds of reviewers who were taken in by this ruse and raving about how the SSD on the new MBPs are "the fastest they've ever measured." It's not because the SSD is fast, it's because a software change to cover up an inferior SSD broke their benchmarks.

How do you have a capitalistic society when human labor has no value? This video outlines the issue fairly well. There is this transition period between a totally non-needs based society, and our current state, that concerns me. That period when more that fifty percent of the population is unemployable, but we are still married to the idea that those individuals should somehow make themselves employable through self improvement. It's simply NOT a reasonable dismissal. https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Capitalism is about capital not labor and doesn't need labor, but rather consumers.

The only appropriate response to proposing firmware as a service.

How do you have a capitalistic society when human labor has no value? This video outlines the issue fairly well. There is this transition period between a totally non-needs based society, and our current state, that concerns me. That period when more that fifty percent of the population is unemployable, but we are still married to the idea that those individuals should somehow make themselves employable through self improvement. It's simply NOT a reasonable dismissal. https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Those of you still butthurt and crying "da rooskeez" like some 'baccer-chewin hillbilly who never heard about the fall of the Berlin Wall voted for a woman who literally advocated on tape corrupting the Palestinian elections until we got the result we wanted.

Going to bet that if Trump ever woke up and said "fuck it, why the hell not" on declassifying EVERY document of hers from her tenure at State, you'd find a whole lot worse coming from her office in terms of corrupting elections than anything Mueller has on these Russians.

Just like if we ever got the full truth on the weapons and cash-running in Libya (what Benghazi was really about) and how it basically fucked our counter CWMD efforts up the ass for a generation, the investigation would make the Church Committee look like a bunch of back-slapping between buddies for State and the CIA.

Maybe, but he already has a bunch of Funko Pops, silver coins and what not for that...
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Figure Out G.E.D. Question From Hot Ones Truth or Dab with Kevin Hart

3) Our precautionary principle.https://t.co/QFl1hYKOeV

Note the recent trumpeted GMO meta-analysis of 6000 papers had only... 50 per study, and NO tail risk.

Note that none of the "Nobels" were into tail risk. Includes literature etc.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 6, 2018

Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

What a bunch of weasels! I work 7 days a week with my 3 letters agency IT job and my multiple long tail revenue streams.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

I plan to be able to retired in 2020. I told you creimertards how to do it but no, you were to smart to listen!

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of lattes, clif/power bars and microwave popcorn at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for renedering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video renedering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.

The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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$700 For A Vacuum Cleaner -- Are You #%@$ Nuts?!